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The Fed's Harmful Monetary Policy
From a long-term perspective, the Federal Reserve is doing more harm than good right now to economic stability.
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The Bank for International Settlements is not saying anything new by pointing out this fear, but it is telling the Fed that it is time to start paying more attention to this concern.
Second, monetary policy is contributing to global economic weakness. Many quality foreign firms have taken advantage of low interest rates, borrowed dollars, and then sold them in their home countries for local currency to fund expansion (essentially betting they will be able to pay back the dollar denominated loans easily and cheaply). The problem is that this increases the supply of dollars in foreign economies and drives up demand for local currencies. Foreign central banks, particularly in emerging market countries (EMCs) have not liked seeing the value of their currencies appreciate because that means fewer companies will be buying their exports (since the cost of goods in countries with stronger currencies is higher). In response, central banks in emerging market countries have been buying up dollars and inflating the value of their currencies to remain competitive in the export markets.
Essentially, the Fed's inflationary policy has been transmitted to EMCs. The result has been the stifling of growing middle classes in those countries. Consider Turkey, one of the fastest growing EMCs, which has been favoring its export market by inflating its lira to the detriment of the Turkish middle class. GDP per capita in Turkey nearly doubled from 1999 to 2007 as the country experienced a dramatic economic revolution, but since then has leveled out. Inflation was just 6.3 percent in 2009 but has flirted with the 11 percent range this year.
This is not a class issue, but rather a matter of growing the global consumption base. The weakened purchasing power base of EMCs has contributed to a weakened global economy.
Third, the current monetary policy paradigm has threatened the future of American economic policy integrity as the line between monetary and fiscal policies has become completely blurred. As Atlantic Capital Management President Jeffrey Snider writes, there is nothing really "monetary" about today's unconventional policies. Buying up bonds and securities to influence long-term interest rates is just borrowing money to create growth, like any other fiscal stimulus program.
The challenge with determining if these are ultimately harms (or evening happening) is that monetary policy is just that—policy making. It involves weighing trade-offs, doing cost/benefit analysis, and making a choice through a particular framework.
If the framework values short-term benefits then the asset bubble harm does not seem like that much of a problem. Much better to help out a few people today and worry about controlling the deflation of commodities and equities prices later. The slow down in emerging market countries is also of limited concern under this view, since low currency values can lead to increased exports as a quick way to boost economic growth. And monetary policy being blurred with fiscal policy is certainly not a concern in a short-term benefit framework since anything would go in order to achieve the objective of attempting to smooth out economic pain.
Contrast this with those taking a long-term benefit view as their framework for assessing the potential harms of today's monetary policy paradigm. The risk of yet another bubble is terrifying and certainly worth serious consideration. Exports are certainly important for the growth of EMCs, but so is the ability of a local middle class to gain purchasing power and raise GDP-per-capital levels (not just overall economic growth); and that can't happen with central banks forced to inflate away the value of local currencies. Furthermore, the long-term framework holds in higher esteem the integrity of the Federal Reserve as a monetary body while keeping fiscal policy choices with Congress, creating an inherent knee-jerk reaction against continued stimulus.
So if the FOMC is taking a short-term view (as any body integrated into the political system is wont to do) it is clear why monetary policy has maintained its stimulative levels. Tightening policy could cause credit to contract and possibly slow down an already weak economy. The fact that it could help prevent a steady build-up of misallocated capital is understood, but the benefits of stopping a potential bubble are less than the potential harms of breaking from today's norms—at least according to today's leading monetary theorists.
Seemingly lost on the Fed is the irony that this was Greenspan's logic for ignoring the housing bubble. Back in 2004, economists from the Bank for International Settlements warned about problematic monetary policy creating cheap money that was flowing into U.S. asset markets (particularly housing) and creating a pattern of unsustainable growth. Eight years later we can look back and see how policymakers ignored these warnings and instead lashed out in frustration at that crooked picture on the wall. In 2020 will we look back again and lament Bernanke's current refusal to heed the warnings?
Anthony Randazzo is director of economic research at Reason Foundation and is co-author of "The Hayek Rule: A New Monetary Policy Framework for the 21st Century."
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Hey, what about the Chapman article a few days back, claiming that the whole problem with our economy was that the money supply needs to be inflated more?
Look, it's a well-established fact that without the stimuli and bailouts, the only work that would be available now would be as catamites or as food.
A world that looks like State College, PA!
In response, central banks in emerging market countries have been buying up dollars and inflating the value of their currencies to remain competitive in the export markets.
Competitive debasement spreads fiat money inflation over more people worldwide, diluting the desired relative real-wage decrease in the US, which is one goal of the servile central bank. It is likely a mercantilist knee-jerk response, but do not rule out that foreign central bankers might also be motivated to protect the dollar-earning (upper) classes who would otherwise feel the nontradables cost pinch as the local currencies appreciate. In any event, it looks like the dollar recently is not debasing fast enough - but a consolation prize for a (relatively) stronger dollar: it makes deficits easier.
The only people who scare me more than The Bernankes and The Krugmans are those Kool-aid swilling fatheads who think you can plug 5 holes with 4 corks, that you can get 11 marbles out of a can containing 10 marbles, and that **you can save** this bank credit as debt money system requires the perpetual, and virtually exponential making of new loans.
But because Some of the Dumbest Smart People in the world don't grasp the simple elegance of the inevitable collapse of the dollar, they propose sham solutions which feed into what the Rothschilds and the Bilderberg types understand - major wars are a great way to prop up the economic system and as currencies become scarce or worthless, banks can buy up all sorts of things in The Real World - which is a place many economists and verily, anarcho-libertarians are essentially allergic to.
The issuing power was, is, and always shall be the thing - even more basic than fiat versus commodity-backed or frac reserve banking. The "issuing power" needs to be restored to The People, to whom it properly belongs.
But you probably don't really care about anything but calling folks at the Fed poo poo heads...the system itself just is uneluctable, eh?
Smoke shit instead, mon.
Does anyone know if the Bilderberg meetings are any fun?
If the guest lists are any inidcation, it doesn't sound like it would be...
I imagine that they have to keep the conference rooms uncomfortably hot to prevent the reptile people from going torpid.
There is never anything wrong with the Fed's monetary policy, until there is.
Probably as good a thread to ask as any. Can someone please explain -- in as simple and basic of terms as possible -- what exactly is the mechanism or logic by which an expansionary monetary policy (i.e. the Scott Sumner perspective) can translate nominal changes in an economy to *real* changes? Is it something along the lines of an aggregate demand narrative -- more money is in the economy, so people start spending it rather than holding onto it because (a) there's more of it, and (b) interest rates are (probably) low, so it doesn't pay to hold onto it? And once the spending picks up, that's that and everything's peachy, as the Central Bank will know exactly the right time to stop printing and/or start pulling money back? I'm guessing the majority of folks here aren't keen on said policy, but even with an econ degree, I find it difficult to make sense of it, and I'd appreciate someone spelling out the explanation that proponents of Sumner would give.
