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Joël Robuchon Confirms New Restaurant in New York
The legendary French chef is working on a new kind of atelier.
Face it: Nothing's been the same since L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon closed down at the Four Seasons a year ago. Wielders of expense accounts have been bereft of foie-and-roasted-eel terrines, and it doesn't snow white truffles quite like it used to on East 57th Street midtown has just been a little less French. If these words bring out your inner oui, chef, you'll no doubt be excited to hear that the esteemed French chef is once again planning to open in New York. Contrary to rumors, Robuchon tells Zagat he's not looking at the former La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, but rather a space at 47th Street and Fifth Avenue, to open his next L'Atelier. [Zagat, Earlier]


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Sunday, 2 June 2013
Dear Professional...
Leave me happy. My family helped. End it well. Say goodbye. Tie up all loose ends. Give my child closure and leave me satisfied. Know that you made a difference. Look back on your time with us fondly. Be proud to have helped.
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- Ken Upton said...
So very true....
- 6 June 2013 at 23:42
- Sarah-Jane said...
Hi Donna
I'm a mother of a child with mild ADHD and Autism and I'm also a student children's nurse. I have printed off this letter to keep in my nursing evidence folder as a reminder of exactly what my future job should be :) thank you for sharing this.
- 29 June 2013 at 09:47
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And so say all of us!
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The potato plays a very important part in the world's food supply. The United Nations reports that the world production of potatoes in 2009 was 330 million tonnes. Just over two thirds of the global production is eaten directly by humans with the rest being fed to animals. Asia produces the most potato chips. Most potatoes are grown from tubers and have red, white, blue, purple and pink flowers (Potato).
The potato chip is made of fresh potatoes. These are the steps to a fresh potato chip. First, the ground is pushed around by a plow to find the potatoes. The potatoes are kept in a sun-filled box for no more than 24 hours. If they are stored for more than 24 hours, the chips will have brown spots. Then the potatoes get a magnificent shower to remove the dirt (How It's Made).
Next they travel to the peeler, which is like a big saw going around and around. It spins at two miles per hour. Then a machine sorts them by size. The smaller ones fall and the big ones get cut in half by a blender with sharp teeth. Next, the potatoes go to a barrel of cold water (How It's Made). This is when the potatoes become looking more like chips. They are fried at 375 degrees Fahrenheit and then salted in the mixer. Next, a camera is watching the potato chips to detect brown spots. The potato chips are air blown to dry (How It's Made). This is how chips get their delightful crunchy texture.
Engineers play a big role in making potato chips. In fact, if it were not for engineers, making a single potato chip would take a very long time. Engineers design and build the plows that find and harvest the potatoes. They also develop the machines that take care of all the steps listed above. Industrial engineers would be responsible for making the chip-making process faster and better (Career Descriptions). The mechanical engineers would help to make the machines needed to make a chip (Career Descriptions). Environmental engineers may also be involved because potatoes come from the earth (Career Descriptions).
I have noticed one step where the engineers could improve: I still find brown spots on my chips. When I become an engineer, I will design a better way to detect the brown spots in the chips. I am also interested in environmental engineering, so if I were making the plows and potato chip machinery I would make sure they used green energy and were not harming the environment. The environment is important if we want to continue to have potato chips in the future.
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Explaining the BofA Error: Debt Accounting Rule Bites Again
Bank of America's error in calculating its capital levels is an indirect consequence of an accounting rule that has caused headaches for banks for several years.
The rule forces companies to record "debit valuation adjustments," or DVAs, that repeatedly have distorted their earnings. Counterintuitively, banks must add to their profits when their debt looks riskier to investors, and subtract from their profits when their debt looks safer.
It was BofA's apparent failure to account for those DVAs properly when computing the bank's capital for regulatory purposes that caused the problem.
The Charlotte, N.C., lender acknowledged Monday it had overstated its regulatory capital amid a decline in the value of some of the structured notes issued by Merrill Lynch & Co., which BofA bought in 2009. The error is forcing the bank to suspend a plan to buy back $4 billion in stock and boost its dividend, as it resubmits its capital plan to the Federal Reserve.
The issue goes back to the 2007 accounting rule that granted banks a "fair value option" – the opportunity to value some of their debt at market value, or the best approximation of it, instead of at their original cost.
Banks had pushed for the rule, but it has boomeranged on them. When market prices of their debt decline, it becomes cheaper for banks to repurchase the debt and thereby record a profit – and so the banks had to report gains to their earnings when investors thought their credit was becoming riskier. Conversely, they had to report decreases to earnings when prices rose and investors thought their credit was becoming safer.
Banks often have applied the fair value option to structured notes like Merrill Lynch's, in which the payout to the debtholder is tied to changes in some other instrument. BofA properly factored the gains and losses of those notes into its earnings, but regulatory capital excludes unrealized gains and losses – and BofA stripped out more of those changes than it should have.
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When making the calculation to get from its capital under accounting rules to its regulatory capital, BofA stripped out "unrealized" changes on those structured notes – i.e., the paper gains and losses on notes it still held. But the bank also stripped out "realized" losses on structured notes that had matured or been redeemed – and it wasn't supposed to do so.
The error amounted to a difference of more than $4 billion in BofA's regulatory capital, or about 0.3 percentage point at most in the bank's future expected regulatory capital ratios, not that much in the scheme of things. But it is significant because it erodes the "buffer" the bank would have in excess of future required minimum capital levels.
Once new capital requirements are fully phased in, the bank is expected to have Tier 1 common equity of at least 8.5% – and this mistake meant BofA had a ratio of only 9% as of the end of March, instead of the 9.3% it previously estimated.
It also means BofA's regulatory capital hasn't been quite as good as it's been reporting for a while now, noted Jack Ciesielski, president of R.G. Associates, an accounting-research firm. That "might have given then more favorable treatment" from regulators than they should have had, he said.


