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From the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Physicians report several barriers to the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for dehydration in children due to acute gastroenteritis.
To compare ORT with intravenous therapy for the treatment of moderate dehydration in children with acute gastroenteritis and to determine whether the factors reported as barriers to the use of ORT would be substantiated in practice.
Randomized controlled trial in an urban pediatric emergency department. Children with moderate dehydration due to acute gastroenteritis were randomly assigned to ORT (group 1) or intravenous therapy (group 2). The primary outcome was length of stay in the emergency department. Secondary outcomes included hospital admission rate, staff time, relapse after discharge from the hospital, and parental satisfaction. Two days after discharge, parents were surveyed by telephone to assess the relapse and their satisfaction with the visit.
Eighteen patients were enrolled in group 1 and 16 in group 2. The mean length of stay in group 1 was 225 vs 358 minutes in group 2 (P<.01). Mean staff time was 35.8 minutes in group 1 compared with 65 minutes in group 2 (P = .03). Three patients failed ORT and required intravenous therapy. Two patients (11%) in group 1 vs 4 (25 %) in group 2 required admission to the hospital (P = .20). No patients relapsed after being discharged from the hospital. Fourteen parents (77%) in group 1 compared with 6 (37.5%) in group 2 reported that they were highly satisfied with all aspects of the visit (P = .01).
Reported barriers to ORT were not supported by our data. Moreover, ORT performed better than intravenous therapy on all measured outcomes.
IN THE United States, acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in children younger than 5 years is responsible for approximately 3.7 million acute care visits annually. Two hundred twenty thousand children are hospitalized each year, accounting for an estimated 925 000 hospital days.1
The American Academy of Pediatrics2 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention3 recommend oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for the treatment of mild or moderate dehydration secondary to AGE. Data from several studies have shown that ORT is as effective as, and less costly than, intravenous therapy (IVT).4,5 Despite these recommendations, recent surveys suggest that many emergency department and primary care physicians preferentially use IVT rather than ORT for children who are dehydrated.6- 9 Some reasons cited for this practice include the belief that ORT requires a longer duration of therapy, is ineffective in the presence of moderate dehydration, and requires additional staff time for patient care and that parents prefer IVT.9 However, there are no published studies that evaluate the validity of the reported barriers to the use of ORT. This study compares ORT with IVT for the treatment of moderate dehydration in children with AGE and determines whether the factors reported as barriers to the use of ORT would be substantiated in practice.
Previously healthy children aged 3 months to 17 years who presented to a pediatric emergency department (PED) in an urban public hospital with signs and symptoms of AGE for less than 1 week, in association with dehydration, were screened for eligibility. Children who met at least 4 standard published criteria for moderate dehydration10 were eligible for enrollment in this study. These criteria included tachycardia, dry mucous membranes, depressed anterior fontanelle, sunken eyeballs, abnormal skin turgor, decreased urine output, absent or minimal tears, listlessness or drowsiness, thirst, and postural hypotension. Patients with chronic illness, severe dehydration or shock, protracted vomiting, absent bowel sounds, no accompanying guardian, or no contact telephone number, and those requiring intravenous access for reasons other than hydration, were excluded. The study was approved by the Committee on Clinical Investigations at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
After parental consent, eligible patients were randomly assigned to receive ORT or IVT. Randomization was accomplished by placing odd and even numbers in a sealed, opaque container. A clerical staff member drew a number that was then assigned to the child. Children assigned even numbers underwent treatment with ORT; children given odd numbers underwent treatment with IVT. Children assigned to the IVT group received an initial bolus of 20 mL/kg of an isotonic sodium chloride solution over a 30-minute period. A second bolus of an isotonic sodium chloride solution was administered if necessary, as determined by the treating physician. This was followed by an intravenous solution of 5% dextrose in 0.45% saline in children 2 years and older, and 5% dextrose in 0.33% saline in children younger than 2 years. The dextrose-saline solution was administered at a rate of 1½ times daily maintenance. Commercially prepared oral maintenance electrolyte solutions were introduced during maintenance therapy, at a rate of 5 mL or 10 mL every 5 minutes, depending on the age of the child. Children assigned to the ORT group received commercially prepared oral maintenance electrolyte solutions at a rate of 5 mL every 5 minutes if they were younger than 4 years, and 10 mL every 5 minutes if they were 4 years or older. If the child did not vomit during the first hour of ORT, intake was advanced to twice the initial volume and given every 5 minutes. Oral fluids were withheld for 30 minutes if the patient vomited, and then were restarted at the initial rate. Oral fluids were administered by a parent or guardian. Patients who vomited 3 or more times after the initiation of oral therapy were considered to have failed ORT and IVT was started. Because this was an intention-to-treat study, these patients remained in the ORT group for data analysis.
All patients were evaluated at 30- to 60-minute intervals. Stool cultures and serum chemistry studies were obtained at the discretion of the treating attending physician. The decision to discharge the patient from the PED was made by the attending physician when the patient's presenting signs and symptoms of dehydration were reversed and vomiting had ceased. Patients who continued to vomit despite IVT and withholding of oral fluids were hospitalized.
The primary outcome measure was duration of PED stay, defined as time from enrollment to final disposition. Secondary outcomes included staff time required for patient care, hospital admission rate, relapse after being discharged from the hospital, and parental satisfaction with care. All medical caregivers documented the time spent providing patient care. Two to 4 days after discharge from the PED, an investigator, blinded to the patient's treatment group assignment, surveyed parents by telephone to assess relapse, as well as satisfaction with the visit. Relapse was determined by inquiring whether the patient required additional unscheduled medical intervention for the same complaint. Satisfaction was assessed using the modified Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire.11 We estimated that 34 patients were needed to detect a difference of 60 minutes in the duration of therapy between the 2 groups, with a power of 80% and an α level of .05.
Data were entered using Epi Info version 6.0 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Stone Mountain, Ga). Means and proportions were calculated using descriptive statistics. Differences in proportions were tested using the χ2; t tests were used to compare the groups on continuous variables. Analysis of covariance for continuous outcomes and logistic regression analyses for dichotomous outcomes were conducted using SPSS for Windows version 10.0 (SPSS, Chicago, Ill).
Two hundred sixty-nine patients were evaluated for eligibility (Figure 1). Thirty-four children were enrolled. No parent of an eligible child refused to participate. Eighteen children were randomized to the ORT group, and 16 to the IVT group. Demographic and baseline data are noted in Table 1. The 2 groups were similar for age, sex, and ethnicity. The mean number of dehydration criteria met by the patients in each group was similar (5.1 ORT vs 4.9 IVT).
Study flow diagram. ORT indicates oral rehydration therapy; IVT, intravenous therapy.
