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Woman reports shoulder pain after crashJanuary 02,2013SUNDERLAND — A local woman was injured in a car crash on Monday morning on North Road, according to the Vermont State Police.
Tina Gabert, 46, of Sunderland, was driving north on North Road, near Cobbs Road, in her 2002 Subaru Impreza around 8 a.m. on Monday when she lost control and drove off the road, according to Trooper Justin Walker of the Vermont State Police.
Gabert told troopers that as she crested a hill, she began to lose traction on the snow- and slush-covered road. She said she believed the car may also have hit black ice.
The Impreza crossed into the southbound lane, came back into the northbound lane, went off the shoulder and over a culvert, Walker said.
Gabert reported having shoulder pain and was taken to the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington as a precautionary measure.
While road conditions were a factor, troopers said Gabert also had the wrong tires on the vehicle. It had summer tires, which have poor traction in snowy conditions, Walker said.
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I was looking at Digi01's Turbot and thinking how cool it was to have a robot that could move and react to stimuli without any software. Some poking around showed me that the original Turbot was a creation of Mark Tilden, the inventor or BEAM robotics.
BEAM stands for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics. It is a style of robot making that takes it's inspiration from biology. Most BEAM robots are controlled with simple analog circuitry rather than a microcontroller.

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A simple solution, yet consistently ignored.
Reverse disease? Cut health care costs by 70-80%?
Could there really be an easy way to do these things?
A compelling new film, Forks Over Knives, has taken on the bold mission of shining a big bright light on the simple truth that eating a plant-based diet and rejecting animal-based and processed foods can forever change our experience of disease. Armed with two world-renowned men of science, Dr. T. Colin Campbell (The China Study) and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, as the film's primary messengers, the facts are very difficult to ignore.
In addition to following the paths of these two pioneering scientists, the film's real life case studies are equally powerful and persuasive. One man, Joey Aucoin, comes to the study with high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes. At risk for heart attack and stroke, he was taking nine pills and two injections every day. Aucoin switched to a plant-based diet and by the end of the study, had reduced his cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar, lost weight, and was able to stop using all nine medications! Even the film's writer & director, Lee Fulkerson, became one of the case studies and experienced first-hand the power of eating a plant-based diet. In fact, the film crew's entire core team, including the music composer, Ramon Balcazar (& his entire family!) were so affected by the film's information that they switched to a plant-based diet.
"One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive." ~ Forks Over Knives
Nutritional scientist T. Colin Campbell and the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn both grew up on dairy farms with nature's "perfect food" (for calves, they say). In their studies and travels, both discovered a relationship between chronic disease and the amount of animal-based protein consumed. The findings of Dr. Campbell's famous China Study revealed that people who consumed the most animal protein also got the most chronic diseases and those who consumed a plant-based diet were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. Independently these men began their research paths and together now, they seek to get the truth out to everyone.
Reviews from people who have attended the advanced screenings have been extremely positive, noting that instead of being a science lesson or a dry docu-drama, it is a well-done film with very interesting and easy-to-relate-to life stories.
So what will you choose? To change what's on the end of your fork or to potentially be on the other end of the knife?
The movie is due to be released in theaters in March 2011. Until then you can watch for an advanced screening in your area and follow Forks Over Knives on Facebook and Twitter. You can also sign up for updates on the film's Web site.


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Liars, Hypocrites and Crybabies
David Runciman is very good, in the current LRB, on Blair, Brown, etc.
David Runciman is very good, in the current LRB, on Blair, Brown, etc.
To first order, he's just pointing out that the electors get the PM they deserve, the bastards. But very entertaining. I suspect I'd have voted for Gore rather than W had I been American; I really couldn't vote for a chap who's a dried-out alcy AND a born-again Xian. (Except when his opponent is John Kerry.)↓ Quote | Posted 29 October, 2006, 12:35 pm
I predict that the forthcoming history of hypocracy in historical thought will be an inordinately long book, but unputdownable.↓ Quote | Posted 30 October, 2006, 11:26 am
Is Hypocracy "rule by the hypocrites", or just a typo?↓ Quote | Posted 30 October, 2006, 11:34 am
It's a typo. It's "rule by the hippos".↓ Quote | Posted 31 October, 2006, 12:03 am
Thinking of hippos, I can recommend Hippos Go Berserk very highly, especially if you want to read something to a Very Small Child.↓ Quote | Posted 31 October, 2006, 9:22 am
I've only just got round to reading it, and I think he's mistaken in a way no one's commented on yet. He's interested in the 'national mood' following Diana's death, but a lot of people (most of the commenters here I suspect, myself, and Francis Wheen at great length in 'How Mumbo-Jumbo …') thought it was all BS – there was no 'national mood'. True Diana's brother made a speech which moved those who showed up at the funeral, but that's like saying Hitler inspired those in the Bierkellers, that's a different thing for 'everybody'. I don't think there is such an animal as 'the British electorate'; if we all think the same thing, why bother with the expense of elections, why not just sample say three of us? Polls *collectively* are of some use; that doesn't mean that there aren't junk polls, and that some poll questions are fatuous – human qualities are certainly that. The statements 'The British public are fooled. David Runciman is not fooled' are not compatible with 'David Runciman is a member of the British public' He should realise that he has gone wrong somewhere. He also seems to be unaware of Brad DeLong and the reality based community. Blair is of the other lot; their time is over.↓ Quote | Posted 31 October, 2006, 10:51 am


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A search for a missing father and son. A find that could rewrite human history. Sam and Remi Fargo aren't about to give up on either.
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Congressman visits BOCES
Gibson said, "It is four and a half pages. It's one of the most accessible, simple, most common sense pieces of legislation that I've read since I've been down there. It says basically two things. One is that if you're a company that's going to participate in hydraulic fracturing, that you're going to disclose your chemicals, that's a base-line requirement, I would think.
"And the second thing is that you're going to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act. And I say it is common sense because if you talk to anyone on the street, they would expect that would already be the case, but it's not."
He said, "I think it is needed legislation to provide a floor or baseline," but the states could go beyond that if they desired, based on their own situations.
He added, "Regardless of whether you think we should be executing hydraulic fracturing or not, one thing that everybody agrees on is if it's going to be done, it's going to be done safely."