George Selgin is worth reading.
This sounds like a simple question, and for many commenters in the debate it is a given that monetary stimulus has http://www.ceinturesfr.com/cei.....-c-14.html been a good thing. However, there is a difference between whether monetary stimulus has impacted the markets (clearly it has) and whether this impact has been for the better.
i am always learning new things with your blog this is very good.
It also doesn't help that feminism was sponsored by the Fed as a means to desoul women and turn them into vessels for the transfer of real wealth from men to the state lolzolzozlz and to give birth to ridalin-addicted neurotic self-hating sons of "single mothers" lolzozlzozlz
When you unplug from the Fiat Feminism Matrix, you will understand why lefties recoil from gold like a vampire from sunlight lozlzolzlzlloooz the collectivists know their welfare state is built on a tinder pile of paper and the zombies of government schools and the welfare state lolzozlzozllloooooz
The central bank is itself the biggest cause of the boom and bust.
Quantitative easing is like adding liquor to the punch bowl at a party that's already out of hand.
"Man, we should probably go easy for a while, we are gonna pay for this tomorrow, aren't we?"
Bernanke: "Don't worry about it" *empties more liquor into the punch bowl*


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Junior college is a tricky avenue to travel down for some. In football, it's often feast or famine.
"It makes you a man," said Northeastern State linebacker Donnie Fuston. "Coming out of high school, you're kind of immature, even though you may have thought you were mature for high school. Then, you go to the college world and you're not as mature as you thought.
"You have to man up real quick."
That's preciously what Fuston did. He explored the junior college route coming out of Enid High School, joining the Golden Norsemen at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in Miami, Okla.
However, unlike most junior college players that spend two years trying to build up their recruiting stock, Fuston bolted the JUCO ranks after one year.
"You're on their time, but if you stay focused, you can get through it," Fuston said of playing junior college football. "...I had another year at NEO, but I was ready to leave, I guess."
He quickly found a home in Tahlequah, playing linebacker for Northeastern State in 2012. And while Fuston was a blip on the RiverHawks' radar coming out of high school, his time playing junior college football caught the eye of NSU's coaching staff.
"There are a lot of good players between here and Enid," NSU head coach Kenny Evans said. "Donnie was someone we liked, but he matured at NEO, which made it easier to want him. So we started recruiting him."
At NEO, Fuston not only transitioned from high school to college football, but he also shifted from cornerback to linebacker. During his freshman campaign with the Norsemen, he racked up 78 tackles (45 solo tackles), one interception, three pass breakups and one forced fumble.
"It was hard," Fuston said of switching positions. "I feel like corner is easier because you don't have to learn a lot. I mean, you still have to learn stuff, but at linebacker you have to know everything."
Luckily for Fuston, the NSU coaches opted to play him in the front seven. He played in all 10 games for the RiverHawks, logging 10 tackles and a half tackle for loss as Langton Jones' backup at hawk linebacker.
More importantly for Fuston was the knowledge that he gained playing with fellow linebackers, Jones and Jack Gray.
"Me, as a football player, I'm not very patient," Fuston said. "But Langston and Jack taught me that you have to be patient at linebacker, especially when you can wait on stuff to open up for you. They also taught me the plays and how to understand gaps."
Both Jones and Gray are back for their senior seasons in 2013. But instead of playing behind the duo, Fuston is hoping to secure the rover position next to Gray, and across the field from Jones.
"I want that spot," Fuston said. "Me, I don't know where I'm going to be playing because Coach Evans had me at both rover and hawk during spring practice."
Fuston — a 5-foot-10, 210-pound junior — was listed as Colton Nevel's backup in NSU's projected two-deep roster for 2013. However, there's plenty of time to settle the position dispute, Evans said.
"There's definitely a chance (Fuston) takes over (Cayle) Shambaugh's place," Evans said, referring to Shambaugh leaving the football team to concentrate on his baseball career at NSU.
"Nevel had moved into Shambaugh's place, but Donnie could move over and battle for a starting spot."
Even if Fuston doesn't snag a starting job, there's little doubt he'll log ample amounts of playing time in 2013.
"He understands both outside linebacking positions," Evans said of Fuston. "That gives him a chance to be playing a lot this year."
The best part about playing rover for Fuston? He executes each play without putting too much thought into what's going on.
"I played there during the spring, and it just felt natural," he said. "I wasn't even thinking about my assignments. Coach Evans said I looked like a natural, and all I was doing was playing."


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Book review – Visualize This, by Nathan Yau
Most people reading this post will be very familiar with Nathan Yau's popular FlowingData blog. For several years it has existed as one of the absolute go-to hubs for visualisation content, news, tutorials and exhibits as the field has enjoyed a remarkable boom, evolving from a somewhat fringe pursuit to something which now penetrates the mainstream.
Last September, Nathan announced that a FlowingData book was in the pipeline. Two weeks ago 'Visualize This' burst on to the book shelves, literally, as it raced into Amazon's top 100 best selling books!
Having gratefully received a copy last week, and after an initial read through over the weekend, I thought I would present a brief review of the book, offering some perspectives about its focus, content and value to visualisation designers of all backgrounds.
The straightforward purpose of this book is to give readers a guide on how to create visualisations. As Nathan explains in an earlier blog post, describing his brainstorming process "It finally dawned on me that there should be a book on how to actually create and design data graphics. Like, really how… Lots of examples with real data, different tools, and thoughts on design along the way."
At its heart this is an example-driven book, which builds on some of the most popular content found on FlowingData, specifically the well-explained tutorials which take everyday data visualisation problems and work through methods for solving them. The main hub of content aims to presents accessible visualisation approaches and methods depending on the data and the story you're looking to tell or unearth.
Whilst referring to design concepts throughout, the book's content leans towards a useful, practical focus more than it does theoretical. Its less about the why and more about the what, how and when.
It is aimed at those readers who are willing to open up new design opportunities through the capabilities of visualisation programming languages. If you're a visualisation designer unwilling to embrace the challenges of picking up new coding skills, maybe you should look elsewhere (after you've had a long look in the mirror, that is…).
The flowchart presented on Page xxvi gives a really nice (and visual) feel for the intended flow of the content. It is organised in a way that encourages you to either read it cover to cover or just drop in on a specific chapter: a structure which makes these type of 'how to'-focused books so digestible and useful.
The content can be characterised by two distinct clusters – chapters concerned with establishing context and a foundation understanding of data visualisation in one cluster, with the practical methods and tutorials in the other.
Introduction & Chapter 1 (Telling Stories with Data)
These introductory sections effectively set the foundation of the book and the value of visualisation. I imagine these were the most difficult chapters of the book to nail – introductions usually are – but they really help contextualise the subject and draw the reader into the book.
One of the most interesting aspects of visualisation is to hear about how people arrive in this field, particularly as it exists at a convergence of several diverse disciplines. Like traveling to any city there are many different routes and modes of getting there. The origin of Nathan's own journey into visualisation is statistics, and before that electrical engineering. This appreciation of statistical rigour, clearly heavily influenced by John W Tukey, and an eye for sequential processes are prominent themes.
