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Turkey Derby
Which bird is the best?
There are better-cooking birds than turkeys. Take chicken, for example: Roasted in high heat for about an hour, it becomes a delicious paradox, at once moist and crisp. And squab: now, that's a bird with flavor—dark and bloody, even a little scary, but delicious just the same. For dark-meat lovers, there is the velvety, finger-greasing meat of roast goose or confited duck. But a turkey, even when cooked properly, is little more than a quiet complement to the flashier flavors of the Thanksgiving table: the gravy, the cranberry sauce, the stuffing. It is good, it is pretty, it is moist, but it's rarely a thunderbolt. Only in poor execution does it stands out, with dry joyless breasts and leathery drumsticks. Turkey is not so much a delicacy as an engineering problem.
Despite it all, Thanksgiving celebrants still keep searching for their miracle bird. Many now eschew the frozen standard for fresh, free-range, or organic birds, which, by dint of their hale and hearty natural living, must taste better. I was determined to find out how much such provenance mattered, so I arranged an all-day turkey marathon, in which, helped by a team of fellow cooks, I evaluated four different kinds of turkey.
First off, though, it is worth considering in more detail the turkey's imperfect nature. Its main problem is true of all poultry: To be safely cooked, the breast needs significantly less time and heat than the thighs. Yet because the turkey is so large, and its breast so lean, the problem is exponentially graver. By the time the thighs are done, after hours in the oven, the breast can easily go dry. Turkey cooks are constantly trying to tend to that heat-sensitive breast while cooking the rest of the bird fully. Further complicating the matter is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's extremely cautious food-safety recommendation—that the turkey should be cooked to an internal temperature of 180 degrees Fahrenheit to be fully safe, which overshoots the ideal temperature for a moist breast meat by 20 to 25 degrees. This frustrating split leads people to turkey extremes. It's why people risk grease fires and third-degree burns to deep-fry their birds; why the intricacies of brining—soaking the bird in a salty solution—become a key pre-Thanksgiving discussion; why food-science writer Harold McGee ices down the breast meat of his turkey before he cooks it; and why, eight years ago, Barbara Kafka recommended the high-heat roasting (500 degrees) of a bird that had been warmed to room temperature (much to the dismayed clucking of slow-roasting traditionalists who insist that a gentle oven is the only way to preserve a turkey's moisture).
In restaurants, we don't tend to cook much turkey (unless one serves sandwiches), and when we do we're likely to dispense with all the aesthetic fuss, cut the turkey apart, and cook the thighs separately from the troublesome breast. When I worked at Campanile in Los Angeles, we made a fantastic turkey dinner by brining and roasting the breasts while cooking the deboned legs, stuffed with sausage, in a soothing bath of olive oil.
Of course, such a technique won't fly at home: If you're serving a Thanksgiving turkey, you just can't cut the bird into parts. After all, presenting, then carving, the bird is the closest we get to a sacrificial act in this country. Even though most of us concede that the original Thanksgiving meal was morally ambiguous, we still respect the sanctity of the whole bird. (Until the next day—when, in a rare contemporary instance of culinary frugality, we proudly morph the leftovers into sandwiches, soups, and breakfast stratas.)
So, the bird stays together, and you hope your brine-tinfoil-basting keeps the breast miraculously moist. The next question, these days, is what kind of bird? It's as much a political decision as one of taste: Do you choose a bird that has been raised indoors, whose intake of food and pharmaceuticals is unknown to you? Or do you choose a bird that has been raised outdoors without antibiotics or added hormones and with (presumably) more room to flap about? Is that story worth another dollar or two a pound? Does it affect the flavor? Nowadays, the food-obsessed can even opt for so-called "heritage" breeds of birds that, when alive, are closer in appearance to the strutting fan-tailed toms pictured in a thousand Thanksgiving tableaux than to the scraggly white turkeys that dominate the market today. These birds represent an effort by preservationists to protect classic American livestock breeds from extinction by creating a market for them. Right now, these Bronze, Narragansett, and Jersey Buff turkeys are the holiday choice of the food cognoscenti, and often you must sign up with a farm in the spring for your November bird. Leaner in torso than the current commercial turkey, one of these breeds just may have been the subject of Norman Rockwell's iconic bit of World War II home-front propaganda, the illustration Freedom From Want, whose huge roast turkey has a slender breast for a bird its size. It was painted about 15 years before the Butterball, bred for plump breasts, became the top-selling brand of turkey in the country.
And now, the experiment. I analyzed four birds for taste, appearance, and texture: a Butterball, a kosher bird, a range-raised "natural" bird, and a fully certified organic bird. I also added a fifth, heritage-breed bird on Monday. (Unfortunately, the heritage bird could not be included in the initial parallel taste test because it was still flapping about on the day of competition.)
