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It was just after 6:30PM on Friday and still light outside when Jeremy Hollander, a Belgian entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco, strolled into one of the high-ceilinged, gold-hued ballrooms at the Hilton Austin wearing a suit and a dark blue yarmulke.
The room was in disarray as hotel employees shook tablecloths over five rows of long tables, placed napkins, and hauled an offending electric-powered water cooler out of the room. They were setting up for the third annual #openShabbat dinner, held on the first night of the South by Southwest Interactive conference, and this year's meal was expected to be almost three times bigger than last year's.
With free food, an open bar, and a hashtag, #openShabbat is like any of the umpteen other events put on throughout the week, except for one rule: no technology.
"You're too early," Mordechai Lightstone, the host, told Hollander.
"I didn't want to walk," he answered.
The Jewish Sabbath starts around sundown on Friday and ends after nightfall on Saturday, and represents the day God rested after creating the world. To honor the Sabbath, observant Jews refrain from anything that could be considered work or an act of creation. This can mean anything from finishing up a work assignment, to turning on a light switch, to tearing toilet paper. (If Hollander had waited until after sundown, he would not have permitted himself to take a taxi to the hotel.)
The rules come from the Bible, religious texts, and rabbinical interpretations, and the variations are endless. However, most strict Jews try not to use the internet on the Sabbath — even during SXSW. Graeme Ossey of Health 2.0 was one of the many observant Jews who spent 25 hours at the conference attempting to network without using Twitter. "Despite the fact that I love the break from technology, the second Shabbos ends, my phone is on," he said.
Lightstone and his wife Chana organized the first #openShabbat on a whim, spreading the word via Twitter. The Lightstones, who live in Brooklyn, are members of Chabad-Lubavitch, a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is known for its extensive community and emphasis on outreach — it's not evangelical, but it's as close as Judaism gets. Lightstone is the social media director of one of the movement's websites.
The first #openShabbat was about 20 people, the second had about 40 people, and this year's dinner had more than 100. The dinner lasts for about three hours, and encompasses an opening prayer, group singing, a few short speeches, and lots of conversation.
Lightstone opened the dinner with a brief introduction about the dichotomy of SXSW and the holy day. "On Twitter, my other name is @mottel," he said. "When it's not Shabbos, you can follow me."
SXSW Interactive is perhaps the densest gathering of internet addicts in the country. The five-day conference is a conglomeration of knowledge workers, viral marketing specialists, startup founders, and the sort of people who sleep with their phones in their beds. If you're the type to worry that technology addiction has us headed for a dystopian world in which all human relationships are mediated by computers, SXSW is that nightmare. Every Interactive "survival guide" includes the acronym ABC: always be charging, because nothing scares attendees more than phone death.
But remarkably, most of the 100 or so #openShabbat attendees managed to keep their phones in their pockets and purses, whether they were in the habit of abstaining from technology or not. There were some cheaters — I finally peeked toward the end of the dinner and my heart panicked when I saw I had 15 text messages — but the majority of diners seemed to enjoy the escape from the demands of their devices. Most lingered until the bar shut down around 11.
There have been a few movements encouraging people to deliberately disconnect from the internet. Author William Powers instituted an "internet Sabbath" at home because he was worried that the internet was "shortening his attention span. There's also the National Day of Unplugging, which has its roots in a Jewish organization called Reboot. "I saw the best minds of my generation distracted by texting, emailing, tweeting, dragging their cursors through Google links at dawn, looking for an info fix," the group says in a promotional video set to the beat of Allen Ginsburg's Howl.
"I know so many people who, even when they have dinner with their family and friends, will look at their phone every time it vibrates," said Hollander, who runs a postal startup called Parcelio with his brother Michael. "Facebook notification? Must check the phone. Twitter retweet? Fantastic, who retweeted? Email? Perhaps a potential partner."
Even though he's the founder of a young startup in the hypercompetitive Bay Area, he still turns off his phone on Friday nights. He compared the Sabbath to vacationing somewhere without cell coverage. "I get 25 hours of total relaxation," he said.
Like other religious communities such as the Amish, Orthodox Jews have to constantly reconcile their traditions with new technology. Last spring, a group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis held mass gatherings in New York and London in order to warn against the dangers of the internet; one rabbi said it threatened to turn children into "click vegetables." Some rabbis believe the internet is so pernicious that it should only be used when necessary to earn a living.
Most people would disagree that communication technology leads us on a direct path to evil. But while email, Twitter, and text messaging seem like pleasurable activities, they can also feel like work — especially at the start of an industry gathering of technophiles.
"I believe the connective power of the internet is something that's greater than the potential for distraction," Lightstone said. "But there definitely has to be a balance. I think the world at large is still figuring out how to exactly balance the information overload… and I think it's a human discussion that we have to have."
Lightstone is no technophobe. He carries an HTC Evo 4G LTE, but he tries to be mindful about using it. "There's very much the ability to get lost from the world, in the sense that sometimes I'm in a beautiful place, I take out my phone and I take a picture and I want to put it on Instagram, and I think, 'why am I looking at this waterfall or at this building or whatever it is… why am I taking a picture of it through my cell phone when I can look at it with my eyes and fully see it?' The precious moments in life can escape you sometimes."
The dinner was winding down and the last bottles of He'Brew Messiah Nut Brown Ale and He'Brew Genesis Dry Hopped Session Ale were being drunk. Lighstone and his wife were visibly relieved that there were enough bins of vegetables, chicken, and rice with raisins to feed the crowd, even though they'd given the Hilton a lowball estimate of 75 guests. Lightstone teased me. "Put away your pen!" he said. "I hate to see you working on Shabbos."
I obliged and tucked my pen and notebook into my bag alongside my neglected phone. I nibbled on of Chana Lightstone's chocolate chip cookies and drained my beer while talking to Hollander about the difficulties of learning Chinese, before making the rounds to say goodnight and exchange business cards. The next day, around 8PM, just after Shabbat ended, I received a slew of Facebook friend requests.


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Big Spring State Park, Colonel Denning State Park, Fowlers Hollow State Park and Mayapple Golf links are some good entertainment options here. Carlisle Theater holds a number of events and shows that are appreciated by both the locals and tourists.
Some of the monuments that one should not miss out if they want to learn a little more about this place are Army Heritage and Education Center, Cumberland County Historical society, Boster Library and Two Mile House.
This place is closely connected to a number of other towns; some of them being Camp Hill around 14 miles east, Harrisburg around 17 miles east, Hershey around 28 miles east, Chambersburg around 30 miles south west and York around 32 miles south east.
There are so many festivals here; some of the most awaited ones are Mc Lain Celtic Festival and Harvest Festival of the Arts. People await these events and look forward to enjoy a lot during the festivals.
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Bachelor Nation Reacts to The Bachelorette Episode 6: "Trophy Wives and V-Necks — The Ryan Bowers Story"
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Robert Mills @Millsy11374
We almost had to start airing the show at 9 based on that kiss [with Arie]
West Lee @NotthatAdamWest
Ryan thinks Emily likes bad boys, so he called Kevin Federline for clothes/facial hair advice.
West Lee @NotthatAdamWest
Travis is so far in the friend zone he and Emily might as well start going to the bathroom together
West Lee @NotthatAdamWest
Too bad they didn't see the Hunger games and reenact that.
West Lee @NotthatAdamWest
To sum it up, Arie is the guy who pushes you up against a wall & takes you. Jef is the guy you curl up with under a blanket.
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Ryan carved out fangs into his facial hair.
Ashley S. @AshleySpivey
What would the title of Ryan's book be called? "Trophy Wives and V-Necks - The Ryan Bowers Story"
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Travis, please take Ryan's tank top with u when u leave
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editors, i'm ashamed. you play sweet romantic music during a steamy kiss like that? i was expecting some baby makin tunes.