It's fascinating to read how, prior to Nathan's visualisation awakening (to frame it rather dramatically), he viewed "statistics as pure analysis, and data as the output of a mechanical process" (page 2). It was during his brief but pivotal internship at the esteemed New York Times' Graphics Department (could there be a better internship, anywhere?) that Nathan developed a greater appreciation towards design and the need to tell the story about the data.
Working for the NYT taught him how to report data rather than just produce a graph. Here it was about taking data beyond statistics and analysis, towards a concise explanation of data that helps a reader make sense of real life.
Rather than just being a single continuum between objective journalism/analysis and art, entertainment and compelling categories are proposed as further dimensions, though. I would see this less about a separate space and more to do with subject matter – the methods of presentation will be the same as in the other two.
The Telling Stories with Data chapter sets out with an explanation of the nuances between deploying visualisation for objective analysis contrasted with visualisation for more artistic purposes. It offers the further categories of entertainment and compelling visualisations. Personally speaking, I would consider these to be characteristics of the purpose and/or subject matter, rather than a further distinct category of visualisation.
Semantics aside, I really liked the movie analogy to help explain the types and applications of visualisation. You get boring documentaries, you get inspiring and informative ones. You get great entertaining movies and you get trashy ones. Furthermore, what is the story you're trying to develop – is it a report or a novel, is it to entertain or inform, is it to motivate and inspire or engage more casually? Taking the idea that data points could be considered to be characters, consider their history, their present and their future. Consider their character development and how do they interact with other characters and in situations, how does the plot evolve, how do you begin the story and end it?
This is a really nice way of conceptualising any visualisation task at hand and leads to what is the strongest central concept of the book – always let the data do the talking. Indeed, looking back at Nathan's comments about brainstorming, he explains "to me, the nerd statistician, data takes centre stage, and everything else feeds off of it".
One snippet that I really loved at this point in the book was the use of a histogram to double-up as a graphic legend – a superb little idea that helps transform the depth of a design instantly (page 14).
Chapter 2 (Handling Data) & Chapter 3 (Choosing Tools to Visualize Data)
Chapter 2 concerns the critical task of data handling. It covers important considerations around gathering and formatting data, introducing a wide range of options for obtaining data, including a helpful demonstration of python script to automate the task of scraping data from web sites. It then moves through a variety of tools to format and refine your data (such as Google Refine, Mr People).
Part of me thinks there was a chance to go in a bit more depth here about the challenges surrounding initial data checking and exploration, assessing its quality, identifying its range and diversity, learning about the data types, applying cleaning methods – generally preparing it for analysis/visualisation. Chapter 2 briefly mentions the potential issue of typos and Chapter 6 talks about unearthing outliers through visualisation methods, but a more resilient preparation stage would prevent this occurring later down the design process which could justify more discussion, earlier. Then again, in Chapter 1 (page 12) Nathan does refer to the challenges of data checking, conceding that it is his least favourite part of graph making. Good to know I'm not alone…
Chapter 3 provides a useful list of visualisation tools, categorised under out of the box, programming, illustration and mapping, with an emphasis on free resources. One key observation I made, not just about this chapter but across the book overall, was Nathan's noticeable (and seemingly deliberate) move away from demonstrating methods of data preparation, analysis and visualisation using Excel. I entirely understand his motivation for doing this when he says in the comments section on one of his blog posts "Excel can do some good stuff, and there will be some in the book, but I will also put a lot of energy into weaning people off of it. It's not as hard as you might think".
Excel is the ubiquitous data handling and graphing tool: in survey results shown on page 88, 31% of respondents said they used Excel for visualisation. Perhaps its general exclusion relates to a belief that enough people already know how to handle themselves in Excel, what's the point in explaining methods they are already familiar with?
Chapter 4 (Visualizing Patterns over Time), Chapter 5 (Visualizing Proportions), Chapter 6 (Visualizing Relationships), Chapter 7 (Spotting Differences) & Chapter 8 (Visualizing Spatial Relationships)
The fundamental meat of the book, and the content that will have most tangible impact on readers, exists between chapters 4 and 8. Here we have a range of practical 'how to' guides exploring different visualisation solutions to respond to different data problems or inquiries.
Rather than being seen as a menu of options, it is a much more coached presentation of what methods and design choices you may wish to make for given situations. As Nathan explained when previewing the book, "you don't find a tool, and then go look for data that you can plug in. It's the other way around. You get your data, decide what you initially want to know about it, and then pick the tool that's right for the job."
As I've already mentioned, those of you familiar with Nathan's FlowingData tutorials will recognise one or two of the examples covered in these chapters and will be keen to get your hands dirty with a range of other valuable examples.
This section is not so heavy on theory, though it touches on key principles where necessary, it's more about how to accomplish the visualisation solution you require – what to use, for what situation, and how to do it. It's presented in a logical, clearly explained and sequential style that would seem appropriate coming from somebody of Nathan's statistical and engineering background and his practical experiences within the pressured environment of the New York Times Graphics Department.
The demonstrations included focus largely on programming solutions – something he clearly set out to achieve from the outset. Prior to these chapters Nathan introduces a discussion about the fear of programming and the need to take it slowly and build up experience and success bit by bit.
The majority of the tutorials focus on R, which is clearly his strong suit, but there is also good coverage of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Flash and ActionScript solutions. These provide a wonderfully accessible and helpful introduction to each method, framed around the spectrum of data visualisation challenges we find ourselves facing. Once you've conquered each one, feel comfortable with the coding syntax and structures, and ready to move on, you can then explore other texts to dive deeper into each environment. What this book provides is a starting point from which to commence your own learning process.
Nathan is particularly adept at taking initial output of a programming language (say R) and demonstrating how to refine it further, visually, by applying design techniques using Adobe Illustrator. Above all, he makes it clear that the reader/user's viewpoint is the critical perspective against which all design and visualisation decisions should be made.
Finally, I was struck by the observation about how a failure to identify and understand relationships between content is the key factor that causes most graphics to fail themselves. This demonstrates a strong design trait.
Chapter 9 (Designing with a Purpose)
Irrespective of the fact this book could be read out of a linear sequence, I felt the nature of the content in this chapter was more closely aligned with the discussions that took place in the Introduction/Chapter 1.
One main take away from this short chapter, however, is a very well handled passage about the differences, issues and fault lines that exist within the field about defining visualisation, comparing it with information graphics etc. This debate is for a different book or indeed platform, but Nathan offers a balanced and non-dogmatic assessment of these different viewpoints and simply puts forward his approach which is to "consider the audience, the data in front of me, and ask myself if the final graphic makes sense" (page 341).
Every book ever written has something missing, you simply cannot write a book that serves everyone's needs. But you can shape people's expectations with a clearly defined purpose and this book perfectly delivers what it intends to.
