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You know, on the subject of Midori it might be a good idea to realize that the Japanese do have this concept of "Romantic Friendship" among close girl friends. (Ironically it's actually an import from America at the turn of the 19th century.)
Girls will have intense friendships that borrow the style of a romance. This is not the same thing as homosexuality. This is usually treated culturally as a phase for middle school girls, sometimes extending into highschool.
Nothing Midori has done really steps beyond those boundaries. Midori does seem to be showing a more intense level then normal, but there is no action that goes beyond a romantic friendship.
The main reason people are interpreting it as more is because some scenes during episode 2 implied that Midori sees it as illicit. Which a homosexual relationship would be in Japan. However, that's an interpretation and speculation. Midori's restraint in episode 2 could just be that she is shy, lacks confidence, and has difficulty handling intense emotions. (Much like Mochizou actually).
Her actions in the latest episode of reconciling to Mochizou's attempt to confess tends to support the shy and lacks confidence interpretation.
My best guess is that Midori is actually rather confused about her feelings. I doubt she would ever try to go beyond a romantic friendship unless Tamako encouraged her (which is about as likely as Dera ending up with Shiori). Eventually Midori will probably end up with a boyfriend and have a normal love life. That at least would likely fit with the Japanese perception of the situation. Even if the series was more romance focused, it would be very unlikely to seriously address an actual homosexual attraction.
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The relationship between Tamako and Midori strikes me as very confused. It's definitely more that just normal friendship, but her feelings don't quite strike me as romantic either. For one thing, she seems more concerned with clinging on to her current relationship with Tamako than anything more. She loves Tamako for sure, but I don't see how that jumps to lesbianism right there and then.
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I want to remind everybody the summary of the series (posted on page 4) said both Mochizou and Midori are in love with Tamako. There is no ambiguity whatsoever here. Midori is a lesbian. Period. I don't know why that's so hard to accept. It's an uncommon situation in anime but that's what makes it so interesting.
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I thought this episode made it obvious, but I suppose there is always room for different interpretations. I always found it fascinating how two people can interpret the exact same work radically differently.
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Forgot to say I found it amusing Anko tans just as easily as Azusa. More proof these two are related. I wonder if that was intentional or if it's just a coincidence.
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Although I am not sure who Tamako will end up with (I almost expect neither Midori or Mochizou and Tamako will continue loving both as friends oblivious to any romantic feelings)
But for my own choice, I am rooting for Mochizou. Sorry Midori, you are a nice girl I am sure.
But I like the idea of the kids of the two competing mochi stores getting together and joining forces in the mochi making splendor (plus they talk on paper phones, the most adorable thing ever).
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The gag of Dera being chased by animals actually changed my perspective of the show. It's not just something in the K-ON! vein (though it's clear it takes a few notes from there, too), but if one wished, this show could be interpreted as a sort of take on Ika Musume. The business is one of many and the invader is more benevolent and less human, but the feelings of family and community are the same for both. Not a whole lot for me to say this week, but I'm throwing my support to Midori. But even more support in general for Kanna, the most mathematical character of the season. The way she was looking at that fire suggests that her worldview may be the most observant out of anybody here. I like that Shiori has become a member of the main cast so quickly, and the girls' summer uniforms are pretty cute. Lots of pink going on there.
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Maybe. If you are 16/17yrs old the last DH was 5yrs ago AND PG-13. Making you 11/12yrs old so it's highly possible it's teen audience might be stronger than you'd think.
Which could turn out to seem an incredible sense of accidental foresight that the studio seeded a younger generation into the DH franchise to then boost this one right back to R, thus pleasing everyone and growing the fanbase.
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I'm glad about this, but I can also think of a few films for which this has been (partially at least) the kiss of death (Dredd for one, but also Watchmen). Personally I'm happy about this though!!
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On Thursday, the 17th, they are announcing the theaters that will have an all day DH marathon build up to the movies release.
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Thunderstorms pounded North Texas on Monday afternoon, knocking out power, causing flash flooding in some areas and carrying lightning that caused several fires, including one in Fort Worth in which two firefighters were injured.
The storm, which arrived about 3 p.m., dumped a welcome 0.31 inch of rain at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, the official recording station for the National Weather Service. It had moved on by about 7 p.m., the weather service said
Star-Telegram rain reporters turned in totals of 3 inches in Crowley to almost 2 inches in Granbury. In Fort Worth, the TCU area received just over an inch, and the Wedgwood neighborhood had just over 2 inches. Many locations in Arlington received an inch of rain, and rainfall totals were under an inch in many areas of Northeast Tarrant County.
The injured Fort Worth firefighters, Deglen Isbell and Gino Agnello, were in the attic of a two-story house in the 12800 block of Campolina Way in far north Fort Worth when they fell about 20 feet through ceilings to the first floor, said Tim Hardeman, a Fire Department spokesman.
Isbell landed on breathing apparatus strapped to his back and injured his back. Agnello broke his arm, Hardeman said.
"Both firefighters will be admitted to the hospital," Hardeman said. "It is unknown how long they will be hospitalized."
The fire was reported shortly before 4 p.m., and lightning was the likely cause, Hardeman said.
Two house fires in south Arlington may also have been started by lightning, Arlington fire Lt. Lee Tovar said.
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At the peak of the storms, 22,531 electricity customers in Tarrant County were without power, according to the Oncor Electric Delivery website. The number was 19,638 in Dallas County. By Monday night, the number was reduced to 6,259 in Tarrant County and 11,146 in Dallas.
