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Dinner Parties can range from elegant, romantic evenings to amusing theme evenings. Whether they are elegant and sumptuous or pure fun and frolic parties, they are all easy step by step plans that fit into our "I CAN" motto and thinking. So this elegant party will help you to see how to "knock the socks off" of your guests. Give it a try.
An evening of beauty, romance, soft music, easy conversation.
(This could also serve as a perfect Valentine's day party. Ask everyone to come in red.)
A dinner party for eight
Hot Stuffed Mushrooms
Bacon Wrapped Bread Sticks
Sunset Dip
Spicy Olives
Drinks :
Iced Ginger ale Sprintzers
Chilled red and white wines
Main Course:
Cabernet Potroast
Roast Potatoes
French Baby Peas
Green Salad
Rolls, Butter
Dark Chocolate covered strawberries
Mini Eclairs (buy frozen)
Chocolate Brownies (served with hot chocolate syrup) (buy brownies)
DRESS CODE: Dressy. Suits and Ties and cocktail dresses for the ladies.
Black Tie (Puttin' on the Ritz)
Greet guests into your home, show them to a seat in your living room that is alight with candles glowing and an appetizer table set with small plates, napkins and plates of stuffed mushrooms; Bacon wrapped bread sticks; spicy olives and cocktail meatballs. Nearby set up a station of Ginger Ale Spritzers; And a tray of wine glasses with a choice of chilled red and white wines.
Tried and true
preheat oven to 400 degrees
24 large mushrooms
4 Tablespoons melted butter
1 medium garlic clove, minced
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon fresh parsley, chopped fine
1/2 cup seasoned Italian breadcrumbs
1 teaspoon chopped Greek olives ( you may substitute brown olives but it won't be as spicy.)
1 Tablespoon freshly grated Romano cheese
Remove mushroom stems and gently hollow out the cap of the mushrooms. Brush caps with melted butter or olive oil and set aside.Finely chop stems and saute with garlic in 1 Tablespoon butter or olive oil. (Don't let garlic burn) Remove mixture to a bowl and add rest of ingredients. Mix well.
Fill caps and mound the mixture a little. Place filled caps on a well buttered shallow baking dish and bake in a 400 degree preheated oven for 10 minutes.
These will disappear in about a minute at your party.
1 package plain or sesame seed bread sticks
bacon, each slice cut in half
brown sugar
Cayenne pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Wrap each bread stick in 1/2 slice bacon twisting it down the bread stick as you go. Mix some brown sugar with a little Cayenne pepper and dip bacon wrapped bread stick into sugar mixture. Lay each stick on a baking sheet and bake until bacon is done but not real crisp. Serve warm.
2 cans white navy beans or Northern beans, drained
1/4 cup Extra virgin olive oil
2 cloves garlic, peeled and mashed
1/4 cup finely chopped parsley
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 scant teaspoon onion powder
1 Tablespoon finely chopped fresh basil leaves
1 Tablespoon finely chopped green pimento olives
You may put all ingredients into a food processor or mash and mix ingredients together in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days.
Serve with: Pita wedges that have been spread with olive oil and sesame seeds and toasted. Split pitas and brush with olive oil and sprinkle with seeds. Toast then cut into wedges.
1 jar Large pimento olives
Red cayenne pepper
1/4 cup Olive oil
In a large skillet, heat olive oil and sear olives quickly. Remove olives, place in a bowl and sprinkle with as much cayenne "heat" as you and your guests can take.
- 1 qt orange juice
- 1 liter ginger ale (chilled)
- 1 tablespoons lemon juice
- orange wedge (optional)
- maraschino cherry (optional)
Mix orange juice, ginger ale and lemon juice together in a pitcher.
For each serving: fill glass 3/4 full of crushed ice. Pour in Ginger ale mixture, place an orange wedge on the glass and place cherry on top of soda mixture.
4-1/2 lb. Beef pot roast
salt and pepper
1 medium onion, chopped
1 cup water plus 3 tablespoons
1 package brown gravy mix
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup Cabernet Sauvignon wine
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
Rub your beef roast with salt and pepper and place in your crock pot (slow cooker). In a small bowl, combine chopped onion, water, gravy mix, ketchup, wine, Worcestershire sauce and garlic.
Blend well and pour over beef. Place the lid on your crock pot and cook on low 8-10 hours.
Remove the meat when done and slice. Place sliced meat on a platter and pour some gravy over to serve. Garnish with a bunch of parsley. Serve extra gravy in a small pitcher or gravy dish.
Crisped on the outside with bits of bacon and full of flavor.
6 large baking potatoes, peeled and sliced into wedges.
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 strips bacon, diced
4 sprigs fresh rosemary, rough chopped
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
In a large bowl, combine potatoes, olive oil, salt and pepper and diced bacon. Mix to coat potatoes well. Pour out onto a large baking sheet and place rosemary on top of potatoes randomly. Bake until potatoes are golden and tender. (45 min. to one hour.)
French Baby Peas
Easy and beautiful, emerald green peas with pearl onions and herbs.
2 bags frozen baby peas
1 bag frozen pearl onions
2 Tablespoons, chopped fresh parsley
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 heaping tablespoon butter
Place frozen peas in a medium size saucepan and just cover with water and add salt. As soon as water boils, remove from heat drain, place in large bowl and add butter and mix gently. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, place two tablespoons olive oil and pour in the onions. Saute until onions begin to brown slightly. Remove and add to peas and toss gently. Sprinkle chopped parsley over and serve immediately.
Shopping List
1 beef roast 4-1/2 lbs.
1 package brown gravy mix
Worcestershire sauce
1 bottle Cabernet Sauvignon wine
1 medium onion (sweet if possible)
1 liter ginger ale
1 quart orange juice
marachino cherries
white and red wine
24 large white mushrooms
onion powder
fresh parsley
Seasoned Italian breadcrumbs
5-6 Dark Greek olives or 1 can chopped brown olives
Romano Cheese wedge
1 pkg. Small pitas
1 jar of sesame seeds
olive oil
6-8 large baking potatoes
fresh rosemary
1 lb. bacon
brown sugar
cayenne pepper
fresh basil
1 small bottle small green pimento olives
1 large bottle large green pimento olives
2 bags frozen baby peas
1 bag frozen pearl onions
sea salt
bread sticks, plain or sesame
1 head ice burg lettuce
1 bag mixed greens
1 bunch carrots
Italian Salad Dressing (Good Seasons packet mix)
Strawberries (fresh)
dark chocolate chips
dark chocolate ice cream syrup
Brownies (box mixes or ready made)
Dinner rolls
coffee and tea
Table Decorations
Think elegant! Layer plates, put on your nicest tablecloth (neutral or fine print on solid background. Look around your home, put things on the table you would never think of such as things from your bedroom, porch, etc.
Use scarves to flow down the middle of your table as added interest and elegance.
Day before:
- Choose serving dishes, utensils, glasses and table setting items. Wash and dry and have ready for tomorrow.