Visualize This is a significant and valuable addition to the library of visualisation titles. You should own it. I'm glad I do.


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Whatever image you have of Russia, your ideas will almost certainly be challenged—and broadened—by the groundbreaking research and teaching of professor Edyta Bojanowska, a scholar who is exploring the multiethnic world of the 19th-century Russian empire.
A Multiethnic Country
Multiethnic? Empire? Those aren't words always associated with the Russia of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Yet the Russian empire of the 19th century included Finland, Poland, Ukraine, and massive areas of Central Asia and the Far East—none of which were ethnically Russian, notes Bojanowska.
"We tend to think of Russian literature as a literature mostly about the Russians, yet this is in fact a literature that has long grappled with questions of multiethnicity, colonization, and imperial expansion," says Bojanowska, director of the Program of Russian and East European Languages and Literatures in the Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, part of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers–New Brunswick.
Originally from Poland, Bojanowska came to the United States as an undergraduate and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard. She received the top award in her field for a book about Nikolai Gogol, published by Harvard University Press, and was recently awarded a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to spend a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to work on her next book project, tentatively titled Empire and the Russian Classics. The book will explore imperial themes in the work of major Russian writers of the second half of the 19th century, such as Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Tolstoy.
"Relevant to Their Own Lives"
Russia may be a world away from Rutgers, but Rutgers students, she has found, are drawn to the serious explorations of moral dilemmas in the work of Tolstoy and others—a topic she is developing into a School of Arts and Sciences signature course called "The Good Life."
"I love being able to touch my students not only intellectually, but also in a way that's really relevant to their own lives," she says. We sat down to talk to Professor Bojanowska about her teaching and research.
What do today's students think of Russia?
There's less of a template of expectations about what to make of Russia now than there was during the Cold War. Many of our younger students don't know much about the Soviet Union—for them, it's the distant past. But they find an exposure to Russian culture very rewarding. The students are surprised by Russia's exoticism and fascinated by its ambivalent relation to Europe. They are also taken with the idea that Russians may approach everyday life as well as moral and political questions in a completely different way than we do in America.
Why study the Russian language?
There's really no better way to open your mind to another culture than to study its language. And the more foreign the language, the better. With Russian, you really get exposed to very different ways of conceptualizing the world. It's the language of a country that's entering the global networks in every way—politically, economically, culturally. And it's a very beautiful language. To hear Russian poetry recited is an incredible aesthetic experience.
What short stories or novels would you recommend to someone unfamiliar with Russian literature?
You can't go wrong with the 19th-century classics: Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, or Tolstoy. There's no better way to get a sense of the quirkiness of Russian literature than Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground or Gogol's story "The Nose." Chekhov's "The Lady with a Little Dog" is, in my view, the most amazing love story in all of world literature. Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilich" is a haunting read. His Hadji Murat, a novella that critiques Russia's imperial conquest of the Caucasus, richly resonates with America's own current military entanglements overseas. It's an astounding work of art.
What are some of the reasons why you like working at Rutgers?
There's an incredible energy and commitment to research and to the students. I really enjoy working with the colleagues in my department. Meeting them was a major draw for me in coming to Rutgers. It's an incredibly harmonious and collegial group of people, all devoted to both research and teaching. I also really value my connection to the Program in Comparative Literature, where I teach graduate courses and have the opportunity to interact with colleagues from many different disciplines.
What stands out about teaching Rutgers students?
I love how outspoken my students are, how open they are to sharing their ideas. I have taught at Harvard, but it's only at Rutgers that I have had a student say to me, in the middle of class, "I disagree with what you just said." I love this. Teachers live for this. Students are engaged in a very lively way with what they're learning, and they generously share their ideas and opinions. I really love it.
What Her Students Say
"Professor Bojanowska was my favorite of all my professors my freshman year. I would get my graded essays returned to me with almost as much of her own text on it as mine. That's an exaggeration, of course, but I mean to say that she never was passive as a grader. I think that reflects how much she genuinely wanted to craft us into better writers and with how much passion she treated the art of writing."
—Rutgers sophomore Grant Geary
"Professor Bojanowska's well-rounded approach to teaching literature provided me with a solid background in Russian history and culture and allowed me to fully relate to the works we read in class. Her instruction on analysis and academic writing proved essential to my success as a college student. Her encouragement and support during office hours brought my academic writing to a new level."
—Eliza Desind SAS'13
"Without a doubt, Professor Bojanowska was one of the best professors I had at Rutgers. I took several classes on Russian literature with her, and in each she showed how deep and full her knowledge is. From this alone I learned a great deal, but her positive attitude and genuine desire to help every student contributed just as much to her being a great professor. I frequently sent her long emails asking questions I had or making comments on what I had read, and she always responded in detail, encouraging me to continue asking questions and thinking about my ideas. I can honestly say that she has been an inspiration for me as someone pursuing Russian literature in graduate school."
—Kyle Barry SAS'12


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"Slackware ARM on a Raspberry Pi"
This website is designed as an end-to-end guide to install and run Slackware ARM Linux on a Raspberry Pi. It takes for granted that those reading this guide are not complete novices to Linux, or the Raspberry Pi. Although, you may find it easy to follow even if you've not spent that much time in a Linux shell. Give Slackware a try and certainly aquire a Raspberry Pi (or three). You don't know what you're missing!
From this guide you are able to install Slackware ARM 14.1, or 14.0, on a Raspberry Pi. The best thing to do if you're using this website for the first time, is to start at the "First Steps" page and work your way down to "What's Next?" Use the links on the left to navigate around the website.
If you have experience with installing Slackware and have no need for this guide you can grab the latest installer and/or system packages from the Downloads page.
Thanks go (mainly) to the whole of the Foundation and the Slackware ARM team; especially Stuart Winter, the wonderful community of Slackers at LinuxQuestions.org, David Spencer @ Dave's Collective, and all the fervent contributors over at eLinux.org, without whom this website would not have been conceived or made possible. (And also for instigating the endless hours/days/nights/weekends of unadulterated fun playing with the Raspberry Pi!)
For those who are new to the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi (short: RPi or RasPi) is an ultra-low-cost ($25-$35) credit-card sized Linux computer which was conceived with the primary goal of teaching computer programming to children. It is developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is a registered charity in the United Kingdom (UK). The foundation exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. The device is expected to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world (Read more).
A Raspberry Pi model B (top view - SD card slot is underneath)
Basically, the Raspberry Pi is a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the tasks that a conventional desktop PC carries out, including spreadsheets, word-processing, games, and is also more than capable of playing High-Definition video. It's a very neat little box of tricks that's just oozing with potential! It's based around mobile phone technology and Rob Bishop, of the Foundation, said about the Raspberry Pi, "In many ways this is a cellphone without the baseband, without a radio." during his Raspberry Pi Foundation - Google campus presentation on 01 October 2012.
There's an excellent Raspberry Pi Quick Start Guide for absolute beginners, on the Foundation website.
