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Antarctica Heard From
An interview with Nunatak, a band composed of five British scientists at a research station in Antarctica, who will perform as part of Live Earth.
Representing Antarctica
Footage of Nunatak, a band composed of five British scientists in Antarctica, who will perform in Live Earth's series of concerts.
Representing Antarctica
Footage of Nunatak, a band composed of five British scientists in Antarctica, who will perform in Live Earth's series of concerts.
In Shackleton's Wake, With a Hot Tub
Taking a break from her usual beat, the photographer Heidi Schumann discusses her trip on board a luxury cruise ship in Antarctica.
Move Over, Penguins, Marathon Coming Through
A marathon in Antarctica makes laps over hills and through mud and ice.
A Cruise to Antarctica Cools It on Rates
A voyage to Antarctica, a bucket-list trip for many, often requires a five-figure budget. But the travel industry's downturn has forged at least one short-but-sweet deal on departures to the southernmost continent. The expedition cruise specialist AdventureSmith ...
Is Antarctica Getting Too Popular?
The number of tourists visiting the continent has more than quadrupled in the last decade, raising concerns about the environment and passenger safety.
Cold Water Cruises
Travelers are increasingly drawn to a vacation where the ice isn't just in their drinks, but in the very waters that surround them.
Before It Disappears
Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse to behold an untrammeled frontier.
In Shackleton's Wake, With a Hot Tub
When the photographer Heidi Schumann went to Antarctica, on a cruise ship, the World, deprivation and life-threatening conditions were far from the minds of her and her fellow passengers.
Mrs. Chippy, R.I.P.
In Wellington, New Zealand, a monument to a bold and heroic cat.
Winter Dreams; Antarctica
The seasons turn somersault in Antarctica. But if November at the bottom of the planet is technically spring, why quibble? If reckoned by its ice, it will suffice. At first, ice is almost all you recognize in this strange territory -- ice, water, sky. Winter ...
An Icebreaker Through The Antarctic
AFTER all I had heard about Antarctica's windblown hostility, it was a pleasure to find that in January the icecap can be more blush than bluster. The summer sun, which takes increasingly shorter naps the farther south you sail, often washes the icescape with ...
The Sky's The Limit
If you've already taken a dive at the North Pole, it seems only natural to fly south for a dive at the other one. And since no one really owns the South Pole, you can even wrap the trip in the bunting of universal brotherhood. An international sky-diving ...


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7 Unmanned Military Aircraft of the Near Future
Image: Courtesy of Northrop Grumman
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System on cruise control
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) designed for combat situations are not a new invention. There have been remotely operated military vehicles since as far back as World War I, when a number of pilotless aircraft were developed. In the past 15 years, however, technical advances have meant that these controversial vehicles have come to play a more prominent part in modern warfare.
Drones have been used extensively by the US Military in its campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan for communications, search and rescue, destroying enemy air defenses, and in strike missions. They have proven themselves to be effective weapons and are being developed as we speak in several different forms. We've previously looked at future aircraft on Tech Graffiti; now here's a list of seven drones that may be soaring through the skies in the near future.
7. Northrop Grumman X-47B
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The X-47B seen from above
Writing about the first carrier-based launch of the X-47B in May 2013, US Navy Rear Admiral Mat Winter said, "This historic event challenges the paradigm of manned carrier landings that were first conducted more than 90 years ago." The X-47B is a prototype unmanned combat system (UCAS) intended for Navy carriers. Defense technology company Northrop Grumman developed the X-47B, which can be remotely controlled by ground operators. The vehicle is one of four competitors in the US Navy's Unmanned Carrier-Launched Surveillance and Strike System (UCLASS). Two other competitors, the Sea Ghost and the Phantom Ray, appear later on this list.
Image: Courtesy of Northrop Grumman
From this angle, the X-47B looks a little like a space shuttle.
The X-47B is currently undergoing flight-testing. And although it is not going to be used for operations, the drones developed from it are expected to take part in reconnaissance missions and will be fitted with two weapons bays to take ammunition. When designing the aircraft, developers had to take into account a saltwater environment and also consider the high electromagnetic interference present on aircraft carriers. The Navy hopes to launch its first operational UCLASS in 2019. By January 2012, the X-47B program had cost an estimated $813 million.
6. Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton
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The MQ-4C
The MQ-4C Triton is an unmanned vehicle intended for the US Navy, but although it may be sent into battle zones, it is actually an unarmed surveillance craft. When it is fully operational, the Triton is expected to run maritime surveillance, analyze battle damage and relay communications.
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The Triton completes its first flight in May 2013.
The Triton made its first test flight on May 22, 2013. When it is completed, the vehicle will be able to cover large distances, with a maximum speed of 357 mph (575 km/h) and an endurance of up to 28 hours. The Triton is powered by a Rolls-Royce AE 3007 turbofan and is manned remotely by a four-person ground crew. Currently, the US Navy is the only military force operating the Triton, but the Australian and Indian forces have shown interest in it, too.
5. Boeing Phantom Ray
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The Boeing Phantom Ray on its first flight, April 2011
Up until May 2009, only a handful of Boeing engineers and executives knew anything of this next vehicle's existence. With a 50-foot (15-meter) wingspan, the Phantom Ray is roughly the same size as a regular fighter jet, and Boeing hopes the Phantom Ray will be the first in a new line of prototype aircraft.
Image: Boeing Photo
The Boeing Phantom Ray in flight
Boeing financed the development of the Phantom Ray themselves, basing it on the X-45C concept model they created for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Phantom Ray has capabilities for surveillance, electronic attack, suppressing enemy air defenses, aerial refueling, and other missions. It has a top speed of Mach 0.85 and a range of 1,500 miles (2,414 km).
4. Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire-X
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The MQ-8C Fire-X
In January 2006, an RQ-8A Fire Scout became the first UAV helicopter to land autonomously on a moving ship – which was traveling at up to 17 mph (27 km/h). Its successor, the MQ-8B Fire Scout, was developed by Northrop Grumman for the US Armed Forces and is used for reconnaissance and support. In 2012, Northrop Grumman was awarded a $262.3 million Navy contract to further improve the craft – and the MQ-8C Fire-X is currently in development.
Image: Courtesy of Northrop Grumman
The MQ-8C with a battleship
The vehicle will be used for similar duties to those of the MQ-8B, but it packs more of a punch: it can carry a greater payload and has double the endurance capabilities, as well as much-improved flight range. The MQ-8C can be equipped with AGM-175 Griffin missiles, APKWSII guided rockets and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. This craft is currently undergoing development and testing, and it is hoped that it will be ready for action in 2014.
3. Lockheed Martin Sea Ghost
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The Sea Ghost on deck
Aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin's UCLASS drone is also known as the "Sea Ghost," and while it might look rather like a stealth bomber, it is in fact a UAV capable of surveillance and reconnaissance as well as strike missions. The vehicle is expected to be able to carry a brace of 1,000-pound class weapons. It even has enough space to be armed with payloads for electronic attacks.
