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1. So what sort of madness and divine inspiration drove you to write this book entitled, "Bad Birthdays The Truth Behind Your Crappy Sun Sign?" Also could you go into your background a bit with astrology as well?
I've always been interested in astrology, and as a youth I studied up on the different sun signs, moon signs, houses and planetary influences. In my college years and twenties, I put astrology aside as metaphysical nonsense and focused on empirical facts (typical know-it-all Virgo). Recently, I renewed my interest in astrology and looking back over my dating and work life, I can really see that a person's astrological sign is an incredibly accurate predictor of behavior. Nearly every relationship in my life makes sense when I view my past interactions through an astrological filter.
2. Ah Cursed Capricorn at your service. So why are Capricorns cursed? I would have to agree though specially in matters of romance. What can you share about my sign with us? Hail Pan Lord of Goats! As for why I'm cursed I could go on and on trust me. Not to mention the weird UFO stuff. Smile.
Ah, the sea goat! Poor, cursed sea goat. First, Capricorns can be so dull in conversation that they drive away potential relationships - idle chatter is repulsive to most Capricorns. Capricorns simply don't want to waste their time and energy with small talk. They refuse to give false compliments just to lubricate social situations. Capricorns also hate to waste their money, and want to pour most of their resources into their career. The curse runs deep with Capricorns... though I'm sure you're an exception, Jeffery.
3. I've been with a lot of Lousy Libra women and had nothing but trouble. What is the problem with these lousy wenches?
Lousy Libras. Libras can be so vain and so caught up with style and appearances that they don't even realize they're lacking in substance. The quickness which which they change their minds can literally make your head spin. A Capricorn + Libra combination can be brutal, especially on the Libra's fragile psyche. Capricorn is not interested in all the little darling gifts that Libra offers up, and mainly wants stability and reliability in romance. Libras mainly want to be taken shopping, the thought of which turns Capricorn's stomach.
4. So what do you mean by Surly Scorpios exactly? In my experience with them they are very devious and somewhat evil and oh definite grudge holders! The ones I meet anyway. And sense their planet Pluto isn't classified as a planet anymore or is it? Anyway they've been extra stingy!
Surly Scorpios are so manipulative, it's really crazy. They want to be the whole world's puppet master. If you refuse to be manipulated, or stand up to a Scorpio's bullying, watch out... you've made an enemy for life. Scorpios will spend years plotting revenge and they will figure out a way to get back at you. Their fiery tempers sometimes show up in the form of sulky surliness, and other times they can rage and be vengeful. In my opinion, Scorpios are the most intense sign in the zodiac.
5. This is a wild card question, what would you like to share with us from your book that our readers might enjoy?
Well, I guess I'll share a little bit about myself. I am a Vexed Virgo, through and through, and here is the Virgo section.
Have you ever wondered why the astrological sign for people with birthdays between August 24th and September 23rd is the virgin? Why, oh why, would this sign be represented by someone who is untouched and unloved in the physical sense? Bad news: being a virgin is not necessarily by choice for the great astrological maiden in the sky, though she might try to convince you that it is. She might even believe it herself. Sorry to say, the simple truth is that Virgos are kind of intense and off-putting.
Inviting a Vexed Virgo into your house is slightly like inviting in a critical mother-in-law who has been up all night on some illegal appetite-suppressants. The Virgo will start cleaning immediately. It will start with little things, like a piece of dog hair on the couch, and if you let it, it will quickly spiral to a full-on scrubbing of the oven. All the while, Virgo will be muttering little well-intentioned insults like, "It's incredible how many dishes someone who doesn't really cook can acquire," or, "It's so nice that you feel so comfortable with me as a friend that you can invite me over when your house is in such disrepair." It's quite charming. The upside is that it's an almost-free cleaning service, with the only cost being your self-esteem.
The other upside of inviting a Virgo to your home is that they are loyal, sympathetic, charitable pals. They are true-blue and genuinely care about their friends and family. They listen to problems and offer insightful advice after a careful analysis of your situation, and also make excellent designated drivers if you can stand to have them around. They have likely calculated exactly how much they can drink per hour to stay underneath the legal limit, so you'll usually be safe with a Virgo behind the wheel. They also make good bar trivia partners because they are able to mentally file away and recall a lot of mostly useless information.
Whatever you do, when you're spending time with a Virgo, please don't let on that you have noticed their annoying habits. They have a tendency to freak out, and when they lose it, they'll start listing every single thing you've ever done to them. They'll remember the time that you left a coffee ring on their coffee table because you refused to use a coaster, and the time that you brought home low-fat yogurt instead of fat-free yogurt. So bite your tongue unless you want a blow-by-blow recollection of the time that you accidentally backed into the garbage can.
6. So what did you think about that new sign called Ophiuchus? Crap are my thoughts to be honest.
Ah, creepy Ophiuchus, the Snake Bearer! I believe that the twelve sun signs are widely accepted for a reason, but this 13th sign can help qualify some of the quirks of Capricorn and Sagittarius. The Snake Bearer is a healer, a medicine man, and both Sagittarius and Capricorns can be wildly selfish for very different reasons. When you come across a kind, and helpful Capricorn or Sagittarius, ask their birthday - you might find that their birthday falls between Nov 29 and Dec 17. Or that they're just faking the whole kind and helpful thing, which is more likely.
7. Do you really think signs are compatible romance wise and what signs would I look for being a Capricorn? Any more advice you could offer?
Well, as a matter of fact... Virgo is a pretty good match for a Capricorn (raises eyebrows). Unfortunately, a Virgo/Capricorn love affair will never be "hot" hot. Just mutually enjoyable and likely quite profitable. I think Cancer and Gemini can both be good matches for Capricorn, as long as Capricorn's partner doesn't mind taking a back seat in decision making and household management.
8. What are you up to next book wise or any projects you'd like to share or links?
Good question! I'm thinking about a book on Bad Birthday names that would include my cutting opinion on names with apostrophes and anyone who names their child after the main character of a horror movie, or a biblical criminal.
I'd mainly love to share the video for this book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sPnjlPZGQ, and thank all of the zodiac signs for being such utter assholes that there was no lack of content for Bad Birthdays. It was such a fun project and I'll let you know what's next for me as it comes up.
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Voyager leader bids farewell
Carl Forsyth, founder and former managing director at Voyager Academy charter school, hardly looks the part of retiree.
Although dressed for the part in shorts and short-sleeved polo on a warm July morning, Forsyth wears a youthfulness that belies a man soon to turn 62.
But Forsyth is indeed a retiree, and is in fact working on his second, the first having come eight years ago when he retired from the Durham Public Schools.
And he admits that he's finding it a lot tougher to walk away from Voyager than it was to leave DPS in 2006 as principal of Little River Elementary School.
"The retirement part is the hardest part," said Forsyth, who has clocked 37 years in public education. "It's frightening and it's scary."
Even so, Forsyth has promised himself that he won't even consider taking on another assignment of any kind for at least six months.
He's already sketched out a future, however, that will likely include consulting work for charter schools.
"I still have a lot to give to public education," Forsyth said. "I would like to form a consulting firm that would consult with charter schools, helping them to become quality schools, writing applications, focusing on quality."
