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I tried making fruit roll ups. I had to improvise instead of using a regular blender I had to use a smoothie maker - not sure if there's a technical difference between the two. Anyway, I pureed strawberries and pineapple and poured it into the dehydrator trays. Tastes great, but didn't come out in a leathery consistency - it's hard and breaks so I can't roll them. I'm going to assume that I dried them too long, unless someone chimes in on an alternate way to make fruit roll ups in the food dehydrator. I didn't treat them with anything, just used fresh fruit that I pureed. |
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You've diagnosed your problem and the link I've provide below at the National Center for Home Food Preservation (their drying section) has a couple articles about making fruit leather. "Test for dryness by touching the leather in several places; no indentations should be evident. Lift the edge of the leather, which will adhere tightly to the surface, and peel it back about an inch. If it peels readily, it is properly dried. If the leather has cooled, it may need to be warmed in an oven at 150-degrees F for a few minutes to help it peel away more easily. If the leather cracks or chips, it has dried for too long, but is still edible." I know I've had this happen before, but don't worry, there is a secondary use for over-dried fruit leather. Cut it up (I use my kitchen scissors) or break it into smaller pieces and add some water or fruit juice and make a fruit sauce to use as a topping. Add it to homemade applesauce for a mixed fruit applesauce. Hope there is some information there that will help you out. -Grainlady |
I prefer my fruit "leather" dried to crispy. Leather tends to stick to your teeth. Perfectly crispy leather is dried at higher temperature to kill all germs also the very dry leather will not get moldy. I also use the coffee grinder to turn crispy leather into fruit powder. Tomato powder is a great seasoning for cooking. I will make a video to show how you can have seeds and skin removed to make tomato leather, using a regular blender. Here is a post (link below) of my "leather" making. BTW, the use of thin veggie plastic bags prevents the leather from sticking and can be re-used again and again. dcarch |
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I also dry fruit "leathers" past where they can be rolled. I don't like to eat them plain for the same reason dcarch mentioned - stick to my teeth. But, I love having a variety around. I like adding them to sauces - made an especially good BBQ sauce this summer adding a few pieces of peach "leather". I also use them ground for making quick dessert fruit sauces. Strawberries are very good for this use. I just received my fun trial purchase from Just Tomatoes that barnmom referred. I got freeze-dried whole red grapes and freeze-dried pommegranate seeds. I'm going to take a picture this week to show the fun grapes - not raisins - they're whole grapes. /tricia |
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My county Municipal Utilities Authority, and there is probably one for every county, offers colored and uncolored mulch at extremely competitive prices. In their price list they say they will deliver, at extra cost, but I always haul my own. Cannot believe the average garden or stone center can compete, pricewise. Call your county clerk. |
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I am a big foodie and I recently came across the food sites Cozymeal (www.cozymeal.com) and BonAppetour (www.bonappetour.com) which let you eat at other people's homes.
The food looks good on their sites and I like the concept but I have never tried it myself.
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While I have used airbnb.com a dozen times so far, and many of those rental arrangements come with food components during your stay or can be arranged, I have not tried any stand alone hosted meals under the umbrella of a booking agent. I do like the concept and each company seems to have their regional coverage area in beta mode.
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I've done mealsharing.org in Berlin and Barcelona as a guest. It's a no cost meal sharing where the food probably isn't as fancy but I've had some great times in people's home. Since they aren't in it to make a buck, you usually end up with people that a good fit personality wise. We've hosted once in San Francisco and once in Berlin.
In Barcelona we were going to meal/class through http://www.bonappetour.com but we found one that was cheaper and with a professional chef so I would compare prices.
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Thank you for your comments everyone. We just booked a meal with cozymeal and we are going to give it a try.
HillJ, I live in San Francisco, so the feedback will be about a host here. Our meal is in a week and I will post my experience afterwards.
tjinsf, cooking classes sound really fun. They also offer cooking classes on cozy meal but we ended up booking a meal.
re: HillJ
So we went to the dinner on cozymeal almost two weeks ago and I finally got some time to write about it:
We really liked it! We went to one of their hosts (her name is Marjan I think) who served Middle-Eastern food and it was amazing. It tasted delicious, the guests were really nice and we had a great time talking to them.
The only problem was that they had only limited seats and when we asked two days before the meal if we could bring one friend with us, we were told that they were already fully booked. This would probably not happen in a restaurant. But we will definitely use the site again.
tjinsf - it will probably be for another meal - I think we are too lazy for a cooking class ;)
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Oct 25
7:30 pm
Allaert Auditorium, Galvin Fine Arts Center
They appear on stage without the music stands or formal dress of a classical group and talk to the audience like friends, illuminating their music, be it an original composition, a song by Radiohead, or a Bach arrangement.