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The Lockheed Martin Sea Ghost
A single ground-based operator will be capable of controlling a number of the drones at one time. According to Lockheed Martin's website, the "UCLASS will balance endurance, early operational capability, and inherent growth that will enable operations in any environment or threat scenario." It is anticipated to be in limited operational use by 2018.
2. Boeing Phantom Eye
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Boeing Phantom Eye on its first flight
The Phantom Eye is well named for its purpose – to be the US military's eye in the sky in battle zones, particularly in Afghanistan. It is a high altitude long endurance (HALE) vehicle that can spend over four days in continuous flight. Notwithstanding the Phantom Eye's primary purpose as a spy plane, Boeing also thinks that it could play a key communications relay role for the US Navy.
Image: Boeing Photo
Boeing Phantom Eye
This high-altitude vehicle can reach 65,000 feet and is powered by liquid hydrogen, the fuel for its internal combustion engines. This fuel is a clean source of energy, as the only byproduct is water. The vehicle will carry sensor packages for surveillance, communication and tracking. Interestingly, in June 2013 the US Missile Defense Agency also awarded a $6.8 million contract to Boeing to place an unnamed payload onto the demonstration model of the Phantom Eye.
1. Boeing Insitu RQ-21 Integrator
Image: US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sabrina Fine
The RQ-21 Integrator being recovered
Although relatively small at 16 feet (five meters) across, the Insitu RQ-21 is a powerful unmanned monoplane, developed by Boeing for the US Navy. One of the RQ-21's unique features is that it doesn't need a runway; it is shot into the sky using a pneumatic launcher and is recovered by a system called Skyhook. When it is ready, the RQ-21 will supplement another currently operational UAV, the Scan Eagle.
Image: Official US Navy Imagery
The RQ-21 on deck
The Insitu RQ-21 is a twin-boomed single-engine craft. Remote control is achieved through a newly developed process that allows for unification between different UAV systems. This craft has also been designed to withstand high-temperature surroundings. The RQ-21 comes equipped with day and night video cameras, a laser rangefinder, and an automatic identification system (AIS) receiver. Currently, these UAVs are in low-rate initial production, having passed all the required tests.
Bonus Entry: Boeing Long-Range Strike-B Heavy Bomber Program
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Boeing Long-Range Strike-B Bomber
A lot of the US Air Force's Long-Range Strike-B program is being kept under wraps while it is still in development. What is known is that the next-generation bomber will be a high-tech stealth craft that is set to replace some of the current B-2 and B-52 planes. One of its most important attributes will be its ability to strike targets – such as enemy missile launch sites – from a distance and hopefully remain undetected. Although they will operate as manned planes, they may also be converted into UAVs – which is why they make this list (just).
Image: Boeing Photo
Boeing Strike-B Bomber seen from above
The craft will have the capacity to deliver nuclear strikes, possibly in an unmanned configuration. It will also be equipped for surveillance, electronic attack and communications. The current budget for these future bombers is $550 million each, and it is hoped that a fleet of around 100 will be ready in the 2020s.
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Northrop Grumman's Fire-X
It is easy to see the appeal of these high-tech pieces of machinery: they are able to conduct stealthy intelligence missions, and the fact of their unmanned flight reduces the need for human troops to enter high-risk situations. Yet their use is also controversial, and some question the ethics of using robotized weapons on the enemy. As these weapons can reach virtually anybody, anywhere, with little risk to the operator, people fear that human life will lose its value. Do the positives outweigh the negatives? We'll leave it to you to make up your own mind.
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Language(s): English
Keyword(s):Electroacoustic Devices , Interface , Interactivity , Internet Music
In this paper, the author (a performer, composer, and interface designer) reflects on the design of musical interfaces in terms of the relationship between technology and artistic creation; he illustrates his discussion through examples of his own work.
All references of the same author:
(English)Jordà, Sergi (1999). Faust Music On Line: (FMOL) An Approach to Real-Time Collective Composition on the Internet
Jordà, Sergi (2001b). Improvising with Computer: A Personal Survey (1989-2001)
Jordà, Sergi (2002a). FMOL: Toward User-Friendly, Sophisticated New Musical Instruments
Jordà, Sergi (2002b). Improvising With Computers: A Personal Survey (1989-2001)
Jordà, Sergi (2003). Sonigraphical Instruments: From FMOL to the reacTable
Jordà, Sergi (2004). Digital Instruments and Players: Part I - Efficiency and Apprenticeship
Jordà, Sergi (2005). Multi-user Instruments: Models, Examples and Promises
JORDÀ, Sergi (2005). Digital Lutherie: Crafting musical computers for new musics' performance and improvisation


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July 14, 2014
Step Two: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
So, what is sanity?
And why does this step say that the Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity?
Does restoration imply that there was a time when we were sane?
Is it easier to define insanity than it is to recognize sanity?
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The truth seems to be that our dysfunctional, disabling patterns are so much a part of our daily lives that they feel normal to us, even when we are in deep pain.
That young children will choose to return to an abusive home and even cry for the abusive mommy and daddy is a fact that makes perfect sense because we all long for homeostasis.
We all like, prefer and seek out that state of being which is familiar to us, and for some of us, chaos is familiar.
For others, drunken stupors or highs are the norms. For workaholics, "home base" is working until you cannot go another step. Some people don't feel "right" until they are consumed with fear. Increasingly, rage, hate and anger are commonplace among persons, so common that those addicted to those feelings states aren't comfortable until they are whipped up into a state of anger.
I've seen a person "loose her mind" when she needs the approval of another person and cannot get it. I've even seen persons who are addicted to being abused, used, mistreated and shamed.
I have allowed other peoples' opinions, needs, preferences, behaviors and manipulations to take up too much space in my head, so that they are running my life.
I've seen people who don't feel OK if they aren't running on fumes. I've known people who get high on the adrenalin rush and almost can't work unless they are "flying high", pushing themselves harder and faster and longer than anyone else. I know those who cannot stand not to have a romantic partner (or three) in their lives, and the need is so controlling that anyone will do.
Addiction to any person or persons, activities, feeling states or substances creates insanity, and for those who have lived in those states long enough, sanity is threatening. Change itself often creates stress, but when you're sick and tired of being sick and tired of whatever is causing you pain, you'll do what it takes to restore your sanity.
"Sanity may look different for you than for me," a friend told me, and I had to agree. Perhaps, too, chaos that is intolerable for one is tolerable for another. Many of the words found in the Steps describe conditions that might be on a continuum, or at least they mean different things to different persons: unmanageable, powerless, coming to believe, Power greater than ourselves, and others.
In the terminology of Carl Jung, who helped Bill W. formulate these Twelve Steps of recovery, "being in a complex", a term Jung coined to indicate being taken over by some personality characteristics that have their origins in the past, generally around a trauma. Being in a complex is a kind of insanity.
So it is that I've thought a lot about what sanity is, in the context of these Steps and related to what it means to recover from an addiction.
This isn't a textbook definition, and it isn't the definitive definition of sanity, but a reflection on what sanity may be, gleaned from my experience, study and on-going recovery from codependency.
