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Peanut butter was invented and reinvented many times during history. Peanuts were known as early as 950 B.C. and originated in South America. The ancient Incas used peanuts and were known to have made it into a paste-like substance. As a crop peanuts emigrated from South America to Africa by early explorers and then traveled by trade into Spain who then traded the product to the American colonies. The first commercial peanut crop was grown in Virginia in the early to mid 1840's and in North Carolina beginning around 1818.
According to the Corn Products Company, Dr. Ambrose Straub of St. Louis patented a peanut butter-making machine in 1903 and some unknown doctor invented peanut butter in 1890.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented a "Process of Preparing Nut Meal" in 1895 and used peanuts. Kellogg served the patients at his Battle Creek Sanitarium peanut butter. Joseph Lambert worked for Dr. Kellogg and began selling his own hand-operated peanut butter grinder in 1896. Almeeta Lambert published the first nut cookbook, "The Complete Guide to Nut Cookery" in 1899.
By 1914, many companies were making peanut butter.
Joseph L. Rosenfield invented a churning process that made smooth peanut butter smooth. In 1928, Rosenfield licensed his invention to the Pond Company, the makers of Peter Pan peanut butter. In 1932, Rosenfield began making his own brand of peanut butter called Skippy which included a crunchy style peanut butter.
Agricultural chemist, George Washington Carver discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. He start popularizing uses for peanut products including peanut butter, paper, ink, and oils beginning in 1880. The most famous of Carver's research took place after he arrived in Tuskeegee in 1896. However, Carver did not patent peanut butter as he believed food products were all gifts from God. The 1880 date precedes all the above inventors except of course for the Incas, who were first. It was Carver who made peanuts a significant crop in the American South in the early 1900's.
After all peanut butter is just roasted peanuts crushed into a paste. One-half of all edible peanuts produced in the United States are used to make peanut butter and peanut spreads.
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Here's more about PB: George Washington Carver George Washington Carver ? The History of Peanut Butter George Washington Carver started popularizing uses for peanut products including peanut butter, paper, ink, and oils beginning in 1880 ? Black Inventors By Mary Bellis It is rare to find a man of the caliber of George Washington Carver. A man who would decline an invitation to work for a salary of more than $100,000 a year (almost a million today) to continue his research on behalf of his countrymen. Agricultural chemist, Carver discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were his recipes and improvements to/for: adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain. Three patents were issued to Carver. George Washington Carver was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. He was born into difficult and changing times near the end of the Civil War. The infant George and his mother kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly sent away to Arkansas. Moses Carver found and reclaimed George after the war but his mother had disappeared forever. The identity of Carver's father remains unknown, although he believed his father was a slave from a neighboring farm. Moses and Susan Carver reared George and his brother as their own children. It was on the Moses' farm where George first fell in love with nature, where he earned the nickname 'The Plant Doctor' and collected in earnest all manner of rocks and plants. He began his formal education at the age of twelve, which required him to leave the home of his adopted parents. Schools segregated by race at that time with no school available for black students near Carver's home. He moved to Newton County in southwest Missouri, where he worked as a farm hand and studied in a one-room schoolhouse. He went on to attend Minneapolis High School in Kansas. College entrance was a struggle, again because of racial barriers. At the age of thirty, Carver gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he was the first black student. Carver had to study piano and art and the college did not offer science classes. Intent on a science career, he later transferred to Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in 1891, where he gained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1894 and a Master of Science degree in bacterial botany and agriculture in 1897. Carver became a member of the faculty of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanics (the first black faculty member for Iowa College), teaching classes about soil conservation and chemurgy. In 1897, Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes, convinced Carver to come south and serve as the school's Director of Agriculture. Carver remained on the faculty until his death in 1943. (Read the pamphlet - Help For Hard Times - written by Carver and forwarded by Booker T. Washington as an example of the educational material provided to farmers by Carver.) At Tuskegee Carver developed his crop rotation method, which revolutionized southern agriculture. He educated the farmers to alternate the soil-depleting cotton crops with soil-enriching crops such as; peanuts, peas, soybeans, sweet potato, and pecans. America's economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture during this era making Carver's achievements very significant. Decades of growing only cotton and tobacco had depleted the soils of the southern area of the United States of America. The economy of the farming south had been devastated by years of civil war and the fact that the cotton and tobacco plantations could no longer (ab)use slave labor. Carver convinced the southern farmers to follow his suggestions and helped the region to recover. Carver also worked at developing industrial applications from agricultural crops. During World War I, he found a way to replace the textile dyes formerly imported from Europe. He produced dyes of 500 different shades of dye and he was responsible for the invention in 1927 of a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans. For that he received three separate patents: U.S. 1,522,176 Cosmetics and Producing the Same. January 6, 1925. George W. Carver. Tuskegee, Alabama. U.S. 1,541,478 Paint and Stain and Producing the Same June 9, 1925. George W. Carver. Tuskegee, Alabama. U.S. 1,632,365 Producing Paints and Stains. June 14, 1927. George W. Carver. Tuskegee, Alabama. Carver did not patent or profit from most of his products. He freely gave his discoveries to mankind. Most important was the fact that he changed the South from being a one-crop land of cotton, to being multi-crop farmlands, with farmers having hundreds of profitable uses for their new crops. "God gave them to me." he would say about his ideas, "How can I sell them to someone else?" In 1940, Carver donated his life savings to the establishment of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee, for continuing research in agriculture. George Washington Carver was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Simpson College in 1928. He was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts in London, England. In 1923, he received the Spingarn Medal given every year by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1939, he received the Roosevelt medal for restoring southern agriculture. On July 14, 1943, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt honored Carver with a national monument dedicated to his accomplishments. The area of Carver's childhood near Diamond Grove, Missouri preserved as a park, this park was the first designated national monument to an African American in the United States. "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world." - Epitaph on the grave of George Washington Carver. There's more; Go to:
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Australia signs intelligence accord with France
PUBLISHED: 09 Jun 2014 01:47:00 | UPDATED: 10 Jun 2014 07:54:48PRINT EDITION: 09 Jun 2014Prime Minister Tony Abbott and French President Francois Hollande have agreed to share intelligence on their respective citizens who have gone to fight in Syria's civil war. Photo: Andrew Meares
Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent Ottawa
Australia has struck a second intelligence sharing agreement in less than a week, this time with France, as fears rise about the Syrian civil war becoming a hub for home-grown terrorism.
