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Most biofuels fail green test: study
... you can use fuel and energy more efficiently *without* needing to put on a hair shirt and walk or cycle everywhere...
NZ spooks acted unlawfully in Megaupload wiretap
But... but...
.... the Yanks *told* us to do it, so it *must* have been ok!!
French Skyper freed after accidentally hacking bank's phone system
Remind me...
..to change the combination on my luggage!
Mars rover Curiosity gets ready to blast its first rock
O O "This is the voice of the Mysterons...
"...we know that you can hear us...
'People will give you their data if you don't do nobbish things with it!'
"It is not always appropriate...
"...for companies simply to offer consumers a choice between opting-in or opting-out of information sharing in its totality"
Absolutely correct, the DEFAULT should be "Opt out", offer me that and *then* I'll consider what benefits might be offered by opting in to e-mails, data sharing etc on an item by item basis!
Google acts against prostitution app after complaints from Congress
... I'm sure that lots of other actually exploitative ads still appear, but since they're nothing to do with sex, they're ok in the eyes of American politicians.
And of course the fact that many of the ads that are being banned are placed by women who can work independently *without* having to deal with pimps and thus are safer from exploitation etc is ignored...
Zuckerberg loses $8bn in Facebook IPO fiasco
Re: I'd like to know why the price is rising
It's known as the "Dead Cat Bounce" (ie it's said that even a dead cat will bounce if it falls far enough)
There's always someone willing to look at the long term investment prospects and consider a share like that worth a punt even if it takes several years to recover its value.
Gigantic Roman bathtime-fun mosaic found under Turkish field
@Goldmember - Re: "Buried treasure, me hearties! Darr, there be no gold here"
Arrr, well that be because I'd not seen those when I'd posted me comment, me bucko!
"Buried treasure, me hearties! Darr, there be no gold here"
Is this merely a co-incidence or because today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties?
Governments block YouTube over that video
Re: @AC He's not a deity...
If you'd try doing a bit more research and looking beyond the headlines you might find the answers you demand I present you (but do you *really* want to find them...?)
In any case, it's clear there's no point in carrying on trying to have a reasonable discussion with you on this, so feel free to declare victory and keep on enjoying your prejudices.
@AC Re: He's not a deity...
"Sadly the majority of muslims do behave like the person who killed the US diplomat"
Islam is estimated to have something over one and a half *BILLION* followers world wide, around a fifth of the world's population.
If the "majority" (defined as > 50%) of Muslims behaved the way you claim, I think we'd have noticed it a bit by now.
Re: He's not a deity...
Oh dear, and so we see the usuall trollish comments about Mohammed and Islam from ignorant idiots who believe what they read in the Tabloid Media without bothering to open their eyes (or minds) to any other point of view.
Can you not get it through your heads that a few fanatics are *NOT* representative of the whole religion of Islam any more than the idiots who made this film are representative of Christianity?
I have a Muslim family living next to me and I've not had problems with them diving over the wall wearing a Semtex waist coat and yelling "Allahu Akbar!" it's usually just their kids saying "can we get our ball back"...
NASA working on faster-than-light drive capable of WARP TEN
Re: Where can you get Exotic Matter from?
It's called Unobtainium :-)
In the year of thirty-nine...
Assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day
Sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back never feared never cried
Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew
- Queen
Forty Canadian birds BONKING against windows EVERY MINUTE
When I was a kid...
... we used to live in a house with a big picture window facing west and at certain times of the year in the evening, birds would see the reflection of the sun in it and fly straight into it thinking they were going in the opposite direction.
I'm just wondering if the same sort of thing is happening in Canada.
Monster camera preps for dark energy search
Is that outside or inside?!
Users told: Get rid of Internet Explorer (again)
Pardon me...
... but what is this "again" business you refer to...?
Microsoft bod dreams up 'Star Trek holodeck' games console
Prior art...
Sounds rather like a Camera Obscura which would project an image onto a surface.
They've been around for rather a long time...
Manchester is 'PIRATE CAPITAL of the UK'
"For the first time...
"...we have evidence that blocking Pirate Bay had little effect on BitTorrent downloading"
And we've also found that the Pope is a Catholic...!
EU greases up orphan works copyright loophole for Big Culture
@Pylets - Re: taking the bike prevents the owner using it
"enables you to offer reasonable terms to obtain a share of the proceeds in order to keep the matter out of court"
How many people can afford to take on the sort of companies who want to abuse copyright by saying "well we looked (not very hard) couldn't find who owned the image, so we went ahead and used it"?
Unless you can get someone to take the case on a "no win, no fee" basis, you'll end up paying your legal representatives more money than you could ever gain from licensing your Intellectual Property even if you did win.
Oh it makes it hard for document(ary?) makers, does it? Well Boo Hoo!
If they want to use something and they can't find any copyright data on it they should assume that it *IS* copyright, not least because anything that *has* been released into the Public Domain probably says so pretty bloody clearly!
Cambridge boffins: Chip and PIN cards CAN be cloned – here's how
Re: There was another -hidden- reason for chip-and-PIN - and not in your favour
@AC - " there are plenty websites on the Net which demonstrate that practically nobody checked a signature"
I always used to and, in fact, I *still* check the signature strip even now.
I notice that a lot of US citizens who buy with a card in person don't bother to sign the card and automatically hand over another form of ID (eg Driver's Licence) even when it says "Not valid unless signed"!
Re: 'We've never claimed chip-and-PIN is 100 per cent secure'
Welcome to "Chip and Spin"!
