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Francisco Barat, Rudy Lauwereins, Geert Deconinck, "Reconfigurable Instruction Set Processors from a Hardware/Software Perspective," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 847-862, September, 2002.
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Abstract—This paper presents the design alternatives for reconfigurable instruction set processors (RISP) from a hardware/software point of view. Reconfigurable instruction set processors are programmable processors that contain reconfigurable logic in one or more of its functional units. Hardware design of such a type of processors can be split in two main tasks: the design of the reconfigurable logic and the design of the interfacing mechanisms of this logic to the rest of the processor. Among the most important design parameters are: the granularity of the reconfigurable logic, the structure of the configuration memory, the instruction encoding format, and the type of instructions supported. On the software side, code generation tools require new techniques to cope with the reconfigurability of the processor. Aside from traditional techniques, code generation requires the creation and evaluation of new reconfigurable instructions and the selection of instructions to minimize reconfiguration time. The most important design alternative on the software side is the degree of automatization present in the code generation tools.
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Neighbours' traffic fears over Tottenham Hotspur plans for new 500-seater stand at Enfield training ground
Updated 3:49pm Tuesday 18th February 2014 in News By Charlie Peat
Tottenham Hotspur football club are planning to build a 500-seater stand at their training ground to the dismay of nearby residents.
Spurs players train every day at the multi-million pound facility in Whitewebbs Lane, Bulls Cross and the Premier League club hopes to raise new floodlighting as well as the 500-seater stand.
The site, which sits on green belt land, has prompted concerns among people living nearby.
Joseph Davy of Hawthorn Grove, to the south of the training ground, is concerned for the amount of traffic this could cause.
He said: "This is ridiculous; the club is trying to fit 500 more people onto an area which is already congested. This will only result in more problems and those roads cannot cope."
Alex Motolla, 69, of Goat Lane, Enfield, said: "This is just another piece they are adding to their growing takeover of the area. I am all for promoting sport in the area but why would a football club's training ground need to pack in half a thousand people.
"They aren't going to be playing their fixtures there are they?"
A Tottenham Hotspur spokesman said that the club is sensitive to the surrounding environment and the stand will not increase traffic.
He said: "The club is committed to providing a training centre that is sensitive to its surrounding environment and extremely sustainable.
"The proposed academy stand has been designed extremely sensitively and will only cater for existing academy spectator numbers and therefore will not increase traffic movements along Whitewebbs Lane. The re-siting of the consented floodlights has been located to minimise impact on the green belt and the conservation area."
The plans are due to be decided by Enfield Borough Council's planning committee on Tuesday, February 25.
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rummer wrote:Can some one please remind me as to what Council allowed this football club to build on green belt land in the first place.
This was already a green belt area that gor built on, you try driving down that road at normal times why do they need a 500 seat stand is white hart lane that small they cant do open days there
I am sure everyone would like to know, as we are due to have Local Elections in May.
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The BRSI/AIR partnership is intended to provide the foundation for Asheville as a Green Dining Destination™ city, attracting tourism and promoting job creation and economic development in the region. The funding will enhance the restaurants' efforts to increase use of renewable energy, improve energy efficiency and promote energy conservation in support of achieving Green Certified Restaurant® status through the national Green Restaurant Association, a non-profit that has been setting the standard for green restaurants for over twenty years.
AIR members included in the grant and working towards GRA certification are: Bouchon, Burgermeister's, The French Broad Chocolate Lounge, The Corner Kitchen, The Green Sage, Fiores downtown, Fiores south location, Frankie Bones, Homegrown, Laughing Seed Café, Jack of the Wood, Luella's BBQ, Tupelo Honey Café downtown, Tupelo Honey Café south location, Neo Cantina, and Rosetta's Kitchen. AIR member Posana Café in downtown Asheville, also participating in the grant, is one of only two existing GRA certified restaurants in North Carolina. Other AIR member restaurants pursuing GRA certification include Bouchon Street Food and The Green Sage south location.
A critical element to success of this project is the partnerships being formed between landlords and restaurant tenants to pursue these upgrades. As an initial example of such partnerships, the grant proposal included funds to assist the owners of the Adler Buildings—which both Posana Café and the Chocolate Lounge are located in—in upgrading the central natural gas boiler/water-source heat pump loop system serving all tenants (including seven restaurants) located in the building.
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While efficiency retrofits are a highly effective means of reducing energy consumption, there are also many operational aspects of commercial kitchens that leave room for improvement. Forty-five percent of all energy used in a restaurant is consumed during food preparation, an area over which restaurant staff have significant control.[1] In fact, conscientious use of kitchen equipment has been estimated to reduce restaurant energy consumption by 7%.[2] Strategies include assigning responsibility for turning off cooking equipment, exhaust fans, and lights between shifts and at the end of the day, keeping lids on stock pots and braising pans, flushing broilers, and defrosting freezers. Even simple measures such as turning of sections of griddles and broilers during slow periods or eliminating long oven preheat times can save hundreds of dollars and millions of BTU.2 We are estimating a 3.5% reduction in energy use from a comprehensive education and staff training program. We intend for this program to develop the groundwork for broader energy education efforts of both BRSI and the AIR Green Team.
Combined, the infrastructural and education components of the grant are expected to save 3.4 billion BTUs of energy each year, a 12% reduction in total energy consumption for the restaurants that is equivalent to unplugging 110,000 televisions. In addition to the $258,000 grant, participating business owners are investing a combined $136,000 in energy efficiency improvements, resulting in a total investment of nearly $400,000.
The grant is provided through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, funneled down from the U.S. Department of Energy. Serving the job creation goals of this program, the Green Restaurant Initiative has created over 4,000 man-hours of work for local businesses. Additionally, BRSI partnered with the Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministries Green Jobs Program to leverage the job-creation potential of the Recovery Act by connecting recovery-act funded job training with recovery-act funded job creation. At least two of the recent graduates of ABCCM's Solar Thermal Installation course was hired to work directly on the restaurant solar thermal installations.
The overarching goal of this project is to establish Asheville as the greenest dining destination in the country. To that end, BRSI hopes to see this project grow beyond the initial funding provided through the Green Business Fund. This effort will not only benefit local restaurants, but will also have a positive impact on our community and region, including local farms, local breweries, and other local businesses.