So, why retire?
"I'm very happy here, love the people, the parents, the teachers, but I just felt like now was a good time to transition to new leadership," Forsyth said. "We really have a good school but now is the time for us to take the next step and become a great school."
Voyager announced in June that Jennifer Lucas, principal of Hillsborough Academy of Math and Science, a charter school in Tampa, Florida, will succeed Forsyth.
After spending 30 years working in traditional public schools, going to work for a charter school after retiring from DPS was the furthest thing from Forsyth's mind.
But a persuasive group of parents convinced him that helping to create a charter school in the northern part of the county would give him a chance to put into action everything he'd learned over the past 30 years, and to do so without many of the restrictions charter school advocates contend hamstring the educational process.
"That was an offer too attractive to turn down," Forsyth said. "Who else gets an opportunity to have free reign to implement or start a school based on your own personal philosophy about how kids learn best. Few people get that opportunity."
It was a great opportunity for the veteran educator but one he says severely tested him and the school's other founding members who only had about eight months to get the school up and running before the first wave of students arrived.
"We didn't have a piece of paper, a pencil, no offices," Forsyth said. "I was the first employee. That was January 2007, and we had the task of putting together a school, recruiting students, recruiting staff, buying supplies and furniture and finding a site."
The school opened in August 2007 in a building on Technology Drive, not too far from the current site, and all but two of the projected 320 students in grades 4-7 showed up for the first day.
"I think back on it now and wonder how we ever got it all done," Forsyth said.
Charles Wilson, chairman of Voyager Academy's Board of Directors, said the parents who persuaded Forsyth to take on the challenge of starting a charter school could not have found anyone better suited for the task.
"Mr. Forsyth was the perfect person, choice, to lead Voyager Academy as a startup charter school," Wilson said. "He brought with him a wealth of educational experience and knowledge creating a successful educational environment."
Fast forward to 2014, and Voyager Academy now has a sprawling campus with three buildings serving 1,350 students in grades K-12, and a waiting list that stretches into the hundreds.
"One of the proudest things, is that for the past five years, our students have made expected growth every year," Forsyth said. "We didn't make expected growth the first year, but we anticipate making expected growth this year."
Forsyth credits the school's success to a talented cadre of teachers and administrators who have created a safe, nurturing and student-centered environment for students.
"Respect for one another is paramount at Voyager Academy and everyone, everyone models that and we expect our students to respect one another," Forsyth said.
He said the flexibility and freedom that charter schools have to tailor instruction to the needs of students has also contributed to Voyager's success.
"If we see that an instructional strategy or curriculum we're using is not working, then we have the flexibility to change that, to turn on a dime and move in a different direction," said Forsyth, comparing charter schools such as Voyager to a speed boat.
Durham County will have 11 charter schools when Reaching All Minds Academy opens in the fall.
The proliferation of charter schools in the county costs taxpayers more than $15 million each year, money that is passed through to them from the county by DPS.
The resources flowing from the public schools to charter schools have at times created tense relations between charter school leaders and members of the Durham school board.
Some school board members contend that charter schools siphon limited resources from traditional public schools.
Forsyth disagrees.
He said parents are simply making a choice about where to spend their tax dollars.
"The money follows the child and parents are choosing to apply their tax dollars for their child in a particular manner," Forsyth said.
He noted that local charter schools have formed the Durham Charter Schools Collaborative, which meets on a monthly basis to discuss ways to collaborate in areas such as increasing professional development, identifying best teacher practices and combine services to make better use of tax dollars.
Forsyth said he is optimistic that district schools and charter schools will find a way to work together in such a manner.
"There are numerous models around the country where this is actually happening," Forsyth said. "What's going to have to happen is that charter leaders, district leaders are going to have to check their egos at the door and get in a room together and say, how can we work best for all the children in Durham and find a way to compromise and work together."
Forsyth clearly sees Voyager as his legacy.
He said he hopes that his children will one day bring their children to the school to show them what their grandfather helped to build.
"I just wish my mother and father were here to share this experience," Forsyth said, "I walk away without any regrets and with a great deal pride. We have accomplished much more than I ever envisioned we would accomplish."

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Mary Knight took the opportunity to speak at the Aug. 4 meeting to ask the council for help with dogs running loose in her Jefferson Street neighborhood. The issue of animal control is not a new problem for the council nor is it an easy one to solve.
The city charter actually addresses the issue, stating that dogs running at large without tags can be captured, kept three days, and disposed of. Violations of the ordinance have fines from $25 to $100.
Gray does not have separate animal control personnel, and complaints are handled by Jones County's Animal Control officers, and, at times, the Gray Police Department.
Knight said she has called animal control several times. She said they do come and get the dogs but they are right back the next day.
"Something needs to be done. It's terrible when I go get my newspaper and get ran at by a Rottweiler or big bulldog," she said. "I don't know whose job this is, but I'm not going away until something is done."


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A snow storm came on Tuesday Jan. 7, 1913 followed by sleet and a freeze-up which made fairly good sleighing and most of the wheeled vehicles have been laid up for the winter. On Jan. 8, 1913 the Chester stage made its first trip of the season on runners. (Note: My late mother-in-law, Ida Mae Hadden, who was born in 1877, used to tell me about what winters in Warrensburgh were like in the old days when automobiles and bicycles were "put up" during the snow season. If a person needed to go some where, they usually walked. Ida walked to the Woolen Mill and later to the Shirt Factory to work for 50 years. People, especially single ladies, used to move in with relatives or sometimes board in other people's homes because of the work and expense of heat. There must have been quite a smoke cloud hanging over the town in the winter of 1913 where in nearly every house they were either burning wood or coal.)
Johnsburgh's First Pond renamed
The Chatiemac Lake Club, at their regular meeting in Glens Falls, decided to ask the State Conservation Commission to change the name of First Pond in the town of Johnsburgh to Chatiemac Lake, as it is now known locally. The club owns a large tract of land about the lake and maintains a fine clubhouse there and fishing grounds. It is their custom to place 5,000 fingerling trout in the lake each year.
Elderly couple departs together
Mrs. Jane Bennett, 79, died Monday Jan. 6, 1913 at her home on Harrington Hill of pneumonia, with which she had been ill since Christmas day. At the time of her death, her husband was also seriously ill with the same disease and he died the night of Jan. 8, 1913. Norman Bennett was 78 years old and a veteran of the Civil War.
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Sculptor and Toledo native Calvin Babich is one of several artists competing for a shot at one of world's largest art prizes.
The competition, known as ArtPrize, is being sponsored in Grand Rapids, Mich., by the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, with prizes totaling $449,000, to be split among 10 finalists with a grand prize of $250,000. The winner is determined by popular vote. This is the first year for the competition, which features the work of 1,262 artists at 159 ArtPrize registered venues.
Babich, who works in stone, created a piece called "Rock Family," which will be on display at the Design Plus offices located at 230 East Fulton St. in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich.
"I just set out to create a depiction of a family on an outing that expresses their joy," Babich said. "The piece is based on several things I've worked on in the past. I know that a lot of people that look at it will just think it's cute."
Babich, who works as a stone mason by day, could be called a late bloomer when it comes to his creative sculpture work.