- Wash salad greens in a bowl of cold water with 2 tablespoons vinegar to remove any residue. Rinse and pat dry completely. Place in an bowl with a barely damp paper towel over the greens and cover tightly with foil. Do this only If you don't have a salad spinner they only cost about $5 – $6 and they make salad greens crisp.
- Chop parsley, place in sealed plastic bag and refrigerate.
- Make Sunset dip and refrigerate tightly covered.
- Refrigerate your wines if you haven't done so already
- Make spicy olives and refrigerate. Let come to room temperature 2 hours before party.
- Set Table Tonight or late afternoon. Put out two sets of salt and pepper shakers
Early on the day of the party: (remember the roast has to cook on low for 8-10 hrs.) Put roast and ingredients into crock pot) Now you can go back to bed for awhile.
After you wake up again ~
- cut up tomatoes or any other ingredients for salad and refrigerate in plastic bags.
- 2:00 p.m. ~ prepare mushrooms and peta breads, don't bake yet. Just wrap and refrigerate.
- Saute pearl onions for peas.
- Wrap bacon around bread sticks and prepare but don't bake until 15 minutes before guests arrive. Refrigerate covered.
- Set up trays with glasses for spritzers and wine.
- Set up coffee pot to simply plug in later and have water in a tea kettle for tea drinkers.
- 3 hrs. before guests arrive – shower and dress
Wear an apron or cover your nice clothes because you still have work to do in the kitchen.
- 2 hrs. before guests arrive ~ prepare potatoes but don't bake yet.
- Put your rolls on a plate or in a basket and cover tightly. Place butter on table.
- 1 hr. before guests arrive -
- place potatoes in oven
- 45 minutes before guests arrive
- Be prepared to plate pot roast after guests arrive and have started on appetizers.
- Double check all last minute things to be done.
- Uncork wines and let them breathe till guests come. (tastes better)
- 30 minutes before guests arrive:
- light candles on table and around the house
- bake mushrooms and pita bites
- Cook peas and keep warm.
- Prepare salad with dressing and other ingredients
- Make spritzers and place these, wine and appetizers on your table with small plates, napkins
They're here: RELAX, take a deep breath, put on your most dazzling smile and greet them in.
About 10 – 15 minutes before serving dinner: Excuse yourself – Take roast out of crockpot, slice and plate and pour gravy into container and call everyone to dinner – Enjoy.


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Genre: comedy
Year: 1992
Length: 105 min
Director: Masauki Suo
Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Masaaki Takarai, George Smiley
I was lucky to see the movie right after its release in 1993, but I still find it one of the funniest (it's really funny and can be quoted) and 'understandable humour wise' Japanese comedies. The plot can be outlined in the following way: western sports become more and more popular in Japanese universities: baseball, soccer, basketball, football, tennis among them… and professors have to blackmail backward students to staff a sumo section. As a result, they have a typical loser section consisting of two brothers, one of whom looks really gayish, a religious American, a fat grind and a neurotic idealist, and they have a plump girl deeply in love to serve them… the university sumo council consisting of old crazy men one of whom keeps on pinching bottoms of people of both sexes, issues the challenge before them which is to win the 'enemy university' which by the way has no problems with the team:) it all becomes a really funny story with a very touching ending:) not a masterpiece, of course, but a very kind and optimistic movie with a touch of an American comedy, the genre I really dislike. It should be mentioned, that this movie was a smashing hit in Japan.

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It would be...odd. The lightness and flexibility would make it very strange imo. You could just make it thicker, heavier, and stiffer, but all that expense, just use steel.
Im not very familiar with titanium as knife steel, but I was thinking. Is titanium sword actually possible? And if so, thats it have any advantages over traditional steels?
It would be...odd. The lightness and flexibility would make it very strange imo. You could just make it thicker, heavier, and stiffer, but all that expense, just use steel.
I think it would suck for a cutting sword...but for a thruster it might do a good job. An all titanium smallsword or estoc would be appropriate enough, but I doubt a Ti broadsword would work out so well.
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Don't believe what the movies have told you. Titanium is a very poor metal for cutting instruments. Even the best titanium alloys (which are NOT the common ones like 6Al-4V) are mediocre compared to even the crummiest of common knife steels like 420J, and that's when talking about pocket knives. Swords are another matter entirely, and even less appropriate for titanium. There are common public misconceptions about titanium. Better than steel, stronger than steel, lighter than steel, etc. Some are true, some are not, some are only half-true. Titanium can be stronger than steel, but that doesn't necessarily mean what you think it means. The word "stronger" is also subjective, and can mean different things. Tensile strength, spring strength, hardness, etc. For some things titanium is the best choice. For some things steel is. When it comes down to it, titanium and steel are 2 different metals have benefits when used for specific things. The same goes for any other metals like aluminum, scandium, and magnesium.
The simple fact is that if titanium made a superior blade metal, be it for a pocket knife or a sword, we would already have those in mass quantities. If titanium made a better pocket knife metal, top-end knives like the Sebenza would have titanium blades. If it made superior sword materials, we would see it commonly used for those as well.
If a sword were made from titanium, you would likely have issues with edge chipping and dinging and bent blades. Can you make a sword from titanium? Of course you can. Would I want to be struck with one? Hell no. Would I expect it to be as effective or durable as a properly made steel sword? Absolutely not.
I generally agree with all of the above. However, I stand by may comment that a big sword-shaped titanium skewer would work just fine. After all, it works in crowbars. All it has to be is stiff.
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Agree with everything above... It's been done with some diving knives, and even those are horrible. Titanium is light, and that's about it. If you properly heat-age it, which is ridiculously expensive, it would make a great poker. I would *LOVE* to see a titanium-bladed smallsword mounted up by Kevin Cashen!!! :-D
yes it would be odd, and with the low elastic modulus it would not be stiff if given the same dimensions as steel sword...
but it would be lighter and very cool and very tough, and the harder alloys are as hard and strong as some spring-temper steel swords (RC low 40s)
in design stages with a customer now for a Titanium sword
So..... I have a titanium "katana" blade that was given to me. It's not finished yet. Still working on other things yet.
It's 3/16"x1-1/4"x36" with a 30" blade and a convex grind.
Trying to decide how I want to refine the grind as right now it's way to thick to do much more than chop weeds.
I'll add a couple pics in a minute.
There is an Ti alloy, nitanol60 or nitinol60, which seems to have all the good qualities of both steel and Ti. Unfortunately it cost an arm and a leg...probably more.
Would it be good for a sword that's supposed to be flexible? Like a tai chi sword?
Practice, or wushu, jian are the flexible ones. Combat jian are stiff.
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Got a Hanwei one that's flexible, but still plenty good for combat. My sifu has a Chris Zhou combat one that's flexible. Pretty sure Adam Hsu's are flexible too. Not all jian are the same... The style that I learned has some moves that actually rely on the sword being bendy. Where do you get your information that ALL combat jian are supposed to be stiff? That's not been my experience, and I've been training in wushu for nearly 21 years now?
Wouldn't cutting ability be severely compromised though? To my understanding the jian is a cut-and-thrust is it not?
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I'd stick a bell-guard saber hilt on that puppy--British 1908/Patton style.