Differences in outcomes are noted in Table 2. There was a statistically significant difference in the mean duration of PED stay. Compared with children in the IVT group, the mean PED staff time required for children in the ORT group was significantly less. When staff time required for patient care was subtracted from the length of PED stay, the difference in length of PED stay between the 2 groups remained significant. Three patients in the ORT group failed ORT and received IVT. Four patients (25%) in the IVT group required hospital admission for continued symptoms, compared with 2 patients (11%) in the ORT group, but this difference was not statistically significant. No patients in either group were reported to have relapsed after discharge. Parents of children in the ORT group were significantly more likely to report that they were highly satisfied with all aspects of the visit compared with parents of children in the IVT group. After controlling for length of PED stay, parents of children in the ORT group were 6.5 times more likely to report they were highly satisfied with all aspects of the visit than parents of children in the IVT group (95% confidence interval, 15.0-36.8) (P = .03).
For many decades, traditional therapy for diarrhea and dehydration was hospital admission and withholding of feedings until the diarrhea ceased. Early attempts at using oral rehydration solutions were unsuccessful, largely because of an inappropriate glucose-sodium ratio. In 1960, the combined transport of glucose and sodium was elucidated, leading to a renewed interest in the use of oral rehydration solution for the treatment of dehydration.12
The First International Conference on Oral Rehydration Therapy (ICORT I) was conducted in 1983. Over the next 3 years, there was a concerted effort to familiarize governments and health care professionals with oral rehydration solution and to promote its implementation. In 1985, representatives from 100 countries attended ICORT II in Washington, DC. World Health Organization (WHO) Diarrheal Disease Control (CDD) Programs were multiplying and were present in countries inhabited by more than 95% of the developing world's population. Data from ICORT II showed that with the widespread use of oral rehydration solution, some countries reported a reduction in mortality as high as 50%.13
Although the effect of diarrhea and dehydration is less significant in the United States when compared with developing countries, it remains an important public health issue and the cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Children younger than 3 years are estimated to have from 1.3 to 2.3 episodes of diarrheal illness annually. These rates are higher among children who attend day care centers.2 Additionally, 300 to 400 children die each year of complications associated with AGE.1
Multiple studies have been published documenting the effectiveness of the use of ORT for the treatment of mild to moderate dehydration secondary to AGE. In 1996, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a practice parameter for the treatment of children with AGE, and recommended the use of ORT for mild to moderate dehydration.2 Despite these findings, as well as additional data showing that ORT is less costly than IVT,4,5 physicians in the developed world continue to preferentially use IVT for the treatment of moderate dehydration.
In 1994, Reis et al6 surveyed general pediatricians to determine their knowledge of and attitudes toward ORT, and to identify potential barriers to the use of ORT. They found that although most respondents recognized the importance of ORT, compliance with AAP guidelines was limited. Some of the reported barriers to the use of ORT in practice included the belief that ORT administration was inconvenient, that parents would not be able to continue the rehydration regimen at home, that support staff preferred IVT and would require additional training to administer ORT, and that reimbursement for ORT would be less likely than for IVT.
More recently, Ozuah et al8 surveyed emergency department physicians to determine the relationship between the use of ORT and knowledge of the AAP practice parameters. They found that, overall, only 15.3% of emergency department physicians "almost always" or "always" use ORT for children with moderate dehydration secondary to gastroenteritis. Although physicians who reported that they were "very familiar" with AAP recommendations were more likely to use ORT as a first-line therapy for moderate dehydration than were physicians who were unfamiliar, the use of ORT was extremely limited in both groups (25% vs 0%).
Another study by Connors et al9 surveyed pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program directors to compare their use of ORT with AAP recommendations. In response to a series of 10 clinical scenarios of children with mild or moderate dehydration, 17.2% reported that they believed ORT was a better treatment, although only 6.7% said they would use ORT in all 10 scenarios. Most respondents believed that ORT would require additional staff time or a longer treatment time in the emergency department. Approximately half of the respondents believed that parents and/or primary care physicians expected the child to receive IVT.
Our data showed that when subjected to a randomized clinical trial, the barriers reported by physicians in these surveys were not upheld. In fact, our data showed that ORT performed better than IVT in terms of treatment time in the PED, in the use of staff time, and for parental satisfaction.
There were some limitations to our study. The definition of moderate dehydration was based on standard clinical criteria, some of which are subjective. Therefore, there was a possibility of misclassification of patients in terms of degree of dehydration. However, the mean number of clinical criteria associated with moderate dehydration was approximately the same in the 2 groups, suggesting that the groups were similar in percentage of dehydration. Documentation of PED staff time was gathered by self-report; there is a possibility that some patient encounters may not have been documented. However,there is no reason to believe that underreporting would be disproportionate between the groups. Since the satisfaction survey was not administered anonymously, parents may have been reluctant to report dissatisfaction. Again, reluctance to report dissatisfaction would be unlikely to be disproportionate, and the difference between the 2 groups was significant. Finally, it is possible that our small sample is not representative of the general population of moderately dehydrated US children. However, our PED serves a large, self-referred, heterogeneous population. Therefore, a sample from this population should reflect urban children seeking care for moderate dehydration.
Our data showed that barriers to the use of ORT as reported by physicians were not substantiated in practice. In light of the extensive literature concerning the efficacy of ORT, if further investigations confirm our findings concerning barriers to the use of ORT in the PED, physicians should consider changing their clinical practice when treating children with AGE and moderate dehydration.
Accepted for publication August 1, 2002.
We are grateful to Ellen Johnson Silver, PhD, for assistance with data analysis.
Corresponding author and reprints: Sandra J. Cunningham, MD, 1W20 Jacobi Hospital, 1400 Pelham Pkwy S, Bronx, NY 10461 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).
The use of ORT for the treatment of mild to moderate dehydration secondary to AGE is recommended by the AAP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite data from several studies showing that ORT is as effective as, and less costly than IVT, physicians continue to preferentially use IVT. Reported barriers to the use of ORT include the belief that parents and referring physicians expect IVT and that ORT would require additional staff time and training and a longer treatment time in the PED.
This study subjected the reported barriers to the use of ORT for moderate dehydration from AGE to a randomized controlled trial. Compared with children assigned to IVT, children randomized to ORT required less staff time and had a shorter length of PED stay, and their parents were more likely to be highly satisfied with all aspects of the visit. The barriers reported by physicians to the use of ORT were not substantiated in practice. In light of existing literature supporting the use of ORT, physicians should incorporate ORT into their practice.
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The overrated Originality and why do we equate it with Excellence
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An artwork, a photograph, a movie, a book, a song, a tv show, a talent, or a masterpiece; what do they have in common? The element of originality. People equate originality to excellence because the word 'originality' appears to be something to look up to. Just like an original item from the US compared to a local product in the Philippines. In other cases, having your work commented with "it's fantastic and original" makes you feel like no one can beat your work, or that it's the highest of its form.
