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Stay up wind. Don't breathe the smoke. Keep your head out of the smoke. Use good ventilation when working indoors. Use respirators when needed.
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What a great and useful post! Stupid people everywhere will owe you their lives. This thread needs some more important information.
Don't drop anvils on your foot. Dont put acetylene bombs in the toilet. Don't weld naked.
SM, I think that, jokes aside, the original post was very useful. Maybe it will make some people provide some better ventilation of the work areas.
Did you read the info in the link? There are plenty of enclosed spaces where hardsurfacing needs to be applied and til lately not much was required for safety gear. I would have given damn near anything for a supplied air respirator back when I was building up and hardsurfacing crusher rolls. Steve
Yes, but its preaching to the choir. For hobby welders, read the directions, don't breathe the fumes.
Can't agree with the last one. It would save a lot of money in tanning beds and vacations in tropical places. Just gather around folks... we'll take off our clothes and fire up the old buzzbox and save the air fare to Timbuktoo........to say nothing of the hotel costs.
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The original article has been around for a while, and has surfaced before. Anyone who believes that there are no potentially toxic side effects from arc welding operations is clueless.
Whose responsibility is it to point out to people that they are exposing themselves to carcinogens and toxic quantities of metal fumes? Is it the manufacturer's? The government's? The end-user, who should realize that inhaling anything other than straight up clean atmosphere is bad for you?
This is just like the tobacco litigation crap. There are means available to protect yourself, if you are willing to use them. You may even have to provide your own respirator, but which would you rather do? Pay for a respirator and cartridges, or pay for lung cancer, mesothelioma, or magnesium-lead-cadmium-arsenic poisoning?
I agree that you should not have to pay for your own protection, it should be provided by the employer. However, it is still up to you whether you wear it or not.
Yes, the manufacurer should be responsible for proper labeling and safety gear recomendations.
As a watchdog for irresponsible companies.
The employer should make sure safety warnings are read and understood and safety equipment is available.
The end-user,
Should read and understand safety warnings and use proper safety equipment.
who should realize
Dont weld naked? Why the hell not?!
Ive welded naked for nearly 30 yrs with no problems!!
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But of course! Safety MUST be observed.
"Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water,in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. He doesn't worry about what workout to do--- his rucksack weighs what it weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn't care 'how hard it is'; he knows he either wins or he dies. He doesn't go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the 'Cause.' Now, who wants to quit?"
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Well, duh. You can't weld when you're hopping. And like Burt Reynolds in that movie with Demi Moore, if you use enough Vaseline, the dingleberries just bounce off you and don't stick. But he liked Vaseline in his boots. Never tried that, but there's always Fridays............
For the idiots and the clueless, this stuff will kill you or at least change the quality of your retirement years. Safety can never be stressed too much. We've heard it all before. We've all been to thousands of safety meetings, going over the same ole hooray. And yet people end up with the nickname "Stumpy" and get sent home for going blind all the time.
What, we've invented everything, so lets close the invention office? We've heard all the safety stuff, so lets just shut up about it?
I think not.
Reading the replies to this post, I now remember why at least one of them is in my electronic round file.
Use that PPE, people, particularly ear protection while welding.
We have both too often seen the results on the 'bad old jobs' where safety was thought to be too expensive and too slow. We both know that proper safety takes training, information and commitment.
We all fall into the trap of thinking that we do not need hearing protection for a short little job, but all those short jobs add up and grinders (and ArcAir) in particular are much louder than we think Ear plugs have the added function of helping to keep sparks out of your ears. I often use a set or earplugs on a light plastic C frame that are easy to put on and off. I also have a very thin set of ear muffs which will fit under my standard welding mask or even a hardhat-mask combo as required on many big, heavy (and usually loud) jobs.
Safety glasses should be worn at ALL times.
Pilots say, 'Be thankful for luck, but don't count on it.'
Good luck and Worksafe.
Hearing/Ear protection for welding is primarily for keeping the hot stuff out of the ear canal. Hard to believe how much can come around to the inside of the mask when welding under a vehicle.
Sorry, Bill, but you've obviously never worked in a shipyard or other "high productivity" welding zone. Imagine 4 needleguns pounding away at paint on the opposite side of the tank that you are cladding in.
Hearing protection is essential for the noise. Only time you need it for sparks is if you're outta control.
Lizzie, I know from years of reading you here that you are a highly experienced weldor. Every man has their own preferences and peculiarities, even superstitions when it comes to working. Ear canal protection against dingleberries is one of mine. The two things, noise, and hot sparks are entirely different safety issues. And I do know how much hassle ear plugs can be, particularly when you're in an area that you NEED to hear stuff. But then there's all that 99% of needleguns (BTDT) and the 1% of what you really need to hear. My worst problems with earplugs was about once every year or two when I had a large pore in there that would become plugged, and then grow to a huge painful zit, then pop and drain, total time ........ one month.
From what I've read of you, I'd have no problems working with you, and maybe we met somewhere in another life.