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I am so sick of it, its been going on for almost a year now full force. I must get at least 100 a day if not more. I never had that problem before and hoping someone can tell me how to be rid of it. Yahoo doesn't seem to have a very good blocking or filter system since when I filter something it comes in anyway.
What do you do for spam? Yes I delete but it keeps coming back. AOL isn't much better.
I use yahoo exclusively and I get about 4 per day in my SPAM folder, nothing in my inbox. That's strange.
Although I did get one today, where some stranger was supposedly stranded in another country and needed me to wire $2500 to get him home. Yeah right, I'll jump on that.
There's nothing special about one email address vs another. Spammers use software that just keeps trying different combinations, and when something doesn't bounce back as undeliverable, they'll start hammering it.
What you have now must be unwieldy, I'd abandon it and start again. The volume of junk will only increase, it won't get better. Try gmail, Google seems to do a better job of keeping garbage out of folders than Yahoo.
Then, with the new address:
Use it only for important emails. Notify friends and family of your new address. No one will be inconvenienced, everyone uses (or should use) an address book or its equivalent anyway, so it just takes a quick entry change to remember how to contact you.
Don't use it for ads, mailing lists, coupon clubs, website logins, etc. My primary email address is used only for friends/family, airlines, and credit cards. Nothing else.
Believe it or not, my name isn't really Snidely Whiplash! Good luck.
Do you mark the spam as spam? If you will take the time to do so, then the next time it is sent, it should fall into the spam folder. Keep that protocol up and your inbox should stay relatively clear of spam.
I agree with Snidely. Use one address for personal communications, one for personal financial business and one for sign-ups with web sites, social media and catalog ordering. Change your password every quarter at a minimum.
One of the main reasons people get spam is forwarded emails with multiple names and addresses left on the forwarded email. In fact many of those cutsie, cuddly, funny, just got to share it emails are started by those who are data mining for good email addresses. And when they harvest those with a ton of addresses on them those go on their good live email lists to sell to the spammers.
So just never forget that and if tempted to forward remove every single name and address from the entire email before you do it!
Blind carbon copy function on your email is your friend.
I send them to the junk folders.
But the truth is that if you have an email account that is that far out of control the best thing to do is deleting the account and start fresh. It's so easy to do too.
I rarely do any forwards, I always mark as spam and it doesn't help one bit. I haven't found a email I like other then yahoo. I have tried a few but they seem to have bugs too.
I don't want to delete the account I have too much stored there.
I guess I just have to keep DELETING!
I found it was pretty easy to prevent spam in my Hotmail, and see that Yahoo has the same filters.
You can block any email with specific words in the email subject line. I blocked v****a (that drug for men that begins with a V) , financial, and some other problem words.
You also block entire domains...ie the last part of email addresses including the @
See especially #5 at the link below. You can also have them sent to trash instead of your spam folder.
Here is a link that might be useful: How to Block Spam on Yahoo! Mail
Change your email address. Then send everyone on your list a message with your new address. I have never had much of a problem, but I use a strange address with numbers and letters that their machine can't throw together like a puzzle. What I am getting now is because I joined a couple of forums discussing things like movies, etc.. I only get 3 or 4 a week. I also have one email for my server and family and another for surfing. When I get more spam than I can tolerate, I change the surfing address just a little, a new number or letter.
I use several - the one that is connected to here is one that I use for fringe relationships, not my basic address - but it produced a friendship with Iva Mae.
I have/(had?) another, "junkmailsystems", that I use where various entities in which I have little interest want an email address from me. I may not have it any more, actually, as I haven't visited it in some time, so Yahoo may have dropped it for disuse.
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I get a few a day with my hotmail account that I have had since I first got on the internet back then it was with msn dial up. Maybe like 4 a day, many days none.
I have a yahoo account that gets little usage, it is as mentioned one of the extra accounts, I hardly ever have spam.
I have a gmail account, which is basically my second used account. It will get a few a month not many.
I have no special filters set on any of them just the normal spam filters turned on.
I have 2 accounts with comcast who is my ISP, I have never used either one for email, one is tied to an online account and I get updates there but no spam. The other one which I have never ever sent out an email from or received one for myself, well that one has tons of emails and spam on it every time I check it which is rarely. I have no idea why. I think possibly someone else had that same email address previously with comcast and it was terminated and I am now getting all the residuals. Very strange. IN fact the one time I was going to use that address was to sign up for an account and I got a message back saying that email address was already in use by someone else.
Changing to a new account is easy and you can still use yahoo just change to a new account, don't close the old one leave it alone. Inform all your legit contacts of the new address so they start to use it instead of the old one. You can still access the old one for whatever you have on it if you don't either transfer it to the new account or save it to your computer.
but the new email address will be fresh and should not be getting all the spam. Just be sure you do turn on all the security and spam features in settings.
It is never a good idea to store things on your email account. To often they can be lost due to something happening on their servers. If it is important save it to your computer or to an online storage site.
I have blocked them and I see them there again the next time I look in spam
If they are not in your in-box and are going to your spam folder, then your spam catcher is working. Personally, I would get out of yahoo and aol and go to gmail, but it doesn't sound like you have a problem.
I agree. The Spam *should* be going to the Spam folder which it is.
As long as it's not in your inbox, you don't have anything to worry about. I always check my Spam folder before deleting it, as sometimes a legitimate email gets sent there.
Yahoo is doing it's job perfectly, from what you're describing.