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Jef says things about Emily that I thought about the boys whose names i scribbled in my Lisa Frank notebook.
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i think we may have just seen Emily's version of the "hot tub." on top of covers cuddling & heart to heart talk sesh.
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Emily seems to actually be looking through Travis. #FriendZone
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After Emily and Arie's back ally make out her time with Jef seems Elementary.
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Way too many awww's from Emily to Jef. Close your eyes and you'd think she's petting a puppy.
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I really like Arie. Like. A lot. I really think he is a good guy. He may need chapstick, but he is a good dude.
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I would like to congratulate Arie for getting after it. A woman up against a wall is a beautiful thing.
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I synced up my foursquare account and Nike+ today and was already rewarded for the last time I checked into a gym with 15 points. (Side note: I need to figure out how to check in while going
for a running---that deserves workout points!)
Obviously need to see how this plays out in real rewards but there is definitely an opening for
gyms to jump in and offer some discounts to their return visitors.
What's great is that I don't have to do too much to earn rewards. It also keeps me motivated to go to the gym and do more once I finally get that damn Gym Rat badge :)
Check it out. What do you think?


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A sub-stage, dual-turret assembly provides a rapid interchange of condensers and birefringent elements without sub-stage assembly, disturbance of illumination system, refocusing the microscope or dislocation of the object being studied and minimizes storage problems normally associated with maintaining convenient access to a selection of interchangeable delicate optical elements. The assembly has an upper turret normally adapted to carry at least two condensers and a lower turret usually adapted to carry a plurality of birefringent elements. The two turrets are independently rotatable in order to provide maximum versatility.
1. A sub-stage dual-turret attachment for a microscope comprising:
a body adapted to be removably mounted on the microscope frame,
a first rotatable turret connected to said body, said first rotatable turret having a plurality of openings therein, at least one of said openings being adapted to releasably retain an optical element therein, said first rotatable turret being manually rotatable about an axis to bring any one of said openings into substantial alignment with the optical axis of the microscope, first indexing means engagable with said first rotatable turret for releasably retaining any one of said openings in substantial alignment with the optical axis of the microscope, manually operable means for adjusting said optical element laterally in any desired direction with respect to the optical axis of the microscope;
a second rotatable turret connected to said body, said second rotatable turret having two apertures defined by iris diaphrams therein, two condenser lens systems carried by said rotatable turret in respective optical alignment with said two apertures, said second rotatable turret being manually rotatable about an axis to bring any one of said condenser lens systems into substantial alignment with the optical axis of the microscope,
second indexing means engagable with said second rotatable turret for releasably retaining any one of said apertures and corresponding condenser lens systems in substantial alignment with the optical axis of the microscope;
said first and second rotatable turrets have a common axis of rotation; and
orthogonal adjustment means to provide lateral movement for alignment of said attachment with the optical axis of the microscope, said orthogonal adjustment means including a pair of spaced protrusions on said body, a ring member having a first pair of diametrically opposed recesses adapted to cooperate with said protrusions to slidably locate said ring, a second pair of diametrically opposed recesses in said ring spaced equidistant from said first pair of diametrically opposed recesses, and a support having a pair of protrusions adapted to cooperate with said second pair of recesses to slidably locate said support, said support carrying said first and second rotatable turrets and lock means to hold the attachment in a selected position to provide optical alignment.
This invention relates to microscopes employing optical elements which must be accurately aligned and having a plurality of readily interchangeable optical members which must also be individually and accurately located relative to a certain member or members in the optical system of the instrument. The invention is particularly useful in phase microscopy but could also be used advantageously in other forms of microscopy.
In the Osterberg et al. U.S. Pat. No. 2,427,689, issued Sept. 23, 1947, is shown and described a phase contrast microscope. The use of such an instrument for the examination of substantially transparent materials and objects, such as protozoa, bacteria, body tissues, blood, glass, plastics and the like, has considerably extended the boundaries of microscopy.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,565,419 to Aitcheson describes a turret assembly useful with the Osterberg et al. patent. Aitcheson teaches that a plurality of apertures may be mounted on a single sub-stage turret assembly to accommodate the lighting requirements of several different objectives with a single fixed condenser.
During the use of a phase microscope, it may be desirable to use any one of several different objectives of different powers. It will generally be desirable to interchange the aperture member in the condenser assembly so as to function to best advantage therewith. Also, it is usually desirable to interchange birefringent elements and it is frequently desirable to rapidly change from an air to oil immersion condenser as well as from one technique to another. However, regardless of the reasons for the changing of aperture, birefringent elements, or condensers, it has been found highly essential that proper exact predetermined spacing and alignment of each optical member of the sub-stage assembly to be used with the optical axis of the microscope be effected for best functioning of the microscope.
For the foregoing reasons, the invention provides a turret assembly of efficient, compact and sturdy construction which may be readily fitted in the limited space available beneath the stage of a microscope. The assembly comprises a body supporting two turrets, which are independently rotatable to selected positions. The upper turret is adapted to carry a plurality of condensers with irises and the lower turret is adapted to carry a plurality of birefringent elements.
FIG. 1 is a top plan view of the dual-turret assembly but with the condenser removed;
FIG. 2 is an elevational view of the assembly partly in section taken along lines 2--2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an elevational view of the upper turret assembly taken along lines 2--2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is an elevational view of the lower turret assembly taken along lines 2--2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the assembly mounted on a microscope;
FIG. 6 is a top view of the annular member used to provide orthogonal adjustment for optical alignment;
FIG. 7 shows a top view of the mounting ring; and
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the mounting ring showing the annular member slidably positioned thereon.
Referring to the drawings in detail, FIG. 1 shows mounting ring 1 having a dove-tail slot 2 with locking screw 3 for securing the turret assembly to a microscope base.
As shown in FIG. 2, support member 20 is slidably connected to the mounting ring by flanged ring 21 and screws 22. Annular member 48, as shown in FIG. 6, has two diametrically opposed pairs of notches 49 and 50 in the outer periphery 51. FIG. 7 shows a top view of the mounting ring 1 with threaded holes 52 located therein. FIG. 8 shows annular member 48 slidably positioned on mounting ring 1 and generally located by screws 53. Notches 49 cooperate with screws 53 to permit limited lateral movement of the annular member with respect to the mounting ring. Support member 20 has a pair of screws 54, as shown in FIG. 2, located on the lower side thereof which cooperate with notches 50 in the annular member to permit limited lateral movement of the support member with respect to the annular member. This orthogonal system provides universal lateral adjustment for precise alignment of the turret assembly with respect to the optical axis of the microscope. Spring biased plungers 23 and positioning screws 24 are used to align the support member, which can be locked in position by final tightening of screws 22 if desired with the optical axis of the microscope. Bearing mount 25 is secured to the support member by screw 26 and has bearings 27 and 28 mounted on shoulders 29 and 30 respectively. Lower turret 31 is carried by bearing 27 and is maintained in proper alignment by pressure from thrust spring washer 32 urging the turret 31 against thrust bearing 33 which is carried on the flange of the bearing mount 25. The lower turret has a plurality of openings 12, shown generally in FIG. 1, an unobstructed opening 13 and birefringent element 35 carried by mount 36 in an opening. Each of the openings 12 is respectively adapted to hold a mounted birefringent element as shown. Upper turret 37 is carried by bearing 28 and maintained in alignment by screw 38 urging the turret through bearing 28 against thrust bearing 39. The upper turret has irises 6 and 7 located in openings therein and internally-threaded, centerable condenser mounts 8 and 9 carried above the respective irised openings. Condenser 40 is shown seated in condenser mount 9. Spring biased plunger 41 is carried in lower turret 31 and cooperates with positioning screws 4 also carried in the lower turret to center birefringent or aperture elements 35. The lower turret carries similar biased plungers and positioning screws (not shown) for locating respective birefringent elements (not shown) in each of openings 12. Wrenches 5 are carried by support member 20 and may by extended into holes 14 located in lower turret 31 to engage positioning screws 4 to align the birefringent or aperture element. Upper turret 37 carries protrusions 11 (only one shown), so located that, when they engage resilient indexing member 10 secured to the support member, a corresponding condenser will be properly aligned. The lower turret has a plurality of V-shaped notches 42 (only one shown) cooperating with biased roller 43 carried by the support member so located that a corresponding birefringent element is properly aligned with a condenser when the roller is engaged on a notch and both are aligned with the optical axis 46 of the instrument. When the carrier is rotated, the roller 43 will be forced downwardly by notch 42 and will roll along surface 44 of the lower turret until the next notch is reached. Engagement of the roller 43 with any of notches 42 will align a pair of adjustment screws 4 with extendable wrenches 5.