Cost: TICKETS $15 adults, $13 faculty/staff/alumni/senior citizens, $11 non-SAU students, $10 groups, SAU students with current valid student ID are free
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Critics call them alt-classical, cello rock and indie-classical, and the band isn't sure what genre they fall into.
Hear their cover music for Game of Thrones at http://breakofreality.com.
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With Father's Day approaching, new research suggests that just being a good parent may not be good enough; some researchers believe fathers must reach out and query their kids on how they are doing.
Dr. Jeff Cookston, professor of psychology at San Francisco State University, believes, "There's a need for fathers to sometimes say to their kids, 'How am I doing? Am I the dad you need me to be?'"
"Kids are actively trying to make sense of the parenting they receive," he said, "and the meaning that children take from the parenting may be as important, or more important, than the behavior of the parents."
"I don't think a lot of parents give these ideas about meaning much thought," Cookston said.
"You may think that you're being a good parent by not being harsh on your kid, for instance, but your child may view that as 'you're not invested in me, you're not trying.'"
The way in which adolescents view their fathers' behavior can vary depending on the child's gender, ethnicity, and the presence of a stepfather in the child's life, said Cookston.
Cookston and colleagues report their findings in a new study published in the Journal of Family Issues. The study included children from California and Arizona.
For the study, investigators examined how adolescents view their fathers' actions; specifically, whether the teens attribute these actions to a dad's overall character or to his reaction in a particular situation.
For instance, a daughter might believe her dad took her to the baseball game because he is a good father, or she might believe that he took her to the game because he likes to go to the game.
The study suggests that girls tend to believe that a father's "enduring aspects" are responsible for a dad's good deeds, while boys are more likely to think that dads do good depending on the situation.
Mexican-American children are more likely than their European-American peers to think that good times with dad depend on the situation.
Experts say the reasons for these differences are not clear, although in the case of boys and girls, it may be that girls are socialized to interpret other people's behavior in a more positive light.
In Mexican-American families, the process of adapting to U.S. culture may increase family conflict, leading children to have a less optimistic view of their fathers' good deeds.
Cookston says his research has shown that the relationship between father and child can have a significant impact on the child's tendencies toward depression and behavior problems.
Father's Day can be a good time for dads to rethink their relationship with their children, with a few tips that Cookston has gleaned from these studies:
Source: San Francisco State University
Teenager dad talking photo by shutterstock.


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Gwynne Dyer: Why Hamas does not want a cease-fire in Gaza—yet
You can see why Hamas doesn't want a cease-fire in Gaza yet. It is continuing the fight in the hope that international outrage at the huge loss of people being killed by Israel's massive firepower will somehow, eventually, force Israel to give it what it wants.
Hamas would be quite willing to give up firing its pathetic rockets, which have so far killed a grand total of three civilians in Israel—if Israel ended its seven-year blockade of the Gaza Strip. Dream on.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's goal is harder to define. Domestic political pressure to "do something" about those pesky rockets pushed him into this war, but now he must produce some kind of success in order to justify all those deaths: around 1,150 Palestinians and more than 50 Israelis already.
But what kind of success could it be? He cannot destroy all the rockets—Hamas shows no sign of running out of them—and even if he could, Hamas would just manufacture more of them later unless he physically reoccupied the whole Gaza Strip.
In recent days, therefore, Netanyahu has redefined the objective as destroying all the "terror tunnels" that Hamas has dug to infiltrate its fighters into nearby areas of Israel.
This makes no sense at all. In order to protect the lives of a few hypothetical Israeli soldiers who might be killed in the future by Hamas fighters using the tunnels, over 40 real Israeli soldiers have already died. Besides, Israel can't stop Hamas from digging more tunnels after the shooting stops unless it can find a way to ban picks and shovels in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu needs a victory of some sort before he accepts a cease-fire, but he cannot even define what it would be. So, as he said on Monday, "We should prepare ourselves for an extended campaign." Meanwhile, the slaughter of Palestinians continues, and sympathy for Israel shrivels even in the United States.
It's not that the Israeli army particularly wants to kill civilians (although it is sometimes very sloppy), but it does prefer to fight a standoff war with artillery and missiles in order to spare the lives of its own soldiers. In the crowded Gaza Strip, that inevitably means killing lots of civilians.