Raspberry Pi Model B Spec's
• System-on-a-chip (SoC): Broadcom BCM2835 (CPU + GPU. SDRAM is a separate chip stacked on top)
• CPU: 700 MHz ARM11 ARM1176JZF-S core
• GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV,OpenGL ES 2.0,OpenVG 1080p30 H.264 high-profile encode/decode
• 512MB RAM (* only on models manufactured after 15 Oct 2012 - read this)
• Secure Digital|SD / MMC / SDIO card slot
• Size: 86mm x 54mm x 17mm
• Power source: 5 V (DC) via Micro USB type B socket or GPIO header
• Power consumption: 700 mA, (3.5 W)
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• Micro USB type B (power) socket
• General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) 26 pin, Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI), I²C, I²S[2], Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)
For those interested further in the hardware side of the Raspberry Pi, see the RPi Hardware and RaspberryPi Boards webpages on eLinux.org.
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(NECN: Peter Howe, Boston) - A West Coast innovation that Boston tried out starting in the summer of 2011, food trucks have grown from 15 then to a fleet of 56 now operating across the city, with twenty special parking locations set aside for them.
It's not every day that Bone Daddy's Burgers or Mei Mei Street Kitchen gets a visit from the governor of Massachusetts – but with close to $5 million in state grants to hand out, Governor Deval L. Patrick came by Dudley Square in Roxbury to highlight food trucks like these as one facet of a good – and growing – source of jobs for inner-city Boston.
"It's about access and connectivity, about ensuring that all of us have an opportunity to create and take advantage of economic opportunities," Patrick said in an event in a long-vacant parcel next to Tropical Foods Market on Washington Street, on the edge of Dudley Square. The square is sporting its first tall construction cranes in decades as a new School Department headquarters takes shape in the Ferdinand Building at the heart of the square.
One of three projects for which Patrick announced grants totaling $4.5 million is being hailed as the last, critical piece of financing to turn that vacant parcel into an expanded Tropical Foods supermarket plus $44 million in retail and office space and 68 housing units.
A second grant is supporting the new New England Center for Arts and Technology culinary school in Newmarket that, starting in September, will train 54 young people as cooks and food-industry workers in four-month sessions.
About a mile away from those two projects, a third getting state aid is the Bornstein & Pearl Food Production Small Business Center on Quincy Street in Grove Hall, a former meat plant that's becoming a multi-purpose food-business startup space, commissary for stocking food trucks, and other facilities expected to create 150 new jobs by the end of 2016.
"It's one of the most exciting projects in Boston today, let me tell you," Mayor Thomas M. Menino said. "It will support many emerging food entrepreneurs."
Menino estimated that as many as 30 to 50 little food businesses and sole proprietorships could be launched from the Bornstein & Pearl Center, "creating jobs for the next generation of individuals in our city, creating jobs for the food industry, which is a growing industry in Boston."
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San Fran at home, they just got their butt's kicked last week, and in struts a Seattle squad that just knocked off the Pats. (in Seattle.)
I don't think Seattle gets enough credit for being as good as they are. Strong defense, can run the ball, make plays at QB when needed. Mirror image of the 49ers.
With that said, I'll play the 49ers in a few teasers down to -1, I do not see them losing outright tonight. And, what have we seen so far this year? Teams get up, have down weeks, bounce back, etc. Perfect set up here, 49ers are going to bounce back, and Seattle's in for a let down after their big win.


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My wife and I stayed at this hotel, and though there were no real problems, there were a few niggly things that spoilt the stay slightly. During the 5 days we were at the hotel, 1 of the 2 lifts was out of order for the whole time. The room is very dark and gloomy, with no natural light entering. I asked reception, without any luck, for a price list for the mini-bar, and was told to just use what I wanted from it as though it was all free.
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Burglaries and car thefts dominated the crime reports in the Syosset area last week.
Ten burglaries were reported in one week in neighboring areas, six of them in Hicksville. Incidences ranged from break-ins with no reported losses to theft of cash, jewelry, and electronics.
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Another crime trend Nassau County Police reported was car-related crimes across the area. Four cars were stolen in surrounding areas, two from Long Island Railroad stations.
The Second Precinct reported the following crimes:
Reported burglaries:
- Nov. 21: Burglary; Cornell Lane, Hicksville; attempted rear door entry, nothing taken.
- Nov. 21: Burglary; Livingston Avenue, Jericho; assorted jewelry stolen.
- Nov. 22: Burglary; Nick's Sports Barber Shop, Hicksville; cash register and cash stolen.
- Nov. 23: Burglary; Kiran Palace, Hicksville; cash stolen.
- Nov. 24: Burglary; Bottle on Broadway, Massapequa; nothing taken, bottle of wine broken.
- Nov. 25: Burglary; Toro Limited, Hicksville; plumbing and electric torn down, nothing taken.
- Nov. 26: Burglary; Lesley Drive, Syosset; laptops, jewelry, camera stolen.
- Nov. 26: Burglary; Melanie Lane, Syosset; assorted jewelry, cash stolen.
- Nov. 27: Burglary; Preston Lane, Syosset; rear door entry, assorted jewelry, cash, computers stolen.
- Nov. 27: Burglary; Cliff Drive, Hicksville; front door pried open, jewelry and handbags stolen.
- Nov. 27: Burglary; Evers Street, Hicksville; rear door pried open, nothing taken.
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Car-related crimes included:
- Nov. 20: Grand larceny; Host Way Inn, Jericho; car stolen.
- Nov. 21: Grand larceny; Farmingdale LIRR station; car stolen.
- Nov. 23: Grand larceny; Hicksville LIRR station; car stolen.
- Nov. 23: Petit larceny; Nevada Street, Hicksville; Kindle stolen from car.
- Nov. 23: Nevada Street, Hicksville; GPS stolen from car.
- Nov. 25: Grand larceny; West John Street, Hicksville; car stolen.
- Nov. 25: Grand larceny; Rainforest Cafe, Bethpage; car stolen.


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In addition to the University governing body, the Medical Student Advisory Council of aEmory University School of Medicine is composed of the presidents and vice presidents of the four medical student classes as well as the four elected representatives of the school to the Student Government Association. This council serves as a vehicle for expression among students, faculty, and administration of the School of Medicine.
The Alumni Association includes every former student of any school or college, which is now part of the University. All alumni are members, entitled to the privileges of active membership. The activities of the association are directed by the Alumni Council.
The Barkley Forum is one of the finest debate programs in the country. It hosts national tournaments and provides its members a wide range of educational opportunities through national competition.