In Paris on the weekend, Prime Minister Tony Abbott and French President Francois Hollande held a bilateral meeting and agreed, among other things, to share intelligence on their respective citizens who have gone to Syria to fight in that country's civil war.
As The Australian Financial Review reported on Saturday, Mr Abbott and Indonesia's President Susilo Bamabnag Yudhoyono made the same deal when they met on Batam Island on Wednesday.
All three nations are worried about their own citizens not only becoming further radicalised while fighting in Syria, but developing the necessary "skills'' enabling them to mount deadly terror attacks upon their return home. One official used as an example the 2008 Mumbai massacre of 166 people by terrorists employing paramilitary techniques.
It has become a growing concern, especially given the difficulties of trying to prevent people going to Syria to fight and then trying to keep track of those who are there.
Australia has an estimated 50 to 100 citizens fighting in Syria, Indonesia an estimated 200 and France, which has a large Islamic population, believes as many as 700 of its citizens are involved in the war.
"They agreed on the importance of close intelligence and security cooperation in responding to the threat posed by fighters returning from Syria,'' said the joint statement issued following the meeting between Mr Abbott and Mr Hollande.
"They agreed that maintaining peace and stability is crucial to global prosperity and that both countries would continue to work closely together on a range of shared security challenges."
On other security issues, Mr Hollande briefed Mr Abbot on the situation concerning Russia and Ukraine, while Mr Abbott brought the French President up to speed on China's recent posturing in the region.
"They agreed that maintaining peace and stability is crucial to global prosperity and that both countries would continue to work closely together on a range of shared security challenges."
Mr Hollande will be the first French President to visit Australia when he arrives in November for the Group of Twenty Leaders' Summit in Brisbane.
"They agreed on the importance of a strong focus on economic growth, deregulation and opening of markets and that all G20 economies needed to put in place their own reforms to achieve these goals."
Mr Abbott's next scheduled stop is Canada.
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The trapezius muscle - often called "traps" for short - runs from the back of your neck along the tops of your shoulders. Strengthening the traps can help stabilize the neck area, a good idea if your work or sport causes strain on the back of your neck. If you want to have nicely toned shoulders for the summer, you should give the traps some attention.
A simple, effective "traps" exercise is the shoulder shrug:
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- Gradually bring your shoulders upward as high as you comfortably can, as if trying to touch your ears with them.
- Hold the shrug for a moment, then gradually lower your shoulders to starting position. Do two sets of 8 to 12 repetitions each.
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L.A. folk-rockers EVEREST have had their share of disappointment. Its members have been in and out of bands like Earlimart and Sebadoh, searching for a creative home. Now, with a critically-acclaimed debut and an international tour with Neil Young under their belts, the band is on the cusp, putting together a key follow-up.
JAMIE BERK caught up with the five-piece at Bonnaroo and found an unusually honest and unsentimental portrait of what it takes to make it in today's music industry. Here's a hint: it's not about the money.
You guys have been in a bunch of different bands. What was it about those bands that turned you off to them?
Russ Pollard (vocals, guitar, drums): It wasn't necessarily a turn-off, but bands are like relationships: they come and go. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. You hope that you can hold onto them and make them work for the rest of your life, but that isn't always the case. More often than not, it's not about something you don't like – the band just doesn't work. At a certain point, you embrace that and go, "I'm not happy. I want to do something that makes me happy." So you start something new.
And if that works out and you're happy, that's great. That's the ideal goal – to be creatively happy and fulfilled. That's why you keep trying to start stuff. It's no different than trying to find a partner you're compatible with. Hopefully you find someone, and when that happens, really cool shit happens in your life – you learn a lot of lessons and you experience really cool things together. That's what happened with us – we put this record out and we've done tons of great, fun, life-enriching things in the last year. A lot of things I never experienced with any of those bands you mentioned, at least to the degree that we have in the time we've been together. So it seems like it's working.
Joel Graves (guitar, keys, vocals): I never played Bonnaroo with any of those bands, or did a lot of the stuff we've done in the past year. It's been like a total dream come true. I think we followed the right path for us.
When did you start playing together?
Russ: December 2006. Sometime around then.