And, of course, if you're the victim of a fraudulent transaction, we're going to claim (illegally) that it was *your* fault, that *you* were careless with your PIN and *you* have to prove your innocence...
ESA preps space junk radar
@Alan Brown - Re: All very well tracking it
Good idea, you start - http://news.discovery.com/space/could-space-junk-leave-us-stranded-on-earth-110902.html
Congress report warns: drones will track faces from the sky
the "Spy in the Sky" mini-drones from Judge Dredd will soon be putting in an appearance...
LOHAN straps on satellite comms capability
@Elmer Phud - Re: "two-way chat"
"I'm trying to work out how that's possible"
With careful design ;-)
"two-way chat"
So it's a double-ended strap-on then...?
Boffin named Jubb to fire whopping hybrid thruster
It has to be pointed out...
... (although I'll probably be downvoted into oblivion for this) that it's not really a "car", more a giant rollerskate with a jet engine bolted on top of it!
The fastest car actually driven through its wheels is the Spirit of Rett which achieved an average speed of 414.5mph at Bonneville Salt Flats on September 21st 2010.
Dutch unleash intelligent robot bins: No ID, no rubbish
Re: Probably not such a great idea
"We are charged per bag os it's a cruder form of being charged per kilo but is much cheaper to implement."
I don't know whether my neighbours think we're charged by the bag or something, but frequently when I put my rubbish out at night I find a couple of bin bags stuck in front of my wall.
I don't give a damn at the moment because there's no charging for rubbish disposal, but if I end up paying for it I can see a game of "musical bin bags" in the future...
Thomas-Rasset faces $220,000 file-sharing bill after losing appeal
"it points out that...
"...the maximum fine per track for willful copyright infringement established by Congress is $150,000"
And since she wasn't fined the maximum or anything near it, she should be a *happy* little pleb when she thinks about what they could have done to her!!
The fact that the punishment is totally disproportionate to the actual damage *caused* is, it seems, completely irrelevant.
What a card: Brit boffin Alan Turing stars in Monopoly tribute set
Re: Other board games are available...!
I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny, but anyway...
Carcassonne is a tile and meeple (small figurines) placement game where you're trying to build walled cities (as the original city) and roads and then place your people to control them. There is a range of expansions, but you don't need any of these to play the basic game which is family friendly (it's from ages 8 upwards, but it's not a "kids game" by any means).
You can pick up a new copy for around £15 and it's well worth a look as a good "gateway game" to get people into the idea that there's more to gaming than "roll the dice and move a counter"!
See http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne for some more details.
Other board games are available...!
Unfortunately if you say "Board Games" to most people they'll think of Monopoly, Cluedo and... well, that's pretty much it.
Try Carcassonne, The Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Alhambra or Stone Age to mention but a few and you'll find that family board games can actually be enjoyable instead of being tedious and/ or ending in an argument! :-)
Want to avoid another cookie law mess? Talk to EU bods next time
The cookie law is another example of well meaning but completely ignorant Eurocrats trying to pass a law to control something which they don't really have a clue about and then the British Government trying to gold-plate it and tell everyone "this is what you must do because we have to show the rest of the EU how it's done!"
Meanwhile, of course, much of the rest of the EU is looking at it and thinking "Sod that for a game of soldiers, ignore it if you like", so we end up wasting money whilst they just get on with business as usual.
Health minister warns ISPs: Block suicide websites or face regulation
@Mike Hock - Re: It seems you can't apply common sense to Suicide decisions...
"little would be better than nothing"
Except that's often not the case because that's the argument used by politicians et al for the "Precautionary Principle", ie "well we don't *know* that this will do any good, but let's introduce this measure *anyway* just to be on the safe side".
The fact that said measure will probably infringe on the liberties and rights of many others never seems to concern them so much :-(
@Greg J Preece - Re: Bit of a pity...
The point is that the "opt in" should be "please censor me".
UK.gov's web filth block plan: Last chance to speak your brains
Re: And again...
The mods might object, but seek and ye shall find... :-)
"Easy #FF7D40"
So no David Dickinson porn then? Phew!! http://www.colorhexa.com/ff7d40
Re: The interesting part
"Given the tendency of automated filtering software to be overzealous in what it denies access to,"
What are the lyrics to the Theme Song from M*A*S*H "Suicide is Painless"?
BUZZZ!! That content is not available to you!!
And again...
... from a personal point of view, I have to comment that my perfectly legitimate and legal business selling affordable leather products to consenting adults who wish to engage in BDSM is liable to be caught up in this nonsense because potential customers are likely to find that they have to opt-in to access my UK based website which is already signed up to NetNanny, Cybersitter and has Adults Only warnings on the front page etc.
Meanwhile there are plenty of other such businesses who haven't bothered with such things and are thereby likely to slip past the filters...
Of course I'm not a parent, so I'm not supposed to respond to the consultation because I don't have a valid viewpoint!
Re: Filtering kids?
I'm glad you're giving your child an excellent opportunity to improve his IT skills!
(In my day it was cracking protection on games for infinite lives :-) )
Re: A straw poll to those who DON'T watch porn
You don't seem to have many people up/ down voting on this option ;-)
Paris, because...
@auburnman - Re: Green Cross Code
"has anyone ever challenged the Government to defend WHY images of boobies and willies are such a menace to society that I will have to be added to a list if I want to keep seeing them on the smut-pipe?"