This blog unfortunately does not believe in originality, so as the blogger.
I've heard from many people, commonly speakers, that (in the case of photography), a picture stands out when it has its originality. So I've always seen it as an alien entity to a competition (for example). In other contests I've joined, a huge percentage of judging my entry relied on originality taking up to 50% of the whole criteria. Every participant would think of the best original idea to compete and it felt like you just can't have those ideas.
There is no way that we can produce original ideas, technically. We can only say one thing is original if it is based on our own perspective. Let's say your classmate showed you his project. It was so detailed and colorful, probably the best project execution you have ever seen. So you may have thought- it's originally made. A couple of minutes later, your classmate showed his project to one of your other classmates and the comment was "oh, it's like the one they made in the movie blah blah". This instance is in no peculiarity, it happens everyday, and we just don't notice it. It may be original to you, but it's just a whole lot of a copy from somewhere else.
Another example is my job as a designer. In as much as I would like for my designs to flow out as originally made by me, I cannot do so. All parts of my design could somehow be a replica of some designs I've seen before. I may claim it as something I thought of but I know that those pieces of design were stored subconsciously inside my brain while looking at designs from different places and time.
So how come?
Human beings live inside a closed sphere. All that we see, all that we hear, smell, touch, taste, all of it is a part of our memories. Memories which were drawn from the time we were created. This is where we get our instincts and ideas, all our experiences lead to something we do in the future. It's safe to say that originality exists within the grounds of one's perception but is not applicable for all. We don't need to be afraid to say we're not original because we are not. We are in the process of constantly adapting to our environment. Like a child learning to speak or beginning his first steps. He's trying to imitate other people because those are the only things available for him to rely. It's impossible to create something out of nothing without using a part of our memories.
Because this kind of thing cannot be controlled, laws were applied since everyone is obliged to obey the law. We have patents, intellectual property rights, and so on.
Embrace the fact that we can't be original. I believe that something is excellent when it's done with pure intent to be the best and pure effort to express something. Authenticity is not being original or 'alien'. Authenticity is being real and it is invaluable.
It's not where you take things from – it's where you take them to.
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Is Xp Really The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
The mathematician in me reasons as follows:
XP is the simplest thing that could possibly work. What happens when we leave out one of the XP programming practices? Well, we end up with something that is simpler than the simplest thing that could possibly work. Of course, that couldn't possibly work.
So, each programming practice and each prop prevents something going wrong. For most practices and props this has been sufficiently explained on these pages, but for a number of things I wonder why they are necessary:
Why does XP have both
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s are written by programmers to assure themselves that their classes work and do not break any other classes.
s are defined by the customers to assure themselves that the system does what they asked for. --
Why couldn't it possibly work if you make an application object and write unit tests for it using xUnit? I believe I read somewhere on the XP pages that C3 uses a souped-up version of Kent Beck's testing framework for the functional tests. Why is this souping up necessary? What does it look like?
It's just a wrapper around the framework that displays a simple GUI that shows GREEN and 100% when all the tests have completed successfully, and RED and x% when some have failed. We made it so that we could see from across the room that the tests running on the integration machine are complete. --
Why do we need both
s and
is written by the user to specify what the user wants. Engineering tasks are defined by the developers to specify what has to be done to make the system do what the user story asks. Usually there are several engineering tasks per user story. --
Could the XP experts comment on this?
-- Martijn Meijering
Hello, Martijn.
XP isn't the simplest thing that could possibly work. We say that when you decide how to develop some feature, you should
the simplest thing that could possibly work, i.e. take the shortest reasonable steps to the feature, not building in frills or features for the future.
But XP itself is definitely not the simplest thing that could possibly work. We think it's getting pretty close to the simplest thing that will
work, but even that might be overstatement. In any case, XP isn't simple. It is very difficult to maintain the discipline to do it. I've addressed some specifics above. Please ask further if I haven't been clear. Thanks for your interest. --
Simple doesn't have much to do with
difficult to maintain the discipline to do it
, I think. I find many simple things difficult to do.
The process is driven to be as simple as it can be and still produce the simplest system that meets the user stories, right? Since there are a few things still being done differently each time (
, I think), it would seem that the process is not as simple as it could be. What are the forces that drive the process to be simple? Speed? Communication? --
If XP is simplified in some way, and yet still works, this would prove the assertion false. And this has happened. "Simplest Defined Process that has worked for more than one person" might be more accurate, not as fun to say maybe, but more true. XP IMHO isn't even close to the simplest process that can work -- but it might be the first time, someone has extolled Simplicity as a Value in a Defined Process, that at least is taking us in the right direction. --
By XP principles XP should not exist. Instead a methodology should arise as needed from a project. Anything else violates
(YAGNI) and TheSimpleThing
you aren't gonna need
a methodology to arise from a project, and wouldn't the simplest thing be to use one that already exists?
Use the same list of arguments XP uses against coding more than your current user story, using frameworks, etc. It's hard to imagine anything more BFUD than creating a methodology upfront without listening to a project as it is being created.
XP is a software development methodology. It's not appropriate to apply XP to itself, because XP is not software, and people aren't programmable.
I would not recommend creating a methodology on the fly unless you had experience with a wide variety of projects and people. Even then, I would start with an existing methodology. I've invented and adapted several methodologies and the results continue to surprise me. Creating a methodology is nothing like programming... not even close. (
has discussed this - I thought in
- but now I can't find the material.) --
If architecture on the fly works then why won't methodology on the fly work as well?
Use the same list of arguments XP uses against coding more than your current user story, using frameworks, etc. It's hard to imagine anything more BFUD than creating a methodology upfront without listening to a project as it is being created.
But XP wasn't created up front. They just did things that worked, stopped doing things that didn't, and then documented what worked.
How something was created isn't important.
I didn't say it was. I was refuting the statement that it was created up-front, because it wasn't.
When deciding to use it on a new project then it is BDUF.
Just like a framework may have been evolved, yet in XP you would not adopt it saying it should emerge as coding progresses.
I'm not any kind of authority on XP, but I don't think you're correct on that. As far as I know, nothing about XP precludes using existing frameworks that work. Otherwise C3 wouldn't have used
, or for that matter, the Smalltalk class library.
There's nothing about a methodology that exempts it from the same evolutionary rules.
There's nothing about a methodology that binds it by the same evolutionary rules either. XP is a methodology for developing software, not other methodologies. But even so, XP abode by those rules because it
It doesn't meet yagni or the simplest thing.
How does picking a methodology equate to big design, up-front or otherwise?
Clearly because it is not being generated by listening to the project. In XP you take one user story at a time and implement that. The methodology can be generated in the same way. It's BFUD when you do the opposite with code. It's the same for the methodology.