The turrets 31 and 37 are preferably rotatable about a common axis 45 which is oblique to optical axis 46. This arrangement permits exchange of one condenser for another by rotation of upper turret 37 without the necessity of lowering the turret assembly excessively to provide clearance for the state (not shown) supporting slide 47. Selection of the angle between the microscope optical axis 46 and axis of rotation can substantially eliminate the need to lower the turret assembly excessively, especially if the bottom of the microscope stage is grooved to provide clearance recesses for condenser movement in the arcs adjacent the optical axis.
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Tumblr stickers! :D
@ilovesexmagic: I made an invite-thingy, and it haz yer name on it. HAHA.
I'll be giving free stickers on the meetup! can't guarantee that everyone will get one though, hindi pa ako nakakapag-print ng extras eh. :)
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Everyone who wishes to have an exclusive TULB ID should RSVP here on or before 10AM on June 7, 2013 (Friday). Those who RSVP'd after that time will get blank IDs only (subject to availability).
Please bring a large handkerchief—large enough to cover your head.
Bring a pen as well. A black marker is better. Make sure it writes.
There are over 180 people who RSVP'd for the meetup, and most are first-timers. While we ensure that we'd keep you entertained, please don't be a kill-joy (or at the very least, pretend not to). It's our chance to make friends (and gain followers!)
It's a good move to get to know more about the eLBikada Originals. You might just get lucky *wink*
Reblog to reach everyone who has RSVP'd (or plans to RSVP). As early as now, I welcome you all to Tumblr University Los Banos :)
the printing place told me they won't be able to get my stickers ready for tomorrow. :| so yung mga interested sana makakuha, just TA me so I can reserve you one, I'll be able to make more anyway so I bet I can accommodate more. no need to follow my blog!
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Shah Alam, November 1 – Toyota Boshoku UMW Sdn Bhd (TBU) today held an opening ceremony for their second plant. TBU was established as a joint-venture with Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Japan and UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd in 2006. TBU focuses on manufacturing and assembling seats, door trims and interior parts for Toyota Vios, Hilux, Fortuner, Innova, Hiace manufactured by Assembly Services Sdn Bhd (ASSB) and Hino commercial vehicles.
TBU has allocated over RM8 million to develop the new TBU plant 2 on a 3,000 square meter built-up area. The project started early this year as part of UMW Toyota Motor's RM1 Billion investment plan for 3 years until 2013.
Speaking at the official opening ceremony of the new plant, En. Ismet Suki, UMW Toyota Motor's President said, "Toyota Boshoku UMW (TBU) was established more than 25 years ago in 1985. Previously named Seat Industries (M) Sdn Bhd, TBU plant 1 started its operations at ASSB manufacturing facility, assembling seats for Corolla and later assembling seats for other Toyota models. In 2008, a TBU plant in Pekan Pahang was established to cater for the growing business and a newly acquired business from Suzuki Malaysia Automobile to assemble seats for Suzuki Swift".
As the number of Toyota vehicles on the road grew, the demand for assembling seats, door trims and interior parts has also increased. "Since 2004, the sales revenue has grown from RM 121 million to RM 186 million in 2010. For this year, we are confident to maintain our sales target of more than RM 180 million", said En. Ismet Suki.
In line with the business growth and technical advancements, Toyota Boshoku group has consistently provided TBU with technical support in terms of high technology machine designs, line set-up and technical training. This new plant was also established to accommodate the introduction of the New Camry CKD project and to improve remaining processes at TBU plant 1 namely logistics, frame welding, door trim and seat assembly. He added, "At the same time, this plant focuses on the sewing and cutting operations and introduction of a new product called the "Package Tray" which is also known as the rear speaker board for the new Camry CKD project".
All operations and processes at the plant are specifically designed utilizing the Toyota Production System (TPS) to ensure that this plant activity follow the stringent Toyota Standard. This will further improve customers' satisfaction, in line with the company's theme, "One Team - Customer First".
As part of towards maintaining "Zero Accident" at all of TBU plants which follow the strict Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Japan operations guidelines, TBU plant 2 also provides better working environment for all their staff such as the standardized material racking and lightings to ensure better visual and water curtain system for better ventilation.
"The layout of this plant was also designed with safety in mind incorporating the separation of man and machine in the operational areas", said En. Ismet at the event.
He added, "With these investments and following Toyota's continuous improvement or "Kaizen", we believe TBU will continue to grow and realize our goal to be the leading vehicle interior system supplier in Malaysia with organization driven by customer first philosophy and guided by the Toyota Business Practices."
The event to mark the significant milestone was held in the presence of YBhg Tan Sri Asmat Kamaludin, Chairman of UMW Toyota Motor; Mr. Takashi Hibi, Deputy Chairman of UMW Toyota Motor, YBhg Datuk Syed Hisham Syed Wazir, President and Group CEO, UMW Holdings Berhad and En. Ismet Suki, President of UMW Toyota Motor.


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A percussion group of musical instruments.
Drums consist of at least one membrane or surface (metal in the case of steel drums), called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a drumstick, to produce sound.
There is often a "resonance head" on the underside of the drum, these are usually tuned to a slightly lower pitch than the top drumhead.
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Best Ginger Molasses cookies in NYC?
Breezy Hill, at the Union Square Greenmarket: huge, chewy, not too sweet, intensely ginger-y.
Breezy Hill, at the Union Square Greenmarket: huge, chewy, not too sweet, intensely ginger-y.
Hi, wingding! I love this too; the rye is so distinctive, perfect against the ginger, and the texture is divine.
Thanks, Evan! I do love capers.
Evan, what would you drink with steak tartare? I'm thinking Chinon, or maybe a bubbly rosé.
Adorable photo of Dorie and Josh!
I've done this for years (although I like to cut through the backbone, using a cleaver and meat mallet). A rich mushroom/ricotta/parmesan mixture goes between the skin and the flesh, and I smoke the turkey at an average grill temperature of 350º.
Oh man, I'm so embarrassed that I haven't been here yet. Angelo is a sweetheart and a seriously talented chef. Great photos, Robyn!
Ideal proportions, Ed. I consider the eggs and salmon a delivery system for the caramelized onions.
@PerkyMac - That's terrifying! Nothing scarier than a house fire.
@PerkyMac, feel free to laugh. I did too, until it started to hurt. ;-}
I might as well admit why the collapsible bowl is my largest. I had a huge plastic mixing bowl that I parked in the oven one morning because I was too lazy to put it away properly. When I got home that night, I started prepping dinner and turned on the oven...
Do you know what a huge plastic bowl looks like when it's melted? (I'm lucky the oven wasn't ruined.) That really made me laugh.