It seems to me that sanity is the answer to the Serenity Prayer. Sanity is serenity, courage and wisdom, at work in everyday life.
Sanity is living from your own center, from the inside out, instead of being tossed about by whatever is going on in the outer world.
Sanity is peace, and it is living in the moment, fully present to what is. It is being here and it is being here now.
Sanity is being organized around activities, processes, people and things that create health and wholeness, and not controlled by those factors that disturb, disorient, destroy or keep us attached to our addiction.
Sanity isn't the absence of conflict, either inner or outer conflict, but it is choosing to be peaceful and serene in the midst of conflict.
Sanity is being able to make healthy choices instead of being in chains to old, unhealthy patterns and choices, victimized by my own inability to choose health over sickness.
Sanity is not passivity, and it certainly isn't denial. In fact, authentic recovery leads us to be actively involved in life, our own lives and in our relationships.
Sanity isn't about avoiding the truth; instead, it is radical honesty about what we are feeling, thinking, wanting and doing. That honesty may be spoken, or it may be acknowledged in the privacy of one's own inner thoughts, but self-honesty is a basic requirement of sanity.
Sanity is a state of being in which what you do matches what you say. It is a state of inner harmony and integrity, so that what you do in your daily life reflects what is true for you.
Sanity is knowing the True Self that is at your core, and living from that source.
Sanity is being who you are and not who someone else wants you to be. It is living authentically and in congruence with your natural temperament, gifts and values.
Sanity may or may not cause you to look like, act like, talk like and vote like your peers, but conforming and adapting to your peers isn't the point of a sane, sober and healthy life. In fact, sanity may cause you to make your own kind of music, live your own unique life and become who you were created to be in the beginning!
Sanity is much more than this --and I am pretty sure that in recovery we are truly restored to the way we were meant to live in the first place -- free from addictions, true to ourselves and who we are intended to be, expressing our gifts and talents that are written into our being and
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For years, a poster hung over my bathtub. It depicted a young woman, dancing on a beach either at sunrise or sunset, with the inscription, "He restores my soul," from Psalm 23.
Over the years, I pondered that poster and thought a lot about that particular Psalm, one of my favorites from childhood.
More recently, I learned that the word for religion comes from the word religare, which means "to tie back together."
It seems that all of us need those practices, routines or rituals that will restore our souls and reconnect us to ourselves and to our Higher Power.
I've written about those spiritual practices in my book Dance Lessons: Moving to the Beat of God's Heart. I wrote about them because I have learned that the regular and habitual practice of particular disciplines is as necessary to my life as breath is to my physical body.
--I must have the daily practice of Centering Prayer or some other form of meditation.
--I must have regular Sabbath rest, a degree of solitude and enough silence to hear the still, small whispers of God's grace.
--It is necessary for me to have physical exercise, regular sleep and enough of it, good nutrition and plenty of hydration to keep my body healthy.
--I need to feed my mind nourishing and challenging intellectual food, and I take seriously the spiritual practice of friendship.
--Gathering with my family of faith, living fully within that community in such a way that we give support, nurture, comfort and care to each other is vital to my spiritual well-being.
--I take seriously the spiritual practice of having fun, laughing deeply and often and, when it is time to mourn, weeping for that which I've lost. "Tears are the body's way of praying," my friend and teacher Keith Hosey told me, and I know he is right.
--In the last three years, walking the labyrinth has become a vital part of my life, my prayers and my efforts to live the Serenity Prayer.
You can't force a spiritual experience and you cannot manufacture sanity, serenity or peace, but with a consistent spiritual practice, you make yourself available for an encounter with God.
You cannot force recovery. It seems to take longer for some of us than others, and for all of us, recovery is likely a lifetime project.
What matters seems to be a long, slow obedience in the same direction, and a ton of patience and persistence.
What about you?
What does sanity look like for you?
How do you put yourself in a position to receive restoration of your soul?
How long has it been since you have simply sat in the silence, being fully present to your breath and to the sounds of silence?
What keeps you from doing that?
What helps you stay centered?
Who gives you support to live the benefits of the Serenity Prayer?
Grace to you--
April 14, 2014
Practicing Resurrection.......Coming to believe in a power greater than ourselves
Step Two: We came to believe that a Power Greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
So, what about this "Power" that is greater than myself?
And how does one come to believe in that power?
Are they talking about.....God?
I know that people in recovery groups often talk about "not-God", and I think I have an experiential understanding of just what it is to make what is not-God into a god.
Like most human beings, I know what it is like to put activities, people or substances in a position in my life that belongs only to God and wind up serving that which demands more and more of my attention, energy and finally, my life -- to my detriment.
Now and then, it is important for me to think about how much power I have given to things which are "not-God", also known as idols.
other people
other peoples' needs
other peoples' opinions
other peoples' feelings
other peoples' approval
other peoples' preferences
other peoples' bad moods
other peoples' schedules, agendas, etc.
It works like this: Instead of consulting my own needs, wants, etc., I am more tuned in to what other people are needing or wanting, or what I think that they want or need, thereby giving other people authority over my life, which includes my choices, my feelings, my schedule.
Instead of following my own Inner Guidance System or following what I know of God, I allow another's guidance to overtake mine, even if it means that I do something I know is wrong for me, go along with something I don't believe in or concede to a decision that is counter to my best interest.
When I do that, I'm in the throes (stranglehold, grips, iron bars) of codependency. I'm not thinking clearly. I'm not choosing wisely. I am giving away my personal power, and I'm likely going to be full of resentment when I wake up out of my codependent fog and realize that "I've done that thing one more time" that I said I wasn't going to do.
All happy families resemble one another,
each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
Frankly, I didn't expect that I would be so profoundly affected by seeing the movie August: Osage County. I had heard it was hard to watch, but because of Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, I wanted to see it.
Actually, "being affected" hardly expresses my condition as I watched that movie.
I had no idea that I would not talk for a good thirty minutes after leaving the theatre, I was so moved by the tragedy of it all.
I felt as if someone had ripped open my heart and wrung it out.
I felt like I had been in the movie, playing all the parts, so great was my empathy for each of the characters, or perhaps it was that the actors played their parts so pitch-perfectly that I they made me feel with them and for them.
After the movie, I knew it was their story, and not mine. I didn't over-identify with the characters to the point of losing my own identity, but after the movie, I was exhausted.
I am one of three sisters and I am the mother of three daughters. Like this Oklahoma family, I grew up Baptist. Except for five years I spent in New Mexico, I've spent all of my life in Texas, but Texas is close enough to Oklahoma for me to understand this religio-political culture.
I have no problem understanding how someone can offer thanks at the dinner table while wars and rumors of war are simmering and sometimes raging among the people who are holding hands, with bowed heads.
Just because you don't get along or are mad at each other doesn't mean you can't pause to thank God for your food, and it doesn't mean you're a hypocrite for praying when your life is in total chaos all around you.


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...Aldens. One claimed he was the first Pilgrim to set foot on Plymouth Rock. The other, which arose from a legend transmitted orally in the family, was dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (1858). In that legend, Alden presumably won the hand of Priscilla after first wooing her for his friend Standish. Because of the story, Priscilla Alden...