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Honestly, the more flexible ones are almost entirely thrusting weapons. Even the combat ones aren't necessarily sharp on much of the edges. The stiffer jians are cutting weapons also, but they're also generally more heavy duty. I'm a big fan of Chris Zhou's rendition which won one of the Masters of Fire competitions.
I just don't know HOW flexible the titanium is. If it's not too bad, that might be a good application.
I think the only practical use of titanium would be to laminate onto a thin steel edge to bulk it up and add a bit of stiffness, and aluminum (or magnesium) alloy would be much better, for obvious reasons. Something like a steel T-beam, maybe, as most of the stiffness would need to come from the steel.
Not actually all that practical, though, probably. A normal size sword would be too light, and a buster sword sized one would make everyone laugh at you and make comments behind your back.
Planterz, is correct. Ti and almost all known alloys are not good for knives or swords.
The edges are not likely to chip, at least I have not yet seen Ti chip out and I have cut LOTS of it. The material is to "soft" about halfway between aluminum and steel (sort of).
Bendiness is similar to some spring steels, A friend made a set of coil springs for a racing sled, worked well. Given the same dimensions as a steel blade it should be plenty stiff, Shoot an old truck leaf spring makes a decent blade, doesn't it?
Why on earth would anybody back a blade of any kind with Magnesium? It is flammable and may be lit by cutting and once burning you are not likely to have the proper extinguisher to put it out.
But I am just a machinist and not a sword guy so may not know at all how it would be for a sword. Don't get me wrong it does have a certain cool factor, but so does my Titanium shot glass.
How to sharpen Titanium. a thread in Dan Fairly's forum. Also discussed is carbidization, or embedding Tungsten Carbide on the edge to give a sharp edge. It may be pertinent here.
Think mag-wheels, not pure magnesium. At least, I assume that crap is much harder to light if they make wheels out of it, which might scrape all over the pavement if the tire blows.Why on earth would anybody back a blade of any kind with Magnesium? It is flammable and may be lit by cutting and once burning you are not likely to have the proper extinguisher to put it out.
But in any case, swords can only throw some pretty pathetic little sparks at best (and your edge is pretty well damaged if you see any). Think 1 or 2 little orange ones, maybe 3 if you work out a lot. Even vaseline-soaked cotton balls are almost impossible to light with a flint and steel, that throws way better sparks. One time, out of frustration with not being able to light very "easy" tinder, I decided to try lighting up some match heads with the flint and steel. Took 5 minutes! Maybe I'm just terrible at using a flint and steel, though I was getting about 10 times as many sparks, 10 times as bright, compared to anything I've seen with destructive sword testing. But the main point is, you would need to be Thor, the god of thunder, to light up a magnesium sword with a spark, and it'd be a lightning "spark," not one from whacking things together.
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With elaborate set designs and colorful costumes, the Duluth Playhouse's Children's Theatre presents its version of a classic book and film.
Evan Ehrhardt plays the White Rabbit in "Alice in Wonderland Jr." He was joined by the play director, Cheryl Skafte on Good Morning Northland Tuesday.
Skafte said they have a cast of 53 wonderful youth ranging from ages 8 to 18. Theater goers will see a taste of the classic Disney version in their production, along with other performances of "Alice in Wonderland," Skafte said. She also said paintings by artist Salvador Dali are a big influence on the design.
"Alice in Wonderland, Jr." opens Thursday at the Duluth Marshall Fregeau Auditorium. It runs Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. Performances happen on Saturday at 1 and 4 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m.
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Amanda Oliver was first published in the Birmingham News at the age of 16. Most recently published in the San Diego Poetry Annual, Torrid Literary Journal, and by Steady Moon Press. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Magazine, Barefoot Review, Lamplighter Review and for the Canadian Alzheimer's Society. Oliver has had three plays ("Stuck," "Elevator Music," and "Lines") produced in Alabama. She currently resides with her husband in Nashville, TN where she reads monthly with DNR Publishing group at Cafe Coco and Logue's Black Raven Emporium.
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Once it opened cropped to remove the empty space them resized to 600 px by ? but found that it looked cooler using the Infrared plug in under the conversion to B&W and thus you know the steps involved.
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That one large WHITE monument suggests that sepia may be good for this scene. TG
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Another record shot. Unfortunately, these places are usually hard to find a cohesive composition in. This is no different, in that there is no obvious main subject, the stones are scattered all over the frame and there are many distractions around the edge of the frame.
The IR plug-in doesn't appear to have made it very IR-ish, just low-contrast.
You might be better to concentrate on one or two monuments, and compose accordingly, to convey the sense of being there. This composition is too haphazard.
Just a suggestion, but if you really wanted this view, it would have been better to move forward to lose the nearest monument from the scene. It is cut in half anyway. Or maybe widen the zoom a touch and crop carefully to exclude details cutting the edges of the frame. Those you can't tidy up, I would consider cloning out.
It might also be better to shoot early or late in the day rather than when the sun is at it's highest. You will get far better modelling and texture.
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The cut off obilisk in the centre bottom does your composition no favours I fear. The infra red effect is not very strong, in fact would not realise it had been done without your comment. You do need some kind of strong effect to lift record images such as this - dramatic lighting or weather.
You will get a better infra red effect converting to mono with the channel mixer and playing with the colour sliders - especially to red and blue ones.
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Has this ever happened to you? You receive a drawing from a client and in the process of converting the drawing to your layer standards you find a layer that you just can't get rid of. Even though it appears that the lawyer is not being used, AutoCAD will not purge it out of the drawing. In this lesson, we'll learn how to take absolute control of a file and delete any layer from any drawing. On my screen, I have a floor plan that I received from a client and I'm just about ready to incorporate this geometry into my project. However, I seem to have a layer that I cannot remove. It is this one, called ARCHLAYER.
Now, I've already used the Quick Select Tool and AutoCAD told me there's no geometry on that layer. I've also tried the Purge command and AutoCAD says that layer cannot be purged, so the layer is being used somehow. At this point, I can only assume that there is a rogue entity on that layer that's buried inside one of these blocks. Looking at the drawing it appears that I have all the geometry that I need so I'm going to tell AutoCAD to do whatever it takes to delete that layer. I'll do that by opening the Layers panel in the Ribbon and I'll select the Layer Delete tool.
This tool will seek out and delete any rogue entities, even if they're part of a block definition. It will then purge out the unwanted layer. I am going to right-click and I'll select the layer by name. I will then make sure that the ARCHLAYER is selected and I'll click OK. And AutoCAD then issues a warning to let me know that all entities on that layer will be deleted. I'll click Yes and if we check out the Layer Properties Manager you can see that the ARCHLAYER has been removed. You know, as a side note, if you look down here at the command line you can see the block called floor plant has been redefined so it might be worth taking a look at that block to see if anything is missing.
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7 participants from Poland, Norway, Sweden, England and the Netherlands attended the International Postbox Secretary Meeting, hosted and organized by the Netherlands and held from 27 - 29 April 2012. In addition participants were able to take excursions to the Keukenhof and participate in Queen's Day.