I'm feeling better about my latest mishap too. Three weeks ago I made a pot of really fine stock, and grabbed my largest bowl in which to strain it. The bowl is one of those collapsible silicone numbers. (You see where this is going, right?) The edge of the stockpot clipped the rim of the bowl, which of course collapsed, flooding my right leg with boiling stock. I immediately flushed it with cold water, but still ended up with second degree burns from groin to ankle. I have a fairly high pain threshold but man, did this hurt.
It's healing well. The boy cat has finally stopped sniffing my boiled leg and wondering if it's dinner. But I'm still sad about losing that stock.
Soups, stews, pasta, meatloaf, stir fries...
Black garlic is aged for a month under heat, which ferments it and turns the flavor sweet and rich - although you can still tell it's garlic.
My favorite birthday cake is Rose Beranbaum's Chocolate Oblivion Truffle Torte. Incredibly easy and incredibly delicious!
I butterfly it before cooking which makes carving a breeze - even after a few glasses of wine.
Try brining the chicken breasts before cooking: dissolve 1/4 cup kosher salt in a quart of cool water, add the chicken and refrigerate for an hour or so. It won't add much sodium, and the chicken will be juicier and more flavorful.
Andre Soltner, who is now a dean at the French Culinary Institute.
Lutece was our special occasion place for years. I miss it.
I don't foil either because I think the bark is the best part. And I agree with Markbb about putting the butt on the smoker cold for greater smoke penetration.
I've been once, for lunch, and thought the food was very very good, especially the inaka soba and the bakudan. Nothing made my eyes roll back in my head, but I was happy with the clean flavors and interesting textures. If your husband likes authentic Japanese I think he'd be pleased.
That looks perfect for a hot, humid August night!
Jicama is delicious cut into fat spears and sprinkled with lime juice, coarse salt and ground chipotle (or another hot red pepper). Nice as a chip alternative for salsa or guacamole too.
Kernan had watermelon at the market on 77th & Columbus yesterday.
Blake, you didn't mention OKRA! Try Yuno's (my favorite), Cherry Lane and Berried Treasures.
Roasted vegetables. In summer, that might be okra or cauliflower, or Delia Smith's oven-roasted ratatouille. In winter, squash, parsnips, carrots, cipollini and/or Jerusalem artichokes.
Oven-roasted and eaten with lime juice and ground chipotle.
The French Culinary Institute also has a number of intense programs for amateurs.
Slice off the flower end of the cukes before pickling; they'll stay crisper.
Two early visits to 'cesca disappointed, and the place fell off my radar until my friend Kevin Garcia took over the kitchen. He was the exec chef at Lucca, our restaurant at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, then cooked at Lupa for a while before he helped Batali open Del Posto (and decamped soon after). My husband and I went to 'cesca last night.
The space is sprawling, low-ceilinged and dimly lit, with dark brown velvet banquettes that make it feel even darker and heavier. But the food is good enough to make up for the ambiance. Kevin has been here since May, and is still shaking down the kitchen crew and working on some consistency problems, but there's a lot of promise here.
Amuse: Crostini of marinated eggplant, sprightly and lush, was a nice accompaniment to a glass of prosecco.
Apps: Sweet, creamy Tuscan mozzarella scattered with heirloom cherry tomatoes, excellent EVOO and basil was delicious. So were my zucchini blossoms, stuffed with mozzarella, lightly battered and flash fried, served with tomato coulis and wild arugula.
Midcourse: Kevin sent out some crudo – tuna and yellowtail (I think) – that was overwhelmed by lemon, and needed more crunch than the microgreen/chopped chive garnish provided.
Pasta: We split an order of braised duck ravioli. The filling was nicely flavored but pasty; leaving the duck in shreds would have improved the texture. The balsamico-laced sauce was a bit over-reduced.
Mains: Roy ordered the daily special of tagliata di manzo, slices of rare ribeye served with the meat juices and mixed greens - a good straightforward dish. My choice of scallops with capers, cauliflower and raisins bore little resemblance to Jean-George's signature preparation, and it was brilliant. Four huge diver scallops, seared golden, surrounded a thick cross-section of cauliflower slowly caramelized on the stove and finished in the oven. Sultanas provided bursts of sweetness; capers and caperberries added briny crunch; bits of pancetta helped pull all the flavors together.
We were too full for dessert. The tab, including three glasses of wine, was $140 before tax and tip; rather high for a neighborhood restaurant, but Kevin's cooking might make it a destination.
'cesca, 164 W. 75th, 212-787-6300
A tasting of Del Maguey single village mezcals boosted my respect and enthusiasm for this spirit. Mezcal production has not been industrialized as tequila has; the labor-intensive process has been much the same for 400 years. And mezcals now have their own standards for geographic origin and labeling. The worm-floating plonk that made you sick in college? Fuggedaboudit.
While tequila is associated with Jalisco, fine mezcal hails from Oaxacan villages in the south. Agave hearts are roasted over hot earth-covered stones, crushed by horse-powered stone wheels, naturally fermented in wood, and double-distilled in copper or clay stills. Del Maguey mezcals are bottled undiluted – analogous to cask-strength bourbons – and range from 92 to 98 proof.
The six bottles we sampled varied considerably in flavor, smokiness and smoothness, depending on the village's elevation, the roasting process (some makers add earth from a prior roasting, others add palm leaves or the like), and the still material.
My favorite, the Chichicapa, is as bold and smoky as an Islay malt. Others were creamier, smoother and/or sweeter. The Tobala is made from wild agave, and has an appealingly earthy taste. Pechuga is the most intricate: double-distilled mezcal goes into a clay still with wild plums, apples and other fruits, and a skinless bone-in chicken breast is suspended above (to balance the fruit and gather impurities during the third distillation, we were told). The incredibly smooth result reminded me of an eau de vie.
These are all limited production. Retail prices range from $70 to $200 - not cheap, but not bad for a spirit as complex and fascinating as high-end cognac.
DISCLOSURE: I work for Drew Nieporent, and most of this dinner was comped.
My Nobu visits are usually downtown; although I admire David Rockwell's design uptown, the place is too noisy and claustrophobic for me. But the food last night was so spectacular it didn't matter.
We were four, and opted for omakase. Our server's offer to bring dishes new to us was eagerly accepted, with two requests: some uni for me, and the shrimp tempura in creamy spicy sauce for my husband, Mr. Meat 'n' Taters.
Sorry there are no pictures, because every course was visually stunning, but after giving Mr. M'n'T a hard time for using his cell phone, I couldn't really whip out a camera.
Here's what we ate:
I prefer sake with this food but my uncle wanted wine. The Cakebread sauvignon blanc and Sequoia Grove cabernet he ordered worked surprisingly well.
Matt Hoyle, the chef, was second in command at Nobu London, and made us a marvelous lunch when we were there a few years ago. He's even better now.
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What is the difference between Transparent and Forward proxy mode?