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Non-invasive Imaging of Disseminated Candidiasis in Zebrafish Larvae
1Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine
The rapid development, small size and transparency of zebrafish are tremendous advantages for the study of innate immune control of infection1-4. Here we demonstrate techniques for infecting zebrafish larvae using the fungal pathogen Candida albicans by microinjection, methodology recently used to implicate phagocyte NADPH oxidase activity in control of fungal dimorphism5.
Published July 30, 2012. Keywords: Immunology, Infection, Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology, Candida albicans, candidiasis, zebrafish larvae, Danio rerio, microinjection, confocal imaging


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Every two years, university teams gather in Washington, D.C., to compete in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, a public showcase of cutting-edge innovation in sustainable housing. The 19 homes in the 2011 Solar Decathlon combined rooftop-mounted and building-integrated photovolatics and solar thermal systems with passive solar design, energy-efficient building envelopes and products, and high-performance construction.
The winning team from the University of Maryland went beyond energy issues to focus on water conservation. Inspired by the Chesapeake Bay, Team WaterShed's holistic approach included an innovative man-made wetland biofiltration system to capture, recycle, and store stormwater and greywater.
Rainwater flows from the roof along a central axis to a consolidated mechanical core, where it mixes with greywater from the shower, clothes washer, and dishwasher. From there, the water flows into modular planters of native grasses and indigenous plants located under the bathroom and along the decks. Made up of hardy water lily, swamp hibiscus, blue flag iris, and other low-maintenance plants, these "constructed wetlands" break down nutrients and remove pathogens and pollutants such as soap from the greywater, helping to keep the stored water clean.
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To many, Brief Encounter may seem like a relic of more proper times--or, specifically, more properly British times--when the pressures of marital decorum and fidelity were perhaps more keenly felt. In truth, David Lean's fourth film remains a timeless study of true love (or, rather, the promise of it), and the aching desire for intimate connection that is often subdued by the obligations of marriage. And so it is that ordinary Londoners Alec (Trevor Howard), a married doctor, and contented housewife Laura (Celia Johnson) meet by chance one day in a train station, when he volunteers to remove a fleck of ash from her eye (a romantic gesture that, perhaps, inspired Robert Towne's "flaw in the iris" scene in Chinatown). It so happens that their schedules coincide at the train station every Thursday, and their casual attraction grows, through quiet conversation and longing expressions, into the desperate recognition of mutual love. From this point forward, Lean turns this utterly precise, 85-minute film into a bracing study of romantic suspense, leading inevitably, and with the paranoid, furtive glances of a spy thriller, to the moment when this brief encounter must be consummated or abandoned altogether. Decades later, the outcome of this affair--both agonizing and rapturous--is subtle and yet powerful enough to draw tears from the numbest of souls, and spark debate regarding the tragedy or virtue of the choices made. A truly universal film, with meticulously controlled emotions revealed through the flawless performances of Howard and Johnson, and an enduring masterpiece that continued Lean on his course to cinematic greatness. --Jeff Shannon
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This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long. There'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind about this anymore, when I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. No, no, I don't want that time to come ever. I want to remember every minute, always, always to the end of my days.
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HPUX inetd, but is it syslogging anything similar to "looping too fast"?
my HPUX box is unavailable from my location here, so i can't run strings
on it to see if that's built in.
If it's an old enough, unpatched, inetd, then it has problems with looping.
The current inetd for 10.20 says:
% strings -a /usr/sbin/inetd | grep 'looping'
%s: Server failing (looping), service terminated
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By Meredith Mandell
At Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital, a team of neurosurgeons and computer scientists are developing software to plan the delicate incisions that are necessary for neurosurgery.
Operating on the brain is a bit like ice fishing. Doctors cut a hole into the skull as small as half the size of a penny and can't necessarily see what's below. Sometimes they create an opening as large as 70 millimeters—the size of some camera lenses–forcing doctors to cut through broad areas of bone and tissue.
Surgeons must then navigate more than 400 miles of blood vessels and delicate lobes controlling speech, sight, smell and memory every time they want to excise a tumor or relieve symptoms of Parkinson's disease, depression and other neurological disorders.
Figuring out the best trajectory to attack a tumor or fluid-filled cyst is as much science as it is art.
"Field of image or computer-assisted surgery is a very evolving project in medicine—especially in neurosurgery," says Dr. Yigal Shoshan, head of Hadassah Hospital's neurosurgery department, who along with Leo Joskowicz, a Hebrew University computer science professor, is developing the software.
Shoshan explains that some tumors are deep inside the brain and reaching it to take a biopsy or to guide a catheter for further treatment means a safe pathway needs to be found.
Typically, a doctor plans for surgery by looking at an MRI brain scan and, using his or her own knowledge and experience, chooses the best locations to cut.
When Shoshan, now 56, was a young resident 30 years ago, he didn't have the luxury of computer printouts. He based his decision on his knowledge of anatomy and what he saw in anatomy textbooks.
"Today it is very different. We are using technology to help us localize very precise areas in the brain … and to preserve functions of the brain that are very important," he says.
The software combines a wide array of data to create a 3-D brain map instead of the traditional two-dimensional MRI. Functional MRIs capture blood flow changes that reflect areas of heightened neural activity, rather than simply an image of the organ. Overlaying the functional MRI image is another data set from a Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA), which focuses on the brain's arteries and highlights irregularities, blockages and aneurysms.
All this data is processed to generate green and red color codes representing where surgeons should and should not cut. The areas that the software analyzes as too dangerous or too close to vital parts of the brain are placed in the red zone.
Not only does it allow for safer surgeries, it potentially paves the way for more effective treatment.
"If we are inserting an electrode to the basal ganglia of the brain to treat Parkinson's—we are talking about sub-millimetric accuracy," he says.
In July, a team of six scientists and computer engineers tested their prototype at Hadassah Hospital. In one test case, they gave the doctors a basic MRI showing a lesion on it. They asked each of the 10 doctors to plan a surgery based on the MRI alone, and then compare their plan with the software's suggestions. Altogether, their experiment analyzed more than 240 surgical paths.
While the final results of the study have yet to be published and the software has yet to get FDA approval for further testing, Shoshan says the results would show how the software enables doctors to pick more accurate and safer trajectories.
He says the software was especially useful with junior residents.
"The software helps young doctors to be better," he says, noting how it closes the gap between senior- and junior-level doctors. He noticed less experienced doctors could easily correct or modify their initial surgical plans and also learn from their mistakes.
"It's a very strong teaching tool and executing tool," he says. "Its like a game—if you choose a very good trajectory and you get a small risk ratio, you may win."
Shoshan came up with the idea with Joskowicz, a former IBM computer scientist, who had worked on similar software that was built to organize all sorts of data—birth records, financial data and surgeries.
In the 1990s, Joskowicz worked at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Researchers there developed software to customize prostheses for hip replacement surgeries. The program used data from computerized tomography scans to make individualized prosthetics based on a patient's bone structure.