The project is being managed by Energy Campaign Manager Tim Ballard and supported by a variety of other BRSI volunteers and staff including John Stevens, Paul Dezendorf, Steve Cochran, Katie Cavert, Laura Piraino and the efforts of AIR Green Team members including Peter Pollay, Randy Talley and Kevin Westmoreland.
[1] Challenge to Top Management, Energy Efficiency: Self-Assessment Guide for Energy Savings Opportunities. October 2008. Waste Reduction Partners and the State Energy Office, NC Department of Administration.
[2] Energy Smart Tips for Restaurants. 2010. The Illinois Smart Energy Design Assistance Center, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. <http://smartenergy.arch.uiuc.edu/pdf/SEDAC%20Restaurant%20Tips.pdf>


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and RANT is what the guy does best. His rant after the 2003 loss to the Marlins is an all-time classic. He is a true Giants fan.
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The man who accused Sesame Street actor Kevin Clash, the voice of legendary character Elmo, of having a sexual relationship with him while under the age on consent, has admitted he was of an adult age when the pair were together.
In a statement, released through his lawyer the accuser has stated he was of an adult age when the pair were lovers in 2010.
According to TMZ the statement said: "[The accuser] wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship. [The accuser] will have no further comment."
Clash had taken a leave of absence from the show to fight the accusations, which claimed the then 45 year-old had sexual relations with a 16 year-old in 2010.
It's unknown why the accuser has revised his version of events, but according to TMZ lawyers on both sides were meeting, up until the release of the statement, to discuss a reported six figure financial settlement.
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The claims were first unearthed after the actor was discovered to have sent inappropriate emails to his alleged lover from his work email account.


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Larry Mayer's chalk talk breaks down the trade between Chicago and Denver in terms of the numeric point system. Looking at the values between Cutler (doesn't include the 5th rounder in return) vs. Orton plus draft picks, clearly show the Bears came out ahead of the Broncos based on Cutler's pro-bowl ability, and seemingly #1 pick overall status. Here's my calculation of the total points for both teams, and quote from Larry showing his seal of approval.
Plus I'd much rather have a proven commodity who still has upside and can get better like Cutler than rely on unknowns in the draft. The money under the salary cap the Bears will save by not paying two first-round picks is also a huge positive moving forward.
Bears - 3000 points (Cutler as the overall #1 pick in this year's draft)
Broncos - 2,340 points. 900 points for this year's 18th pick, 170 for 84th pick overall, and 850 for next year's #1 pick, which I estimated to be the 20th pick overall (Bears making the playoffs as the worst wild card team). As far as Orton, it's difficult to determine where he would go in this months draft. I'd determine he'd be worth at least a middle second round pick. That would give Denver an additional 420 points for Neckbeard.
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19 Foreign Currencies Worth Less than Monopoly Money
Today I was walking home from a rousing game of Rummikub with some friends. I mentioned that my phone was at critbatts, a strange shortened version of slang that Todd and I use, which means "critical batteries". To give credit where it's due, our good friend Elliot actually invented that particular phrase. Until that, we'd only used maxbatts, modbatts, minbatts, and nilbatts.
Anyway, after explaining what critbatts meant, I told my friends about a time in Thailand when Todd was running out of Thai money, Baht, and declared that he was at critbahts. We got a good chuckle out of it since critbatts had since become nearly an everyday word, especially given our use of GPS and such on our phones.
I then remarked that to hit critbahts is difficult, because the money is worth so little - less than monopoly, I joked - that it was almost impossible to run out. Wait a minute.. maybe that's not a joke. Maybe Baht really are worth less than Monopoly money. Math followed shortly after.
A monopoly set costs $11.50 on Amazon. It comes with $15,140. This is only a one way transition, of course, because you can convert foreign money into dollars and buy monopoly. Selling your monopoly money (and the set it came with) would probably net you less than $11.50.
So for a one way conversion, every dollar spent on a Monopoly game gets you $1316 in Monopoly money. As it turns out, there are nineteen countries with worse exchange rates.
Lebanon: 1504.22 LBP per USD
Tanzania: 1504.22 TZS per USD
Uzbekistan: 1640.15 UZS per USD
Colombia: 1923.90 COP per USD
North Korea: 2050 KPW per USD
Madagascar: 2120 MGA per USD
Uganda: 2308.28 UGX per USD
Belarus: 2999.14 BYR per USD
Cambodia: 4037.85 KHR per USD
Sierra Leone: 4120 SLL per USD
Paraguay: 4642.55 PYG per USD
Zambia: 4797.51 ZMK per USD
Guinea: 6925 GNF per USD
Laos 8051.30 LAK per USD
Indonesia: 9009.01 IDR per USD
Iran: 10,349.59 IRR per USD
Sao Tome and Principe: 18,260 STD per USD
Vietnam: 19,487.70 VND per USD
And topping off the list, you'd need 33,300 Somalian Shillings per USD. That means that monopoly money is a full 25 times more valuable than Somalian money.
Not the most useful information, but an interesting little tidbit to keep in mind next time someone likens something to Monopoly money.
On a side note, I've been to a bunch of the places on this list, including number two, Vietnam. Even though you know the conversion rate, it's a bit terrifying handing over half a million for lunch. You do the math several times to make sure you're not missing a decimal place somewhere.
I think I might know what drugs are like: motorcycles. I rode one once and was blown away at how fun it was. Then I got my license, knowing I'd never buy a bike. Then today I rode my friend's 1000cc bike and couldn't stop laughing the whole time.
Heading back to San Francisco tomorrow by RV!


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Great weeknight recipe. Used skinless/boneless chicken thighs. I added the salt and pepper directly on the chicken before dredging as this allowed me to spice the meat to taste. Did not have shallots so used some green onions and yellow onion. Added some garlic and 1 extra tablespoon of dijon mustard. I also browned the chicken in butter and olive oil and did not bother reducing the sauce as it had a nice consistnecy because of the added butter. Result was a pleasant sauce and extremely tender chicken. I served with rice. I will make this often!
This is a great last minute dish that has lots of flavor and freshness. It is well liked by adults and kids. Compliment it with asparagus and brown rice - very good!
A really solid recipe - it stood up to a ton of changes when I made it - like using red wine instead of white, because I had a bottle open and didn't want it to go to waste. (I used about 1/4 cup so as not to overwhelm the other flavours.) I also cooked the shallots in all the chicken fat (for more flavour) and , taking other reviewers' suggestions, used only 1/4 cup dill but 5 tsp mustard. Instead of adding butter to the sauce at the end, I added a dollop of creme fraiche. The result was tender chicken in a tasty, creamy sauce - great weeknight dinner.