Nothing about XP precludes using existing frameworks that work. Otherwise C3 wouldn't have used
, or for that matter, the Smalltalk class library.
What about
questions whether you should put in logging before you really need it. Even if you take an extreme
position, that doesn't precude you from using a logging framework when the need does arise. That might be the
XP looks a whole lot like it was built up as a series of the simplest things that could possibly work--there isn't a lot of cruft there that doesn't directly relate to the task at hand. At the end of the day it might not be that simple, but that's because it attempts to help with a hard problem. You see the same thing with software systems.
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Andrea Johnson
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- M.M., Music Industry, University of Miami
- Worked for Chris Blackwell and Gloria Estefan
- Recordings as a songwriter include "His Song" (Summit Records); as lead vocalist, "More and More" and "Love's Ocean" (MonoMyth Media)
- Editor of Pop Music Theory (MonoMyth Media)
- A&R project manager for 45 commercial record productions with major and independent labels, including work for Elton John, Parliament-Funkadelic, the Gap Band, the Bar-Kays, Rick James, Sly and Robbie, Jack Kerouac, Kelly Joe Phelps, Fleetwood Mac, and MGM soundtracks
- Started the production company MonoMyth Media in 2008
- Developed a new record label model at Blackroom Records (2001) that emphasizes partnership between label and artist sharing fifty percent (50%) of the record proceeds
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"The cultural mix here is so exciting. I love the fact that I have students from all over the world. Their unique experiences add to the classroom. The way they perceive how business operates in their country—they bring that insight into our classes and that just expands the conversation."
"We have a huge population of Hispanic students, and I think having that sort understanding is important, because the Latin music industry is a completely different animal than the mainstream American market. When I worked with Gloria Estefan we had to deal with a lot of visas and getting wonderful performers from South America. There are a lot of other things that you wouldn't normally think about, like passports and international exchange rates and work visas."
"I have an undergrad degree in vocal performance, and I actually started in music business because I wanted to make sure that I understood my own contracts. I think that helps me the most, because we have a lot of dual majors. I can be empathetic with them and tell them today's business is really about being an entrepreneur. As a performer, you've got to take care of yourself, you've got to understand business. As much as they might not want to focus on accounting or law, at least I'm giving them a scope of the entire industry, so they can pick a good business manager. I think every student should take at least an intro to music business course. If you're an informed performer, think of how much further you can go."
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Digital and Nontraditional: Breaking Down Ouya, Steam Box, And Other New Wave Systems
What makes each of these systems unique, and what factors will result in their failure or success?
By: Chris Pereira January 15, 2013
Originally known as Project Fiona, the Razer Edge can be considered a subset of the Steam Box category. While its core is a high-powered Windows 8 tablet capable of playing games like Civilization V and Dishonored, going on Facebook, and streaming Netflix content, among other things, various docks can turn it into a laptop, portable game system (complete with analog sticks and buttons), or games console. It's as versatile a device as we've seen, and its power is comparable to that of a reasonably priced desktop computer.
Of course, getting all that in this form comes at a price: The low-end model costs $999, and that's before shelling out for any of its docks or controllers. Provided you've got the cash to afford one, it looks like a great way of getting a little of everything -- you can take it on the go as a tablet (with very limited battery life while playing serious games) to play a touch-enabled version of Civ V, then bring it home and plug it into your TV via an HDMI connection on one of the docks to play with a standard controller. With the ability to install Steam and Origin, the Edge can serve as the best possible Steam Box, one that can be used however and wherever you want. This malleability makes it unlike anything else on the market because it's just like everything on the market, all in one. This could be reason enough to swallow the high cost; owning one would be cheaper than buying a tablet, console, laptop, and handheld system separately, and it would keep your game collection centralized. Then again, those docks won't come cheap, and even something as simple as HDMI output can't be had without picking one up.
One drawback of its nature as a tablet is an inability to upgrade it. Its battery can thankfully be replaced, but as far as upgrading hardware components, that won't be possible as it presumably will be with any of the Steam Box systems discussed earlier. While it appears to be well-equipped to handle games out today and coming soon, it could easily be rendered outdated before long. That's one area where a standard computer or a Steam Boxes has the clear edge, as it will be possible to extend their life without ditching them altogether. This is a problem faced by any tablet, though, so it's hardly a reason to write the Edge off altogether, especially when it shows such promise.
Shield is perhaps the most surprising and unusual system of the bunch. It amounts to a controller with a 5-inch screen attached to it, almost like a DS with one big, multitouch screen and a more standard-sized controller. Android is the operating system of choice, and it will offer games through an Android marketplace. If it's not a difficult process, it's easy to foresee some of the same games that land on Ouya also ending up on the Shield, where they'd suddenly become portable without losing any fidelity or the use of a controller.
If people just want portable games, though, they can pick up a 3DS or Vita. What makes Shield most intriguing is its ability to stream Steam games from your computer over local Wi-Fi. Before getting too excited about the prospect, there's an important, disappointing disclaimer to be noted: This function's use will be greatly limited by a requirement that your computer be equipped with a Kepler-based Nvidia card (GTX 650 or GTX 660M and up). What really makes that a shame is the Shield features integrated HDMI output -- something missing from the Edge when it's without a dock sold separately -- meaning it could serve as an in-home portable Steam machine that doubles as a Steam Box of sorts.
Thanks to its included Tegra 4 chip (surpassing the Tegra 3 found in the Ouya), the Shield has the horsepower to play some serious games beyond those it gets from the Android marketplace. However, without knowing how much it's going to cost and whether there will be any serious support from game developers, it's difficult to be confident in its chances. We also don't know for sure what kind of developer support Ouya will see, but at least its price and hacker friendliness ensure it will have some sort of install base. Outside of its portability and limited support for streaming Steam games, Nvidia is in a difficult position with Shield.
If the PlayStation Vita can't make a significant splash in the market, will a potentially pricey Android system that can't replace the Android phone you might already own be able to do any better? If its price doesn't end up being too high, there could be some appeal in a portable game system that plays cheap or free-to-play Android games (especially for children), but a Tegra 4 system with a 720p screen is unlikely to come cheap. To be fair, it was only announced a week ago, so there is time yet for Nvidia to prove it knows what it's doing. For now, it's unclear that Shield stands much of a chance.
GameStick is easily Ouya's most direct competition. Just like Ouya, it's setting out to offer an open, Android gaming experience for TVs. It beats out Ouya in terms of price ($79 to $99) and size: GameStick is nothing more than a controller and a small, USB drive-sized stick you insert into your TV's HDMI input in order to play. Its controller resembles an expanded SNES controller with a pair of analog nubs and a slot in the bottom to store the GameStick itself. With Bluetooth support, the controller can be replaced with a controller of your choice, including an iOS/Android touchscreen device or mouse and keyboard, the former of which should make support of existing, touchscreen-based Android games all the easier.