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Arielle, a graduate of Ithaca College, works for The Vanguard Group. Cody, a graduate of UC Santa Barbara, is a lawyer for a Center City firm
The couple met through Philadelphia's young Jewish professional's community and live together in Center City. They recently had the opportunity to travel to Israel with Jewish Federation's 360 couples' trip.
Arielle's sister, Molly, and Cody's sister, Rachel, also share in the joy of this simcha.
A summer 2015 wedding is planned.
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For some reason paleontology news this week seems to cover the whole sensory gamut. First off, there's a new discovery in China of a Mesozoic mammal named Liaoconodon hui that adds more transitional evidence regarding the evolution of the reptilian lower jaw into the middle ear bones found in mammals. The research was done by paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The guys over at Witmer Lab write about being involved in a study of the evolution of olfaction from small theropod dinosaurs to modern birds. The olfactory bulb is the part of the brain that detects odor, and it seems some modern birds inherited a pretty good sense of smell from their dinosaurian ancestors. Here's some video about it from the Witmer Lab site.
In the seeing department Jennifer Viegas over at Discovery News has a slide show presentation (with text) about a new study appearing in Science that suggests some dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles were nocturnal. The study is based on the sceleral ring and larger eye sockets found in the fossil remains of some prehistoric animals. Larry Witmer also mentions the subject on his blog (it's located below the olfaction post).
Touch and taste – the last two senses - are covered in a new study of lice evolution at the University of Illinois-Urbana, and with the discovery of a new, toothy dinosaur in New Mexico.
Kevin Johnson, an ornithologist at the UI-Urbana, proposes that since lice seem to specialize in the way they annoy their host animals, it's likely that lice that cause today's birds to nit-pick, scratch and preen, are descended from lice that pestered feathered dinosaurs. You can read about Johnson's research here.
Courtesy Mark RyanLastly, Daemonosaurus chauliodus ("evil spirit reptile with outstanding teeth") is a new carnivorous dinosaur species found recently at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. The buck-toothed theropod more-than-likely feasted on all the other creatures it shared its environment with 200 million years ago during the Triassic (yes, I know I'm probably stretching the taste sensory categorization here but I needed something). The discovery of Daemonosaurus in a block of Coelophysis remains is important because it alters scientific thought on the early history of carnivorous dinosaurs. The study was led by vertebrate paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues of the Smithsonian and appears in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. You can also read about it at Dinosaur Tracking.
We often hear about gravity being different on other planets--the Moon is an oft-cited example of how weaker gravity makes you weigh less. But did you know that gravity actually varies on our own planet?
There's this thing called a geoid. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi story, but it's quite real. The geoid is a map of the Earth's gravitational field. And since gravity impacts things like sea level and currents, it's important to understand how it varies.
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Luckily, those crafty Europeans came up with the GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) satellite, which has painted the clearest picture yet of the geoid. With its variations exaggerated, it makes the Earth look like a giant potato. The variations come from unevenness in earth's mass and shape. Its wobbly surface represents what shape the oceans would take without current, wind, or tide to move them. The satellite also studies ocean circulation and the movement of ice.
This information is particularly important to understanding sea level rise. Scientists predict that, on average, sea level will rise 3 feet overall by 2100. But those three feet will be distributed differently throughout the world, and studying that distribution is pretty complicated. There's the impact of the geoid and of gravity from large ice sheets, but winds and water circulation, water temperature, salinity, meltwater from ice sheets, rainwater runoff, and land changes all leave their marks.
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Some of these changes redistribute water (ex. geoid), others add to the volume of seawater (ex. temperature increases), and still others modify the land's height relative to the water (ex. land changes, such as sedimentation and oil extraction). Some changes leave a lasting impact (ex. meltwater from glaciers), while others can vary by the hour or the season (winds).
By developing this most-accurate-to-date geoid and ocean circulation model, researchers have created a picture of sea level at its natural state and modeled some of the processes that alter that state, so that we have a reference point for understanding many of the less-defined factors in sea level rise. And that, my friends, will help us better anticipate and plan for the changes ahead.
Plus it's just kinda cool to see how the Earth is really shaped, huh?
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Yesterday NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed a final burn with its main engines which effectively ended the life of NASA's most traveled comet hunter. Called a "burn to depletion", the procedure will help to answer the question of how much fuel Stardust had left in its tank. While it sounds like running your snow blower until it runs out of gas to store it for the summer, this was an important test as no one has invented an entirely reliable fuel gauge for spacecraft. Part of the process of approximating fuel use is looking at the history of the vehicle's flight and how many times and for how long its rocket motors have fired.
Stardust's burn to depletion is expected to be useful especially because the spacecraft has been proverbially "running on empty" for a long time. Stardust has been in space for over 11 years and has flown past an asteroid (Annefrank), collected particle samples from a comet (Wild 2) and returned them to Earth in a sample return capsule in January 2006. Then, after these primary objectives, it was then re-tasked to perform a flyby of comet Tempel 1, a task it completed last month.
Before the burn to depletion Stardust pointed its antenna at Earth and sent information on the burn as it happened. The command ordering the rockets to fire was sent for 45 minutes, but the burn lasted just 146 seconds. 20 minutes after the engines burned out, Stardust's computer commanded its transmitters to turn off. Without fuel to power the spacecraft's attitude control system, Stardust's solar panels will not remain pointed at the sun. When this occurs, the spacecraft's batteries are expected to drain of power and deplete within hours.
Its a fitting end to a very impressive mission for NASA.
The crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery recently received a "wake-up call" from "Captain Kirk" of the "Star Trek" series. NASA piped in the opening theme from the original "Star Trek" series. It came complete with a custom monologue read by William Shatner, who played the legendary character in the series. However, the quest is a bittersweet one for the team. This is the final trip for Discovery. Source of article - Space shuttle crew gets wake-up call from Captain Kirk by Newsytype.com.
Declaring 'These are the voyages of the Shuttle Discovery'
CNN states that an interesting wake-up call from Earth came to those on the Space Shuttle Discovery from the International Space Station. Discovery got a Houston broadcast that had William Shatner reading the "Star Trek" television series opening monologue at 3:23 a.m. on March 7. "Captain Kirk" read the monologue with different words added to it. The original songs still played:
"Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30 year mission: to seek out new science. To build new outposts. To bring nations together in the final frontier. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before."
NASA tune contest used
The "wake up call" for astronauts is a song picked by the public. A NASA tune competition is done to pick this. Almost every NASA quest in history has had a "wake up" tune played. Generally the NASA officials or family members of the astronauts picked the songs out though. Original music was submitted while people could also vote on popular songs when the voting started many years back. Versions of the "Star Trek" monologue were submitted by bother William Shatner and Patrick Stewart while the "Star Trek" theme has been really important to many. There has already been voting for the next quest. On April 19, the STS-134 will launch.
The final Discovery mission
This is the last quest in space for the Shuttle Discovery. Discovery and the team of Shuttle Quest STS-133 will land at Cape Canaveral on Wed, March 9, and the spacecraft can be retired. Two final shuttle missions are scheduled for April and July, in accordance with the Washington Times, that could be the final flights of the Endeavour and the Atlantis, respectively. While NASA works on other spacecrafts, the space flight will only be done with "space ferry" crafts that private businesses build and operate after the shuttles are done.
NASA Song Contest
History of NASA Wake up Songs
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Buzzketeers, it's a big problem.
A ginormous, hulking, frozen, messy problem.
See, here in St. Paul, we've had a very snowy winter. (As of today, it has been the seventh snowiest winter on record. And the snow season isn't over yet.) When the City plows the streets, they have to put the snow somewhere. And one of the places they put it is the parking lot of the St. Paul Saints Midway Stadium, on Energy Park Drive.
The result?
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The 550-spot parking lot is completely -- and I mean COMPLETELY -- covered with snow. It's 30, even 50, feet deep. And it goes from Energy Park Drive north to the train tracks, and from the stadium west to the end of the property. It's impressive, peeps.
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And here's the problem, friends: the St. Paul Saints season opener is May 8th. And there's no way all this snow is going to melt before then. Baseball needs its parking lot back.
So how can we get rid of the snow? Trucking it away isn't an option, and minimal use of fossil fuels is a good thing. Buzzers, it's time to go all Mythbusters here and submit your ideas. If you've got a good one, you might get to see it in action.
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMDThe following is from a listserv I am on that I thought was interesting.
On February 14, NASA's Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel 1) mission will encounter Comet Tempel 1, providing a unique opportunity to measure the dust properties of two separate comets (Wild 2 and Tempel 1) with the same instrument for accurate data comparison. The encounter will also provide a comparison between two observations of a single comet, Tempel 1, taken before and after a single orbital pass around the sun.
NASA's Stardust spacecraft will fly within 200 kilometers (about 124 miles) of Comet Tempel 1 on February 14, 2011, at about 8:36 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
NASA's Deep Impact mission observed Comet Tempel 1 in the summer of 2005, as the comet was inbound toward the Sun on its approximately 5.5-year orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Deep Impact's primary mission was to deliver a special impactor spacecraft into the path of Comet Tempel 1. The spacecraft -- and many ground-based observers -- observed the impact and the ejected material. Scientists were surprised the cloud was composed of a fine, powdery material, not the expected water, ice, and dirt. The spacecraft did find the first evidence of surface ice on the surface of a comet instead of just inside a comet.
The Stardust-NExT mission is a low-cost use of an in-flight spacecraft redirected to a new target. Prior to its tasking for Tempel 1, the Stardust spacecraft successfully flew through the cloud of dust that surrounds the nucleus of comet Wild 2 in Jan. 2004. The particles of cometary material and gathered during this flyby were then returned to Earth aboard a sample return capsule which landed in the Utah desert in January 2006.
The monthly JPL "What's Up" video podcast (above) features the January Quadrantids, which is a meteor shower that peaks in the morning hours of Tuesday January 4th. It's a good night with no moon, and while the shower will look best for our friends in Europe, if it's clear and you are awake, you should be able to spot it between and below the big and little dippers.
I thought it interesting that the meteor shower was named after a constellation that has been demoted. You're not alone Pluto - that International Astronomical Union is a cold-hearted bunch.
Generally interested in meteor showers? Here's a meteor shower calendar.
Courtesy xkcdThe current Mars rovers are, not surprisingly, still on Mars. The surprising bit is that one, Opportunity, is still operating, nearly seven years after landing. The other, Spirit, is stuck, possibly in a hibernation mode, and could "wake up" during the Martian summer solstice , this coming March. It's pretty incredible that these rovers operated so long after they landed – in Opportunity's case 20 times longer and counting.
And, orbiting above the rovers is the Odyssey spacecraft, which last week broke the record for longest-working spacecraft at Mars. The previous record was set by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which orbited Mars from 1997 to 2006.
And amidst all this history, a little under a year from now, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity will be launched and is scheduled to land in August 2012. Curiosity is also a rover, but is larger than either Opportunity or Spirit. Its mission is to assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life.
Courtesy splorpGather 'round, Buzzketeers, so that I might tell you all a story.
"What story," you ask?
Is it the one about the little blond girl who is killed by bears for breaking and entering? No, not that story.
Is it the one about the boy who killed an acromegalic man by cutting down the tree that held his fort? No, it's not that story either.
Could it be the story about the little Blood member who couldn't tell the difference between a wolf and her own grandmother, and was subsequently devoured by that very wolf? Oh, I wish it were, but it's not that story.
No, the story I have for you all is even more enduring and horrifying than all of those. It is the story of biodiversity, and how it will freaking destroy you if you mess with it.
Sure, snort dismissively if you must, but you'll soon be singing a different tune. A sad tune about how everything you ever knew and loved has been taken away from you.
"But how can a concept—and a boring concept like "biodiversity"—hurt me?" Ah, see, but what you don't know can hurt you. You're like the little blond girl, screwing around in a house that belongs to bears. She might not have known that it was a bear house (although it's hard to imagine that she could have missed all the signs), and yet she was destroyed. So listen up.
You see, all biodiversity is is the degree of variation of living things in an ecosystem. Lots of biodiversity in an ecosystem, lots of different things living there. Little biodiversity in an ecosystem, few species living there. And biodiversity includes all forms of life, from your vampire bats and hagfish, to your streptococcus and your slime molds.
At the moment, biodiversity on the planet is on its way down. Lots of the things we do these days make life harder for other species, until there are very few or none of them left. And, sure, no one wants to see a panda get hit by a train, or watch an eagle being run over by road grading equipment, but who cares about the smaller, grosser stuff, like algae or germy things? We could probably do with a few less of those, right? Right?
Wrong, Goldilocks! An attitude like that is bound to get you turned into bear meat.
And here's where my story begins (again)…
Once upon a time, long, long ago, everything died.
Well, not everything-everything, but pretty well near everything. It was called "the Permian extinction" (we've talked about it on Buzz before: here), and more than 90% of all marine (water) species and 70% of all terrestrial (land) species on the planet went extinct. It was way worse than the extinction that would eventually kill off the dinosaurs, and it took the planet a lot longer to recover from the Permian extinction.
What caused the Permian extinction? Oh, you know, a lot of stuff. Probably a lot of stuff. See, while we can more or less say that the dinosaurs were killed off by a giant space rock, it's harder to say what did in the creatures of the Permian period. After all, the Permian ended almost two hundred million years before the extinction of the dinosaurs. But people have plenty of good guesses: maybe a few smaller space rocks hit the planet, maybe massive volcanic eruptions in what would become Asia kicked dust and poisonous gas into the atmosphere, maybe the oceans suddenly released massive amounts of methane… probably it was a combination of these things and more, and the extinction probably happened in waves before the planet became a good place to live again.
But here's another straw for that dead camel's back: the algae died. Not all of it, but lots and lots of the algae died. But why, and why did it matter? After all, it's just algae.
Scientists aren't sure exactly what cause so much alga—microscopic plant-like ocean life that turns sunlight into food—to die, but it looks like a sudden rise in the levels of sulfur in the oceans might have had something to do with it. It could be that there was an explosion in the population of sulfur using, hydrogen-sulfide releasing bacteria in the oceans, which would poison the algae.
In any case, there was a large die off of the sort of species we don't give a lot of thought to. And what happened? The bear meat hit the fan!
Because they turn so much sunlight into so much food, algae act as the basis for most marine food chains. When the algae were gone, photosynthetic bacteria took its place to some extent, but the bacteria were a poor substitute, and the oceans were left with much, much less food. Also, algae produce a significant amount of the planet's oxygen, and their absence would have created atmospheric changes as well.
This alone might have been enough to cause extinctions, and combined with the other natural calamities of the end of the Permian, it's no wonder there was such a massive extinction event.
What a good story, eh? Now, if someone asks you what's so great about biodiversity among the slimier and more boring species, you can just repeat this post, word for word. Or you can repeat this, the short version, word for word: "Because, Mom, if the algae die, we'll be left choking and crying among the ruins of humanity for the rest of our short lives. And happy birthday."
The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment has made some great movies examining what they call "big questions."
Big question: Feast or famine?
IonE's first Big Question asks: How do we feed a growing world without destroying the planet?
Big question: Is Earth past the tipping point?
Have we pushed our planet past the tipping point? That's a critical issue the IonE explores in our second Big Question video.
Big question: What is nature worth?
Plants, animals, even entire ecosystems are disappearing. So what? "What is Nature Worth" offers a three-minute look at what we're REALLY losing – and what we can do about it.
Interesting problems, right? If you're intrigued, and want to know more about the folks posing the questions and trying to find the solutions, jump over to Future Earth.