You guys were just sitting around, playing each other demos, and the rest was history?
Joel: Russ and Jay have been friends for a long time, and I just kind of met Russ and then we started playing in a band together. He was playing drums and started sharing songs with Jay. They told me about it and I got to come over and hear some stuff in the living room and it just kind of happened naturally.
Jay Soda (guitar, keys, vocals): We had a friend who sort of played matchmaker, who kind of cemented the deal, I guess. He came to us and was like, "You guys should be doing this." And we weren't even really aware of what was happening, we were so lackadaisical about all those meetings and songs. And he was like, "Hey, you should do this!" And we were like, oh, alright.
Joel: We just got more serious about it. 'Cuz we were doing it and having fun just as friends. And then we were just like, yeah, we should do this.
Russ: Yeah, we were sort of in a fallout, all of us. "What do we do next?" We were all kind of in that spot at the same time, which is a miracle, really, considering there's five people involved and we were living in a pretty major city. There's a lot of stuff going on. To have everybody be like, "I'm open, let's try something," is really cool. I remember when Jay and I were sitting on my front porch and we were like, should we book a show? Because I feel like, if you book a show, then you've got to do something. There's a challenge.
"Let's call Davey!" We called Davey, and Davey was like, "I'm in, let's do it!" And that's kind of how the band started really working. It was an idea. "Let's try something. Let's do it." And it was kind of nerveracking, because I was kind of comfortable not doing anything at that time. Especially not being a singer, because I'd never done that before. So I was like, well, if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna call my tightest bros, and feel really comfortable about this. And that was the basis of it all, which is great.
How much of being a musician is made up of lucky things like that, where you and your friends are all open at the same time and you say, all right, let's do this?
Joel: I think timing worked out in our favor that time, but we fucking worked our asses off for a lot of years. I think, mainly, it's been hard work on all of our parts. In different ways: from sitting in our beds to touring and figuring out how to tour and how to be in a band and how to get along with other people on the road and all that stuff. We kind of got put into a crucible in other bands, and we'd been through a lot of other situations that showed us what not to do, for sure.
Jay: I bet you that there are very few bands here, even on this giant roster, that can say that they planned to do this. Every band is like a wadded-up, wet paper towel, just being thrown to the wall. You know what I mean?
So when you say you needed to get serious, what do you mean?
Joel: It's different for everybody. There's no formula, I don't think. But I think we were all fairly serious about music and intense about playing and wanting to have a life that revolved around making music, in some way or another.
Russ: The funny thing about this band is that we didn't say, "We need to get serious." We just wanted to play shows. And how cool of a concept is that? I just want to play music. I just want to play shows. I don't want to look at this as an endgame and a "serious" thing. And as long as we can hold onto that, we should. Every band should. It's not something you want to end up resenting. It's not something you want to treat like an office job. You don't want to get into that rut. So the idea of like, "When did you decide to get serious?" it's kind of a scary thing. I mean, it' s work, and you have to do what you have to do to get out in front of people, and that's absolutely essential. But keeping it fun and trying really hard to not make it super serious is important. Because if that seriousness reflects on the way you play live, it's not very fun.
Where does Bonnaroo fit into that narrative of Everest?
Joel: Who knows?
Russ: It's another fun thing to do.
Joel: It's a cool experience.
Russ: Everybody wants to play here. Whenever you hear about this festival, it's like, damn, that's a good lineup. A lot of people are going to go there, a lot of like-minded people. It's a great way to go to one place, see a lot of your friends, and play for a lot of people who are going to be open-minded. It's a huge impact, to go to one place and play to audiences that are buying a ticket to see over a hundred bands or whatever it is. You're tapping into a percentage of all these different cliques and musical styles. If you can get in front of that many people from all those different places, it's great. That's where it fits in.
Playing a festival with a bunch of different acts and a bunch of different kinds of fans, do you change your approach at all?
Jay: I think your job is to win them over, especially if they're like, "Uhh, yeah..." You judge people when they walk up on the stage, right off the bat. You're either like, "I'm gonna stay for a minute and then split," or "I'm gonna watch the whole show." And you can't be thinking about whether you need to bend what you're doing in order to cater to the dude wearing the cool fucking pants or whatever. You just need to do what you know how to do the best, or it's a farce. Make people go, "Man, shit, that was fucking awesome." That's the goal, I guess.
Do you guys talk about your goals going into a show, or do they just evolve organically?
Russ: I don't think it's that specific. I mean, we talk about what we want to do that's gonna stoke us out.
Joel: I think we all want to give back to people and put on a good show, just like all the great shows that we've seen. I want someone to leave stoked, want to play guitar, whatever. Just like I did when I saw a band that made me excited and feel alive.
Russ: Most of the time I think those bands were probably fulfilling themselves, and you were feeding off of that.
Joel: And I think that's mainly what we do. We're pretty tuned into each other. We spend a lot of time just making sure that we're happy. That's the main thing, and I think that translates kind of naturally. So we just do that.
Some of you have voiced frustrations with the way songwriting took place in your previous bands, and how the creative process was dominated by certain people. How important is it to Everest that it's a much more collaborative effort?