Not only does it faces an uphill battle for the same reasons as Ouya, it's also less powerful than and has to compete with Ouya, which has already garnered a great deal of mind share when it comes to Android gaming consoles. The two will be released to the public during roughly the same window this spring, and while GameStick has already far exceeded its $100,000 goal on Kickstarter, its current total of $376,000 with 17 days to go is nowhere near the millions Ouya attracted. Judging by Kickstarter backers, its install base would also be less than 4,000, which is downright infinitesimal.
It's easy to say, even with GameStick getting what it needs from Kickstarter, that Ouya will crush it. But GameStick has its portability going for it. Having nothing more than a controller and a single dongle that plugs right into the TV (provided it has support for MHL) will be attractive to some, as will its $79 price. As with Ouya, it'll need developer support beyond those the team responsible for it has talked about, and that's far from a given. With such a small user base, it would need to piggyback on Ouya's shoulders for any developers to bother adding controller support to their Android games. Provided it's supported in any meaningful way, it should make for a nice, cheap option for playing games on a TV, albeit one Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo -- and even Ouya, Nvidia, and Razer -- won't have to worry a great deal about.
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ouyaPosted: Jan 22, 2013 12:00AM PST by beatcreator
the oyua looks awesome. i want one.
Remember the L600 / ApeXtreme / Phantom / ... ?Posted: Jan 18, 2013 12:00AM PST by Kroko
We already have to many platforms available.
Consoles, handhelds, desktop PCs, laptop PCs and, for people who appreciate to give the price of a PC for a giant walkman with built-in touchscreen, tablets... There simply is no room for something else. Especially if the newcomer does what current platforms already did for years, which is the case here.
In the last 20 years, we had like a lot of these "revolutionary" projects, and not a single one succeeded. In 2014, everyone might just have forgotten about these things, and the cycle will repeat it self. In 3~4 years, another project will appear and people will be like:
"Oh dude! You remember that thing? What was its name? Oyu? Youa?
- Err... Ouya? Oh yeah I remember. What happened to that poor **** ?"
In the unlikely event...Posted: Jan 16, 2013 12:00AM PST by nipsen
"One concern raised by Jetpack Joyride developer Halfbrick's Phil Larsen is the matter of trust. "I see the biggest problem being the trust in the user account," he told 1UP. "What this means is that Microsoft, Sony and to a lesser extent Nintendo have created a home for the user, a place where everything someone does is saved, backed up, logged, displayed and ultimately indestructible (pending some massive meltdown at HQ)."
...that HQ would melt down. Which has, just to our knowledge so far, happened at least twice at Sony. While xbl account hacks for xbl accounts with credit cards attached to them, and sales of those accounts for cheap credits, is close to becoming a business on it's own. Not in the least since MS's holding company carries the cost associated with unauthorized use of the credit cards.
Which in the end they can write off as nothing - since they're selling digital wares that in their budget does not really count as a loss.
In any case - nice hit-piece against digital consoles and rooted android devices, Pereira! I can tell you're a technical mastermind who knows everything there is to know about the difference between user-levels and "a wide open system that you can copy games unrestricted".
Like a Sony guy said once: "If it doesn't have our DRM, it's not worth shit!".
Not for mePosted: Jan 16, 2013 12:00AM PST by Hunterman328
The reason I don't buy or get excited about PS Minis or Xbox Indie games is that I'm at home in front of my TV where I'm able to play the "Real" games, instead of on the go somewhere where the best available games are smaller, quicker, and often less polished. Those latter games are great for phones and the situations where that's the best gaming possible. But once I get home and sit down in the big chair I don't want to settle for a mini experience.
InterestingPosted: Jan 16, 2013 12:00AM PST by Archintyeron
Can you define what exactly makes a game be a "Real" one?
replyPosted: Jan 16, 2013 12:00AM PST by Hunterman328
The games that you're happy to shell out $60 or more to play. Your classic home console in front of the TV gaming experience that you've been doing for years and love doing.
AgreedPosted: Jan 16, 2013 12:00AM PST by 6StringSamurai
I don't playh them because they are usually incredibly boring after 5 minutes.
"Real" & $60 don't mean lovePosted: Jan 16, 2013 12:00AM PST by ButterflyMAC
To begin, I'm not at all disproving your decision to hold, what are now considered AAA titles and the like, in high regard. A great host of such projects nowadays require a team the likes of Wal-Mart and millions of dollars. However the implication (or as it seems) is that length and monetary value make a game "real" (if Super Meat Boy was released on SNES, it would have been roughly $70--times/situations change). First I don't love shelling out $60 for the experience lol. More titles are able to justify themselves than not, but if the same game was even $10 less out the gate I'd go for that!
Second, length has no bearing on the value, considering there are a lot of those AAA titles that seem aloof as they only last 3 to 4 hours--trying to justify the experience with multiplayer modes. That being said, the ones you actually notice, are the ones you are most likely to least enjoy. Flying Hamster is a PS Mini I absolutely enjoy (was enjoyed on my PS3). It's short, however I'd gladly pay for it again just for the way the game ends its story. I consider it a real game.
The barrier of what's a mini-experience and what isn't is very obscure. I played Spectral Souls on one of my Android devices and that's a very engrossing, time consuming experience based on the RPG mechanic. Minecraft, whether the version is good or not, is also on mobile devices. That title definitely isn't a mini-experiece.
But I won't end on what may come off as a condesending position. I understand that you enjoy engrossing, rich and memorable experiences. So do I! But I emplore you to allow yourself to find those experiences on multiple platforms. I want nothing but for you to have even more "real" games you can pass down and share with others.
BTW - I've also had terrible experiences for $2.99
*I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of games went up. After all, the precedent is being set with pre-order bundles. How many consumers purchase the game for $70 and above at the notion of "extras"?
All of these...Posted: Jan 16, 2013 12:00AM PST by pashaveliki
... frankly carry a big whiff of the Phantom.
Also, can we take a moment to just bask in how amazing apt the name of that console really was,?


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By a margin of 34-22, five more than the minimum needed for a majority, senators adopted a new flag design that puts the Confederate battle emblem dominating the current flag onto equal footing with other flags that have flown over Georgia.
Beginning with Gov. Roy Barnes early in the day, supporters of doing away with the current banner and its Rebel emblem invoked their Christian faith over and over in an effort to convince wavering lawmakers of the righteousness of their cause.
"I believe Jesus would vote to change the flag to unite people," the governor told lawmakers during a 12-minute speech from the Senate podium, quoting from a letter he received from former Sen. Clint Day.
But senators fighting to save the present flag would not yield the moral high ground.
