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Tablets and Broken Tablets: Studies of Rupture, Reconciliation, and Redemption
Join us for a 3-day seminar as we examine biblical, rabbinic, kabbalistic, and chassidic sources that reflect on states of connectedness and disconnectedness.
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David Silber on The Golden Calf and the Broken Covenant; Moses and the Power of Prayer; and, The Divine Attributes of Mercy
We will examine the themes of rupture, reconciliation, and redemption as they are reflected in these biblical stories and texts.
Devora Steinmetz on "Like Torah Scrolls That Have Been Rolled Up": The Story of the Death of Rabbi Eliezer
The Talmud offers a tragic and troubling story about a deathbed visit to Rabbi Eliezer and a final conversation between the master and his disciples. We will consider themes of rupture and reconciliation in the relationship between Rabbi Eliezer and his disciples and in modes of transmission of Torah from generation to generation.
Nathaniel Berman on The Breaking of the Tablets as a Cosmic Catastrophe: Kabbalistic and Sabbatean Interpretations
A number of kabbalists viewed the breaking of the Tablets by Moses as a re-enactment of the primal catastrophe of creation: the "breaking of the Vessels" by God at the inception of the cosmos, leading to a fallen world and the necessity for milennia of "tikkun." In the 17th century messianic movement, Sabbateanism, the breaking of the Tablets/Vessels caused the perversion of the Torah itself, transmuting it from a Torah of freedom to a Torah of restriction. In studying these perspectives, we will also consider the ramifications on the individual level, expressed in the writings of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav.
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The belief in the Messiah addresses our hopes for a better future, but would it be paradoxical to hope for a better past? In this class, we'll explore some biblical, midrashic and chassidic texts that seem to imply that, one day, the past will be better than it used to be!
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Can pain be positive? Why would the suffering of the righteous protect a community? We will study a story that appears in both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds about the persistent tooth ache of Rabbi Yehuda haNasi and the surprising benefits that it provides to the people of Israel.
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Stuart Halpern on Lamenting the Disrepair of Jerusalem: Eicha and Its Historical Context
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Thank God it's Friday. What a week it has been. I can't say it has been super successful in the getting fit area. Well, that's not true, I worked out Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and then my kids had no school Thursday and Friday because of a snow storm so I slept instead. However, I did spend 2 1/2 hours shoveling today and if that's not a workout, then I don't know what is. Not to mention that as soon as I walked in the door from shoveling I had to clean up throw up. So yeah I would say I did more than my fair share of working out today.
Alas I have been getting extremely discouraged. I went to buy myself a few personal items this week and had no luck. Of course the problem is when you are living with a full figure these things rarely fit right anyways. It just gets really depressing though that clothing companies don't all take into consideration that full figured gals might like to have something that makes them feel pretty and not frumpy. I left the store empty handed.
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The reasons why most of people often choose lemonade as a useful juice for their life
In markets all around the world, there are many fruits which are produced to supply for people's life such as apple, orange, strawberry, kiwi, especially lemon. There will be more nutrient if you eat them every day. Apart from lemon, the other fruits are harvested according to their season. Besides that, lemon has also more benefits than another one. Lemon's ingredients consist of vitamin B and C, potassium (more than apple and orange), iron, calcium, and magnesium. However, most people will mix lemon with water and sugar (called lemonade) whenever they want to use it because they usually say "sour like lemon". Therefore, this way can make the sour from lemon be reduced, and it will be also easier to drink or do whatever. The more lemonade is used, the more benefits you will earn.
Benefits of lemonade
In normal way, most people acknowledge that the main benefit of lemonade is for people' health, however, there are still more benefits than you expected.
Providing more power for your immune system
When you have trouble with stress, the level of vitamin C in your body is felt suddenly from its fixed level and it is one of the most crucial effects that can make you feel stress. Picking a lemonade glass is the best way for you during stress time. Lemonade or vitamin C juice can make the level of your stress lower, even disappear , as well as, drinking or providing some lemon juice will equal to providing power for your body. Let's think of lemonade whenever we feel stressed.