Cooking method: Although I have had a lot of success with the method in the past, I chose not to soak the turkeys in brine, a salty solution that tenderizes meat and adds moisture, because I thought it would obscure some of the basic qualities of the meat. After defrosting the frozen birds in the refrigerator for five days (it takes a long time!), I patted them dry, then salted each turkey with one-quarter cup of kosher salt and left the salt on them while they sat overnight in the fridge. In the morning, I went to the Harvest Vine, the Seattle restaurant where I work, because there I had enough oven space to cook all four birds at once. I left the birds trussed as they came, with the exception of the kosher bird, which was ungracefully splayed—I bound its legs together with twine. I coated each bird with 3 tablespoons of melted butter and laid each in a sheet pan, atop a bed of chunked onions, carrots, and celery. I then covered each bird with a damp, double layer of cheese cloth, a method I picked up from Martha Stewart's TV show, which, by keeping the basting liquid close to the breast, seems to retain moisture and coax a beautiful mahogany sheen out of the skin. I put the turkeys into ovens heated to 350 degrees, their legs facing the back, and I occasionally basted the birds with a 1-to-3 mixture of butter and chicken stock. When each bird reached 165 degrees on a thermometer inserted at the thickest part of the thigh, I removed it. (This, you may have noted, is below the USDA's recommendation of 180 degrees, but not so much less if you account for the rise in temperature as the bird rests before carving.) After resting for a half an hour, the birds were sliced and tasted by a crew of four hungry and picky cooks, my co-workers at the restaurant, who did not know which bird was which. I've incorporated their comments and rankings into a letter grade for each turkey.
The contenders, listed in order, from best to worst:
Butterball, ConAgra
Weight and price: 15.75 pounds, $20.32 ($1.29/pound).
State at time of purchase: Frozen.
Distinguishing features: This bird contains up to 7 percent of a solution of water, salt, starch, sodium phosphate, and flavors; "naturally tucked" legs; twine turkey-lifter included; and a Butterball hot line to call if you run into trouble.

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The French Derby winner Lawman has been retired to stud. This follows news that an infection forced the Invincible Spirit colt to miss his intended Arc engagement.
Watching the colt make all in the French Derby as his competitors desperately tried to peg him back was thrilling viewing. However, since 2004 when the French Derby was made a 10 and a half-furlong affair the race has failed to throw up a winner than can stay a truly run 12 furlong Group 1 race. So the question has to be, was Lawman really going to mix it with the best in the Arc? He is clearly a class act, over 8 and 10 and a half, but did he have the stamina to last 12 furlongs? The cynic inside me screams a definitely maybe is worth more than a definitely not.Pedigree Analysis
On paper he was unlikely to stay the trip. His sire, invincible spirit was a 6-furlong specialist, himself by Green Desert (top sprinter) and Rafha, was a group winner over middle distances.
His dam Laramie, was unplaced in 2 starts over 7 furlongs and as such her optimum trip is a mystery. However, she comes from a high-class family of champion sprinter Gulch and Group 2 middle distance runner Light the lights. She has also been a huge success as a broodmare, with 2 other group performers over 7 and 10 and a half furlongs.
In reading Lawman's pedigree it has to be judged that 12 furlongs would be out of reach. His group winning half-brother and sister are arguably better bred for a shot at 12 furlongs, than Lawman. Indeed, half-sister Latice tried it on 2 occasions and failed to place. So why would Lawman, a speedier bred do any better? A question I find hard to fathom.
So it seems highly unlikely he would have been competitive over the Arc trip. His stallion prospects however, are very good. From a family steeped in black-type and as a group winner over 8 – 10 and a half furlongs on both good and ground with ease, he should make a versatile sire with what's bound to be a good book of mares.


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Pinpoint ph monitor
I'm considering one. I've noticed they require calibration fluid and can adapt to toher "main" units for additional tests ? Any one with knowledge on these products ? I decided to check them out whrn i got 3 different results ph. API, strips and a stick on monitor.
You're unlikely to ever get the same result from three different sources. Given that two of them are extremely unreliable to begin with, the strips and stick on, you're not going to be in luck. The result given by the liquid API test kit is reliable so long as you follow the testing instructions. It's kinda hard to recommend a $90 electronic monitor when the $5 pH test should be getting you results good enough for almost anyone outside of a very serious reef keeper.
Agreed 100%. So long as the instructions are followed closely, the API liquid kit should be very accurate.
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Public education is under attack. Local school boards are under attack. Local governance is under attack.
That was the blunt message delivered by Diane Ravitch at the closing General Session of NSBA's annual conference in San Diego.
A nationally recognized education researcher and author, Ravitch has become a fierce critic of many of the education reform models that, in the past decade, have been advocated by misguided state and federal policymakers, as well by wealthy ideologues. And she shared her criticisms and concerns with conference attendees.
"What I'm going to try to do today,' she said, "is arm you with the facts you need to help you defend your public schools from an unprecedented assault."
The repeated attacks on public education today—and the so-called reform proposals being touted as solutions—are both inaccurate and deceptive, Ravitch argued.
"These people who call themselves reformers, who say our public education system is obsolete, that it's failing, that it's broken … they're wrong," she said. "Our schools are not failing. Our system of public education is not broken.'
"Let me tell you what's the problem—our federal education policy is broken," she added. "Federal education policy is hurting our public schools. Federal education policy has abandoned the historic principles of federalism and is imposing mandates that are bad for children."