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We employ Molecular Dynamics simulations to study the phase behavior and equilibrium dynamics of a fully flexible Lennard-Jones chain immersed in a Lennard-Jones solvent at high solvent densities. The hydrophobicity of the model polymer is adjusted by varying the attractive component of either the m...
Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are used to study the dynamics of polymer translocation through a nanopore in the limit where the translocation rate is sufficiently slow that the polymer maintains a state of conformational quasi-equilibrium. The system is modeled as a flexible hard-sphere chain that tr...
We analyze the finite-size corrections to the free energy of crystals with a fixed center of mass. When we explicitly correct for the leading (ln N/N) corrections, the remaining free energy is found to depend linearly on 1/N. Extrapolating to the thermodynamic limit (N -->infinity), we estimate t...
Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the equilibrium properties and collapse dynamics of a heteropolymer in the presence of an explicit solvent in two dimensions. The system consists of a single copolymer chain composed of hydrophobic (H) and hydrophilic (P) monomers, immersed in a Lenna...
Deuterium NMR and x-ray crystallographic studies of guest and host motions in the thiourea/1, 4-di-tert-butylbenzene inclusion compound
Deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and spin-lattice relaxation times are used to investigate the guest and host molecular dynamics of solid 1,4-di-tert-butylbenzene-d4 (DTBB-d4), 1,4-di-tert-butylbenzene-d18 (DTBB-d18), the thiourea/ 1,4-di-tert-butylbenzene-d4 inclusion compound (TU...
Monte Carlo computer simulations were used to investigate the effects of shape anisotropy and electrostatic interactions as mechanisms for orientational ordering of solutes in nematic liquid crystals. The simulation results were analyzed in terms of two theories of solute ordering which derive mean-...
Molecular dynamics simulations were used to study the conformational dynamics of a bead-spring model polymer in an explicit solvent under good solvent conditions. The dynamics of the polymer chain were investigated using an analysis of the time autocorrelation functions of the Rouse coordinates of t...
Conformational equilibrium and orientational ordering: 1H‐nuclear magnetic resonance of butane in a nematic liquid crystal
In this study we use multiple-quantum H-1-NMR spectroscopy to study butane, the simplest flexible alkane, dissolved in a nematic solvent. An analysis of the highly accurate H-1 dipolar coupling constants gives important information about conformational and orientational behavior, including the hans-...
We examine the performance of various commonly used integration schemes in dissipative particle dynamics simulations. We consider this issue using three different model systems, which characterize a variety of different conditions often studied in simulations. Specifically, we clarify the performanc...
Solid-state H-2 NMR powder spectra and T-1 longitudinal relaxation data have been collected for carceplexes containing benzene and acetonitrile guest molecules. Analysis of the data suggests that benzene rotates rapidly about its C-6 axis with an activation energy of 25.8 +/- 0.4 kJ mol(-1). In addi...
Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the coil-globule transition for a system composed of a bead-spring polymer immersed in an explicitly modeled solvent. Two different versions of the model are used, which are differentiated by the nature of monomer-solvent, solvent-solvent, and nonbond...
We employ off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations to study lateral diffusion in lipid-sterol bilayers using a two-dimensional model system which has been designed to simulate the experimental phase diagrams of both lipid-cholesterol and lipid-lanosterol systems. We focus on the effects of varying sterol...
We study the first order solid-fluid phase transition of a system of semi-flexible Lennard-Jones chains using molecular dynamics simulations. Thermodynamic integration methods are used to calculate the free energy of the solid and fluid phases. The solid phase free energy per chain can be calculated...
Multiple-quantum H-1 NMR spectroscopy was used to simplify the analysis of the complicated one-quantum spectrum of the 10-spin molecule biphenyl dissolved in a nematic solvent. An eight-quantum spectrum was analyzed to obtain estimates of all dipolar coupling constants and chemical shifts, which wer...
We use molecular dynamics simulations to study an entropy-driven collapse transition of a flexible polymer in a solvent. Monomers and solvent particles interact with a steeply repulsive soft-sphere potential. We consider a nonadditive potential system in which the effective diameter describing the s...
The anisotropic intermolecular forces responsible for the orientational ordering in liquid crystals are probed by comparing Monte Carlo (MC) simulations with experimental nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) results for solutes in nematic liquid crystals. In a special liquid crystal mixture where all lo...
Deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and spin-lattice relaxation times were determined in order to study the dynamics of t-butyl groups in butylated hydroxytoluene. The results are consistent with a model first proposed by Beckmann et al. [J. Magn. Reson. 36, 199 (1979)], where there i...
Structure and dynamics of solid tris (Trimethylsilyl) Amine by deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Deuterium NMR spectra for solid [H-2(9)]tris(trimethylsilyl)amine were recorded at 77 K and in the region 114-353 K. At 77 K there is only fast rotation of the methyl groups. Between 122 and 171 K rotation of the trimethylsilyl groups and of the entire molecule (about its C3 axis) affect the deuteri...
Coarse-grained models that preserve hydrodynamics provide a natural approach to study collective properties of soft-matter systems. Here, we demonstrate that commonly used integration schemes in dissipative particle dynamics give rise to pronounced artifacts in physical quantities such as the compre...
We study the equilibrium behavior and dynamics of a polymer collapse transition for a system composed of a short Lennard-Jones (LJ) chain immersed in a LJ solvent for solvent densities in the range of rho=0.6-0.9 (in LJ reduced units). The monomer hydrophobicity is quantified by a parameter lambdais...
First-order nematic-smectic phase transition for hard spherocylinders in the limit of infinite aspect ratio
We report Monte Carlo simulations of the nematic-smectic phase transition for a system of hard spherocylinders with infinite length-to-diameter ratio. A finite-size scaling analysis suggests that this system undergoes a first-order phase transition. When combined with other simulations of the phase ...
Monte Carlo computer simulations were used to investigate the phase behaviour of a Lebwohl-Lasher binary liquid-crystal mixture. A finite-size scaling analysis confirmed the first-order nature of the transition. The calculated nematic-isotopic phase coexistence region and the orientational order par...


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"What would you say are the most common errors in laundry processing that lead to higher-than-necessary energy, fuel or water costs?"
Consulting Services: David Chadsey, Laundry-Consulting.com, Winter Haven, Fla.
There is a wonderful buffet restaurant in our town called Fred's. It offers Southern-style cooking with ribs, ham, chicken and fish plus all the greens and vegetables known to Dixie. Fred has a policy—probably borrowed from his grandmother—that he calls "Waste Not, Want Not." If upon ordering, you agree to eat everything that you take from the buffet, the restaurant gives you $2 off the price of the meal.
Fred has figured out that if he uses all of his resources to meet the needs of his clients, his business can operate at lower costs and make him more money at the end of the day. Waste in the laundry industry is not a half plate of fired okra gone to scrap, but Btu out the stacks and water down the drain.
Are you utilizing all the water and energy consumed in your plant? Following are a couple of the most common offenders. In addition to checking these sources of potential waste, tracking and benchmarking your total therms and gallons used per pound of linen processed with other similar operations is time well spent.
Steam Boiler
Many plants utilize steam for multiple energy requirements. Heating wash water, the ironer and the garment finisher are the most common needs. Once the boiler comes up to pressure, the more you are able to maximize the throughput of those ma-chines, the more efficient the plant will be.
I have seen laundries running multiple shifts be down as long as two hours between production periods. All that time, energy is wasted as the boilers continue to run and maintain temperature in the equipment served.
Poorly managed production efficiency of flatwork systems is also a source of boiler waste. Running two lanes of pillowcases on a 136-inch finishing line nearly doubles the energy cost of the task. The goal should be to maximize coverage of the rolls during every process. Covering the rolls width-wise and minimizing gaps between goods provides the most efficient use of the ironer.
Boiler stack economizer systems are another component of boiler efficiency. These economizers capture the Btu that would otherwise be discharged from the boiler exhaust stack. The systems enable most operators to recoup their investment in less than two years.
Water Temperatures and Wash Formulas
I was trained in the old school of hot-water wash aisles and rinse till it clears. Times have changed. Most major chemical suppliers offer a variety of products that work well in temperature ranges of 130-140 F. If you are still washing in 160-plus F water and are not bound by regulation to do so, you may want to have a discussion with your chemical supplier.
If 160 F water is a requirement for you, simple heat-transfer technology can recover a significant amount of energy before the water is discharged to your municipality. In our age of "green initiatives," there are a host of options available to recover Btu from wastewater.
How many rinses do you really need in a conventional washer-extractor for light- and medium-soil goods? What are the most efficient water level settings for your specific equipment? Elimi-nating one 12-inch rinse in a 450-pound open pocket will save about 130 gallons of water per cycle. At 10 loads per day, with a rate of $10 per 1,000 gallons for water and sewer, eliminating one rinse reduces water costs nearly $5,000 per year in that one machine alone.
Use it if you need it, but don't just leave it on your plate.
Equipment/Supplies Distribution: Russ Arbuckle, Wholesale Commercial Laundry Equipment SE, Southside, Ala.
With the ever-higher costs of energy, water, and wastewater disposal, laundry managers need to examine ways to reduce these costs. Operational practices that are wasteful can be a significant piece of the puzzle that managers need to investigate.
One of the most common ways that laundries may be wasting energy is over-drying.
Older drying tumblers typically do not have auto-dry or moisture-sensing features, and the operators most likely use the same temperature and time settings regardless of laundry type.
Obviously, terry towels will need longer dry times than sheets, pillowcases, etc.
If the drying tumblers do not have these auto features, managers should be examining the dry times currently used by their laundry workers.
Spending some time studying the dry times being used for different wash loads and then running some test loads with reduced times may allow for shorter dry cycles and result in overall energy savings.
Another way to reduce energy costs is to be sure that lint screens are cleaned regularly. Check these screens for the gummy material that clogs the openings in the screens. By using a scrub brush and hot water, you can remove most of this gummy material and allow for greater airflow and thus shorter dry times. If cleaning the screens does not remove the clogs, consider replacing them.
The finishing of flat goods on flatwork ironers can be another area where energy costs can be reduced. Checking the conditioning times being used and experimenting with shorter times may result not only in reduced energy costs but increased production as well.
Adjusting wash-water temperatures and water levels may provide for cost savings. Work with your chemical representatives to try processing using reduced wash water temperatures as well as different water levels without impacting overall wash quality. Here, you can reduce overall cost, increase production, and improve the bottom line.
Tomorrow: Answers from the textile/uniform rental and uniforms sectors.