Potassium in lemonade
The number of potassium in lemonade is very high. Therefore, there are also some benefits for your health. It is useful for cardiovascular disease, brain, nerve as well.
Dyspepsia and constipation
When you feel pain due to having difficulty in digesting food or are not able to get rid of wastes from the bowels outside, think about a lemonade glass because it can help you more. It can treat some issues related to them. In every morning, slide a piece of lemon and eat it in or before your breakfast. This is good for your indigestion or dyspepsia and constipation as well. Besides that, it can also help to protect you from some signs of dyspepsia which show that you are not healthy like heartburn. However, it will make you bored if you eat a piece of lemon in the morning. One small tip you can handle that you can make a lemon soda cup with the ingredients include lemon juice, soda, a little salt, ice cubes (be able to be made from fridge, but portable ice maker will help you save your time in the morning), and mint leaves if you want. A glass of lemon soda will make you fresher and more comfortable.
Hair care
Lemonade is very useful for your hair or scalp. It can help to improve your hair better. Moreover, it can treat some issues related to hair and scalp like dandruff, hair loss or something like that.
Skin care
Lemon is a fruit which include more vitamin C than another. Therefore, drinking a glass of lemon juice just like providing a glass of vitamin C per day for your body make your skin become better. Lemon is like a medicine which is made from nature. It can also treat some problems about your skin like wrinkles, blemishes, and blackhead. If you add a little honey into a glass of your lemon juice and drink it every day, a healthy and soft, even flawless skin you usually dream of will be come true.
Giving a hand for some people who want to treat for coffee addiction
Choosing a drink in every morning is a great way for you to enjoy your new day. Coffee is one of the most popular kinds of drink that all people like, but it is not good in some conditions. Therefore, if you have a cup of coffee in the morning day after day, once you realize that you become a coffee addiction. How can you wean off? Instead of choosing coffee for your morning, you can choose a glass of lemonade because it can help you to detoxify coffee. Moreover, there are more benefits for your health, hair, skin, even weight loss.
Weight loss
Drink a glass of lemon juice (no sugar) or mixing lemon juice with honey in every morning. It will be better if you drink your juice before 30 minute-breakfast. Pectin fiber in lemon is one of the main reasons make you do not feel craven after you drink lemonade. You will have a better result about your weight if you enjoy a glass of lemonade in every morning.
Lemonade is known as a natural medicine for human's life. It brings many benefits for us. Just enjoy a cup of lemonade everyday, you will have many benefits for your health, hair, skin, detox coffee, weight, and even more than that.


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Winter is a beautiful time of the year – it sets a beautiful scene for Christmas and the holidays; it brings the joys of skiing, snowshoeing and tobogganing; and it gives you an excuse to curl up on the couch while it's storming outside with hot chocolate and hearty stews. However, let's not deny the fact that winter can also be a hard time of year for most people.
Warmer temperatures will bring some moisture back into your dry, cracking hands and face and make it easier to breathe while exercising outdoors.
It's a long season (depending on where you live longer for some than others), it is cold (extremely cold for many northerners!) and it brings the hassle of shoveling, driving in treacherous or messy weather and having to wear three layers every time you step outside. Here are a few reasons why I'm looking for springtime in a couple of months and why you might also be too!
I don't know about you but I currently have to wear a minimum of 2, often 3 layers outdoors when I go out to run. Short sleeve, long-sleeve (sometimes two), running jacket, neck warmer, headband, hat, two pairs of gloves, 2 pairs of socks, tights and a lighter running pant over those. It feels like it takes forever to get dressed some days! I'm looking forward to simply pulling on a pair of running tights, or shorts, maybe a tee or long-sleeve and getting out the door without feeling like I have an extra 15 pounds on me.
Good-bye 14 to -13F temperatures, hello anything above 40 to 50's! The cold temperatures not only make dressing a true test of strength at times, but it can be harsh on the skin (hello dry, lizard skin) and hard on the lungs if you're doing harder running workouts or skiing in it. Warmer temperatures will bring some moisture back into your dry, cracking hands and face and make it easier to breathe while exercising outdoors.