The truth about public education and many of today's reform ideas will be laid out in her upcoming book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of Privatization and the Danger to America's Public Schools, she said.
The truth, she said, is something you don't see on the evening news or in the daily newspapers. In reality, test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are the highest in history. High school graduation rates are the highest in history. The nation's dropout rates are the lowest in history.
Such positive news is drowned out, however, by the purposeful barrage of negative messaging by critics of public education, she said.
What's more, she added, those that use low-performing schools as proof of public education's failure always argue for reform models that ignore the root causes of struggling schools—that these schools are struggling to educate large numbers of students who live in poverty, speak little or no English, or are racially segregated.
But inconvenient facts don't serve the needs of those with ideological or profit-minded agenda, she said. For these critics, the attacks on public education are part of their effort to expand the role of charter schools and vouchers—to privatize public education—so they can extract profits from public education funding.
Whether fueled by ideological or profit motives, these critics also are seeking to under-mine the authority of school boards, she warned. They encourage state and federal mandates to take more decisions out of the hands of local school officials, and they advocate for new state agencies to bypass the role of school boards as the authorizing body for charter schools.
In some cases, these advocacy efforts are similarly worded—based on model language drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate-funded advocacy organization that has funded numerous charter and voucher initiatives across the country.
There's a reason school boards have seen themselves under pressure in recent years, Ravitch said.
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"As members of local school boards, you are powerful—you have it in your power to stop this raid on public education … to use your power to support democracy, support public education, and protect your children."


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Yes, there are some lemons in the bunch. But even if they're not all great films, these packages will make the perfect presents (and collectors items) this season for the DVD Freaks and Geeks on your list. Selections and commentary by Jordan Harper.
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Tailgating has expanded beyond the traditional grill fare, but will serious tailgaters buy in to a healthier approach?
It\'s a big weekend for sports fans, and we want to know what\'s on your tailgating spread. Would you ever replace burgers and beer with champagne and caviar?
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The D.C. region is full of outdoor events in the summer months. From sports to concerts, it\'s the perfect time to grab a grill, some folding chairs and tailgate the day away.
A Virginia State Police initiative aims to reduce fatal crashes in 2014.
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The Nassau County PAL Special Needs Unit hosted the games in Hicksville. The competition was comprised of four different divisions organized by ability, and each team was playing to win.
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The markets advanced during the midday with the Dow rising 23 points to 16,095 as building permits jumped in October. Nasdaq climbed 24 points to 4018.
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Mediabistro (Nasdaq: MBIS) made a strategic investment in 3DPI.
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In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of more than 5 to 4 on the NYSE and by more than 5 to 3 on Nasdaq. The broader S&P 500 added 4 points to 1806. Bitcoin climbed $75.97 or 9.33% to $889.98.


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Parallel Verses
New International Version
They will all respond, they will say to you, "You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us."
New Living Translation
With one voice they all cry out, 'Now you are as weak as we are!
English Standard Version
All of them will answer and say to you: 'You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!'
New American Standard Bible
"They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us.
King James Bible
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Holman Christian Standard Bible
They all respond to you, saying:" You too have become as weak as we are; you have become like us!
International Standard Version
In answer, all of them will tell you, 'You've also become as weak as we are! You have become just like us!'
NET Bible
All of them respond to you, saying: 'You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!
GOD'S WORD® Translation
All of them will greet you, "You also have become weak like us! You have become like one of us!"
JPS Tanakh 1917
All they do answer And say unto thee: 'Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
New American Standard 1977
"They will all respond and say to you,
'Even you have been made weak as we,
You have become like us.
Jubilee Bible 2000
They all shall shout and say unto thee, Art thou also become sick as we? Art thou become like unto us?
King James 2000 Bible
They all shall speak and say unto you, have you also become weak as we? have you become like unto us?
American King James Version
All they shall speak and say to you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like to us?
American Standard Version
All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Douay-Rheims Bible
All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well as we, thou art become like unto us.
Darby Bible Translation
All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us!
English Revised Version
All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Webster's Bible Translation
All they shall speak and say to thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like us?
World English Bible
They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"
Young's Literal Translation
All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!
Parallel CommentariesMatthew Henry's Concise Commentary
14:1-23 The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy. Let the church receive those whom God receives. God's people, wherever their lot is cast, should endeavour to recommend religion by a right and winning conversation. Those that would not be reconciled to them, should be humbled by them. This may be applied to the success of the gospel, when those were brought to obey it who had opposed it. God himself undertakes to work a blessed change. They shall have rest from their sorrow and fear, the sense of their present burdens, and the dread of worse. Babylon abounded in riches. The king of Babylon having the absolute command of so much wealth, by the help of it ruled the nations. This refers especially to the people of the Jews; and it filled up the measure of the king of Babylon's sins. Tyrants sacrifice their true interest to their lusts and passions. It is gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, Be ye holy, for I am holy; but it is sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, He who exalts himself shall be abased. The devil thus drew our first parents to sin. Utter ruin should be brought upon him. Those that will not cease to sin, God will make to cease. He should be slain, and go down to the grave; this is the common fate of tyrants. True glory, that is, true grace, will go up with the soul to heaven, but vain pomp will go down with the body to the grave; there is an end of it. To be denied burial, if for righteousness' sake, may be rejoiced in, Mt 5:12. But if the just punishment of sin, it denotes that impenitent sinners shall rise to everlasting shame and contempt. Many triumphs should be in his fall. God will reckon with those that disturb the peace of mankind. The receiving the king of Babylon into the regions of the dead, shows there is a world of spirits, to which the souls of men remove at death. And that souls have converse with each other, though we have none with them; and that death and hell will be death and hell indeed, to all who fall unholy, from the height of this world's pomps, and the fulness of its pleasures. Learn from all this, that the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned. The royal city is to be ruined and forsaken. Thus the utter destruction of the New Testament Babylon is illustrated, Re 18:2. When a people will not be made clean with the besom of reformation, what can they expect but to be swept off the face of the earth with the besom of destruction?