The 1.8 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living at the same population density as the residents of London and Tokyo: around 5,000 people per square kilometre. You cannot use high explosives in this environment without killing a great many innocent civilians, and Netanyahu knew that from the start, because this is Israel's third war in Gaza in six years.
So the Israelis are being brutal and stupid, and the Hamas leaders are being brutal and cynical. (Hamas doesn't really use civilians as "human shields", as Israel claims, but its leaders know that Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli fire provide them with a kind of political capital.)
But this is not to say that the two sides are equally to blame for the killing. There is a broader context.
Before 1948, only about 60,000 people lived on the land now known as the Gaza Strip. The vast majority of those who live there now are Arab refugees, or the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Arab refugees, who fled or were driven out of what is now Israel during the 1948 war. They are not there by choice.
Israel has traditionally insisted that the refugees freely chose to flee, although revisionist Israeli historians have debunked that story pretty thoroughly. But which story you believe doesn't really matter. Fleeing your home in a time of war does not deprive you of the right to go home when the fighting ends. Yet the Palestinians have not been allowed to go home, and Israel is adamant that they never will be.
The argument of 1948 still applies: for Israel to remain a state with a large Jewish majority, the Palestinian refugees and their descendants must remain outside it. So most of them are jammed into this narrow strip of territory on the Mediterranean coast—and latterly they have even grown poorer (unemployment is now 40 percent) because they now live under a permanent Israeli blockade.
Israel imposed the blockade after they voted for Hamas, a radical Islamist party that refuses to recognize the legitimacy of Israel, in the 2006 election. Yes, they are more radical than the Palestinians of the West Bank, most of whom are not refugees. But there is no going back, and even in the Gaza Strip most Palestinians know it.
The ancestral lands of the Palestinians in what is now Israel are lost as permanently as those of the American Indians. The "peace" everybody talks about is really just about giving them security of tenure and real self-government in the one-fifth of the former Palestine they still occupy. Unfortunately, that is not even visible on the horizon.
When Netanyahu is addressing American audiences, he gives lip service to a "two-state solution" that includes an independent, demilitarized Palestinian mini state, but everybody in Israel knows that he is really determined to avoid it. Israel is therefore effectively committed to penning in and controlling the Palestinians forever.
When their objections to this situation get too violent, they have to be disciplined. That is what is happening now. Just like in 2009 and 2012.
You neglect to mention why the 1948 war occurred in the first place. If the Palestinian Arabs and their neighbors had allowed the Jews to live in peace in the first place, there would be a Palestinian state, and it would be much larger.
The people who are not there by "choice" are there as a result of the actions of their grandparents and their grandparents' co-religionists, who, instead of allowing a tiny group of half a million people to have under 20,000 km2 of mostly desert land (as approved by the UN), in which they would be a tiny majority, among a sea of millions and millions of square kilometers of Arab land, they instead chose to fight. It was a bad choice, they lost. Israel earned the land they won, with their own blood, and they paid for it with the land lost in dozens of Muslim countries by other Jews.
While Israel certainly is not blameless, and has made many questionable decisions over its short history, you do a disservice by glossing over the Palestinian/Arab role in getting into the current predicament, by insisting on the death of Israel, and by voting for the current war when they voted for Hamas in the first place. While many saw the vote between Fatah and Hamas as between corruption and order, they also knew it was a vote between peace and war, and they are reaping the oats they have sown. I have great sympathy for the minority who live in Gaza yet voted against Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and for the children.
This war, these wars, will not end until the people of Gaza give up arms, and accept that Israel is here to stay. When they stop diverting concrete that could be used for schools and hospitals, and even for bunkers for civilians, into tunnels solely for the purpose of killing civilians or kidnapping soldiers. When that happens, when they police their own violent elements instead of electing them to power, and when Israel can be assured of safety, then they can live in the free world again.
We could also ask Why Netanyahu does not want a cease-fire in Gaza - yet:
Gwynne Dyer: "Netanyahu needs a victory before he accepts a cease-fire, but cannot even define what it would be...."Hamas would be willing to give up firing rockets, if Israel ends its seven-year blockade."
"The ancestral lands of the Palestinians in what is now Israel are lost as permanently as those of the American Indians."
A majority of Native Americans live off the reservations. Some are still locked up but at least the CIA/FBI sock puppets are not ranting about them....
"I have great sympathy for the minority who live in Gaza...."
And for the rest none at all, right?
It never ceases to amaze me the casuistry employed by Zionist apologists who somehow believe the indiscriminate slaughter of thousands of Arab civilians can somehow be justified.