I love the outdoors and come snow or grass, sun or rain, I will find a way to be outdoors. Nevertheless, the amount of time I spend outdoors is usually cut down in the winter. Shorter days combined with the darker mornings and evenings are more conducive to days indoors or at the gym. In contrast, in the spring and summer, the longer, lighter days make it more inviting to go for long walks, hiking in the woods or kayaking down a river.
The dark, cold days of winter bring the promise of comfort foods, typically hearty meals higher in carbs and fats. In contrast, brighter weather makes it more likely you'll want to eat lighter, healthier fare such as veggie-filled salads and vitamin-rich smoothies. You'll also want to clean up your diet knowing that summer is coming soon including beach vacations or running races and triathlon season if that's your thing.
After many months of white and dark colors, spring brings in green grass and flowers as life seems to waken up again from it's wintery slumber. The fresh scents and spring colors can lift you from the effects of SAD (or Seasonal Affective Disorder) symbolizing the season of rebirth for your own true Self as well.


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2012 UFO's ALIENS HIDDEN HISTORY OF EARTH Pt 1 MICHAEL CREMO
Michael Cremo talks about the Hidden History of Planet Earth what he calls Forbidden Archaeology. Human beings are much older than what mainsteam science has potrayed and there is plenty of evidence of human remains and structures which are way to old to explain with the present theories. This has been hidden on purpose firstly by the secret sects which want to dumb us down, they actively destroyed a lot of historical monuments in the 1880's because they wanted to keep this secret to themselves. Secondly by pressure induced by the Academic Universities to only think within a limited paradigm. If an archaeologist or historian presents new data not within the box they are actively ridiculed and may even lose there job. Most Universities are heavily sponsored by private corporations or by donations from the super rich who wish for this ignorance to continue so mankind can be controlled. Michael Cremo has an Excellent Website at www.mcremo.com More Great Radio Shows like this at www.coasttocoastam.com
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A Guide To Lake Jipe
Lake Jipe is a small, shallow lake (area 28 sq. km and average depth less than 3 m), lying astride the Kenya-Tanzania border, just to the east of the northern Pare Mountains of Tanzania (Mwanga district, in the Kilimanjaro region).
It is 12 km long and 2.5 km wide, 12 square km belong to Tanzania and 14 square km to Kenya. Tsavo West National Park of Kenya borders the southern portion of the lake while Mt Kilimanjaro dominates the horizon some distance to the northwest.
Lake Jipe receives its main inflow from Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania via River Lumi passing through Kenya. The other main inflow is via River Muvulani from the Pare Mountains. Several temporary streams, mainly from the Pare Mountains, also drain into Lake Jipe. The lake has one outflow, the River Ruvu, located in Tanzania to the south of River Lumi, the main inflow.
The lake's outlet forms the Ruvu River. Kenya's unfencedTsavo West National Park protects part of the lake's northern shore, while on the Tanzania side Mkomazi Game Reserve is nearby. The lake is known for its endemic fish, as well as water birds, mammals, wetland plants and lake-edge swamps, which can extend 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Jipe's shore.
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Jipe is a shallow backwater of the Lumi river, which afterwards becomes the Ruvu River, and enters in the Nyumba ya Mungu Reservoir. After joining there with the Kikuletwa the stream flows as Pangani River in the Indian Ocean at Pangani.
As for wildlife, Lake Jipe not only offers an abundance of hippo and crocodile but there is also a small herd of zebras, To the northern end of the lake are also a few tiny villages whose inhabitants make a living from fishing.
Lake Jipe is located at the south-western tip of' the Tsavo National Park, Lake Jipe is framed by tall reeds, with plenty of hippo, elephant and birdlife its shallow waters.
The lake is one of Kenya's most important wetlands, providing refuge for numerous water and marsh birds. There is a motor boat for hire at the gate.