I've been fortunate, I've never had a spark land in my ear. I often catch myself not wearing hearing protection (I grabbed plugs on way to boat) but was chatting with someone, climb into tank or to other side of a bulkhead, worked for a while, then got deafened when someone started their high noise evolution. I quickly drop my stinger, gun, torch, whatever and grab those earplugs!
My worst scars come from getting packed into a crack or crevice and having to carbon-arc. The spaces I get put into, there's nowhere for the dross to go but back on me. I've learned to arc with minimal air, just trying to drip it out of the joint very carefully.
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According to the Ayurveda (Indian Therapy), man is a combination of five basic elements known as Ether, Air, Earth, Water & Fire, which are again controlled by Tridoshas (Triple Faults), namely Watt (air), Pitt (acids), Kapha (coughs). The weakness or overpowering of any one of them, is the root cause of illnesses within the body, and sometimes these three forces are noted for their properties of neutral (Watt), positive (Pitt), and negative (Cough). The balancing of these three dominating tri-forces are the basis for the existence of the universe, and of the five basic elements discussed previously, Air & Water are neutral, Fire & Ether are positive, with Earth representing the negative force.
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Returning are knock back mitigation, which prepares the brakes for faster use based on lateral g-forces and possibly other inputs, and tip start, or automated starting (required by the pushbutton starter). Knockback mitigation might be the "Ready Alert Braking system."
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Summertime 2011, and "investigative journalist" Lee Fang of ThinkProgress has replaced the BP Spill in my blogging life. Fang's amateurish attempts to find scandal in oil commodities trading have become my new blog fodder.
Fang puts forward the half-baked theory that the evil Koch Brothers and other traders control world oil prices via speculation. His latest piece, "JP Morgan, Koch, Other Oil Traders May Buy Discounted Strategic Petroleum Reserve Oil And Simply Store It" continues the tradition of sloppy documentation and an almost total lack of understanding of business and commodities trading.
This latest offering is especially sweet, because a key source Fang cites in support of his thesis - that financial speculation drives the market price of oil much higher than it would otherwise be - in fact takes the exact opposite position.
Does he assume that his readers are too lazy to read and too stupid to understand his sources? Or is Lee Fang just in over his head?
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In December 2008, when oil prices crashed from record highes [sic] to $33 a barrel, speculators with the capability to store massive quantities of crude oil bought in bulk and stored the oil for later sale. As Fortune magazine reported, the rush to store oil instead of refining it pushed prices for consumers back up. Now, the contango — a market situation when the spot price is much lower than the future price of oil — is less significant than back in 2008.
Yes, it is less significant. The extraordinary circumstances of late 2008 do not exist in 2011. Oil crashed from $140 in July 2008 to $33 per barrel by that December. The futures market offered a $12/bbl profit to someone who could store oil for 12 months - a 30%+ profit. Now the contango is $3/bbl or less, so the profit on a $100 barrel is 3%, before accounting for carrying and storage costs. After those costs, buying oil to store it is probably a losing venture - especially if you're paying to store it offshore in a tanker.
The subtitle of the linked Fortune article (from 2008) suggests that oil speculation "really is making oil more expensive". That may have been true in the unprecedented market meltdown of late 2008, but it's certainly not true now. Writer Jon Birger would obviously agree with me:
Today's speculators [in late 2008] are actually buying oil. They're not merely flipping futures contracts without taking delivery - which is what hedge funds and commodities index funds were doing when they were in the crosshairs of Congress this summer. As I've argued before, investors who trade futures but never take delivery of actual oil can't have a material impact on oil prices because their trading affects neither supply nor demand.
[Emphasis added here and throughout.]
Fang has repeatedly railed against paper speculators as the culprits behind rising prices. The highlighted statement above directly refutes the idea that Fang and ThinkProgress have been pushing for months in their series of articles.
If trading moved the market in 2008 (I would argue instead that it stabilized a volatile market), that opportunity does not exist in 2011. The buyers of SPR oil are looking to store oil in tankers offshore, not to exploit the $3/bbl contango but because inventories are high and shore-based storage is full. (Which calls into question the urgency of this draw on our strategic reserve -- with high inventories, where is the "emergency"? But that's the topic of another diary...)
That Fortune article linked to another by Birger: "Hunting for Oil Villians" (from July 2008, when oil was $140/bbl), another direct refutation of Fang's "speculators drive the market" thesis.
My own view is that speculators can't materially impact prices if all they're doing is making bets on the direction of oil prices by trading futures and not taking delivery of actual oil - hoarding stuff that would otherwise go to consumers.
People don't fill up their tanks with futures contracts, and there's no evidence investors are putting more oil into storage as a bet on higher future prices.
In still another Fortune article from the previous week ("Don't Blame the Oil 'Speculators'"), Birger ripped a Congressional investigation into speculation that Progressives cheered:
"Make no mistake about it," U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said Monday while chairing a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. "Excessive speculation in commodity markets is having a devastating effect at the gas pump that is rippling through our entire economy."
Here's a suggestion: The next time a Congressional committee wants to hold a hearing on how "speculators" are driving up oil prices, each committee member should first be required to demonstrate - preferably in their opening remarks - a basic understanding of the mechanics of futures trading.