Joel: Everybody's capable of writing songs in this band, and everybody has good ideas. We come from completely different mindsets, and we like what each other does, so when we put it together it's...I don't know. But I think it's always helpful when a band works on things together. We come up with something that's us, and not just one person's vision. But the band kind of started with Russell. He had a bunch of songs, and we were like, wow, we like those songs! And being the singer, he writes the words and the melodies and that stuff.
Russ: The cool thing about that is that as a band, there's something to work off of, there's something to spread out and play. It's cool when something skeletal comes into the band format with a bunch of guys in a room and it starts evolving and taking shape with everybody grabbing on. If the idea is good, and everybody feels that way, it's rad, because all the sudden you hear a baseline Eli's playing and it can literally transform the song. Or a harmony, or a guitar part, or drums. That's writing. It's not necessarily what the verse and the chorus and the verse and the chorus are; it's what happens when the whole collective paints the picture together. What are the colors, what's the texture of it, what is it doing? Everybody's heart is beating at the same time, doing something really cool together, and that's how we're trying to do it. We're trying to stick to that.
You guys toured with Neil Young, and now you're on his label. What's that like? Does he call you up and give you advice?
Russ: He's not the kind of guy who pushes his thoughts on anyone. He's focused on his own thing. He's given us some nudges in certain directions, and I think he tried to give us some stuff to think about, but he's not directing us. He's letting us be us. He's the type of person who would never want someone else to come in and try to control his career, and he's respected us in that way. And if he thinks we're doing something wrong, I don't think he'd hesitate to tell us, in a fatherly sort of way. He's been supportive, but kind of from a distance. He's letting us go through our adolescence on our own. At least that's the way it feels to me. I mean, he likes us. He's taken us out a bunch of times, which is great. It's cool.
Since you're associated with Neil Young, a lot of music writers approach your music from that perspective, and they try to draw comparisons. Do you ever worry about being pigeonholed?
Russ: Sure. I mean, if it was anybody else, it would be the same question.
Eli Thomson (bass, vocals): Wait for the second record. Nobody will ask those questions then. They say stuff like that because there's an upright piano and slide guitar, like there haven't been a hundred other bands that use that combo. It's not as if we're out there trying to be like Neil Young or anything like that. We, like probably 95% of the bands here, love his music, have listened to it, have worn out his records. But there's a thousand other people just like Neil who we respect, who don't sound anything like Neil Young.
Russ: True.
Eli: It's an easy – and I think lazy – association for critics to make. Because like, duh, we're on his label and we're touring with him. We're influenced by him, yeah, but by no means are we trying to replicate what he's doing or what he's done. Not any more than Radiohead is. I know Thom Yorke's a huge Neil Young freak, and nobody says that about them. But I can point to certain songs and say, "That's a straight rip off."
We don't need to be doing that. That's not music criticism. That's easy. Ultimately, every band is connected to every other band that's ever played, in some way, shape, or form. There isn't a single band here that is an island unto themselves. So to ask those questions, I think it's a waste of time, and it's not very interesting from a music criticism standpoint.
Russ: Yeah, the chords G, C, and D sound really good.
Eli: He doesn't own those chords.
Russ: And my range is really good on those chords, so I use them a lot. So does he. Same timbre. That doesn't mean...You could go into it all day. There's a common thread with us and a lot of musicians, and we take what we need from them, because we should. We're all record collectors. We all listen to music. There's no way that you can close down your mind and go, "I'm just gonna close off everything I've ever absorbed."
Eli: Imagine that Graham Nash goes and does a solo show, or David Crosby. And this isn't an offense to them at all, but odds are, they'd be in a small venue. And Neil Young is in a basketball arena. Why? Because there's something special about Neil Young. Because he's an icon in music. He's been at the top of his game for 45 years straight. I don't think there's anyone else, except maybe Dylan, that's still as relevant and provocative and important, by and large, to most contemporary bands today.
If you're a musician and you're studying this stuff, if you pass over any one of those guys that you'd call an icon and ignore what makes them special, you're just shooting yourself in the foot as a musician, because ultimately our charge is to understand our predecessors and understand why some individuals are more compelling than others. And with Neil, I think it's because he's his own man – he never tried to be anything that he wasn't. He just is. And he has a high standard for himself. That is influential, and I'll take that to the bank. I think that's the way to be. But the only way I can know that is by analyzing his music. So that's the way it goes. And whatever little things you hear pop up in our music, you can go, "Oh, that's from there!" Well, yeah.
Russ: I know exactly what you mean.
Eli: Those kinds of associations are associations that any idiot can make after listening to a band. Music criticism should be something more than that. We should be in it together, ultimately.
What I don't understand is why music critics pick on bands who are good and give a free pass to shitty bands. Because they go, "Oh, well those bands know they're shitty, so I'm gonna take the bands that are actually trying hard and pick apart every influence I hear on the record, and then I'm gonna stand on my hill and say, 'Those people aren't worth my attention.'" It's like, fuck you. Who are you? What have you done? Go ahead. I could do that for any band here. I could pick apart every influence. You want a fucking medal? It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything. Let's talk about music. Let's talk about the chord changes. Let's talk about standard chord changes versus changing keys every four bars. Let's talk about our time signatures. Let's talk about production techniques. Nobody wants to get into that stuff because it's over their head.
Russ: There are a lot of haters.