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The issue is clear: the adoption of machine learning is taxing underlying data access and management infrastructure.
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When this happens, the generation-one infrastructure starts to stress. Scaling failures start to show up in a variety of ways – from the inability to deliver data access at the required speed to the inability to scale the amount transformation on the data to improve findings to the inability to scale data storage in a footprint that's easy or cost-effective to manage, and so on. Any one of these failures can derail advances of the overall program because if you can't grow your inputs or increase the depth of your deep learning network, you can't scale your outputs.
At this point, the project is in trouble, and a complete re-tooling is needed. As you can imagine, for commercial projects, the expense is usually bigger on the opportunity side—where time lost is a gift to the competition—than on the capital and manpower side. To try to avoid re-tooling some programs, try side-by-side silos. They copy the non-scaling architecture and point half their computation at the new gear, but now they have two environments to manage, and any inputs or outputs that need to be shared are now double the storage space and double the management and also add a lot of latency to job completion when results from silo 1 need to be used as inputs in silo 2. This, of course, just gets worse when the program needs to add in silo 3.
The most successful projects we have seen that avoid this re-tooling period are the ones where infrastructure owners take the time – usually near the end of the prototyping phase – to think about various potential data scenarios: low, expected, and high requirements for data access, computation, retention, and protection. A relatively small planning effort can save a lot of time and money, and it just makes sense to plan for success.
The larger the project, the more likely it is to need a storage system that can scale to large capacity, along with high-density building blocks to reduce the number of devices and data-center overhead as the project grows. The system should be able to deliver performance at scale, meaning it will need to show it can work well at projected scale with technologies like parallel file systems and flash. For future-proofed infrastructure, the system also needs to be able to handle data that is older or colder, simply and cost-effectively, and to have a clear path to future technologies like new flash formats and flash-native tools that maximize flash performance while avoiding flash-specific performance and longevity hurdles.
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The District is required to re-approve the investment policy on an annual basis. We must also prepare a quarterly investment report, which details the Districts investments and earnings for the governing body. Both requirements were enacted in response to the 1994 County of Orange bankruptcy in which the County Board of Supervisors was unaware of questionable investments made by the County Treasurer. By law, the primary objective of any person investing public funds is to safeguard principal; secondly to meet liquidity needs; and lastly, to achieve a return or yield on invested funds.
The Districts investment policy allows investments such as the following: Obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States of America Certificates of Deposit fully insured by the FDIC Highly-rated money market portfolios Long and medium-term corporate debt guaranteed by a highly-rated corporation Public housing bonds issued by public agencies Local Agency Investment Fund
The District invests all reserves in LAIF, currently $7.3 million, including $2.4 million deposit from HDMC, because we have no staff with training and expertise in evaluating and making investments. The Government Code declares that each person, treasurer, or governing body authorized to make investment decisions act with care, skill, prudence and diligence when handling public funds.
The Local Agency Investment Fund (LAIF) was created by state statute in 1977 as an investment alternative for Californias local governments and special districts. The program enables us to participate in a major portfolio which invests hundreds of millions of dollars, using the expertise of the Treasurers Office investment staff. Oversight is provided by the Local Agency Investment Advisory Board, consisting of five members.
LAIF is part of the Pooled Money Investment Account (PMIA), begun in 1953, to invest taxpayers money and manage the States cash flow. Policies, goals and objectives established for the portfolio make certain that the goals of safety, liquidity and yield are not jeopardized. Oversight is provided by the Pooled Money Investment Board including the State Treasurer, Director of Finance and State Controller.
2,693 participants and $21 billion invested; 64% of the participants are special districts. Maximum $50M investment except for bond proceeds. 15 transactions per month, in or out, in minimum $5,000 increments. Funds available same day. Bond proceeds allow for a one-time deposit, no maximum, withdrawals every 30 calendar days from date of deposit.