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Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco closed "Friends"-like packages that could earn them $100 million each over three years.
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When the cast of Friends united to score $1 million each an episode in 2002, the NBC sitcom was averaging a 12 rating among adults 18-to-49 and nearly 25 million viewers a week. Twelve years later, The Big Bang Theory generates about half that rating and 20 million viewers a week. But several castmembers have scored Friends-like packages that will triple their current $350,000-an-episode salaries for an eighth, ninth and 10th season of the CBS hit.
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Space Burial

I've often joked I'd like to have my remains put into orbit. Not in a "scatter my ashes" sense, but, like, "throw my naked corpse out the airlock" sense. Honestly, my main motivation is to baffle someone in the distant future, but it's an interesting scientific question: what would happen to my body in orbit over the course of years, decades or centuries?

—Tim in Fremont

This isn't really relevant, but I have to ask: Is there a reason you specifically wanted your corpse to be naked? Just making things extra weird for the technicians loading up the capsule and/or throwing you out of the airlock?

If you tried this, the first thing that would happen to your corpse would be that it would dry out. This would probably start before you made it to space; the dry, climate-controlled air in the pre-launch waiting area would help draw moisture from your body.

In the Manual of Forensic Taphonomy, Franklin Damann and David Carter outline the process of human decomposition. According to them, it takes a lot of effort to keep corpses from drying out during the embalming process.[1]The citation they give for that fact is "(C. A. Wacker, pers. comm.)," which I like to think means it was shared in a conversation that totally broke up the dinner party they were both at. In extremely dry environments like the Atacama Desert in Chile, "spontaneous mummification" can occur—and space is even drier than Chile.[2]The space tourism industry has not adopted this as a slogan. Also, "Chile: Not as Dry as Space!" was probably nixed by the Chilean tourism board.

Once your body made it to space, this process would ramp up quickly. Most of the "ecology" responsible for decomposing your corpse would be killed off quickly by the drying process (along with the lack of oxygen, temperature swings, and solar radiation levels), so your body wouldn't decay very much. Instead, you'd become a freeze-dried mummy, after losing about 80% of your body weight in water.[3]This is how much liquid you can remove from fresh animal tissue, according to lab experiments reported in Arthur C. Aufderheide's book The Scientific Study of Mummies. That makes sense; after all, according to that commonly-repeated piece of trivia, human bodies are around 70% water.

Or is it 65%? Or 80%? The exact number is a little vague, and seems to depend on who you ask. In a footnote in her wonderful book, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, writer Mary Roach mentioned that she had methodically Googled the phrase "human body is <X> percent water", for X from 0 to 100. She reported a wide range of claims, including several pages asserting that we're 98% water. It's really gratifying to know I'm not the only person who spends a lot of time carefully cataloging weird stuff like that.

What happens next depends on exactly where in space you are.

If you're in an orbit that passes near the Earth, your orbit will quickly decay, and before long you'll re-enter the atmosphere and burn up.

If you're in a slightly higher orbit, you'll last longer, but you'd also be in the zone where space debris was thickest. Impacts with small bits of debris would start to leave pits and scars on your surface; they would often find these on Space Shuttle windows after a flight. Eventually, probably after a few decades, you'd probably have a violent collision with something.

Higher orbits are safer. If you were some distance away from the Earth, near where geosynchronous satellites orbit, there would be less debris to run into. Furthermore, for large, dense objects, orbits out there are stable for a very long time. You could spend centuries drifting among TV broadcast satellites.

If you wanted to last even longer, you could launch yourself away from Earth completely, finding a quiet and stable orbit somewhere in interplanetary space. There, over the course of millennia, you'd be slowly baked by the Sun's radiation and pitted and powdered by micrometeorites.

But if your goal is to weird out future space travelers, that might not be the best plan. Space is big; if someone randomly stumbles on your corpse, it suggests that there must be a lot of people zipping around the solar system. And if space travel has become that common, there will be lots of corpses floating around;[4]Weird that "lots of corpses floating around" is somehow an optimistic prediction about the future of space travel. discovering yours will be more archaeologically exciting than anything. You'll be stuck in a lab or museum somewhere and contribute to someone's research paper—a bland end to your exciting prank.

Unless, of course, you happen to be found by the only people in space even weirder than you.

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Flagpole

So, you're falling from a height above the tallest building in your town, and you don't have a parachute. But wait! Partway down the side of that skyscraper there's a flagpole sticking out, sans flag! You angle your descent and grab the pole just long enough to swing around so that when you let go you're now heading back up toward the sky. As gravity slows you and brings you to a halt, you reach the top of the skyscraper, where you reach out and pull yourself to safety. What's the likelihood this could happen?

Rex Ungericht

If you're like me, your first thought on hearing this question was, "That's ridiculous; there's no way that could work."

Your first thought is right. But just to be sure, let's take a closer look.

Grip strength depends on a lot of factors, like hand slickness and surface material. But for the moment, let's assume Rex's hands are able to grab the pole tightly. What happens to the rest of his body?

It's hard to find good numbers on how much force it takes to tear off a person's arm.[1]Which is probably a good thing, to be honest. There are threads on the question on MetaFilter and the Straight Dope message boards, and frequent discussion of the death of Robert-François Damiens,[2]Damiens was tortured to death for attempting to assassinate Louis XV, but a team of horses had trouble tearing him limb from limb. but not too much hard data.

For the record, there are lots of studies and lectures on the breaking strength of tendons, which tend to give values of around 50-150 MPa. That's stronger than skin (27 MPa) but weaker than bone (120 MPa). However, to figure out the overall strength of the arm, we need to tally up all the tendons, muscles, and tissues in the wrist, arm, and shoulder, their cross-sectional area, and figure out which parts would be put under strain in what order.

Instead, it might be easier to consider people who try to pull off this maneuver in real life: Gymnasts.

A gymnast on the uneven parallel bars pushes the human body to its limits while performing maneuvers very similar to Rex's flagpole stunt.[3]In some ways, at least. A 2009 study used 3D motion capture to measure the forces involved in an elite gymnast's routine. They found that the athlete's hands exerted a force of over 3 kN on the bar at the bottom of a swing. In other words, the gymnast was briefly supporting almost 700 lbs of weight.

Let's be generous and assume that Rex is even better than the elite gymnast in the study. (After all, the gymnast has to worry about long-term injury, while Rex's concerns are a lot more short-term). Suppose Rex's arms can handle a swing force of over 10 kN, three times more than the gymnast (and twice as much as these guys!). How will he do?

Let's see how much force Rex needs to withstand. The "tallest building in town" here in Boston is the 240-meter-tall Hancock Tower; if he jumped off the top, he'd be going nearly 100 mph by the time he was halfway down. At that speed, the force on his arms (speed squared over the radius of his turn[4]Which is effectively somewhere between 1 and 2 meters here.) would be around ... 100 kN.