I enjoyed this dish. A nice afterwork dinner made with easily available ingredients. Made it strictly with chicken leg and not leg/thigh combination which I think the recipe calls for (couldn't understand how 4 chicken legs could weigh 2 lbs total when my package of 7 legs only, weighed about 1 and 3/4 lbs, until I saw other reviews) The only other thing I did was add more than 2 tsp of mustard (dijon). More like 2 tbs. worth
Pretty easy and tasty. I used dijon mustard instead and went easy on the dill. My boyfriend loved it!
I loved this recipe. I used boneless, skinless chicken breasts instead. The second time I made it I doubled the mustard, used extra wine and I added some flaked nutritional yeast (a high protein health-food product). This thickened the sauce slightly while adding a very subtle cheesy flavour. I also found the sauce tastier after letting it sit overnight in the fridge.
I used bone-in chicken breasts, added granulated garlic and cumin to the dredge and deglazed with vermouth...very nice.
I love the fresh taste of dill in this dish. I did make a modification. I used boneless, skinless chicken breast. I browned them in the skillet, removed them, made the sauce, and then added the breasts back in just to warm them up. Very tasty. And the sauce was great over roasted potatoes too.


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I grew up eating this stuff! bring it on!
whattup, xenophobia. is this really coming out of los angeles???
a) I am available that late morning and early afternoon.
b) I like food.
c) I have eaten: snake (Boy Scout desert survival), frog legs and rabbit (French restaurants), tripe (menudo), skate wings (Korean restaurant), Limburger and Stilton cheeses (England), unknown fish products (Greece), something cooked in squid ink (Pasadena), durian (cannot recall where), locusts in honey (in junior high school), and wife made me a skep (beehive) shaped birthday cake with Reese's baby bees pressed into the frosting.
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Well, the list includes cougar,buffalo, bear, octapus, frogs legs,organ meats – liver,heart,brains, gonads(aka bull testacles), sheep stomach(Tripe),Tongue, soft shelled crab, wilks, escargo, shark, rabbit,pheasant,deer, elk, moose, lamb, mutton, goat, and even beetles at the Thai market – not much I have not tried and I generally can 'swallow' just about everything even if I have a change of heart part way into the experience. Hey, I am Scottish what can I say, waste not want not!!
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Lynnster, this is right up my alley! I scour the countryside, searching high and low for that fascinating culinary adventure waiting just under the radar. I love foods that Western culture finds "bizarre" and live for the next "trippy food". I don't know if this is the kind of challenge you win, but I'm excited about the possibility of participating. Life's a journey, not a destination, and food should be treated the same way. I'm all in! I already sent my e-mail with a link to my blog article on eating rooster testicles… I'm looking forward to this golden culinary opportunity!
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Dear Rabbi,
We are not religious but our son was raised as a Jew and had both a (reformed) rabbi and priest perform his wedding ceremony. He has never converted but his wife has asked him to wear a cross and we find this very offensive. What can we say to him to explain the reason we are so hurt by his seemingly insensitive action?
Thank you very much. Elaine
Thank you for your letter. You write about your son, whose Christian wife has asked him to wear a cross. You are looking for a way to express to him the hurt you feel about this request.
A cross is just a symbol, right? Well, symbols matter a great deal. That is why people use them.
Many Jews who do not feel any particular sense of religious obligation, still place a mezuzah on their front door because of its symbolic power. The mezuzah proclaims, "We are Jewish." When people put symbols on their doors -- or even more, around their necks -- it proclaims their allegiance.
A few years ago, a committed Christian asked me if it would be acceptable for him to place a mezuzah on his door. After all, he explained, as a Christian he accepted the words of the Hebrew Bible that are written on the mezuzah scroll. I advised him to consider that Jews -- seeing a mezuzah on the door of a Christian -- would not regard it as an homage. Rather, they would see it as an affront to the cultural significance of the mezuzah as a symbol of Jewish identity.
That may be what you experience when you think about your Jewish son wearing a cross. Without having strong negative feelings about Christianity or toward your daughter-in-law, you may view the cross on your son as a statement declaring allegiance to Christianity and of rejecting Judaism. I think it is fair to say that this is how most Jews would interpret it.
It is important to acknowledge, though, that this may not be the meaning your son intends. To him, the cross may simply be a way to express his attachment to his wife. Just as the Christian who wanted to put up a mezuzah intended only to honor Judaism, your son may not understand why the cross around his neck elicits such a strong negative response from you and, perhaps, from other Jews.
Try talking to him only in terms of your feelings. Avoid making accusing statements. Let him know that when you think about seeing him wearing a cross, you feel rejected and hurt. Be willing, also, to hear what he says about it.
This could be an opportunity for you to think about your own sense of Jewish identity. What is it about your Jewish identity that means so much to you? What can you do for yourself to satisfy your own desire to "feel Jewish"? How can you make your Jewish identity more than just a symbol?
I wish you the best.
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Feeling left out
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Originally reviewed on June 2, 2006. On Tap at the brewpub. Clean clear pour of oranged gold, with a sweeping soapy head of clean white. Rich aromatic glow of tarragon vinegar with heavy soaps of coriander and clove and rosemary sprigs. Genuine. A slight mingling of floral italian pizza seasonings. Flavor is a sweet gentle floral breeze of tart lemons in stew, and a heart of pizza dough. Wafts of sweet grains in rose petals. Very ethereal, restricted with light smacks of tangerine and heavy rosemary. Quite efferevescent and bright. More dough. Some light lemon rinds. A little too thin bodied, but expectable.
12-10-2006 03:47:01 | More by CharlesDarwin
4.38/5 rDev +12%
drank a glass of this last night with a good friend at the CBC (4/9/06). i don't review a whole lot, but this was so good i had to write about it a bit.
ST - narrow, white-wine type glass, about 12 oz.
A - very pretty, nice little head at first, mildly-pale golden color, *slightly* hazy, but somewhat transparent (i'm comparing it to saisons)
S - smell reminded me of the jasmine tea they serve at vietnamese pho restaurants. a bit of citrus and hops in there too. i was intrigued. not as spicy or pungent as a typical saison. inviting.