Eli: Most people don't want to even read that shit anyway, and I don't blame them. There's just too much involved to break it down to somebody's influences. And – I don't mean to go on a rant here, but, you know – bands get asked the same fucking questions every fucking interview. And it's like, "Oh, who are your influences?" What? How about what I think about. What matters to me. What are my thoughts as a human being that might have some insight into the music you associate me with. That's important. That& #39;s what I want to know about these other acts. I don't care who they listen to. I can tell in five seconds. That's not important to me. What's important to me is, what are you about? What are you trying to accomplish with music? Who are you trying to appeal to, and why? The tragic thing is that most people don't even have an answer for that.
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Eli: Wanna know something funnier? There was an artist I used to play for, who will remain nameless. I used to write his onesheets (like, the stuff the label sends out). 90% of the reviews that were ever written on him were a re-wording of the onesheet. Laaaa-zy. And you want us to worry about what you're saying? Come on.
Davey Latter (drums, percussion): Hallelujah!
Joel: Preach on, brother Eli!
Eli: Sorry, I haven't had a lot of sleep.
Joel: No, that was awesome. I love it, man.
So what is Everest trying to accomplish?
Eli: We're trying to be better than we are. We're trying to put ourselves in a position that's totally uncomfortable and do the things that don't come easy. So, if our first record is what comes naturally, our second record is beyond that. So, wait and see. We have to find out, too. We have to go in and beat each other up for a few months and hope that the struggle is something that lets us say, "I think you should listen to this, not because it's me, but because I would buy this if I heard it." And I don't think very many bands say that all the time. I know that because, so many times, bands have handed me CD's and given me a bunch of disclaimers about why it's not the perfect vision that they had wanted it to be.
And we can point out and blame all the industry factors that force artists into that sort of pussy place, where they're not willing to face the challenges of being better – not to be better than somebody else, but to live out your fullest potential. And to have a transcendental feeling about your own music, so that every time you step on the stage, it's a spiritual experience. You're on the mount of transfiguration with fucking Moses and Elijah, and you're going, wow, this has nothing to do with me and my fucking musical tastes.
This has to do with a primal thing between musicians and people. Like, let's discover this together, and maybe it'll become something completely different than what we thought it was even in the studio, because that was just one moment in time. Songs live. They breathe. They're not static. They change over time, and they get boring. And you have to make something that's new and fresh. And then people complain that you're not playing your old songs. It's just a pain in the ass.
But, ultimately, you've gotta do whatever you think is best for yourself, and fuck everybody else. It sounds like an arrogant place to be, but unless you do that, unless you have that attitude, it's a weak presentation. In basketball, they say "paralysis by analysis" – people are going through the plays and they're thinking too much about X's and O's and where they should pass the ball instead of just playing the game and being unconscious about it. It takes a lot of work to be able to execute and be unconscious, but that's the goal.
Russ: Dude, that's exactly right. You can't just go and be unconscious unless you're tapped into some other energy all the time, that you're just channeling. But it takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of work to be effortless.
Jay: It's like when people go to Africa or Antarctica or something. They come back, and you're like, "How was it?" Like you don't know what they're going to say. And they say, "It was fucking awesome!" And the reason it was awesome is because they'd never been there. And if you learn a song that's got three chords, it's hard to play that song twenty times and go on a fucking mission with it. But in and around that, hopefully you can.
So, to make a great album, where does your mind need to be?
Eli: Honestly, very little has to do with music. It has to do with people being in the right psychological place, and being in a place where they can even begin to allow themselves to be creative. To put yourself in a situation where you're able to close out the external world and go into an internal world and explore there, it takes an awful lot of organization and set-up and money. So the pressures there are for young bands to work hard and find a situation where they're able to do that, because it's so hard.
And I think that's our hope for ourselves, that for this next record we can all be at that place where we trust ourselves, we trust one another, we trust the gifts that we have. But, ultimately, those are just tools toward achieving something that doesn't exist – something that's a desire in our minds, a figment of our imaginations. A carrot on a stick that keeps us striving to self-improve and to be better. Ultimately, our goal is, like Joel said, to return the favor, so to speak.
Anyone who does music does it because, at some point in their life, they saw somebody and they just went, "What? This is something that's esoteric and bizarre and I can't even say why I'm in bliss, but I am." And then you start wanting to play music because you want to be a part of it, not just a spectator. And that's what drives everyone to get better and to be a better musician and to come up with better ideas and challenge themselves.
A young band doesn't have a lot of room to do that kind of stuff. You have to lay a foundation and then build off of it. I mean, can you find any correlation between In Rainbows and Pablo Honey, by Radiohead? That's because it's a journey that they're not done with. And to hold them accountable for their sins in 1993 would be ridiculous, because we would look now and go, "I don't care." The difference between Wilco's first records and Wilco (The Album) – fucking light-years away. You can't just have that automatically. Again, like a basketball team: you can put five talented people on the court, but they're not going to win a championship. You need a whole bunch of other intangible things to make it work.
There are a ton of people out there who have an EP, have been playing it for a few years, and that's kind of their thing. For you, is there a greater sense of urgency to keep innovating?