Really, the numbers are just telling us what common sense told us from the start: You can't grab hold of something while going 100 mph, much less swing around it.

If you want get a more vivid intuitive sense of the forces involved, consider this: In 2006, GQ put baseball star Albert Pujols in a lab and measured his swing. They clocked the speed of his bat at 87 mph, similar to the speed of the flagpole relative to our falling person.

So if you want to pull off Rex's stunt, first go find Albert Pujols, have him swing his bat as hard as you can ... and try to grab it.

And remember: You're just trying to stop the momentum of a 31-ounce piece of wood. When you're falling past the flagpole, you're going to be catching your whole body, so it's going to be up to 100 times worse.

Good luck!

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Hotter than Average

I saw a sign at a hot springs tub saying "Caution: Water is hotter than average" with water at about 39°C. Although they were presumably trying to say "hotter than the average swimming pool," this got me wondering: What is the average temperature of all water on the Earth's surface, and how does that temperature compare to 39°C?

—Graham Ward

You might be selling the sign-maker short. Whether they explicitly intended it or not, the wording on their sign hints at something kind of profound.

The sign is true in the literal sense, in that 39°C is hotter than most water you'll find on Earth. But it's also true in a deeper sense, one that ties together the concept of heat, springs, and averages.

For the most part, the temperature of groundwater in an area is equal to the year-round average air temperature of the surface. Water is a terrific absorber of energy, requiring huge amounts of it to change temperature.[1]Which is why pots of it take so long to boil. Underground reservoirs of water tend to warm up and cool down too sluggishly to respond to the comparatively brief winter-summer temperature swings.[2]It also takes a while for heat to work its way downward, so sometimes deep parts of water bodies will reach their maximum temperature when it's winter on the surface. Rock works the same way; if you drill a hole deep into the bedrock, you can see historical temperatures stacked vertically, as waves of heat and cold moving downward.

This property makes springs a useful "thermometer" for an area. Instead of spending a year measuring the temperature each day and night, and then calculating the average, you can just stick a thermometer in a spring any time of year.

If you look at a map of groundwater temperatures, you'll see it closely resembles a map of year-round average air temperatures (PDF, see page 6).

However, this rule only holds true in places where the main energy source heating the groundwater is the same one heating the air—sunlight. While this is true in most areas, in a few geologically-active spots, water is warmed far above this baseline by the flow of energy from deep within the Earth.

When the sign at the hot springs told you that the water there was "hotter than average," it wasn't just saying, "This water is hot." In a sense, it was saying, "This water, unlike all the springwater most of us ever encounter, isn't tied to the average summer/winter day/night air temperature for the area. This water is hotter than average."

So give the signmakers some credit.

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Microwaves

I have had a particular problem for as long as I can remember. Any time I attempt to heat left over Chinese food in a microwave, it fails to heat completely through somewhere. Usually the center but not always and usually rice, but often it will be a small section of meat. It's baffling and has made me automatically adjust heating times to over 2 minutes. In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. So I suppose the question is what is the optimal time to heat left over Chinese food in the microwave, how about an 800 watt microwave?

—James

This is a great question. Since the answer isn't too hard to find by Googling, normally I would skip it, but the answer is also something that I never really learned while growing up, so I'd like to try to answer it, for the sake of anyone else out there like me who spent years confused by microwaves.

First, the disclaimer: I am not an expert on food preparation or food safety. Actual experts on food safety can be found at US Department of Agriculture, which publishes a good FAQ page on microwave oven safety.

Now, on to James's question.

There are a couple of different effects that cause microwaves to heat food unevenly.

The first one is that microwaves have hot and cold spots. You can see this by filling a microwave with damp thermal paper, marshmallows, chocolate, or—possibly best of all—appalams.

The reason microwaves don't cook evenly comes straight from physics. When you continuously feed waves into a space—which is what microwaves do—you'll often have some "dead" spots:

In two dimensions, you get a similar but more complicated pattern.

These dead spots are the reason microwaves are designed with rotating platters—the idea is that each part of the food will pass through at least one hot spot. Microwave designers use a lot of tricks to try to vary the pattern to minimize dead spots, but no one does it perfectly; all microwaves will heat at least a little bit unevenly.

The second major reason for cold spots in microwaved food is something touched on in last week's article: Microwaves aren't absorbed very well by ice.

At first, this doesn't seem like a problem, right? It just means that if your food is partly or entirely frozen, you just need to microwave it longer. But when you do that, something interesting happens.

When ice melts, it turns to water,[citation needed] which does absorb microwaves very well. When the first pockets of ice turn to water, they start absorbing more microwaves and heating very quickly, even though the ice around them hasn't even melted. Those melted parts can easily heat enough to start cooking the food while other parts are still frozen.

This means that if you defrost frozen meat in your microwave, it could be hot to the touch over most of its surface, but still have a solid chunk of ice in it somewhere. If it does, when you plop it on the stove,[1]Or in a pan on the stove, or whatever. the thawed parts might finish cooking before the frozen parts have even started to warm up, giving you a large chunk of raw meat in the middle of your steak.

This starts to explain some of the weird instructions commonly seen on microwavable food.

When instructions say let stand for 1-2 minutes, it's not just to protect your mouth from hot food—it's giving the hot and cold spots time to equalize, so the whole thing will be sufficiently heated throughout. And if some part of the food doesn't conduct heat well (e.g. rice) or contains a lot of chunks of ice (e.g. frozen fruit or meat) they also might tell you to stir midway through cooking. This helps to transfer the heat more evenly into the food, move food away from cold spots, and also break up chunks of ice and mix them with warmer pockets of water to help melt them.

This helps us explain why James is so perplexed. He's adjusting the obvious variable—total cooking time—and no matter what value he chooses, he's getting bad results.