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A multitude of users has the best experience on Livestream.com, for instance, we are entitled to broadcasting and watching live featured events on the site, but sometimes many of you missed live events due to busy schedule. At this time, you might want to store the videos for local backups, later viewing, sharing or other purposes. Whatever the reasons, it could be a pain to do a survey about the solutions to download video from Livestream.
There are plenty of video downloader out here such as Realplayer, Orbit downloader, Keepvid, Vixy, some of them are professional software programs while others are great web services. Bad news for users, neither of them proves to be workable for downloading Livestream video. Yep, it can be a little tricky to execute though, the appropriate tools are always possible. Now we are going to introduce Video Download Capture to clear away all those puzzles.
Hassle-free way to download Livestream videos
What sets Video Download Capture apart from other apps is its compatibility and ease of use. It not only downloads nearly 100% web videos, but also makes the downloading a breeze. You will be told how to conduct video download in two cases.
One-click to download videos from livestream.com
Registered as a member of Livestream.com, you'll notice this site contains realtime and non-realtime live broadcast. In this sense, you can download non-realtime live video content in the following steps:
- Launch Video Download Capture and enable its video recorder
- Start playing a Livestream video
Okay, done, the app will automatically monitor your viewing and detect the real video for downloading. Please remember, the download speed mainly hinges on your video size. Once the video is grabbed, you don't have to keep browsing the video, just close the webpage or let it be. Have a quick look at how to do it in this video tutorial.
Download video from LiveStream with screen recorder
As mentioned above, Livestream also contains a part of realtime live broadcast, that's to say, it is impossible to download videos directly for those live events cannot give its specific video URL. And in this case, the best bet is to record realtime video through some screen recording tools. You will be light on how it works below.
- Navigate to a video that is live now
- Tab Record Screen on Video Download Capture
- Customize input audio source and Record region
- Click Start to record Livestream
Tips: In order to better control your recordings, it is advised to minimize the app to tray during recording and enable keyboard shortcuts for operation.
Another better option to download LiveStream Videos
Considering that free tools are more catering for users' taste, we'd recommend you to go with VLC media player. Besides being as a media player for all common audio video formats, it can be a free recorder to capture live internet stream. Complete instructions as follows.
After running VLC on your system, you just click Open Network Stream under Media menu. Next to do is to paste the Livestream URL into the address box, then you need to do some settings such as specifying destination directory and selecting the output format from Stream Output. Once all settings were saved, you may start playing the stream. Note here, the Record button will pop up right away. Just start recording what you are watching on livestream.com.
The chief drawback of using VLC to record LiveStream reflects in its compatibility. You'd better figure out the right output format for your downloaded live video stream, or it will cause playback issues after recording. It's not that easy to manipulate for a newbie.