Even better, they should be required to explain in detail how it is that investors who never take delivery of a single barrel of crude - and thus never remove a drop of oil from the open market - are causing record high oil prices.
Lee Fang's "Progressive" readership may be willing to take the mere existence of a link as supporting evidence, but every once in a while it's good to click through and read those links. Rather than cherry-picking quotes that superficially support his argument, Fang might learn a thing or two about oil trading by actually reading the links he provides.
Postscript: The title of Fang's article refers to the "discounted" price of SPR oil. In fact, the SPR sale was an auction and as such reflected the market at that point in time. Obama's release of SPR oil did drive prices down, but very temporarily. Auction buyers were accepting the risk that the release would drive prices lower still; after all, that was the stated intent of Obama and the IEA. As it happens, the buyers will enjoy a quick profit on their purchases, since prices closed higher today than before the release was announced. Oil prices were only "discounted" by the Administration's attempt to tinker with the market; we've already seen how successful that was.
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Population (2010) 2,698 History The city of Cohasset, a place with a lot more land than people, spreads out along Jay Gould Lake (named for a fur trader who lived in the area in the 1870s), but it also abuts Pokegama Lake and the Mississippi River. The city is named after a place in Massachusetts,
Pleasant Hill
Population (2010) 966 History Brothers Belus and Egbert Jones were among the first Europeans to move into this part of the county, arriving in 1821 when Many Native Americans still lived in the area. They built a log cabin about four miles southeast of where Pleasant Hill is today and opened the county's first tavern.
Atlas is the oldest community in Pike County, founded in 1823 by Colonel William Ross, the same year it was chosen as the county seat, which was also the same year its fortunes peaked. The Ross family arrived here from Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1820 and ended up building their homes about where the village of
Pike County's first European resident, Ebenezer Franklin, built a home near present-day Rockport in 1820. For a while the area was known as Pecan Grove, because, well, there were a lot of pecan trees nearby. It's hard to imagine today, but Rockport was once a busy place, thanks to milling and water access that has
New Canton
Population (2010) 359 History Quincy founders John Wood and Willard Keyes pitched tents in this area when they first arrived from the East, but Charles T. Brewster, Hiram Smith, and Jesse Tittsworth get credited for starting the village in 1835. The government sold land in the township for $1.25 an acre; many early residents raised


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plymouth and I volunteer with a group called The Purrfect Catch, which does fostering and adoption for cats that are OK around people, and trap / fix / manage-in-place for ferals. We go and visit one of our local colonies once a week to feed them and keep an eye out for any developing health issues, or new cats that may need to be fixed / vaccinated / etc.
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I took the 99% Invisible Blog's RSS feed and syndicated it on LiveJournal: http://99pi-feed.livejournal.com/
Thus far, I haven't found any reason to disagree with Pete Stahl, which means voting YES on the whole set of propositions this year, which is, I think, the first time that's happened.
If you're considering noise cancelling headphones for commuting on our ridiculously loud trains around here, I recommend the QuietPoint ATH-ANC70, from Audio-Technica.
And hopefully it should be fully cross-posted (entries and comments) with LJ? I guess we'll see.
I have been using ljmigrate to periodically backup my journal, for years. But it seems like at some point, LJ changed something about how you access comments, such that the tool stopped finding them. (And it's long since been abandoned by its creator.) I didn't realize until today, because it's not throwing errors, but the last entry in the archive that has comments on it is from 8/14/12. The next time I backed up, none of the new entries got their comments attached. :-/
The Ask Me Another episode I was on (along with Farhad Manjoo, Danny Pudi, and Adam Savage) is live: Puzzlin' On The Dock Of The Bay. Hear me lose! :-)
I use Zyliss' classic rotary grater all the time for hard cheeses. It may be my single favorite kitchen gadget.
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I finally got around to listening to Rush's Clockwork Angels all the way through. I could really kick myself for not having found out about it until after the tour had passed through San Jose already.
The whole trio has clearly always been fascinated with the philosophical problems of Compatibilism -- how to make sense of free will, and notions of meaning and purpose, when our bodies are simply agglomerations of matter, subject to physical laws. You can hear it in "Free Will" (written by Neil Peart), and in "The Angel's Share" from Geddy Lee's solo album My Favourite Headache. Clockwork Angels is basically a rock-opera exposition of a steampunk society that believes in G*d as the Divine Watchmaker, with all events in life being predetermined and deserved. Except the protagonist gets subjected to a series of trials (much like Voltaire's Candide; there's even an "all is for the best" Leibnizian Optimism reference early in the album). Eventually he loses his faith, but finds something different, leading to the final track, "The Garden" (which is of course referencing Eden, but also drawing a contrast to the mechanized dystopia that's been left behind):
Yes, that. I could see this being adapted for an actual dramatized stage performance, though to work with the theme you might need some pretty expensive mechanical equipment. Possibly a movie / extended music video (with some good graphics for the airships, clockwork city, etc) would be easier... In any case, it kind of reminds me of the works artists in an earlier age created to honor religion -- Handel's Messiah, Bach's "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben", Mozart's Requiem, etc. It's a musical monument to faith -- in the sense of a grand work that commemorates something in the past, or someone who's died.