The solution is to mess with other variables. First, he can redistribute the heat by pausing halfway through microwaving to stir the food. Second, for things that are harder to stir, he can give the heat time to equalize on its own. If he microwaves his food for a short period, waits a moment, then zaps it again, the heat will have time to spread from the hot spots to the cold spots in between zaps, resulting in more evenly-heated food.

And that brings us to one last surprising[2]This was surprising to me, anyway; I used microwaves for almost 20 years before I realized it. aspect of microwaves: Power level.

It turns out that "turning the microwave off every so often to let the food cool" is exactly what the "power level" setting does! Choosing a lower power level doesn't actually change the strength of the microwaves; it just means that the microwave generator won't be running the whole time. When you cook something on 50% power, you may notice the microwave's sound changing every so often; that's the dynamo turning on and off.[3]The length of these on/off periods (duty cycle) is surprisingly long, partly because switching off and on is hard on the magnetron. This is also the reason why, if you normally cook something for 2 minutes on 50% power, cooking it for 1:30 won't necessarily deliver 75% as much heat like you'd expect. While it's on, the microwave is running at full power. In effect, the microwave is just automating the tedious task of zapping something a bunch of times on "high" for 10 seconds each and letting it sit for a while in between.

So my advice to James is simple: Use a lower power level, stir your food partway through microwaving, and let it sit for a few minutes before you eat it.

And FYI, if you cut a grape in almost in half and microwave it, you'll create bursts of plasma. (You also might damage your microwave, so do it at your own risk.)

This has nothing to do with your question. I just wanted you to know.

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Snow Removal

I've long thought about putting a flamethrower on the front of a car to melt snow and ice before you drive across it. Now I've realized that a flamethrower is impractical, but what about a high-powered microwave emitter?

—Matt Van Opens

Believe it or not, your flamethrower idea is actually the more practical of the two. The flamethrower also has the advantage that, unlike the microwave, it won't interfere with wifi (unless you aim it directly at the router).

I'm writing this article from Boston, which is currently buried under a truly ridiculous amount of snow. We've had more snow in the past 30 days than Anchorage, Alaska usually gets in an entire winter.[1]Meanwhile, Anchorage is on Twitter wondering where their snow went and threatening revenge. Here's a neat visualization of the atmospheric pattern during these polar vortexes. Vortices. Whatever. Our transit system has broken down and our roofs[2]Tolkien prefers rooves. are collapsing. The mayor gave a press conference in which he announced, "I don't know what to say to anybody anymore. Hopefully it will stop eventually."

So snow removal is on all our minds.

But snow is hard to melt. (And we've been trying[3]I love that tweet because it sort of sounds like it comes from an alternate fairy-tale universe where cities farm snow and snow-melters form the base of the economy.) Your microwave idea certainly sounds like it should be more practical than a flamethrower. Microwaves seem clean and efficient; after all, we don't use flamethrowers in our kitchens.

But there's a big problem: Microwaves heat water very well, but they don't really work on ice.

Fortunately, there are other ways to get energy into the ice. In addition to your flamethrower suggestion, you could, for example, use infrared heat lamps or lasers.[4]Pick a frequency where snow has a low albedo; otherwise, the FBI may hunt you down for lasering aircraft. But whatever you use, you'll run into another problem: It takes an awful lot of energy to melt snow.

Melting a gram of snow takes about 335 joules of energy. To put that another way, a 60-watt lightbulb is capable of melting about a pound of snow an hour.

A foot of snow contains roughly the same amount of water as an inch of rain, give or take. Let's assume you've had a decent snowstorm of about a foot[5]For the record, by this standard, Boston has had a "decent snowstorm" every few days for the past month.—meaning an inch worth of water—and that you want to melt a 9-foot-wide swath while driving along at 55 mph.

Luckily, this happens to be one of those happy physics situations where we can just multiply together every number we're looking at, and the answer turns out to be the measurement we want:

\[55\text{ mph}\times1\text{ inch}\times9\text{ feet}\times\text{water density}\times335\tfrac{\text{J}}{\text{gram}}=574\text{ megawatts}\]

Unfortunately, it's not the answer we'd like. The nuclear reactor on an aircraft carrier, for example, produces less than 200 megawatts. To melt snow in front of your car, you'd need three of those.

What about your your original flamethrower idea?

Gasoline may have a phenomenally high energy density, but it's not high enough. No matter how big the tank on your flamethrower was, you'd run out of fuel constantly.

Gas mileage in the US is often measured in "miles per gallon" of gasoline. With your flamethrower guzzling fuel, your mileage would be about 17 feet per gallon.

You might be better off dropping the flamethrower entirely. Instead, take a cue from the rail agencies, who use jet-engine-powered snowblowers to clear train tracks.

In the end, it's easier to just move the snow out of your way.