T - excellent. like many other CBC brews, perfect balance of malt/grain, hop, and interesting adjuncts (i almost hate to call them that). it would've been easy to overdo the herbal flavors, and just as easy to underdo them. but that's not at all what we have here. the herbs (jasmine & lavendar) just dance on your tongue, never overpowering the brew. both my friend and described the flavor as "purple" (but *light* purple). would pair nicely with some light cheese (young cheddar?), or a salad with a light berry or herbal vinaigrette.
M - light, a bit spritzy, effervescent
D - i could've had a couple more of these if i didn't have to drive home. the relatively low ABV (~4.8%) helps.
an excellent, well-crafted, and creative brew!
04-10-2006 01:36:17 | More by HighCarbDiet
3.83/5 rDev -2%
Had on cask at the Real Ale Regalia at American Flatbread in Burlington, VT.
Served in a tulip glass.
*This 2008 version is brewed without hops.
Has a clear straw yellow color with no head. Very herbal and floral aromas, jasmine and grass. Lemon and jasmine up front flavors with maybe a little nutmeg and a tart green apple finish. No carbonation, medium body, this beer leaves a nice creamy mouthfeel. Interesting flavor profile, the use of the flowers and herbs to replace the hops is well done in this beer. With the increase in the price of hops, this style can lead to a lot of creativity for the brewer. Not a style where you can drink many of them, but one is worth the try.
06-02-2008 21:04:01 | More by scottg
4.1/5 rDev +4.9%
A) Yellow to gold in color. Thin creamy head. Great lacing. Not completely transparent, just bit of haze.
S) Jasmine is recognizable. Orange and floral notes like a nice tea. Some sour notes.
T) Earthy. Floral. A combination of sweet and sour flavors, but overall bright.
M) Creamy. Smooth. Slightly dry in the finish.
D) The flavors are almost overwhelming, but unique. All in all a good brew.
05-11-2009 22:17:39 | More by u2carew
3.8/5 rDev -2.8%
This belgian pale is more relative to a Saison Dupont rather than a Duvel. One of the suprise ingredients is lavender among other spices. This has a true "perfume" to it, fruity and inviting. Quite smooth and well balanced with hops. I defintely hope next spring/summer's version is as good as this one unless it becomes a staple. A truely enjoyable beer from CBC.
05-11-2006 17:26:02 | More by jvdineen
3.8/5 rDev -2.8%
On draught at the brewpub, listed as containing Sweet Gale, Yarrow, Labrador Tea, Lavender, Sweet Orange and Jasmine Blossoms rather then hops. Served in a stem glass, L'Amour Du Jour is a clear gold with a small white collar and no effervescence.
Smell is herbal, floral, honey, and what I found to be very distinct ginger, although it's not listed as an ingredient (but may be one of the herbs I'm not familiar with)
Taste is also very herbal, with lots of ginger and a touch of diacetyl. Some fruity saison esters peak through, it's pretty well balanced and tasty for a gruit, although questionably herbal.
Mouthfeel is crisp, with a nice spritz but body that seems bigger then it should be for such a small beer, only 4.5%.
Drinkability is is pretty good, it went down fast, was tasty and refreshing. Then again, I love small saisons, and brew them myself a good bit, although never with all the adjuncts.
08-12-2008 23:52:44 | More by ccrida
New Hampshire
3.58/5 rDev -8.4%
Pale gold with a slight haze,fine cask bubbles leave quickly.
Pungent,unique nose.
At first, it was all vicks vapor rub. After a slight "calibration" of my sense of smell, more aromatics came through.
Reminiscent of Asian spice,but with a hint of floralness.
Lemongrass-like and dryed petals, with a meek belgian character struggling through. Leaning towards a Saison,but more aggresive in the nose.
Thin on the pallet,almost watery, with soft carbonation and a rather hollow flavor profile. Perhaps not an all malt beer,a dry straw-like presense is noted.
Minimal bitterness,maybe some spiceyness from a sparing hop addition.
Finishes curiously.
A bit heavy on the aromatic spice,maybe "dry spiced" in the cask.
Although not one of my faves from Cambridge, I love thier bold,creative approach to the art that is beer.
04-29-2005 22:19:10 | More by brewandbbq
3.93/5 rDev +0.5%
I had this on tap at Cabridge Brewing Company on April 8th, 2006. The chalkboard behind the bar described this as "Biere Artisanal", and listed the alcohol content as 4.85%. It was served in a glass most similar to a wine glass.
Appearance: Poured a hazy golden with a very thin head.
Smell: Very earthy, herbal and spicy. I caught a peppery spiciness, a honey sweetness, and an herbal aroma that I couldn't place (a friend suggested this was rosemary).
Taste: Predominantly herbal and peppery up front. The finish is grainy with a tartness that might have been citrus.
Mouthfeel: Moderate to high carbonation comes in fairly late. Light-bodied with a slight oiliness.
Drinkability: The herbal flavors and peppery spice might be too much for some, but I found this beer to be tasty and refreshing.
Overall: A pretty good beer. The herbal flavors threw me a bit. I'd like to know what, if anything, the beer was spiced with.
04-10-2006 01:20:28 | More by EPICAC
New Hampshire
4.33/5 rDev +10.7%
Jaime les femmes avec this one on 5/14/2005. Served in a flute glass at the source, maybe 12-ozs.?
Tall, properly regimented tight foam, close to ½-inch that sticks most excellently. Light amber to an almost golden orange hue with only a hint a of gentle haze and some light carbonation. Ginger, rose hip, wacky taffy, liquid sugar and orange peel all jump around on nose. Flowery essences tingle the back left quadrant of the skull, with a sarsaparilla hit, some panko breadiness, and rock candy dissipating to sticking sunflower seed saltiness.
Tried this previously at the Sunset, but was glad to get a second shot at it. A homerun, not unsurprisingly.
05-15-2005 23:26:02 | More by Truh
New Jersey
3.78/5 rDev -3.3%
Poured out pale gold, slightly murky, with a small off white ehad that dissapeared quickly. Smell was herbal and spicy, developed into citrus at the end. The taste was pretty good, but the herbal quality may have been a bit much, Iwas lookinf for a little more spice here. There is spice, jsut not a ton of it. Has a light mouthfeel,and finishes a bit slick and lingering.
11-02-2006 01:11:00 | More by dherling
L'Amour Du Jour from Cambridge Brewing Company
86 out of 100 based on 10 ratings.