This vicious attack upon the civilians of Gaza is nothing but collective punishment and is clearly defined as a war crime by the Geneva Convention. I think this time around the world has had enough of it.
But I don't just blame Hamas, surely today's fighters inherited their parents' attitudes and belligerence out of a very valid injury. Their land WAS taken, and settlers in the West Bank is just beyond the pale. I don't think Ben Gurion would approve of what appears to be reneging, but what do I know.
I wish Egypt would cede a small portion of the Sinai Peninsula, and Saudi Arabia and international donors a lot of money, to build a Pseudo-Palestine with water, roads, schools, etc., FAR AWAY FROM WAR.
It's not just Israel and Hamas and foreign donors who perpetuate this conflict, it's all of us, who don't provide a solution. Hamas has not produced a King, or Gandhi, or Mandela yet - and clearly they are the oppressed.
Because neither of them will stop, we are ALL using Palestinians as human shields, or more accurately "caring, but not tending" to the problem - many more will die while we pace around in denial and opinions.
We all know it's going to end very badly for Gazans. Let's avoid that ASAP.
Just Saying.
I read a very similar account in another book, perhaps Tenet's "At the Center of the Storm."
The PLO would regularly pay benefits to families of martyrs. Nowadays, militants simply kidnap someone and coerce them into a suicide bombing to save the family. Of course I have no proof of that, but I think it's a reasonable perception.
What I do know (ok, believe) is that Anwar Sadat died for his involvement in the Camp David Accords. Said Yasser Arafat about the signing: "Let them sign what they like. False peace will not last."
But war lasts longer than Arafat.
In one stroke, that would do away with the notion that hostile Arab neighbours could somehow one day push the Jewish state into the ocean, would correct the theoretical and actual resemblance of the PA to a Bantustan, end the war that has been going on since 1948, and grant citizenship protection to a community that hasn't had it.
Palestians have everything to gain from this solution - full freedom to travel, work, and participated in public life throughout the country, whose institutions are relatively free and fair, and which has already more or less integrated Israeli Arabs.
This solution will terrify many Israelis who believe that the Jewish homeland must have a large numerical Jewish majority. But South Africa did not execute all of its white people, which is a reassuring example of how integration could work. Democratic institutions themselves don't rely on Jewish DNA.
And if the two state solution was ever going to work, it would have worked by now.
Arafat could have ended war but his ego and outside financiers would not allow it. Abbas was an assistant to Arafat and according to Clinton's book, Abbas secretly wanted to make the deal but Arafat was in charge. For 8 years they hammered out the details and Arafat in the end totally failed as a leader.
It was too convenient for other middle eastern countries to have a boogeyman to blame all their woes on. But even that illusion is imploding as civil wars are breaking out in place like Syria, and groups like Boko Haram and ISIS are terrorizing their own people.
Why do you think Egypt is not getting involved? They are right there on the border, they have a powerful army, they could defend Gaza or simply open the border and let at least the civilians in.
Egypt is turning its back on terror organizations. They don't want another Boko Haram or ISIS in their neighborhood. They see Israel as doing the job no one wants to do.
Again I ask everyone to visualize peace in this region and all over the world. Innocent civilians should not be paying the price for their "leader's" moral failures. Please visualize Peace and One Love!
Gwynne Dyer's article regarding the Gaza War minimizes the harm that Hamas is trying to perpetrate on Israel.
Referring to Hamas' approximately 2,800 rockets as "pathetic" and "pesky" negates the fact that these are deadly rockets, targeting populated areas, with the intent to kill. The only reason there are few casualties is because of warning sirens, the Iron Dome and shelters put in place by the Israeli government to protect its citizens, and luck. Nevertheless, children and adults are traumatized by daily life being disrupted constantly by sirens warning of attacks and only 15 seconds to find a shelter or a stairwell.
Dyer goes on to talk about the "terror tunnels" putting the words in quotes to diminish their lethal intent and the danger they pose to Israel's security. He states Israel is destroying the tunnels to "protect the lives of a few hypothetical Israelis solders who might be killed in the future." These tunnels were created to bring in and hide weapons and to facilitate terrorist attacks on any and all Israelis.
Dyer needs to educate himself about the true goals of Hamas. His comment that Hamas' ultimate goal is to remove the blockade is false. Hamas wants the destruction of Israel. This is stated by the son of the Hamas founder. (Readers can google "son of Hamas founder speaks out.") If the goal is the removal of the blockade why isn't Hamas sending its "pathetic rockets" into Egypt? They have a blockade in place as well.