"I spent three years as a journalism major at the University of Toledo, and then worked various jobs to take care of my family," he said. "I only really started making sculpture about 12 years ago, though I've always had a passion for working with stone, there's just such a permanence to it. I think being an artist leads you observe more."
Babich has previously exhibited his work at a number of events throughout the area including the UT's 4th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and the 91st Toledo Area Artists exhibition. Those interested in seeing more of Babich's work can visit the Web site www.calvinbabich.com.
ArtPrize is set to run through Oct. 10, with all voting for finalists running through Sept. 30 and grand prize voting until Oct. 7. The winner will be announced at Rosa Parks Circle on Oct. 8.


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The Kingston-born winger emigrated to England with his parents when he was a child, graduating from the West Ham academy without quite making the impact many expected.
However, his brave step to drop down into npower League Two with Bradford has been vindicated by the starring role he has played in the Bantams' astonishing charge to Sunday's Capital One Cup final.
Although Hines has declared himself happy with Bradford and expressed a willingness to help them climb back up the Football League ladder, once the dust has settled, a move to a higher level seems certain.
Yet he is also keen to put himself back in the minds of Jamaica's national selectors.
While there was a time when Hines admits he toyed with the idea of playing for England because it might benefit his career, the 24-year-old would love the chance to star for the Reggae Boyz, who are currently battling to reprise their 1998 World Cup finals appearance.
"If Jamaica came for me, I would definitely go back," he said.
"That is where I was born. That is where my family is from. I would never turn my back on Jamaica.
"I did play for England Under-21s because both myself and my agent at the time thought it would be better exposure for me.
"But I am fully Jamaican. If I had the opportunity to play for them I would run there if I had to."
Working as a television pundit during Bradford's penalty shoot-out win over Arsenal in December, Wolves boss Dean Saunders said Hines was, by some distance, the best player in League Two.
He is not the only one with that opinion.
Yet, while he claims not to have always seen eye-to-eye with his club bosses, Hines accepts the blame for why a player good enough to make his debut in the Premier League against Tottenham as a 20-year-old should find himself in the bottom tier three years later is his own.
"My attitude has changed," he said.
"I am much more professional now. When I was at West Ham, a big club in the Premier League, I took it for granted.
"I did things without thinking and didn't concentrate as I do now.
"I like to think I have become more mature and all the lessons I learned at West Ham, are coming through now."
Hines' first move was to turn down a contract extension at West Ham, believing he was not going to get a game under Sam Allardyce.
Then he went to Burnley, where it did not work out either, before dropping down another level for a loan spell at Bournemouth.
Hines returned to Turf Moor to be informed the club were not taking up the option of a second year on his contract and, after having talks with Paolo Di Canio at Swindon, Hines eventually opted to move in at Bradford.
"I don't wonder why I am here," he said. "I am here for a reason.
"You have to go where your career takes you.
"It was a big drop coming down to League Two but it has helped my career.
"Even people asking why am I playing down here shows the club has been good for me because they are talking about me.
"I have worked on a lot of things. I have had a sports psychologist talking to me about my mental attitude, my strength. That has helped me massively, on and off the pitch."
The reason is obviously the part Hines has played in a remarkable journey that reaches Wembley on Sunday, and a meeting with Swansea that, if it goes well, will confirm a place in next season's Europa League.
It is a quite staggering prospect, and one which Hines accepts could have a major spin-off for him.
"The desire to return to the Premier League will never leave me," he said.
"I can't lie. It is a better standard of football and I want to get back there.
"I would love Bradford to go higher. I would like to be here to help them and I have no intentions of leaving.
"But football being what it is, if you are playing well and someone likes you, they will come in for you."


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2011: Indoor - Completed his Bulldog career after unleashing a season-best toss of 60 feet, 10 ½ inches to finish eighth in the weight throw at the SEC Indoor Championships.
2010: Outdoor - Finished fifth in the hammer at the SEC Championships after having a top throw of 198 feet, 10 inches...reached a season-best distance of 199-7 to take sixth at the Bulldog Limited...had a season-best mark of 196-5 to finish seventh at the Arizona State Invitational.
2010: Indoor - Finished seventh in the weight throw at the SEC Championships with a top effort of 60 feet, 7 ¼ inches...had a career-best effort for the fourth consecutive meet after having a top weight throw of 61-4.25 to take eighth at the Tyson Invitational...reached 60 feet for the first time (60-5.25) to finish 10th at the Hokie Invitational.
2009: Outdoor- Set a new personal-best mark in the hammer (201 feet, 10 inches) to score with an eighth-place finish at the NCAA East Regional...scored at the SEC Championships after taking eighth in the hammer (199-8)...broke 200 feet for the first time in his career to take fifth in the hammer at the Georgia Invitational (200-2)...finished 10th in the hammer at the UC San Diego Triton Invitational with a throw of 192-1...had a pair of NCAA regional qualifying marks (194-9 and 191-3) to finish third in the hammer invitational and second in the hammer at the Bulldog Limited...left his home track with a season-best throw of 187-11 for seventh place at the Spec Towns Invitational...was third after launching a top throw of 187-5 at the Georgia Tech dual meet...had an NCAA regional qualifying hammer throw of 186-5 for eighth place at the ASU Invitational.
2009: Indoor - Finished 14th in the weight throw at the SEC Championships...had a personal-best effort of 58 feet, 10 ¼ inches in the weight throw for fifth place at the Tiger Paw Invitational...opened his season with a fourth-place finish in the weight after having a top throw of 58-7.50 at the Virginia Tech Elite.
2008: Outdoor - Finished 13th in the hammer (187 feet, 9 inches) at the NCAA East Regionals...was ninth in the hammer (193-8) at the SEC Championships...grabbed his fifth regional qualifying mark of the year in the hammer after taking third at the Georgia Invitational...finished fourth in the hammer with another regional mark (195-6) at the Bulldog Limited...had a career-best and regional qualifying mark of 198-1 to take third in the hammer at the Spec Towns Invitational...topped his season-opening performance with a mark of 196-8 to take sixth in the hammer at the Jim Click Invitational...also finished fifth in the javelin (184-7) at the Jim Click meet...recorded a regional qualifying effort of 195 in the hammer at the Yellow Jacket Invitational.
2007: Outdoor
- Registered a fourth throw of 206 feet, 7 inches with a 6k hammer to
take fifth at the 2007 USA Junior Outdoor Championships...finished 20
hammer at the NCAA East Regional with a mark of 182-10...competed in both the hammer (11th - 177-11) and the javelin (13th - 182-4, personal-best mark) at the SEC Championships...had a regional qualifying mark of 186-8 at the Drake Relays...finished with a personal-best throw of 190-3 in the hammer to take 11th at the UC San Diego Invitational...managed a second-place finish in the hammer (182-8) at the Clemson Invitational...finished sixth in the hammer with a throw of 183-7 and third in the javelin (174-8) at the Yellow Jacket Invitational...picked up a regional mark in the hammer (183-10) to take sixth at the Alabama Relays...finished seventh in the javelin at the Alabama Relays.