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As the chief developer of a popular Warcraft 3 Tower Defense, I am looking to convert my game (Element TD) over to flash. This has been done before by others (http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/), however they significantly simplified the game (and without permission).
This project would be best completed by someone who is familiar with Warcraft 3. I can offer compensation for work completed. I have an animator on board, thus I'm looking for someone to develop the code/graphics/sound.
I urge you to visit the home of Element TD at http://www.eletd.com for more information on the game.
Please do not hesitate to contact me or post here if interested.


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"Intimate Anonymityâ€
Breaking the Code of the Urban Genome
Hillel Schocken
The beginning of the 21st Century is a fitting opportunity to view the achievements in the field of Urban Planning and Design of the last century.
The 20th Century was the scene of the fastest technological advance humanity has ever achieved. We have witnessed the introduction of electricity as the chief means to channel and use energy. The first attempts at flight led to landing on the moon and exploring the planets. The primitive telephone developed into the Cellular Phone. The calculating machine and the typewriter evolved into the computer.
The effect of the Technological Revolution on all fields of human endeavor was immense. Modern medicine prolongs life expectancy. Modern agriculture provides nutrition to a fast-growing population. Modern Communication and transportation turned the planet into a Global Village.
While we can view these developments overall as positive, we cannot escape their negative aspects. The use of energy and natural resources by a burgeoning population, threatens the life supporting eco-systems of the planet.
Technology became the new religion of the 20th Century. Modern City planning was strongly influenced by technological utopias. Electric power plants were designed as temples. Russian Constructivists added radio aerials on the roof of many buildings. The car, train and airplane appear in Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings of Broadacre City and in LeCorbusier's images of the Ville Radieuse and the Ville Contemporaine. The fascination with technology went further in the 70's with the utopia of Archigram and further still with it's latest manifestation – The Virtual City.
In the mid 60's, it became apparent that all was not well with the Modern City, the product of technological utopias. The book that marked the beginnings of disillusionment was Jane Jacobs', "The Death And Life of The Great American Citiesâ€. With penetrating insight, Jacobs compared the modern city with cities of the past and brought back into currency issues like context, mixed uses, urban space, and the human activity within streetscapes. The effect of her criticisms created fertile ground for Post-Modern architecture, contextualism and "New Urbanism†to develop upon.
The aim of this paper is to present "Intimate Anonymityâ€, a theoretical foundation for criticisms of the modern city, such as those of Ms. Jacobs. Its theoretical analysis could form a practical tool for each generation and culture to create their own cities without reverting to precedents based on the past.
At its core, this theory lays the claim that the city is as natural to the human animal as the beehive is to the bees. It is not required to form a utopia in order to understand why bees produce these very special structures in which to produce honey. One must simply study the nature of bees in order to accept the beehive as the direct result of this nature.
All forms of life on this planet are motivated by an instinct of survival. This instinct forms the foundation for the theory of the evolution of the species. The Homo Sapiens is seen as the pinnacle of evolution because of our ability to transfer not only genetic information from one generation to another, but also intellectual information. As a result of this development, the instinct of human survival was transformed into an instinct of Eternal Survival. All human activities can be traced to this instinct. It is this instinct of Eternal Survival that explains the development of religion, the sciences, society, philosophy and art.
The city is an efficient environment for human survival. This can be deduced from the fact that urbanization is developing at a higher rate than that of the world's population. Humans are migrating in growing numbers from rural and dispersed living environments to densely populated cities.
It is commonly accepted that humanity is a social species. The Eternal Survival instinct can explain why this is so. One could say that it is in our best interests to become socialized to further the chances to satisfy the Eternal Survival instinct. The advantages of living in groups are obvious. In a group the chances to couple with a suitable mate for raising the next generation are higher. Groups are more capable of defending themselves against enemies. Groups can accomplish large-scale, collective projects. Groups can take advantage of specialization.
Humanity formed groups from its beginning as tribes and families to broader social structures, culminating with cities and today's Mega-Cities.
When we set out to plan a city we must first ask ourselves, "what is a city?†The German philosopher Max Horkheimer begins his book, "Eclipse of Reasonâ€, with a sentence which (substituting the word "reason†with "cityâ€) may point to the basic problem facing urban planning today. He writes: "When the ordinary man is asked to explain what is meant by the term City, [reason], his reaction is almost always one of hesitation and embarrassment. It would be a mistake to interpret this as indicating wisdom too deep or thought too obtruse to be put into words. What it actually betrays is the feeling that there is nothing to inquire into, that the concept of City [of reason] is self-explanatory, that the question itself is superfluous.â€
Many attempts have been made to define the City, ranging the spectrum between technocratic to mystical. Governments may define the City as "a habitation of more then 20,000 inhabitantsâ€. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines the City as "a collection or aggregation of inhabited houses larger than a villageâ€. Lewis Mumford defined the City as a "special framework directed toward the creation of differentiated opportunities for a common life and a significant collective dramaâ€. While these definitions contain a grain of truth, none provide complete tools for understanding the City, let alone designing one.
This paper presents Intimate Anonymity as a theory of the city, intended to form such a tool. Intimate Anonymity is based on an original definition of the City that stipulates: the City is a place that allows human beings to form relations with others at various levels of intimacy while remaining entirely anonymous. A successful city is one in which, when exiting a private domain into the public domain, a person should see people around him but know nothing about them. It is this situation which provides for the inhabitants of this special environment to be continuously surrounded by potential contacts.
The most common complaint against the contemporary city is the individual can get lost in it, becomes alienated and does not experience a sufficient sense of community. Popular logic has transformed this complaint into a backlash against anonymity. The individual can be too anonymous and lonely in the massive urban environment. On the other hand, the notion of community, in the popular view, is seen as opposed to this sense of anonymity. The notion of community is most readily expressed in the idea of a small, homogeneous and intimate village or neighborhood, where everyone knows everyone else and feels more or less comfortable in a familiar setting. The inevitable backlash against the village is that it can become limiting, claustrophobic and does not allow the individual to find full self-expression. The concept of Intimate Anonymity negotiates and bridges the gap between these competing conceptions.
In order to create a sense of self, the individual needs to develop an identity. To achieve this, there needs to be a part of a community with which to identify. The individual needs to form a community, so to speak, within the city. And, the city should provide the possibility of making contact with a variety of people and activities from which to develop an intimate community.