Eli: Only because people rush to judgement. They don't give us time to develop. They want to pigeonhole us right from the beginning. Critics, I would say, not everyone. But that's the thing we're trying to shun. We're trying to grow as a band. We don't have it all figured out, but we're trying to figure it out. We're just on a path and we hope that people are patient with us. The only thing that's urgent is industry-related stuff, because everywhere people are telling you that you've gotta win people over before they get bored with you and you're a flash in the pan. So there's this pressure to pick up the pace and convince people and browbeat people maybe even before you're ready to do it. So that's the pressure and that's an unfortunate reality. But I think bands have to be tough and withstand that. And rise above it.


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Governor Palin: "I'm All In Favor Of Girls With Guns"/Open Thread
Posted on January 05 2012 – 5:19 PM – Posted by: Ian Lazaran
What's going on today? In case you missed, it she'll be giving the keynote address for CPAC on February 11th in Washington, DC. You can purchase your tickets here.
Governor Palin tells the National Review that she's "all in favor of girls with guns."
Bristol and the Governor tell InTouch Magazine that she's back home in Alaska.
Mitt Romney has taken the lead in the Gallup tracking poll while Newt Gingrich has pretty much imploded but Rick Santorum may have "polled at or just above 20 percent in interviews conducted on Wednesday alone [in the Gallup tracking poll]."
Any ideas on why Rick Perry is still in this race? Is this A) a case of delusion; B) payments from Romney; C) there is a plausible path to victory for Perry.
Article source: http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/01/governor-palin-im-all-in-favor-of-girls-with-gunsopen-thrad.html


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Romotive is back with a brand new bot! Romo is an affordable, personal robot that uses your iDevice as his brain. Read more
Romotive is back with a brand new bot! Romo is an affordable, personal robot that uses your iDevice as his brain.
About this project
Howdy all! Updated info on device compatibility and other specs is up on our website. Check it out!
Greetings! We're Romotive, a team of nerds building the world's first robot for everyone.
We came to Kickstarter last fall to make the robots we always dreamed of when we were kids. And thanks to you, we DID.
We spent 4 crazy months constructing 2,000 Romos by hand.
The first 100 went out before Christmas, in boxes stuffed with candy canes. The next 1,900 went out in batches as we learned how to build them here in our apartment in Las Vegas.
But as we were building your Romos, we kept obsessing over how we could make the robot even better. We listened to your feedback and we went back to the drawing board.
We wanted to make Romo smarter, faster, and easier to use.
Since then, we've put together a team of brilliant nerds and worked our butts off to build you a new robot.
Together we redesigned the robot from the circuitboard up. That was the easy part.
Then we set up our production line in China. That was the HARD part. But more on how to set up manufacturing later...
After months of wrangling a production development schedule and working through design, material, logistics, supply chain, and testing issues, we hit tool start and began to test prototype robots.
Here are 3 actual robots that came off the production line during our EP1 (engineering prototype 1) phase.
We're super proud of our all new robot.
This next-gen Romo is *almost* everything a personal robot should be. He's cute, responsive, and really fast, but he's still not capable of doing all that stuff you see in the movies.
That's why we're back on Kickstarter.
Now that we've got a bigger/faster/stronger robot, we need your help to develop software that will make him even better.
We've created great basic apps for Romo, and he's super fun to play with.
But we have a bigger vision. We want to create really advanced software that lets Romo do the things robots do in the movies.
Right now, there's no wallet-friendly, backpack-sized consumer robot on the market that does these things:
- Remote 2-way telepresence
- Computer vision
- Autonomous navigation
- Facial recognition
We want to change that, and we need your support.
Your pledge funds the development of these features, which we'll release in updated apps.
We'll also wrap an SDK around each of these functions so other developers can create their own apps and share them with you.
With a pledge of $150, you will be one of the first to receive a brand new, next generation Romo.
You're our beta testers. Tell us what you think of features we've toiled over like the all new tilt mechanism.
Romo is a BYOD robot (bring your own devices). We've made him easy to operate using a wide variety of iDevices.
Dock any one of these babies on your mobile robotic base:
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 4S
- iPod Touch 4th Generation
Drive your Romo using one of the following:
- iPod Touch 3rd Generation and up
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 4S
- iPhone 5
- iPhone 3GS
- iPad 2
- New iPad
- any Mac computer running OS 10.6 or later
- Web browsers including any version of Chrome (Google), Safari (Apple), and Firefox (Mozilla)
We're back on Kickstarter because we want to put our robot into the hands of hackers, creatives, and robot nerds before anyone else.
This robot is your sandbox. Together we can make the robot-for-everyone dream a reality.
Q: You keep calling Romo a "he." Is this robot a boy?
A: Yes. Our new robot progeny is male. However, we plan a female version of Romo next, code name "Julia."
Q: Your first robot supported Android, but this one says "iDevice." What's the deal?
A: We asked our engineering team if they would support Android again and they ran screaming. No seriously, it was taking us a ton of time to support various Android platforms, so we decided to focus on Apple devices for initial development. There are Android devotees among us though, so plans are in the works.
Q: Does this Romo work with an iPhone 5?
A: Yep, well, sort of. Our new Romo can be controlled by an iPhone 5 running our app - but use an older device with the 30 pin dock connector on the robotic base. We're designing the next robot to use the new Lightning connector as a docking station. Check on our website for a complete list of iDevice combos that work.
We did this for a few reasons. First, cause we're still testing the Lightning connector with our robot. Second, because supply is constrained for production-capacity orders, and third, most of our users will take 3-6 months to buy their new iPhones.