The location of the meeting was Baarn, a small town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the centre of Holland next to the Palace where the former Queen and Prince lived. Lodgings were in a woodland neighbouring village called Lage Vuursche; a very peaceful village where Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will live after her retirement.
In this royal setting they had their sessions for the postbox. The Postbox is a programme that aims to give guides and scouts worldwide the opportunity to get into contact with each other in a "safe" way. Nowadays most contacts go through electronic mail and the Postbox guarantees the age and gender of the guides and scouts that are mailing. Postbox Secretaries come together every two or three years to meet each other. Besides meeting between collegues, it is essential to exchange data and experiences in postbox work and of course to add a bit of sightseeing.
Marjolein Sluijter, our International Commissioner, opened the meeting on Friday evening with a lovely story. This was followed by introductions and review of the weekend's programme, the main issue being . The scouts and guides they want to reach are on social networks nowadays.
Besides the session on Friday night there were several others. The list of secretaries was added to and updated and the possibility of starting a group on Facebook for the postbox secretaries to share their thoughts was explored. Scoutface and Scoutlink sites were also looked into.
For sightseeing they visited the famous tulip fields of Keukenhof, ate pancakes, farmer's cabbage and tried buttermilk (karnemelk). The international evening introduced all to the delights of Norwegian sweets, Swedish fish and British cookies...
After a wonderful weekend of friendship and cultural exchange they all went back to their own organisations with the message that the Postbox is a lively programme, a "safe" program, and has taken it's first steps on Facebook.
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Four days after an al-Qaeda-supported Islamic terrorist nearly butchered 278 people, two days after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said "the system worked," and a day after a slovenly and disengaged performance in which Obama told us that the Christmas Day bomber was really an "isolated extremist," Obama emerged once again to assure us that, well, okay, we had a "catastrophic breach" of security and a "systematic failure."
As more details trickle out, we learn that the bomber was likely aided by al-Qaeda and inspired by the same imam who was Major Nadal Hassan's e-mail pal. Not isolated at all, was he. And now we learn just how catastrophic was the failure:
The father of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab met with the Central Intelligence Agency at the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, and told of his son's likely radicalization, according to the CIA.The initial meeting Nov. 19 led to a broader gathering of multiple U.S. agencies the next day, including representatives of the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department and the CIA, in which the information was shared, a U.S. official said.
With no hint of irony, some hapless official tells us (on background, of course) that "it is unclear whether intelligence officials in Washington effectively collected and analyzed all the relevant information gathered in Nigeria, pointing toward a possible lapse that could have helped prevent Mr. Abdulmutallab getting on the plane he attempted to bomb." Let me take a stab at that one: they didn't effectively collect and analyze all the relevant information because Abdulmutallab got on the plane and almost incinerated hundreds of people. So what were Napolitano and the president talking about up until now? Were they trying to flim-flam us or were they grossly and inexcusably unprepared and ill-informed?
This is a scandal of the first order. On this one there is no George W. Bush to blame. There is only the president and his tragically clueless administration. Unlike the pre-9/11 bits of data, which never wound up in the right hands, in this case we had a specific bomber, a specific tip, and the imam was literally in our gun-sights (reports say he escaped the predator attack). And the intelligence community was given it all on a silver platter. This is the quintessential failure to connect dots. Had the detonator not failed or an alert passenger not intervened, we would have had not a catastrophic failure but a catastrophe.
Two suggestions for the president: end the vacation and fire some people. And if he wants to show that he isn't cowering from an increasingly infuriated public, he would do well to hold a press conference and answer each and every question put to him. If he chooses not to, the scandal may turn into Obama's political hurricane, akin to Katrina. Perhaps it already has.


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What he's not getting is that the region didn't exploit the tragedy of the levee failures intentionally. It's a case of shared experience. When you've been through a traumatic experience who better to guide you through the pitfalls than someone who's already been there. In this case thousands of people went through the process of rebuilding their communities and their lives. Many are still in the process of doing so. When the Saints made their run it was with the support of their extended family. The victory was sweeter and more profound because of this shared experience. It changed us from the city that was under water to world champions. I don't expect someone who hasn't been through it to understand this. The blogger reminds me of the bully that has to bring down others to lift himself up. Grow up buddy. Someone somewhere loves you.
At what point do we separate a person's private behavior from their professional? A UPS driver can be fired for an off duty DUI, but a football player can beat a dog or his wife and still play on Sunday? We live in a hypocritical world that does nothing to demand consequences for inappropriate actions for those in positions of power or prestige. No better example of that than right here in Louisiana. Senator Vitter broke the law, apparently using a government paid for cell phone from the Senate floor during roll call, and not only paid no penalty but was celebrated for preaching what he didn't practice. I'm as conservative as you can get, but his effectiveness in the job that we hired him for is limited due to his "serious sins". That's why I couldn't vote for him. If you want to have a private life with all it's peccadillos, then don't choose a career that lives in the public eye. The NFL can set an example by banning convicted felons from serving as role models on the field. If they are truly of value, let them serve in administrative capacities. I'm just saying.
For most of my life I made very little, saved and worked hard. I continue to work hard, save and invest in my employees and my company. I now make what I consider to be a decent living. Even though I pay a significant portion of my income in taxes (this goes for my employees taxes, sales taxes, sign tax - in Orleans parish, etc), permits and insurance I still think the tax cuts should be allowed to expire on those under $250,000. In essence costing myself more in taxes. Will it affect my hiring of more employees or investment in my business? It depends on what my sales are. If they go up, I need more staff. If not, less staff. Anybody that says raising taxes will have a negative impact across the board is just trying to make a point not based in fact. I'm more concerned that there are major corporations that make millions more than me yet pay less in taxes. Close those loopholes and you may see a rise in costs of goods but you'll see more revenue in the tax coffers. Oh, can we get off the whole "Republicants" and "Demadont's" left or right view with blinders and realize that many of us are in the middle and want the endless bickering to stop and do the job we hired (voted) you to do.
I'm not a supporter of those that betray the public trust, but after seeing the venom spewed in the direction of essentially all office holders I have to ask, who among us would run? Is there a competent saint amongst us willing to forgo the riches of the private sector to endure the scrutiny of public office? I'll continue to support my home and community through the non profit sector, but I'm leery to expose myself and my family to the scrutiny and jaded lens of public office. How about you? If not these than who?
Warlock60 - please tell me what you're on so I can get some. You're saying that the democrats made the loans. I thought it was the banks. You're saying that the president is telling the banks to listen to the lobbyists, but they work for the banks. And if you want the republicans to stop him I'd love to hear what solutions they should offer so this situation doesn't happen again? As a lifelong republican I'm tired of both sides but in particular my own party. For eight years they shunned fiscal responsibility and know it's sung loudly from their bullhorns. We used to be a party of ideas and principles. From what I can see know we're the "anti-obama" party. He says up we say down. Give us solutions to the problems we face. Not more of the same ole same ole.
Thank you Keith. It feels like I'm there. The intensity must be extraordinary. I'm crossing my fingers that he plays at least one song for everyone.