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 10. - Art thou also become weak as we? rather, So thou also art made weak as we! (On the supposed weakness of the dead, see the comment on ver. 9.)
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
All they shall speak, and say unto thee,.... So they would say, could they speak, and are here represented as if they did:
art thou become also weak as we? who had been more powerful than they, had been too many for them, and had subdued them, and ruled over them, and was not only looked upon as invincible but as immortal, yea, as a deity; and yet now was become "sick", as the word (b) signifies, or by sickness brought to death, and by death enfeebled and rendered weak and without strength, stripped of all natural strength, as well as of all civil power and authority:
art thou become like unto us? who thought himself, and was flattered by others, that there were none like unto him; but now as the rest of the dead, and upon a level with them. So will it be with the Romish antichrist, who now exalts himself above all that is called God, and reigns over the kings of the earth, and shows himself as if he was God, and of whom his parasites say, "who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" when he shall be consumed by Christ, and cast into the lake of fire with the devil and false prophet, he will be like the kings of the earth deceived by him, and the rest of the worshippers of him, and be as weak as they, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Revelation 20:10.
(b) a "aegrotuss fuit".
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10. They taunt him and derive from his calamity consolation under their own (Eze 31:16).
weak—as a shade bereft of blood and life. Rephaim, "the dead," may come from a Hebrew root, meaning similarly "feeble," "powerless." The speech of the departed closes with Isa 14:11.
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Triumphant Exultation over Babel
…9"Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones. 10"They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us. 11Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.'…
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Ezekiel 26:20
then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:21
From within the realm of the dead the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, 'They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.'
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OK - if I don't quit staring at clouds I'll never get this map going. So - what I decided to start with:
Picked an intricate cloud, dropped it into PhotoPlus 11, and dialed the threshold up and down til I saw something interesting - looked like a nice sheltered harbor.
Did three slightly different gaussian blurs, each thresholded to about the same outline. Stacked, then set the top two to partial transparency. Merged. Found all edges. I usually drop back to PhotoPlus 6 or 7 for that step - it gives crisper edges. This found an aliased edge, with some funky gray artifacts. Well enough - thresholded that to get back to a simple b&w layer. White is going to be land, in this case.
Took the original cloud, grayscale, placed beneath the edge layer. Keeping that for elevations, maybe. Flood erased white of the edge layer, leaving just coasts. Kind of thick for my usual style of one-pixel coastlines, but could be useful if I do an overall view and a zoom-in. Gives me leeway to smallify the whole thing if I want later - the present 3072x2304 may be a tad big.
Copied the B&W edge layer and contiguous flood filled my ocean with a nice unsaturated medium blue. Now to decide how many of those internal onshore edges need to be lakes and how many need to be erased. All the offshore bits look fine as islands. There's a few artifacts of the aliased edging that need to be erased no matter what. When I first fooled around thresholding this cloud looking for some likely randomness, there were a bunch of pixelly N-S and E-W artifacts at the coasts. Might go back to that if I need some piers later - this IS a harbor of some sort :-).
Naah waitaminnit - always getting ahead of myself - need to delouse the edge layer before I fill. Some of the Carto Guild styles expand certain layers under edges so, say, water shows under aliased shore. I work a more pixelly style so it's fine to have exactly sea then exactly coast, then exactly land. but I do doctor the generated shorelines to get rid of too-square corners, indistinct ?peninsula-or-islands?, and most little lakes. That'll wait til next post.
Looking forward to seeing the results.
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It has a really interesting shape to it. I can't wait to see what you do with it.
Now, that's irritating. Me, I mean. When I gen these tantalizing shapes all pixelly, I start to care about every pixel. Which eats a doofus quantity of time twiddling bits. Siiiigh. So, fairly well cleaned up, here's the overall view.
One OTHER thing irritating about me, to me, is that I'm kinda dense about learning lessons. Can't tell you how many times I've 'found edges' to make a coast, and realized steps later I intended to define edges onshore instead of out to sea. The result of that here is basically the first one to three pixels of shallow water is all black. Hmph - musta been a wicked oil spill. BUT I had already generated depth curves - call 'em 2.5 fathom and 7 fathom. Trouble is, most of the zero to 2.5 fathom band is hidden by that oil slick. I had intended that zone to be inconvenient areas too shallow to anchor big ships, leaving that to the 2.5 to 7 fathom band. "Big" being frigates and modest ships of the line - call my equivalent date early 1800's.