Plus, we heard most of you want to put an older device on the robot and keep your new iPhone in your hot little hands.
Q: Why come back to Kickstarter?
A: Easy. Kickstarter is home. It's where we launched, and where you saved us from a fate worse than death - one potential investor's recommendation that we pivot out of smartphone robotics and into laser-controlled robot light shows. You told us you loved Romo, and there's no better place, with no better people, to figure out how to build a robot with advanced functions packed into a beautiful, easy to use robot for everyone.
Q: Your Romo Rebooted tier says "The Classic." Does that mean you're giving me the older robot instead of a new one?! WTH?!
A: Nope, sorry about that one, we just meant it's 'the classic' Kickstarter tier - pledge one amount, get one awesome reward in the form of one small, new robot.
Special thanks to:
Patricia Buck and family (Congrats Trish and Patrick!), Tony Hsieh, Principal Diana Albiston, Technology Specialist Lois Holman, and the kids in Mrs. Berger's Fourth Grade Class at Hollingsworth Elementary, Brian Canning of Swiss Bank Account, Daniel Clark for the sick cuts, Matt Franks for wicked ID, the great staff at the Ogden (we love you Gary, Brian and Paul!!), Jennifer and the crew at the Beat coffeeshop, artiste extraordinaire Leticia Maldonado, the tourists on Fremont Street who gave Romo some love, Phu, Keller, Peter, Romo, AND ALL OF YOU for giving us dream jobs.
Directed by: Jimmy Collins, Giant Slice Productions (a very patient man)
Soundtrack: I'm Never Alone by Swiss Bank Account, 70s Satin/A Life Like You by Swiss Bank Account, Attaboy (Instrumental) by You Say France and I Whistle. Download SBA's jams here.
Risks and challenges
Here's the status of Romo's hardware: Design is done, circuitboard is tested and working, packaging is finished, and tooling is finished.
Getting our production process set up is the hardest thing we've ever done. But it was worth it to get you this new Romo.
With amazing support from our factory we're literally ready to build thousands of these robots a week.
Now on to software...
The things that we're proposing to do with software development are hard. While problems like autonomous navigation are solved to some degree in robotics, we don't know for sure we'll be able to implement them on a platform like Romo - we can calculate and estimate, but we really won't know until we try.
Some of the challenges we'll run into include potential upper limits on the processing power of the smartphone phone itself, the bandwidth for wifi connections that the phone uses to connect to our servers, and the lack of sensors on the robot beyond those that are already built into the iPhone or iPod you dock on the mobile base.
We're confident we can figure out solutions to these problems because we're a team of nerds that has successfully shipped a Kickstarter campaign on time and on spec in the past.
We know how hard it is to build and integrate both hardware and software because we've done it before.
We'll try to share as much about this process as we can, posting updates here and on our blog every week. We'll be sharing a lot more about what it's like to spend half our time in China setting up a production line.
And if you have questions, please, fire away.
We know how hard it is to go from building bots on your living room floor to mass production. And we have the right team for the job.
Learn about accountability on KickstarterFAQ
Answer from Romo: 2 way 'global remote control' communication works wherever you have internet. I'd recommend doing it over 4g instead of 3g.
Answer from Romo, and his software sherpas: Our visual programming blocks are based on functional programming languages like Lisp and Clojure.
Every block has a condition and an action, and blocks can be nested. This makes it very easy for beginners to get started while making it possible for advanced programs to be developed too.
Advanced programs for us mean things like room mapping with the camera, face detection + recognition, color detection + tracking, and movement detection.
When you connect to me, it feeds back info in real time for you to read and you don't have to touch a line of code.
Answer from Robotics: Hey Connor, unfortunately (fortunately?) the new robot was redesigned from the circuitboard up, so it's completely different under the hood.
Answer from Software: This means that no, the new software won't work with our earliest robot. We'll keep the legacy software live and supported for those robots, but their hardware and firmware wasn't advanced enough to support the things we want our new bot to do. This is actually one of the reasons we redesigned the rover base. If you've got requests for your original Romo let us know - there are plenty of hackers still playing around with his software.
Answer from Production: These are really good questions Peter - we got a charge out of reading them. Heh, heh.
Tomorrow we'll do an update with more performance/feature/spec information, but for now...
1. Romo's power source is an NiMH battery pack custom made for us by a factory that manufactures Roomba battery packs called Corun.
2. It's not replaceable.
3. Battery life is ~2-4 hours, and you recharge using a custom mini USB cable that's included. Our electrical engineer Pat explains it like this: "We count on 4 "motor-hours" of use. So one motor spinning constantly for 4 hours, both motors constantly on for 2, stop-start so that they're each on roughly 1/4 of the time gives us about 8 hours. That's based on the motors drawing 1A current, and a 4.8Ah battery." We've clocked charging times at ~4 hours, but it can be longer depending on what you use as an outlet (wall adapter, laptop USB port, etc). We recommend you treat your Romo sort of like a phone. Plug it him in overnight, turn in, and he'll be ready to greet the day when you wake up. Alrighty then. More than you ever wanted to know about Romo's battery power, eh?
4. We don't sell spare battery packs because we don't want you to crack the shell, which is why we're offering a 1 year warranty and prepaid returns. Ship them back to our Romo Hospital in Las Vegas and we'll recondition or replace your Romo.