"I'm a Christian," said Sen. Joey Brush, R-Appling, who gave the most impassioned defense of the current flag. "I'm going to vote `no' because I believe deeply that it is the right thing to do."
Just six days after their House colleagues narrowly approved the change, senators passed the legislation that will shrink the current flag to a small icon that will stand alongside two other historical Georgia flags and two U.S. flags.
Most of the new flag will be occupied by the state seal in gold on a blue field.
Civil-rights advocates who have called for an economic boycott of Georgia if the legislature doesn't change the flag embraced the bill as a compromise even though it still retained that smaller version of the Confederate emblem they see as a symbol of slavery and racism.
But members of Southern heritage groups rejected the proposal as an insult to the memory of their ancestors who fought for the Confederacy.
While lawmakers on both sides argued that the flag vote was not a partisan issue, only six of the Senate's 24 Republicans voted for the change. Only four of the chamber's 32 Democrats opposed the bill.
Four of the six GOP "yes" votes came from senators representing suburban Atlanta districts, where large numbers of voters are not native Southerners.
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Small Fry, Big Hopes
Juvenile salmon found in the Garcia River watershed.
"It's definitely encouraging that this endangered fish is finding conditions suitable to allow its rearing all the way up into the headwaters of the watershed."
Jennifer Carah, Conservancy ecologist
Conservancy ecologist Jennifer Carah spotted juvenile coho salmon in the Pardaloe Creek of the Garcia River watershed. This is a first sighting of endangered coho on the creek, and it's a significant distance upstream from where the salmon have previously been seen. This sighting is a very positive indication of the improving health of the stream and the river.
"It's pretty exciting," said Carah. "It's definitely encouraging that this endangered fish is finding conditions suitable to allow its rearing all the way up into the headwaters of the watershed."
"We've also had nine other sightings in this watershed where salmon haven't been seen since the mid-'90s. This is very good news," Carah concluded.
Logging to Protect Salmon?
Located in the coastal mountain range of southwestern Mendocino County, the Garcia River Forest has been the site of an ongoing experiment to prove that sustainable timber production can go hand-in-hand with not just maintaining but actually improving the ecological health of the area.
The Conservancy is closely monitoring the experiment's results for the impact on the area's struggling coho salmon population, which, according to some sources, is a mere 1% of what it was in the 1940s.
"Coho salmon are listed as both state and federally endangered," said Carah. "They're particularly sensitive to water quality, requiring colder and cleaner waters than many other native salmon species. In that way they are sort of the 'canaries in the coal mine' in northern California coastal watersheds. If there are water quality problems, their numbers will reflect it."
Restoring the Streams by Fixing the Roads
The Conservancy and its partners, including The Conservation Fund, property owners in the area and the State Water Resources Control Board, have been hard at work to restore the watershed.
Deep in the forests, poorly planned logging roads are being upgraded as part of the river's rehabilitation. Built in the 1950s and 1960s, these roads run through the forest and transport sediment to rivers and streams. This fine sediment can smother salmon nests, and fill the pools that are vital to salmon rearing.
As the pools have filled in and become shallower, the streams have been forced to widen, resulting in water temperatures that are too warm for successful coho rearing. Repairing and decommissioning some of the roads will lead to a permanent reduction of the sediment and a deepening and cooling of the pools.
Another strategy for river rehabilitation is to build natural wood structures in the streams that encourage scour and create the deep pools that coho need to rear. Because many of the larger, older trees near the streams have been harvested, not much significant debris is left to fall into the waters and form these natural structures.
The team has begun building these structures, and they plan to eventually release logs and large tree debris into the river system to see if the structures will happen naturally.
Promising Results
According to Carah, the initial data coupled with this coho sighting is promising. The research indicates that there is now good winter and summer rearing habitat, with low temperatures in some areas of the watershed. But for the ecologists working in the field, it's sightings like Carah's that really validate the efforts.


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What are the denial effects of taking sleeping pills beside alcohol on a regular idea?
I have become concerned over my inclination to do this, primarily because the people who know I do it are concerned. I would love a doctors belief, because I obviously can't ask my own. I thieve 10mg of ambien with a couple margaritas. Experience would be a welcome source as well.
sounds close to you're becoming more tolerant to this. you might be an alcoholic.
You can die.
both are downers/depressants, so I assume some effects would be lowered heart rate and blood pressure, lower respiration rate, slower reflexes, etc. Also, respectively has to be filter out of your body in some mode or another, so there's that added stress on your liver and kidneys.
Oh, and alcohol dehydrates you, which could increase the effects of the sleeping pills.
Many sleeping pills are potentially addictive. Alcohol, most likely, increases the potential of becoming addictive. Not to mention the increased gloomy effects on the liver. I would suspect that increased depression of the CNS may make you more susceptible to blackouts and seizure. Moreover, if you were to drink too much, you may be at a greater risk of dying of alcohol poisoning or aspiration of your vomit.
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Beginning this month, seniors and low-income residents can get their taxes prepared for free at local senior centers.
Eastside Senior Center volunteers are scheduling appointments every 45 minutes on Tuesdays, from 9 a.m.-3:15 p.m. In case of a weather-related center closing, tax appointments will be rescheduled.
The center prepared tax returns for about 500 residents last year, said Debra Hershberger, Eastside senior director. The program is run through AARP, she said.
Burton Senior Center offers Tuesday tax preparation from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. No appointment is necessarily but be prepared to wait, advise center officials.
Even residents who don't normally file income tax returns may qualify for certain credits.
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After the end of our cocktail hour at Bouchon, we decided to cut our cake.
Our cake was vanilla with lemon curd and vanilla buttercream frosting. Our wedding dinner package at Bouchon included a two-tier cake with fresh floral decoration. In a series of emails to the events planner, I explained that we weren't terribly picky about the flowers on the cake: any type of bloom in coral/pink, green, or ivory/white would work. I also mentioned that we love the look of textured frosting. I sent along the following inspiration photograph.
Does it look at all familiar?
Image via The Knot / Cake by Michelle's Pâtisserie / Photo by SMS Photography
Little did I know that the Bouchon Bakery would copy the picture almost exactly! The events coordinator came up to us when we first arrived at Bouchon and apologized that the flowers were the wrong colors. Honestly, I didn't care at all. I know that details like the flowers on the cake seem so very important during the planning process. I get it. I've been there. I spent too much time on Pinterest looking at images of different cakes for inspiration. But my take on this is the following: on the big day, don't sweat the small stuff. And things like the cake? Small stuff, indeed.
Anyway, the cake was gorgeous – and it was absolutely delicious.
Mr. Mole and I had never cut a cake like this together before. I have to admit that we had some trouble, mainly because we were trying to cut through the cardboard base that separated the cake from the stand. Oops.