Because we're all such weak-willed and morally bankrupt individuals that if we see this stuff we will immediately be mentally scarred for life and want to go out and commit all sorts of horrible crimes based on anecdotal post-hoc justificatinons such as "well person X looked at porn Y and then did Z, so *obviously* it was the porn what caused it..."
Clearly words like "conscience" and "consent" and "respect" do not feature in our vocabularies at all.
NASA's spy sat snaps Curiosity rover burning tracks on Mars
Re: NASA - missing a trick here !
" draw you a pair of boobs on the Moon"
Nah, someone decided to see if the Lunar Rover could do doughnuts...
Hackers claim to have Mitt Romney's tax records
Re: "PWC has said that as far as it is aware nothing is missing "
But, but... don't you know that copying like this is THEFT! So something *must* be missing...!!!
(Sorry, I seem to have been chanelling the MAFIAA there for a moment)
Google snags patent on price discrimination
Prior art...
So how does this ultimately differ from all those sofa shops and double glazing salesmen who offer you phony "discounts" (translation: just cutting their profit margins a bit) if you're wavering and they want to nail the sale??
ENCODE's 'junk DNA' claims spark biological bunfight
As one DNA strand...
... said to the other DNA strand:
"Stop copying me!"
Boffins computerize giant cyborg cockroaches
May I be the first to welcome...
... erm, on the other hand, no, forget that!!
Dawn probe slips Vesta's grip, heads for icy dwarf planet
... but not a place you'd want to be marooned off...
Old men who use computers less likely to get dementia
Another announcemnent from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious...
So using computers means you're less likely to get dementia.
As does doing crosswords, playing chess and a whole host of similar activities...
Broadband minister Hunt LOSES portfolio, takes on national health
Maria Miller is also now the Minister for Women & Equalities.
WTF?? Maria Miller:
Voted against equal gay adoption rights.
Voted against "hate speech" being criminalised.
Voted against lesbians being able to get fertility treatment.
And quite a few other such issues.
Yep, this is *just* the sort of person we want for "Women and Equalities" Minister!!
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Anti-HIV meds can cause damage to fetal hearts: Study
Drugs often given to HIV-positive pregnant women may cause significant long-term heart problems for their non-HIV-infected babies, a study says.
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Patients using oxygen therapy should not smoke e-cigarettes, the head of Montreal's public health department warned Friday.
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Feeling joyous about gingerbread
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4 reasons to get into QGIS
QGIS is an amazing piece of software and its functionality just keeps increasing. There are many reasons why it might be worth taking a look at but Under the Raedar has provided 4 that he feels are quite compelling.
Alasdair has provided some graphical outputs from his work which were produced in QGIS and are quite stunning. More importantly, the graphics are intuitive and allow users to understand the data. Anyway, to find out what made Alasdair's top 4, please click the link below to read his blog.
Mapping it Out: Contemporary Cartographies
Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and art critic, discusses his new Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies: a book of explorations of mapping by contributors including Yoko Ono, Mona Hatoum, Tim Berners-Lee, Gilbert and George, and Damien Hirst; while British Library Maps curator Tom Harper and map specialist Tim Bryars also introduce A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps.
When:Monday 10 November
Where: British Library, Conference Centre
Cost: £8 / £6 / £5
QGIS user group meeting - Scotland
The next #QGIS user group in Scotland is happening on 21st October 2014. The event will be held at the University of Edinburgh's Informatics forum. At the moment we are looking for suggestion for workshops and presentations. If you have any ideas, or even better, if you want to give a presentation or a workshop please drop an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter @mixedbredie would work too
More information on the event will follow.
GIS Mapping Course for Ecologists
The Ecology Consultancy is offering this one-day course in London. It will cover various aspects of producing an ecology survey map; from the examination of industry standards to the analysis of client and project requirements, from the acquisition of ecological survey data to the creation of maps using ESRI software.
Drawing on our extensive experience of providing GIS services, most notably habitat maps for professional ecologists, we will share our knowledge of GIS and cartographic data models to demonstrate how maps can comprehensively summarise and effectively communicate ecological survey results. Having an understanding of the habitat mapping requirements for ecological reports is the first stage in successful map production. Following the analytical steps and the qualitative considerations to produce a habitat survey map (e.g. Phase 1 habitat survey and protected species assessments), we will share our expertise of interpreting the survey results, producing adequate map layouts, with suitable symbology and output formats. Using standard habitat classification (JNCC) as a reference, we will discuss various ways to create a map, together with recommendations, quality procedures and work instructions, suggestions and future work, improvements, and integration with ecology workflows.
Who should attend?
Professional ecologists and graduate ecologists
What you will learn?
• Understanding of Geographic Information System (GIS) in the context of ecological surveys
• Learn about the traditional GIS data models
• Understanding of mapping practices and methodologies.
Why choose this course?
• Learn from working professionals
• Understand how Ecology and GIS are used in the commercial sector
• Certificate of attendance
What does it cost?
Early bird £150
Professionals £175
Date and Time:
Thursday, 20 November 2014, 09:00 to 17:30 (GMT)
The Ecology Consultancy
Devon House
58-60 St. Katherine's Way
Places will be limited, so please book a place now on the Ecology Consultancy's website.
Galileo GPS satellites in wrong orbit
After the separation of the two Galileo satellites, launched 22 August 2014, ongoing analysis of the data provided by the telemetry stations operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the French space agency CNES showed that the satellites were not in the expected orbit.
According to the initial analyses, an anomaly is thought to have occurred during the flight phase involving the Fregat upper stage, causing the satellites to be injected into a noncompliant orbit.