The goal of a proxy is to be the middle man (proxy) between HTTP clients and HTTP servers. This specifically means that the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), as a web proxy, will have two sets of TCP sockets per client request:Client -> WSA WSA -> Origin serverHow the WSA HTTP proxy obtains the client's request can be defined as one of two ways: Transparently or Explicitly.Each of these deployments have several specific configuration options:
The WSA can use all of these deployments except for bridged mode. This is expected to be available in the near future.When requests are being redirected to the WSA transparently, the WSA must pretend to be the OCS (origin content server), since the client is unaware of the existence of a proxy. On the contrary, if a request is explicitly sent to the WSA, the WSA will respond with it's own IP information.There are a few differences between explicit and transparent client HTTP requests:1. An explicit request has a destination IP address of the configured proxy. A transparent request has a destination IP address of the intended web server (DNS resolved by the client).2. The URI for a transparent request does not contain the protocol with the host:
Both will contain an HTTP Host header that specifies the DNS host.WSA ConfigurationThe WSA can be configured for "transparent" or "forward". This is slightly misleading, as this is really "transparent" or "explicit" mode, both of which are forward proxy deployments. Reverse proxy is where the proxy is intended to be on the same network as the HTTP servers and its purpose is to serve up content for these HTTP servers.The only major difference between transparent and forward mode on the WSA is that in transparent mode, the WSA will respond to both transparent and explicit HTTP requests. Whereas in explicit, the WSA ONLY responds to explicit HTTP requests.The WSA will always send its upstream request as a transparent style request, since the WSA is acting as it's own client, UNLESS the WSA is configured to specifically use an explicit upstream proxy.The following is another difference between transparent and explicit authentication:
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To the Editor:
Norman Podhoretz's major thesis ["The Idea of Crisis" November 1970] is that the "crisis-mongering" that characterizes much social criticism of late, although often masquerading as something else, is actually a means (whether conscious or unconscious) of manipulating us emotionally toward some form of police-state. In other words, those who might describe apocalyptically our movement toward totalitarianism, our loss of certain freedoms, and the rapid erosion of other freedoms, are in fact themselves bringing about the nightmare that they prophesy. Now this is an arguable although somewhat strange position, but Mr. Podhoretz's presentation nullifies any genuine intellectual consideration of the issues at hand. . . .
Some questions come to mind, and Mr. Podhoretz deals with none of them adequately: 1) Is there a real crisis in our society? 2) If it is partly or wholly in our minds, does that make it unreal (e.g., the relationship between a loss of confidence in the economy and the deterioration of the economy)? 3) When there is a crisis in society, is it always registered in the mind (e.g., Mr. Podhoretz's own lack of awareness)? 4) Most important, how is it known that those who "harp" on crisis cause demands for extraordinary action? Nowhere does Mr. Podhoretz explain this. He claims only that somehow by calling the system into question we open, perhaps unwittingly, the door to a closed society. Questioning our democracy, to Mr. Podhoretz, is akin to opening Pandora's box. To call a system antiquated (not that the authors of this letter do) is not necessarily to suggest a closed society as an alternative; it is rather, as in Robert Paul Wolff's case, to suggest that ours is not as open as it pretends. Would Mr. Podhoretz place a moratorium on all such political and social discussions? . . .
If there were a crisis in American democracy, he would never know because he is up to his neck (perhaps over his head) in his own ideology.
C. D. Epstein
Steven R. Cusulos
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Norman Podhoretz writes:
As I tried to make clear in answer to several letters about "The Idea of Crisis" which appeared in these columns in January, my concern was, and is, to expose the political nature of the idea of crisis in itself and apart from whatever substantive content might be found at any particular moment to give it plausibility. I have also been trying in various ways to suggest that the political purpose of this political idea is to persuade us that extraordinary measures must be taken if our problems are to be dealt with effectively. Such extraordinary actions are not necessarily those tending toward a police-state or a totalitarian government; they may merely involve the transformation of our pluralistic democratic polity into a Gaullist-type regime or a species of modified oligarchy. Gaullism is not fascism and oligarchy is not totalitarianism, but neither are they democratic pluralism. And democratic pluralism, imperfect but nevertheless real and functioning, is what I believe we enjoy in this country and what I believe many criers of crisis hate and wish to undo. Many, not all, for some also cry crisis as a means of furthering the cause of one out-of-power faction or another within the Democratic or Republican parties.
Now to the specific questions posed by Messrs. Epstein and Cusulos: 1-2) I think our society has problems, some of them very serious, but I do not believe we are suffering, at least not yet, from a political crisis. If the word crisis applies at all, it applies in my view to our spiritual or cultural condition. Such a crisis by definition exists primarily in our minds (or souls) but that does not make it any the less real than any of the external conditions for which vulgar materialists exclusively reserve the designation "real." 3) Yes, I suppose it is possible for a crisis in society to go unnoticed, but in our society, it is far more likely that crises will register in the mind where only problems or troubles exist. 4) Surely the answer is obvious: If there is a crisis, then (again by definition) ordinary action has proved itself inadequate and extraordinary action is either explicitly or implicitly called for.
I have no wish to place a moratorium on any discussion of any kind, wearisome though I admittedly think some discussions have recently grown. I do wish to criticize reasoning that seems to me false and to call attention to ideas that seem to me dangerous in their political implications. The idea (echoed by Messrs. Epstein and Cusulos) that our freedoms have been eroded in recent years is an example of the former; the idea of crisis is an example of the latter.


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Murray's legacy
There's a bumper sticker you see now and then that says, "Well behaved women rarely make history." Civil and womens' rights pioneer Pauli Murray would likely concur.
You can't have progress without challenging conventions and making people uncomfortable. Murray strove hard to move human rights issues forward, ruffling more than a few feathers in some quarters.
"I don't think anyone said, 'Oh, she was such a nice lady,'" the Rev. Stuart Hoke said Tuesday at the annual celebration of Murray. The first black woman to become an Episcopal priest who was made a saint of the church in 2012 made inroads on so many fronts. "When you take up a cross and follow Jesus, conflict of some kind is inevitable," Hoke pointed out.
Murray was an incredibly bright woman who had a lasting impact on issues of gender and race. She was gay, too, and while she did not talk openly about it during her life, it is part of her legacy, as well.
She was unafraid to wade into territory where she knew she would not be welcome.
In 1938, the Durham-raised Murray applied to UNC Chapel Hill for graduate school. She was denied. Later, she applied to Harvard Law School, only to be told she was the wrong gender for admission.
Far from having denials end her academic career, Murray went on to graduate from Howard University Law School and Yale Law School. She was determined. She had a finely honed sense of fairness. She was remarkable in so many ways, not the least of which was being so far out in front of the curve on social justice issues.
It is fortunate that some in Durham saw the historical importance of preserving the pieces of her legacy here. Barbara Lau, director of the Pauli Murray Project, has worked tirelessly as an advocate for preservation of Murray's childhood home. The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, established last year, is focusing on the renovations, which are progressing.
The Pauli Murray Project is an important part of Durham, and continues the work that Murray began. The organization's vision is to have a Durham community that works toward fairness and justice across lines of race, class, gender and sexual orientation.
Durham should be proud of being part of Murray's legacy and celebrate her life's work.
Lau, at the invitation of the Museum of the New South in Charlotte, also has developed an exhibit titled "Pauli Murray: Imp, Crusader, Dude, Priest" to helps share Murray's legacy. "Courageous," "accomplished" and "truth telling" are terms the exhibit uses to describe Murray.
The terms in the title of the exhibit itself all were words that Murray used to describe herself. It's worth noting there's nary a mention of a nice lady.


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Lady Hawks Win in Final Seconds
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - Autumn Lee-Jeffries (Holy Angels/Buffalo, NY) knocked down a 6-foot jumper with six seconds to play to give Hilbert College a 47-46 win over D'Youville College in women's basketball action on Tuesday night. The win improves the Hawks to 10-14 (4-4 NEAC) on the season.
Cheri White (Tonawanda/Tonawanda, NY) scored 12 points and grabbed five rebounds to lead Hilbert. Lee-Jeffries added 10 points, nine rebounds and nine blocked shots, while Amanda Smolarek (Villa Maria/Lancaster, NY) chipped in with 10 points and six rebounds.
D'Youville was led by Kate Modafferi with 12 points, while Tracey Travis grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.
Hilbert will enter the North Eastern Athletic Conference tournament as the #3 seed and will face #2 seed Medaille College at 3 p.m. Feb. 28 at Keuka College. The winner will play in the championship game at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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They may be having some struggles on the field but the Dallas Cowboys are bringing in more cash than any other NFL team.
The franchise tops Forbes list of the most valuable NFL teams for the seventh year in a row.