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Smolov Squat Routine FAQ
What is the Smolov Squat routine?
See these articles/sites (which cover a lot of FAQs too):
The Brothers Smolov
(added Dec 19, 2010)
Another Russian Super Cycle
My Smolov Squat Experiment
More info:
Smolov Calculator
Russian language version
Smolov spreadsheet
(multiple worksheets, Excel 2002, need MROUND function from Analysis TookPak)
Alternate spreadsheet
(Excel 95 format, MROUND not used)
How much rest between sets while on the Smolov?
Take as much as you need! If you're in good shape figure about 5 minutes on average. The point is the lifting, not the rest between sets. If it takes you 2 hours to get 10x3 so be it...
Can I include DLs while following the Smolov Squat routine?
NO! After a full run through the whole routine AS WRITTEN you might experiment with using DLs as part of the warm-up procedure or other means of including lighter DLs.
Can I do upper body lifting during the full Smolov Squat routine?
Of course. Depending on your level of conditioning you may not need to reduce volume or intensity for upper body lifts. Some things may need significant adjustment or replacement with alternate exercises (e.g., bent rows may not be the best idea due to the high involvement of the low back).
When do I do my upper body lifting during the Smolov?
Whenever you can fit it in or prefer to do it. I like to do it in workouts separate from the squat workouts (bench in the morning, squat in the evening).
What is the Smolov Jr?
The Smolov Jr is a 3 week routine/rep scheme (although many have stretched it out to 4 or even 6 weeks). It's less difficult than the similar base cycle of the full Smolov and is better suited to more lifts (e.g., it works well for bench). The routine is as follows:
Week 1 (SETSxREPSxWEIGHT)
Mon - 6x6x70%
Wed - 7x5x75%
Fri - 8x4x80%
Sat - 10x3x85%
Week 2
Mon - 6x6x70%+10-20 lbs (bigger increase for bigger lift like squats)
Wed - 7x5x75%+10-20 lbs
Fri - 8x4x80%+10-20 lbs
Sat - 10x3x85%+10-20 lbs
Week 3
Mon - 6x6x70%+15-25 lbs
Wed - 7x5x75%+15-25 lbs
Fri - 8x4x80%+15-25 lbs
Sat - 10x3x85%+15-25 lbs
Where can I discuss the Smolov routine?
DragonDoor forum
Andrey Butenko's World Powerlifting forum
(not too active but Andrey and others there are pretty accomplished powerlifters with Smolov experience)


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Meet Twitter's weird and brilliant longform emoji storyteller
If a Venn diagram could map Weird Twitter and Dad Twitter, Patrick Mortensen, a.k.a. @MrBikferd, would be in the intersection.
BuzzFeed is now valued at $850 million
That should pay for a lot of listicles.
The computer chip that thinks like a human
"The impossible has now become possible."
This brave New Yorker is trying to save the egg sandwich
Saving breakfast one sandwich instruction leaflet at a time.
Inside the anything-goes parenting cult of YouBeMom
"Do couples really swing still?" "It's alive and well in our burb."
'Lion King' cast takes 'Circle of Life' performance to an NYC subway
Elton John should be so proud.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Jordan Clarkson scored a career-high 20 points and Justin Hurtt had 19 points to lead Tulsa to a 65-53 victory over Stanford in the 76 Classic on Friday night.
Steven Idlet added 10 points and a season-high 10 rebounds for the Golden Hurricane (3-2), which forced Stanford to commit 18 turnovers and shoot a season-low 37 percent.
Jeremy Green had 20 points and six rebounds for the Cardinal (3-2), which lost two consecutive games after winning their first three. Josh Owens added 10 points.
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Hugo Hugo Boss
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Designed for men and women of means to reflect classic upscale style with a more youthful, less formal feel.
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Profile Last Updated: January 28, 2009
As the more street ready of Hugo Boss' Canadian outlet options, Hugo Hugo Boss carries the Hugo Boss Group line of the same name. Designed for men and women of means to reflect classic upscale style on a ready to go level with a more youthful, less formal feel.
The Very Latest Styles
Hugo Hugo Boss is the legendary fashion house's contemporary line, where you will find season by season style-tracking. There are also style-making variations on standard garb such as sweaters, slacks, coats and scarves for men, and the same plus more feminine options such as dresses and skirts for women. Hugo Hugo Boss is the line one most sees represented in the fashion pages of celebrity magazines and newspaper style sections. Featuring the very latest in colour and cut trends seasons before the lower end knock off shops get their hands on them, this is clothing to see and be seen in.
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|A surprise e-mail from Mark Bridges of the Open University "Final Frontier" late night astronomy program resulted in a TV broadcast from my observatory on April 4th which coincided with the close approach of Comet Ikeya-Zhang with the Great Andromeda Galaxy. Naturally the weather was not obliging, however it wasn't quite as bad as it may have been, and about fifty guests were able to take in the proceedings with views of Jupiter and Saturn, however the comet was soon lost in the horizon haze.
|Dr. Chris Riley, the presenter for the night, arrives during late afternoon when skies looked promisingly clear. By the time cameras and lights had been set up and scripts rehearsed, the sky was now dark and we go out to the dome.
|One of the lesser used pieces of apparatus used at my observatory is the home-made "comet sweeping" chair constructed out of old tractor parts. It was hastily recommisioned for the night, and I was shown as an "avid comet searcher" ha ha!A star party was now in full swing, everyone was quietly having a chuckle!
|Sorry Chris, skies are just too cloudy, here are a few piccies I took earlier!
|Dave Brown and Rob Hatch were having rather more success Rob images Jupiter with a hand held digital camera. Dave succeeds in imaging the comet, which is now too low for the telescope in the dome. The green cast in these images results from the infrared camera used to image in the dark!
|Time to call it a night, with a brew up from Bill!


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Here is a sad but true story, which I believe anyone over 50 should pay attention to. An Alzheimer's patient is being forced feed even with a living will. This is a story in Canada of a family that went to court to have a facility stop force feeding their mother, who has Alzheimer's and does not feed herself. This patient has a living will and the facility she resides in is spoon-feeding her against the family's wishes and possibly the patient's wishes.
The family argued in court their mother signed a legally-binding document with the intent of refusing nourishment if she suffered from an incurable disease, and has been spoon-feed for the past three years. The sad thing about this the patient was a nurse and saw the effects of Alzheimer's on patients and implemented and signed the living will after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The patient signed the living will because she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means including nourishment and liquids. The patient is in the final stage of Alzheimer's: http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2014/02/alzheimers-patient-must-be-fed-despite.html.
Seniors you need to pay very close attention to this article, because Canada has universal healthcare, which is what Obamacare is striving for. The question you should ask is what do I want and is my government going to let me die with dignity or impose their will on my final days. Seniors remember that the patients in a facility are income for that facility so of course they want the patient to continue living. The family of this patient went to court with the advance directive to show that their mother's wishes are not being considered or even implemented. The family lost in court and the facility is still spoon-feeding this patient against the patient's and family's wishes.
The family wants to honor the patient's wishes to die with dignity and not continue living the way she is presently living. Seniors with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) this could happen here in the United States. The panels may decided, the facilities may be able to keep a loved one alive against their wishes. The patient's living will In the statement, the patient be allowed to die and not be kept alive by artificial means or heroic measures. The patient also specified that those measures include nourishment or liquids.
The courts decided the facility was to continue feeding the patient because the advance directive does not establish that a substitute decision maker has authority to refuse the provision of oral nutrition and hydration, such as prompting with a spoon or a glass, on behalf of an adult who is incapable of making that decision. This to me sends a very important message, of making sure there is a very clear and stated in the advance directive that a substitute decision maker has authority to refuse the provision of oral nutrition and hydration, such as prompting with a spoon or a glass, on behalf of an adult who is incapable of making that decision. This should be stated especially for any individual that does not want to be forced feed if they cannot feed themselves.


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Thankfully, others seem to have more forward-thinking views on how to confront this issue. Speaking to VideoGamer.com, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce called DRM a losing battle and said they'd rather have development teams focused on content and cool features. According to Pearce the best approach is to make sure they've got a full-featured platform that people want to play on, where their friends are and where the community is.
You could say this is the same strategy that Valve has followed for a while quite successfully with Steam. Blizzard hopes its Battle.net service will be attractive enough to convince would-be pirates to buy the game, and there have been rumors that the company is mulling the possibility of licensing the overhauled platform to third parties. As far as StarCraft II is concerned, due out on July 27, the game will require a single online activation after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection.