Please check the GPS World's magazine article for more details.
UCL Future Cities Research Assistants X 3
CASA is collaborating with the Future Cities Catapult to further develop data simulation models and a visualisation platform, on which to create immersive analytical decision-making tools for cities. Applications are invited for these exciting new research positions working on a virtual London 3-dimensional geometric model.
3D Visualisation
Two positions are available at either Research Assistant or Research Associate level, depending on qualifications and experience, starting 1st October 2014. The posts are funded for two years initially.
The purpose of these roles is to create an explorable 3D map of London's urban area which visualises outputs from the land use transport model, as well as relationships between city systems and environmental factors such as pollution, flooding, open space, diversity of land use, and related geodemographic factors.
Research Assistant / Associate (3D Visualisation) x 2 - Ref:1430910 /
This post is available at either Research Assistant or Research Associate level, depending on qualifications and experience, starting 1st October 2014. The post is funded for two years initially.
The purpose of this role is to create and extend a collaborative web application to help city planners and designers use data, models and visualisation tools to improve decision making. As a Research Associate you will work closely with the department and external partners to further the development of the web application and bridge the gap between academic research and professional practice.
Research Assistant / Associate (Modeling) - Ref:1431983
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Ocean plastic map launched
Not a map of the oceans made out of plastic, but sadly a map that reveals the extent of plastic that is floating around the World's ocean. The map has been created by Andres Cozar Cabanas and his team at the University de Cadiz and is published in this months Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Plastic production has quadrupled since the 1980s and a significant amount is now in the oceans damaging ecosystems and being ingested by fish and aquatic mammals. Concentrations are highest in subtropical gyres. I could go on and explain more of the teams findings and their possible solutions but it is much easier to read the excellent article on the National Geographic site, or the acttual research paper which is linked earlier in the post.
image taken from National Geographic
IJHG August 2014 edition available online
The following articles are now available on the International Journal of Health Geographics (IJHG) website. These can be accessed for free and include articles submitted to the Journal from 19 July to 20 August 2014.
Spatial epidemiology of dry eye disease: findings from South Korea. Um SB, Kim NH, Lee HK, Song JS and Kim HC.
Mercury in fish and adverse reproductive outcomes: results from South Carolina. Burch JB, Wagner Robb S, Puett R, Cai B, Wilkerson R, Karmaus W, Vena J and Svendsen E.
Spatial-explicit modeling of social vulnerability to malaria in East Africa. Kienberger S and Hagenlocher M.
How do changes to the built environment influence walking behaviors? a longitudinal study within a university campus in Hong Kong. Sun G, Oreskovic NM and Lin H.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies and Geography
The Geography group at Victoria University of Wellington are looking to recruit a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies and Geography. This opportunity could easily include elements of GIS or Remote Sensing.
The Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies and Geography will join staff in programmes administered by the Geography group. These comprise Human Geography, Physical Geography, Development Studies, Environmental Studies and Geographic Information Science.
You will be expected to teach in core papers of the undergraduate majors in Environmental Studies and Geography, teach postgraduate papers in Environmental Studies, supervise postgraduate students and pursue a dynamic programme of research within the core Environmental Studies programme, including Indigeneity or Mâtauranga Mâori. In addition, you will undertake tasks that help to further the School's commitment to Mâori as tangata whenua and Treaty partners as required by the Head of School.
The successful candidate will hold a PhD in environmental studies, environmental geography or a closely related discipline. The successful candidate will have, or have demonstrated the potential for, an internationally recognised research publication record and a record of high quality teaching and supervision. This position is also open to more junior applicants who have already begun to establish a strong research record.
Closing date: 31st August 2014
Apple and Google join forces
Tech giants Apple and Google have come together to crush a patent troll which was trying to sue both companies for their inclusion of Google Maps Streetview feature in iPads and iPhones.
This is a rare occurrence and is good news for several reasons. Firstly, iOS users will be able to continue to use the Streetview function in GoogleMaps. It also shows that these two companies can work together for the greater good of the tech community. But another positive aspect is that the ruling suggests that patents appeal process is actually working. The appeal board looks to be sorting through patents that perhaps should never have been granted.
Thanks to Ken Field for the heads up and the link to the GIGAOM article.


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@JustPlainLucas said: @The_Last_Ride said: @MakeMeaSammitch said: Cops aren't trained to wound, they're trained to kill and instructed as such.Thanks for actually proving my point, it's not to prot...
Another last ride thread. Nothing to see here.
I am loathe to link anything from The Blaze but this is a really fantastic article.
TC you really need to just grow a thicker skin. You're already taller than most people in America. Just shut up and be happy.
@spitfire-six said: @airshocker: SO the preceding they used for the grand jury was that normal to you ? I would like there to be a trial that is my opinion. You know where people get cross examined. ...
@spitfire-six said:@airshocker: Your right he didn't know, however there are rules to engagement. Wilson escalated the force level when he drew the gun. True or false? Next question, his statement s...
@spitfire-six said: @airshocker: I still fail to see how your in a car, and you fear for your life from an un armed assailant. Next if your in fear you exit the car while the person is running away ...
@The_Last_Ride said: @Master_Live said: @The_Last_Ride said: Don't even question if he did something wrong. Stop it with the straw men.That does not matter, you don't shoot an unarmed man 6 fucking ...
My emergency pager is going off because there's protests over here in NY. I fucking hate people.