Joskowicz began working with Hadassah Hospital neurosurgeons 10 years ago, taking his previous experience and applying it to a new realm.
"It takes a long time to develop these things. It takes perseverance. A good idea is far from being enough," Joskowicz says.
For doctors at Hadassah, where there is a large volume of patients, the speed and accuracy of decision-making is vital. The hospital has Jerusalem's only neurosurgery department. Every year, the unit performs an estimated 1,500 surgical procedures, hospitalizes close to 2,000 patients and cares for roughly 4,500 patients in its outpatient clinic, Shoshan says.
The stories are dramatic, says Zack Medress, a second-year Stanford University medical student who assisted in research for the project over the summer.
One partially blind six-year-old boy came to the hospital with a fluid-filled tumor at the base of his brain that impinged on his optic nerve. Surgeons wanted to drain the tumor to relieve the symptoms but it was in an area known as "high-priced real estate," Medress says.
Hadassah's doctors successfully operated without damaging other parts of the brain using the standard MRI-based planning method. But, if they had used the new 3-D data-synthesizing software, Medress says, it most likely would have decreased risk to the patient.
Fifteen percent of brain surgeries for benign tumors go awry from complications like internal bleeding or misplaced incisions that lead to permanent neurological damage. The worst-case scenario is death.
But recent breakthroughs in surgical technology are changing the game. The surgeries of tomorrow will be highly accurate, most likely enhanced by virtual and robotic technology. Joskowicz and Shoshan's new software may be used to plan those future surgeries.
"There are many positive implications. The surgery will be safer and better quality for a larger population," says Joskowicz.
Top image: Color-coded head surface model presenting the risk ratio for a given surgical trajectory. Red is analyzed to be a no-go surgical area and green means a lower-risk surgical incision area. Courtesy Dr. Yigal Shoshan.
Meredith Mandell is a freelance reporter currently based in Israel where she reports on a variety of social and political issues. Her work appears on MSNBC.com, Deutsche Welle Radio, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Jerusalem Post.


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The Prayer of Manasseh is a short work of only 15 verses that purports to be the penitential prayer of the Judean king Manasseh, who is recorded in the Bible as one of the most idolatrous (2 Kings 21:1-18). However, after having been taken captive by the Assyrians, he prays for mercy (2 Chronicles 33:10-17) and turns from his idolatrous ways. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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1 Maccabees is an apocryphal/deuterocanonical book written by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, probably about 100 BC. It is included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons. Protestants, Jews, and some others regard it as generally reliable historically, but not a part of Scripture. The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea by the Greeks under Alexander the Great, after Alexander's empire has been divided so that Judea was part of the Greek Seleucid Empire. It tells how the Greek ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes attempted to suppress the practice of basic Jewish religious law, resulting in a Jewish revolt against Seleucid rule. The book covers the whole of the revolt, from 175 to 134 BC, highlighting how the salvation of the Jewish people in this crisis came from God through Mattathias' family, particularly his sons, Judas Maccabeus, Jonathan Maccabaeus, and Simon Maccabaeus, and his grandson, John Hyrcanus. The doctrine expressed in the book reflects traditional Jewish teaching, without later doctrines found, for example, in 2 Maccabees. (Summary by Wikipedia, modified by Sam Stinson)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. One of the most famous incidents in the book describes how Tom persuades his friends to do a boring, hateful chore for him: whitewashing (i.e., painting) a fence. This was the first novel to be written on a typewriter. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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In 1963 Granada Television commissioned Michael Apted and Paul Almond to produce 7 UP — a 40 minute documentary based on interviews with 14 seven-year-old children from diverse class and regional backgrounds. The children talked candidly about their ambitions, their hopes and their plans for ... Read more
The original film that began Michael Apted's lifelong obsession to follow the lives of 14 seven-year-olds documented at seven year intervals. (28UP his latest instalment, is also being screened at this Festival.) In 7UP the extremes of the British class system are already obvious — from ... Read more
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CAMBRIDGE, England and DALLAS , September 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that industry analyst group Gartner, Inc. has given...
CAMBRIDGE, England and DALLAS , September 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that industry analyst group Gartner, Inc. has given Autonomy etalk a "Strong Positive" rating in the recently released 2007 MarketScope for Contact Center Quality Management report(1). Autonomy etalk was one of more than 14 vendors evaluated for the report and received the highest ranking possible, "Strong Positive".
The Gartner evaluation criteria for the MarketScope were driven by several key areas spanning from the vendor's viability and product capabilities to their support infrastructure and geographic representation. Other decisive factors included the experience of the vendors' customers and the product strategy. According to Gartner, the role and scope of contact center quality monitoring (QM) are evolving to make it a more strategic enterprise investment. Combined with the steady growth of the market, Gartner has defined the QM market as positive.
According to this report, "The importance of contact center quality programs has been enhanced due to the recent corporate strategy changes that are placing an increased emphasis on the customer experience and growth. The contact center is viewed within many organizations as a key enabler of this and consequently the performance of agents is a critical factor."
Autonomy etalk's solutions enable the Intelligent Contact Center, which allows organizations to capture, analyze, and share data between the contact center and the rest of the enterprise. Unlike the other available solutions in the market today which currently only support audio analysis, etalk offers industry-first interaction analytics capabilities that support multiple channels, such as email and chat as well as audio. Autonomy etalk leverages a combination of speech analytics and the patented IDOL platform to intelligently process and analyze every interaction in the contact center - including call recordings, text, email, and chat - to uniquely allow computers to form a human-like understanding of this unstructured information. This allows organizations to gain a much deeper understanding of customer needs, behaviors, and intentions to deliver value across the enterprise.
"We believe that our commitment to our global client base, the significant advancements of our technology, and our strong financial growth are key contributors to this rating," said Scott Shute , Autonomy etalk's chief executive officer. "The contact center is an organization's most strategic asset. Its growing needs will continue to drive the development of our innovative technologies to deliver enhanced customer experience and help companies leverage the intelligence that results from these interactions."
Autonomy etalk's Qfiniti Enterprise platform delivers multi-channel interaction analysis, real-time agent support, and contact center performance management solutions, including call and desktop recording, agent training and evaluations, and customer surveys, to help organizations achieve better customer support, enhanced performance, and more effective business operations.
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A few church leaders who have just gone too far.
I haven't really posted a lot lately from my heart because I've been slammed with graduating chiropractic school, starting a job, and just generally rocking at life. But after seeing the backlash and nastiness coming after Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend in celebration of being drafted, I can't stay silent. I try to avoid most controversy, but I can't keep quiet with this one.
We claim to be a religion of love, first and foremost. And yet we condemn the love of some people as being unworthy and sinful.
This is the NFL, people. All of this silly talk about not glorifying a gay man because he's such a terrible "sinner". But it seems weekly, there's a story about a pro football player raping, murdering, doing drugs, driving drunk, beating a woman, making racist comments, or finding out he has yet another baby mama. None of these are ever picked out. No one ever says, "Look at these sinners that we're glorifying! What is wrong with us? Let's write angry blog posts and post bigoted Facebook statuses about them." That just doesn't happen.