Architecture and Planning combines ethic and aesthetic considerations. 20th Century practice emphasized aesthetics over ethics. Until the 19th Century, urban architecture served the purpose of defining public space, sacrificing individual character for a common good. 20th Century architecture concentrated on the buildings as free-standing objects, expressing only the individual character of the architect, as an artist.
However, public space is the primary ingredient of the city. The city could be seen as composed only of public spaces, streets, squares, parks etc. The city is not, as commonly believed, composed of buildings. The primary architectural role of buildings in the city is to define public space. As an illustration, one could look at the way Manhattan skyscrapers, such as the Empire State Building, relate to the adjacent streets, in comparison to the way La Defense towers in Paris relate to the spaces surrounding them, spaces that can hardly be labeled urban.
Intimate Anonymity prescribes the intimate and simultaneous sharing of public space by anonymous people. In order to achieve this, urban public space should not be seen as an end in itself. It must be a part of a network of urban spaces that allow random movement of people through. It is the lack of random movement that renders the Piazza of Saint Peter Cathedral in Rome, although impressive in scale and aesthetic value, inferior urban public space, compared to the much admired Piazza Navona, composed of mundane urban architecture of little artistic value.
An urban space should rarely serve only a single use, such as a church, opera or municipality building. The recently completed Jerusalem Municipality Piazza, although beautifully detailed and proportioned, is a lifeless space because there is no random passage through, as it serves only a single use. Answering the question, "Why are you here?â€, a random passerby will answer: "To pay my municipal taxesâ€, revealing citizenship of Jerusalem just by being there.
Urban theorists base their analysis on the form and proportions of urban space. What they often fail to recognize is that it is the relation between dimensions and proportions to the quantity of users of the space that matters. When a larger number of random users is expected, urban space may be a large square or piazza. A smaller number of random users may only require a street, sidewalk or alleyway.
Jane Jacobs observed the value of mixed uses existing in older urban fabric, and the ills of zoning, practiced in post-industrial planning. Intimate Anonymity lays the theoretical foundation to this observation. A person walking in a zoned "business district†reveals their occupation and social standing. A person seen in a university campus is probably a student. A person seen on a street of a neighborhood zoned for housing most certainly lives there. They all sacrifice a portion of their anonymity by being seen in these environments. Zoning is therefore, according to the tenets of Intimate Anonymity, an anti-urban practice.
The "floor†of urban space should always be ground level. The human animal uses energy efficiently just like goats selecting paths of least resistance on a mountain slope achieve minimal use of energy. Raising or lowering urban space to other levels, like in the World Trade Center Plaza in New York, result in diminished anonymity and an inferior urban space.
A conscious effort must be made to encourage people to use urban spaces. Spaces that are expected to be used by large numbers of random passers-by, should allow room for spontaneous use of a variety of activities and services. Urban spaces that serve a small number of passers-by, could increase their public activity by adding housing and workspaces with main access facing the urban space.
In many modern cities, efforts were made to separate pedestrians from motorists. In many instances, this created parallel movement systems, pedestrian and vehicular. The result, in most cases was that neither could contain a sufficient quantity of people to allow for Intimate Anonymity. Separation of pedestrian from vehicular traffic should be practiced when the vehicular traffic is not interested in the specific location but uses the route to pass through. It may also be practiced when the urban space is so successful that excessive numbers of both pedestrians and vehicles compete on the limited space.
Viewing the city with the concept of Intimate Anonymity in mind, it is not surprising that throughout history, city planning demonstrate an amazing continuity. It should not come as a surprise that the gridiron plan was used by civilizations like the Greeks in Miletus 466BC, the Romans in Timgad 100AD, through to the Spanish in Barcelona and the Americans in Manhattan. The gridiron is a pure mathematical creation of multiple routes from any point A to any point B. The choice of many routes promotes anonymity.
The formal expression of Intimate Anonymity is "diversity†because of the cultural, economic, technologic, geographic and variety of circumstances specific to every urban space. We should not revert to precedents of the past, as New Urbanism prescribes. If we design cities in the conditions of our era, based on Intimate Anonymity and not on yet another utopia, the result will be a true expression of our times that will best serve our human needs.
The concept of Intimate Anonymity, and its definition of the city, emphasizes an ethical approach to urban design by putting human contacts in the forefront and making esthetical considerations secondary. However esthetical, an urban space will fail if it is not based on ethical considerations. The future of urbanism lies in the understanding that the city is not a sculpture. It is a human event.
Intimate anonymity – gnome - lewellan


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RIM has announced its entry into the tablet market -- or at least its intention to enter the tablet market early next year -- and as predicted, the BlackBerry PlayBook won't be so much a scaled-up smartphone as a stepbrother to the existing phone line. It will have an entirely new operating system (a version of the recently acquired QNX dubbed "Tablet OS") unrelated to the familiar but long-in-the-tooth BlackBerry OS.
The PlayBook's target audience of business consumers won't care much about the technical details -- but for the all-important developer community, the move is a disruptive one. It's also another nail in the coffin of Oracle's Java ME platform.
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The operating system for BlackBerrys has become an anomaly of late; its app development platform has to this point faithfully stuck by Oracle's mobile Java platform, which has become increasingly sidelined in the world of modern smartphones. (The Android platform is based on a modified version of desktop Java, which avoids the need to pay licensing feeds to Oracle, one of the factors behind the Oracle-Google lawsuit.)
According to RIM's website, Tablet OS developers are currently slated to build apps in HTML5/CSS/JavaScript bundles or in Flash. "Add a new dimension to your BlackBerry development skills and create compelling applications for a new mobile form factor that complements your existing application" appears to be the euphemism that marketing cooked up for "you're going to have to learn a whole new set of development tools."


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Police Lt. introduced, alcohol-free events proposed at Coalition
11/16/05 - About 75 students and residents attended the University of Rhode
Island-Narragansett Coalition last night at Narragansett Town Hall to discuss
positive steps being taken by the organization.
Fran Cohen, URI dean of students, said she has been encouraged by the response the university's Common Ground campaign has received. Cohen is also the director of Common Ground.
"We did a recognition ceremony earlier this semester to offer our thanks for the various bars and liquor stores that participated in this agreement," she said. "We are lucky in our community to have businesses who already abide by these principles."