Since I've mentioned making these in recent FB posts, I thought I'd post the recipe.
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I've been stuck at the allergy clinic this morning longer than usual because I had a weird blood pressure spike. 150/95, when I've never seen it over about 130/85 before, and it's usually a little below 120/80. Probably nothing to worry about -- just over-caffeinated on top of my regular stress-load, and I was kind of running in a little late, so I may've been elevated because of that. Plus I was talking somewhat animatedly to the nurse when she started taking the pressure. But they want me to chill out in the waiting room and check it again in a bit, to make sure it's nothing to do with the shot.
Così Fan Tutte: SF Opera info, My ticket ad
My office suite has two light switches near its front entrance that control lights in the common area of the space.
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This image (taken by Ben Canales; and I saw it on Bad Astronomy) is the kind of thing I've always thought of in connection with Byron's "She walks in beauty, like the night." The awe inspiring beauty of the universe, and the beauty of my beloved, are close kin -- the macroverse rhyming with with the microverse.
Since these things tend to fly by on Facebook (where I posted this link earlier), I thought I'd put it here, as well: Xta and I took a hike by Crystal Springs Reservoir, from 92 down to the Las Pulgas Water Temple. Three panorama shots, and a number of other photos, can be found here. It was quite a warm day, so when I was originally uploading stuff I was kinda feeling icky with the sweat and sunblock. Happily, I am now all showered clean.
Some silly little brown bird (maybe a sparrow of some kind? we have hordes of them around our house, anyways, and they sometimes roost under the eaves out front and leave droppings on the hood of my car :-P ) just flew SMACK into the window of the office / guestroom, kinda wobbled / hovered for a sec, then flew back into the bushes on the other side of the walk. Hoshi and Keiun, who are sitting on the futon, have HUGE eyes now, and Keiun is chattering. "Do it again, daddy, do it again!"
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For anyone who attended our wedding, the amazing fruit that went into the apricot maple cake is now available at CJ Olson's in Sunnyvale. I got a ten pound flat yesterday. :-)
President: Barack Obama. I think he has taken much weaker positions in many negotitations than he could have, failing to grasp just how radical and intractable his opponents are. And I am mystified and disappointed by his Justice Department's failure to uproot Bush policies on torture and spying. But side from those two things, I think he's been an excellent president, and his record of achievments in his first term arguably is far longer and more impressive than Clinton's was in his first term. (For starters, Clinton failed at healthcare reform, and for all that the Affordable Care Act could stand to be improved, it passed, and will do tremendous good for millions of Americans.)
You've seen clips of Mitt Romney's big Michigan speech, right? The one where he's going on in a faux-emotional voice about how much he luhrvs Michigan, because "the trees are the right height", and he loves cars, and so on.
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A photo of this waterfall, in more or less this same condition, was part of how I originally pitched the idea of going to Spain for our honeymoon. As I recall, Xta asked me whether there would be any snow in Spain, so I went googling for photos with "Spain ice", "Spain snow", and "Spain winter"...
I'm pirating this from stuff I originally wrote up for our travel agent, then adding more detail that may be more of interest to friends, especially if you might be visiting some of the same cities...
Edited to Add: Xta added a few good thoughts down in the comments. Also, since I mentioned I was writing this for our agent, I should mention her: Laurie Valdez of Peak Travel was extremely helpful in planning the trip, even working through the last few itinerary details outside regular work hours so Xta and I could sit in our living room and talk things through with her directly rather than going back and forth in email. We found her through the Better World Club. (Which I also recommend in general -- it's like AAA, except not evil. AAA funds lobbying against public transit, cleaner cars, etc. If you join BWC, get our member number, I believe there's a referral credit.)
I think that about covers everything. :-)
Next time (probably at least ten years out, sigh), we want to get back to see the progress on Sagrada Familia, then visit the Euskal Herria, and San Sebastian and Bilbao -- there are no less than four of the World 50 up that way -- Mugaritz, Arzak, Martín Berasategui, and Asador Etxebarri -- as well as of course the Guggenheim Bilbao. Then maybe we could go back south and actually see Segovia and Toledo (and I could also add that I'm interested in getting to Salamanca and Zaragoza), then go down south for Seville, Cordova, Málaga, and Cadiz... And of course we still wouldn't have gotten to the northwesternmost area, with places like Gijón, and all of Galicia, which has its own dialect and culture (Gallego) like Catalunya... It turns out that Spain is kinda big.
I've finished annotating the photos from El Celler de Can Roca, which placed second on last year's World's 50 Best list. And I can see why.
I have finally finished writing in descriptions on photos from Espai Sucre, the "dessert restaurant" that Elizabeth Falkner told us we needed to try. It was awesome, and I can see why she's into it. We are kind of taking today "off" from running around seeing sights, and just chilling out at our friends' house in a suburb of Guadalajara, the city with too many As.