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Roddenberry 70's TV Movie "Quester" To Be Remade
By Captain Pyke | January 21, 2010 - 10:14 pm
In the 70's, after Star Trek's unworthy demise, Gene Roddenberry worked on several TV projects. A few made it to the small screen as pilots and made for TV movies. One in particular is going back in the spotlight. "The Quester Tapes" is a 1974 television movie about an android with incomplete memory tapes who is searching for his creator and his purpose.CONTINUE READING >>


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WORCESTER, Mass. - Holy Cross head field hockey coach Meg Galligan has announced the 2007 incoming class for the Crusaders. Brittany Gildea (Warren, N.J.), Kara Gonnerman (St. Louis, Mo.), Breezy Rush (Denville, N.J.) and Alanna Sikorski (Glen Gardner, N.J.) will join the field hockey program in the fall.
"I'm very excited about the incoming class," said Galligan. "All four of the players come from championship winning teams including two all-state players. They are very talented and I am confident that they will help to continue the winning attitude and tradition of our program."
Gildea played at The Pingery School where she was a three-year varsity starter. She was a co-captain her senior year and helped lead the team to a Conference Title with an undefeated record while she tied the school's all-time leading goal scorer. The team won the sectionals her junior year and the state championship her sophomore year. Gildea was named to the All-Area, All- Somerset County and All-Star Coaches Association first teams in 2006.
Gonnerman was a tri-captain at Cor Jesu Academy where she has been a starter the past three years. Her team won the state championship in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Gonnerman was named the Player of the Year in 2006 and in 2005 she played in the Junior Olympics and in the National Futures Tournament. She was named to the West All-Region team in 2006 and was selected to the first team All-Metro team in 2005 and 2006.
Rush was named to the first team All-Morris County, first team All-Iron Hills Conference, first team North Jersey All-Star Group IV, Star-Ledger All-Morris first team, and Star-Ledger All Group 4 first team at the completion of her senior season at Morris Knolls. In 2006 her team won the Conference Championship, was the National Festival Pool Champions and participated in the Garden State Games.
Sikorski was a three-year varsity player at Voorhees High School. In her senior season she was named the team MVP, the Hunterdon/Warren Scholar Athlete of the Year and the All-West Player of the Year for Star-Ledger. Sikorski was selected to the All-Area first team, All-West first team, All-Conference first team, North Jersey Coaches Association first team, All Group 3 first team, All-State second team, and North Jersey Senior All-Star team. In her senior year, she was a captain that helped lead her `Team of the Year' to win the Sectional and Regional Championships and Group III State Finalist.
"Each one of these young players will add depth to every area of the field," Galligan said. "They are all capable of impacting our team early in their careers."
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And I would like to add to this, if I may, that being a professional doesn't necessarily mean a high level of technical prowess behind the drum kit. It means showing up on time (or way before, preferably), being prepared (knowing the songs) and being in shape (sober) to play the gig.
There many highly skilled musicians who aren't professional because they blow up when things don't go to suit them, or are always late. And some of these folks know it and admit that they just can't be that professional all of the time, so they prefer to do something else in life and play music as a hobby which there is nothing wrong with.
I have had to look myself in the mirror before many road gigs and do the gut check to make certain that I was OK with what I was doing, because this business is all about word of mouth, and that word of mouth is either going to be good or bad...
Sorry if I took too many liberties on your thread, Billy, I just thought that this would be useful info.....
By the way, I still have that K Mastersound that you guys signed for me!
Hey Mike - there is absolutely NO REASON for you to apologize (apologise). This is a GROUP HANG! and that is what is fun about it. I love your addition!
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Then I've got a baseball game to check out. I'm on vacation tonight! :D
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Producing, Publishing and Writing a Book in the Digital Age is the topic of a free program at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22 at the The Stevenson Center on Democracy, 25200 N. St. Mary's Road, Mettawa. Marti Gorun, editor of the "Cook Memorial Library Community Cook Book, A Library of Recipes", and Deborah Rine, author of the mystery novel, "The Lake", will discuss the struggles and joys of producing, publishing and writing a book in the digital age. The Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization. The ASCD operates out of the Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home as a licensee of the Lake County Forest Preserve District. Visit http://www.stevensoncenterondemocracy.org/.
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Over the past few years, Twitter has proven itself to be an incredibly useful tool for politicians, especially when it comes to getting their views out in the open for voters to see. But, as we've seen, those aren't the only things members of Congress turn to the 140-character update mogul for. [Read More]
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Texas Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, said Monday that he remains opposed to abortion because fetuses are alive, noting that he has observed 15-week-old male fetuses masturbate in the womb. "Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful," Burgess argued. "They stroke their face. If they're a male baby, they […] [Read More]
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WORCESTER, Mass. – Junior John Pedrotty (Portsmouth, R.I.) struck out a season-high seven batters, pitching five strong innings to lead the Holy Cross baseball team to a 15-10 victory over Albany in opening day at Fitton Field. With the result, the Crusaders improve to a record of 6-7 while the Great Danes combine for a record of 4-9 on the season. Freshman Andrew Barry (Puyallup, Wash.) and senior Brendan McCrea (Hicksville, N.Y.) combined for six RBI on the day offensively, bringing home three runs apiece.
Senior Jack Laurendeau (Sudbury, Mass.) led the Crusaders off with a triple and then scored the game's first run in the bottom of the first, giving Holy Cross an early 1-0 lead. Senior Eric Oxford (Danvers, Mass.) picked up the RBI, scoring Laurendeau on a RBI groundout. Holy Cross added on two runs in the bottom of the second to pull ahead 3-0 as junior Steve Tkowski (Bourne, Mass.) led off with a single, stole second and then scored on a single down the left field line by senior McCrea. McCrea then stole second and advanced to third on a throwing by the Albany catcher, allowing sophomore Patrick Puentes (East Greenbush, N.Y.), who walked, to score the second run. Albany got to Pedrotty for two runs in the top of the third, knocking out a two run home run to get within one run, 3-2.
Albany tied the score, 3-3, in the top of the fourth as Pedrotty walked a batter in. The Crusaders answered with one run in the bottom half of the inning to take back a 4-3 lead with freshman Barry connecting for a RBI single, scoring Tkowski. After Albany regained a 5-4 lead in the top of the fifth, Holy Cross put together a seven-run response, going ahead 11-5. Barry collected two RBI in the inning on a single while Laurendeau, McCrea and sophomore Alex Maldonado (Brooklyn, N.Y.) also collected RBI hits. Sophomore Josh Hauser (Dallas, Texas) came in to pitch for Pedrotty in the sixth inning, allowing one run to score as the Great Danes made it an 11-6 game.
After a scoreless bottom of the sixth, the Great Danes tacked on four runs off Hauser and sophomore John Colella (Herndon, Va.) in the top of the seventh to get within one run, 11-10. McCrea then knocked in his third run of the game in the bottom of the seventh, giving back the Crusaders a two-run cushion, 12-10 and scoring freshman Mike Ahmed (East Longmeadow, Mass.). Holy Cross opened the game back up in the bottom of the eight, scoring three final runs. Senior Nick Ciardiello (Edison, N.J.) led off with a single and then scored on a wild pitch. Three batters later, pinch hitter Kyle Stearns (Orland Park, Ill.) doubled down the left field line to score Ahmed and pinch runner Josh Olson (Woodbury, Minn.). With the double, the Crusaders took a 15-10 lead. Colella retired the final six Albany batters, including four strikeouts, keeping his team's five-run lead safe and picking up his second save of the season.