At the meeting, Cohen recognized Basil's and Arturo Joe's as two businesses that had joined the Common Ground campaign. Representatives from both restaurants were present to sign an agreement to join.
By joining the campaign, both businesses pledged to have their employees attend ID check training held by the Narragansett Police Department and to practice responsible alcohol serving.
Cohen also said she recently answered a call from a Providence resident about the URI coalition. Cohen said the woman wanted to start a similar program with Brown University.
"She was blown away by all the info I had for her," Cohen said. "It was like a dream come true for her and something for her to model her activities on."
Narragansett Police Chief J. David Smith said inquiries like these were great support for the coalition.
"I just want to acknowledge that this validates the success of this program," he said. "If any college community wants a model of success, they should just take a snapshot of tonight."
Carol Stuart, a member of the Common Ground subcommittee and the Eastward Look Neighborhood Association, agreed.
"Through close association with the realtors, residents, tavern owners and students, we can break down barriers," she said.
Nancy Devaney, chair of the Common Ground subcommittee, said she had also received positive feedback about the program from local businesses.
"All three liquor stores are looking for another go around with community police officers and the in-depth ID checking they do," she said.
Devaney addressed concerns South Kingstown was not doing their part to curb underage drinking.
"Geez, Narragansett is doing such a good job with their enforcement, what about South Kingstown?" she said, giving an example of a question she commonly receives. Answering it, Devaney said, "There is money through a state senate grant, and extra enforcement is done through South Kingstown Police."
Smith said he was also proud of the increased student participation for this year's coalition.
"One of the things we had targeted as an attainable goal this year was increased student participation," he said. "I also can't help but notice that we have tavern owners here tonight."
Cooperation between different groups was a key to the organization's success, Smith said. "This is the only way we're going to get to the root cause of some of these problems and solve them," he said.
In other business, Smith introduced retired Cranston police chief Michael Chalek to the coalition. Chalek will be working as a lieutenant on the evening shift for the URI Police Department.
Smith said Chalek has an outstanding reputation in the state for his years as an officer. "When you talk about Mike Chalek in circles around the state, you hear the respect he is held in," Smith said.
For the second meeting in a row, Smith had Lauren Fink, URI student and member of the communications subcommittee, read its report as a way of showing the unity between residents and students.
Fink said their subcommittee focused on getting word of coalition meetings and the work done at them out to the student body.
"We found that these table tents [in dining halls] have been the most effective way to communicate to students and for them to recognize us," she said. "We also talked about putting posters up on campus because there is a population of students who never eat in dining halls."
Smith said they would also like to explore the viability of distributing the table tents in the URI Emporium.
"It would be an opportunity for whoever distributes these to have a talk with the business owners about the good work we're doing here for the community," he said.
Fink also mentioned placing advertisements and suggesting stories to local papers, such as the Cigar and the South County Independent, could increase the visibility of the coalition.
"We discussed doing profiles of both Smith and [Vice President of Academic Affairs Thomas] Dougan to put into the newspapers to put a face on the committee," Fink said. "We also talked about doing a profile of a good house and a bad house, and we would show how they both have an impact on the community."
Devaney said most of her committee agenda concerned parking issues in Narragansett, specifically parking on lawns and streets.
"Landlords should be responsible for providing adequate parking, and it is something that sbould be revisited," Devaney said.
She added that like residents, students raised concerns about being forced to park on lawns. "There are many students who agree with the residents," she said.
Devaney said her committee suggested approaching bars about sponsoring some alcohol-free events for students, such as some of the dancing and charity events currently run at off-campus venues by URI fraternities and sororities
"We were discussing that maybe that would be something good to do during winter months," she said. "Some of the bars could have an alcohol-free night with a DJ or a band."
Devaney also requested a member with a legal perspective for the steering committee. This committee oversees the subcommittees and provides direction for the entire coalition.
"We have a police presence but nothing from the judicial branch," she said. "It's an area in the whole chain of command that's missing."


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Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen have been pegged as the next coaches for yet another season of The Ultimate Fighter.
UFC President Dana White can tell you that FX is happy with the ratings TUF is pulling on a notoriously slow night for television (Friday nights, in case you're one of millions that aren't watching), but he can't tell you that pitting Jones and Sonnen against one another as coaches, despite the obvious flaws in having Sonnen fight for a light-heavyweight championship at season's end, isn't a desperate attempt to increase viewership.
The ratings should be better than the record-low numbers being produced by the current season featuring Roy Nelson and Shane Carwin. But that doesn't mean it won't come at the expense of many others who will ultimately be affected by today's decision.
This post examines who those parties will be.
The obvious parties: Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen
Jon Jones didn't want to fight Chael Sonnen back when UFC 151 was being prepared for execution.
He didn't want to fight Sonnen with only eight days to prepare but also mentioned that Sonnen didn't deserve a title shot. Things have since changed and Jones warmed up to the idea of fighting Sonnen earlier this week.
Jones warmed up to the idea of fighting Sonnen so much that he agreed to spend a few months filming a reality television show to help hype the fight. Sonnen has talked himself into a title shot he doesn't deserve.
He hasn't won a fight in the light heavyweight division since 2005 making him as relevant a challenger as Vitor Belfort, probably less so since Belfort was a former champion at least. Worthy or not, Sonnen will make this one of the most highly anticipated UFC events of 2013. Jones didn't feel Sonnen deserved a shot at his belt. He might feel differently when he sees where his bank account stands after receiving his cut of the PPV buys this fight will generate.
Deserve is such a relative term when combining sports and entertainment, which is the fine line the UFC is walking by pairing these two together. Sonnen is entertaining and a challenger that may have come knocking on Jones' doorstep through a natural fight winning progression. That the UFC rushed this fight to the front of the line speaks to Sonnen's immense ability to generate eye balls.
The UFC and FOX relationship
If FX and FOX are already happy with what TUF is producing ratings-wise they will be ecstatic when they see how much better it can be when Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen are involved.
The Ultimate Fighter 17: The fighter with the gift of gab against a fighter with a gift for guffaws.
How must Dan Henderson feel right now? Hendo is 41, running on the last legs of his career and now must watch his buddy Chael Sonnen leapfrog him in the pecking order at light heavyweight.
Every fight takes something out of a fighter and now Henderson must tax his body fighting at least one more fight before he can see his name next to Jones' on a poster with the words "light heavyweight title fight" above them.