@Stesilaus said:It's hardly surprising that a policeman would get away with murder in a police state. Why aren't we allowed to mod people for BLATANTLY lying?
@DaJuicyMan said:@airshocker: And a cop shot at a fleeing individual. Is one worse than the other? So not all cops are bad or whatever but all the protestors are becuase their are f*cking morons the...
@DaJuicyMan said: @airshocker said: @DaJuicyMan said: @airshocker said: Shots have been fired. Bunch of fucking animals....And I'm referring to every single person in the protesting crowd. White, bla...
@DaJuicyMan said: @airshocker said: Shots have been fired. Bunch of fucking animals....And I'm referring to every single person in the protesting crowd. White, black, hispanic and asian.
@DaJuicyMan said:@airshocker: im pretty sure the law enforcement guy on this board.. and if thats the case youre the last guy who can talk about bias. Just keep attacking me if it validates your thou...
@DaJuicyMan said:@airshocker: He said he wasn't even "privy" to the evidence presented to them.He didn't say that. He said he wasn't privy to the vote, who voted what way, and what the jurors deliber...


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DeRusha Eats: Rise Bagels
If you ask an east coast native about Twin Cities bagels, you're probably going to get a violent reaction. But instead of complaining, two sisters decided to start boiling and baking their own bagels. And that makes a difference, as Jason DeRusha found out.
Get Movin' Monday: How To Clean, Organize Your Mudroom
Whether you're in an apartment or a regular home, that spot right by the door can often be a mess. There's coats everywhere and shoes all over the floor. It can be pure chaos. Now that the kids are back to school with their backpacks, it's time to focus on cleaning this week for Get Movin' Monday.
DeRusha Eats: Smart Associates
The Kenwood in Minneapolis looks and feels like its namesake neighborhood: elegant, understated and comfortable. Jim Smart designed the eatery, which is just one of his more than 320 restaurants around the country.
Get Movin' Monday: 9Round Kickboxing In Brooklyn Park
Now that summer's winding down, a lot of us are going from working out outdoors to a more regular gym routine.
DeRusha Eats: From-Scratch MN State Fair Foods
Mancini's is known for steak, but it's their gelato that's winning fans at the Minnesota State Fair. Sarah Williams starts with milk, cream and sugar – creating gelato right on site. She adds Italian flavorings to make flavors like caramel apple. St. Paul's Summit Beer goes into the oatmeal stout gelato.
WCCO 4 Live At The Minnesota State Fair (2014) Day 4
On Sunday, the WCCO team, and fans, put up with the heat and rain during the newscasts. As always, our reporters explored the Great Minnesota Get-Together.
DeRusha Eats: Blue Barn At The MN State Fair
It's not just what bacon and what muffin you're going to use for your breakfast sandwich. The uniform choice and the building design also matter. Blue Barn is the newest restaurant at the Minnesota State Fair. Stephanie Shimp, co-owner of Blue Plate Restaurant Group, says they've been trying to get into the fair for almost a decade. She tried to get in last year, but Mancini's ended up winning the old Pizza Palace.
DeRusha Eats – Cry Baby Craig's Hot Sauce
We've all been there: we meant to order one thing, and instead we get something else. A Twin Cities Chef had that happen with hot peppers, but he turned that mistake into a growing business. This week Jason DeRusha Eats Cry Baby Craig's Hot Sauce.
Goin' To The Lake: Jamie & Jason Visit Walker (Day 2)
August is halfway over, and Minnesotans are soaking up all the summer they can before fall arrives. We've been celebrating the season by Goin' to the Lake every week. And now, we're sad to say, we're bringing a full season of trips to a close.
Goin' To The Lake: Jamie & Jason Visit Walker (Day 1)
August is halfway over, and Minnesotans are soaking up all the summer they can before fall arrives. We've been celebrating the season by Goin' to the Lake every week. On Thursday, Jamie Yuccas and Jason DeRusha headed to Walker, Minn., which is known for its endless things to do outdoors.
DeRusha Eats: Tree Fort Root Beer
Eva Duckler, 17, has had a busy summer doing normal teenage stuff. You know, like graduating from high school, building a bottling line and launching a root-beer brand. "I've been trying root beer since I was really young, probably tried hundreds of root beers," Duckler said.
DeRusha Eats: Sara's Tipsy Pies
She took her mom's pie crust recipe and created something totally different with it: A hand pie with a unique twist. In this week's DeRusha Eats, Jason checked out Sara's Tipsy Pies and we find out where to get our hands on them.
Mpls. Man Creates Hand Crafted Watches In Northeast Basement
There is a small, but growing, movement of Americans who are making their own crafts and goods again. J. W. Hulme, the St. Paul leather-goods company whose gained attention in fashion magazines ad Hollywood for their makers handcrafted handbags and briefcases.
DeRusha Eats: Midwest Rib Fest Competition
On a hot summer day it's the perfect day to let your grill do the work and slow roast some ribs. Or if you don't want to be by all that slow, low heat, maybe you want to head to Mystic Lake for their Great Midwest Rib Fest competition.
Get Movin' Monday: Spice Up Your Home With Art
This weekend it's Prior Lake and Milaca, next weekend it's the huge Uptown Art Fair. It can be so fun, but also a little overwhelming either in cost or how you make that new artwork, work in your home.


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Recipes that are Combo Spicy/Sweet?