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WASHINGTON — Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose 1990s affair with Bill Clinton nearly brought down his presidency, broke a long silence yesterday, saying she regrets what happened.
Writing in Vanity Fair magazine, Lewinsky, 40, said it was time to stop "tiptoeing around my past — and other people's futures. I am determined to have a different ending to my story."
Her affair with Clinton was one between consenting adults, and the public humiliation she suffered altered the direction of her life, she wrote.
"Sure, my boss took advantage of me," she writes now, "but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position."
Lewinsky added, "I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened."
Lewinsky has had a fairly low profile since the scandal. She got a master's degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics and has lived in Los Angeles, New York and Portland, Ore.
"I turned down offers that would have earned me more than $10 million, because they didn't feel like the right thing to do," she said.
Lewinsky said she was strongly tempted to kill herself during the investigations and in one or two periods after.
She said she was motivated to speak out by the 2010 suicide of a Rutgers University student who killed himself after a video of him kissing a man was posted online.
"I was also possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet," Lewinsky wrote.
Her goal "is to get involved with efforts on behalf of victims of online humiliation and harassment and to start speaking on this topic in public forums."
Information from the Associated Press was included in this story.


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Your LP is made up of the LP of these five cards here above your LP meter. These five cards are your Soul Cards.
First is "Standby". When you select a Unit to "Standby", it will heal HP equal to 25% of its MAX HP.
Most units have the options of "Attack" Standby" "Move" and "Iczer Attack" You might not be able to use Standby or Move effectively at first, but when you're more experienced these options will come in handy.
Next is "Move". This lets you move the Unit to a different area of the grid. If you don't want to take a hit, you can move out of the enemy's range.


text: I'm using the trial version which will expire soon. If I can figure out how to make SP5 work with Outlook 2007, I'll buy it. But all my attempts so far have failed. Our Outlook runs with a cloud-based Exchange server, so when I open Outlook I get a WinXP Connect to box from the remote server, similar to a VPN log-in box. Try as I might, I've not been able to get SP to enter the password into that dialog box. How do I set this up?


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October 5th, 2011
Jordan Rogers
I hate clichés so figuring out how to open this piece was a struggle. How do you begin an article on Barnes' clutch play without a ridiculous phrase like "Webster's defines clutch as ______" or something similar? Sports-commentary is usually about 90% clichés anyways. What chance does a writer have to stay original? Would I even want to?
Barnes started to get a lot of attention last season after knocking down several big time shots like it was his job.1 That attention should come as no surprise because there is really nothing in sports more entertaining than crunch-time performance. It's why we'll watch any game going into overtime even if we've never heard of either team. It's why Jordan and Bird have bronze statues in their honor.2 It's how a role player with barely average career statistics can earn the nickname 'Big Shot'.3
But mathematicians and stat-guru's been trying to prove for the better part of a decade that 'clutchness' is a myth. It's like all the egg-heads (resenting the athletically gifted) decided to get in a room and destroy what fans love most. It started with the 'Moneyball' generation of statisticians who decided that sports (mostly baseball) could be perfectly explained with statistics. Eventually jerks4 everywhere were looking up Jordan or Kobe's game-winning shot attempts and 'proving' that they were no different than their regular numbers.5
It was only a matter of time before some snarky fan decided to prove that Barnes wasn't the clutch performer he was being touted as. Barnes had hit a couple big shots in close games (Virginia Tech, Texas, Miami). But when he launched that dagger in Tallahassee he solidified his reputation as a clutch shooter. Whether that label was deserved or not, it would only be a matter of time before it was disproven by statistics, right?
TheBlackFalcon.net charted every field-goal Barnes attempted in the last four minutes, two minutes, and one minute of each game in 2010-2011. But, we only recorded an attempt if the game was within FIVE points at the time. So not only do we have his stats at the end of games, but the end of close games. We also decided to add a category for game deciding moments, cleverly named -- get excited -- Game-Deciding Shots. A Game-Deciding Shot must take place in the final 35 seconds, and the game must be within one possession (three points). This is what we found:
|5≤ Points
|Final 4 Min
|18 / 30
|10 / 16
|Final 2 Min
|8 / 12
|7 / 9
|Final Min
|4 / 7
|4 / 6
|Game-Deciding Shots
|3 / 3
|3 / 3
Let me know when you pick your jaw up off the floor. Just take a minute and let those numbers sink in. Pause for a moment. Stop looking for typos. Now pick your jaw up off the floor again. Let me be clear,6 we didn't rummage through his stats looking for the best figures or we would have dropped the 4 minute category all together.
Now it was no secret that Barnes was hitting a lot of big shots last season. But maybe because the "Moneyball" people have convinced us to think otherwise, I bet most savvy fans would assume that his end-of-game percentages would level out if you looked at the season as a whole; or they would at least be closer to his overall averages.
But they weren't. Barnes was essentially a perfect 100% when the game was literally on the line, and shot somewhere between 60% and 80% in close end-of-game scenarios. That is mind boggling. I'm aware of the comparatively small sample size; but we are talking an entire season, it's not like that was a single stretch.
According to most Ken Pomeroy ratings and conventional stats Barnes did have an above average season. But how many of these so called ratings took into account the shots that actually win games? That has to be more important than a high efficiency rating in the opening five minutes.
Apart from being a giant "F U" to the "Moneyball" crowd, shouldn't Barnes' clutch-stats above prove that we need a better way to compare player ratings other than simply using conventional totals? Where is Ken Pomeroy at on this one?
ESPN has finally came around and launched the Total QB Rating for the NFL, which takes into account game situation, time remaining and other qualitative stats. But it is embarrassing that it took us almost two decades of the Internet-Era to figure this out. It makes no sense that John Hollinger's PER still counts a rebound from the first minute in the same way as a three pointer in the final seconds; all because of some book and its cheesy movie.7
But back to Barnes. Could anyone in the nation stack up to what Barnes was doing in crunch-time?8 Should I post the table again just so you believe it's real?9 Did I intentionally leave this piece vague so I can explain what it all means in Part 3?10
|5≤ Points
|Final 4 Min
|18 / 30
|10 / 16
|Final 2 Min
|8 / 12
|7 / 9
|Final Min
|4 / 7
|4 / 6
|Game-Deciding Shots
|3 / 3
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BlackFalcon_net TheBlackFalcon.net
@BlackFalcon_net - http://bit.ly/pl4h2A - Barnes: PART 2 - Harrison Barnes' Clutch Stats!!
5 Oct
Dollars4Ballers Dollars For Ballers
@BlackFalcon_net - http://bit.ly/pl4h2A Love the Harrison Barnes Clutch Stats... Keep them coming!!
5 Oct
RLackieBball Rob Lackie
@BlackFalcon_net - http://bit.ly/pl4h2A - thats sick- Barnes is wet in the clutch
5 Oct
seiwertsystem Neal Seiwert
Harrison Barnes clutch stats continued...game deciding shots 3/3FG, 3/3 3pt 100%..courtesy of theblackfalcon.net This kid is for real people
5 Oct
828rayray Ray Evans
@BlackFalcon_net bit.ly/pl4h2A cant wait for the season to get under way barnes is a stud nuff said!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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|Time to slice the cheese
"Can we make our cheese butterflies?" Audrey asked. I am baffled as to why shapes are so much fun. It might have something to do with the fact that my mom never cut my sandwiches on the diagonal or removed the crusts. She claimed there was more nutritional value in the crust. And I believed her. Now that I am the mom I want lunch to be fun.
After cutting shapes they each selected fruits and vegetables to accompany lunch. Today they have cantaloupe, blueberries, veggie chips, yellow carrots, ranch dip, pepperoni, and munster cheese. I also pulled out some different muffin tins and rice molds for a little change of pace.
This week I am going to visit as many Muffin Tin Meals as I can and showcase five on our site next Monday. If you would like for me to visit your site, please leave a comment below. As always, please check out the other fabulous Muffin Tin Monday Meals.
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In the Pink (Snow)
By Cheryl Dorschner Article published February 25, 2003
Maple syrup, newborn lambs, tiny white flowers called snowdrops, pink snow — these are the harbingers of early spring in cold climates.
Pink snow?
In high altitudes on all continents except Africa, the heavy, wet snows of spring sometimes come with large patches tinged bright pink. "In the U.S., it's known as 'watermelon snow' or 'snow algae'' while Scandinavians call it 'blood snow,'" says Tom Vogelmann, professor and chair of botany, who has been studying the phenomena for more than four years.
The source of the red tint is an unusual kind of microscopic, spherical, freshwater algae, Chlamydomonas nivalis. The microorganism has a fascinating and mysterious life cycle, and some scientists are even debating whether pink snow helps counter global warming by sucking carbon dioxide out of the air. Vogelmann doesn't place much stock in that theory, but he's found plenty in the algae to hold his interest.
"It appears magically each spring, and anywhere the snow pack persists longer. It grows well in slushy snow, which is why we don't find it throughout the winter. But we know little or nothing about what it does at other times of the year," says Vogelmann.
Researchers can't culture this particular algae in a lab, but they know the cells are more complicated than they might initially seem. The pink-snow effect might come from algae swimming up from below in the slushy water or blowing in on the wind.
Even more intriguing than how they arrive is how they survive at all.
"It's a bizarre creature," Vogelmann says. "It's hostile where they live. Most of the time it's near the freezing point and bathed in very high ultraviolet radiation. Photosynthesis in almost every green plant that I can think of would be near zero under these conditions. Somehow this creature not only grows, but thrives — it has to have some interesting structures. Studying how they survive will give us ideas about cold hardiness."
One thing Vogelmann and colleagues do know through measurements is that pink algae takes up more carbon dioxide than would normally be expected — "high from the standpoint that this alga is growing in ice slush," he clarifies. Vogelmann was among a team of researchers who spent four summers at 11,000 feet in the Snowy Range of the Rocky Mountains, 50 miles west of Laramie, Wyoming measuring how much carbon dioxide the algae soaked up in response to variable sunlight levels by placing a transparent plastic box fitted with gas sensors over patches of algae.
Their results: "Surface Gas-Exchange Processes of Snow Algae" by William E. Williams, Holly L. Gorton, and Thomas C. Vogelmann, published Jan. 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found the snow microbes absorbed relatively high levels of carbon dioxide from both the soil and air in bright light.
After the paper speculated that "red algae may be acting as significant carbon sinks'" articles quickly started appearing concluding as one United Press International report phrased it, "that these microbes might help combat global warming by guzzling up greenhouse gases." Other scientists extrapolated that even if the amount of carbon dioxide uptake wasn't high, the large areas the algae cover might be a significant contributor.
Vogelmann disagrees. "Personally, I am rather skeptical about the idea, but it shouldn't be all that hard to come up with an estimate of the total amount of global carbon that they may be fixing. Not my area of expertise though," he says.
This study is just the tip of the pink iceberg when it comes to understanding watermelon snow. Vogelmann says he'll be out looking for pink algae in the snows of Vermont's Mount Mansfield, probably in early April, so he can study it a bit closer to home.