Hamas started this war. No other country would be condemned for defending itself. The world is upset that deaths on both sides are disproportionate. Without the shelters, warning signals and the Iron Dome to protect Israelis, the death toll would be much more than a "mere" three civilians.
Hamas' ideology of hatred takes precedence over lives. This is why it plants its rockets amidst the Gaza's populated areas and on UN sites (3 sites found so far). This is why citizens are encouraged to stay where they are even when given forewarnings by the Israeli army (what other army does this?). This is why, although Hamas knew it was starting a war, it used none of its funds to build shelters or warning sirens to protect its citizens.
Susan Ross
London ON


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Avoid the Falling blocks and reach the top of the level. All while trying avoid enemies. Have fun.
Multiple levels. See If you get to the boss.
Movement = Arrows/WASD
3 = Decrease Speed. 4= Increase Speed
Shoot = Left Click
> = Mute Sound
M = Menu
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Read the titles.
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Rated 1.5 / 5 stars
The game often traps you into an area where you can't do anything but sit and wait for a block to smush you. Having the game take place in a smaller space than the flash is using looks sloppy.
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funny, it's a great ability game because besides at avoids blocks you have to use the mouse for destroy the fireballs, 3.5 stars i like it
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
> There's no way to know, but its entirely possible that there isn't a single
Exactly. We simply have no idea what's inside. Hence starting the
discussion with an assumption that they have any obligations is just
boring fanboyism.
Patrick, please take your belligerent attitude elsewhere.
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Electricity is any effect resulting from the presence and/or movement of electrical charges. An electric current is the flow of electric charges. But the reason that an electric current makes a lamp come on instantly when you flip a switch is not because electrons race through the wire to the lamp. Instead, an electrical impulse, passed from electron to electron, moves through the wire to the lamp.
In this project, you will demonstrate the way an electrical impulse moves through a wire. You will determine how voltage affects an electric current. You will also investigate how to test the electrical conductivity or measure of the ability of a material to conduct an electric charge and the effect that the material's resistance has on an electric current passing through it.
Getting Started
Purpose To demonstrate how an electrical impulse moves through a wire.
12-inch ruler
1/4 × 16-inch (.31 × 40-cm) dowel
four 11/8-inch (2.8-cm) ceramic disk magnets, each with a hole through the center
- Stack the books on a table so that you have two equal-size piles that are each at least 11/2 inches (3.75 cm) high.
- Separate the stacks of books so that they are 12 inches (30 cm) apart. Lay the 12-inch ruler on the table between them.
- Stick the dowel through the hole in one of the magnets.
- Stick the dowel through the hole of a second magnet and push the two magnets on the dowel together. If the magnets cling together, remove the second magnet, turn it around, and put it back on the dowel. (1be magnets are to push away from each other.)
- Repeat step 4 twice, placing the remaining two magnets on the dowel.
- Support the ends of the dowel on the edges of the books so that the magnets hang above the ruler. Place a book over the ends of the dowel to secure the dowel.
- Push magnet D (see Figure 16.1) toward the zero end (the left side) of the ruler, which will force the rest of the magnets to move, until magnet A rests against the books and is above the zero end of the ruler. Slowly move your hand away from magnet D. Record the starting position of each of the magnets in a Magnet Movement Data table like Table 16.1. Magnet A's initial position is 0 inches (cm).
- Push magnet A slowly forward (to the right) 1 inch (2.5 cm).
- While holding magnet A at its final position of 1 inch (2.5 cm), wait until all the magnets have finished moving, then measure and record the position of each of the magnets.
- Determine how far each magnet moved by calculating the difference between the starting and the final position of each.
Magnets B, C, and D appeared to move the instant that magnet A moved. Magnets Band C moved about the same distance as magnet A, which was 1 inch (2.5 cm). Magnet D moved farther than the others.