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The Dukes of Hazzard is 35 years-old today and several adults are remembering their childhood from the 1980s when the comedy aired every Friday night on CBS. WebPro News reports Jan. 27 that the show starred first and foremost, the General Lee race car in addition to two good-looking outlaws and their sexy niece who lived with their Uncle Jessie in the rural south. Bo and Luke Duke were always running from the laughing stock local sheriff -- Rosco and his deputy, Enos.
Boss Hogg was the town's corrupt town commissioner always framing the Duke boys for something which meant Bo and Luke had to do something unlawful to get out of their plights.
The original Duke boys were played by John Schneider and Tom Wopat. Catherine Bach played Daisy Duke. They were part of a show that would later become a pop culture classic in American television. It is hard to believe the Dukes of Hazzard is 35 in 2014.
John Schneider appreciates what his work on the Dukes of Hazzard has done for him, but does not like it when he is automatically associated with being Bo Duke.
"Every time somebody starts out, 'You know him best from the Dukes of Hazzard,' I just want to strangle them," said Schneider. "I did a couple of radio interviews recently, and one guy said, 'We got Bo Duke on the line,' so there I am, on live radio, and I say, 'Really? Is that right? That's who you have on the phone right now? I'll do 'yeehaw' for you later.'"
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Occupy The Senses
Created by the class Communication Takes Many Forms (section ii) at Parsons the New School for Design.
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Occupy the Senses is a project created by the students in the class Communication Takes Many Forms (Instructor John Roach) at Parsons the New School for Design. The book takes Occupy Wall Street as a prompt to explore dystopian narratives in which the human senses have been controlled, regulated or eliminated by an authoritarian power.
The project is an exploration of visual communication and asks students to develop a story and then create a visual identity for an occupy group that is rising up against its oppressors.
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This dress was bought at an Alfred Angelo boutique in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, PA. I saw this dress advertised in a Martha Stewart bridal magazine and absolutely loved it. As soon as I tried it on I knew it was perfect for me and my wedding style (rustic vintage). It is the most comfortable dress I've ever worn (soft and lightweight). It was only worn once for the entire ceremony and it was a perfectly sunny day. There are no wine or food stains on the dress and I'm sad to part with it, but I don't want it to waste away in my closet. It deserves better! It comes in two pieces (silk under layer and lace outer layer) and is a "street-size" 4.
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Jennifer Lopez released her new video on Vevo for her latest single "I Luh Ya PaPi" featuring French Montana. The video was directed by Jessy Terrero and filmed in Miami.
In the video, Lopez pays homage to some of her most memorable fashion moments and flips the script on the what you usually see in rap videos.
Lopez spoke Thursday backstage at American Idol. Click on the video link to see what she had to say about her new video and upcoming album.This will be her 10th studio album.
Lopez will perform the single on "American Idol" next week.
Lopez can be currently seen on Season 13 of American Idol where she is back as a judge along with Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. American Idol airs on Wednesdays and Thursdays on Fox.


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I know that $$f(x)=x\cdot|x|$$ have no derivative at $$x=0$$ but how do I calculate it's derivative for the rest of the points? When I calculate for $$x>0$$ I get that $$f'(x) = 2x $$ but for $$ x < 0 $$ I can't seem to find a way to solve the limit. As this is homework please don't put the answer straight forward.
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First, draw a picture. Second, make a guess. Third, confirm your guess.
Hmm, looks like $x \mapsto x^2$ for $x \geq 0$ and $x \mapsto -x^2$ for $x \leq 0$. Indeed $f(x) = x^2$ for $x >0 $, so $f'(x) = 2 x$ when $x > 0$. Similarly, $f(x) = -x^2$ when $x <0$, so $f'(x) = -2x$ for $x <0$.
The only issue is $x=0$. Looking at the picture, and indeed, looking at the limiting value for $x \downarrow 0$ and $x \uparrow 0$ suggests that if $f$ is differentiable at $x=0$, then $f'(0) = 0$.
So, working with this guess, we try $$|f(x)-f(0) - 0.x| = |(x|x|)-0 -0.x| = |x|^2$$ If $x\neq 0$, we have $\frac{|f(x)-f(0) - 0.x|}{|x|} = |x|$, from which it follows that $f'(0) = 0$. Formally.
To wrap up, notice that $f'(x) = 2|x|$.
Working without the intuition is difficult. For me, drawing a rough picture provides much of the intuition. If the intuition is sound, then it is often straightforward to formalize the result.
so you can calculate the derivative when $x \gt 0$ and the derivative when $x \lt 0$ in the usual way.
You are wrong when you say there is no derivative when $x=0$.
Hint If $x\gt 0$ we are looking at $x^2$, easy. If $x\lt 0$, we are looking at $-x^2$, easy. For $x=0$, use the definition of the derivative.
So at $0$ we want $\displaystyle\lim_{h\to 0}\,\dots$,
There's a great trick that you can use. Notice that for all real $x \neq 0$ you have $|x| \equiv \sqrt{x^2}$.
If you want to know the derivative of $x|x|$ away from $x=0$ then consider $x\sqrt{x^2}$. Using the chain rule and the product rule we can show that, assuming $x \neq 0$,
$$\frac{d}{dx}x|x| \equiv \frac{d}{dx} x\sqrt{x^2} = \sqrt{x^2} + \frac{x^2}{\sqrt{x^2}} \equiv |x| + \frac{x^2}{|x|} \, . $$
Moreover, this little trick works in many more situations. For example, consider $f(|x|)$. Provided we stay away from $x = 0$, $g(|x|) \equiv g(\sqrt{x^2})$ and so:
$$\frac{d}{dx} g(|x|) = \frac{x}{|x|}\frac{d}{dx}g(|x|) \, . $$
When $x<0$ replace $|x|$ by $-x$ (since that is what it is equal to) in the formula for the function and proceed.
Please note as well that the function $f(x)=x\cdot |x|$ does have a derivative at $0$.
By definition, the derivative (if exists) of $f$ at $x_0$ is $$ f'(x_0)=\lim_{x\to x_0}\frac{f(x)-f(x_0)}{x-x_0}. $$ When $x_0<0$, $f(x_0)=x_0(-x_0)=-x_0^2$. Now you have $$ \begin{align} f'(x_0)&=\lim_{x\to x_0}\frac{x|x|+x_0^2}{x-x_0}\\ &=\lim_{x\to x_0;x\in(x_0-\epsilon,x_0+\epsilon)\setminus\{x_0\}}\frac{x|x|+x_0^2}{x-x_0}\\ &=\lim_{x\to x_0;x\in(x_0-\epsilon,x_0+\epsilon)\setminus\{x_0\}}\frac{-x^2+x_0^2}{x-x_0}\\ &=\lim_{x\to x_0;x\in(x_0-\epsilon,x_0+\epsilon)\setminus\{x_0\}}-(x+x_0)=-2x_0. \end{align} $$ Here $\epsilon$ is such that $x_0+\epsilon<0$.
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Eagles coach Chip Kelly is known as an innovative thinker, but with innovation comes risk. Kelly knows that everything will be fine if he wins, he can be as out of the box as he wants.
However, if he can't win, he will come under fire for not understanding the NFL and how it works. Kelly could be Jimmy Johnson or Steve Spurrier, only time will tell.
One thing for sure, Kelly isn't going to play it safe; he didn't leave comfy Oregon to run a vanilla offense, so he is going to be daring to say the least.
Kelly spoke to WIP in Philadelphia with Angelo Cataldi and The Morning about jumping feet first, and looking later.
"I'm just trying to win, and if that puts a bull's eye on my back then put a bull's eye on my back. I've always operated, and I want our players to operate, from a desire to excel, not a fear of failure.
If you're going to be a guy that's afraid, that's not how I live my life, that's not how I'm going to be. I've heard that coming to Philly, 'Oh my God, Chip, their fans have high expectations; that's a tough place to win.'
Well, the people in Philly think the same way I think: They want to win and they don't care. We want to take any challenge on; we want to play anybody. We got an unbelievable division — gotta go play the Giants twice, gotta go play the Cowboys twice, gotta go play the Redskins twice.
You've got to embrace that. You've go to be excited about that, and this city is filled with people like that and I'm just happy to be here, but I'm always going to be a guy that's going to go for it, because you can't stand there with a bat on your shoulder and take a called third strike. We may miss, but we're swinging. And we're going to swing from our ankles."