So now maybe I'll gen a 2.5 fathom line a bit farther offshore. See that circled area? That's the inner harbor - probably needs some dredging too. Aaaand I will exercise my Rationality License and fill in a bunch of the deeper pockets in each of those depth bands - after all, real silt would do just that.
Like mechanically fractal terrain, this cloud generated rather too many lakes -- I deleted many. Also like many Landforms Of Randomness the surface would be inconveniently rough, and not pleasantly plausible, so I'm going to take the tack most harbor charts do, and ignore the landforms. Except those reasonably expected to be markers for navigation, of course.
Scale of the oval is something around 10-15 miles across.
Select black, change color. Yes? Maybe? Possibly.
I like your use of depths. Will you include little depth numbers too, like a chart has?
Yes, I'll put soundings across the harbor areas.
Thanks for the thought about narrowing the coastline - I got rid of the outward-from-zero-depth line I'd generated, and regenerated a single-pixel one onshore from there. That gave me back some shallows, like so:
But before I go throwing a lead line all over the place and fathoming this an' that shoal, the purely fractal/cloud seafloor needs some mud, sand, and suchlike mucky accumulation. Which I'm going to quickly do by filling in some of the pockets of deeper water, just like deposition would have over centuries. I'll say in a fairly big harbor like this there've been chaotic currents so maybe not all the deeper areas are filled in - or rather, there's plausibly some odd shoals and spits sticking up. At the same time I'll be a dredge too - even in mid nineteenth century, channels were deepened where needed. Aaaand, where things are too detailed for meaningful undersea surface measurements, I'll smooth away some of that lovely fiddly fracticality. Oh, well. I'm still trusting to the cloud image to have made the original placement of features.
Nice job! Very crisp design. =)


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'$#*! My Dad Says' writer Halpern cashes in on setbacks, including with 'Girls'
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What: Book signing by the author of "I Suck at Girls," sponsored by Warwick's, the Point Loma High School Pointer Association and the PLHS Alumni group
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Where: Point Loma High School gym, 2335 Chatsworth Blvd., San Diego
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The secret to Justin Halpern's success? Failure.
The San Diego native's 2010 book about his father's obscene musings became a best-seller, a sitcom, and then a ratings disaster. CBS canceled "$#*! My Dad Says" after only 18 episodes.
Halpern moved to another show. The network axed "How to be a Gentleman" after four episodes.
His new memoir is also soaked in failure, as you might deduce from the title: "I Suck at Girls." Halpern will sign copies Saturday at his alma mater — Class of '98 — Point Loma High School.
There he was a star athlete, once pitching a no-hitter against rival San Diego High, but a less-than-stellar student.
"What colleges are you going to apply to?" a Point Loma High counselor once asked Halpern.
"I was thinking Harvard, Yale."
"I think," the counselor replied, "you should have some backups."
Halpern attended San Diego State. But his failure to crack the Ivy League, like so many setbacks in Halpern's life, held the seeds of success. By remaining in Southern California, he was closer to Hollywood — and the job of his dreams.
"Anyone who complains about TV writing is a total $#*!," said Halpern, 31, who recently sold TV rights to "Suck" and another project, "Sidelined," about a suspended NFL coach reduced to coaching a high school team. "It's the best job ever."
While "Suck" recounts Halpern's romantic misfires, the slim book may rocket Halpern back onto the best-seller lists. Amazon.com selected it as one of the site's "Best Books of the Month." An early review notes that Halpern's father — Dr. Sam Halpern, a retired UCSD professor — is just a supporting player here. Even so, Publisher's Weekly maintains, Dad's "priceless and profane bon mots are too good to pass up in this light and charming rom-com of a memoir."
The book recaptures San Diego in the pre-Internet era of the 1980s and '90s. "The last time in the United States when anything was left to the imagination," Halpern said.
He glimpsed some of those images as a Little Leaguer, when he stumbled upon porn hidden in a canyon behind the outfield. "This was my greatest accomplishment," he writes. "The adolescent equivalent of landing on the moon."
Justin's father caught him with this dirt-caked stash, and then taught him a lesson that could have come from a sitcom like "Modern Family."
If "Modern Family" was rated R.
Real women, Dad told his wide-eyed son, don't look or act like porn models: "That's what you're taking away from this, OK?"
For years, Justin had to take his father's word on these matters. Drunk on peppermint schnapps, his prom date abandoned him before the after-party. He took a job at a Hooters in Loma Portal to try his chances with the waitresses. He eventually lost his virginity in the apartment of Sarah — yes, a Hooters waitress — who was less interested in sex than watching the movie in her VCR, "A Few Good Men."
Real life, Halpern learned, rarely unfolds as neatly as a Hollywood screenplay. Or, to quote Sam Halpern, "Are we going to talk like men or do I have to take up residence in your fantasy land?"
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"Amanda hates that stuff as much as I do," he writes.