Once we figured that out, we succeeded in cutting a small and incredibly sloppy looking slice. I first fed a piece awkwardly to Mr. Mole, and then he fed it equally awkwardly to me.
Yum. I was pretty excited about the fact that I would get a full-sized piece, along with the scoop of vanilla bean ice cream that would accompany it, later.
After we finished feeding each other cake, our guests were seated for dinner. The waitstaff went around the room to explain the menu and take orders. For the first choice, guests had a choice of fennel and apple soup or mixed greens with red wine vinaigrette, warm goat cheese, and herbs. For the second choice, they could choose between sautéed salmon with melted leeks and beurre blanc; roasted chicken with caramelized savoy cabbage, forest mushrooms, and whole grain mustard jus; or prime flatiron steak with caramelized shallots, butter, and pommes puree. Mignardises—or small desserts like macarons, chocolate almonds, caramels, and brittle—then followed. The cake was to be served last.
As people began making their selections, we said goodbye to our photographer. Our six-hour package had unfortunately come to a close. (In hindsight, I would have added on some additional time!)
We then turned to our guests. Mr. Mole and I stood up from our seats and thanked everyone for coming and celebrating our lives together. My father then took the floor for the first speech of the night.
All photography in Las Vegas by Brian Saculles, unless otherwise noted.
Did you miss a Mole recap?
- We had a recap before the recaps
- We welcomed our families to Las Vegas
- We rode in limos and danced with lions
- We rehearsed at Stripburger
- I got ready, emotionally and physically
- I took some glamour shots
- Mr. Mole had his moment in the spotlight
- We took some pre-ceremony photos together
- We walked down the aisle and started our ceremony
- We got married!
- We took photos with family and cheered with strangers
- We welcomed our guests to Bouchon
Mrs. Mole
- Location:
- Los Angeles/Las Vegas
- Occupation:
- Test Prep Instructor
- Wedding Date:
- January 2012
- Venue:
- Wynn Las Vegas/Bouchon Bistro
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They've gone from Mad Men costars to man and wife!
Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel are married, PEOPLE confirms.
The two exchanged "I do"s during a hush-hush ceremony in California back in June, her rep tells PEOPLE.
This is the first marriage for Kartheiser, 35, and Bledel, 32, who first met on the set of Mad Men, on which they played a pair of lovers carrying on a doomed tryst.
That chemistry carried over off-screen, as the two later went public as a couple in October 2012 when they walked the red carpet at a photography event in New York City. Five months later, Kartheiser popped the question.
"They are such a yin and yang," costar Elisabeth Moss told PEOPLE last March. "I've known Vinny for 12 years and Alexis is just the sweetest. I've never seen Vincent like this. It is really cool."
For the most part, the duo have remained mum about their romance, amid the occasional glimpse of them out on a date night.
In an interview with Vulture in April, Kartheiser let slip a rare glimpse into their relationship, as he recounted working with Bledel on Mad Men.
"We were completely professional. We never saw each other out. We never – it was nothing, it was just work," said the actor, who recently put his compact Hollywood home on the market.
Guess now we know why.
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Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel Are Married
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Shearer West, University of Oxford, position statement
Jim Davis, University of Warwick, Artists and Actors in the Age of Romantic Sociability
Marcus Risdell, Curator, Garrick Club, Actor, painter, collector, photographer: Theatre and its collections
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Catherine Hindson, University of Bristol, Grangerizing Theatre History: Public Events, Stage Celebrity and Visual Culture
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David Mayer, University of Manchester, Trouble at t' millpond: an early film and a late-Victorian stage
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LEWISTOWN - Mifflin County 4-H has influenced many lives, but it also has built a family.
Tony, Todd and Trent Shade, all of Lewistown, make up three generations of Mifflin County 4-H'ers, and Todd's wife, Tracy, participated in the program in Juniata County. The family's involvement began in 1957, when the local extension agent at the time sent letters about 4-H to Tony and his brothers.
"I was 9 (years old) at the time," he said, and 4-H offered enrollment for children ages 10 to 20.
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Todd Shade, left, Trent Shade, middle, and Tony Shade have been raising and showing livestock for three generations in Mifflin County.
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Trent Shade, 11, works with one of his Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats July 17 at his home in Lewistown.
Since he received the letter a year early, Tony was allowed to join the club that year but couldn't participate fully until he turned 10.
"It was a rural activity" at that time, he said.
There was one all-encompassing livestock club, rather than the specialized clubs of today. Tony said he showed chickens, rabbits and pigs - all animals he raised on the family farm. 4-H was an extra-curricular activity that took Tony away from the farm for meetings, shows, trips and other events he wouldn't otherwise have had the opportunity to experience, he said.
When his son, Todd, was born, Tony wanted him to be comfortable around animals.
"When he came home from the hospital, (Todd) had a 4-H emblem sewn on his baby suit," Tony said.
During his childhood, Todd's family lived on the edge of Burnham and didn't have much land, he said. He raised rabbits, lambs and goats there, and he participated in wildlife and archery projects too.
By the time Todd was enrolled in 4-H, the program had changed the ages of enrollment to between 9 and18, but it was still a combined community club.
"But that was the beginning of the separation into animal clubs," he said.
Todd showed in 4-H until he was 18 years old, then competed in FFA for a few more years.
In fact, it was 4-H that brought him and his wife together - Todd met Tracy when he bought his first project goat from her family.
Their 11-year-old son, Trent, continues the family's tradition today.
"When Trent came along ... it was just natural for him to pick up and join," Todd said.
Trent cares for a backyard full of animals and shows his chickens, rabbits, goats, pigs and ducks. His favorites, he said, are the pigs.
"They're just calm," he said. "They're big, but if you tame them down, they're friendly forever."
Three pink- and black-spotted Hampshire/Yorkshire cross hogs eagerly greeted Trent as he walked into the barn. He said he spends time walking his pigs to prepare them for the show ring.
"The pigs will do what they wanna do, but you have to stay in control," he said. "Walking pigs builds muscles and keeps them tame."
Aside from cleaning pens, his least favorite chore, Trent said caring for his animals is fun ... except when it's raining or hot outside.
In addition to barnwork at home, Trent participates in educational events through 4-H, including Ag in the Classroom at the Snider Agriculture Arena at University Park and Kindergarten Awareness Day, held annually at the Mifflin County Youth Park in Reedsville.
The Shade men said the 4-H fair has changed throughout the years. They said shows are more competitive now, there are more buildings at the youth park, there is a larger variety of animals shown and projects encompass almost every hobby - not just livestock animals.
Even so, some things never change. They say 4-H still builds lifelong friendships, good memories and, in this case, families.
"Just get interested in 4-H," Trent said.