- Registered a fourth throw of 206 feet, 7 inches with a 6k hammer to take fifth at the 2007 USA Junior Outdoor Championships...finished 20th in the
High School: All-American while competing at the GHSA level during the indoor season (weight throw) and outdoor season (hammer throw)...Personal-best marks of 224 feet, 4 inches in the 12 lbs. hammer, 74-7 in the 25 lbs. weight and 180-1 in the javelin (800 grams)...Voted MVP after his junior and senior seasons...Member of Throw 1 Deep club...Was a former teammate with current Georgia thrower Zach Hunter.
Personal: Born May 13, 1988...Son of Cameron and Kelly Schiedt..stepbrother of current Georgia pole vaulter Christy Carr...sister, Kalen, is on Clemson's track and field team...Majoring in Management.


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Colin R. Johnson
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PhD in American Culture, University of Michigan, 2003
MA in American Culture, University of Michigan, 1998
AB in Law, Letters and Society, University of Chicago, 1996
G101 Gender, Culture and Society
G105 Sex, Gender and the Body
G206 Gay Histories/Queer Cultures
G290 History of Feminist Thought and Practice
G300 – Core Concepts and Key Debates
G340 Gender, Geography, Sex and Space
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G701 Graduate Topics in Gender Studies: Queer Historicism
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G704 The Cultural Politics of Sexuality in the 20th Century
For the past ten years my research has focused on the history of gender and sexuality in the non-metropolitan United States during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. I am particularly interested in the history of gender non-conformity and same-sexual behavior during this period. My first book, Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America, deals with this topic by examining a number issues including the relationship between turn-of-century American agriculturalists and the eugenics movement; sex education and moral reform campaigns in rural areas; homosexuality among migrant agricultural workers; the experience of gender and sexual eccentrics in small-towns; drag, homoeroticism and queer masculinity in the Civilian Conservation Corps; and female masculinity in American farm women. Although it is still in the very early stages of development, my second project focuses on the history of anti-social behavior in the United States, particularly forms of social attrition and withdrawal characteristic of solitary figures such as the shut-in, the hermit and the recluse. In addition to the history of gender and sexuality, additional areas of interest include 19th and 20th century US regional literature, the history of agriculture and the environment, queer theory, psychoanalytic theory, postcolonial theory, and the history of science and technology. I have held fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, The Johns Hopkins University's Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, the University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the University of Helsinkis Ruralia Institute.
Johnson, Colin R. Unfriendly Thresholds: Misanthropy and Sexual Difference in American Culture [In Progress].
Johnson, Colin R. Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. Published as part of the Sexuality Studies book series, Janice Irvine and Regina Kunzel, eds.
Gray, Mary L. and Colin R. Johnson, eds. Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies [In Progress]
Johnson, Colin R. Unfriendly Thresholds: On Queerness, Capitalism and Misanthropy in 19th Century America in Unarchived Histories: The Mad and the Trifling in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, Gyanendra Pandey, ed. London: Routledge, 2013. 110-124.
Johnson, Colin R. "Homosexuals from Haystacks: Gay Liberation and the Specter of Queer Majority in Rural California, circa 1970" in Subalternity and Difference: Investigations From the North and the South, Gyanendra Pandey, ed. London: Routledge, 2011. 41-56.
Johnson, Colin R. "Casual Sex: Subaltern Sexuality 'On the Road' in Early Twentieth Century America" in Subaltern Citizens and Their Histories: Investigations From India and the United States, Gyanendra Pandey, ed. London: Routledge, 2010. 63-76.
Johnson, Colin R. "Casual Sex: Towards a 'Prehistory' of Gay Life in Bohemian America." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 10.3 (November 2008): 303-320.
Johnson, Colin R. "Homosexuals in Unexpected Places? An Introduction." American Studies 48.2 (Summer 2007): 5-8.
Johnson, Colin R. "Camp Life: The Queer History of 'Manhood' in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1937." American Studies 48.2 (Summer 2007): 19-36. Winner of the Stone-Suderman Prize given by the Mid-America American Studies Association in recognition of the best essay published each year in the journal American Studies.
Johnson, Colin R. "The Thin Line of Embodiment," Bridge 11: Lia Cook, Mariko Kusumoto, Anne Drew Potter. Pittsburgh: Society for Contemporary Craft, 2011. n.p.
Johnson, Colin R. "Dandyism," "Dating," and "Metrosexuals," in Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Fedwa Malti-Douglas,ed.Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 369-371, 376-382, 1006.
Johnson, Colin R. "Rural Space: Queer America's Final Frontier." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 13 January 2006. B15-16.Johnson, Colin R. Urban, Suburban, and Rural Geographies in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, Marc Stein, ed. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 2004. 217-222.
Johnson, Colin R. BOOK REVIEW: William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker by Benjamin E. Wise. Journal of American History 99.4 (March 2013): 1261-1262.
Johnson, Colin R. BOOK REVIEW: Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities by Julie Abraham. Journal of the History of Sexuality 22.1 . (January 2013): 161-163.
Johnson, Colin R. BOOK REVIEW: Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South by Brock Thompson. American Historical Review 117.1 (February 2012): 247.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: New York Hustlers: Masculinity and Sex in Modern America by Barry Reay." Social History, 36.3 (August 2011): 376-377.
Lewis, Miles D., Anthony Amato and Colin R. Johnson. "BOOK REVIEW: Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945-1972 by J. L. Anderson." Social Science Journal 48.2 (June 2011): 411-412.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOKS IN BRIEF: Feeling Our Way Toward a History of ACT UP. A review of Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 17.2-3 (Winter 2010/Spring 2011): 432-434.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation? by Craig R. Rimmerman." American Studies 50.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 250-251.


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- "for Obama, oration is 'not a way to announce plans, it [is] the plan itself'"
- Mario Rizzo on Pigovian taxes.
- Fascinating post from Alex Tabarrok on Project Cybersyn.
- Martin Regnen on how commercial pop music is like fast food:
Both produce something which is enjoyed by large numbers of customers, but also provide free benefits for people who aren't their customers by giving them a way to display their moral and cultural superiority by preening about their dislike of the product and its customers.
- Seth Roberts points out that physicists disagree about climate change.
- It's not necessarily just the one "hide the decline" incident: More CRU data shenanigans, via M. Simon.
- The low-fat diet seems to be unhealthy. I knew it!
- Irish Parliament polite debate, via Megan McArdle [NSFW]
- Brussels Journal on Avatar.
- Unexpected praise for Michael Moore's latest movie. Almost makes me want to see it.
- Moon in the Gutter on the underappreciated movie Go.
- I'm forever in Wil Wheaton's debt for bringing me this:
- Perry de Havilland of Samizdata is not a pacifist.
- A volcano in the Philippines might be about to blow. Noted because a good volcano can cool the earth for years. How does this affect the 'Climate Change' debate? Watch this space…
- The complexity of climate, via Is This Blog On? As I've said before, One effect in isolation is not sufficient to describe a multidimensional physical system, unless it is shown that it is.
- Via American Digest, a video I could watch over and over:
- Seeing as how I too was once in the medical profession without the full-on credentials to be there, Robin Hanson cracks me up re: the horribly low-status phenomenon of medical-device sales reps in the OR.