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When Bono and the rest of the U2 band walked by there was a slight pause on the red carpet of the Golden Globes Awards on Sunday. The band, which is rarely seen walking any red carpets, seemed to take the breath away of the masses as it was history in the making to see the band casually stroll by in Beverly Hills.
So what's the news with U2? Fans will be glad to hear that the band is getting along better than ever. That unity had Bono and the rest of the smiling and posing on the red carpet too. As for music, the band no doubt will be coming together in other performances in the future. When asked The Edge confirmed the music will be flowing in the future.
Previously playing a performance for the Helping Haiti benefit on Saturday night, it was the first time U2 has played publicly. Of course the fans would love to see the guys on stage more and everyone is in luck as U2 is working on a new album too.
U2 might win Best Original Song from a Motion Picture at the Golden Globes tonight. Even if they don't they made the red carpet media gleeful as the guys shared a moment about their music.


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Geodetic SECOR (Sequential Collation of Range) was an all-weather geodetic survey system which was in operational use for over 3 years, establishing a global survey network. It used the successive positions of artificial satellites in space to determine locations on the earth's surface with exactness over long distances.
The spacecraft notably was used to precisely determine previously uncertain positions of islands in the Pacific. The system consisted of a satellite and 4 ground stations. 3 at geographical points where the co-ordinates had been surveyed accurately and the fourth at an unknown location. Radio waves were flashed from the ground stations to the satellite and returned. The position of the satellite at any time was fixed by the measured ranges from the 3 known stations. Using these precisely established satellite positions as a base, ranges from the satellite to the unknown station were used to compute the position of the unknown station. Geodetic SECOR allows continents and islands to be brought within the same geodetic global grid. Each ground station was entirely portable and contained 3 units: a radio frequency shelter, a data handling shelter and a storage shelter. Lighter weight, solid-state equipment was developed to replace the initial units. The satellite had a mass of 18 kg and contained a transponder, a telemetry system to monitor temperature and operating voltages, and a power unit comprised of solar panels and batteries. Prime Contractor was Cubic Corporation. Experiments with SECOR, together with the Navy's Timation, provided the technical basis for the GPS Navstar system.
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Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v2 Product Family: Datasheet, Vol. 1
The Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v2 product family is the next generation of 64-bit, multi-core processors built on 22-nanometer process technology. The processors are designed for a two-chip platform. The two-chip platform consists of a processor and a Platform Controller Hub (PCH) and enables higher performance, lower cost, easier validation, and improved x-y footprint. The processor includes an Integrated Display Engine, Processor Graphics, PCI Express ports, and an Integrated Memory Controller. The processor is designed for server/workstation platforms. The processor offers either 6 or 16 graphic execution units (EUs). The number of EU engines supported may vary between processor SKUs. The processor is offered in an 1155-land LGA package (H2). Figure 1-1 shows an example server/workstation platform block diagram.
The Datasheet provides DC specifications, pinout and signal definitions, interface functional descriptions, and additional feature information pertinent to the implementation and operation of the processor on its respective platform.
Read the full Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v2 Product Family: Datasheet, Vol. 1: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-e3-1200v2-vol-1-datasheet.html


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Robert Eugene Abraham
Position: LB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 228 lbs.
Born: July 13, 1960 in Myrtle Beach, SC
High School: Myrtle Beach
College: North Carolina St. (school history)
Drafted by the Houston Oilers in the 3rd round (77th overall) of the 1982 NFL Draft.
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TV Watch So You Think You Can Dance
Get ready for the most intense season of So You Think You Can Dance yet.
In an exclusive first look at season 12 of the dance competition, the judges explain the reality show's new twist, in which the dancers are separated into two categories.
"We're looking for the top 10 stage dancers, which includes tap, ballroom, ballet, contemporary, and the top 10 street dancers – salsa, street, tango and, of course, all the hip-hop," says show creator Nigel Lythgoe. "Then we join them together and all hell's gonna break loose."
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The upcoming season of So You Think You Can Dance just might be the biggest one yet, with new additions to the judges' table and a new twist in the competition.
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If there's any doubt in your mind that ballet is a sport, this gorgeous commercial from sports apparel brand Under Armour featuring Misty Copeland should clear things up.
It'll be a lifelong duet on the dance floor for Stephen "Twitch" Boss and Allison Holker, who were married Tuesday in Paso Robles, Calif.
Fittingly, the So You Think You Can Dance costars tied the knot at a winery owned by the show's producer and judge, Nigel Lythgoe, who joined the happy couple to Tweet photos of their "rustic chic" big day.
Added Holker: "It's official. I'm Mrs. Boss. We got married," she Tweeted.
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So You Think You Can … keep a secret?
According to multiple British reports, Cat Deeley quietly wed Irish comedian Patrick Kielty in Rome over the weekend at the Saint Isidore's College chapel.
The U.K.'s Daily Mail cites an apparent wedding photo of the So You Think You Can Dance host, 35, wearing a white dress and having a celebratory drink with Kielty, 41.
However, reps for Deeley and Kielty have kept mum on the reported nuptials.
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For the first time in So You Think You Can Dance history, America has crowned two winners.
"I don't know why we've never done it before," judge Nigel Lythgoe told PEOPLE after Tuesday's ninth-season finale of the FOX dance competition – where both a male and female were declared "America's favorite dancers."
"It's really great that they win in their own sexes," said Lythgoe.
And so, with the entire top 20 on hand, the season's final four – Cyrus Spencer, Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, Eliana Girard and Tiffany Maher – waited to learn who would take home the titles.
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After weeks of rehearsals, performances and eliminations on So You Think You Can Dance, it has come down to the top two men and top two women, in a final push to claim America's vote for the winning spots.
As the competition winds down, each dancer performed five routines Tuesday. While Tiffany Maher delivered solid performances throughout the night, it was Eliana Girard who wowed the judges and the audience with both her technique and her stage presence.
After Girard's performance of a contemporary piece to "Without You" by Harry Nilsson, accompanied by season 7 alum Alex Wong, judge Nigel Lythgoe proclaimed that she was his "favorite dancer of all time in this series."
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For the first time this season, the judges of So You Think You Can Dance had no control over who was sent home.
"You can breathe a sigh of relief and sit back and enjoy," host Cat Deeley told the panel on Wednesday's episode, which would determine, based on America's vote from the previous week, the final four of season 9.
But there was no sighing for the panel of Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and guest judge Christina Applegate.
"It's nice to save someone. It's nice to have that feeling and be able to do that but it was America's choice tonight," Applegate told PEOPLE after Wednesday's show.
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Tears were streaming during So You Think You Can Dance Wednesday – even before two more dancers were sent home.
The night turned emotional early on, when, with his Swiss parents in the audience for the first time, ballet dancer Cheyon Wespi-Tschopp took to the stage for his solo. "You have to remember these dancers are kids who have dreamed of doing this their whole life," guest judge Jesse Tyler Ferguson told PEOPLE after Wednesday's show. "They grew up far away from L.A. and then are transplanted here. I think it is overwhelming for them."
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All-stars raised the So You Think You Can Dance finalists to a new level Wednesday, but two contestants still went home after a night of stellar performances.
"The all-stars could have taken all of the thunder and stolen all the light, but that wasn't the case," judge Mary Murphy told PEOPLE after the show. "We had a lot to celebrate tonight in the fact that [the contestants] held their own."
But the celebrating came to an end when host Cat Deely announced the bottom two boys and bottom two girls: Witney Carson, 18, Audrey Case, 18, George Lawrence II, 19, and Cheyon Wespi-Tschopp, 23.
"It was a really tough call," Murphy said about having to choose which boy and girl to send home. And for the first time in season 9 the decision was not unanimous between the judges.
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You can't go wrong with an XD. It's a great weapon no matter what caliber.
This is a discussion on Feeling/Opinions on a XD9 within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by SIXTO I'll go against the grain here... I don't like the XD's at all, but if I was inclined to purchase one, ...
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If you carry in Condition 3, you have two empty chambers. One in the weapon...the other between your ears.
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You can't go wrong with an XD. It's a great weapon no matter what caliber.
The XD9 Service (4") was the first gun I ever bought, and is still my favorite.
It just feels great in my hand, unlike the Glock 19 which it is similiar to.
"Naked and Starving as They are We Cannot Enough Admire the Incomparable Patience and Fidelity of the Soldiery" George Washington, Valley Forge, 1777.
I have an XD40 and XD9 subcompact. I love the 40, it's a great gun.
I've got an XD-M, XD45, and XD9SC. I recently sold an XD40 to get the XD-M, but not for lack of reliability. All of them have been exceptionally reliable and have made me an XD buyer over any other single type of handgun, although I own other brands and like the ones I own very well.
I don't know what it is, I really like the feel of this gun in my hand, Ive always beena large caliber gun type of guy, but this gun feels like it was made for my hand..it just feels good. That's what almost made me pull the trigger. At $439.00 is that a good deal for a new XD9? Let me know guys, I may go and drop the axe on Saturday...
I don't try anything...I just do it!
I have the xdsc in 9mm. It comes with xd gear. The holster mag pouch and loader case and lock and all the goodies. Mine came with the 10 and 16 round magazines. A bit wide for such a small gun but still conceals well Iwb. And its a
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10 Steps to Take BEFORE School Starts
Every step you take this summer — before classes begin — will bring you closer to a stress-free start of the school year.
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Use an area near the door that your child uses to go to school. Equip it with open cubbies/shelving, baskets and/or hooks. This is home to books, homework, backpack, notes, sports bag, keys, lunches, and other school-related articles. Hang a large white board to help her remember tasks and items. An alarm clock or timer will help her get out the door in time.