In this experiment the electrons in some solids, particularly metals, are attracted relatively equally to all nearby atoms and are not tightly bound to a single site. These electrons are relatively free to move through the solid, so they are called free electrons. The motion of free electrons results in the transfer of energy from one electron to the next. This transfer of energy is an electrical impulse caused by the repulsive force between negatively charged electrons. When magnet A was pushed forward, magnets Band C moved about the same distance because they each had about the same force pushing from their front and back. Thus they had the same net force acting in a forward direction. The magnets represent free electrons in a metal wire that is part of an electric circuit (the path that electric charges follow). An electric circuit is made of material called an electrical conductor or conductor (material with a large concentration of free electrons). If an electric circuit forms a loop so that the free electrons move in a continuous unbroken path, it is called a closed circuit. If there is a break in the materials forming the circuit so no current can flow, it is called an open circuit. There is no movement of charged particles in an open circuit. This experiment represents only a section of a closed circuit. Magnet D does not have a magnet in front of (i.e., to the right of) it, so it does not simulate the movement of an electron in a closed electric circuit. It moves farther than the rest of the magnets because it does not run into an opposing force, as do the others. (For more on the distance magnet D travels, see ''Try New Approaches" in this chapter.)
Electricity is any effect resulting from the presence and/or movement of electrical charges. Current electricity is the result of moving electric charges. The flow of electric charges through a conductor is called an electric current or current. Energy associated with electricity is called electrical energy.
The electrical energy that causes an electric current to move can be compared to the stored potential energy of two opposing magnets in this experiment, such as magnets A and B. The closer the magnets are, the harder it is to push them together; thus as they move closer together, their potential energy increases. In like manner, the potential energy of two electrons increases when the two charges move closer together. The electrical energy needed to move a charge from one point to another in an electric circuit is called potential difference (difference in electric potential energy between two points).
In current electricity, the motion of the charges is very slow in comparison to the electrical impulse. Free electrons in a metal wire can wander from atom to atom through the metal. Imagine a single row of electrons in a wire. When electron A moves forward, electron B in front of it is pushed forward by the repulsive electrical force of their like charges. Electron C in front of electron B is then pushed forward by the repulsive electrical force, and so on, like the movement of the magnets in this experiment. While the individual electrons move at a speed of about 0.0004 inch (0.001 cm) per second, which is actually a great distance for such a small particle, the electrical impulse that they pass along moves almost as fast as light—186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. In this experiment, while each magnet moves only a small distance, the magnet moves forward almost instantaneously, representing each transfer of electrical energy through a row of electrons (represented by magnets) by an electrical impulse.
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Ford's Bringing Adaptive Steering To the Masses
While Google eliminates the steering wheel... (128 comments)
So tell me please, which company is the innovator?
Announcing: Slashdot Deals - Explore geek apps, games, gadgets and more. (what is this?)
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While Google eliminates the steering wheel... (128 comments)
So tell me please, which company is the innovator?
Bird 43, Simpson 240/260 (702 comments)
As another commenter mentioned, old test equipment -- the design of the Bird 43 wattmeter hasn't changed in over 50 years (and mine is over 30 years old). Similar story with the Simpson 240 series of multimeters (VOMs). I inherited a set of Starrett micrometers that are wonderful, even the ones my son used as C-clamps as he was growing up...
I also have a stack of old HP and Tektronix test equipment -- stuff that has service manuals and more-or-less replaceable parts (except for things like 'scope front ends, which are custom assemblies made of pure unobtanium).
A little over a hundred years ago... (292 comments)
Students were advised not to go into Physics as a career, as there were only two unsolved problems in Classical Physics -- that of the photoelectric effect, and the advance of the perihelion of Mercury.
Einstein addressed both problems in 1905, and changed the world.
What will the current set of "little problems" and inconsistencies in Physics lead to?
So what? (319 comments)
Executive summary: Welcome to the real world. Everybody with an "always on" connection is getting this kind of crap, it's just that most people don't realize it.
Discussion: We have a cable modem for internet service. I run a SSH honeypot (Kippo) to collect information on folks knocking on our door.
Friday morning, my Kippo honeypot recorded a dictionary attack run of 291 SSH login attempts (against root) in 12 minutes (from 18.104.22.168, look it up if you want). I don't even bother to record to record the crap coming against port 80.
This isn't unusual, not even for an IP address in a residential cable block! And the more you look for this kind of activity, like running a honeypot, or even reviewing your router logs, the more bewildered you'll become, particularly about how "normal" people's computers survive under these continuous attacks.
The answer, of course, is that so many do not, their home computers rooted within minutes of being connected to the net, or when a child in the household (using a Windows account with admin privileges) clicks on some enticing link in IE... Their computer gets added to one or more botnets, an eventually they toss it out because it's too slow.
Suggestions: Make sure your network is as secure as you can make it, then ask for help to make it better. Help those you care about do the same. Friends don't let friends use IE (or windows) is a good start.
Which assumes... (103 comments)
That the data from all those cameras, location+image, is constantly being streamed to a secure government facility where the data will only be used for good, right?