- Self-explanatory: TSA Keeping Us Safe By Taking Sleeping Child's Pillow
- Fearsome Tycoon makes the good point that collective punishment of the innocent in the face of a tiny minority of troublemakers is really more of a "UK" type of thing.
- Orin Kerr with some reasoned views on the Interpol Executive Order. Though one does still wonder, if it has no significant effect, why do it at all? My hunch is that some lowly branch of the bureacracy somewhere had wanted it for a while, and pushed for it during a sympathetic Presidency. Which is fine, and how these things work. But why did they want it?
- Making animated optical illusions.
- The "precautionary principle" is uneconomic.
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Thanks to Corrupt.org, The Fourth Checkraise (multiple) and American Digest (also see here) for some nice recent linkage. Those are all blogs I read and are on my blogroll (or if they weren't, I've since remedied that).
UPDATE: And for the record, I don't hate smart people either. But 'Smart People', on the other hand…. ;-)
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Somewhere deep in a climate-change argument I got into with someone, I ended up coming up with the following, which I think nicely encapsulates the #1 problem I have with climate-change believers:
One effect in isolation is not sufficient to describe a multidimensional physical system.
Of course that one effect I'm talking about is 'the greenhouse effect'. Because most climate-change believers think their case is made instantly just by pointing to the greenhouse effect. They think that's all they need to do and they're done. They are wrong.
Actually though, I do need to amend my principle slightly to the following:
One effect in isolation is not sufficient to describe a multidimensional physical system, unless it is shown that it is.
What we have are essentially a politicized army of self-anointed climate experts seeking to overhaul my life based on their third-grade-level Oral Report on "The Greenhouse Effect" complete with arrows drawn on their giant posterboard coming down from space, hitting the earth, and then bouncing/cycling up and down forever. This argument, such as it is, is based – almost as a matter of pride – on reducing the entire complex oceano-atmospheric-biosphere system governing the earth's climate evolution to a completely one-dimensional story:
CO2 up, temperature up – CO2 down, temperature down
The climate, in all its glory and diversity, has only one single dimension in the view of these SCIENTIFIC GENIUSES WHO STAND ON THE SIDE OF SCIENCE. That dimension being 'How much CO2 is there'. Oh, maybe they'll admit that there's more to it than that – but they really genuinely love telling only the one-dimensional story, don't they? When push comes to shove, that's the basis of their argument, is it not?
To give the example I use often: if one effect were always enough, then I could point to the fact that my bank account earns interest ("The Interest Effect"?) and automatically conclude that I'm going to be a trillionaire. To any doubters I'd just say: "It's very simple. My bank account earns interest. Therefore each day it has more money in it than the day before. So, given enough time, this system is going to blow up to infinity. It will certainly surpass 1 trillion!" I could even make a giant poster-board with upward-pointing arrows about it and everything. All of which, of course, freely and stupidly ignores all other possible effects on the size of my bank account, such as rent, bills, trips to Vegas, etc. etc.
Let's be clear about something though: there certainly are physical systems where one variable is likely to be enough to describe them well enough for your purposes. A dropped ball in a vacuum hits the ground with what force? The initial height, one variable, is pretty much all you need. A planet's orbital period can be gauged from the one variable, its orbital axis (through Kepler's laws). The conservation of energy says that the initial energy of a system in isolation stays the same. Etc.
The climate properties we are interested in are not like these systems. Unless you show that they are. Which virtually none of the people using this argument have. Maybe this is unfair to expect of them, although I'm not sure why if they're all going to posture as such Smart People on the side of Science all the time, but in any event they don't get to just ignore or wish the problem away.
The climate is a humongously-many dimensional system. Yes maybe if CO2 goes up, the temperature goes up, because there's a greenhouse effect. But maybe other stuff happens. Maybe all the extra energy just stirs up the oceans a barely-perceptible amount, which absorb it all like a flywheel. Maybe there are feedback, self-limiting or cycle effects, like when predators eat all their prey, thriving for a while, but then start starving when they can't find any more prey, which therefore start increasing, etc. To really get a handle on any of this, you need a model. A real model, not the third-grade version. Well, climate science has its models. And I think they're a load of crap.
You don't? Why not? Have you looked at those models? (I have.)
This is the problem I have with the one-dimensional story. The one-dimensional story bypasses all these considerations that are really central to the issue. The one-dimensional story is for simpleminded one-dimensional people who don't want to bother to dig into the real story but do want the benefits/power/honor they think will accrue to them in the telling of it; for people who don't want to do the leg-work but do want to skip ahead to the part where they get to tell other people what to do: in other words, it's tailor-made for Smart People.
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Needless to say, the government's reaction to the failed terror attack has been a case study in quintessential Smart Personism:
- Regardless of what happened exactly, assert unabashedly and brazenly and without factual basis that you did everything right.
- Use the sweeping, unaccountable, arrogant power you've Smartened yourself into to disrupt and insert yourself into the lives of all those normal, mostly-not-Smart People who don't really matter anyway.
- Don't waste your breath trying to justify (2) on any sort of logical grounds. Let all complaints and debate fall on deaf (but Smart) ears. Remember: you're Smart, so whatever you came up with is axiomatically Smart, no matter how dumb-ass it is, and anyone who criticizes you is automatically being Dumb, and probably a racist who didn't go to as good a college as you. And even if, in the end, what you come up with turns out to be not so smart after all, you'll just fix it later. Indeed, they'll probably need to keep you around for even longer and for more money just to fix it later. So much the better!
- Finally, go around insisting that (1)-(3) is how things are always supposed to work in a Smart world. Bad stuff happens to little people (or is barely avoided), but you, a Smart Person, Smartly 'manage' the aftermath in ever-more intrusive ways. That's why you get paid the big bucks. That's how things are supposed to be and it is wrong and Dumb of anyone to suggest otherwise.
UPDATE: The above response is nothing more than what was instilled in Smart People from their childhood, of course. They were told they were 'gifted', so nothing they did could be wrong, not really. The major skills they learned – grade-grubbing, asking for 'extra credit' opportunities, creating and padding their college applications – mostly revolved around arrogantly citing their own supposed accomplishments. And just as their adolescence taught them that the world owed them things – 'gifted' classes, a spot in an elite college, etc. – they see no reason this shouldn't continue. So if disrupting the hell out of the rest of the country for no good reason is what it takes to cover their asses and hide the fact that they have no real-world solutions to the problem, then so be it.
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Sometimes it's all in how you phrase it.
If I were to ask you, Should private groups of people be required by the government to sign contracts, with anyone who asks them to, that are virtually guaranteed to lose them hundreds of thousands of dollars on each one? You'd probably say no if you had any sanity. At the same time, more likely than not you'd totally agree that "insurance companies shouldn't be allowed to deny coverage to those with a pre-existing condition" – even though that's exactly the same thing.
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The Smart People paradox is that, as a Smart Person – thus going through life knowing how smart you are – the world doesn't always seem to need or value your Smarts as much as you know, deep down, they should. To remedy this sad state of affairs, you need to find some aspect of society that you can claim is going horribly wrong and that only a Smart Person (such as yourself, and all the Smart people you went to college with, etc.) can fix, in return for a six+ figure salary in perpetuity, a large house in the suburbs, and important schools for your 'gifted' kids, and all the rest.