...at least to my mind, is "hace [tiempo]". (Incidentally, "tiempo" can translate as "time" or "weather". I'm thinking about time here, even though you also can ask "¿Qué tiempo hace?" to ask what the weather is.) You get things like: "¿Cuánto hace que está construyendo esta valla? Hace una semana que él lo construye." Literally, this translates to something like, "How much does it make, that he is building this fence? It makes one week that he builds it." Idiomatically, it's more like, "How long has it been since he started building the fence? It has been one week since he started constructing it."
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Best episode yet. Both the main challenge, and the secret ingredient elimination, had some very tight competition. Elizabeth emerged with a well-deserved victory; the other two folks in the top three had ingredients that were significantly easier to work with. (A cinnamon syrup is not that hard to work into a savory -- you can get that into a variety of European, Moroccan, or even Chinese dishes -- and for the root beer, heck, folks in the South braise or marinate meat in soda-based liquids all the time. If you haven't had Coca-Cola based bbq sauce, you don't know what you're missing.)
For this week's event, Elizabeth got ambitious, and made stuff with almost all the other chefs' ingredients, as well as replicating her own dishes. I believe her phrasing was, "We took the other ingredients and made better things with them." *g*
They're probably going to skip next week (because of Thanksgiving), and then do a double-header the week after. This week was actually less crowded than last, which surprised me. Maybe Falkner fans tend to be people for whom coming after work is convenient. I had a pleasant conversation with a Japanese woman who came here a few years ago to go to architecture school, and I finally got to meet Esther, who runs the main kitchen at Orson. And Elizabeth says she'll see what she can do about getting us a table at Tickets, and I sent her the list of evenings we could potentially go, so yay.( Pictures!Collapse )
So, yeah. That was awesome. And any of you who can should come next time. And if you're not watching the show, it has been, thus far, the best season of NIC that they've aired. (Season Two was pretty good, but I have never forgiven them for making such an egregiously stupid call at the end.) If you like Iron Chef at all, or the concept of competitive cooking, you should check it out. Tomorrow night: cooking mad libs. SRSLY.
The experience of planning a wedding is, apparently, very much like falling into a black hole. The passage of time slows asymptotically towards a halt, and you get stretched thin by unimaginably powerful tidal forces.
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One person expressed interest in the Magic Flute tickets (Sun Jun 24 at 2pm, preceded by lecture at 1pm) when I first advertised them, but then stopped responding to emails before we could arrange a transaction, so I guess those tickets are still available, at $215 for the pair.
I've just received my subscription package for the upcoming season, and looked through it to decide which ones I really want to go to, and which ones I'd be happy to sell. The tickets immediately available for sale are:
One change I am really disliking in OSX 10.7 is what they've done to iCal. It appears that it's no longer possible to get a view similar to GCal in which you have a small monthly calendar in the sidebar, and an arbitrary number of days displayed in the main body of the app by click-dragging across those days in the monthly calendar.
Now with more Roman numerals, and only about a hundred days until our wedding. Christa posted some silliness from our dinner conversation. (If you're unable to read it, well, how do you even know me without having gotten on her f-list? It's been seven years!)
I was trying to decide what to make for dinner, last night, and nothing was particularly catching my fancy, when I realized we had some slightly stale herbed breadsticks from some previous takeout, as well as the heels from a loaf of cheese bread we'd gotten from Whole Foods at least two weeks ago. It seemed like a shame to waste them, so I thought, what could I do with stale bread? The traditional way to rescue stale bread is to soak it in a custard and cook it. I suppose I could've gone with something like a savory french toast, and topped it with veggies. But instead, I cubed the bread (roughly 1-2cm), tossed it with some sauteed veggies (with some sweet balsamic and additional herbs and spices) and grated aged asiago, poured over the custard (five eggs thoroughly beaten, with a roughly equal volume of whole milk whisked in) and then baked the whole thing at 350F for 40 minutes. Basically a savory trifle, or a hybrid between a quiche and frittata (using the bread where we'd usually use potato).
Finally, six months after this, got around to grabbing lunch with Farhad Manjoo, Slate's tech writer and author of the excellent True Enough (which is in some ways a lengthier meditation on the problem articulated by Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit). Discussed everything from how automation of increasingly complicated symbolic tasks is changing the employment landscape for highly educated professionals, to politics and the various complex catastrophes our society seems to be setting itself up for, to general personal stuff and kidlets.


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Milwaukee brothers recruit John Goodman, other celebs for Funny or Die video
"The Big Lebowski's" Walter Sobchak is back doing what he does best – bowling. Well, kind of.
John Goodman, the actor who brought the unhinged bowling nut to life in the Coen Brothers cult comedy classic, makes a cameo in the latest Funny or Die bowling trick shots video from Milwaukee filmmaking brothers Nick and Jack Packard. »Read Full Article
Alchemist Theatre's 'King Lear' reigns as family drama
Early in Friday's opening-night performance of Alchemist Theatre's "King Lear," Bo Johnson's aged king called for the map demonstrating his intended division of Britain among his three daughters. Lear's attendants dutifully unfurled it — with the bottom at the top and the top at the bottom. When they tried to hang the map up, it kept falling down.