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Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford (1753–1814), an American-British scientist who made fundamental contributions to the modern theory of heat, which he published in An Experimental Inquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction (1798). He argued that heat is not a liquid form of matter but a form of mechanical energy produced by the motion of particles. When Rumford drilled out cannons, he observed that the cannon remained hot as long as the friction of boring continued. He reasoned that the amount of heat released would be sufficient to completely melt the cannon if it could be returned to the metal. Since more heat was being released than could have been originally contained in the metal, these observations were contrary to the prevailing caloric theory. Rumford calculated a value of the mechanical equivalent of heat, although it was not nearly as accurate as that reported later by Joule. Rumford's inventions included improvements for chimneys and fireplaces, thermal underwear, the double boiler, a kitchen range, and a drip coffeepot. He also helped disseminate James Watt's steam engine.


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Many of us have been through it. That dreaded beep during a presentation or worse your computer screen blacking out. Here are a few tips to save and conserve your battery.
1Change the power settings. Obviously the first step would be changing the power settings of your battery to something like "Power Saver". This minimizes the amount of power your laptop drains from it's batteries. Note that this will most definitely reduce the performance of your laptop. Be warned!!
2Remove USB attachments. When possible, remove all USB attachments as they drain power to function even when they are not needed. The mouse, wireless receivers all drain power and can lead to disastrous results.
3Always carry a spare battery (Fully charged) or better still your laptop's AC charger.
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5Know the limits of your batteries. Battery life varies from maker to maker so it is always wise to get a feel for how long a life your battery has left.
6Try not to run graphic-intense applications or games as the video card will drain power in order to power itself up. Multi tasking can also reduce battery performance as some laptops will revert to using multiple processors to perform the tasks which in turn (you guessed it) drains more power.
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For all intents and purposes, the panelists and hosts of the Washington-based Sunday morning talk shows have their eyes focused on November.
That's not good news for Hillary Clinton, who contends the race for the Democratic nomination is very much alive. But perhaps it underscores her latest point that the media establishment is to blame for her predicament.
Topic A was the skirmish between President Bush, John McCain and Barack Obama over the president's remarks in Israel last week that ostensibly branded Obama an "appeaser" for suggesting he would engage with talks with heads of state such as Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. McCain picked up on it, telling reporters that Obama was "naive."
Obama fired back in South Dakota, saying that the "Bush-McCain" approach on national security had made Iran a bigger threat to America than ever.
On "This Week," Republican pundit Peggy Noonan said that Bush calling out Obama while speaking to the legislature of another nation was bad form. George Will responded by saying that Obama had attacked the president and he was simply defending himself.
This morning, when asked by NBC's Richard Engel about the appeasement remark, Bush responded by saying his "policies haven't changed but the election calendar has."
On "Meet the Press," the discussion was whether we are now seeing the first real skirmish of the general election, revolving around two dual questions: Is Obama tough enough? And is John McCain an extension of President Bush?
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QOTD: Which Version of Windows 7 Do You Use?
Might you have the Signature Edition?
It's been a full week since Windows 7 officially hit the mass market. Those of you who pride yourselves in being early adopters of technology have probably already got your Windows 7 machine all tricked out and running better than things were before, be it on Vista or XP.
Microsoft believes that Windows 7 Home Premium will be the overwhelming edition for mainstream computer users, despite how much cooler-sounding Professional and Ultimate (especially Ultimate) are. Much of Home Premium's popularity will come from the fact that it'll be the most popular SKU bundled with new PCs – but you guys who build your own have a choice.
While Home Premium will do for most users, including hardcore gamers, the Professional and Ultimate editions do give you the option to run XP Mode if there is ever the need. There's also the option to backup over a network too.
What we'd like to know from your today is: which version of Windows 7 did you end up going with – and why?
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1Anonymous , 30 October 2009 04:33W7 Home Premium upgrade. Because of price. I have two laptops and two desktops. I would preferred the full versions but I am hoping there will be workarounds for the upgrade version. I don't see the need for XP compatibility yet or network backup when there cloud backup available. What's on XP that won't run on 7?
0eddieseven , 30 October 2009 06:58Well, It's all down to price with me. I would love to run the Ultimate version of 7 but I don't think I can justify the exorbitantly, extortionate price.
At present the price here is around the £172- £183 price mark and I do think it's a tad to high. £120 would have been quite enough, same as Vista Ultimate and for that I would have purchased it in a second.
Considering Vista was a pretty poor mistake all said and done, Microsoft should have at least thought of its customer base in a more forgiving light rather than simply profiteering from its own mistakes.
Vista users should have been compensated rather than punished; I had many problems with it that have only just recently been ironed out. The heavy burden still remains however, albeit a little more forgiving.
As for Xp, It will remain on one of my machines as there are some elderly programs and games I still thoroughly enjoy from time to time. However I really think it's time is drawing near now 7 has been released.
0Anonymous , 30 October 2009 12:40Why am I going to buy 32 or 64 bit version sorry? Is 64 bit for multi core processors? I'm seeing Home edition 32 bit and 64 bit in OEM boxes and premium in retail box. flibertigibbet.