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a resident of Monta Loma
on May 10, 2012 at 3:28 pm
This is just silly.
Just fire the rangers and leave the gates open.
The world will not end, we'll be fine without someone at the gate telling us where to park and not to litter.
a resident of Monta Loma
on May 10, 2012 at 3:34 pm
If we cut a fraction of pension costs, these and other services would have no problems.
As Gov income drops while Gov pensions keep rising, the state better find more new money somewhere.
a resident of another community
on May 10, 2012 at 4:23 pm
This is robbing state parks to keep other state parks open. This would just for the closures of other state parks.
The "$21 million every year in perpetuity from a fund earmarked for trail and off-highway-vehicle purposes" are funds collected from off-highway users to fund state parks!
All this would do is change which state parks would be closed, robbing OHV users who paid money into those funds by closing the state parks that they intended to fund. This is not fair.
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I'm the only one, for generations apparently. Noone recalls there ever being another T1 on both sides, EVER.
I am the only one in my family with type 1, there are several with type 2
Have been type 1 for 21 years, also diagnosed with prostate cancer this past Christmas, it has spread thru out my body, been treated with hormone therapy drugs but it seems time to talk about chemo. Also hyperthyroidism, having that removed with radioiodine therapy. Was running 5 -10k a day now can barely make it thru a work day. So yes mutant freak, nobody else has anything in my family.
Virtual hugs and prayers for you, Dave.
Add me to the list. My husband is a T1 as well, but I have zero blood relatives that are T1. A lot of T2, though.
7 years ago at the age of 50 I was diagnosed with diabetes it was sudden onset. My Doctor had been testing me because my older sister was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes but she weighted 280 pounds and shes only 5'2. NOTHING ever suggested in the test that I was Diabetic. I was not over weight and was very active. I was told I was a Type 2 because of my age. My treatment started out with oral meds but soon went insulin ( within a month ). For the last 7 years my treatment was based on me being a Type 2 Diabetic. I did everything they told me to do but still struggled with lack of control. I changed Doctors and after 1 test I was told I am Type 1. My pancreas does not produce any insulin. After being in the care of this new Doctor my Diabetes is for the first time under control YAAAAAAAAAAA!!! My A1C went from 9.8 to a 6.5.
Diabetes does not run in my family, so how does a 50 year old develop Type 1. The Doctors are still scratching their heads
It was worse for me. I worked hard to lose the 100lb I gained from undiagnosed hypothyroidism only to be diagnosed T1 at 37 - and then 2 months later, finding out I was an insulin-resistant T1, so basically I not only didn't avoid the T2, but I got double diabetes. Crap.
I am the only type 1 diabetic in my entire family tree which dates back a long way since I am from England originally. You're not a freak of nature at all. Since diabetes is an autoimmune disease it can and does strike after a virus or after another immune compromising event. I was diagnosed about 3 months after a virus had my temp up near 107 that pretty much wiped out my islet cells. But on the positive side, I have found after 37 years that non-familial diabetes is somewhat easier to deal with and if you take really good care of yourself you can avoid the vast majority of complications.
Hi: I am from England/Scotland also. I was diagnosed at age 3 while living in the "colonial" tropics of Kenya, Nairobi. No one had any idea what was wrong with me. Also I had had various vaccines - polio, yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid. We had no vaccines for measles, mumps, whooping cough, chickenpox. I had all of these virus' when I was young. I am now 61 years old and with no major complications!! 58 years with type 1 ! No one else in my family has type 1 or 2....? how is that ??? I sure am a "freak of nature".
Wow I am really surprised with your experience !! I´m really glad to know you are so healthy after all this years. I really hope to be as healthy as you are. I got diagnosed about 10 months ago, I´m 20 and new in this, I still scared sometimes
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The San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum, situated within the Micke Grove Regional Park, presents guests with the fascinating history of San Joaquin County in central California, with a focus on the county seat of Stockton. This region is noted for its good yield of olives, watermelons, tomatoes and grapes, as well as its winemaking skills. Hence, the museum's displays and artifacts are organized around themes depicting the evolution of farming, allied industries and wineries in the area. It preserves archives of historic births and deaths and houses four historic structures: an old Blacksmith Shop, and the 19th-century Julia Weber House, Calaveras School and Charles Weber Cottage. It also showcases temporary exhibits and conducts educational tours for school children.
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This undersung jewel features luminous paintings of early California and fine examples of the French Salon. Lush landscapes, still life and other works of French painters of the same era—such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Pierre-Auguste Renoir—make a visit to the Haggin Museum worthwhile. An extensive collection of American Indian baskets and wondrous pieces of furniture, art glass, period lamps and clocks are scattered throughout the museum.


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Squirrels eating your GREEN tomatoes?!!?
I'm behond mad!!! My tomatoes that were fully loaded with green tomatoes from the size of limes on up are ALL gone! The squirrels got a taste of the GREEN ones and cleaned them off. We saw a squirrel sitting on the fence the other day munching on a green that was the size of an orange so we know it's squirrels. This is the first time I've ever experienced this. Our Asian pear tree was LOADED with pears this spring and we didn't get a single pear due to the squirrels. Same with the peach tree. Same with the pecan tree. Now tomatoes??!! Ideas?
I had a neighbor that built large "boxes" fron chicken wire and 1x1s They turned them upside down over the garden plants.
I think they were about 4x4ft.What ever height you want. Light weight enough that they were easy to lift for harvesting.
I feel sorry for you and the squirrels. What a brutal year.
My squirrels might be the wierdest squirrels in the universe, IDK. I have strawberries and tomatoes fruiting right now. I also have a TON of squirrels and a resident rabbit too. They seem to prefer the wildlife plants over my human crops. They didn't go after my sugar snap peas earlier in the season either. Maybe it's because there is a Kiefier pear they are more used to. Maybe it's becasue of a huge pecan tree nearby. Maybe it's the acorns on the Chinkapin I planted (a very sweet acorn). I have my garden designed to attract wildlife including lots of water. Maybe they fill up on water and aren't as hungry? You could try planting some native berry/grass/fruit stuff and see if they like it more than your human food?
I think pj is right, I didn't want to jinx myself but we also have lots of squirrels and so far they have not messed with the garden. They do visit the bird bath for drinks several times a day, I think they are just desperate for water/moisture. Mockingbirds on the other hand...grrr
In the past I've had birds
and squirrels, too,
get my tomatoes.
I did two things different this year.
I invested in an Owl 'scare crow'.
Very realistic and life sized owl,
With a head that moves in the breeze.
Also hung used CDs from the tomato cages.
When the plants covered them,
I put stakes in the ground with a small cross piece
To hang the CD from.
So far. . . . .
(knock on wood)
No damage from squirrels or birds.
And the CDs are really kind of pretty,
Flashing a rainbow of pretty colors in the bright sun.
I went so far as to put up a chicken wire fence all around my tomato plants this year! The squirrels are STILL eating them...tried brushing garlic water over them, then sprinkling with tabasco Sauce. I'm ready to give up, except someone on this forum mentioned moth balls? While I'm not crazy about sprinking them on the earth as they are pretty toxic, I'll try just about anything (other than killing them...)!!! Any more ideas???any that WORK???
Paint some type of balls red and hang them on the plants. After a few bites of tennis or styrofoam balls the critters leave them alone.
Of course that would work on a normal year.
I use red xmas balls. But you have to remember to buy them at Xmas.
I was just thinking....maybe artifical fruit would be better.
Yes, the red xmas balls really worked for me many times. You have to hang them on the plants well before you have any tomatoes. By the time you have fruit the birds will have decided the glass or styro taste terrible.
I have used them on my fruit trees also.