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President Obama vowed Wednesday to take action to reduce gun violence in the United States, less than one week after the horrific elementary school shooting claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults.
Obama has asked Vice President Joe Biden to lead a task force to create new gun control recommendations. Obama plans to send Congress new policy proposals for reducing gun violence by January.
The task force will also include some members of the Cabinet, some members of Congress, outside groups, and lawmakers.
"If those of us that were sent here to serve the public trust can summon even one tiny iota of the courage those teachers, that principal in Newtown summoned on Friday, if cooperation and common sense prevail, then I'm convinced we can make a sensible, intelligent way to make the United States of America a safer, stronger place for our children to learn and to grow," Obama said Wednesday.
The president said the task force will reach out to gun owners, parents, mental health professionals, and pastors to get ideas and to pass the legislation, once they come up with a plan.
Obama also called on Congress to reinstate an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 and to pass laws that clamp down on gun sales made without background checks.
"The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing," Obama said. "The fact that we can't prevent every act of violence doesn't mean we can't steadily reduce the violence."
Obama also urged finding ways to improve mental health resources and to create a culture that doesn't promote violence.
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Conceptual Drawings
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The latest drawing for the Japanese Friendship Garden was unveiled in April 2011.
This map shows the proposed location on the college's main campus.
The original conceptual drawings created by the architects embodied modern Japanese friendship garden design concepts including the incorporation of stonework, plantings, and berms.
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How Your Lobster Roll (Really) Gets Made
There's more than one way to shell a lobster, essentially.
This week in The New Yorker, James Surowiecki notices that lobster prices on Maine docks have fallen to $2.20 per pound (in July it was as low as $1.25 per pound; it was $6 in 2005), while the cost of whole-lobster dinners and lobster rolls remains as high as ever. (The price drop is due to historically huge harvests; Benjamin Wallace examined the "lobster glut" that ensued for New York three years ago.) Surowiecki points to the luxury-pricing model and invokes the old idea that lobster tastes more delicious to customers because they're paying more for it. The psychological factors may be true, but the idea that a lobster glut at the source will inevitably translate to lower dinner bills belies several realities of the restaurant business. It takes middlemen and resellers to transport lobster from the markets in Maine and Canada to New York City, and that's just the beginning. A number of factors, most rarely discussed outside restaurant kitchens, account for the fact that restaurant lobster is often as expensive as ever.
1. There's a glut of the wrong kind of lobster. Lobsters molt their shells during the summer months when waters are warmer. So a sudden summertime explosion of fresh-caught lobster typically means a glut of soft-shells (as opposed to more mature hard-shells). Soft-shells may be relatively easy to unload from the docks — which is why people who eat lobster in Maine can get affordable, plentiful meat in the summer months — but they contain less meat and are more fragile (and thus harder to ship) than hard-shell lobsters. That means most soft-shells don't leave the city where they were fished, and so customers who aren't near the source won't see much difference in whole-lobster prices. Another disincentive to move soft-shell lobsters: Customers will sometimes complain about them because you don't get all the cracking-and-slurping satisfaction with a wan softy.
2. Moving, storing, and shelling whole lobsters is expensive.
Whether you're dealing with soft-shells or hard-shells, storage of whole lobsters also adds to the price: In order to survive, lobsters need fresh, cold, slightly saline water with oxygen pumped in. For wholesalers that are shipping lobsters, and any restaurant that deals in whole-lobster meals (with tanks where customers can choose their own dinner), these concerns take up significant real estate and consume vital resources.
Then there's the cost of putting a whole lobster on the table. The reason why Rebecca Charles at Pearl Oyster Bar charges $28* for a lobster roll is because the restaurant starts with whole lobsters, then pays for kitchen labor associated with steaming them, shocking them in ice water, pulling claws and tails from lobster bodies, then shelling all the meat, tails and everything, and finally chopping the meat.
3. You actually can buy affordable lobster rolls now, but they use prepackaged lobster parts rather than whole lobster. As Wallace chronicled, the lobster glut has created an explosion of relatively affordable "street" lobster rolls like the $15 roll at Luke's Lobster or the $16 roll from Red Hook Lobster Pound. But, by and large, these restaurants aren't buying whole lobsters for their rolls; they're buying meat that's been de-shelled and preportioned in Maine. They buy claw and knuckle meat, while the tail meat, which is the most expensive part of the lobster, is typically snatched up by large food-service companies that sell it to spots like high-end hotels and luxury cruise ships.
This type of preportioned meat used to come canned but is now minimally processed and fresher, which has enabled cheaper lobster rolls: The meat is cooked, mechanically — or hydraulically — separated at the source, packed in vacuum-sealed bags, then trucked down to NYC. (It's sometimes frozen too.)
The question of whether rolls made with prepackaged or whole lobster are better is much debated in lobster circles; both have ardent supporters. But, in general, the restaurant industry wants the public to think, Lobster is lobster. It's partly marketing, and it's partly because the conversation is much more complex than most people think.
Related: On a Roll [NYM]
*This post has been corrected to show that the lobster roll at Pearl Oyster Bar is $28, not $30, and that in-house preparation involves steaming lobster whole, not poaching lobster parts that have been butchered prior to cooking.


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AVON LAKE – Another match for Avon Lake.
Another slow start by Avon Lake.
Another victory by Avon Lake.
That has been the pattern for so much of this season. Dan Berkheimer loves the winning. It's the sluggishness in the early going he can do without.
"That's the issue when you play in a three-game format," Berkheimer said. "A slow start can be the kiss of death."
The Shoregals avoided that lethal liplock by rallying to beat Midview in three games in a triangular Saturday. The Middies took the opener 25-17 before Avon Lake came back to win 25-9 and 25-20.
"Midview won the first game because they have a good defense, and they serve well," Berkheimer said.
"When our blocks aren't there we're in trouble, and they weren't there in the first game. When we can put teams on their heels, we're very hard to stop."
Midview's Arrianna Cumberledge and Lindsay Schoen were hard to stop in Game 1. Cumberledge had seven kills and Schoen six. Cumberledge served six straight points, with three aces, as the Middies opened a 12-4 lead.
The Shoregals shook that off in the second game, going on an 11-1 spree to open a 15-6 lead and never let up. The Shoregals scored the game's final six points.
Avon Lake also beat Lakewood 25-9, 25-17 to improve to 13-0. Lakewood defeated Midview 26-24, 15-25, 25-17.
"Down or up, we all stay together," Shoregals senior co-captain Danielle Donelan said. "From the summer on into the season we've stayed together."
"And had fun," added Erin Kearns, the other captain.
Katie Mihalik led the Shoregals versus Midview with 11 kills, including seven in Game 3. Christine Bohan added eight kills and four block kills, and Isabelle Wagner had six block kills. Heather Smith had 22 digs and Whitney Craigo had 22 assists.
"We didn't get great passing, but Whitney didn't give up on anything," Berkheimer said. "Somehow she got the ball to our hitters."
Midview fell to 9-5. The Middies have lost three in a row and four of their last five matches.
"We've been in a slump," Midview coach Jen Shouse said. "It started at Westlake (Invitational on Sept. 17). We fell flat and we haven't picked it up.
"We played the way we're capable of playing (in the first Avon Lake game). I thought I had my team back, but we really crumbled in Game 2. We needed to make adjustments and we didn't make them. In Game 3 we waited too long before we decided to play the way we can play."
It appeared as if the Middies might hand Avon Lake its first loss. Midview fell behind 15-7, but the Middies chipped away and got within 20-19 on a Cumberledge ace.
Cumberledge's next serve found an unguarded corner of the Shoregals' side of the floor, but the ball fell just outside the line.
"It was an aggressive serve," Shouse said. "It was just 2 inches from tying the score."
Avon Lake took advantage of that with three straight points to go up 24-19. A kill from Schoen kept Midview alive before Mihalik's kill ended it.
Cumberledge had 16 kills, served four aces and had 12 digs in the Avon Lake match. Meghan Higley had 29 assists versus the Shoregals.
The Shoregals did not have a slow start against Lakewood (11-5), dominating the Rangers in Game 1. In the second game, however, Lakewood held an 8-2 lead before Avon Lake went on a 14-3 run to gain control.
Mihalik had six kills, Donelan had 12 serve receptions, Craigo was 36-of-36 setting with 15 assists and Taylor Leube served two aces against the Rangers.
Midview looked strong against Lakewood in Game 2 after its close loss in the opener. The Rangers, however, picked up the defense and the blocking in Game 3.
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"I'm extremely excited about opportunity to represent State in the West Regional," McDonald said. "I can't wait to get to Colorado, get out on the course, and prove the strides that our women's golf program has taken this season."
McDonald is currently ranked as the 64th-best player in the nation according to GolfStat.com and the 12th-best freshman.
The Fulton, Miss., native owns a freshman record-breaking 74.22 scoring clip this season, which is just two-hundredths of a point away from breaking MSU's all-time single-season scoring average record.
McDonald has already made 10 individual record entries into the Lady Bulldog record book, including the second-lowest tournament card with a 212 in the John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate.
She became the first player to win SEC Women's Golfer of the Week in the Ginger Brown-Lemm era when she won the award after posting a runner-up finish in the John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate.
"I am so excited for Ally." Brown-Lemm said. "She has worked very hard and led this team into our new era. She exemplifies what a successful student-athlete looks like. She is the whole package: grades, work ethic, and personality. She constantly strives to be the best on the course and in the classroom. She excellent at assessing what is or isn't working and can make corrections on the go. She will represent Mississippi State and the game with the utmost integrity and competitiveness."
The last Lady Bulldog to make a postseason appearance was Amanda Mathis in 2007. She played at Baton Rouge's University Club and finished tied for 36th.
The top finishers at each of the three regionals will advance to the NCAA Championship hosted at the Legends Club in Franklin, Tenn., from May 22-25.