The paradox is that once you find such a problem you can't actually fix the problem. Right? If you did, there would go the salary, the 'gifted', etc.
Anthropogenic Global Warming is the perfect solution for this dilemma faced by poor, downtrodden Smart People everywhere. Here is a problem that (you can argue, using your Smarts) all of society should bend all its effort and capital towards. It is a globe-threatening problem, so it requires a global solution, which means tapping tax money from not just here or there but heck, why not from everywhere (but mostly from the US cuz we have deep pockets). As a problem, it can't actually ever be proven to be 'solved', not even in principle, for the same reason that it can't be proven to exist in the first place. (If you doubt me, quick try to fill in the blanks: "We will know that global warming is solved when we measure the variable ____ at time ___ and the measured result is less than ___.") The solution methods all involve intellectual-intensive make-work products that can supply an infinite number of man-hours of busy work for overeducated Smart People from virtually all the favorite Smart Person fields of endeavor: laws and regulations (for the law-degreed), endless chemical monitoring and filtering (for those with engineering degrees), newly-invented financial derivatives and securities (for the finance types), unendingly highly-marginal improvements to numerical modeling and 3-D color data visualization (for the science/math types), all supported by heavy IT support (for the computer geeks).
If you were to describe this project that Al Gore blithely insists on everyone else creating, to a group of investors, they'd quickly observe that you are describing the largest corporation in the history of humankind. But this is all going to be created by government fiat so no need for any pesky concerns over feasibility, scalability, achievement metrics, or (god forbid) rational cost-benefit analysis. Instead, just think of all the career opportunities for otherwise-unemployable Smart People! And the best part is: while the Smart People are all busy living the cushy lifestyles supported by the budding and indefinite AGW-stopping infrastructure we're going to build, they'll get to tell themselves they're saving the world by doing it. Just by existing, and going to their make-work, and collecting their six+ figure paychecks.
Saving the world.
This is something Smart People of times past could only dream of. Smart People of the 1950s might have had to work for Lockheed-Martin or Dow or something. No longer. Now you can be Smart, and Smarten yourself into a phony job (made up by other Smart People), and you'll all get to tell yourself and everyone around you that you're saving the world while doing it. If factory workers and truck drivers have to be taxed more, have their movements restricted, and afforded fewer overall opportunities to support all this, well hey. They're not Smart. And probably racist too.
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What are they going to do, make us all roll up our pant legs?
By this point the following theory half-suggests itself: Al Qaeda isn't really trying to blow anything up. Not really. They're just trying to make our society come to a halt (and reverse its progress) by making us waste countless man-hours and GDP doing dumb things on a massive scale.
Levitt and Dubner make the point in SuperFreakonomics that the "shoe bomber" (who didn't actually detonate any bombs) may have caused far more net damage to society than is generally believed. Every. single. person. now has to take off their shoes at an airport. This is dumb. It is wasteful. It is demeaning. The operating theory behind it (that all shoes are capable of concealing bombs, and that shoes are especially likely to be concealing bombs) is ridiculous on its face. Why only shoes? Why not jeans, and dresses, and bras? What's so special about shoes?
The answer is: 'because there was that Shoe Bomber dude'.
This is reactive and backward-looking security at its most lamebrained.
Now this Nigerian seemed to have bomb-making materials under his pants. Great. There go our pants. "Take 'em off!", will go the Smart security cry. "For safety."
Al Qaeda's real strategy at this point, you see, is not to actually wage real attacks. It is to come up with fake attacks (whether or not they are actually likely to work doesn't much matter) that will force our security efforts into dumber and more wasteful backward-looking acts of silliness.
That's my theory, anyway. And I'm not entirely joking….


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Posted at: 04/27/2013 3:16 PM
Updated at: 04/27/2013 7:39 PM
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - An Albuquerque lawyer has been elected as the new chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.
Members of the party's central committee cast votes during a meeting Saturday in Las Cruces.
Party officials say Sam Bregman won with just over 66 percent of the vote.
Challenger Roxanne Lara finished with more than 33 percent.
Bregman replaces Javier Gonzales of Santa Fe, who is stepping down after nearly four years of leading the party.
On the top of the to-do list for Bregman will be the 2014 elections.
Republican Gov. Susana Martinez is expected to bid for a second term, and Democrats will be looking to take back the office.
Bregman recently told the Albuquerque Journal that he would be a "pit bull" in standing up to Republicans.
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August 4, 2015
Tropical Storm Karl has formed in the Caribbean and is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico later this week. This is one of three storms currently active in the Atlantic basin. Hurricanes Igor and Julia are not expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico.
Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for the Eastern Yucatan Peninsula as Karl heads for the Mexican coastline where 3-5 inches of rain are expected.
After moving over the Yucatan, Karl should continue to move generally toward the West, and make landfall a second time along the Mexican coast, well to the south of Texas. Earlier this season, Hurricane Alex and Tropical Depression 2 also hit the Eastern portions of Mexico, bringing torrential rain and catastrophic flooding.
As this system moves into the Southwestern Gulf, more moisture will move into the Brazos Valley, bringing better rain chances to the area by Friday.
Karl is the eleventh named storm in the Atlantic basin this season.
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I stand all amazed at the altar of He, who is Gor-Don.
I stand all amazed at the altar of He, who is Gor-Don.
I can't wait to see how Gordon does in the playoffs. Remember Deron kinda broke out his second year in the San Antonio series?
It would be cool to see him take over and start putting up bigger numbers. However it could go the other way. We could find out he us a choker. I hope not. Playoffs you seem to find out a lot about a player.
Gordon Hayward is going to go off
Amazing? Check.
Awe Inspiring? Check.
Boner? Double Check.
Baby Faced Killa don't give a ****. Take that **** back to Sacramento.
He is god tonight!!!
im not saying this thread has racialist overtones, but this thread has racialist overtones.


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A convection oven is provided with a fan for circulating air in the cooking chamber of the oven. The food is held in a food holder which is attached to but spaced from the inside surface of the oven door. Heating elements are at the top and the bottom of the cooking chamber. A flue opening is in the bottom of the cooking chamber and the heating elements are positioned above the lengthwise lower ends of the flue opening for inducing external air around the lower heating elements and the lower surface of the food and food holder. A method is disclosed for introducing external air into the bottom of a convection heating oven, to cool the lower surface of the food in the oven and provide turbulence to the circulating air for enhancing the cooking of the food.
1. A convection oven having a cooking chamber, the cooking chamber having a back wall, opposite left and right end walls, a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall having an opening therein;
a door having an inside and an outside surface for closing the opening;
a food holder attached to the inside surface of the door for insertion into the cooking chamber; and
the food holder having front and back open side walls with the front side wall spaced from the inside surface of the door sufficient to allow air flow between the front open side wall of the basket and the inside surface of the door.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/951,188, filed Sep. 12, 2001, now abandoned, which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/672,117, filed Sep. 27, 2000, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,444,955, both of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to convection ovens for cooking foods and methods of enhancing the cooking in a convection oven.