Director Leda Hoffmann confirmed during intermission that this sequence wasn't planned. But such a topsy-turvy world aptly illustrates the disorder that descends on Britain once the hot-tempered Lear banishes his beloved Cordelia, counting on his remaining two daughters to keep him and Britain safe. »Read Full Article
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Bush's Classic Hummus Made Easy with Pesto
I love hummus and I love it even more when it is made fresh! Did you know that it's now as easy as 1,2,3 to make your own fresh hummus at home? Bush's Beans has a handy new product called Hummus Made Easy that makes this all possible to do now. All you need is... Read More
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Family life is busy! Sometimes it's tricky to even get dinner on the table. At those times, I just need a simple solution. Well, now there is a solution. Barilla® Pronto™ is a a one pan, no boil, no drain solution. There is no need for pre-cooking meats or veggies in a separate pan, no... Read More
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Beef and Black Bean Fiesta Tacos
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Usually when you have a quesadilla, it is made with a flour tortilla. well, I decided to make one using corn tortillas. I love corn tortillas. I love the flavor and texture that they can have. I must say they worked great in this quesadilla. I love how crispy they can get after cooking them... Read More
Skillet Beef and Bean Burritos
These burritos are ready in 20 minutes and made on the stovetop. No oven needed, so they are perfect for summer. You only need a few ingredients and I love that one of those items in chili sauce. I always think of it a ketchup with a kick. It adds some sweetness and tang to... Read More
Southwest Chicken Bowl
I love buying a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store for a quick and easy dinner! Don't you? Well, today's recipe is a tasty one that involves that well love rotisserie chicken. It is perfect for summer! My family loved these tasty chicken bowls. Most of the flavor comes from a can of Bush's beautiful... Read More


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375 DAYS - 365 PHOTOS - Photo 197 taken April 14, 2011, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.
One year after an intense drinking match with some (far rougher than I) Inner Mongolian farmers I found myself staring at a desert I had photographed for China Daily. This time, free from the shackles of the propaganda machine, I was sent to create twelve short videos documenting the work of Shanghai Roots & Shoots program combating desertification known as The Million Tree Project.
This photo shows our translator Whitney Yang in a dried up field.
To see these videos or find out more about the Million Tree Project, click here.
375 DAYS - 365 PHOTOS is a series of photographs from the archives of jonahkessel.com. Photographs span over eight years and include locations from all around the world. They fall in no particular order, but their own.
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Playwrights: Sondheim, Lucas and René
Director: Robert Kelley
In this bittersweet tale of love and loneliness, two young strangers pass a Saturday night in their respective studio apartments dreaming of romance, unaware that they live just a floor apart. Featuring rare numbers by the undisputed master of modern Broadway musicals, Marry Me a Little shares the charming secrets of its emotionally conflicted characters through songs either written early in Sondheim's career or originally written for his groundbreaking musicals, including Follies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Anyone Can Whistle and A Little Night Music.
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Effective Observation in Social Work Practiceby Maureen O'Loughlin Steve O'Loughlin
Introducing the concept of observation to social work students can be a complex and challenging task. Assessing their observation skills and assignments can be even harder, especially if much of this work takes place implicitly, throughout their training and placements. This book will help students to grasp the fundamentals of social work observation, from the theories and methods to how these can be demonstrated in everyday practice. Skills are covered throughout, as well as effective observation work with different client groups and in different settings. The authors argue that an observant social worker is an effective and resilient one, and demonstrate this through case study material and research summaries.
Social Work with Children and Familiesby Maureen O'Loughlin Steve O'Loughlin
Social work with children and families is a challenging, complex but ultimately rewarding pathway for the student social worker. This fully-revised new edition aims to guide the student through the legislation, policy and law that surrounds social work with children and families, while providing a solid foundation for critical thinking. Vital skills and methods such as communication, observation and assessments are explored in detail while the ethical and value base of social work practice underpins the text. Recommendations from the Munro Review into Child Protection are referred to throughout.
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U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said he will step down from the Senate on Nov. 30, allowing Sen.-elect John Cornyn to finish out the term.
"My departure will mean that Sen.-elect Cornyn can join the Senate a month early," Gramm said Wednesday in a news release. "He will have the immediate use of this office and all its resources to help him build his staff and hit the ground running when the new Congress comes into session on Jan. 7."
Gov. Rick Perry will appoint Cornyn, a Republican, to finish Gramm's term, said Gene Acuna, a spokesman for the governor.
"That's the governor's intention," Acuna said.
Mike Ussery, chairman of the Randall County Republican Party, said he is proud that Gramm has represented Texas.
"I think that would be awfully nice, if that's what he wants to do," Ussery said about Gramm stepping down.
When Gramm stopped being a Democrat, he resigned from Congress and ran as a Republican, Ussery said.