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Close call with calamity
Volleyball champ survives health scare
No one would ever accuse Fred McConnell of being a couch potato.
At 70, the program head and professor of engineering at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College (JSRCC) is slim and fit, and plays volleyball three nights a week or more.
So McConnell was not too alarmed at first when his heartburn wouldn't go away.
Even after two months, when the chest discomfort did not respond to medication and his doctor recommended a stress test, McConnell shrugged it off.
"I just had a stress test a couple of years ago," he told his doctor -- who checked his records and countered, "No, it's been seven."
In those seven years, said McConnell, stress tests have changed considerably. His 2005 test was conducted on a treadmill with the physician in the room, monitoring his reaction to exertion.
The 2005 diagnosis? Chronic heartburn.
This time, his stress test was the nuclear version, in which a radioactive dye is injected into the bloodstream to help create images of the heart muscle and valves at work. The pictures showed that one of McConnell's heart chambers wasn't filling up as it should, and he was referred to a cardiologist for a heart catheterization.
Still relatively unfazed, McConnell scheduled the catheterization -- then rescheduled it a week later so that he could play in a volleyball tournament first.
"I was afraid they'd find something," he admits now. And find something they did.
'A real mess'
"I was only half awake," said McConnell, as he recalls coming out of the anesthesia after the catheterization. "But I remember the doctor telling me, 'You have a real mess in there.'"
Later, the cardiologist told McConnell he was surprised he had never had a heart attack -- though he saw signs that there may have been one of the "silent" variety.
McConnell consulted with a surgeon, who drew pictures of the three blockages and scheduled him for surgery two weeks later. Since McConnell was on spring break at the time, he asked the surgeon if it was okay to go back to work.
"That depends," answered the doctor. "Is your job stressful?"
McConnell chuckles as he recalls his answer.
"Not for me -- but maybe for my students!"
Finding a substitute to take over at JSRCC for the rest of the semester, McConnell underwent surgery on March 27. During the operation, a fourth blockage was found.
Nine weeks after his quadruple bypass surgery, McConnell traveled to Salt Lake City and won both silver and bronze medals at the USA Volleyball Open National Championships.
Rum and medals
More than 430 teams from around the world competed in the June championships.
A long-time member of the Richmond Volleyball Club, McConnell earned his silver medal as a member of the GROG-65 Team (pictured above) in one session, and his bronze medal in another session as a member of Team SOTA-70.
Team GROG, he says, takes its name from the acronym for "Greater Richmond Old Guys," but the name hardly fits any more. In addition to the Richmond players, McConnell has GROG teammates hailing from Texas, Colorado and Arkansas.
"Grog also was a rum drink for the British Navy," he adds, "so our uniforms have a rum bottle logo."
Last October, he won a gold medal in the Huntsman World Senior Games in St. George, Utah, on a 65's team that was a blend of RVC and Canadian players. In a couple of weeks, he will head to Utah for this year's Huntsman tournament, and he looks forward to it.
"The weather in Utah is beautiful this time of year," says McConnell. "And it's a well-run tournament -- like a mini-Olympics."
'A second home'
A native of Gate City, Va., McConnell began playing intramural volleyball when he was a student at Virginia Tech. (The loyal Hokie and season ticket holder is actually a "triple dipper," having gotten his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in civil engineering at Tech.) During grad school, he says, "we would get the gym for an hour and play volleyball instead of basketball. The faculty was really into volleyball."
Moving to Richmond in 1972 to teach at the newly-opened JSRCC, following stints at Germana and Wytheville community colleges, McConnell was invited to play in volleyball leagues that eventually formed the basis of RVC (established in 1980).
"Now it's a second home," the Glen Allen resident says of RVC.
At his other second home, JSRCC, McConnell enjoys frequent visits and contacts from former students -- who, he says with a chuckle, "are often shocked to see I'm still teaching."
His daughter, a freshman at Christopher Newport University, recently told him that she had seen his reviews online on "Rate Your Professor" and noted that the only bad rating he got was for giving too much work.
"But I've never had a student come back and say, 'You worked me too hard,'" says McConnell.
"They say, 'Thank you for kicking my butt. I wouldn't have made it at [the four-year institution attended] if you hadn't."
Not long ago, in fact, McConnell says he got an email from a 1981 graduate of JSRCC who went on to get his bachelor's degree and professional engineer license at other schools.
"He said JSRCC was the best school he attended," recalls McConnell, "with the best professors."
At an age when most people have long ago retired, McConnell has no immediate plans to stop working -- or to stop playing volleyball. In fact, he not only goes to rehab once a week, but also frequently works out on the treadmill at Shady Grove YMCA.
"I don't sit around much. I have to [stay in shape] if I'm going to be competitive," he says.
After competing in the USA Open National Championships every year for 23 years, McConnell says he can't single out any one year as his most memorable -- but admits the 2012 Open is likely to stand out in his memory in years to come.
"Any time you get to the medal stand, that's an accomplishment on its own. But nine weeks after heart surgery?" he exclaims, making it clear that his close call with calamity renders the accomplishment all the sweeter.
And McConnell has a word of advice for anyone suffering from what seems to be chronic heartburn.
"If it doesn't go away, see your doctor," he says emphatically. "Especially if you're not active."
Local couple wins wedding at Lewis Ginter
Richmonders Jim Morgan and Dan Stackhouse were married at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Lakeside Mar. 7 month after winning the Say I Do! With OutRVA wedding contest in February. The contest was open to LGBT couples in recognition of Virginia's marriage equality law, which took effect last fall. The wedding included a package valued at $25,000.