We brushed off Richie Incognito's nasty, racist voicemails and said "boys will be boys". We turned Ray Lewis into a hero when he paid someone enough money to get out of murder charges. We think it's funny that Antonio Cromartie has a seemingly endless list of illegitimate children. BUT THESE ARE SINNERS TOO!
And Matt Walsh, people make fun of Tebow because he's a terrible NFL quarterback. No one thinks he's a horrible person because he's a Christian. He's just an awful pro-style quarterback. This is coming from a Florida Gators fan who loves Timmy. Stop it.
I remember sitting in my American Religious History class at Taylor University, with my ancient professor and discussing gay marriage. This old, balding guy teaching at a private Christian school in the middle of nowhere Indiana, said he thinks that if a man loves another man, or a woman another woman, and they want to dedicate their lives to each other, they should be able to do so. This man stood there and broke stereotypes and shattered some little only-child, home-schooled, freshman girl's brain. He said he doesn't condone homosexuals or heterosexuals sleeping around, but by all means, make a commitment and get married. It was brilliant. This same professor later explained why his Christian beliefs led him to vote for Obama instead of McCain.
But I digress.
Michael Sam's sexuality has nothing to do with his football prowess. He is a good football player. He was the SEC defensive player of the year, an award that usually earns a third round draft pick or higher. Anyone who thinks he came out publicly to get drafted easily is an idiot. A 7th round draft pick is a slap in the face to a defensive player of his caliber. He is a beast. The end.
And he can love whoever he darn well pleases. He can kiss whoever he wants to on live television. We see young men kiss their girlfriends. I don't see why young men kissing their boyfriends should make us so concerned.
So my challenge to those angry bloggers and social networkers is this: if you're going to call out Michael Sam for his horrendous sinfulness, call out the rest of the professional athletes too. And while you're at it, call out your best friend. And your neighbor. And your mother. And just keep on going and publicly admit your own sinfulness. Not just in general. Get specific.
Because to be totally Biblical, your sins are no better and no worse than those of anyone else in this world.
Derek Webb preaches that our current Christian culture is so hung up on hiding our sins and making ourselves look better than anyone else. He calls it "this culture hiding game" in which we are "constantly checking the knots in this great suit of fig leaves that you've sown for yourself". He calls us to be "comfortably exposed" in our sinfulness and to boast in how amazing our Savior is and how much he can impact and change our lives and our communities if we just let ourselves be naked.
In Derek Webb's song "T-Shirts", he writes this:
They'll know us by the t-shirts that we wear.
They'll know us by the way we point and stare,
Telling them their sins are worse than ours',
Thinking we can hid our scars
Beneath these t-shirts that we wear.
So let's stop being known for preaching from our high horse of righteousness that we like to ride around. Let's stop being known for our billboards and our picket lines. Let's stop being known for the hateful rhetoric. Let's stop being known for the homophobic blog posts and Facebook rants.
Let's be known for love. Love and nothing more.
We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the Kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy, too. But I guess that's why God invented highlighters, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.
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One hundred other lovers, more, one hundred other altars. If I should slow my pace and finally subject me to grace and love that shames the wise, betrays the heart's deceit and lies, and breaks the back of foolish pride.
You know I've been unfaithful, lovers in lines, while you're turning over tables with the rage of a jealous kind. I chose the gallows to the aisle, thought that love would never find. Hanging ropes will never keep you and your love of a jealous kind.


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It fascinates me that some would assume that they know so much about you when technically they know so little. To put themselves in a pedestal by telling that you're at the bottom of the pyramid.
How much ego can anyone accumulate? And how much ego can anyone handle before they resort into limitless verbal diarrhea?
Humility takes its toll upon meeting these people. As you down play your credentials, you are prone to belittling remarks and borderline insulting statements.
Of course you will smile and take their sh*t. You can step up and defend yourself. A useless and fruitless effort. Their kind would just shrug it off. In their mind, they're bigger than life and you're one of those foot soldiers in the battlefield.
What I did? Cut off the conversation and walk away. Equally reminding myself to never have chit chat with their kind, ever!
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The thing I miss about college most is being able to knock on a few doors and spend all night playing board games.
Instead of drinking.
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A Wooly Mammoth never forgets
The thing I miss about college most is being able to knock on a few doors and spend all night playing board games.
Instead of drinking.
What shall I do with this snow day?
I could sleep, or eat, or dance, or play?
It falls like the mana from heaven,
I can finally sleep well past seven,
Oh snow, majestic soft and fluffy snow,
Shake those bountiful clouds and let it go,
This magic that is nature's dandruff,
Thank you for letting me do any stuff.
That sad moment on Christmas Eve when someone you trusted and hoped would listen to you turns out to be an asshole and brings the worst out of you. I don't know what made me think this time would be any different.
…was written on one of my student's hands today. I asked him to tell me why he had written that on his hand. He mumbled something, refused to meet my eye, and continued reading his packet. I tapped the desk and demanded that he tell me.
He looked up, sighed, and said, "During lunch I saw this hot girl so I wanted to ask her out. I asked for her number and I didn't have a piece of paper, so I had her write it on my hand. And that's what she wrote."
I probably shouldn't have laughed as loudly as I did.
Gave a spelling test today. Said the word, "vulnerable." Got like 6 kids spelling variations of "bonerball" and "bonerable." But really, wouldn't "bonerable" be an actually useful word? Not so sure about "bonerball" though…
I made a mistake of wearing a yellow collared shirt with a solid red neck-tie. I looked like a McDonald's employee. So after I received a couple annoying comments from my students I took off the tie for the rest of the day.
One student came up to me and asked, "Where's your tie?" Before I could even answer, he said, "Did you take it off because… BA DA BA BA BA WE'RE LOVIN' IT?!"
I was too busy laughing to try to strangle him.
According to South Korean newspapers, last week the North Korean government PUBLICLY EXECUTED 80 people in 7 cities for watching South Korean/Western shows, movies, and videos, "pornography," or possessing a Bible.
Apparently people's attitudes and conformance are changing SO THIS IS HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO SUPPRESS DISOBEDIENCE
They allegedly herded 10,000 innocent civilians into a stadium where they were FORCED TO WATCH THE EXECUTIONS BY MACHINE GUN FIRE
Other sources: The Sydney Morning HeraldThe Los Angeles Times
look what the USA's meddling has helped happen. dividing Korea has been as successful and beneficial to the world and the soul of humanity as any other illegal incursion or violence leveled against Asia by the USA.
^^ YES. cuz it's easy to call it "some hunger games shit" and indulge in the crocodile tears of an imperial power when we completely dislocate the fact that the united states of america refuses to normalize relations on the peninsula by actually ENDING THE 60 YEAR OLD KOREAN WAR whose origins can be found in the arbitrary division and neocolonial occupation thru u.s. martial force after the so-called "liberation" from 36 years of brutal japanese colonial occupation. what's truly tragic is how these narrations of spectacular violence that dominate the popular imagination of the DPRK also defangs the reality of a thwarted decolonization for the korean people north and south in order to maintain american hegemony over the asia/pacific. lest i remind folks that the u.s. empire is steamrollering the transpacific partnership that basically tramples on the very individual rights and freedoms its so quick to condemn in the context of the DPRK (like NAFTA on steroids, some say) and passing bills in the senate to enable the export of north korean babies. so know your fucking history before you start crying.