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Blumenherst goes deep, while Hermes wins playoff
PUEBLO, Colo. - The roads they took were different,
but the destinations were the same for Amanda Blumenherst
of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Jake Hermes of Durango, Colo., who
claimed the titles Friday at the PING/Marsico Funds Colorado
Junior Roundup.
The 54-hole event, conducted by the American Junior Golf Association,
took place at Walking Stick Golf Course and featured an 84-player
field with 63 boys and 21 girls.
For her part, Blumenherst made it look easy. With 12 birdies
and only five missed greens for the week, she finished the
tournament 13 strokes above the competition, shooting 5-under-par
with rounds of 73-70-68-211. Blumenherst led wire to wire,
and as her scores fell lower each round, her lead grew larger.
"The first round showed me where I stood among the competition,"
she said. "From there, I just focused on my own game.
I just want to play my best."
Although she played consistently throughout the tournament,
Blumenherst played the front nine at Walking Stick exceptionally
well, carding a 31 and 32 on the front side in the final two
rounds. On Friday, she made consecutive birdies on holes 7,
8, and 9, then coasted through her final nine holes with nine
pars. Blumenherst said her confidence in her approach shots
helped her focus more on her putting.
"I was dropping a lot of putts today," she said.
"And I've been hitting my irons so well, I can just trust
I'll play all right."
Heather Wright of Houston took second place with 77-75-72-224,
while third place went to Ashley Rollins of Austin, Texas,
who totaled 79-75-72-226.
Unlike the girls, the boys' title was up for grabs heading
into the final hole. Playing together in the final pairing,
Hermes trailed Derek Tolan of Highlands Ranch, Colo., and
Geoff Mead of Rapid City, S.D., by one stroke as the group
teed off on 18. There, Hermes drained a 30-foot birdie putt
over a ridge on the 18th green to force a sudden-death playoff
with Mead, who got up and down from a bunker to save par.
Tolan three-putted from 70 feet on the severely undulated
green to fall one shot behind Hermes and Mead.
In the playoff, Hermes and Mead took another shot at the 18th
hole, but this time, a par was all Hermes needed to secure
his second career AJGA victory after Mead lipped out his par
Hermes led after firing a 68 in the first round of the tournament,
but fell behind Tolan and Mead when he shot a 77 in the stormy
second round. After starting the final round three shots behind
the leader Tolan, Hermes said it was the high level of competition
that drove him to finish strong.
"I like being in the final group and watching what the
other guys are doing," said Hermes, who finished at 4-over-par
with rounds of 68-77-72-217. "It was great for me to
feed off of Derek and Geoff."
Mead carded rounds of 70-73-74-217 to earn his highest career
AJGA finish, while third-place finisher Tolan narrowly missed
his second straight AJGA victory with rounds of 70-72-76-218.
Three players shared fourth place at 223, including Zach Fullerton
Jesse Barnsley, both of Albuquerque, N.M., and Dean Merrill
of Kansas City, Mo.
For more information on the PING/Marsico Funds Colorado Junior
Roundup, please contact AJGA headquarters at (877) 373-2542.
The Foundation
The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
What is Leadership Links?
Leadership Links is a new program whereby the AJGA is able to further its mission to help develop young men and women by teaching charitable giving skills and service-oriented practices at an early age. This program gives juniors all the tools necessary to donate their time, talent and resources to local charities and the AJGA youth development programs. Please click here to learn more about the program and the different opportunities available.


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OpenGL Headline News
Soft shadows dynamic branching benchmark v1.5.4 using OpenGL 2.0
Jan 22, 2007
This benchmark stresses the pixel pipelines by rendering a scene with soft shadows using a 7x7 kernel filter. The benchmark uses an OpenGL 2.0 codepath as well as OpenGL Shading Language shaders to render the soft shadows. You can enable or disable dynamic branching in the pixel shader in order to see the impact on the performances. Very handy to quickly benchmark a graphics card.