"That's unlike most politicians," Ussery said,
In 1983, Gramm, who has served 25 years in Congress, resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives to run in a special election. He later ran successfully for the Senate.
Gramm's decision to step down is an opportunity for Cornyn to get his feet on the ground in Washington, said Tom Roller, chairman of the Potter County Republican Party.
"I think it's a good move; it's an unselfish move," Roller said.
Cornyn will do a good job, but he will have to work hard, Roller said.
"I think John Cornyn has got some big shoes to fill," Roller said.
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EMC is a family owned business that takes pride in their service and p... read more EMC is a family owned business that takes pride in their service and professional workmanship. Their mechanics are all Nationall Certified to the highest industry standards. They will recommend some services that need immediate attention and others to watch out for in the future. They stand behind their repairs with outstanding warrnaties as well. They are more than happy to only sell you parts and offer information on the best way to install them as well. I recently purchased a used car fom EMC for my daughter to drive, that is how much I trust in the quality of products and customer service that EMC provides.
This place is really bad. Do not take your car to these people at Mei... read more This place is really bad. Do not take your car to these people at Meineke Serene Ave Las Vegas NV. They will just cost you more money to get it done right somewhere else. This is the worst place to take your car in Las Vegas. Do not go there. I know when I'm being lied to. These people are serial liars, thieves. One made up story on top of the next.
We just took in our 2003 chevy trail in for tires. Also our front pads... read more We just took in our 2003 chevy trail in for tires. Also our front pads and rotors needed attention and we had them repaired. They were courteous and did an excellent job. I read previous negative reports online, but I believe in supporting our local retailers. I recommended my sister-in-law the next day to go to them when her car would not start. We knew the battery was check out okay from another place,and we thought maybe it was the alternator. We were informed that it was the starter motor that had an intermittent worn part and needed to be replace. Before proceeding on work, we check with a honda facility to compare prices. It turned out Tire Works was $300 less and guaranteed work for life, not 3 years as did honda. Not only that, they did find a bad cell in the battery,and replaced a new one for free because my sister was retired and on a limited budget. They exceeded our expectations! Its so easy to blame, criticize, and find fault with a service department, I should know,I've worked for a car dealership for over 20 yrs. I know how hard our service department worked, but no matter what, there were always people who want to find fault and want to be refunded there money because they just don't want to pay in the first place! It's usually people who complain most about almost everything in life are the ones to reply nasty comments, so I decided to send this review to shed a light that all bad reports might not be all true. This one is true, and we are completely satisfied!


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Losing Weight To Gain
When You Lose, What Do You Gain?
Lose inches, gain confidence.
Lose body fat, gain opportunity.
Lose self consciousness, gain a new lifestyle.
Sure, losing weight produces an incredible feeling. But it's just as important to pay attention to what you gain during a weight loss journey, too. Here is a list of the top 5 things you will gain when you lose weight…and hopefully all of them will truly make you smile:
1. Confidence
The number one thing that most people gain during a weight loss journey is confidence—confidence in themselves, in their bodies, in their overall lives. Losing weight doesn't just make you look great—it makes you feel great too. Ask any of our Hitch Fit transformations and we guarantee that every single one of them gained confidence.
2. Abs!
Need we say more? When you lose weight, your body will shed the fat that covers up that six pack we all want! Just take a look at one of our transformations, Burt. After only 4 months, Burt achieved that rock hard six pack that he had always wanted. Burt lost weight and gained a six pack.
3. Athletic Ability
Hitch Fit client Allison had always been a runner. In fact, she had competed in marathons before! But no matter how much she ran, she still didn't achieve the body that she wanted. Her transformation not only gave her the incredible body that she has today, but it also improved her athletic abilities tenfold! Want to get in athlete-shape? A weight loss transformation will definitely do the trick!
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When you drop a significant amount of weight and get the rockin' body you've always wanted, new and interesting opportunities will start coming your way that could open amazing doors. Just look at Elizabeth, one of our many successful transformations (and a mother of two!). When she achieved a new amazing body with Hitch Fit, she was able to compete as a WBFF Fitness model!
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A weight loss transformation isn't about a quick fix—it's about a lifestyle change. Losing weight (and learning how to do it properly) can truly teach you how to live a healthy lifestyle. The perfect example of this comes from Hitch Fit client (and bikini model) Chloe. After a few weeks, Chloe felt as if eating and exercising just became part of her lifestyle. "It just becomes something you do," she said in her transformation story. "Like always watching your favorite show on Thursday nights or brushing your teeth before you go to bed. At first, it seems like it involves so much planning, preparation and sacrifice, but after 12 weeks, it's just part of your normal routine."
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Measuring the body fat of students appears to be falling flat with some school administrators.
A state law goes into effect next month that regulates food and beverages in schools includes a provision for body mass index (BMI) and weight screening for students in four grade levels. BMI is a measure of body fat based on a person's height and weight.
But the law allows districts to seek a waiver from implementing screening programs and some school officials say they plan to do just that.
It comes down to how to best utilize time and financial resources for school administrators.