Pedrotty tallied his third win of the season to improve to 3-1. He pitched five innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on nine hits while striking out the seven Great Danes. Albany starter Dave Kubiak gets tabbed with the loss, dipping to 1-2 on the year. He pitched 4.2 innings, allowing nine runs (two earned) on five hits while striking out nine of the 26 Crusaders her faced. In all, Holy Cross scored 15 runs on 15 hits and made one error while the Great Danes scored 10 runs on 16 hits, making four errors. Laurendeau, Ciardiello, Tkowski and Ahmed all had two-hit games as well.
Holy Cross matches up with Albany again for the second game of the weekend series, hosting the Great Danes tomorrow, March 19, at 4:00 p.m. Albany will first play St. John's at 12:00 p.m. and then replay the Crusaders in the afternoon. All games will be held on Fitton Field.


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- Reconstruction in German relative clauses : in favor of the matching analysis (2006)
- In this paper I argue in favor of a Matching Analysis for German relative clauses. The Head Raising Analysis is shown to fail to account for parts of the reconstruction pattern in German, especially cases where only the external head is interpreted and the absence of Principle C effects. I propose a Matching Analysis with Vehicle Change and make consistent assumptions about possible deletion operations in relatives so that the entire pattern can be captured by one analysis which therefore proves superior to previous ones.
- On an alternative to long A´-movement in German and Dutch (2005)
- This paper provides an analysis of an alternative strategy to A´-movement in both German and Dutch where the extracted constituent is preceded by a preposition and a coreferential pronoun appears in the extraction site. The construction has properties of both binding and movement: Whereas reconstruction effects suggest movement out of the embedded clause, there is strong evidence that the operator constituent is linked to an A-position in the matrix clause; this paradox is resolved by assuming a Control-like approach that involves movement from the embedded clause into a theta-position in the matrix clause with subsequent short A´- movement. The coreferential pronoun is interpreted as a resumptive heading a Big-DP which hosts the antecedent in its specifier.


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Application filed September 0, 1928. Serial No. 661,148.
To-aZZ whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, CYRUs HOWARD HAP- ooon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nutley, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Processes for Reclaiming Oil from -Metal Chips, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference 'b'ein had to the accompanying 1 drawings, Whi'c form a part of this specification. I y
In machining operations involving the use 'of cutting oil, a great deal of oil adheres to the ,metal shavings and chips. In large plants the volume of oil thus carried away may amount to hundreds of gallons-per day.
' It'is found to be economical to devote considerable labor and expense to the reclaiming of this oil. One of the most successful and economical of these reclaimingi opera tions comprises a crusher -for brea ing up the long shavings and reducing them to chips small enough to be readily handled.
. A mass of these chips is then introduced into a centrifugal basket or extractor, into which steam is introduced. The steam or water of condensation drives theoi'l off the metal surfaces and water and .oil are discharged from 4 retain more or less oil at the conclusion of the centrifugal" operation. Notwithstanding the expense, and the incom lete recovery of oil, the proportion of oil rec aimed is, considerable and its value exceeds the expense of recovery.
The object of my invention is to provide a new process whereby the expense of installation of reclaiming machlnery and the amount of manual labor required will be much reduced, the chips will be treated continuously instead of being handled in batches, and the proportion of oil 'reclaime will be materally increased, 1
thrown by centrifugal force. These pockets.
metal surfaces for the oil.
tegrator, extends a chute d communicatng with the higher end of the drum. The'drum may be rotated by any conveniegt means,
such as a sprocket chain 6 extending from a sprocket wheel the bottom of the lower end of the drum,,extends upward ly, through and above the top of the tank, a conveyor k of any approved type. The tank I) should be closed, except to allow the extension thereinto of the chute d, the driving chain f and the conveyork, and except for an opening 71 for hot water and an overfor water and oil, as hereinon a driving shaft g. From flow opening 1 after described.
Beneath and beyond the upper end of the conveyor his a pivoted platform is, held normally in a horizontal position by means of a weight m, but adapted to drop into the inclined position shown in broken lines when a given weight of material is deposited thereon. The platform is perforated to allow drainage into a chamber n, which ma communicate with the interior of the tank I). A car 0, or any other convenient receiver, is positioned to receive the material discharged from the platform when the latter is tilted.
The operation of theapparatus described is as follows: The metallic shavings, etc.,' are reduced to chips in the crusher or disintegrator a and passdown the chute d into the cylinder 0, which continuously rotates at a low rate of speed. The entire cylinder is immersed in a body'of Water, which should be heated to a fairly high temperature, say about 180 F. The water level, as shown in the drawing, is maintained constant by the overflow outlet 7'.
B 'the'rotation of the cylinder 0 the chips in tie cylinder are moreor less agitated to expose their surfaces to the action of the hot water, which has a greater affinity than the The released or washed ofl oil, by reason of its lower specific gravity, floats to the upperpart of the drum which my the tank, beneath and beyond ter opposite the outlet.
The metal chips, almost completely free from oil, are carried up by the conveyor h and deposited on the platform is, where the water, with any oil carried in suspension thereby, drain into the chamber 11. After a suflicient weight of oil-free chips accumulates on the platform k, it tilts and deposits its contents into the car 0, the weight an immediately afterward returning the platform is to its normal position; I
' The oil and water mixture outflowing through the orifice j, flows through a pipe p into a centrifugal separator or purifier s. This separator is of the closed bowl type, of which a good example is found in Fig. 1 of a patent issued to me July 3, 1923, No. 1,460,718. In this centrifuge the oil 'and water are separated by centrifugal force, the oil being discharged into a receiver 'r, while the water, containing a little oil, is dis charged into a receiver t, and is thence pumped through a pipe to into the hot water supply pipe communicating with the tank 1nlet z.
The advantages of my new process are as.
. The process is continuous and practically automatic and involves no manual labor other than that incidental to general oversight.
An almost complete reclamation of the oil is secured. The moderate agitation to which the metal into repeated contact with the hot water, which'is as effective as steam. in removing the oil. Any very small percentage of oil that is carried, with the water, on the chips discharged by the conveyor, drains off and is conserved. Any oil that is discharged by the centrifugal bowl from the water outlet is returned to the tank. During no part of the process',therefore, can. any measurable quantity of oil escape.
The apparatus required is inexpensive. The tank, cylinder, chute, conveyor and tilting weighted platform, are simple 'mechanical elements and can be cheaply'constr'ucted and assembled. The cost of these is much less than the cost of a basket centrifuge, traveling crane and other apparatus required in the most effective prior process.
It is obvious thatthe process can be carried out in apparatus other than the one described, which, however, is especially well adapted for the purpose.
mean to include, as equivalents, all oilwashes that may be advisable or' necessary to substitute for hot water, in order to operate the process effectively.