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- lauracohenromano Jan 18, 2011 02:50 PM
A dish that I have been making for company a lot recently that has not yet failed to have people go back for seconds (even the non-foodies and skinny people!), is chili served over sweet potato. I've served it both as a turkey chili and as a vegetarian chili. I always get comments about how good the spiciness of the chili (and I actually only make it medium spicy) tastes with the sweetness of the sweet potato.
It made me wonder about what other dishes are out there, that combine spicy and sweet. Do you have favorites? Especially wanted are easy to make ones!
That sounds wonderful! I am a sweet/spicy person like crazy. It is a balance thing to me. Where do I begin? Many pan sauces, glazes, reductions and so on I make are spicy/sweet as I like to add tart/sweet cranberry, apricot, blackberry, raspberry, etc. preserves with spicy grainy mustard. I often make savoury sweet/spicy preserves; in fact, today I made another batch of spicy red pepper jelly that has a bit of a kick with the addition of hot peppers. When I make chili I add some chocolate. Speaking of chocolate, I make a killer bittersweet chocolate and blue cheese sauce for meat and game. Very good balsamic drizzled over strawberries and/or ice cream with cracked black pepper is another example.
Many meat rubs and condiments I make (i.e. Thai) are sweet and spicy. To many Thai dishes I add cane sugar and of course red or green Thai chile sauce. I also love making sweet/spicy ketchups and mustards.
re: chefathome
Regarding preserves, I like to just grab whichever looks good today, add in some cider vinegar and sriracha, and use it to glaze chicken thighs, especially after giving them a nice spice rub.
Also, I've made a turkey/sweet potato "gumbo" that is really good, and sounds like your chili idea all in one.
re: chefathome
chefathome, I'd love to hear more from you about that bittersweet chocolate and blue cheese sauce -- sounds intriguing.
I love the idea of putting chili on a sweet potato. One of my favorites is a Guy Fieri recipe on the food network site. It is for Mango Chipotle sauce to go over chicken---i put it on lots of things (pork, rice, fish, shrimp, etc.).
the first ones that come to mind are whipped chipotle sweet potatoes and spicy brownies or chocolate cake.
a few ideas/recipes here:
Some regions have a large repertoire of sweet and spicy items, and the combination is a signature element of those cuisines. Someone mentioned Thai above. I would add in Gujarati food. Often one finds sweet, spicy-hot, and sour together in Gujarati dishes and chutneys.
I make a dark chocolate ice cream with cayanne pepper. Funny someone said chipotle sweet potatoe mashed actually made it last night. Sweet and spicy is probably my favorite combo.
Interesting ideas, everyone, thanks, I can't wait to try! I'm not a big cook but this sounds like a whole new area for me to explore. And no wonder I love going out for Thai food...and I will now have to google Gujarati food, I know nothing about it.
I really love homemade sweet and spicy tomato jam. Soooo great on toast, crackers, goat cheese, .........your finger :)
Jezebel sauce, made with pineapple preserves and horseradish, among other things, and served with cold seafood, crackers...also a nice variation of raspberry jam mixed with very hot horseradish and served with cold prawns. And If you'd like a recipe for fiery shrimp with coconut cream chile sauce, I'm glad to give it to you.
re: mamachef
Mm, the raspberry jam mixed with the horseradish for prawns sounds wonderful. And yes, thanks, I've love the recipe for fiery shrimp with coconut cream chile sauce, that sounds great!
re: alanbarnes
That Thai sweet chilli sauce 'for chicken' is practically candy!
A Malay company, Lingham & Sons makes sweet chilli sauce that has a stronger garlic & ginger components (#4 in the picture)
re: alanbarnes
A couple of years ago a CH posted a 'recipe.' Take a large shrimp, lay it lengthwise on a wonton wrapper, roll it up and seal it. Fry it. by the time the wrapper is brown the shrimp is done. Drain. Dip in Mae Ploy sweet chili sauce. It is SO good.


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Today, explorer Eric Larsen (@ELexplore) is due to reach the North Pole and will send the first ever tweet from there. Larsen has chronicled his triumphs and obstacles along the way, via Twitter, and his own blog, Save the Poles.
This is not the first time that mobile social media has been used to chronicle grand expeditions. Motorola sponsored Eric Baber to achieve the world record for making the highest ever phone call and send the highest ever MMS message.
As you can see from the photo above, Bing is a sponsor of Larsen's Save the Poles expedition, which seeks to raise awareness of climate change. The expedition's goal is to be the first man to reach the three poles of the world (South, North and summit of Mt. Everest) within one calendar year.
The catch is that, as the North pole is a moving ocean, you will not be able to see his movements on Google or Bing maps. However, you can follow his journey via his map blog, where makers have been placed for every stage of the expedition, from pitching the concept to setting off on an adventure.
- Last Reported Position: 89 53.838'N | 46 30.049'W | 2010-04-22 05:50:04 GMT
- Distance From Pole: 6 Nautical Miles
Get ready to congratulate him on Twitter when he reaches his destination later today.
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Psychotropic drug prescriptions by medical specialty
By Ryan DuBosar
General practitioners play a role in prescribing antidepressant medications and treating depression, but the extent to which they prescribe other psychotropic medications has received less emphasis. Prescribing of psychotropic medications by nonpsychiatrists improves access to treatment but raises questions about adherence to evidence-based guidelines, provision of psychotherapy, adequacy of medication monitoring, and appropriateness of treatment intensity.
In 2004-2005, about two-thirds of primary care physicians reported that they were unable to obtain outpatient mental health services for patients. Given the large role of primary care providers in psychotropic drug prescribing, additional efforts may be needed to enhance the quality of psychiatric treatment in general practice settings across a range of psychiatric conditions.