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- 'Light pollution' may affect love lives of birds in the Viennese Forests
- New hope for powdery mildew resistant barley
- Large raptors in Africa used for bushmeat, study indicates
- Moose drool inhibits growth of toxic fungus
- Biologist warn of early stages of Earth's sixth mass extinction event
- No returning to Eden: Researchers explore how to restore species in a changing world
- Atomic structure of key muscle component revealed
- Leaf-mining insects destroyed with the dinosaurs, others quickly appeared
- Tiny new species of frog from Brazil with a heroic name
- Nearly 50 years of lemur, other primates data now available online
- Four-billion-year-old chemistry in cells today
- Genome analysis helps in breeding more robust cows
- One route to malaria drug resistance found
- Why don't genetically identical cells behave identically? Cellular noise
- Gene inhibitor, salmon fibrin restore function lost in spinal cord injury in rodents
- Urban heat boosts some pest populations 200-fold, killing red maples
- Major impact of climate change on Antarctic fur seals
- Dead body feeding larvae useful in forensic investigations
- Calcification in changing oceans
- New model helps explain how provisions promote or reduce wildlife disease
- Stress can make hard-working mongooses less likely to help in future
- Researchers work to save endangered New England cottontail
- The electric slide dance of DNA knots
- Ancient genetic material from caries bacterium obtained for the first time
- Helping save narrow-headed gartersnakes from after-effects of Slide Fire
- Alaska frogs reach record lows in extreme temperature survival
- Vulnerability of sharks as collateral damage in commercial fishing shown by study
- African elephant genome suggests they are superior smellers
- Radio frequency ID tags on honey bees reveal hive dynamics
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- New planthopper species found in southern Spain
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus detected in air of Saudi Arabian camel barn
- Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam, more stay at home
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- Rearchers eliminate HIV virus from cultured human cells for first time
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- Scientists track gene activity when honey bees do and don't eat honey: Significant differences depending on diet
- First comprehensive library of master genetic switches in plants
- Duck migration study reveals importance of conserving wetlands
- National Xenopus resource at the MBL innovates new way to study proteins
- Effects of starvation can be passed to future generations, through small RNAs apparently without DNA involvement
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- Squid skin protein could improve biomedical technologies, study shows
- Indus river dolphin's declining range: Patterns of river fragmentation provide insight into river dolphin conservation
- Brain of world's first known predators discovered
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- Organismal biologists needed to interpret new trees of life
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- Norwegian reindeer herds boosted by climate change
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Controversial road project out of Juneau delayed again
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Alaska gets win in Vegas basketball tourney
American Legion: Chugiak, Eagle River notch wins
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Photos: Black bear family's last afternoon
A black bear sow and her cubs frolicked in Anchorage's Goose Lake and its environs Thursday afternoon, just hours before the mother, who was routinely coming into contact with humans, was shot dead by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as a protective measure.July 17, 2014
Madden Real Estate is state's No. 1 real estate group
Judge blocks new law restricting state abortion payments
Commissioners: Why state should pay down public pension liability
Litigation Counsel of America selects Richmond as Fellow
BSNC President & CEO Gail Schubert chosen to represent U.S. on Arctic Economic Council
NASA Testing Arctic Sea Ice Monitoring Technology With High-Flying Ex-Spy Plane
NASA is piloting a mission out of Fairbanks with a specialized plane that can fly high enough to test technology destined for satellite applications.
Report Investigates Coal Dust Hazards In Seward
Alaska Community Action on Toxics has issued a new report on the hazards of coal dust in Seward. The organization is recommending further monitoring, but city officials deny that local air quality is poor.
Musk Ox Killed After Attacking Sled Dog
Living with wildlife isn't always easy, as a recent incident with a musk ox attack in Kotzebue makes clear.
In Transition: When a Family of Five Calls One Room Home
Juneau charity organization St. Vincent de Paul has a record high number of people staying in its transitional housing shelter. Usually, around 55 people live in the 26 units. At the moment, there are 66 occupants, almost half are children.
Twelve-year-old Carrie McVey has been living in and out of transitional housing at St. Vincent de Paul for as long as she can remember.
"I'm used to calling St. Vincent's home because I've been here most of the time," Carries says.
She lives in unit 16 with her 16-year-old sister, 11-year-old brother and their parents.
"We're all just living in one room. I've basically made my bed my own room, 'cause I have to sleep on the bottom bunk. My brother sleeps in the top bunk and I can just tuck blankets in under my brother's mattress."
It's like a little fort, she says.
Carrie's father has a job at Goldbelt Security Services and her mother doesn't work. During the school year, Carrie goes to Juneau Community Charter School. She's open with her classmates about sometimes living in a shelter.
"'Cause, like, some of my friends would ask if they could stay the night and I'd have to tell them no," Carrie says.
There are more kids at the shelter than usual, she says, which means she actually has someone her age to hang out with. During the summer, Carrie visits the playground and wanders around the shelter.
"I like going in and hanging out with some of the other families 'cause, you know, I know how they feel. Most of us just feel alone, like we have nowhere to go," Carrie says.
She wants her family's stay at St. Vincent's to be what it's supposed to be – transitional.
"I hope that we can get our own house that we can stay, for once. 'Cause it seems like, you know, every year we move from one house and then back in here, and I'm getting tired of it," Carrie says.
Carrie is one of 30 kids currently living at the shelter.
St. Vincent de Paul housing manager Tamee Martini says the high number of shelter occupants is driven by the number of kids. She says families at the shelter usually have one or two kids. At the moment, several families, like the McVeys, have three. A couple families have more.
"It's sad to see a large family with children that are homeless for whatever reason. I mean, being homeless is sad for everybody, but those children deserve to be in a place of their own and not in a room. I just believe that they need more room to wander around and be kids and be outside poking at bugs or whatever, just being kids," Martini says.
Individuals and families can stay in transitional housing for a maximum of two years, though most stay for a year. In order to get in, there's an application and an average wait time of six months.
Rent is $525 a month. That gets a person or family a 400-square-foot room, which includes a bathroom with a toilet and sink; shared kitchen, laundry and shower facilities; as well as a kids' play room and a computer area for job searching. The shelter stays clean through assigned chores.
Martini says residents are required to be actively looking for permanent housing and for work if they don't have it.
"We do keep on top of that and have frequent conversations with the families about what are you're doing to move on to a better situation. So even though it is probably the cheapest rent in town, especially for a family, it's not something we want anybody to consider the last stop," Martini says.
Cory MacDonald and his wife live at the shelter with their three kids.
"Miles is the oldest. He's 7. Leland is 5 and little Chloe is 4," says MacDonald.
This is the family's second stint. They spent about six months in the shelter two years ago. This time, it's been about three months. In between, they've lived with family in town. They haven't lived as a whole family in their own place for three years.
Both parents have jobs, but MacDonald is away from the family for large chunks of time.
"I've been in and out of trouble, so I'm actually out on an ankle monitor here right now," he explains.
For a tight space, the MacDonalds have made the room as homey as possible. The parents have a large bed in one corner. In another corner, Miles and Chloe share a homemade bunk bed, with Leland's bed at the foot of it.
"Then we got our fridge and our entertainment system and we brought this freezer in here so we could store extra food and stuff. This is our little dining area set up," MacDonald says.
The children look at home sitting on the beds, eating crackers and watching TV. But MacDonald doesn't want this to be home. At least, not forever.