Goal 1 Portfolio safety/diversification – high quality mix of securities, spreading investments over different types minimizes the impact of any one industry/investment class Goal 2 Liquidity - managed to ensure normal as well as scheduled extraordinary cash needs can be met. Further, marketable treasuries will also be maintained to cover unforeseen withdrawals or delayed deposits. Goal 3 Yield on investment – investments are made in such a way as to realize the maximum return consistent with safe and prudent treasury management.
State statute requires that administrative costs not exceed 5% of quarterly interest earnings; however, costs are directly correlated to the cost of operation only. Costs have not exceeded 2.1% since at least 2004. State Treasurers Office has oversight responsibility and they are audited by the Bureau of State Audits on an annual basis.
Insurance related to the credit risk of the investments: There is no insurance for individual securities or the portfolio in general. However, due to the characteristics of the portfolio, credit risk is minimal. Certain trigger mechanisms for such insurance policies to become effective are judged to be improbable, such as the requirement that all investment earnings are exhausted before insurance coverage becomes effective. The State is self-insured and any fraud assertions would be heard by the Attorney General and any judgment awarded would be appropriated by the Legislature. Third-party designated depositories provide insurance coverage for any fraudulent acts. Risk management controls cover losses ranging up to $500 million, depending upon the incident. Insurance related to fraudulent acts or lack of fidelity on the part of administrators or custodians:
The State cannot declare bankruptcy under Federal regulations; therefore, money in the LAIF shall not be subject to transfer or loan or seizure by any state official or state agency. Further, Government Code 16429.3 states that moneys placed with the Treasurer for deposit in the Local Agency Investment Fund by cities, counties, special districts, nonprofit corporations, or qualified quasi-government agencies shall NOT be subject to either of the following: Transfer or loan pursuant to Sections 16310, 16312, or 16313: 16310 – authorizes transfer of money not needed to the General Fund when the General Fund in the State Treasury is or will be exhausted. 16312 – authorizes withdrawal of funds from the General Fund to fund a program or project which will be repaid at a later sale of state bonds or notes. 16313 – authorizes loans to state agencies from the Pooled Money Investment Account to repay or replace existing financing. Impoundment or seizure by any state official or state agency. Additionally, the Government Code also says that our right to withdraw our deposited money may not be affected by the States failure to adopt a budget by July 1.
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Amazing Activities The activities were very exciting. We didn't know what the activities were going to be until we got there; but we weren't afraid.
Brilliant Bushcraft Bushcraft was really cool. We got to build a fire, a den and we had to search for food. At the end we sat inside a stone age hut.
Beacon walk The Beacon walk was very long, it was very tiring; especially up the steep parts. We were very relieved when we got to the top. We were 1395 feet over sea level; we could see everything, even the edge of Wales!
Orienteering The orienteering was a punch trail; we had a piece of paper with numbers on it and when we saw a hole punch with a number on it we had to punch a hole in the paper were the right number was.
Zip wire The zip wire was very fun but at the same time it was very nerve-racking because there was a ladder nailed to a tree and we had to climb up it was very scary.
Archery The instructor taught us how to hold the bow and arrow then how to shoot the arrow. Shazad got two bulls eyes in one game!
Night line In the night line we had to find a partner, one person was wearing a pair of blackout goggles and the other person had to guide them under, over, and across. It was really fun because you wouldn't know where you were going. And there was a black out tunnel which was pitch black inside.
Low ropes The low ropes course didn't have low ropes, everything was high: the swings, the see-saw, the tyres. It was high but very fun!
Rock climbing When we went to the rock climbing wall the instructor told us how to put are harnesses on. The wall was difficult, high and very tiring.
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Accommodation The accommodation was luxurious with five star dining and the most comfy cabins.
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This method computes the sample median of a univariate functional dataset based on a definition of depth for univariate functional data.
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median is required, in form of
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additional parameters to be used in the function specified by
Provided a definition of functional depth for univariate data, the corresponding median (i.e. the deepest element of the sample) is returned as the desired median. This method does not coincide with the computation of the cross-sectional median of the sample of the point-by-point measurements on the grid. Hence, the sample median is a member of the dataset provided.