Morgan and Stackhouse, who became engaged last fall on the day marriage equality became the law in Virginia, have been together for 16 years. They were selected from among 40 couples who registered for the contest. The winners were announced at the Say I Do! Dessert Soiree at the Renaissance in Richmond in February. > Read more.
Fourth-annual Healy Gala planned
The Fourth Annual Healy Gala will be held Saturday, Apr. 11, at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The event was created to honor Michael Healy, a local businessman and community leader who died suddenly in June 2011, and to endow the Mike Healy Scholarship (through the Glen Allen Ruritan Club), which benefits students of Glen Allen High School.
Healy served as the chairman of Glen Allen Day for several years and helped raise thousands of dollars for local charities and organizations. > Read more.
Ruritan Club holding Brunswick stew sale
The Richmond Battlefield Ruritan Club is holding a Brunswick stew sale, with orders accepted through March 13 and pick-up available March 14. The cost is $8 per quart.
Pick-up will be at noon, March 14, at the Richmond Heights Civic Center, 7440 Wilton Road in Varina.
To place an order, call Mike at (804) 795- 7327 or Jim at (804) 795-9116. > Read more.
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A wide variety of events are taking place within Henrico County this weekend! Whether you're a newcomer or veteran to homeschooling, the 2015 VaHomeschoolers Conference and Resource Fair is the place for you. Theater buffs will enjoy CAT Theatre's production of "Now Then Again" and 5th Wall Theatre's presentation of "The Human Terrain." Other performances include Bolshoi Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet" and Abraham.In.Motion's dual performance of "The Watershed" and "When the Wolves Come In" – all taking place at the University of Richmond. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen will celebrate its 16th anniversary this weekend with "A Date with Frank & Marilyn," an evening of fun and entertainment designed to raise funds for the center's three outreach programs. Another celebration, Halligan's Hooligan's Annual St. Paddy's Day Bash, starts tonight and continues for five days! If you're in the mood for some music, Lynne Mackey will give a piano recital at River Road Church Baptist; the Westminster Schola Cantorum will be at St. Michael Catholic Church; and Junior Sisk and Rambler's Choice will perform at the Shady Grove Coffeehouse. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Ofcourse she is perfect and a prefect capture of such great expression! give her my regards Lisa!
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Rec for large cookie sheets??
I would like to purchase 3 cookie sheets that will each hold 20 cookies, so that I can use convection and bake a full batch at once.
I am looking at this cookie sheet (in the link). Does anyone have any other suggestions for nice, large cookie sheets?
Here is a link that might be useful: large cookie sheet
I bought these at Sam's Club (the two pack!) and I love them. They are big enough, very heavy, good quality, great price, can go into the DW, and the cookies come out well. I do bake on parchment paper, not directly on the sheet. The size also fits well in my cabinet. Anything much bigger would be a problem.
Happy baking.
Best ones are the 1/2 sheet size, heavy aluminum pro-style ones that Momj47 mentions. ALso find them at restaurant supply stores, Walmart and other places for under $8 each. (If you insist upon shopping at Williams Sonoma or Macy's, expect to pay about twice as much for each one, or more. I saw them for $20 each at one store.) Buy a bunch---I have 5 and it's lovely to have that many. Inexpensive and easy to store, and best for baking, too.
This topic has come up over the years in both Kitchens and Cooking forums, and these cookie sheets win every time.
Thanks for the info gals. I am an hour from ANYTHING that resembles good shopping, but I am going to definitely try Sams. I am so tired of baking with junk bakeware.
I found out that the factory for Doughmakers (the link I listed) is only one hour from where I live and that they have a sale which is open to the public (first quality and seconds as well).
Here is the link if anyone is interested. I hope it's OK to post this info.
Thanks again!
Here is a link that might be useful: link
Mine are made by Vollrath. Heavy duty and inexpensive, but, for the life of me, I can't remember where I found them. Many professional bakers use them, so I would look online or at a restaurant supply when you do get to a shopping area. I can sympathize--I live over an hour from anything also.
Yes, you want Vollrath sheet pans (a/k/a bun pans)!
They're a standard commercial bakery item, so you should be able to find them at your local restaurant supply store, Smart & Final, etc.
Here's another source: Surfas Restaurant Supply - Bake Pans
Do the 1/2 sheet Vollrath pans work well for baking cookies in a convection oven? My manual says to use sheets without sides for better air circulation. Has anyone used the Vollrath heavy gauge aluminum cookie sheets in a convection oven?...although a bit pricey compared to the 1/2 sheet pan!
I use the type fairegold recommended (on her recommendation) and am very happy with them. If you have a chance to handle them before you buy, that would be good. Even though you probably don't use them as often as pots and pans, so it's less of an issue, I found that I didn't like the "feel" of the side-less ones, and really disliked the Kaiser tinplate ones that Cooks Illustrated recommended. I'm very pleased with the plain old aluminum jelly roll pan (in which I use a Silpat-type mat for cookies --- not Silpat brand, though; I use Matfer Exopat brand, which I get on Amazon, much less expensive than Silpat)


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Grand Princess in Grand Cayman-January
I just read Donna's message (under Destinations) with a link to the Grand Cayman port. It shows the Grand Princess in on January 5. The Princess site still shows January 1. Which one is likely to be correct?
Re: Grand Princess in Grand Cayman-January
i would go with the info from Princess. It tends to get updated quicker than the local site.
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