The plan is to stay at the shelter for up to a year while MacDonald and his wife save up enough money buy a home of their own.


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Let's just lay it out there: Pyongyang Racer isn't going to take home any Game of the Year awards. But it does mark one notable achievement: the racer is reported to be the first game developed inside North Korea that's targeted at gamers outside the communist state. And that's really about the only praise we can level on the title, created by Nosotek as a marketing tool for Koryo — a travel company that specializes in arranging North Korea visits.
The "goal" of Pyongyang Racer is to explore the country's capital city while collecting fuel barrels to keep your car moving. Other than popular destinations in the city — which are surprisingly well-modeled compared to the rest of the game — there's not a whole lot to see. You're tasked to avoid other traffic, which shouldn't prove difficult since other cars on the road don't actually move. The entire experience looks like it was pulled straight out of the 32-bit console era, yet we still stuck with it through an entire race. To be fair, Koryo has no false iillusions about where its promotional game ranks in the gaming hierarchy, saying Pyongyang was "not intended to be a high-end techological wonder hit game of the 21st century." Just a note for those of you with a competitive streak: if you're looking to see how you fared against other drivers, you'll need to manually take a screenshot of your completion time and email it to the travel firm.
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Lindbergh ECE earns National Design Award
Learning By Design magazine recently awarded the Lindbergh Early Childhood Education building a "2012 Outstanding Project" award for General Excellence in the Early Childhood School category. The building, which was designed by Ittner Architects and opened in January 2011, serves students ages 2 through Pre-K. It was constructed as part of Prop R 2008, a $31 million bond issue.
The building features 14 classrooms, a fully enclosed outdoor playground, restrooms in each classroom, LEED green building design features and a state-of-the-art security system.
"The design is very simple and economical, yet the splash of primary colors on the front of the building creates an excitement, bringing its own individual identity on an existing campus," the magazine said.
Learning By Design magazine is published twice a year by Stratton Publishing & Marketing Inc. and the National School Boards Association.
LEAP Mural Decorates School
Jack DuCharme, fifth-grader at St. Catherine Laboure School, recently had the chance to beautify the entryway to Dressel School with his creative original design. Jack participates in the Lindbergh Eager Acheivers Program (LEAP) for gifted students. His mural design was originally part of a contest last spring to design a T-shirt for the LEAP program. Michelle Ryder Schoeck, coordinator of Lindbergh Schools' gifted programs, said that the teachers decided Jack's design would work well as a mural because it represents all the themes of LEAP: backyard science, oceans, structures, journey north, medieval, and space exploration. LEAP parent Shelley Dairaghi enlarged Jack's drawing to cover the surface and then painted the mural. The mural was made possible by the LEAP Parent Group.
Stu-Co Voted in as Vice President of Regional Chapter
Congratulations to the Lindbergh High School student council, which was voted to serve as vice president of the regional student council chapter during the 2013 school year. The LHS representatives performed an officer campaign dance at the annual Gateway Convention, which was held at Northwest High School on Nov. 3. In addition, seven students led topical discussion breakout sessions at the conference.
Math Competitors Secure Awards
Six members of the Lindbergh Math Club competed in the Excellence in Mathematics Competition at St. Louis Community College-Forest Park on Nov. 10, and all six won awards. Eighth-grader Rounak Bera competed against ninth-graders and placed third, and senior Tiffany Lee placed 10th. The LHS team of juniors won their division. That team included Shravan Dommaraju, who placed second individually; Sam Stephens, who placed third indidvidually; Eric Lewis, who placed sixth individually; and Katie Hufker, who placed 20th individually.
Sunday Night Lights Shares Success With Local Charities
Sunday Night Lights was such a success in 2012 that the event was able to send donations to three charities that support children with cancer, including Friends of Kids with Cancer, Rainbows for Kids, and Camp Rainbow.
The third annual event in October provided a fun and exciting high school football game experience for young children with cancer and other blood-borne diseases. Children paired up with Lindbergh students for an unforgettable night as football players, cheerleaders, Flyerettes, and members of the Spirit of St. Louis Marching Band.


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How to "de-gas" beans?
I know. I know.
Narsai David, who had a call-in cooking show answered this question at least ... at least ... once a week. It became a running joke.
Put the beans in rapidly boiling water and let them boil for two minutes, then let them sit for an hour. Discard the water and continue cooking.
After listening to this almost weekly for years, I forgot the science behind it, but it works.
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Ok, had to Google what the reason was behind this.
Beans have a coating of sugars that we can't digest so the non-digested sugar .. well, you know. Soaking them removes most of the sugar. This link has a better explanation
Anyway, turned up some other suggestions in that Google. Anyone tried these?
- Soak beans in Sprite overnight and then rinse with water
- add a potato while cooking (starch trumps sugar perhaps?
)- add epazote
- add ginger
- bring a pot of beans to a boil Add 1 - 2 tablespooss of baking soda. Let sit overnight. Rinse beans cover with new water, bring to a boil and simmer until tender.
I think the longer you soak the easier digestion... I mean, I let mine sit in a big jar of water (in the fridge of course) for days, even weeks, before I rinse and cook.
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re: Darren72
They taste fine, like beans.
I rinse them fresh after all that soaking, and the "for weeks" part is a true story, but I only did that once... it worked very well for my digestive system.
I don't think the taste is locked into all that gassy stuff (I dunno), and you really see the fuzzy stuff that soaks out of them when you soak them that long.
Use Kombu. Just add a strip to the cooking water of dried beans. It leaves no flavor, shortens the cooking time, and aids in digestion.
I think the best way to mitigate the gassy effects of beans is to eat them a lot. Seriously. Like nearly every day or every other day. At some point, they cease to produce the intestinal reaction.
Indian cooking always includes a tiny pinch of asafoetida (called heeng in Hindi) - especially when cooking daal (any lentil) or beans. It's a tree resin in powdered form. It is very pungent, so a little goes a long way and it has digestive properties that soothe or settle an uneasy stomach. Ask for powdered Heeng in you local Indian Grocery store. Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone recommends using either asafoetida or epazote (a Mexican herb) when cooking beans.
I don't know if this has any validity, but it seems to me that I read that you soak or cook your next batch of beans with the water that you used for your last batch. Doesn't really make sense to me, though, from the little I know about why the beans cause the problems they do.
I found an old 1912 cook book, which suggested that after soaking beans, they be brought to a high boil...the scum which surfaces is to scooped off. After a few minutes at a high boil, the beans are to be drained and rinsed in cold water and then added to fresh cold water and brought to a boil again. This process is to be repeated approx. 3 times. If after this there is no longer that greyish scum forming when boiling, the beans are left to boil, with the lid off.
I don't know how or why this works, but it does. I have used this method ever since and had no problems with gassy beans.
Hope this helps someone else too.
After reading that the gas happens when intestinal bacteria break down sugars that are not digested, I came to the conclusion that if one is eating beans in hopes of helping control blood sugar and/or cholesterol, it's better not to use anything that promotes the digestibility of these oligosaccharides.