Comparing the deaths of my people to the Hunger Games is fucked up. That's like putting side-by-side the Holocaust and the massacre of the Navi tribe in Avatar. Fuck you.
But as for the fuck ups of "Imperialist America," I'd disagree. Imperialist Japan is NOTHING compared to the imperialist hold that the US has over Korea. It's not ideal, not even close, but our language, culture, and people are not being stripped away. Koreans still have ownership of their heritage.
Dividing a country in half is like trying to cut a family down the middle. It's preposterous and impossible, but at the same time, if one parent is aiming to kill the rest, there's no other choice. Had the US not intervened, Koreans would have succumbed to a Chinese imperialism, and that's no better (and I would argue even worse than the current situation).
South Korea is not a nuclear power. Imagine what would happen if the US left. Sure, we'd get unification alright, but who the fuck cares when Seoul is reduced to a pile of ashes.
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"No Child Left Behind" sounded more real to me than ever when I decided to start teaching. Only 3 to 8 kids in any given class? Think of all the attention I could give each student, how much I could push them, how much I could grow them. I knew great things would be possible.
But that's the problem. My students aren't my projects. It wasn't about what I could do, it was about what the students could get out from themselves. And I failed to see that. And I failed so many kids.
Would it have been different if I hadn't written him off as an asshole, a jerk, a bully, a gangbanger. And instead, if I had seen him as someone who was misunderstood and needed guidance? But I walked away from him. I said things about him that I wasn't even sure were true.
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Sometimes I almost enjoy a hangover, because it gives me an excuse to eat the junkiest food in the world. My top picks are
1) MCDONALDS--You can't beat it. #2, (two cheeseburger meal) w/o cheese, extra onions, pickles, ketchup and mustard, with a Coke.
2) PIZZA HUT--Medium cheese pan pizza, extra sauce, twenty piece boneless buffalo nuggets, mild.
3) CARLS JR--5 piece chicken strips with honey mustard and BBQ for dipping, fried zucchini, with ranch dressing
4) PANDA EXPRESS--Orange chicken, chow mein, veggie spring rolls and cream cheese rangoons (no crab)
5) ASTRO-BURGER--Garden delight (veggie burger) no cheese, extra thousand island, small onion ring, ranch for dipping, and a cherry coke.
All of this eaten in bed, watching some really trashy TV. YAY! Best day ever.
Jack in the Box tacos..lots of them
In and Out Double Double Burger with extra cheese and spread..grilled onions
re: mrbigshotno.1
Re your # 1: Yes!!!!! With some red chile and a fried egg on top!
re: mrbigshotno.1
Menudo with a pig's foot
re: mrbigshotno.1
I love the pho, spicy starchy warm. Also Indian place lunch buffett, the only buffet I'll consider.
re: mrbigshotno.1
pho really is the best hangover food.... It seriously cures whatever ails you.
btw, I accidentally typed "ales" you first, talk about having a one track mind, lol
Diner breakfast of up eggs, bacon or sausage, rye toast and hashbrowns w/ onions, peppers and ketchup. My friends fondly refer to this as a "gut plug" - the meal to cure a hangover. If this isn't available a cheeseburger, fries anda diet coke come in a close second. Works everytime.
re: thebomb
I just had one about six weeks ago.
re: billieboy
That's hilarious. Since cyanide is so hard to come by nowadays, I think a greasy breakfast, sausage and hashbrowns necessary, accompanied by or followed up with the hair of the dog.
re: James Cristinian
Actually, I just threw out about 1/2 lb of the stuff. Safely, of course. I was using it in a solution with silver nitrate to silverplate my homemade fishing lures. Hung around the house for a couple of years. Kinda scary stuff.
re: LA Buckeye Fan
mmmm, chorizo burrito...i second that!
re: LA Buckeye Fan
A big greasy burrito made with chorizo, eggs and cheese. I also have to go with menudo with lots of Mexican oregano, fresh squeezed lime and diced onions.
Totally with you Beach Chick, on both the <a href="http://makingitwithmeleyna.com/?p=25&... N Out and the JIB tacos.
Mexican food
Pretty much anything greasy and carb-loaded. Oh, and a huge Diet Coke is essential.
Pork fried rice, hands down no question. Naturally it is all in my head, but it feels like the oils coat my stomach and the rice absorbs all the toxins. Course if the toxins were still in my stomach, I wouldn't have the hangover.
In reality, just drink as much water as you possibly can. May not give you a warm fuzzy feeling like something fatty, but over a little bit of time, nothing is gonna actually help as much.
re: KaimukiMan
or the fried rice and a gallon of water before passing out - no hangover when you wake up. though you may be uneasy in the morning...
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mmmm that sounds great! nothing better than straight keilbasa with horseradish! clears those sinuses out and gets the saliva flowing.
And rereading that it sounds gross, but it really is actually great
"All of this eaten in bed...trashy tv."
That's what hooked me. I remember doing that so well. Some of my best hangovers were spent reunited with the same DB's from the night before watching the worst of the worst movies (Pauly Shore, derivative 80's teen-sex comedies...) all the while piggishly indulging in fast food.
Now, I'm lucky to stay awake long enough to _get_ drunk! :-P
But, to answer your question, my go to hangover food has always been bacon and eggs.
My go-to meal is some type of breakfast sandwich, a Pepsi and a Revive Vitamin Water. I figure with the grease, caffeine and electrolytes, I'm covering all the bases.
Weisenberger-gorgonzola grits topped with parsley and lemon juice, with a side of sausage.
(The original was leftover short ribs plus, but in a pinch. . .)
Step #1 -- take the aspirin BEFORE you go to bed.
Step #2 -- Bacon Sandwich - we now have scientific proof! :)
Step #3, 4 & 5 -- Water, Water, Water...you're dehydrated big time.
re: mcsheridan
Step #1 addendum - WITH a big bottle of water. Best hangover cure I've ever found is a 20-oz bottle of water before bed - no more, no less. That seems to be my magic number.
If I forget or can't be bothered (which seems to happen more frequently the older I get), any form of salty, greasy potato goodness is required the next day. If I can get to one, diner potatoes are the ideal. A bag of potato chips or an order of fries if I can't be bothered to find food until after noon or there's no diner in stumbling distance. And rehydrating with Diet Coke. For some reason, this is the only thing that can make me start to feel human again. A liter of Diet Coke later, I feel like myself.
re: Wahooty
If I know I'm going out and there is a good possibility I will over indulge, the water bottle goes next to the bed BEFORE I leave the house. The chances of actually drinking it are much higher that way.
re: KaimukiMan
Not only did my buddies and I make sure we all drank plenty of water before bed, we set an alarm for 4:30-5 am (depending on when we rolled in) to ensure we all got up to use the bathroom, and then drink another litre or so of water and take an aspirin. We might be tired the next morning, but our hangovers were minimal.
re: Wahooty
I make mine Gatorade before bed, and some kind of salty food. Never had a hangover :)
re: mcsheridan
To mcsheridan, please don't take aspirin while you still have alcohol in your system. You may cause stomach bleeding especially if you mix with things like Aleve or Tylenol. Just drink lots of water to limit the dehydration.