And people are concerned about Google Glass?
Yes, it's an interesting idea, but it has some problems!
But the carriers would probably love it, as someone would have to pay for all the bandwidth used -- certainly not gonna be a freebie on the carrier -- an opportunity for a government mandated fee, perhaps?
Idea -- check sources (e.g. 137Cs) are pretty cheap. Attach them to the outsides of public transit, pigeons, anything that moves around. The more the merrier.
Bill, I don't have problems creating documents (618 comments)
Bill, I don't have any problems creating documents using my iPad, or working on those documents on my Macbook Pro or MacPro desktop
Things just work. I update a document on one platform, and it appears on the others.
What I do have problems with is Visio under Windows -- damn, that's a hostile program! Even when trying to integrate Visio content with Office documents. Look on the bright side -- it's like opening Christmas presents -- you never know what you're going to get! But most of the time with Windows, it's not what you expected (or wanted).
But I guess that's because I don't understand, and haven't accepted the Windows hegemony and world-view.
Not that I'm singularly focused on Apple -- I do a lot of work on Linux-based platforms, and OSX plays nice with those as well.
No problems creating and editing documents using my iPad... I hear the shrill cry that the iPad tools don't have the "richness" of MS Word, or Excel, or Visio...
About that "richness" -- my guess is probably 80% of the "features" in those programs go unused. Most of the time when I run into one of those "features" it's because something popped up and now I'm searching for how to turn it the hell off.
And what apps such as Pages and Numbers don't offer, apps such as Evernote and Skitch do -- and they work, across platforms (even Windows).
And don't worry, Bill -- these things are just fads anyway. Don't RIM and Dell say so?
Inertial Nav + Kalman Filter (84 comments)
As others have posted, intertial nav platforms have been around for decades -- in military aircraft, and then in commercial aircraft.
The break throughs are not only in getting the platform sensors, the gyros, accelerometers, and magnetometers, onto a single chip, but also in being able to provide the computer horsepower to do the Kalman filtering to integrate all these sensors to come out with a nav/position solution, in a few cubic centimeters of processed sand, and for a few Watts.
It's not just the sensors, it's the processing as well. The sensors just throw data at you (data with all sorts of errors); the Kalman filter lets you bring everything together for your nav/position solution. As a prof long ago said it, "Kalman filtering -- how to stop worrying and learn to love matrix inversion."
ISP Egress Filtering... (211 comments)
How much of the crap we put up with would go away if ISPs instituted egress filtering?
Oh, that's not a panacea; it's not going to cure all the interweb's problems overnight, but it would sure as hell eliminate a lot of the low-level crap that goes on.
(grumble grumble grumble)
Really tough -- (687 comments)
Your first challenge is fitting "reasonable" and "piracy" into the same mental model...
Maritime nations through history have sought to deter piracy by displaying the miscreant's remains at harbor entrances.
Think of that as a way to show increased risk.
But software piracy? What's the risk? If you look at eliminating the gain from piracy, then you need to ask, what's the "gain?" To some, the gain is saving a few bucks. Pricing your software low works to eliminate that gain. Or providing support and/or upgrades to legitimate users. But to some, the "gain" in piracy is playing the game, and that gets back to a rational relationship between your goals and a pirate's: there may not be one. Someone engaging in piracy as a way to get their rocks off isn't likely to be motivated by pricing, support, upgrades, or much of anything else, even the lack of a technological challenge.
Is piracy something you can more or less ignore in your target market?
But "fighting" piracy? Old adage: never wrestle with a pig; you'll get filthy and the pig will love it.
Good Grief! (379 comments)
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal RIchelieu
So how long would it take going through those recordings to find something...
But don't worry, our technological society is evolving to that point asymptotically -- you probably already carry a tracking device in your pocket that also can be used to make phone calls; if you drive a recently manufactured car it has a rat box in it that your insurance company can use to try to avoid any liability, and there are proposals for future model years to make that rat box collect even more information. Sound and pictures will get there eventually.
About all those patents... (80 comments)
Yeah, LG just acquired all those patents from HP/Palm...
But what did it get? If you imagine each of those patents to be a pie, did LG get the whole pie on each one it got?
Hell no.
First, HP undoubtedly retained a license to practice under each of the patents, to make, use, sell, have made, have customers use, yada, yada, yada.
Next, LG took those patents under whatever licenses and cross-licenses HP (and Palm) had entered into with other companies.
So while LG acquired a bunch of patents, each of those patents has a chunk or two taken out of it. LG undoubtedly didn't get the whole pie.