2. Description of the Related Art
U.S. Pat. No. 5,676,870 discloses a convection oven for cooking foods in which air is circulated in a cooking chamber where a food holder, such as a basket, holds the food to be cooked. While this patent discloses an oven that enhances the cooking of the food, the cooking can be further enhanced by introducing external air into the cooking chamber through a flue at the bottom of the chamber. The cooking can also be enhanced by spacing the food holder a distance away from the front and back walls of the cooking chamber.
This invention provides a flue at the bottom of the oven to introduce cooler external air into the cooking chamber of a convection oven in the vicinity of the lower heating elements of the oven. Preferably the air is introduced through a flue opening located in the bottom of the oven. The oven also has a drip tray located below the flue opening. A sloping bottom wall allows food drippings to gravitate downwardly out the opening. It has been found that by introducing external air in through the bottom of the cooking chamber in the vicinity of the lower heating elements of the oven, that cooler air mixes with the turbulent heated air circulating in the oven to enhance the cooking of the food by better mixing of the air and cooling the food holder and the lower surface of the food above the lower heating elements.
A second feature of the invention is to provide a food holder configured and sized so as to provide air circulation gaps between the front and rear holder sides and the adjacent sides of the cooking chamber for enhanced cooking uniformity of the food in the food holder.
FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a convection oven embodying the principles of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic isometric of the cooking chamber with parts broken away for clarity.
FIG. 3 is a vertical section taken along the line 3—3 of FIG. 5.
FIG. 4 is a horizontal section taken along the line 4—4 of FIG. 5.
FIG. 5 is an isometric view with parts removed for clarity.
FIG. 6 is an isometric view of the integral door and food holder or basket.
FIG. 7 is a side view of the door and food basket.
FIG. 8 is an end view of an alternate embodiment of the cooking chamber.
FIG. 9 is a side view showing the alternate embodiment.
The convection oven 10 includes a cooking chamber 12 of the type shown in the U.S. Pat. No. 5,676,870. The front of the cooking chamber is closed by a door 14, which in one form of the invention, has fixed thereto a food holder or basket 16. The door is opened and closed by a handle 18. A control panel 20 of the type in U.S. Pat. No. 5,676,870 is provided in the front of the oven. It will be understood that basically the oven as thus far described operates in a manner like that in the patent, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference thereto.
A fan 22 circulates air in the cooking chamber. A protective screen 23 separates the fan from the food holding basket. Upper and lower heating elements 24 and 26, respectively, provide heat to the circulating air and food holder and thus cook the food in the food holder as is well known. The cooking chamber has a top wall 28, an upper rear sloped wall 30, opposite end walls 32 and 34, a rear wall 36 and an upper front sloped wall 38. The form of the walls are preferably octagonal in shape as shown by FIG. 2.
At the bottom of cooking chamber 12 a flue opening is formed, in part, by spaced lengthwise upper edges 44 and spaced widthwise upper edges 46 of the bottom wall. These edges are at the top of downwardly sloping surfaces 47 and 49, respectively, and terminate at lower lengthwise edges 48 and lower widthwise edges 50 which define flue opening 52.
The location of the heating elements are parallel to the lengthwise edges of the flue opening and approximately vertically located over the lower lengthwise edges, as best shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. The heating elements 26 in the horizontal direction as viewed in FIGS. 3 and 8 should lie between vertical planes from the lower edge 48 of the flue and from the upper edge 44 of the flue on each side respectively. The location of the heating elements 26 in the vertical direction should be between 30% and 70% of the distance between the lengthwise edge 48 of the flue opening and the bottom of the basket 16 in the embodiments of FIGS. 3 and 8.
The flue opening allows for the removal of drippings from the cooked food reducing potential smoking, and induces external air into the cooking chamber in the vicinity of the lower heating elements. The induction of external air causes turbulence in the air around the lower heating elements and the lower area of the food holder and food to minimize charring of the food and better distribute the heat into the food.
A removable drip tray 54 is positioned on spaced rails 56 below the flue opening to collect the drippings from the cooked food.
The lateral spacing between lower heating elements 24, in a preferred embodiment, is wide enough to provide even cooking of the lower surfaces of foods placed in basket 16, but close enough to transfer most of their heat into foods being cooked rather than into the cooking chamber walls, and to establish good cool air induction characteristics thereby, among other things, preventing overcooking of the lower food surfaces.
As noted earlier, the lower heating elements are located vertically above the longer edges of flue opening 52 and below the bottom surface of basket 16. In a smaller oven, a typical distance from the basket to heating elements can be approximately 1.5″ (selected to prevent burning or premature crisping), and approximately 6.0″ below the upper heating elements. The flue opening can extend to run substantially the full length of the food basket so that the cooler induced air prevents overcooking of the entire lower food surface area within the basket. In its width, the flue opening is sized to permit sufficient quantity of induced air to flow into the chamber, but limited by the need to prevent too much heat from escaping so efficiency is maintained. A typical sizing for flue opening 52 can be approximately 0.75″ by 7.0″. The spacing of elements 26 above the longer or lengthwise edges of the flue opening 52 can vary but will fall within a range of approximately 1.5″ to 3.0″ for a smaller capacity consumer-type oven. In the embodiment of FIGS. 1-5, the heating elements 26 are nearly aligned with the lengthwise edges 48 of the flue opening and are about 1.5″ above the lengthwise edges 48. In the embodiment of FIGS. 8 and 9, this height above the lengthwise edges is approximately 3″. The location of the upper heating elements, wattages, fan size and speed variability, and control features may be selected and sized by reference to the disclosure in U.S. Pat. No. 5,676,870.
The cooking chamber 12 of the preferred consumer oven embodiment, designed to utilize 110V service, will be approximately 12″ long, 8-˝″ high and 8″ deep. Effective heating element wattages for this consumer oven will be to utilize not less than four 300 watt to no greater than four 400 watt elements with a typical diameter of approximately {fraction (3/16)}″ to {fraction (5/16)}″. However, a cooking chamber with internal dimensions of as little as 8″ long×8″ high×8″ deep, utilizing lower wattage elements of four 300 watts each will produce an effective design that will produce the desired cooking performance.
In the preferred embodiment, the upper elements 24 would be located within an octagonal shaped cooking chamber as taken by a section taken perpendicular to the oven's longitudinal axis. The effective element locations from either of the upper two corners of this octagonal section would be a distance of not more than 5.5 element diameters for a {fraction (3/16)}″ diameter element or 3.2 element diameters for a {fraction (5/16)}″ diameter element but not less than 2.7 element diameters for a {fraction (3/16)}″ diameter element and not less than 2 element diameters for a {fraction (5/16)}″ diameter element. The preferred element distances, however, fall at mid point between these aforementioned ranges. The element locations should be equidistant to both the nearest canted wall and the upper wall surface so that a line taken from the focal point of the octagon's closed angle to the center line of the element would equally bisect the angle formed by these two adjacent octagonal wall segments. This equidistant location will assure that uniform radiant heat is reflected from both adjacent wall segments. The minimum distance will assure that adequate airflow is able to surround the element as induced by fan 22. The maximum distance is set to optimize the radiant heating effect off the nearest wall surfaces and to avoid searing the upper surfaces of foods cooked in the basket. The minimum length of the cooking elements would be to extend the full length of basket 16, so that uniform convective, radiant and conductive heating of all food surfaces occurs.