Remember when Dana White claimed Machida was a man possessed and that nobody wanted a UFC title shot more than him?
In fact, remember when UFC on FOX 4 was supposed to produce the next opponent for the Jones-Henderson winner?
Yeah I barely do too.
Forrest Griffin no longer has an opponent at UFC 155.
Stephan Bonnar, should he want to continue fighting professionally, may view Griffin as the only fight that could get him to do so.
If both parties are willing this could be a fight the UFC makes as the new co-main event for the end-of-year show featuring a heavyweight title fight between Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez.
So much for that whole Jon Jones-Anderson Silva mega-fight everyone was looking forward to.
If Jones-Sonnen is scheduled to happen in April that means a Jones-Silva fight wouldn't happen until late 2013 at the earliest. By that time Silva will have celebrated his 38th birthday. Who knows what the landscape of the UFC's divisions will look like this time a year from now.
Not to mention Jones might not even be able to cut to 205 in a year's time if his body continues to grow as everyone expects. This time last year we thought Georges St-Pierre would be taking care of Nick Diaz and beginning his bulking up process to fight Silva.
Now if a Silva-GSP fight were to materialize it would feel like a sad consolation prize.
Speaking of St-Pierre, he would seem to be the likely next opponent for Silva assuming the UFC is still planning on putting together a big stadium event in the first quarter of 2013.
If it's not going to be Jones-Silva at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas it would have to be Silva-GSP, right?
These are the three guys that have put some distance between themselves and the rest of the UFC middleweight division.
Silva won't be fighting Jones. Silva might fight GSP but that's going to depend a lot on GSP's stance on fighting larger men.
Silva may get stuck with the most boring of his options; defending his UFC middleweight title.
If St-Pierre accepts a bout with Silva that would give the UFC time to put the winner of Weidman-Boetsch in against Bisping and determine a true number one contender at 185 pounds.
If not, Bisping would be marketable and Weidman has done enough campaigning that his name is more recognizable than it was six months ago.
Rua and Gustafsson are scheduled to fight in December in what was thought to be a number one contender's fight.
Should the winner of that fight be deemed a title challenger that person won't be fighting for a very long time because of today's announcement.
Texeira and Cormier both have unfinished business to take care of before they can be considered a threat to Jones.
Having additional time allows the UFC not to rush either of them into a title fight, a great thing for Cormier who is after all still a heavyweight.
Teixeira needs to beat a top light heavyweight before he can become a real marketable challenger and Cormier needs Strikeforce to get its act together so he can finish his obligation with that organization.


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What, you thought they would be civil?
Women's Bantamweight Champion Miesha Tate and number one contender to said title, Ronda Rousey, squared off at today's Strikeforce weigh-ins after successfully tipping the scale at 134.5-pounds, making their bout official for tomorrow night's (March 3, 2012) event in Columbus, Ohio.
And they got a little testy in the process.
When it came time to get in each other's face, Tate got a little too close and Rousey didn't appreciate the forehead-to-forehead action. When asked by Mauro Ranallo for thoughts, "Rowdy" kept it short and sweet.
"I can't wait until it's legal for me to actually kick her ass," she said.
Tate, meanwhile, maintained her even keeled approach to the match-up:
"I'm excited to put on a great fight. I think we've done a great job of pumping this fight up and I hope y'all are really excited to see it. It's going to be an amazing fight."
The time for talk is over. Now it's time to step inside the cage and scrap. It all goes down tomorrow night in Ohio, Maniacs. Y'all ready?


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George compensation ruling is a 'travesty of justice'
Barry George's sister Michelle Diskin has described the High Court's decision to halt her brother's compensation bid was a "travesty of justice".
– Barry George's sister Michelle Diskin
There never was any viable evidence against Barry.
This whole case from April 2000 until today has been a smoke and mirrors exercise designed to placate a worried public, and give the impression that justice had been done.
Well neither the Dando family, nor our family, has seen any justice in the past 13 years.


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Maestlin was a proponent of the heliocentric model of the solar system and planets introduced by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Johannes Kepler, too, accepted this theory immediately, seeing the hand of God in its simplicity and becoming interested in astronomy.
Giving up his plan of becoming a clergyman, Johannes Kepler departed the University of Tubingen in 1594 to accept a chair in mathematics and astronomy at the university in Graz, Austria. After taking this position, he developed a complex hypothesis to explain the distance between the orbits of planets. (He, like so many before him, mistakenly believed these orbits were circular. Still, his early calculations matched the observational evidence within 5%. In his later work, he altered his thinking to believe that planetary orbits are elliptical.)
Johannes Kepler next theorized that the sun emitted a constant force across the planes of a planet's orbit, which diminished with distance. He believed this force pushed the planets around their orbits. In 1596, he published these theories in a treatise called Mysterium Cosmographicum (Cosmographic Mystery). This was the first written defense of the Copernican model, which used geometric calculations as evidence.
Although Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe did not subscribe to the Copernican theory, himself, he was so impressed with the work of Johannes Kepler that in 1600, he invited Kepler to become his assistant. Brahe, the mathematician at the court of Emperor Rudolph II at Prague, was one of the most prolific observers of the cosmos. At the time of his death, one year after Johannes Kepler became his assistant, the data he collected during his lifetime was far superior to any others made prior to the invention of the telescope.
After Tycho Brahe's death, Johannes Kepler stepped into his role of imperial mathematician and court astronomer. He remained in this position until he became mathematician to the states of Oberosterreich (upper Austria) in 1612.
During his working years, Johannes Kepler was a brilliant astronomer and mathematician and a prolific writer. His first major contribution came in the form of a treatise on the theory of optics, just two years after he stepped into Brahe's shoes.
His next major work was entitled Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy), which was published in 1609. Using the observations of his predecessor along with his own, he was able to calculate the orbit of the planet Mars. Forgetting all previous notions of circular planetary orbits, he theorized that the planets move in elliptic orbits with the sun at one focus. This was the first of Kepler's so-called Laws of Planetary Motion. The second, which also appeared in this work is called the area rule, which says that a hypothetical line from the sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas of an ellipse during equal intervals of time, meaning that the closer a planet comes to a sun, the faster it moves.
Some of the other work Johannes Kepler accomplished during his stint in Prague included a book enthusiastically accepting and expanding on Galileo's observations using a telescope. He also completed a treatise on optics as telescope lenses the year before his departure to Linz.


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