It may be crazy but we believe it should be done - you can read more details here: http://romotive.com/help#legal
5. Other parts that may wear are the treads. We'll be offering replacement treads on our website soon, but we've also picked an easy-care, durable silicone for their material. You can also remove them, wash them by hand or put them in the dishwasher, and then put them back on your robot.
Other than that, you'll have to tell us as you and your Romo enjoy a long life together.
Pledge $25 or more
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I Heart Robots Tee.
Get your robot gear on with one Romotive "I Heart Robots" t-shirt. Major nerd cred.Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $45 or more
1 backer
Team Romotive Hoodie. Get the heather grey hoodie with blue Romo logo that's standard issue for Romotive nerds when they join the team.
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
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481 backers
Romo Rebooted.
The classic. We'll send you one Romo smartphone robot. Domestic shipping is included. Mechatronic limbs are extra.Estimated delivery:Only ships to: United States -
Pledge $175 or more
361 backers
Romo Goes Abroad.
We ship our newest Romo anywhere in the world via international FedEx. Robot passport included upon request.Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $175 or more
66 backers
'Born in the USA' Romo Fan.
We'll send you one new Romo smartphone robot *AND* one special, limited edition Romotive tee (American Apparel). Domestic shipping is included.Estimated delivery:Only ships to: United States -
Pledge $200 or more
29 backers
'World Traveler' Romo Fan.
We'll send you one new Romo smartphone robot *AND* one special, limited edition Romotive tee (American Apparel). International shipping is included.Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $250 or more
28 backers Limited (72 left of 100)
Romo Born in the USA Hacker Edition. We'll send you one new Romo smartphone robot. Domestic shipping is included. So is a haute limited hacker edition tee (American Apparel). Plus, you get *EARLY, INTIMATE ACCESS* to our Developers' Program (including Phu's mobile number). Represent with pride - your name will be up on the Developer Roster on our website. You'll also be the FIRST to see and test new features, before they go live to the rest of our users.
Estimated delivery:Only ships to: United States -
Pledge $275 or more
22 backers Limited (78 left of 100)
Romo Global Remote Hacker Edition. We'll send you one new Romo smartphone robot. International shipping is included. So is a haute limited hacker edition tee (American Apparel). Plus, you get *EARLY, INTIMATE ACCESS* to our Developers' Program (including Phu's mobile number). Represent with pride - your name will be up on the Developer Roster on our website. You'll also be the FIRST to see and test new features, before they go live to the rest of our users.
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $500 or more
5 backers All gone!
Create a Romo Persona
*For Kickstarter backers ONLY* Custom design and choose a new personality for Romo. You tell us the expression (face, voice) you want Romo to make, and we make it happen. This price includes a new Romo robot AND universal inclusion of your personality as part of Romo's new software app!Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world
Funding period
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You have the right to give instructions about your own health care. You also have the right to name someone else to make health care decisions for you. The Advance Health Care Directive form lets you do one or both of these things. It also lets you write down your wishes about donation of organs and the selection of your primary physician. If you use the form, you may complete or change any part of it or all of it. You are also free to use a different form.


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Seth Rogen, best known for slacker comedies, was always an unusual choice to play Britt Reid, tough-guy masked hero the Green Hornet, but it's just that casting that makes me interested in seeing the movie now that it's coming to home video on May 3. Heck, Heidi liked it, calling it "charming, very funny, and worthy of repeated viewings."
In addition to the Blu-ray (shown right, list $35), there's a DVD version ($29) and a three-disc Combo Pack ($50) that adds a Blu-ray 3D disc.
The basic extras on the DVD include a filmmaker commentary, gag reel, and two featurettes: "Writing the Green Hornet" and "The Black Beauty: Rebirth of Cool".
The Green Hornet (Seth Rogen), Kato (Jay Chou), and their car, the Black Beauty
The Blu-ray adds these additional items: (I don't have details, so no idea what some are.)
Kato (Jay Chou) and the Green Hornet (Seth Rogen)
Cameron Diaz and Seth Rogen in The Green Hornet


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Lindale HS Student Council honored with 6 awards
Lindale, TX (KETK) — The Lindale High School Student Council has been honored with six outstanding achievement awards by the Texas Association of Student Councils, sponsored by the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals.
The LHS Student Council received the 2012-2013 Outstanding Student Council Award, DASH (Drugs, Alcohols, Safety and Health) Award, Energy and Environment Award, Pride and Patriotism Award, Community Service Award and the Sweepstakes Award.
The TASC outstanding achievement awards are given to Texas student councils who have displayed exemplary skills in leadership, service and activities that serve to improve their school and community.
The Sweepstakes Award is only given to the exceptional student council that receives each of the five achievement awards.
The TASC has 1,300 members and LHS is one of only 230 councils to earn the highly-esteemed Sweepstakes Award.
"The Lindale High School Student Council is a vital part of student involvement and volunteerism not just on our campus but throughout the Lindale community," Lindale High School Principal Casey Neal said. "I commend the students who participate in the organization and can say the recognition from the Texas Association of Student Councils is well-deserved."
The 2012-2013 co-presidents of the LHS Student Council are Kyle Holder and Fate Richey. Other officers are: Veronica Churchill, Nathan Evans, Austin Drawbond, Kristen Widner, Courtney Johnson and Emma Skelton.