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The Book Spot is excited to be hosting local author signings at the Shop. We are going to list out the authors here as well as on the events calendar. Check back often!
**Upcoming Events**
**Previous Events**
Friday April 8, 2011 -
Gary J Cross - Henry Melton - JA Adams
Saturday April 9, 2011 -
Susan Rushmore - Ken Squier - Henry Melton - James Parker
Debbie Leland - Jennifer Ziegler - Susan Rogers Cooper
Saturday April 30, 2011 -
Sharon Graffius Kuhlman
Saturday May 14, 2011 - Noon to 2pm
Teen and Kid Book PARTY with the Texas Sweethearts
Saturday May 21, 2011
JA Adams
Saturday May 28, 2011
George Arnold
Saturday June 4, 2011
11:30a - 2:30p Barbra Sonnen-Hernandez
Saturday June 11, 2011
Mystery's DANGEROUS DAMES present:
How to Commit Murder (on paper) for Fun and Profit
with Joan Hess, Susan Rogers Cooper and Jan Grape
Saturday June 18, 2011
Kids Weekend!! 12pm (Noon) to 2pm
"Cars" Graphic Novel Author - Alan J Porter
"Texas Tales Illustrated" Author and Artist - Mike Kearby and Mack White
"A Soldier Comes Home" Author and Artist - Donna Mokri and Shereena Milne
Saturday July 9, 2011 (11am to 1pm)
Susan Wittig Albert - NY Times Bestselling Author
Featuring The Darling Dahlias and The Naked Ladies AND Mourning Gloria
Saturday July 23, 2011 (12pm - 2pm)
Galactic Launch for the Project Saga
Henry Melton - Presentation and signing for Star Time
Saturday Sept 24, 2011 (12pm - 2pm)
Blood Ties Book Launch and Fan Chat
Mari Mancusi - Fan Chat and Book Signing
Saturday Oct 1, 2011 (12pm - 2pm)
Ann Everett - Fan Chat and Book Signing
Saturday Oct 8, 2011 (12pm - 2pm)
Book Spot Light on Local Authors
CJ Clark, EF Clark, & Buster LaFrance - Book Chat and Signing
Saturday Oct 15, 2011 (12pm - 2pm)
Book Launch and Signing for Calli and Solstice
Jessica Lee Anderson and PJ Hoover - Book Release and Signing
Saturday Oct 15, 2011 (3pm - 5pm)
Pregnancy Loss Awareness Day
Baby Dust Book Launch
Deanna Roy - Book Discussion and Signing
Thursday Oct 27, 2011 (4pm - 6pm)
Halloween Book Signing - The Ghouls Come Haunting One By One
Tom McDermott - Book Chat and Signing
Saturday February 11, 2012 - Noon
Mystery Writer - Most Rev. Donna duBois
Saturday February 25, 2012 - 11:30am
Presentation and Q/A with Paranormal Author, Gabrielle Faust
Discussing her latest Dark Fantasy - Revenge
Saturday February 25, 2012 - 2pm
Dark and Dastardly Panel
Kaye George (Mystery), Mary Ann Loesch (Fantasy), and Steve Metze (Alt Fantasy)
Saturday March 3, 2012 - 1pm
Story Time with Don Winn and the Cardboard Box Adventures
Story time, Q/A and signing
SUNDAY March 4, 2012 - 4pm
Sunday Tea with Julia London
Historical Fiction Author Julia London is here for our first Sunday event!
Saturday Apr 21, 2012
Noon - Roll On! with Fred Afflerbach
Come and discuss the trucking life with novelist and former long haul trucker, Fred Afflerbach
2PM - Laura Griffin - Twisted
NY Times Award winning author Laura Griffin is releasing her latest in the Tracer Series, Twisted with us at 2pm on Apr 21. This Romantic Suspense Series will please fans of Mystery and is based in Central Texas. Come in and find out more
Saturday Apr 28, 2012
11:30 - A Chat with Ann Seaman
Saturday Apr 28
3pm - Discuss, Understand, Grow with Don Winn
Tuesday May 8, 2012
6PM - Jordan Sonnenblick
We are excited to have Jordan Sonnenblick take time from his busy tour around RRISD to join us and share at the shop.
Saturday May 12, 2012
11AM - Paranormal and YA Mystery Panel
Moms grab the kids and head to the Book Spot for a great chat with Texas Paranormal and YA Mystery writers, Rosemary Clement-Moore, Julie Kenner, Victoria Laurie, and Moderator K.A. Holt!
Saturday May 26, 2012
2PM - Snappy Patter and Dangerous Ladies Panel
featuring Austin's Dangerous Dames: Susan Rogers Cooper, Jan Grape, Joan Hess, and Karen MacInerney!
Saturday July 28, 2012 - 3pm
Victoria Laurie - Book Reading, Psychic Readings, and Signings
Thrusday Aug 2, 2012 - 10am
Amanda Evans - Storytime!
Saturday Aug 18, 2012 - 3pm
Jason Henderson - YA Book Chat and Signing - Alex Van Helsing Series
Sunday Sept 16, 2012 - 3pm
Tera Lynn Childs and Sophie Jordan - YA Book Chat and Signing
Jan 5, 2013 - 4pm to 6pm
J. Kenner - "Release Me"
April 23, 2013 - 6:30pm - A.G. Howard - Splintered
May 3, 2013 - 4:30pm - Adam Gidwitz - In a Glass Grimmly
May 7, 2013 - 6:30pm - Helen Frost - Hidden
May 11, 2013 - YAB FEST!!! ALL DAY @ Round Rock HS
June 22, 2013 - Solstice Private Release Party
Sun July 28 @ 2pm - Turbulence Book Signing and Chat w/ Dorothy English
Tues July 30 @ 7pm - Complete Me Book Release w/ J. Kenner
Sat Aug 3 @ Noon - FIND WALDO in Round Rock/Pflugerville Wrap Up Party!
Thur Aug 8 @ 7pm - SWEAT Tour (w/ Shannon Messenger, Amy Tintera, Debra Driza, & Kasie West)
Sat Aug 10 @ 5:30p - Women, Wine, & Words w/ Julia London and Christie Ridgway
Sun Aug 11 @ 1pm - Lunch with Julia & Christie


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Latest Comments
Vitamix vs. BlendTec vs. Breville: Who Makes the Best High End Blender?
Wow, how fun! Thanks for doing this. An interesting tidbit about the shape of the jar: a court awarded Blendtech 24 million dollars when they sued vitamix for patent infringement. The issue was the fifth side of the "wild side" jar, which I guess changes the location of the vortex or something? So I thought it interesting to see that you preferred the traditional shaped jar. I guess if you are trying to make mayonnaise that makes a lot of sense, though.
Also: do you actually make mayonnaise in your vitamix?
Sunday Brunch: Blueberry Banana Muffins
I am confused. When do you add the wet ingredients to the dry? When you beat the eggs, do you beat them right into the dry ingredients?
Cheesy Mashed White Beans With Kale, Parmesan, and a Fried Egg
This is my new favorite dinner. Oh my goodness, so delicious. Thanks, Kenji, I hope they pay you well.
The Food Lab's Guide to Slow-Cooked, Sous Vide-Style Eggs
I don't suppose you could give high-altitude instructions...?
Food Halloween costumes!
You could just go with food-themed brands: Aunt Jemima, Chef Boyardee, the Morton Salt girl, the Dole PInapple lady, the Pillsbury dough boy...
Open Thread: What Fall Dessert Are You Most Excited About?
My recipe for apple crisp with David Lebovitz's caramel ice cream, cinnamon rolls, apple cider, and pumpkin bread pudding.
Bake the Book: Sweet
I've never had something at a bakery that I enjoy more than something I bake at home, which means that, sadly, I haven't been to very many good bakeries.
We Try the New Campbell's Chunky Hearty Cheeseburger Soup
So gross in so many ways. And why are there potatoes in cheeseburger soup? I guess people do that?
Taste Test: The Best Chicken-Flavored Instant Ramen
Have people forgotten the Serious Eats mission? It's just "deliciousnesses," and it doesn't matter if that deliciousness is found in a fancy restaurant or a food cart or a package of ramen.
I've never tried Sapporo; I'll have to check it out.
Poll: What's Your Favorite Hamburger Side?
Honestly, I have rarely had a burger that isn't too much food; sides just seem like overkill. But I love curly fries and onion rings.
24 Essential Kitchen Tricks and Tips
The fact that I already do most of this stuff is making me feel irrationally proud. And I'm excited to try out the one I don't already do: test the meat! Great idea. My tip would probably be to just have less stuff. If you have less stuff finding it isn't so hard.
I don't do the mise en place thing--to many dirty bowls and I don't have enough counter space anyway. I do as much prep as I can, and then do the rest of the chopping while I'm cooking.
Help! Spatchcocked Turkey Mayhem and Confusion!
I have this same question. I just saw Bittman's 2002 recipe for a 8-12 lb turkey and he gives it about 45 minutes. Ours is 20 and I'm roasting it whole, so I'm planning to start checking at 80 minutes. Fingers crossed!
Bad Luck with Kenji's Pork
Okay, I swear the foil comment wasn't on there before I posted a reply.
Bad Luck with Kenji's Pork
Oh, thanks so much. I love simple treatments. So you don't cover it at all?
Sauced: Melitzanosalata
Ohh, next time I get an eggplant I'm going to roast one over my gas stove. In Romania they did that all the time and added finely chopped onion, salt, and oil to make a very simple, very delicious eggplant salad. Sometimes they added homemade mayo, which as also very tasty.
Hervé This' Chocolate 'Chantilly'
Oh, and a five...smiley?...rating.
Hervé This' Chocolate 'Chantilly'
Me + this recipe were sure to equal disaster. I totally winged it. I used 1/2 cup of whole milk and about 3/4 cup of chocolate chips (ba ha ha!). Then I didn't have any ice, so I used - get this - a bag of frozen overripe bananas for the ice bath! Then my hand mixer started going crazy and the inner bowl tipped over and some of the water seeped into the chocolate mixture! I was positive I was headed for a flop, but, miraculously, it turned out really well - creamy, sweet, and chocolatey. My daughter and I ate it with raspberries and had a grand old time. Thanks so much for the recipe!
The Food Lab: The Science of Pie Dough
I am in love with the Zuni Cafe cookbook recipe I found on Chez Pim's website.
The Food Lab: Reconsidering The Lobster (and Hot Buttered Lobster Rolls!)
All I can say is that calling a lobster a cockroach makes it sound really unappetizing.
Dorrie Greenspan recommends brushing a little egg white on the crust immediately after parbaking it. I'm not that much of a perfectionist so I've never tried it.
Survey: Your Favorite Hometown Pizza
Pizzeria 712 in Orem, Utah. I'd recommend it to anyone.
What would you do with $50/week?
Fifty is our weekly budget, and we live in northern Virginia. Basically, we eat very little meat, and not too much food.
Also, I keep track of how much I've spent on food and if I go up to fifty I just don't go to the grocery store anymore that week. It forces you to be really creative with the ingredients you have at home. What I do is I go on allrecipes.com and use their advanced search to find some dinner ideas, then search the web for that same meal from a better chef or more reputable site. It takes some time, so I usually just plan meals like I should. I think delicious cooking is less about fancy ingredients and more about technique.
Oh, and along with looking out for groceries that are inexpensive, avoid things that are expensive. Unless other fruit is in season or frozen and cheap, we only eat apples and bananas (those are great, too, because organic doesn't matter if you peel your apples.
But really, we don't buy a lot of organic stuff. I'll be impressed if you can do fifty a week, eat sorta fancy, and eat the amount of produce you should, much less buy meat at all. I guess you could peel whatever produce you can?
Good luck!
What's a good "starter" fish?
Really, I don't think that super fresh wild salmon tastes all that fishy. I love halibut and cod, but as far as the health benefits go you might as well be eating lean pork or chicken, from what I understand.
D. Trump Offers Worst Excuse Ever for Using a Fork to Eat Pizza
Um, he totally ate the crust in the clip Steward showed. Right?
Ed Levine's Caloric Journey, Week 173: Don't Help Yourself to Seconds (They Don't Help)
For some reason, I love getting seconds. I really just don't feel satisfied unless I get them. So I just try to remember to get a really small first portion so I can go get seconds. :) I do like emilydev's sister's diet, though!