Having now fully-described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is: I
1. The steps in the process of reclaiming oil from metal chips, which comprises feeding the chi as into a body of hot water, progressively. ceding the'chips forward as they are fed to the body of water and during their forward feed subjecting them to agitation, whereby the hot water removes the oil from the chips as they advance, continuously floating off the oil rising to the surface of the body of water, and continuously withdrawing from the body of water the chips at the forward end of the progressively moving stream of chips.
2. The process of reclaiming oil from metal chips, which-comprises feeding the chips into a body of hot water, progressive-- ly feeding the chips forward as they are fed to the body of water and during their forward feed subjecting them to agitation, whereby the hot water removes the oil from the chips as they advance, continuously withdrawing from the body of water the chips at the forward end of the continuously moving stream of chips, allowing the'oil'to overflow from the body of water, subjecting the oil to the action of centrifugal force to se arate therefrom any water that overflows with. the oil, and returning the separated I water to the tank. the chips are subjected brings every area of the chips to the body of water, subjecting the oil that has floated off to the action of centrifugal force to separate therefrom any water that overflows with the oil, and returning the separated water to the tank; thereby insuring against the loss of any of the oil.
4. The steps in the process of reclaiming oil from metal chips, which comprises feeding the chi s into a body of hot water, progressively eeding the chips forward as they are fed to the body of water and during their forward feed subjecting them to agitamamas withdrawing from the body of water the chips at the forward end of the continuousl moving stream of chips, and guiding the 011 freed from and rising through the water above the chipsin a direction opposite to the direction of travel of the stream of chips and toward the surface of the body of water, and
continuously floating ofl" the oil from the 1 surface to which it is guided as specified.
In testimony of which invention, I have hereunto setmy hand, at New York, on this 28th day of August, 1923.
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December 2011 Openings & Closings
|Jennifer Silverberg
|Shula's 347 Grill closed this month.
The final month of the year wasn't quite as hectic as previous months but still saw several openings, and a few high-profile closings, including the sudden shuttering of the still-new Shula's 347 Grill and the previously announced closure of the Terrace View at Citygarden.
The complete list is after the jump. Did we miss an opening or closing? Let us know in the comments.
4 Hands Brewing Company (1220 South Eighth Street; 314-436-1559)
Chop Shop [food truck]
Davis Street Market Deli (8125 Michigan Avenue, Suite 110; 314-802-7177)
Diablito's Cantina (3761 Laclede Avenue; 314-644-4430)
Epic Pizza & Subs (1711A South Ninth Street; 314-436-3742)
Mama Gusto's 314 (7700 Ivory Avenue; 314-638-8676)
Spice 'n Grill (6800F Olive Boulevard, University City; 314-721-2421)
House of Savoy (999 North Second Street)
Nosh (1135 South Big Bend Boulevard)
Shula's 347 Grill (411 North Eighth Street)
The Terrace View (808 Chestnut Street)
Temporarily Closed
Delmonico's Diner (4909 Delmar Boulevard; 314-361-0973)
Trucked out of Town
Wanderlust Pizza [food truck]
Location Info
Diablitos Cantina
3761 Laclede Ave., St. Louis, MO
Category: Restaurant
House of Savoy - CLOSED
999 N. 2nd St., St. Louis, MO
Category: Restaurant
Nosh - CLOSED
1135 S. Big Bend Blvd., St. Louis, MO
Category: Restaurant
Shula's 347 Grill - CLOSED
411 N. 8th St., St. Louis, MO
Category: Restaurant
The Terrace View - CLOSED
808 Chestnut St., St. Louis, MO
Category: Restaurant
Buchanan's Restaurant
4909 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, MO
Category: Restaurant
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by Manuel Moschopoulos - 13th century
An exposition by the most learned and most blessed master Manuel Moschopoulos with regard to the invention of number squares, which he has made at the insistence of Nicolaos Artabasdos of Smyrna, arithmetician and geometer, the Rhabdas1.
Among the set of numbers, some are odd and some are even. Furthermore, among the even numbers, some are evenly-even2 - those capable of repeated division into two equal parts, finally resulting in the number one3; and some are evenly-odd4 - those which are not capable of repeated division into two equal parts resulting in the number one.
Every number when multiplied by itself, makes a square of equal sides5. For example, the number6 3 , multiplied by itself makes 9, and 9 is a square, its side7 being the number 3. For the side of each square is the number that when multiplied by itself, produces that square. It is possible for [the sum of the numbers along] this side8 to be the same in all directions even along the diagonals, but so that this may become clearer by a diagram, let a square be drawn (Fig. 1) and in it let the cells9 of the number square be contained by lines, thus:\[\begin{array} {| c | c | c |} \hline 1 & 1 & 1 \\ \hline 1 & 1 & 1 \\ \hline 1 & 1 & 1 \\ \hline \end{array}\quad{Side}=3\]
Figure 1
Further, let a one be placed in each of the cells, then it is altogether obvious that the addition of all these ones amounts to 9, but that the addition of (the numbers on) each of the sides in any direction gives 3, even along the diagonals. This is easy to understand. But if a square were drawn, and cells are drawn in it equal to the (side) number squared, and furthermore, there were placed not ones, but the number one, and those numbers one after another from the number one, then the Sides will no longer be equal in all directions, since the numbers in succession have been placed in the cells. Now if an arrangement were sought which could make the Sides equal in all directions, including the diagonals, this would not be found very easily. Even if after some difficulty such an arrangement were found for one square, there is no reason to expect one might be found in a different (size) square. However, if one were guided by a method, one would easily have the arrangement which produces this effect, in whatever square one likes.
There is no single method for this, but one method which works for squares arising from odd numbers, another for those arising from evenly-even numbers, and yet another for those arising from evenly-odd numbers. Concerning these things10 we now propose to speak.


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Led Zeppelin is Rediculous.
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I'm actually getting really quite sick of the backward-looking 'Rock' lobby at the moment.
Now that I've alienated everybody in this thread, I will explain.
I like Led Zeppelin. I used to like them a lot more, but I'm actually with DMC on this one on so many levels. This focus on bands that have been gone thirty or forty years
to the forsaking of all others
(to use matrimonial terminology) really irritates me. That and bands (like Wolfmother) who just re-hash this kind of music. It happened, it's over, please move on with your lives.
The truth is, it stagnates everything. Whenever I listen to Classical Music (and I listen to a lot more than the majority of the people on here as part of my degree) I can usually place it within a certain compositional timeframe and see a progression directly from Bach, through to Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schoenberg
et al.
I don't know if it's just me, but the speed of musical change in the previous century should have made it easier to pinpoint to even more specific dates. I can do it with jazz - I can listen to a lot of the music and pinpoint a rough era as to when the music was written - pre-'Brew' Davis is definitely pre -'Brew' Davis and Brian Blade is definitely much more modern, because I can
see a linear progression
. However, when I listen to a lot of guitar-based music, I just don't hear that. I can certainly hear it for the first decade or two of rock, for argument's sake '55-'75 but really beyond that, I struggle to hear what has musically changed in a lot of mainstream material.