Jerry Jones' team is worth $2.3 billion.
To put that in perspective, Forbes says the average NFL franchise is worth about $1.8 billion.
New England Patriots take the second spot, worth $1.8 billion.
The Washington Redskins are in third with $1.7 billion.
In fourth place, the New York Giants, worth $1.5 billion.
And the Houston Texans round out the top five, worth $1.4 billion.
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International Games Day @ Your Library
Tomorrow is International Games Day @ Your Library, an event organized and promoted by the American Library Association to "reconnect communities through their libraries around the educational, recreational, and social value of all types of games." This includes board games, card games, video games, and our personal favorites - RPGs and LARP.
Find out more, including what libraries near you may be participating, at ngd.ala.org!
Gamers helping with Hurricane Sandy relief
It should come as no surprise to most roleplayers that DriveThruRPG has put together a package of RPG PDFs to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy - they've been raising funds for various causes and relief efforts for several years now. This time around, it's over $400 of RPG supplements and a few other items for a $20 donation, the proceeds of which go directly to the Red Cross. Find out more at DriveThruRPG.
Point of Insanity Studios has put together their own bundle as well, which includes three of their products at a discounted price. You can find out more at their bundle page on DriveThruRPG.
If anyone knows of any other RPG-related hurricane relief charities currently going on, please let me know!
D&D aids in psychology research - but not how you might think
This story from Discover Magazine tells about Alan Kingstone, a psychologist doing research on the gaze-copying behavior found in humans and animals - the tendency we have to look where others are looking. While pondering the different hypotheses on this behavior, Kingstone mentioned them to his 12-year-old son, who suggested a possible method of testing whether or not humans focused on a subject's eyes or the center of their head - show them pictures from the Monster Manual, including monsters like the Beholder, Otyugh, and Umber Hulk, that have eyes in other places.
It's an interesting article, and a great tribute to D&D as a source of iconic images being used in scientific research.
Wizards and Warriors needs your help!
Meghan Gardner (whom I interviewed a little while ago) has spent years developing a fantastic collection of LARP camps for young people, and now she wants to license the systems and take their LARP camps nationwide. They're using Kickstarter to raise some funding, which means you can help make this fantastic project a reality! Here are the details, in Meghan's own words:
Guard Up! Inc. just announced that we will be raising funds to license our youth program called "Wizards & Warriors". This program is designed to engage kids and teens in live, story-based adventures where they play a character in an ongoing storyline. In these adventures, the kids (we call them "Heroes") fight monsters with foam swords, win treasure and solve ancient mysteries. We also have a futuristic version that uses Nerf Blasters called "Zombie Blaster Adventures". Both programs involve kids interacting with creatures and characters out of real life history, literature, and mythology.
As I write this, the Kickstarter has only 5 days to go, and is still a bit below their goal - so please act fast!
PBS Idea Channel: Can D&D can make you a successful & confident person?
I'm still playing catch-up with the stuff that has come in to my inbox the last few weeks. This one has been making the rounds quite a bit lately, so it's likely you've seen it elsewhere, but in case you haven't: PBS's Idea Channel on YouTube recently covered the subject of the benefits of playing Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop roleplaying games:
It's very well done, with an excellent coverage of the benefits of playing RPGs, peppered with lots of references to miscellaneous coolness (such as the Futurama, Community and Freaks & Geeks episodes, the D&D cartoon, and much more. (Bonus points awarded, as always, for the gazebo and Dead Alewives references!)
The request for comments and input brought some great responses, which were covered at the end of the following Idea Channel video, and included a comment from W.A. Hawke Robinson of rpgresearch.com (starting at around 6:08):
RPGers raise over $16K for fellow gamer's brain surgery
I'm a bit behind with this one, but it's still a fantastic story of roleplayers helping others - a group of gamers on Reddit are crowdfunding a benefit for a fellow gamer and talented artist who had a brain tumor removed. So far, they have collected over $16,000, and there are still eight days (as I write this) left on the indiegogo project.
Read the full story, including links to the Reddit thread and indiegogo page, here.
Random article table: D&D Documentary gets funded, Playing at the World, Marines who love Marines, and more!
I've been short on free time lately, which can only mean one thing - tt's time for another collection of random articles!
- D&D Documentary has been funded: My original plan was to write a little blurb about how the Kickstarter for the proposed documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons was in need of funding, but before I could get this update together, a big push from many geek-friendly blogs and sites helped get the funding over the goal. As I write this, there are just two hours left to participate, so if you want in, you'll have to act fast - Dungeons & Dragons: A Documentary
- Marines Who Love Space Marines - This Slate article on the popularity of Warhammer 40K among servicemen gives a bit of attention to the history of modern wargames, with a couple quick stops at Little Wars and D&D. Read all about it here. (Thanks to Ed Rishel for the link!)
- Two articles from Wired GeekDad: The first is an interview with the author of Playing at the World:A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson - a book so thorough on the subject that interviewer Ethan Gilsdorf wasn't able to finish it in time before the interview! Read all about it here.
The second is about Play To Decide, a project that "will research how role-playing games can be used to support organizations and communities in democratic decision-making." Matt Cooperrider, the brains behind the project, is looking for input from anyone who may have some insight on using simulation games in this capacity - or just anyone with good ideas. Find out more here.
- A Tribute: Finally, a very touching post on RPGnet, in which a longtime gamer tells the story of how his mother handled his sudden interest in this strange game that was causing such an uproar in the news. It's a classic example of how parenting is done right, and it reminds me a lot of the way my parents handled my sudden interest in RPGs. Read it here.
Chaosium wants RPGs for kids!
Chaosium (or "THE Chaosium," as we grognards call them), publisher of the original Call of Cthulhu RPG, is looking for submissions for new kid-friendly RPGs using their BRP (Basic Roleplaying) system:
We believe that gaming is a great way for parents to interact with their kids. It is a wonderful way to spend time together, to talk about things in the midst of the game, and the kids may even learn a lesson or two (Little Timmy! Why do you want to cast that booger-eating spell on that innocent bunny? Is that a nice thing to do?).They certainly have the right idea about playing RPGs with kids, and the need for new games to support that cause.
If you've been kicking around an idea for a kid-friendly RPG, this may be your chance to see it get published! (I may even try to bang out a submission of my own, if I can find the time.) Submission rules and information can be found on Chaosium's website. Good luck!
(Thanks to Jeff Woodall for the link.)
RPG-positive story in the Santa Clara Weekly
Here's a nice little piece, complete with a picture of smiling gamers, on the Dungeons & Dragons Encounters events held at a game and comic store in Santa Clara, California.
"Dungeons and Dragons gives you a chance to explore reacting to different situations," Gravius says. "Something really satisfying about playing Dungeons and Dragons is being able to figure out a difficult puzzle or winning a really tough battle. It's even more fun when you win with a group of people."
Read the full article here: Dungeons and Dragons Group Fosters Role Playing Fun
Random article table: Braille Dice, Navy Seal LARP, and two new celeb gamers
It's that time again when I realize I'm behind on posting relevant RPG articles, and have to compile them all into one post whilst making a clever reference to random encounter tables from classic RPGs. So dig those percentile dice out of your battered Crown Royal bag and roll on the following table:
- I've heard of people making Braille dice before, to help provide people with vision impairments the satisfaction of rolling and reading their own dice, but I'm not sure they've been available in any configuration other than the basic d6. Now there's a Kickstarter project that aims to make a full set of Braille polyhedrals available, and it could really use a boost. I know there are lots of dice collectors out there who would love to have a set just for the novelty of it, and every pledge they get goes to a good cause. Visit their Kickstarter page at kickstarter.com/projects/592087154/braille-dice
- Bin Laden killed repeatedly in a Minnesota Navy Seal LARP: The title says it all, really. Not much more I can add to that, beyond the link.