The chart below used data from August 2006 to July 2007 from the IMS National Prescription Audit Plus database, which collects transaction information from approximately 36,000 retail pharmacies (70% of all pharmacies). Using a separate sample of retail pharmacy transactions that includes physicians' Drug Enforcement Administration numbers, IMS assigns physician specialty information to obtain an estimate of the total number of prescriptions filled in retail pharmacies by medical specialty.
Source: Psychiatric Services, 2009;9(60):1167, and Healthcare Business of Thomson Reuters.
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Acton's Director of Research Samuel Gregg took to the podium on the final night of Acton University 2013 to deliver the closing plenary address for the conference. Below, Gregg closes the conference with a reflection on modern threats to religious liberty, and how the faithful can respond.
Bethany Christian Services based in Grand Rapids, Mich., is a global nonprofit organization caring for orphans and vulnerable children on five continents. Founded in 1944, they are the largest adoption agency in the United States. Their mission "is to demonstrate the love and compassion of Jesus Christ by protecting and enhancing the lives of children and families through quality social services." Bethany cares for children and families in 20 countries and has more than 100 offices in the United States. Since 1951, Bethany Christian Services has placed more than 39,000 children in a home.
Bill Blacquiere has served as President of Bethany Christian Services since January 2006. I recently spoke with him on the issue of religious liberty and adoption. At the end of the interview I provided links to a few pertinent news stories for background that are related to this interview.
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On Tuesday June 11, Autocam Corporation went before the U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit Court in Cincinnati to argue against the enforcement of the Health and Human Services birth control mandate. President and CEO of Autocam and Autocam Medical, John Kennedy, says that "the law forces some employers to participate in what they believe is intrinsic evil." But his request for an injunction had been denied by the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
A spokesperson from the Thomas More Society, which is representing Autocam and several other companies in the fight for religious liberty, said that their argument went well, but there is no telling how the court will rule or when they will make a decision. If the court affirms the denial of the injunction, Autocam and the Thomas More Society will seek review from the Supreme Court.
For previous PowerBlog coverage of this story, see here and here.
For more information about the various organizations in litigation, visit the Becket Fund's Central Information page.
Three years ago the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations have the same rights as individuals to engage in political speech. As Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the Citizens United decision, the "corporate identity" of a speaker did not justify a reduced level of free speech protection. Can that same concept about corporate identity be applied to religious liberties? Do corporations have religious liberty rights too?
Some legal scholars are claiming they do not:
In the latest issue of Renewing Minds, a journal of Christian thought published by Union University, I examine two different visions of religious liberty. They are roughly analogous to the two versions of the "empty shrines" of secularism described by Michael Novak and George Weigel, respectively, as well as to the visions of the American and the French Revolution. One has to do with the freedom of the church from state control, and the other has to do with freeing the public square from religion.
My piece, "Principle and Prudence: Two Shrines, Two Revolutions, and Two Traditions of Religious Liberty," is one of the freely accessible preview articles available at the journal's website. Check out the rest of the contents for this theme issue on religious liberty, and consider subscribing for the rest of the fine content.
After examining some of the premodern history of religious liberty, I pivot with a query about the relevance of Neuhaus' law:
Given the developments since the sixteenth century, we might wonder if there is a secular corollary to that axiom from Richard John Neuhaus, "Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed." Neuhaus wrote this in 1997, and was talking specifically about orthodox doctrine within the context of the church. As he concluded, however, "Almost five hundred years after the sixteenth-century divisions, the realization grows that there is no via media. The realization grows that orthodoxy and catholicity can be underwritten only by Orthodoxy and Catholicism."
As a devotee of neither Orthodoxy nor Catholicism but who is deeply concerned with orthodoxy and catholicity, I am inclined to wonder if Neuhaus' Law, as it has come to be called, applies only to Protestantism. In fact, given the secularization that both Kuyper and Gregory point to in their own ways, it seems worthwhile to consider whether Neuhaus' Law might be applicable outside the church, to the liberal political order as such. If so, the recognition that there is no via media might well apply to the purported neutrality of the secular state.
I conclude that these two visions of religious liberty are, in the end, irreconcilable: "We are faced then, with two competing and ultimately antithetical visions of religion and society. One is the way that leads to life and the other the way that leads to death."
Read the whole thing at Renewing Minds.
We've almost all seen some of the creepy messianic videos associated with President Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. If you're in need of a refresher there are examples here and here. It isn't solely a problem of the political left though. Throughout history there has been varying belief in political saviors of different ideologies. There are many on the right who firmly believe that political changes alone will transform our culture and institutions.
However, as government dependency continues to grow to record levels, we are reaching new heights in state worship and adoration. I wrote more about this topic in "As Secularism Advances, Political Messianism Draws More Believers," a commentary I published last year.
Currently, I am reading Worshipping the State: How Liberalism Became our State Religion by Benjamin Wiker. The book offers some good insights on the assaults on religious liberty, increased secularism, and political messiahs. Here's an excerpt from his new book:
Modern political utopianism, as we shall see, is an attempt to discard the necessity of grace (and hence of the church), even while state power replaces grace as the instrument for perfecting man. Liberalism is more than the rejection of Christianity; it is the absorption and transformation of its doctrines. Before the Christian doctrine of grace, no one would have dared think about perfecting the whole human race–a few, select individuals, a small group or clan or class of society, yes, but not the whole human race. With Christianity, God's grace is indeed open to all, and so all may share in the perfection of holiness, but this offered grace takes full effect only in the Kingdom of God, that is, only in heaven. Liberalism takes the church's salvific mission and makes it a merely political goal, one to be achieved in this world by human power alone, a heaven brought down by force to earth, where we become the authors of our own salvation.