This focus on a very specific time frame (roughly '68-'78) means that younger generations are growing up with an attitude of just wanting to play that music. I'm sick of pentatonic scales, I'm sick of two-minute guitar solos, I'm sick of drummers hitting their crash every 'one' and I'm sick of vocalists who think that they can use the word 'wooohhhmmaaannn' in a song without a hint of irony.
There are plenty of bands out there that don't do this. I could name dozens, but it seems to so many young people today that
this period is all that counts
. I know, I've been there and out the other side and I was even critical of drum machines for a long time -
until I started looking elsewhere
. I've discovered so much musical diversity in the last two decades it is ridiculous, but so little of it uses the 'standard band' format. Bowie is a prime example - there's a guy who realised what he was doing was going to be passe in the next two years and changed it all just because he could. What did we get? Two (arguably three) fantastic albums - that mercifully haven't been copied - and mind-blowing collaborations with a small group of musicians that have seriously radicalised and influenced a wide range of musicians in the years since. Why then, do I keep hearing the same three chords on the radio? Why do I listen to a mainstream pop track and think it's from the 90s but it turns out to be the 'newest' chart release?
people don't listen to enough music
. Vygotsky (a psychologist) postulated a theory known as 'Zones of Proximal Development' whereby in order to develop, one has to stretch slightly beyond their 'comfort zone' and seek new empirical experiences. I don't think enough people do that. Without that I would have never have started the degree I am doing, I would never have discovered some really fantastic music (let's just start with Schoenberg and Penderecki) and I would have never have discovered quite what a computer could do, and that actually deeply disturbs me, yet every time I log in, I keep seeing the same names mentioned, the same concepts mentioned and there is
very little new in any of it
Why not take the primitive rhythms of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' and try something new, rather than lauding over Bonham, Paice
et al
(who I do think are great drummers) and really pushing some boundaries?
You've [put up a thoughtful post, but I disagree with you on a number of things.
First and foremost is that age of rock. Of course it's easier to follow the progression of a music that is hundreds of years old--classical, or 100+ years old--jazz.
But even, their are some great reintreptations of classics like "The Hall of the Mountain King," by Apocolypto and Savantage.
But what about the early guitart laden rock, to the electronic music of the 80's, to rebirth of hard rock in the 90's with much less guitar dependence and soloing, to multiple genre's of metal, to the likes of rap and hip hop. Music has changed drastically over the last 40 years--for better or worse is for the individual to decide.
But the idea that "it happened, it's over?" I see that along the lines of cutting out elemenatry school and sending kids straight to high school. It's where you end up anyway. Seems from your post some musical taste foundations irritate you while others don't. I don't see the discussion as being a scholastic as you've implied. Music is music, and some music grabs some, while not others. Seems odd to be irritated by what does grab some. It's also odd to not see the roots of a current top 40 band along the lines of Buckcheery and not see the 70's roots to the music.
Furthermore, a lot of classical music isn't all that scholastic, and a lot of it stands alone in the fact that it didn't come from previous music, and like popular music, a lot of it is just catching a ride on what was popular and rewriting "popular" in another way. A lot like top 40 music is today much the same song over and over. If people were as familiar with classical musuc as they are with current music, this would be obvious.
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Vegetarians Seduced by Bacon
Are you a vegetarian? It may be a strange question to ask on a bacon blog, but I've heard of a new trend that appears to becoming popular: vegetarians who don't eat any meat except bacon. The trend has recently come to our attention because of an article on NPR: why bacon is a gateway drug for vegetarians. But I've been seeing it around a lot lately. Are vegetarians converting to bacon-love? Why is bacon so successful at converting vegetarians? What is that special magic that makes it so appealing?
All Meat Except Bacon
The NPR piece argues that vegetarians eating bacon is actually a pretty common thing. Gwen Sharp, a vegetarian in their article says, "I have long thought if for some reason I ever started eating meat again, I would start with bacon." There's a scholarly book about food that has a chapter that talks about how bacon sandwiches can get the better of English vegetarians. Janeane Garofalo is a vegetarian except for bacon. There's even a t-shirt for these people! (Isn't there always a t-shirt?) It has to be a trend!
Ba-Curious or Flexitarian?
Over the years, there's been various attempts to name these folks. Are they vegetarians except for their bacon days? Or just picky carnivores who eat a lot of salad? In a CHOW Table Manners column, author Helena tried to define this difficult concept. Helena eventually settled on the term Ba-curious. You know: these are vegetarians who pretty much always stick to vegetables except for the times they sneak in an intimate moment with a guilty and titillating pleasure like bacon.
Another term that can be used is flexitarian. The idea behind this term is that not everyone fits into a rigid set of categories that fully describe their eating habits. Many people are willing to mostly stick with general vegetarian ideals, but they are also willing to make exceptions based on their personal taste, and this can include bacon.
Why Is Bacon Such A Powerful Gateway Drug?
Yes, meat is great, but why is bacon so specifically attractive? There's not really any explanation for this, except for the obvious: bacon is awesome! The NPR article tries to offer some other explanations, including ones we've heard before: most of our sense of taste comes from our sense of smell, and there's not many things in this world that compare to the odour of bacon frying on the stove. All those delicious-smelling amino acids! The NPR article also points out that eating bacon can be a social event – everyone gets together to enjoy a bacon fry-up on the weekend – and this can lead some vegetarians caving under peer pressure. (Note to self: vegetarians are susceptible to peer pressure.)
The Republic of Bacon is An Accepting Republic
Whatever the reason, I like vegetarians who eat bacon. What's not to like? They eat bacon! And I think it is time we finally acknowledge and welcome our vegetarian-but-bacon-eating friends. After all, the Republic of Bacon is not the Republic of You-Must-Love-Every-Meat. We're pretty flexible here. We'll accept anyone here. As long, of course, as you adore bacon.
And then this brings up the obvious question: do we have any bacon-eating vegetarians out there? Why do you love eating bacon so much (besides the obvious)? We'd love to hear your story! Tell us in the comments. If we get enough, we'll feature your comments in a post.


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Project Horseshoe is a think-tank style conference addressing the industry-wide challenges of modern game design.
Come be a part of an elite group of brilliant minds working to positively influence the art and science of game design. We combine intense and effective workgroup techniques with Texas-sized hospitality in an all-inclusive event that may change your life.
This is an invitation-only event. If you know someone who should be invited, please contact Teresa Avallone.
We are very pleased to announce the following speakers for
Project Horseshoe 2015:
Project Horseshoe 2015:
Tim Fowers, Motivational Designer, Payoff.com
Steve Swink, Game Designer, Cubeheart Games
Nick Yee, Co-Founder & Analytics Lead, Quantic Foundry
Mission Statement for Project Horseshoe:
Positively influencing the art, science, and business of game design over the next five years in ways that are unlikely to happen otherwise, by taking advantage of practice-proven brainstorming methods and our access to the brightest minds in the field.
Summary of the Method Used:
Under conditions that have proven conducive to successful and efficient team thinking:
- Identify the biggest issues/problems in the area of game design.
- Attack 3-6 of those issues/problems in facilitated workgroups.
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