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Today, Instagram announced its new feature: video functionality. Instagram videos can be up to 15 seconds long and come with 13 of its own new customized filters to choose from. The videos will appear within users' Instagram feed and play automatically.
Immediately after the announcement, Twitter exploded with chatter about the impending doom of Vine, Twitter's six-second video app:
Vine's only major selling point left is that it works in Twitter cards.— Alex Fitzpatrick (@AlexJamesFitz) June 20, 2013
Sorry Vine, I think the new Instagram video option may give you a run for your $— Carlie Butler (@CarlieStylezz) June 20, 2013
But while video may be the most logical next step for Instagram, it could also backfire by annoying users who use Instagram for photos and nothing more. Let's be honest, Instagram is often a dumping ground for boring selfies and floral espresso designs. Do we really want those in video form alongside our photos? One of the best parts about Vine is that it forces you to be creative. This creativity could be lost when given a full 15 seconds to play with. Some Vine evangelists had similar sentiments:
Vine is still better, I don't wanna see or hear your ugly voice more than 6 seconds.— Larry Fisherman (@GoodGuy_DaSilva) June 20, 2013
I don't know if I can commit to a full 15 seconds. #Eternity MT @GarrettHaake: Instagram has a 15-sec video mode. Do I ever open Vine again?— AdamVerdugo (@AdamVerdugo) June 20, 2013
Man I loved Instagram. Now it's gonna annoy the hell outta me.— M. (@mollymmc) June 20, 2013
My prediction is that Vine will still have the creative and hilarious vids, and Instagram will have all the boring selfie vids.— syd. (@ElloSyd) June 20, 2013
Today Vine rolled out a redesign and has recently seen explosive growth and popularity after launching its Android app. This month, Vine users posted more videos on Twitter than Instagram users posted photos. But Instagram already has an established 100 million users, all of which will have the new video functionality available in their feed without exerting extra effort. It will be interesting to see if Vine's growth continues with this new competitor in the social video business.
• Instagram Introduces 15-Second Video, 13 New Filters
• From [i]Fast Company[/i]'s July/August Issue: How Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom Is Making Good On Facebook's Billion-Dollar Bet
• Gary Vaynerchuk starts an agency for the stars of Twitter's micro-video service, Vine
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Letters To The Editor
November 24, 2010 - MidWeek
Out of touch?
I read Rick Hamada's column and sometimes sort of agree with his views. But this time I was totally offended by his column "Hawaii Out Of Step With The Nation."
He states that because Hawaii voted Democratic we are out of touch, which basically was one step from calling us stupid. Just because we did not vote Republican, which Mr. Hamada obviously is, the majority of us are wrong?
Could it possibly be that instead of being out of touch, we are actually at the forefront of something great? No one can predict what is going to happen in the next few years, but apparently Mr. Hamada has a crystal ball because he knows that Hawaii made a huge "mistake" to vote Democratic. Just because we are not in the majority with the rest of the U.S. does not make us wrong. Different, yes. Maybe if the Hawaii Republicans put out some viable candidates who showed that they can work between party lines instead of always voting no and often spewing religious overtones to issues, some of us might have been persuaded.
Kenneth Yamashita
Save natatorium
I am a veteran of 30 years service and a Persian Gulf War veteran. With a four-paragraph sound bite on the Natatorium, Bob Jones disrespects the citizens who most deserve our thanks and gratitude. Volunteers from Hawaii for World War I far exceeded the quota asked for by the War Department. In 1921, Act 15 of the Territorial Legislature sought to honor that service by creating a memorial to their service; just as in 1998, when community leaders sought to honor Gulf War Veterans by renaming Triangle Park (Ruger Park) to Operation Red Wing-Medal of Honor Park.
Let's honor the value of volunteerism, service and devotion by caring for our memorials, not destroying them, letting them fall into disrepair or making political statements.
Mo Radke, USN (Ret.)
Right again
In a recent MidWeek column, conservative Pat Buchanan accurately and plainly states of the pre-Iraq war period: "We were lied to."
In another column, he suggests the Pentagon budget, which has more than doubled in the last 10 years, be placed on the table for spending cuts.
And now in his most recent column he makes the argument for not going to war with Iran. Perhaps he should change the name of his column "From the Right" to "Totally Ignored," unfortunately.
Daniel Laraway
Detail the cuts
In reference to Armando Mejia Takara's letter regarding the size of government, it would be great to see if he or others could actually provide an accurate breakdown of which services to eliminate as well as its economic and social impact to the community. It's easy to simply point at something and complain that it's "too big," but it takes hard work to actually properly analyze and make accurate determinations before anything is implemented. Unfortunately, everyone shies away from this part.
Ryan Loy
Praising NPR
Pat Buchanan ought to listen to NPR now and then. With all the mean-spirited, anti-liberal rhetoric I hear on AM radio broadcasts, public radio is a breath of Fresh Air. Public radio manages to program shows with contrasting viewpoints without frothing at the mouth, and when they are political, it is often with a sense of humor. Some of the programming on public radio is eclectic, but I get tired of hearing "conservative" radio talk-show hosts referring to NPR and PBS as "elitist."
I think it is dangerous to think of individuals who are well-read or trained in the arts or possessing a college education as elite. By that definition, there are tens of millions of elite Americans out there. Classical music programming and programming that allows the listener to actually hear how people outside of the United States see us are valuable, even if not commercial. Regarding the premise of the "From the Right" article, NPR member stations are funded more by corporate philanthropy (21.3 percent) and by "listeners like me" (32.1 percent), than by government subsidy. Federal, state and local governments support NPR member stations with 5.8 percent of the pie. The firing of Juan Williams was not a sudden, out-of-the-blue event. His comments on FOX regarding his discomfort seeing Muslims dressing and identifying as Muslims at airports was the last straw. NPR executives have an operating philosophy. He violated it, so he was fired.
Warren Cone
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Living with a 2-year-old is . . . interesting. That's the best word I can come up with. Sometimes it's frustrating, sometimes it's hilarious, but it's never dull.
My daughter Lily is 2, and makes every day an adventure. I never know what she's going to do. I remember that my oldest daughter, Ava, was more predictable when she was 2-years-old.
This morning I gave Lily an apple to eat. I washed the apple, removed the sticker and handed it to her. Twenty minutes later She handed me what looked like a little twig. On closer inspection, I realized it was the stem of the apple she had eaten. "Where's the core Lily? Where are the seeds?" I asked. She looks at me, smiles and says "I ate it Mommy". She had eaten the entire apple. Pips and all. Crazy.
This past weekend, she tried to dress our dog Thursday in doll clothes. She started crying when Thursday wouldn't sit still long enough for her to close the Velcro of the doll dress.
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I need to spend more time enjoying life from the perspective of a 2-year-old. I'm too serious sometimes. I'm sure God put Lily in my life to remind me it's OK to have fun even when the dishes aren't washed. Lily is the comic relief in our family. Maybe it's time to put a pair of pants on my head and play octopus with her.