- Celeb gamer - Anderson Cooper: In a recent "Ridiculist" segment about China banning movies and television shows about time travel, fantasy, and mythical stories, Anderson Cooper made a brief nod to his gamer geek past - or it could have just been one of his writers poking a little fun.
"Now as a former Dungeons & Dragons nerd, I can tell you that this is disturbing to me on a very deep, personal level. No fantasy, no mythical stories? What would I do with my multi-sided die and level 6 orc powers? And if you don't get the references it just means you probably played outdoors as a child and actually had friends."
Watch the video and decide for yourself:
Strange... my first game of D&D was played with three friends (one of them was even a GIRL!), and we played outdoors. I must have been doing it wrong.
- Celeb gamer - Nick Offerman: A site called Uproxx informs us that the Parks and Recreation actor was a Call of Cthulhu LARP enthusiast while in college who won several awards for his participation, and is even credited in the Call of Cthulhu silent film. Uproxx also informs us that anyone knowing what Call of Cthulhu is needs to get a life. Here's the link.
And again, I'm doing it wrong. I've definitely heard of "The Call of Cthulhu," but had no idea who Nick Offerman was. (I don't get to watch very much television these days.) Now that I've read about him on Wikipedia and his personal site, I see that he seems like a pretty cool guy.
Oh, and Uproxx? It's just "Cthulhu," not "THE Cthulhu." Get a life.
Grimm Wisdom: 5 reasons to play D&D
At the Grimm Wisdom blog, Adam Grimm gives us 5 reasons to play D&D.
They're pretty good reasons, too. I've been preaching them here for the last 16 years, so they're nothing new to us, but it's always good to see someone else who agrees and wants to spread the word.
James Holmes and roleplaying
The terrible act of violence in Colorado on Friday morning has left everyone looking for answers, as we always seem to do in these situations. While many of those with an audience have been quick to trot out their pet agendas (evolution, lack of prayer in schools, gun control, lack of gun control, etc.), I'm told that there has been the occasional mention of role-playing here and there.
I did a quick Google search for "James Holmes roleplaying," and most of what turned up seemed to reference online gaming, and not tabletop. The rest of what turned up began to wear away at my faith in humanity - conspiracy theories and suchlike. I closed that tab quickly, before I spotted any bloggers trying to connect the name James Holmes with the Holmes edition of D&D.
I am somewhat limited in my internet access at present, however - so if anyone spots a piece attempting to connect James Holmes to tabletop RPGs, please let me know.
One observation that I read and enjoyed (in a comment on Jolly Blackburn's Facebook wall) was this - regardless of whether or not Holmes played RPGs, the odds are a good portion of the people in the theater that he terrorized have at one time or another.
For the record, I refuse to refer to the killer by the moniker that the media have labelled him with. It is not fair to associate this act with the film and characters that so many people worked hard to develop, and so many fans have come to enjoy. It is not right to give the name of a work of creative art to someone who chose to be so destructive. It does no justice to those artists, the fans of the art, and most of all the victims who were just hoping to be among the first to enjoy a movie featuring their favorite superhero.
Read an RPG Book in Public Week sneaked up on me!
Eeep! I've been so busy trying to sort out some life issues that I nearly missed the arrival of this summer's Read an RPG Book in Public Week!
So tell me folks, what are you planning to read, and where? And don't forget to share pics!
Anti-D&D (and anti-lots of other stuff!) pamphlet at Comicon
Here's a picture that's been getting passed around on the social networks - it's a page from a religious tract that was being handed out by protestors at last weekend's Comicon in San Diego.
Sure, we're pretty well past the days of rampant Satanic Panic, but there are still a few out there who just can't let go of it.
Family emergency
Some of you may have heard the news that my house burned down recently. Rest assured that all of my family members and myself are safe and sound - we were away from the house when it happened. Sadly, two of our cats and our guinea pig did not fare so well.
I have more information about the fire at my Awkward Labs website - www.awkwardlabs.com/family-emergency
Thanks to everyone for your words of support and encouragment!
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2012 Summer airfare prices expected to increase
By Jeremy Branham on Mar 12, 2012 with Comments 1
If you are looking for summer airfares to book your next vacation, don't wait to book your flight – summer airfares for 2012 will be on the rise. Demand for air travel should increase this year so expect full flights and higher prices as a result.
This year, airlines have already tried airfare hikes – four airfare price increases and two of them have succeeded. In January, Delta, American, United, and US Air implemented a $20 hike earlier this year. Southwest made sure it stayed by raising theirs $10 each way.
For vacations, this may mean less airfare deals for summer travel.
The good news for passengers is that airlines must disclose total airfare price, including taxes, with disclosure for any extra fees that may be added as well. So finding the cheapest flight for your summer vacation is now a lot easier since there will be no more confusion about what the total cost of your airline ticket is.
Aside from increased demand for summer airfares, rising fuel prices may also play a factor in higher airfares this summer. Right now, airfares are up nearly 10 percent over last year.
With mergers, less airline capacity, and summer vacations just around the corner, expect the next increase for airfares to come in April or May.
A recent report by the FAA predicts airline passenger travel doubling and higher airfares over the next 20 years. However, FareCompare's Rick Seaney says there is no need to panic. Prices will increase but customers may see less than a 10% increase.
Find the cheapest flights for 2012 summer airfares
With higher demand for air travel, less capacity, and higher airfare prices, you can expect to pay more for your airline ticket this summer. However, here are some tips to find the best deals for summer airfares.
Shop 3 months out – If you are looking for summer airfares in early June, shop now. Before seats fill up, airlines are willing to offer their best deals to early customers.
Shop for flights on Tuesday – Airlines announce their airfare sales late Monday or early Tuesday and many airlines will scramble to match each other. Early Tuesday afternoon is the best time to shop for airfares due to airfare sales.
Fly midweek – Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the cheapest days to fly. Pay attention to the restrictions for many of the airfare sales as you can find the best deals on these days.
Airfare alerts – If you know your destination or when you want to fly, sign up for airfares deal from your departure city. Each airline will send you the latest airfares sales and alerts via email. Other sites like FareCompare and Airfare Watchdog allow you to set up alerts for cities, routes, and/or departure dates so you get the latest updates.
Check airline sites – Not every airline offers their airfares on travel aggregator sites like Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, and others. Southwest Airlines only offers their airfares on their site. American Airlines and JetBlue only offers their airfares to certain aggregators. Search airline sites to see their prices and/or compare to the aggregator sites. Sign up for their airfare alerts.
Travel aggregators – These are the popular booking sites for travel like Expedia, Orbitz, Kayak, etc. Bing Travel has a price predictor for certain routes which tells you whether to wait or buy. Kayak and Hipmunk are two of the best aggregator sites out there as they check a number of airlines and often find the best deals.
Check the flight's capacity – If you are looking to book a flight, check to see how full the flight is (see which seats are available). If there are still a lot of seats left three months before departure, airfares may hold steady or drop. If the flight is nearly full, book now.
Look for one seat – Even if you are flying with more than one person, searching for two seats will give you the lowest seat price for two seats together. Looking for one seat will give you the cheapest seat available. Note that this may mean splitting up your party (which may not be worth the savings to you).
As airfares increase for summer travel, make sure you know all the secrets to finding the cheapest flight for your summer vacation.
Will you fly this summer? What tips do you have for finding the best airfare deal?
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This has reminded me that I really need to get moving on booking my summer airfare to Europe! Eeek!


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The final movie in The Twilight Saga.
After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
Stars Kristen Stewart as Bella Cullen, Maggie Grace as Irina, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, Dakota Fanning as Jane, Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black, Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen, Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale, Billy Burke as Charlie Swan, and Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen.
There are currently no cheats available for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012).