Personally, I like dim sum after drinking. It's delicious, oily, slow paced with lots of tea, and cheap.
re: maplesugar
For those of you who are wondering what poutine is - here's a pic of it in all its cheesy, gravy soaked glory ;)
re: maplesugar
I agree with the poutine, but without cheese for me...a simple fry&gravy.
Also any kind of cheapo chinese food. Not the stuff from chinatown (which would work too), but from a place likely called Imperial Wong or Jade Dragon
(names I got from my handy chinese restaurant name generator, http://newmoanyeah.com/2004-features/...)
delivered from two towns over, with most likely a hairy italian cook.
Agree with pancake, a caesar helps get the edge off.
Another good one is a greasy pepperoni sub on extra fresh bread.
But of course, its all dependent on the severity of the hangover...you ever had one of those beer/wine/Jack/champagne hangovers where suicide seems to be a solid option?
Where just the thought of eating is painful?
For those (thankfully becoming a rare event) I can only stomach a weak beef broth (boiled marrow bones and beef rib) infused with tomato juice.
McD's a must!
Fried squid (calmari), fried rice, Chinese style escargots in black bean sauce, Black Bean and peppers sauce with thick rice noodles and Cantonese Chow Mein also a must!!
A CAN of coke and a few cups of Jasmine tea on the side, please. :)
Head to the local deli. Purchase the following:
A quart of Tropicana OJ
An egg salad sandwich on a hard roll with black pepper and onions.
Works every time but the onions make you less than popular with neighboring people for a while.
Agree on McD's but for me it's a Filet o' Fish and Fries. On the fat grams per ounce of food scale, I believe the FOF is the worst thing on their menu but oh so good for a hangover.
re: Demented
Agreed - all that greasy stuff is great while I'm still drinking, but hung over the next morning all I want is some plain toast and OJ, or chamomile tea if it's really bad, with some ibuprofin on the side. Too much grease & salt just makes me feel sicker.
re: kchurchill5
Oh yes, Bloody Mary, but spicy a Spicy Bloody Mary ... Bite the dog that bit you!!
And a spicy chicken sandwich, I feel better all ready ;)
re: PattiCakes
Posole or menudo, burn out the pain!
Five Guys Bacon Cheeseburger with sauteed onions and fries
Taco Bell Bean Burrito and a crunch Taco.
Enchilada platter or chiliquilles from the local Mexican place.
Totally agree with the OP
1) MCDONALDS--You can't beat it. #2, (two cheeseburger meal) w/o cheese, extra onions, pickles, ketchup and mustard, with a Coke.
exactly what I need. I think it's the high ratio of bread to grease that does it.
Meat samosas with lots of spicy mint chutney. The oil and the mint both settle my stomach. Also had a good experience with a nice big bowl of black bean soup which cured a hangover that wouldn't otherwise budge. I deluded myself that it was because my body needed B vitamins and iron...
I agree with Mcdonalds...Sausage Mcmuffin with Egg and 2 hash browns.
But if I have couple more minutes to kill...A declicious Sausage, bacon and egg breakfast burrito.
Dang it...I'm hungry now. Why can't Mcdonalds serve breakfast all day like everybody else?!?
Chilaquiles con salsa roja with a fried egg on top
Cheesesteak sub
Roast beef with extra sauce from Mike's in Everett, MA
Fritos chili cheese wrap and tater tots at Sonic
dude, I just had a terrible one this morning. Ack! To kill it, I consumed about 1/4th of a sync Vitaminwater, which was soon evacuted from it's place of rest. I then drove around, first picking up a Southwest black bean and corn grilled chicken salad from Chik-Fil-A, a large macaroni and cheese and ten not hot wings from kfc. I then made one more stop at Mickey D's for a large cup of tea. after consuming half of what I'd purchased and sleeping it off for about 5 hours, I feel so much better!!
re: caramelkarma
the key is to hydrate. That hangover is caused by dehydration -- if you pump water before you pass out, that will help significantly the next morning. I know, easy to say........
re: hannaone
As soon as I saw your name on the post I thought Korean pork backbone soup and I was right. You are so right. Real Seoul food. I look forward to it in June and right now I am feeling So Juish.
re: Passadumkeg
Don't go blind.
Looking forward to hearing about your visit.
re: hannaone
Homemade veggie kimchee dubu chigae (I take a lot of shortcuts when I'm hungover - I use dashi broth to cook up whatever kind of kimchee I have in the fridge, throw in some cubed tofu and sliced up scallion and that's it. Spoon it over rice.). Some years ago, I had a wicked hangover after a soju-soaked birthday celebration but managed to get up at 7am to prepare the chigae to the amazement of my roommate. Ya got to sweat out the toxins/residual alcohol and chigae does the trick!
Deep-fried clam or lobster sandwiches... the New England kind with horseradish mayo on a toasted roll. And French fries.
Although I had a headache just go away after a great plate of smoked salmon, capers, raw onions, tomatoes, and delicious cream cheese alongside a toasted sesame bagel.
Anything with lots of melted cheese. A steak and cheese pannini will do the trick every time. And a nice hot cup of tea.
I can't believe I didn't think of this the first time I read this thread, but I have two friends who are brothers/Mexican/bartenders. One evening after they had a particularly hard night the night before, I saw them eating something behind the bar and asked them what it was. They said it was the best Mexican hangover cure they knew of... fresh cucumbers, peeled and cut into chunks and then heavily doused with your hotsauce of choice. One taste and I was hooked - and they were so right about it being a great hangover cure.
re: cycloneillini
You can pretty much buy this at Mexican roadside fruit/veggie carts in L.A.
re: Luvfriedokra
I like the slushy Coke idea. BTW, doesn't McDonalds have the BEST Coke??
re: schrutefarms
There is some sort of voodoo they do with the way they set their fountains. Because they definitely have the best Diet Coke. It actually annoys me how much better it tastes there, and I have tried every iteration of diet soda known to man.
A salute to those who can bear to put solid food in their stomach DURING a hangover. I don't get hangover headaches, but my body seems to overcompensate by tripling up on the nausea. Lukewarm tap water is about the heartiest thing I can ingest on those regretful mornings.
Now for post-hangover hunger, a Frisco Melt from Steak 'n Shake cannot be beaten. For you non-midwesterners, a Frisco Melt is two crispy-thin beef patties, with american cheese melted between them, drenched in thousand island dressing, and enfolded in two slices of cheap bread. The outsides are coated with what I presume is some kind of butter substitute and the whole thing is crisped up on a griddle. When eaten sober it makes me want to scrape the grease off my forehead with a credit card. When eaten post-hungover it's like Dorothy using the oil can on the Tin Man.