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Royal Mail Group is backing Prostate Cancer Awareness Month throughout March in support of its charity partner, Prostate Cancer UK.
Prostate Cancer Awareness month
The charity aims to use the month as a platform to wake up the nation to the disease and change the fortune of men's health once and for all.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the UK. Over 40,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year and one man dies from the disease every hour.
Royal Mail Group is giving the month its full support to raise awareness of the disease and the support available.
This includes creating a special postmark that says 'Royal Mail is supporting Prostate Cancer UK', which will feature on postmarked mail throughout a period in the month.
The company will also be highlighting the symptoms of prostate cancer and the help available to around 150,000 employees. This will be through a health road show and information sessions at Royal Mail and Parcelforce Worldwide sites across the UK.
Our people will also be raising money for Prostate Cancer UK during the month, with money matched by the company, penny for penny. This follows a number of fundraising activities that have already taken place since the charity partnership was launched in June 2012, including Movember, where over £480,000 was raised, including match funding.
Thanks to the funds already raised by Royal Mail Group and its employees, a full time specialist Prostate Cancer UK nurse has been appointed, the first of several, and has started providing support and education to men and their families in Glasgow.
For more information about prostate cancer visit www.prostatecanceruk.org
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DANVILLE, Ky. — Business usually slumps this time of year as the private college in the heart of this small city in the rolling Kentucky bluegrass lets out for fall break.
There will be no such slowdown this season, with Danville preparing a stage for the second vice presidential debate in its history and the national spotlight that accompanies it.
Danville's Centre College was the setting of the 2000 vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman. The direct tourism effect was nearly $650,000 locally and more than $2.5 million for Kentucky, said Jody Lassiter, president and CEO of the Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership. That doesn't include indirect spending, or the effects of infrastructure projects.
No one has ventured an estimate of the economic effect of Thursday night's debate between Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and Democratic Vice President Joe Biden, but Lassiter expects it to be better than it was in 2000, even adjusting for inflation.
"It's a lot bigger event this time, and we're expecting even more people," he said.
So far, the college has spent $550,000 and the city $100,000 to get ready for the debate, he said. That money circulates through the local economy, said Lassiter, with each dollar spent turning over as many as seven times.
"It's hard to put a real value on this sort of thing, but it's enormous," he said.
Downtown is already showing signs of the influx Lassiter expects.
Business has been picking up at Thoroughbred Threads for the past two weeks, and owner Marty Sullivan expects things to really take off this week.
Sullivan has a license to make and sell debate T-shirts, sweatshirts, caps and other apparel, though he expects out-of-town visitors to also gravitate toward souvenirs of the University of Kentucky's NCAA basketball championship earlier this year. Thoroughbred Threads also supplies Centre College's demands.


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Admission Requirements-Medical Technology
SUNY Upstate is an upper-division transfer college specializing in health care careers. Students applying to our bachelors programs take the prerequisite courses (minimum 60 semester hours) at another college and then complete their junior and senior years of the bachelor's degree at Upstate for their program of study.
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Requires a minimum of 60 semester hours including:
|General Biology I with lab
|Anatomy & Physiology I* with lab
|General Biology II with lab -OR- Anatomy & Physiology II with lab
|Microbiology with lab
|General Chemistry I with lab
|General Chemistry II with lab
|Organic Chemistry with lab**
|College Algebra or Pre-Calculus or Calculus
|English Composition
|English Elective
|Social Science elective
|Liberal Arts Electives
|Liberal Arts or Professional Electives
* Or Physiology with Anatomy content.
** All science requirements must be courses for science majors and include laboratories with the exception of Organic Chemistry where the laboratory is recommended, but not required.
Medical Technology requires 16 semester hours of biology and 12 semester hours of chemistry. If your biology or chemistry pre-requisites are less than 4 semester hours per course, you will need to take additional credits within that discipline to make up the credit.
Minimum grade for transfer is a "C."
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Applicants who plan to apply to medical school should complete one year of physics.
Medical Technology is a fall entry program. Applications open September 1 and admission is on a rolling basis until the program fills. For information about applying to the Medical Technology (BS) program, please click here.
Master of Science (MS)
The Medical Technology (MS) degree provides students with the opportunity for professional advancement through acquisition of expanded knowledge and skills in one of three major areas of specialization: 1) Chemistry, 2) Hematology, or 3) Microbiology. Completion of the Medical Technology masters degree does not make graduates eligible to sit for the NYS Medical Technology license. Prospective students with a bachelors in a field other that Medical Technology, who want to be eligible to sit for the NYS Medical Technology license should pursue the Medical Technology bachelors degree.
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Aledo ExtrA
Check out this collection of 110 pictures from Saturday's Class 4A, Division II, state championship game won by Aledo, 38-10, over Brenham. There are pictures of players, cheerleaders, band members, fans and, of course, lots of game action in this slideshow. Save the ones you like, courtesy of the Weatherford Democrat and Aledo Extra. Photos are by David May.
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A Purple Heart County
County Judge Mark Riley and Parker County commissioners proclaimed Parker County to be a "Purple Heart County" Monday, honoring local veterans and their families in a special ceremony held in the second floor courtroom of the historic courthouse.
Suspicious house fire under investigation
The Weatherford fire marshal says a fire that damaged a house and killed two puppies Wednesday night is being investigated as a suspicious fire and a suspect is in jail on unrelated charges.
Case overload
Parker County Attorney John Forrest will ask county commissioners for additional funds as county budget discussions begin this year; he hopes to hire another attorney to help with an increase in Child Protective Services cases.
Firefighter arrested on child sex assault charges
A volunteer Hudson Oaks firefighter is in the Parker County Jail on charges he repeatedly sexually assaulted two young relatives over a several year period.
Richard Frederick Adams Sr., 62, arrested Monday, faces two charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, a first-degree felony.
Developer withdraws site plan
ANNETTA —A controversial 34-home subdivision proposed for a 41-acre tract on Duncan Road will not go forward as planned, according to action taken by both the proposed developer and the Annetta Town Council after a public hearing Thursday night.
Aledo City Council to meet July 24
The Aledo City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, in the Aledo Community Center, 104 Robinson Court, Aledo.
Fires damage business, home
Two separate fires around 2 p.m. July 15 damaged a Willow Park business and destroyed the home of a Weatherford family.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Thursday night, July 17, I was present for a surprisingly interesting experience when State Representative candidate Matthew Britt addressed a small group of supporters, followed by a question and answer session.
ESD 1, Annetta South close on fire station site
Parker County Emergency Services District No. 1 and Annetta South officials said Tuesday that the ESD is homing in on a site for a new fire station to serve residents in the Annettas and surrounding areas. Annetta South is expected to consider a zoning change to accommodate a new station next month.
Registration has begun for Aledo ISD
Aledo ISD enrollment for the 2014-15 school year began yesterday, July 21, and students new to the district need to register before school begins, Monday, Aug. 25.
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