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UK: HTC Flyer can be yours for £234.99
Sure, we may have seen the HTC Flyer go for as low as £199, but that was right before Christmas, when the famed holiday shopping season was at its peak. So understandably the stock of HTC Flyer units priced like that went away pretty fast. Oh, and that price never came back.
Not to worry, though, for today we have something very close for you. If for some reason you've been meaning to pick up a Flyer but haven't done so already, you'll be happy to know that Expansys will sell you one for just £234.99. And £35.99 more than its absolute lowest price isn't that much to be paying for HTC's first Android-powered tablet.
Speaking of which, an update to Android 3.2 Honeycomb should probably be waiting for you as soon as you power up your new puppy. That still isn't the latest version of the operating system, and truth be told we're not sure if HTC will ever update the Flyer to Ice Cream Sandwich. Still, do take this over 99% of similarly priced 'budget' Android tablets which run Gingerbread.


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IPv6 websites accesibility guess. The GC Index.
The origin of this work was an informal proposal of Fernando Garcia Fernandez (TECNOCOM fella) in May 2006, in the middle of one of the social events at RIPE-52 meeting in Istambul, about doing some "real" and "useful" measurement that showed if IPv6 is really going to be deployed or not. Just guessing what our friends or relatives (specially those not technically skilled) would find in a world without IPv4 addresses, and only using IPv6 for everyday Intenet's life. And of course, present it at RIPE meetings.
For the first talk we did all the analysis by hand, and presented it at plenary session, October 3rd 2006, at RIPE-53 meeting in Amsterdam. Then updated the talk in Tallinn, RIPE-54, and after that we tried to automate the measurement process, using some scratch servers with decent connectivity at BT Spain Networking Labs, and refined the procedure and the script from time to time. We did some further talks at RIPE-55, RIPE-56, RIPE-58 and RIPE-59, and also at some ESNOG/GORE meetings in Spain, until we decided that showing day to day evolution of the measures through the web site would be enough.
The base URL list was formerly obtained from ALEXA.COM 500 TOP sites webpage,
that we arranged to get the first list of domains used to do the study, always prepending the domain name with a set of v6-ish prefixes
that the webmasters seemed to use to characterize the v6 flavour of the servers:
At March 13th 2008 we increased the base list merging with the not-repeated URLs from the top-100 ALEXA lists of 120 countries and also included the graph of the ratio "v6 hosts/total" to be independent of the number of domains explored.
At April 1st 2009, Alexa began to provide a global list of top 1,000,000 sites (from which we use the first 15000), so maybe a bump will show in the total graph, but (hope so) not in the Ratio graph.
Then at May 18th 2010, we started to resolve google.com and youtube.com domains directly in v6 (forwarding DNS traffic to Hurricane Electric DNS servers), so the number of hosts-per-domain have hugely increased, and a new bump in the graphs appeared, although the RATIO should should have been in the same range as previously. This bump lasted until July 9th 2010, and during this period Google seemed to be assigning one ipv6 address to each of the search pages in every ccTLD (google.ca, google.co.uk, google.va, etc). After that period, the ipv6 assignment changed to be done by blocks (e.g., 2a00:1450:4007:807::101f is the single ipv6 address google.de, google.uk, google.rw, google.com.na, google.mu, google.mg, etc. are resolved to) It would be an interesting exercise to guess the purpose of this distribution (although maybe this has been already explained in some blog/forum/list). And so until today...
The per-country results are available HERE
The complete list of URLs tested is HERE
The raw results file is HERE
The usual complete list of ipv6 sites detected, ratios and MX/DNS additional info, can be seen HERE
(This page is updated daily, the process finishing at (around) 07:30 CET)
Please, wait while the graphs are being built...
|Results: 60000 URLs scanned, 1476 Unique URLs with 2172 IPv6 addresses reachable
1734 DNS servers and 2188 MX records with ipv6 detected
The Ratio of IPV6 hosts are: Found = 2.46 %, Reachable = 3.62 0
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Sandro & Elske,
19 April 2013
Botswana , Maun °
The next day we crossed the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia by walking over the big iron bridge you will see on some pictures too. As we only wanted to visit the Victoria falls in Zambia and wanted to make the $50.- we had paid for the visa worth it we decided to book a tour package: a half day canoe safari , a game drive and sunset cruise for tomorrow.
We drove approximately half an hour by car upstream to our starting point. After the guides pumped up our canoes it was time for a little \'safety talk\' where he explained that we had to stick close together, were not allowed to stick out any arms or legs in the water due to the many crocodiles and in case of a hippo attack we had to paddle for our lives! Thank god all of us survived . At beginning we had quite some rapids and and afterwards we could just float down the stream. Unfortunately we didn\'t see that many animals as there is still enough water on the land so they don\'t need to come to the river yet to drink but we did see two elephant families and some hippos on the way.
Afterwards it was time for our first game drive and we would meet our vehicle on the way. We were already scared that it would be full with people and that we would get the worst seats but it turned out that we were the only ones and had a private game drive! Our guide said that if we wanted we could see the white rhino (which isn\'t white but is called like this for some reason) but then we needed to ask the ranger if he wanted to accompany us as there are only 9 rhinos left in Zambia and they are protected by armed rangers against hunters. So with this ranger we went to the other side of the park were we could see two rhinos sleeping under a three and they are huge! Afterwards we went to the other side of the park where we could see zebras, giraffes, impalas, buffaloes and some more we don\'t remember the names of. We also saw big crocodiles lying at the river bank of the Zambezi were we were canoeing just a few hours earlier..
In the evening we did the sunset cruise, a boat ride with free drinks and food was really nice. We saw some more hippos and crocodiles while we enjoyed a beautiful sunset. When we got back in the hostel there was no electricity so the whole hostel was lit by candles so we had some beers till the electricity came back so we could finally shower and sleep.
The next day we visited the Zambian side of the falls together with a Finnish and a Dutch girl from the hostel. At the Zimbabwean side we didn\'t really needed a poncho but after 5 minutes at the Zambian side we went back to the entrance to rent one as it was too wet there! People without were literally soaked. On this side you are much closer to the falls and don\'t have the overview like in Zimbabwe but there are some really cool spots. We crossed a bridge which brought us very close to the falls and were standing in a wall of water. We walked to the right side of the falls where we could see the Zambezi just before the falls till where the water drops down and we walked down for 15 minutes to see the \'boiling pot\', the place all the way down where the water arrives before it streams further. Here we were again surrounded by baboons, monkeys which are sometimes more then a meter tall and which were jus walking past us.
After our experiences with the African public transport system we decided to travel a day earlier to Kasane, Botswana so we had the whole day in case we would be delayed again. But somehow everything went super fast! We found a shared taxi to the border with enough people already so we could leave, the ferry to bring us to the other side of the river was waiting for us and on the other side we could jump into a cab right away. It\'s quite expensive to take a private taxi so for longer distances you can go to a spot to meet people going your direction and share the costs. So we shared our taxi with a guy, a women with 2 small children on her lap and 2 chicken! In Kasane we stayed in the beautiful lodge where Jackie & Thomas (the son of friends of the Baumann family) were having their wedding on Saturday and where Sandro would be groomsman instead of his brother which wasn\'t able to come. On Friday they invited us on a boat safari where we saw plenty of elephants, buffaloes and hippos in and out of the water and afterwards Sandro\'s parents also arrived after a bit of delay (Africa..... )