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"We, as public officials and as a society, must do everything in our power to stem the tragic tide of violence against women," House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo (D-Winthrop) said. "This legislation represents some of the strongest, most comprehensive domestic violence legislation in at least a generation. I thank Attorney General Coakley and my colleagues in the House for their collaboration on this bill and offer my sincere gratitude to the advocates and individuals who so courageously shared their experiences."
"I am proud to stand with Speaker DeLeo and the rest of my colleagues to declare our commitment to the fight against domestic violence throughout the state," Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad (D-Somerset) said. "Adopting strong laws backed by implementation and services for protection and prevention, particularly through innovative education programs in our public schools, is vital to guaranteeing everyone's right to security and to have a life free of violence."
"I have been in the forefront of this issue and firmly believe that this bill sends a strong message that Domestic Violence will not be tolerated in the Commonwealth", said House Leader Paul J. Donato.
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– Establishes employment leave for victims of domestic violence;
– Establishes fees for domestic violence offenses. These will be invested in the newly created Domestic Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance fund;
– Broadens court authorization related to custody and support orders;
– Requires law enforcement agencies to provide information on batterer's intervention to defendants when serving them with a Chapter 209A restraining order.
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So I haven't had much time to share farm photos so I thought I better get right to it. Let's start from close image to far image here.
That new little fillie needs a name mstanley, you better get your thinking cap on. Ms Lily is waiting. :)
Touch me not is also called jewelweed and is the best damn poison ivy remedy ever. Pull the whole plant up and squeeze the juicy stalk and rub the juice on your poison ivy, it will be dry the next day usually. It is called touch me not because the seed pods explode like a claymore mine and this action spreads the seed all over, that is why it is so prolific around here. There is another species called Pale Jewelweed and it has yellow flowers. I kid you not about its power to heal poison ivy, I learned this many years ago from my Grandfather who learned it from his father and so on.
As you can see the ducks, Fergus Alfred Ferguson and George W. Cat all get along nicely. The yard is free range and peaceful.
Yes, each black dot is exactly what I said it is.
See, I told you. These are right above. They are not monarch caterpillers, I am waiting for them to get larger to identify them.
Big Thunder is doing fine and frolicking with the other colt, Bay's Lyn who is now top foal since we sold Venus and her mother to the family of the 12 year old girl who fell in love with them. Well, four foals and two calves this year was a nice batch. Now if we can sell a few more horses we can save on feed this winter. Hay and grain will be very expensive this winter.
That rock with the chippie on it is behind the old cemetary next to our one field. I looked over and saw the work gloves and then the chippie jumped up as if to say "These are mine" and just stood there, defiant. So I shot him (his photo of course). ehehe They are clearing out the back part of the cemetary that has grown a woodland over the years. it seems their is new interest in being buried there. The oldest headstone I find there that is still readable is 1795. It is reported in local history that this old family plot was built atop a native burial site. The hill we are on is the tallest in the township and you can see the great thunderstorm clouds passing over Lake Erie 18 miles to the north. I think this is why it became a native burial site.
Here is one of my old paintings, I painted this 10 years ago. It is titled 'Family Tree Photo Album'. I though the concept of the piece would go well here in the Newsvine Photographers group.
The days right now are filled with many little and big chores, fix this, go get that to fix that, check on the fences and animals, feed and water all the animals and birds who don't eat grass and drink out of a trough, clean up poop, work in the studio, clean the house, shoot at groundhogs and fox, wash the dishes, cook dinner and oh yeah, play in the vine. The grass is growing so fast it will be time to make hay again soon.
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IBM Rational Synergy iFix 7.1a.01 for version 7.1a
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IBM Rational Synergy iFix 7.1a.01 for version 7.1a is now available
This iFix may only be applied to IBM Rational Synergy 7.1a
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Please reference the Readme for installation details.
On UNIX, this patch must be installed using ccm_patch version 43 or its replacement.
Download the ccm_patch file into $CCM_HOME/bin, owned by ccm_root with execute permission (mode 0755)
Problems solved
iFix 7.1a.01 for Synergy Release 7.1a fixes the following problems:
- APAR <none> R#34498 Dates are sorted alphabetically instead of by date in the GUI
- APAR PM03064 R#34854 URE when showing project's history after creating a baseline
- APAR PM07284 R#35494 _archive_info attribute missing from object versions DCM received in Synergy 18.104.22.168
- APAR PM07306 R#35495 multiple operations hitting the same cache file at the same time corrupts it
- APAR <none> R#35496 Add more log information on session allocation error in asynchronous archive
- APAR PM04924 R#35686 files truncated when copied in the workarea in Web Mode
- APAR PM05634 R#35687 WA population problem with nested static subprojects
- APAR PM06754 R#35689 Copy project disregards translate ascii setting when writing static work areas to Windows.
- APAR PM07021 R#35690 Change state of an object to test with the web-client
- APAR PM08045 R#35691 Read security is broken in web mode
- APAR <none> R#35692 JC After copyproject from static subproject, workarea does not show the static files under its root directory
- APAR <none> R#35694 Relative work area directory not cleaned up when subproject is replaced with one with absolute work area
- APAR PM02629 R#35706 ascii files containing character 0d are corrupted by the sync in web mode
- APAR <none> R#35708 In HTTP mode after DCM receive, sync does not create links to sub-projects under top-project
- APAR PM01432 R#35709 Changing RDS password does not require old password
- APAR PM05209 R#35710 Users are not getting authenticated (as expected) to login to Synergy client (Web Mode) via RDS 5.0.
- APAR PK99813 R#35721 Project checkout with w/o subprojects and update turned on binds new static subprojects
- APAR <none> R#35722 Creation of prep project does not set the root dir to group writable in new wa.
- APAR PM01665 R#35724 Network errors cause intermittent ACcent aborts aborts in Synergy client using http mode
- APAR <none> R#35739 ccm_eng_inf.exe is terminated when logging on Windows as Administrator after reboot.
- APAR <none> R#35744 DCM receive can overwrite copy of folder template, process rule, process or release with older data
- APAR <none> R#35745 ccm reconcile is failing with object not a member error in Java CLI.
- APAR <none> R#35762 In HTTP mode, 'ccm dcm -s -el -index N -messages/-info' does not show correct details.
- APAR <none> R#35777 The value _archive_info of a 4.8GB file object remains none.
- APAR PM09593 R#35778 Symlink object source is lost after checking out the object
- APAR <none> R#35783 "ccm cr_summary" commands gives innacurate size of attachments
- APAR <none> R#35789 Process rules of the process are getting set to an empty set even though they are not modified.
- APAR <none> R#35791 In Synergy CLI, relate/unrelate fail if owner is static, even in ccm_admin role
- APAR <none> R#35794 Synergy/CRAPI should support Set-Cookie headers; work with load balancers
- APAR <none> R#35796 After central CR migrate, some ghost CRs don't have is_ghost_problem attribute
- APAR <none> R#35797 Change's Synergy sessions reload ccm users data twice when the Perl API RefreshUsers is called.
- APAR <none> R#35798 Java CLI throws Socket Exception upon setting the workarea of the project.
- APAR <none> R#35799 General IO error after stopping a Copy Project operation
- APAR <none> R#35800 ccm merge on a file with spaces in the name can delete other files in the work area
- APAR <none> R#36409 Archiving fails when server is restarted while archiving a large object
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Software version: 7.1a
Operating system(s): AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
Reference #: 4026943
Modified date: 26 May 2010