0Anonymous , 30 October 2009 12:46because we have got chubby and haven't shaved for weeks?
0citybumpkin , 30 October 2009 12:53I use the Professional version. The only listed differences are the Bitlocker and Language switching, neither of which I'd want to use anyway.
I'm using the 64 bit version which is working well, apart from a little confusion about which version of Explorer is running (32 or 64 bit). They are both present and both have the same icon, but they behave differently with Java programs (such as EMC Navisphere) and launch different versions of Java. Having both on there is a good move, but changing the labels slightly between the versions would help. Vista 64 had the same issue though.
0citybumpkin , 30 October 2009 13:00I am using the XP mode, but that's mostly because it runs as a virtual PC. It means you can run more than one instance of programs such as webex, without them interfering with each other.
Virtual PCs are definitely a step forward, because how else are we going to use up all this extra memory, now that we are not limited to 4GB.
0Anonymous , 30 October 2009 14:18I'm running Professional 64 bit on my desktop and home premium on my laptop. Professional was very cheap here in the UK during the promotional pre-order phase so I bagged my copies then. I need the network backup feature on the desktop - would have been nice on the laptop but can manage without. Loving Win7 btw, a definite step up from Vista ultimate 64.
0Tweedledum , 30 October 2009 15:45I'm running Professional x64 on my desktop and Ultimate 32bit on my laptop. Its a significant improvement on Vista. My laptop wouldn't run Vista because it was too slow, but it runs 7 perfectly smoothly!
0tinnerdxp , 30 October 2009 16:10Ultimate x64 - and so far so good.
0dsputnik , 30 October 2009 16:39I'm running Professional x64 on my desktop and have been for about a month or so now due to the free release given to MSDNAA. It's been excellent so far and has not shown any of the bugs i was facing with Vista. I did a fresh install too just to make sure there was no more Vista left over
1waxdart , 30 October 2009 21:19I bought it, had it over a week and not installed it yet.
I'll use the home 64bit one. to test it out. I've moved over to ubuntu for most things now. Got windows for a deal so at 43quid you cant go that wrong.
0impy1980 , 30 October 2009 22:19I'm running Professional x64 after a student upgrade for £30, I mainly went for Pro because its better network capabilities and XP mode. I was running 7 RC previously and before that XP Home. I did a clean install straight from 7 RC after ISO'ing it and putting in on DVD.
0iinweed , 1 November 2009 05:46Installed it from MSDN ages ago, used it for a few days, went back to XP.
Doesn't do anything more than XP as far as my requirements go, and having to learn where all the setting are again just isn't worth the effort.
0p75 , 2 November 2009 01:05Well I have pro, as it has XP mode but I will still be using XPp on my other hard drive to.
0pSynrg , 2 November 2009 15:47Ultimate x64 with 24GB RAM, so I can have different versions of Windows from over the years running simultaneously (so far, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 2000 & XP). This way I can safely slip back into a nostalgia trap and feel better about all the features I don't have at any point in time in the event something new and useful freaks me out!
0mi1ez , 3 November 2009 14:30Home Premium x64. Don't need XP mode or to connect to a domain. I have hard drives coming out my ears so backing up isn't a problem.


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In an unexpected development Monday, Sarah Berry, the co-defendant of Jon Phillips in the Chandler Grafner starvation murder trial, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder just hours before she was scheduled for trial.
No one from the district attorney's office would discuss Berry's change of plea after Phillips' two-week trial went to the jury about 4 p.m.
Berry changed her plea just 30 minutes later, as Phillips' jury barely got started in its deliberations in the death of the 7-year-old boy. Her trial was to begin this morning, and she faced a first-degree murder charge.
That charge carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. By pleading guilty to a lesser charge, Berry agreed to a 48-year prison sentence and five years' probation.
Berry's timing was risky because Phillips' fate had not been decided.
Denver District Judge John Madden IV instructed the jury Monday afternoon that it also could opt to convict him of reckless manslaughter, which carries a sentencing range of up to 16 years, or criminally negligent homicide, which carries a sentencing range of up to six years.
Neither of Berry's attorneys commented, nor did prosecutors David Lamb or Verna Carpenter.
Phillips, 27, and Berry, 23, lived together and had legal custody of Chandler and his younger half-brother, Dominick Phillips, who is Jon Phillips' only son. Chandler died on May 6, 2007, of what the coroner ruled was starvation and dehydration.
During closing arguments Monday, Lamb gave the jury an emotional argument in a booming voice, saying Phillips deliberately killed Chandler by withholding food as a weapon against the boy.
"Chandler Grafner was killed by that man, sitting right there in a green shirt," Lamb shouted. "He knew as well as everyone in this courtroom that if you don't feed a child, he'll die."
The courtroom, packed with media, homicide detectives, prosecutors and their aides, as well as family members and friends, was silent.
Lamb laid out a chronology of abuse, starting Jan. 17, when Chandler came to school with a badly bruised ear, saying: "My dad clobbered me." He listed, by month, the development of more bruising, more blaming Phillips and Berry, and finally the Easter dinner on April 7, 2007. That's when Chandler was forced to eat oatmeal while nine members of Phillips' family ate pork roast.