In the evening they organized a traditional African dinner which was for us Europeans an amazing experience. Even though we didn\'t like the self-brewed beer and the biltong too much, there were traditional African dancers, there were pots of food in a circle in the middle and a big buffet. The whole family of the groom were wearing the local cloths and the bride and groom had to sit in the middle while the dancers were dancing around them and her aunt was doing a speech. Very cool!
The next day was the wedding ceremony which was very beautiful, next to the Chobe river and really traditional. Afterwards we had drinks, dinner and a party! Sandro had to sit with the bridesmaids and groomsmen and the bride and groom at a table and I sat with the other groomsmen girlfriends and some people from Botswana. My table was definitely the funniest! Maybe also because of the local liquor \'Amarula\' the people from Botswana insisted that we tried and because of their local dance which the locals thought us Europeans too
The next days we went with the European part on a game drive (we saw a leopard!) and had a last dinner together. Actually our plan was to catch the 06.00 hrs bus the next morning but when the dad of the bride heard that we needed to go his direction he offered us to take us with him. With our later departure we were also able to join for another drink before we went to the room to finish packing our backpacks.
The following morning we said goodbye to everyone and departed to Nata with the dad of Jackie and her mam. Most of Botswana is actually one big game park, with Kasane as a little touristic village in the north and some bigger cities in the south-east. On our way we even saw elephants standing right next to the road. And then all of a sudden there was a huge Kudu running out of the bush towards the road and within 2 seconds, the dad tried to break and steer to the side but it happened too fast and the kudu crashed right in front of the car, slammed into the front window, rolled over the roof and landed on the other side of the road while also the car came to stop. Fortunately and thanks to the solid car with thanks god finally working seat belts in the back (very uncommon here) we were all fine but the poor Kudu didn\'t survive the accident. The dad is already living here for many years and said that this never happened to him before. After we took some breath we stepped out of the car which didn\'t look good and the dad decided we would drive some kilometers further to a police post where we explained what happened so they could help us and check on the kudu. As there was nothing what Sandro and I could do and we were only 80 km from Nata, the dad arranged us a lift to Nata so we ended up with a super nice Zimbabwean couple which was very exited that we had visited Zimbabwe too and told us all about the countries and the places we plan to visit and dropped us of right in the front of our lodge.
We visited Nata because we wanted to visit another place in Botswana and de lodge there offered a tour to the \'pans\'. We didn\'t know what the pans were and they didn\'t turn out to be that exiting. They are like salt pans where we saw many birds like pelicans, flamingos and ostriches and watched the sunset. And while Sandro was chatting in the back with the two Dutch girls I was stuck in the front with the elderly German couple! Also we had our first chance to use our tent as the lodge also offered a camping ground which was much cheaper then the chalets. When we arrived we asked the camping security if there were any animals we should know about and he told us that there are no animals. The second day we walked through the camping site to the pool when a guy told us: check out the snake there! And yes, there was a cobra right in the bush next to the bathroom. In the evening we told the security that there are animals and he said: ah yes, but only snakes. Did u see also the big one one the other side? We replied: no, that must be another one then. So, we went to sleep at night knowing \"yes we are in Africa and not in Dietlikon anymore\".
After Nata we traveled to Maun where we did a Mokoro trip. A Mokoro is a kind of canoe with a poler standing on the back. Our poler was called Paul and with Poler Paul we went to explore the Okovango Delta, a huge delta covering 18.000 square kilometers. So while Poler Paul poled us through the Delta we were enjoying the sun and the view. The delta is beautiful and really peaceful. After a few hours we made a break on an island and Poler Paul told us we would take a little walk, so we thought we would go for half an hour or so and our opened bottle of water would be enough! Till after 1.5 hours our bottles were empty, we were exhausted due to the heat and we still had a good half an hour to go! But we saw a huge group of zebras which were also excited to see us humans and were following us for a bit. Afterwards we shared our lunch with Poler Paul. Sandro wanted to learn how to pole which didn\'t turn out to be as easy as it looked like but he did a good job when we came back at the starting point Poler Paul showed us his little village with small African houses, no electricity and where the water comes out of the river and then we got picked up by our speedboat and enjoyed the ride back with a bottle of beer!
Today we arrived in Windhoek, Namibia after a 9 hour transfer from Maun. Our stay in Botswana was really nice! Chobe national park is amazing as well as the delta. After our short ride through Windhoek Sandro already spotted a restaurant called \'Cordon Bleu\' and is already claiming that he loves Windhoek and never wants to leave.. So if I manage to get him out of here to explore the rest of the world or if he moved into the Cordon Bleu Restaurant you will read on our next blog.. To be continued!
Sandro & Elske
By now we went & spent:
Km by plane: 11\'062
Km by bus: 886 + 330 = 1216
Km by train: 451
Km by car: 0 + 312 + 807 = 1119
Total: 13\'918.50 km
Hrs on the plane: 13
Hrs on the bus: 17 + 3.5 = 20.5
Hrs on the train: 24
Hrs by car: 0 + 4 + 9 = 13
Total: 70.5 hrs
Countries visited: 4
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Ha Elske en Sandro. het klinkt allemaal spannend en fantastisch. Maar wel goed dat wij niet van tevoren weten wat jullie plannen zijn en dat jullie ons pas later, als jullie het overleefd hebben, op de hoogte stellen. Dan valt er wel mee te leven. Straks kunnen jullie wel een bureau opzetten als vakantiecoaches. Misschien vast iets om over na te denken.
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Geniet maar weer verder misschien is het once in a lifetime.
veel liefs Bart en Louise
21 April 2013
It looks like a dream...have fun and enjoy your adventure!
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Investigative reporter and historian Gareth Porter debunks the War Party's claims that Iran's government is killing American soldiers and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, neocrazy media sycophant Michael R. Gordon's lies on behalf of the Vice-President's office and its stovepipe, the truth about Iran's attempted grand bargain of 2003 [.pdf] and the threat of America and Iran's friends in Iraq turning on U.S. troops in the event of war.
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Keith Noonan has provided some analysis on the biggest video games that will be released in the first half of 2014. According to his report from Daily Finance on Feb. 23, the analyst believed that "Titanfall" will be the most "influential" title.
He stated that the new intellectual property has the ability to "reshape" the first person shooting genre along with helping the hardware sales of the Xbox One. Microsoft's new console has been lagging in sales when compared to the PS4. Although "Titanfall" is also coming to the PC and Xbox 360, Keith Noonan thinks that the title should be "instrumental" for the Xbox One in the next-generation console war.
The analyst went on to talk a little bit about "Driveclub" and "inFamous: Second Son." Although both PS4 exclusive games may end up being good, Keith Noonan still consider that "Titanfall" has better "stature" for the Xbox One.
The first-person shooter will be released for Microsoft's new console, as well as the PC, on March 11th. The Xbox 360 port should arrive two weeks later on March 25th. You can find some screens of "Titanfall" with the gallery embedded to the left of this article.
"inFamous: Second Son" is due to launch on March 21st while "Driveclub" does not have as official release date. Both PS4 titles will be published by Sony Computer Entertainment.