"If we were to do our own BMI testing we would need to contract with a service provider to come out and do the assessments. Therefore, this is yet another unfunded mandate. The time required for reporting of this information and getting the results out to parents would require more time for our already overworked office staff. Obesity is a national health care crisis, and correcting the problem should be within the public health realm and not public schools," Eastwood superintendent Brent Welker said in his weekly newsletter.
Northwood superintendent Greg Clark said he'll be recommending the board of education not implement a testing program.
A pledge by the state for a financial assistance package of up to $7.3 million will help Lake school officials proceed with the design of a new high school building and to recover some of the costs incurred while preparing a temporary replacement for the district's tornado-damaged school, Jim Witt, superintendent, said.
But the Lake administration and school board remain in negotiations with the district's insurance carrier over how much of the former high school building can be renovated.
School officials, Witt said, are of the opinion the entire building needs to be razed and replaced while the insurance company contends some classrooms and office space are salvageable pending further testing.
Witt, State Representative Randy Gardner, and State Senator Mark Wagoner hosted a press conference Wednesday at the Middle School – one day before the district's new school year began – to announce the aid from the state, which includes $4.8 million from the Ohio School Facilities Commission and up to $2.5 million through the Ohio Department of Education.
The OSFC funds will enable the board and administration to "get heavily into the design phase" of a new building, Witt said, adding Lake officials remain dedicated to having a new/renovated high school building open for the 2012-13 school year.
Columbia Gas of Ohio encourages its customers to protect themselves from individuals impersonating company employees or contractors.
In the wake of a customer on Elm Street, Toledo recently paying $200 to an individual posing as a Columbia Gas employee, a second such scam has been reported. This time a Columbia Gas customer on Starr Avenue in Oregon reportedly paid $242 to an individual posing as a Columbia Gas representative.
To avoid becoming a victim, Columbia offers these suggestions:
• All Columbia employees and contractors carry identification cards bearing their name, photo and identification number and will be happy to show them.
• Columbia Gas collectors do not take cash or check payments at the door. Payments can only be made over the phone or at an approved payment center. Columbia Gas does not work collections on the weekends.
• Do not allow entry into your home to people who claim to offer a Columbia refund. Columbia employees never deliver cash refunds or "rebates" to customers homes. All account transactions are handled through the mail or at a Columbia Gas customer office.
Residents who are not sure about an employee's identification, or to verify work to be done in or around one's home, call Columbia's emergency response telephone number at 800-344-4077. Representatives are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
If a person claiming to be a Columbia employee does not have proper identification, call the police and then call Columbia at 800-344-4077. Be prepared to give a detailed description of the individual and their vehicle.
We have all seen the misshaped, strange looking trees that have been trimmed because they intrude power lines.
Because they remind Toledo Area Metroparks land management supervisor Tim Gallaher of similar-shaped sculptured Japanese trees, he nicknames those mutilated trees by the roadside "Bonsai" trees.
The only problem is, after they are cut by the utility companies, the Metroparks have to deal with what is left. Gallaher says most die because they have been severely stressed by the trimming, and now they have to be replaced around the perimeter of the park.
"It would make a lot more sense to remove them," Gallaher said. "An option would be to plant some tree, like a dogwood, that would only grow so high that could create that buffer then we wouldn't have that cyclical trimming."
As a result, much of Pearson's perimeter is being cleared, as are certain areas inside the park where dead ash trees, killed by the emerald ash borer beetle, have been removed. There is also evidence of damage by other invasive species.
"It's not just the perimeter, but from the interior of the park in that direction, and then we'll have a much more in depth plan for re-vegetating it from the trail system to the lake," Gallaher said. "It's two-fold. This park is very stressed around the perimeter. You know, we want to get natives back in there and/or, if we don't use natives local to this area, we want to create some sort of buffer system between the trails and the road just for the park experience."
The villages of Genoa and Elmore will help pay for the closing of a coal-fired power plant in southern Ohio but it should not affect their daily electric rates, village officials said.
The two municipalities must pay a share of the closing costs ($55,000 for Genoa over three years and $49,500 for Elmore) for the Richard H. Gorsuch Generating Station in Marietta because of their affiliation with American Municipal Power Inc. Both of the western Ottawa County villages have received their electricity from AMP-Ohio for years.
However, in recent months, AMP-Ohio has been in discussions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio EPA over repeated plant violations in conjunction with the Clean Air Act's New Source Review. The problems date back to 1981.
The entities recently agreed to a Dec. 31, 2012 closing date. But operations will cease at the plant by Dec. 15, 2010. The plan is to operate all four boilers during summer peak season and then reduce to two boilers by mid-December, according to an AMP-Ohio press release.
"Harry Truman was President when this plant first began generating electricity," AMP President/CEO Marc Gerken said in the release. "AMP acquired partial ownership in 1988, and since that time the plant has been a reliable source of power for our participating members. We are very appreciative of the Gorsuch staff and the dedication they have shown through the years. Unfortunately, the current situation makes retiring the plant the only reasonable business decision, and the decision that makes the most sense for our participants."
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