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Jose Iglesias' big nights are everyday things
Jose Iglesias' big nights are everyday things
We are at that point in Jose Iglesias' season where a multiple-hit game no longer draws notice.
Seventeen of his 34 games have featured at least two hits.
He had three last night.
When somebody does a neat trick every other day, it's tough to work up the proper amount of shock and awe, but what stood out about Iglesias' hat trick last night was that it came in his first game as the everyday third baseman of the Red Sox.
That makes it special.
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GNSS antenna modules
Global positioning made easy
More and more end-products are integrating global positioning as an attractive feature. In addition to familiar navigation systems, "Global Navigation Satellite System" (GNSS) receivers are required in vehicle and asset tracking systems, personal locators, security systems, vending machines, health monitoring and recreational devices.
Every GNSS receiver requires an antenna to pick up the extremely weak signals broadcast from satellites typically 20 thousands kilometers away. As many customers do not have the RF/antenna tuning expertise or the sourcing capability, a performance optimized "GNSS antenna module" which combines both satellite receiver chip and antenna on the same module can be a good solution. These modules provide fast time-to-market, simplified logistics and an economically viable solution for "instant" global positioning.
A GNSS antenna module is also significantly smaller in size than a GNSS module plus an external antenna. This makes a GNSS antenna module with integrated chip antenna a very attractive and hassle-free option for very thin designs.
A typical application ideal for the GNSS antenna module approach is the fast-growing market for personal and pet locator devices. These types of devices are extremely small, while requiring optimal antenna performance regardless of device orientation.
Also important is high jamming-immunity of the satellite receiver chip as personal tracking devices typically include a cellular modem, and may often share the same pocket as a mobile phone.
A GNSS antenna module with pre-tuned antenna optimized for good reception regardless of orientation, as well as integrated SAW filters to provide high immunity to cellular noise are two important design criteria.
Depending on the intended region of use, support of multiple satellite navigation systems including GPS, GLONASS (Russia), BeiDou (China) and QZSS (Japan) may be required. This expands regional compatibility of the device. Additionally, support of two satellite systems at the same time (e.g. GPS/GLONASS, GPS/BeiDou, GLONASS/BeiDou) increases positioning speed and reliability as the chances of having line-of-sight to the minimum four satellites required to calculate a position is increased.
An example of an application that integrates a GNSS antenna module with integrated chip antenna is shown in figure 1. The personal locator is extremely thin thanks to the integrated chip antenna, and allows a user's location to be tracked and displayed over a web-interface.
The device integrates u-blox' chip antenna module, CAM-M8Q ("Chip Antenna Module") which provides both small size (9.6 x 14.0 x 1.95 mm) and multi-GNSS capability. It is based on a u-blox M8 chip and includes an integrated chip antenna plus SAW filter, LNA, TCXO, RTC crystal and passives. The chip antenna element used can handle all L1 frequencies ranging from BeiDou (1560 MHz) and GPS (1575 MHz) up to GLONASS (1606 MHz). The surface-mount module is also extremely low in height making very thin customer designs possible.
Chip antenna modules require care in design implementation as the PCB forms part of the overall antenna (half of the dipole). For this reason, vendor design-in support including system integration support and knowledgeable Application Engineers with many years experience in designing with chip antenna modules is important to achieve optimal performance.
CAM-M8Q also has a feature whereby the internal chip antenna can be used as a backup antenna if the customer chooses to use an external antenna. This is useful in applications where there is a risk that the primary external antenna may malfunction or suffer damage, for example in vehicle tracking systems where damage to the external antenna is possible (see schematic in Fig. 7).
For GPS-only applications, the PAM-7Q (fig. 3) is a highly popular form factor due to its installation flexibility. It can be mounted 'as is' in pre-existing designs or soldered with a pin-header to a customized PCB. The 18 x 18 mm patch antenna of PAM-7Q provides RHCP polarization not achievable with smaller patch antenna elements.
The simple design and easy interfacing keeps installation costs to a minimum. It targets industrial and consumer applications that require a small, fast and cost efficient solution to GPS positioning.
Both modules have been designed and tuned for optimal antenna performance independent of orientation and provide high sensitivity and jamming immunity as they include integrated SAW filters.
Fig. 4 shows GNSS antenna gain measurements over three planes. Note the near uniform performance in the vertical planes. This demonstrates consistent antenna gain in the sky-facing direction, independent of device orientation.
Measurements are based on the module mounted on an 80 x 40 mm ground plane, which acts as part of the antenna. The dark blue rectangle indicates the recommended mounting position of the antenna module.
The following schematics illustrated the simplicity of designing with the CAM-M8Q GNSS antenna module.
The first schematic in Fig. 5 shows a standalone solution using the internal GNSS antenna: only a few external passives used for the usual power supply filtering and protection are needed. An optional power on/off power switch is also included.
All positioning information is communicated to the host processor via the 2-wire NMEA interface on pins 25 and 26; no host processing is required, the module delivers a final position fix.
Fig. 6 shows a design where an external GNSS antenna is used. Should the external antenna become damaged, or the connection broken, the module automatically switches to the internal GNSS chip antenna so that positioning may continue. This is a very useful feature in vehicle applications where the external antenna could be damaged or compromised in the event of an accident.
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China And The United States Agree On Climate Change – Oh what a beautiful dayPosted by DougNic under air pollution , big coal , big oil , burning reduction methods , children and the environment , climate change , dying planet , economics , environmentalism , fossil fuels and the United States' Future , global warming , methane production , military polluters , over population , pollution , stewardship , water pollution
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The last excuse by the industrialists and their mouth pieces just went out the window. They totally bought the cancer and smoking defensive fall back approach. First they said that Climate Change wasn't happening. Then they said we couldn't "prove" it and came up with "scientists" that refuted it. Then they said it wasn't as "bad" as what we were saying. Finally they said, "Well China isn't doing it so why should we?". So I am sure now they will say that any carbon tax or carbon emissions limit will be TOO MUCH. You heard it here first.
November 12, 2014
The World Has Waited for the U.S. and China to Take Action on Climate Change. They Just Did.
By Rebecca Leber @rebleber
President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Wednesday commitments to reduce both countries' greenhouse gas emissions. The surprise announcement, which came while Obama visits Beijing this week, is the clearest sign yet the two countries are serious on climate change.
After months of negotiations with China, Obama has pledged the U.S. to cut emissions between 26 and 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. This is double the pace of carbon cuts the U.S had already pledged to reach by 2020.
But China's commitments might be even more unexpected, because it is the first time the growing economy has committed to a year for capping its emissions—seen as a crucial step for avoiding the worst-case scenarios of global warming. Xi pledged this will happen around 2030, though it will try to reach this peak as early as possible. China also agreed to increase the share of energy that doesn't come from fossil fuels to 20 percent by 2030.
Go there and read. More next week


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Dr. Samuel Myers said it "hurt his heart" as he listened to testimony at the ongoing HBCU Equality trial, Jan. 31. The president emeritus of Bowie State College, one of Maryland's four HBCUs, said he's spent his life working in higher education. "And I've seen the disparities that exist between funding for Blacks in higher education and those generally," he said. "And I know that the courts have long since ruled that the disparity be eliminated."
He had no problem declaring, "But it still exists."
Which is most likely the reason he was joined in the Garmatz Courtroom by other former educators and administrators including Dr. Andrew Billingsley, former president of Morgan State University; Dr. Arthur Thomas, former president Central State University; Dr. Wilma J. Roscoe, retired vice president of National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) and Raymond Pierce, dean, North Carolina Central State Law School and who also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton Administration.
Pierce was angered by the visible absence of anyone from the Obama Administration. "It is a shame that the Office for Civil Rights has had no presence in this trial," Pierce said. "I find it very troubling."