Multiple approaches-- (884 comments)
If this person is in it for the game, putting up technical barriers is just going to encourage them. You want them to decide to leech off someone else.
Make a corner reflector using aluminum foil and cardboard -- figure out where in general the leech is, and keep the signal away from them.
If you have a spare box, don't do the Upside-Down-Ternet, let them connect and throttle the *&!# out of their connection -- encourage them to go away.
And yeah, going to PSK-2 with long keys changed every few days will be a pain to you, but more of a pain to someone else.
Parable #1: Never wrestle with a pig. You'll get dirty, and the pig will love it.
Parable #2: Two guys out camping. One asks the other, "What would you do if a bear came into the camp?" "Run like hell!" "But you can't outrun a bear!" "I don't have to outrun the bear..."
Stalking Horse-- (564 comments)
SO they're proposing to take all the sh*t they'd normally deliver on Saturday, remove the first-class stuff, and deliver the rest? This is more efficient and will save money?
Sounds like a stalking horse to me, to make their plight more visible, hamstrung between unions on one side and politicians on the other, and not allowed to make business decisions on their own.
Thoughtful design-- (146 comments)
I've been using home automation since the 80's (damn, that's a long time ago) in the dark ages of X10.
As with many systems, there are some important questions to keep in mind:
Does this system or particular controlled device have benign failure modes? The answer better be "Yes!"
How do I secure access to the system? (Hint: don't connect it directly to the Internet!)
Does this system have a master OFF switch and easily useable manual controls? (Think COLOSSUS Forbin Project - again, the answer better be "Yes!")
Is automating this going to piss off someone I don't want to piss off? (E.g. I like motion-controlled lighting in some rooms; my wife hates motion controlled lighting.)
How can this whole thing go sideways at 3AM and give me a cheap thrill?
build in exercise, mobility (372 comments)
If you have a printer in your cube, get rid of it -- use one that makes you get up and walk.
Use stairs rather than elevators -- use a loo on a different floor to get more use of stairs,
If you drive to work, don't park next to the building, park where you get to walk some.
Rather than eating lunch one or more days during the week, take a walk locally instead.
The simple explanation-- (117 comments)
"Nobody with half a brain would have paid that much for this pile of shite; therefore, we must have been defrauded."
See? It's simple. Blame someone else.
Class C, no filters-- (315 comments)
Yep, 3rd harmonic, probably from an unfiltered Class C power amp -- and it will desense those silly little receivers if it doesn't block them completely. The more modern ones have some front-end filtering, but not a lot.
A lot of automotive stuff in that frequency range -- keyless entry, TPM (tire pressure monitoring), and garage door openers.
I'm surprised nobody has gone after the protocols to see how many low tire pressure warnings they can set off at once...
A lifetime skill-- (111 comments)
I learned to juggle many, many moons ago. Thank you, Larry, and thank you, Frank!
I've taught many folks how to juggle since that time. Taught my son. He's getting damn good with five, which I never completely mastered.
He's also taught others, passing it on. It's easy to learn, and addicting -- you go through a phase where you'll try to juggle anything that won't fight back (hints: tape the paws together; shake frogs and other small animals first to make sure they're empty before throwing them over your head).
Juggling helps you relax; it helps you concentrate. It helps you realize what's important. There are always new things to learn, and interested people to teach. Keep practicing, keep teaching others, and keep having fun.
multiple choices-- (712 comments)
(1) Old school drafting pens, with 00 or 000 size tips -- Rapidograph, Kohinoor, Faber, and others
Pros -- fine lines, don't need to press, with film inks you can write on glass, or just about anything
Cons -- need special ink, cranky, leak if you take them on planes, drop them and you're out $20 for a new tip
got to wait for the ink to dry or it smears, getting harder and harder to find
(2) Fountain pen with XF nib
Pros -- fine lines, don't need to press, lots of ink colours and you can blend your own
Cons -- at least $60 - $80 for a good one, you can't let anyone else use it once you have it broken in
(3) Pentel Precise V5 and V7
Pros -- cheap! fine lines, reliable
Cons -- not as good as (1) or (2), but not as expensive, either
JIHAD! (816 comments)
...the return of Jar-Jar and everything else we loved...
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Just as I am honored to serve my patients and community, I also work with our profession via groups such as International College of Integrative Medicine (ICIM), where I serve on the Board of Directors with other leaders in the integrative medicine movement. I serve to facilitate other healthcare providers learning about the latest scientific evidence emerging in integrative practices from around the world.
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