The oven's minimum food basket dimensions are selected based on the practical containment size needed to accommodate larger foods such as large T-bone steaks (i.e., approximately 7-˝×7-˝×1″ high). The maximum basket dimensions are selected based on the cooking chamber's length and depth. The maximum basket length can be equal to the oven chamber length, less Ľ″ clearance from the fan screen 23 and Ľ″ from the opposite end wall 32. The maximum basket depth (i.e., front to back) would be the entire cooking chamber's depth, less a selected clearance from the front interior door wall and the back wall of the oven to cause the food to be located optimally within the flow of hot convective, turbulent air as further described below. The maximum basket height can be the same height as the door to which it is integrally connected and it can have a minimum side wall height of approximately ˝″ to contain foods within the basket. The preferred basket composition would be of an open wire mesh construction of various possible wire gauge to spacing relationships so long as a minimum of 50% free area is maintained to allow the free flow of convective air to have access to the foods cooked.
The fan size needs to be of a capacity to circulate air at between approximately 3 and 20 cubic feet per minute. The motor driving the fan should be a high temperature, adjustable speed type as different fan speeds create diverse cooking results that are preferred for diverse foods cooked within the oven. The fan speed could be adjusted by electrical modulation controls associated with the oven's programmable cooking hardware. A typical fan blade diameter is 4.75″ for the preferred embodiment. A typical preferred rpm could be 800 to 1600 rpm.
Turning now to FIGS. 6 and 7, the improvement in the door and food holding basket as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,676,870 is shown. Cooking chamber 12 has an "optimal cooking zone" that includes the entire volume of the chamber less the volume occupied by front and back areas, approximately ľ″ in depth, adjacent the inside surfaces of the door and back wall. These areas are found to heat non-uniformly as they are located furthest from the heating elements and drag effects of the front and back walls of the cooking chamber, especially at high fan speeds, impedes the flow of convective, turbulent air. The consistency of the oven's cooking performance is enhanced when the food is located within this zone. Food basket 16 has a vertical front open side wall 58 spaced from the adjacent interior surface of door 14 a distance of approximately ľ″ to 1″. Basket 16 is attached to door 14 at connection points 59 and extends away from door 14 a distance less than the width dimension of cooking chamber 12 where it terminates at vertical back open side wall 66. When the integral door-basket is properly closed and positioned within the chamber there will likewise be a space of approximately ľ″ to 1″ from side wall 66 on the basket to the back wall 36 of cooking chamber 12. Vertical open end walls 64 on basket 16 are spaced apart a distance to fit the length of chamber 12 as previously noted. The basket is slid into place on a pair of opposed slide rails 62.
Turning to FIGS. 8 and 9, a slightly different construction of the flue opening assembly is depicted. The same elements are utilized, however, the top edges 44, 46 of downwardly sloping surfaces 47 and 49 are positioned inwardly relative to the cooking chamber front, rear and end walls and result in a greater downward slope leading to flue opening 52. In addition, heating elements 26 extend through apertures in surfaces 49 as best seen in FIG. 9. This particular configuration provides the same operating results of inducing external air flow into the cooking chamber and removal of food drippings and other particles.
In changing the size of oven 10, for example, to make and use an oven with varying cooking chamber volumes (such as 0.5 cubic feet, 0.75 cubic feet, and 1.0 cubic feet) for cooking larger amounts of food, one with ordinary skill in the art will be readily able to make and use an oven of preselected size/capacity incorporating the present invention.
While preferred embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it should be understood that variations will be apparent to one skilled in the art that will be equivalent to the specific embodiments disclosed. Thus, the invention is not to be limited to the embodiment shown in the drawings.
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If you are considering buying a Cordyline, here are a few points to help you make the right decision.
A Cordyline is an evergreen Australian tree (not a palm tree). Cordylines come in many different varieties, but only the green Cordyline australis can really be considered hardy. The Cordyline Redstar is striking and colourful but will need winter protection. Only the Green Cordyline Australis is generally considered reliable.
Cordyline australis is also known as Cabbage Palm or Torbay Palm.
-You need some height, structure and impact, and you don't want to wait 20 years for it - Cordylines grow very quickly.
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By Lisa DanielAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2010 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today shared his personal experiences and passion for Boy Scouting with tens of thousands of Scouts and their families gathered for the 100th anniversary celebration of the Boy Scouts of America.Video
"Scouting has been a big part of my life and my family's life," Gates told an estimated crowd of 45,000 gathered on 12,000 acres on Fort A.P. Hill, Va., as part of the annual National Scout Jamboree.
Gates, an Eagle Scout who has served on the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts and is past president of the National Eagle Scout Association, shared his experiences growing up as a Boy Scout, earning scouting's top rank 52 years ago, and being involved in his son's Boy Scout troop. Even after serving eight presidents and years of working with world leaders, the secretary said, his memories of his Scout leaders are just as memorable.
Noting that their lives were "a bit unusual," Gates told of going on a father-son camping trip when he was CIA director. "A hundred yards from our encampment were three, large black vans, a satellite dish, and a number of armed security officers surrounding the campsite," he said. "Now there's a challenge no Scoutmaster could have anticipated."
Gates told the Scouts he was speaking to them "as a leader from one generation talking with the leaders of the next generation," and said he was like most of them when he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout at age 15.
"I wasn't a straight-A student, nor was I a particularly good athlete," he said. "I wasn't really a student leader." When he arrived in Washington, D.C., at age 22 to begin work at the CIA, he said, "I could fit everything I owned into the back seat of my car. I had no connections and I didn't know a soul."
Earning the Eagle Scout's badge was "the only thing I had done in my life that led me to think that I could make a difference; that I could be a leader," he said to applause. "It was the first thing I had done that told me I might be different because I had worked harder, was more determined, more goal-oriented, more persistent than most others."
The secretary told the Scouts some of them will go on to be leaders in industry, the government and the military. But most importantly, he said, scouting has set them on the path to "becoming a man of integrity and decency, a man of moral courage, a man unafraid of hard work, a man of strong character – the kind of person who built this country and made it the greatest democracy and the greatest economic powerhouse in the history of the world.
"A scout is marked for life as an example of what a boy and man can be and should be," he continued. "You are role models."
In the past 100 years, Gates said, there has been no better program for preparing future leaders than the Boy Scouts. "The fate of our nation in the years to come and the future of the world itself depend on the kind of people we modern Americans prove to be," he said.
The secretary acknowledged that much has changed in the 50 years since he was a Boy Scout.
"We live in an America today where the young are increasingly physically unfit and society as a whole languishes in ignoble moral ease," he said. "But not in scouting."
There are too many places in American life today without the Boy Scouting values of self-reliance, self-control, honor, integrity and morality, Gates said. "From Wall Street to Washington to our hometowns," he said, "in all our lives there are people who seek after riches or the many kinds of power without regard to what is right or true or decent.
"I am here today because I believe in the extraordinary power of scouting to be a force for good in a community and in the lives of its boys and young men," he continued. "As I look out at all of you, I see the legacy of scouting: a new generation of worthy leaders. …With leaders such as you, America will continue to be the beacon of hope and decency and justice for the rest of the world."
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