And finally, here is a look at the somewhat comical yet sad end result of state and leader worship in North Korea:
Increasingly, governments and private parties are arguing that there is only one appropriate view of the relationship between religion and money-making: Exercising religion is fundamentally incompatible with earning profits.
This claim has been presented recently by state governments and private parties in litigation over pharmacy rights of conscience, and by state governments enacting conscience clauses with regard to recognizing same-sex marriages (non-profits are sometimes protected, but never profit-makers). The most prominent and developed form of the argument has been made by the federal government in the HHS mandate litigation, where it is currently arguing the point in at least seventeen different cases against businesses and business owners who cannot comply with the mandate on religious grounds.
Do our religious liberty laws protect profit-making businesses and their owners? Or is the government correct that, to borrow a phrase from the Gospels, you "cannot serve both God and mammon"?
When considered in the light of religious teachings, actual business practices, and the law's treatment of for-profit businesses in other contexts, it is clear that there is no inherent disconnect between earning profits and exercising religion. For this reason, there is no principled basis for excluding profit-making businesses and their owners from the protection of our religious liberty laws.
For George Washington's birthday, Julia Shaw reminds us that the indispensable man of the American Founding was also an important champion of religious liberty:
All Presidents can learn from Washington's leadership in foreign policy, in upholding the rule of law, and—especially now—in the importance of religion and religious liberty. While the Obama Administration claims to be "accommodating" Americans' religious freedom concerns regarding the Health and Human Services (HHS) Obamacare mandate, it is actually trampling religious freedom. President Washington set a tremendous example for the way that Presidents should handle such conflicts.
Washington knew that religion and morality are essential to creating the conditions for decent politics. "Where," Washington asked, "is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?"
Religion and morality are, Washington wrote, essential to the happiness of mankind: "A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity."
According to the Becket Fund, there are currently 44 active cases against the Obama administration's HHS mandate requiring employers to include abortion, sterilization and abortifacients as "health care". There have been 14 for-profit companies that have filed suit; 11 of those have received temporary injunctions against implementing the mandate.
Hobby Lobby's case was denied (as were Autocam's and Conestoga Wood Specialties'.) Hobby Lobby has filed an appeal:
"Hobby Lobby will continue their appeal before the Tenth Circuit," said Kyle Duncan, general counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, representing Hobby Lobby in the case. "The Supreme Court merely decided not to get involved in the case at this time. It left open the possibility of review after their appeal is completed in the Tenth Circuit."
Duncan said Hobby Lobby will continue to provide health insurance to all qualified employees.
However, to remain true to their faith, Duncan added, "it is not their intention, as a company, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs.
"The Constitution protects your right to believe and worship, not force your beliefs on others." That's a response Acton received via Twitter regarding a blog post on the HHS Mandate. This type of statement is a typical one in our society: you can believe whatever you want, but don't force your beliefs on anyone else. Religious belief and worship should be a wholly private affair; bringing your beliefs into the public square constitutes "forcing" them onto others.
In the latest issue of Faith and Justice from Alliance Defending Freedom, twelve women talk about what happened when this very scenario happened to them. As nurses working at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey elective surgery unit, these women were told by their employer that they must assist in elective abortions. Despite an employment clause that said nurses were exempt from this except in emergency situations if they believed abortions were immoral, the hospital stood its ground, and the nurses were told they would lose their jobs. Their union declined to help. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of the nurses. (more…)


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Moscow Still no word on where former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden will end up.
Snowden says he put in a request to stay in Russia until he can get to Latin America.
It is believed Snowden has thousands of documents detailing the structure and operation of the National Security Agency. Some say it is essentially a instruction manual for how the NSA is built.
So far Russia has not received Snowden's application.
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Ignorance in action: The foolish private prison ban
Normally legislators would wait to receive the official state study before acting on an issue. Even if their minds are made up already, if a study has been commissioned it at least looks good to wait until the report is in. But the leadership in your House of Representatives thought it was wise to vote on House Bill 443 before all the facts were in.
So today representatives vote on the bill, which would make it illegal for the Department of Corrections to house New Hampshire inmates in any private prison facility.
The bill actually strikes the word "private" from state law and replaces it with the word "government." What could possibly be the motivation behind such stupendous nincompoopery?
The first and most obvious motivation is to signal to the state employees unions: "We're your loyal stooges! Just keep those campaign contributions coming!"
The other, even worse, motivation is simple ideological foolishness. There are some legislators who abhor the profit motive. To them it is distasteful at best, evil at worst. Private prisons must be awful places because the people who run them are in it to make money. Case closed.
Such a childish notion is dashed with ease: The bill would prohibit the transfer of a New Hampshire prisoner to one of the privately run prisons in 37 U.S. states, but not to government-run prisons in Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Mexico, or North Korea. One not even use such extreme examples. Would the liberals supporting this bill like to see New Hampshire inmates sent to state-run prisons in the notoriously tough-on-crime states of Alabama, Mississippi, Arizona, or Texas?
The notion that government-run prisons are inherently superior, inherently more humane, inherently more civil than privately run prisons is nonsense. The bill deserves a humiliating defeat.
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