Today's exhibits at the Mifflin County Youth Fair include:
8 a.m. - Dairy/commercial and market goat show;
1 p.m. - Poultry breed show/poultry market show;
4 p.m. - Air rifle tournament;
5 p.m. - Archery tournament;
7 p.m. - 4-H/FFA dairy show;
8 p.m. - Demonstration by the Mifflin County 4-H Square Dancers.


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Strong heat during the dog days of summer requires strong refreshment. You might crack open the fridge and stand in front of it, or crack open a beer. But I suggest cracking your eyeball and your tastebuds on the startling refreshment of Chlodnik - a cold (and hot pink) Polish variation of Borscht that includes yogurt, sour cream, or in the version I make - buttermilk. This soup requires little cooking (only the beets are cooked) and just a bit of chopping.
Another thing I like about Chlodnik is that all the ingredients are in season right now, and most of them come in our CSA farm share box: including beets, dill, cucumber, radish, garlic scapes and green onion. Add some creamy fermented dairy and you've got lunch or a light dinner.
Many recipes I've seen include cooked beet tops with the roots, but so far I haven't made it this way. Pickle juice, pickled beet juice, or a "salt cucumber" are other things I've seen in recipes but haven't tried. You can sexy up the final presentation with garnishes like hard cooked eggs or chives, and there are also versions with shrimp, crayfish or even veal. I suggest a piece of toasted rye bread on the side, or a big soft pretzel.
3-4 medium size beets, cooked and peeled, chopped into 1/2" dice
1 cucumber, peeled and chopped into 1/2" dice
5-8 radishes (the sweet pink ones are really nice), cut in half and thinly sliced
1-2 green onions, thinly sliced
2 T. dill, chopped fine
1 garlic scape, chopped fine
3 C. buttermilk
1 t. salt
1 t. sugar
Stir ingredients together. Taste for seasoning. Serve on the patio in coffee mugs. Shot of ice cold vodka is optional.
NOTE: The Tasting Poland website says: "Chlodnik is a soup known both in Polish and Lithuanian cuisine. Actually, this Polish-Lithuanian soup is yet another kind of red borscht. Red beet juice is a basic ingredient of chlodnik, and that is why the soup has a beautiful pink color...This soup has a delicate sour-sweet taste. Sweetness originates from natural sugar content in beetroots, whereas addition of some sour milk, kefir or yoghurt brings a sour flavor about. Besides the beetroot, sour cucumbers and young beet leaves are common ingredients of a chlodnik soup. The fact that this Polish soup is dished up cold is an unique feature. Actually, a name of a soup derives from a word "chlod" that means coolness. As such, chlodnik is usually prepared and served during hot summers."


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Sarah Silverman makes a push for young Jews to visit their Bubbies and get them to vote Obama. And the best thing about it, she doesn't compromise her comedic voice or persona to do it - meaning it's very funny.
She even unintentionally insults an African American man in the segment. Brilliant. You can check the The Great Schlep for more information.


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Here's the cover story from Lee Jenkins in the SI preview: "Kevin Durant bows his head, raises his hand, and a franchise circles him like a maypole: teammates, of course, but also coaches and trainers, the general manager and assistant general manager, the scouting coordinator and communications director, folks from the video room and the equipment room, guys from the Development League affiliate in Tulsa and undrafted free agents who won't even make it that far. They try to reach the 6'9″ Durant's outstretched hand, but no one can, so they settle for the wrist or the elbow or the space around him. They are too tired to lift their arms for long. "One, two, three, family," Durant says, in a haggard breath. "Family," the group pants back, in unison. Then they walk together across the field, over the ditch and up the Hill for the last time."
SI previews the Northwest: "Will the Thunder get "the bends" from such a rapid ascent? Just a year ago they were a bottom-feeding team with 43 victories total in the previous two seasons, led by one-dimensional scorer Kevin Durant. Now they are mentioned as a contender for a conference crown and NBA GMs predict that Durant will win the MVP. Durant and Russell Westbrook were arguably the two best players on the U.S.' gold-medal-winning FIBA World Championship team, but for the Thunder to reach even the conference semis, someone else — James Harden? Serge Ibaka? — needs to leapfrog Jeff Green as a bona fide third piece in the puzzle."
ESPN the Mag partnered with Marvel to put out some pretty awesome pictures. Here's a Thunder one.
Kevin Durant says Jeff Green deserves an extension: "I hope they do," Durant said in an interview with FanHouse about Thunder officials working out a contract agreement with Green. "I think he's worked so hard. He deserves it. He's going to do a great job of bringing it every day and not worrying about it. Hopefully, it gets done."
Denver beat OKC 130-115 last night. Durant and Westbrook didn't play, but Jeff Green had 29, Byron Mullens 14, D.J. White 14 and James Harden 14 (on 12-14 free throws).
Pretty terrific stuff from Roundball Mining Company on players taking contested and open shots. You might be a bit surprised that in open shots, Kevin Durant isn't as great hitting as some of his counterparts. But Durant is on the high end of percent of contested shots made. Interesting.
Darnell Mayberry has KD's full quote on the SI cover: "Thabo and Nenad, people don't really get to talk about them too much for some odd reason, so it was good to have them on there with me," Durant said. "They're guys we have to have on this team, so I wanted everybody to know how important they are to us and how great of teammates they are. I was happy to have a chance to voice my opinion and I'm glad Sports Illustrated put them on the cover with me." Durant said he spoke with SI officials and told them if they didn't put Sefolosha and Krstic on the cover then they wouldn't be allowed to use Durant on the cover, either. "Basically, I had to say it like that," Durant confirmed. "Everybody knows about Jeff and Russell and James (Harden), but not too many people know about Nenad and Thabo and they're a big part of this team."


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Easy {DIY} advent candle display
Well, it is here folks.......the Christmas season!! Are you ready???!?!? Yeah, me either, but I am working on it! Today I am starting with a super easy rustic advent candle display.
As easy as it looks! Little terra cotta pots with pillar candles and some moss tucked in. Then my very talented husband drew the numbers on the pots and I painted them in with some black glossy model paint we had on hand.
I am happy with the results and look forward to lighting our first candle!
How do you countdown the 4 weeks of advent, any special traditions????
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Did she get 2 snow days?
Maybe..it looks bad on the weather channel. Hope all is ok Karin!
Damn, I'm good!
ok, so where does someone pick up a pair of snow pj's?
We all need awesome snow pjs.....
Karin, we miss you. We're keeping your journal active:)
The Northeast?
What about these? We could invoke our super human abilities:)
cute, but I think I like these...[url=http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Snow-leopard-Onesie-12/dp/B009CWJFQ2/ref=sr_1_37?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1361562945&sr=1-37&keywords=snow+pajamas]Amazon.com: Womens Snow leopard Onesie: Clothing[/url]
If they were only 2 piece..... Too hard to go to the bathroom at night:)
Here we go ha, ha, ha.
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