In rebuttal, defense attorney Darren Cantor took the floor and spoke about "the winds of emotions blowing through the investigation and now this courtroom." He said that prosecutors and investigators jumped to conclusions from the very beginning and never considered that Chandler died a year ago from "unrecognized diabetes."
Cantor said the prosecution's story of starvation had "to be stacked up just right" to make it fit.
"Science is what tells us what happened, not these emotions and whims," he said. "Science tells us that the body consumes itself when it can't get to sugar."
He attacked the prosecution's arguments point by point, claiming the feces that covered the floor of a closet where Chandler was forced to spend "time-outs" were cat feces and never identified by investigators as human feces.
"Not a single piece of Chandler's clothing had feces or urine on it. Not a single spot of feces was found on Chandler, not under his fingernails or his toenails," Cantor said. "Why didn't the prosecution show us any of Chandler's clothing?
"The evidence doesn't fit. None of the experts ever identified the fingerprints in the closet. Nor did they tell us they were of a child or an adult.
"If Chandler had been screaming week after week, why didn't the prosecution present any of the neighbors? These aren't soundproof apartments," Cantor said of the apartment complex at 3300 S. Tamarac St.
He said Phillips fought for custody of Chandler for a year.
"In order to starve this child?" he asked rhetorically. "If your goal is to rid yourself of a child, this is one of the hardest ways to do it.
"This case is a far cry from first-degree murder," Cantor said. "This is someone who missed the signs of diabetes."
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A multi-agency task charged 103 individuals and seized various illegal narcotics in an effort to keep Northeast Florida's streets safe during the Summer.
The five month investigation targeted Northeast Florida street-level drug dealers. The overall goal was to arrest these suspects prior to the start of summer break; in a sense to keep narcotics off of our streets.
"This is another example of the great team work from all of agencies involved," said Florida Department of Law Enforcement Jacksonville Special Agent in Charge Dennis Bustle. "Our communities will enjoy a safer summer as a result of the hard work and dedication by all of those involved."
Sheriff David B. Shoar was pleased with the Tri-County Task Force efforts during this detail and stated, "This campaign had a broad scope regarding the types of drugs that were purchased." Shoar continued, "The investigators were able to purchase intoxicants that are widely considered gateway drugs, especially with our youth, as well as designer, cocaine and heavy narcotics." "The totality of this operation should create a vacuum in supply for a period of time; our hope is that some of the abusers of these substances will seek treatment, instead of a new dealer in the coming days."
Flagler County Sheriff James L. Manfre added "We appreciate the opportunity to participate with this tri-county warrant sweep. The combined efforts of all involved are fundamental to getting these criminals off our streets."
Sheriff Jeff Hardy with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office stated, "I am pleased with the ongoing relationship we have fostered with these agencies. Experience has taught us that when we combine our resources together, we are more effective at bringing these drug dealers to justice. Summer is a critical time to target drug sales because of the influx of children back into neighborhoods in their respective communities. I am proud to be associated with the investigators who worked so hard on these cases. Their efforts will help make our community safer."
St. Augustine Beach Police Department Chief Robert Hardwick expressed gratefulness to all agencies involved stating, "It is always good to work alongside other agencies in joint operations in order for all personnel to experience all aspects of the law enforcement profession. This operation specifically focuses on deterring future criminal activity, which adds to the success of the investigations."
The Tri-County Task Force included members from Putnam County Sheriff's Office, St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, Flagler County Sheriff's Office, Palatka Police Department, St. Augustine Beach Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.


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"There's shared DNA between faith and humor. Both are attempts to deal with fundamental human anxiety and things you can't control. That's why so many rabbis and priests walk into a bar at the beginning of jokes. Laughing gets you past the anxiety."
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This is the kind of play that is ideal for a theater as intimate as the Raven East. The characters were wonderfully drawn, the stage beautifully used. My only regret is that there had to be an intermission. Luckily the cast was able to...continued
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The play could have been a springboard for some fabulous performances, but wasn't. They overacted the "angry" part, which might have been more effective if it was a little more subtle. That said, I love this theater, so I took a chance. Not...continued
Aaron Todd Douglas, Raven Guest Artist and founding member of Congo Square Theatre Ensemble, directs this ultimate courtroom drama.
About the Ticket Supplier: Raven Theatre
Raven Theatre's mission is to establish itself as an important voice in regional theater, focusing on American classics, as well as new and lesser-known projects that shed light on the "American Experience." The company's mission is realized by uniting an ensemble of Chicago-based theater artists from diverse disciplines who work together with the goal of maintaining a high standard of artistic excellence with programming easily accessible to patrons of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds, and thereby enriching our community's cultural life. Vigorously fresh revivals of masterpieces by great playwrights such as Miller, Williams, Saroyan and Mamet introduce new audiences to established classics, while original and lesser-known works give voice to the next generation of playwrights. Through Raven's Children's Theatre Program, the company seeks to present a wide range of theatrical education and entertainment options applicable across a broad academic spectrum.