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grid = seq( 0, 1, length.out = P )
# Generating a gaussian functional sample with desired mean
# Being the distribution symmetric, the sample mean and median are coincident
target_median = sin( 2 * pi * grid )
C = exp_cov_function( grid, alpha = 0.2, beta = 0.2 )
fD = fData( grid, generate_gauss_fdata( N,
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plot( fD )
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Japan's utter panic was summed up by Akio Mikuni, President of the ratings company Mikuni & Co. when he suggested that "Japan should write-off its holdings of Treasuries because the U.S. government will struggle to finance increasing debt levels needed to dig the economy out of recession". For good measure.."The dollar may lose as much as 40 percent of its value to 50 yen or 60 yen from the current spot rate of 90.40 today in Tokyo unless Japan takes drastic measures to help bail out the U.S. economy"
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A previous report describing China's proposed 7 fold increase in Gold reserves is also indicative of its gradual pullback from the doomed dollar.Gold has been slowly rising as investors, previously struck rigid with fear, are now taking a breath and looking at real value. The old adage of Gold being a safe haven is coming back in to play and no amount of gold price manipulation on the exchange is going to change that. With China's announcement of its intention to build up it's reserves to 4000 Tons, we can expect other Treasury Note holders to be thinking along the same lines. This can only lead to a bullish gold market and a collapsing market for Treasuries. Treasury Note doomsayers are a growing community amongst which we can count former Bank of England policymaker, Willem Buiter, who summed up his position thus
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Forbes is predicting China's future diversification of it's reserves as Treasury Bills become more of a liability..
"Washington's issuance of mountains of debt to bail out the U.S. economy will only make T-bills less rewarding, putting the dollar's future strength in question. Various economists are saying it will be in China's interest to diversify in the near future."
We can discount the unexpected strengthening of the economy in 2009, but inflation has to rise once those trillions are in the playing field and the dollar will be toast. Bonds, yielding next to nothing, don't exactly present an attractive investment opportunity. The only reason Treasuries have been so attractive up to now was that they were presumed to be a safer harbor than equities, commodities or cash. No amount of "stimulus" plans can fool all the people all the time. After the initial massacre, investors are taking a moment of reflection and taking a more long term approach. We are now in an era of survival and protectionism rules the day.


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A University of Wyoming student targeted by an anonymous Facebook posting that included a threat of sexual violence/rape had posted the item herself, police said.
The university in Laramie, Wyoming announced on Tuesday that campus police cited Meg Lanker-Simons for misdemeanor interference with a police investigation by giving false statements.
The posting that threatened Lanker-Simons occurred on a Facebook forum for UW students, leading to an outcry and an investigation by UW police because it was directed at a student.
The Facebook page, which is not officially affiliated with the university, was taken down and a student-led demonstration against sexual violence was held.
UW police say they found what they called 'substantial evidence' verifying that the post came from the computer belonging to Lanker-Simons.
Lanker-Simons is a blogger and local radio show host who advocates for liberal causes.
In 2010, she filed a lawsuit against the university that forced UW to allow 1960s radical Bill Ayers on the campus for a speech on education.


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As an average Dallas nudist you may well be left scratching your head at the news that nudism is a social movement. In fact many area nudists are likely unaware of any nudist movement and can't recall seeing or hearing any media coverage on either local or national nudist protests or political action events. If that describes you, not to worry. You haven't missed the movement. Actually, for better or for worse, there isn't one.
via What you need to know about the nudist movement – Dallas Nudist Culture | Examiner.com.


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One of the things I love doing on Giant Electric Penguin is shitting on stuff people love, and on August 23, 2011, I came down pretty hard on The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird." Over five-hundred people read (i.e. accidentally stumbled upon) the post, but nobody commented, which leads me to believe that I changed, at least, five-hundred minds that warm August day. I've re-read the post. I stand by every single word. --matt.
On Sunday, I published the third installment of GEP's special summer feature Summer Jam...Or Is It?, in which we present three or four songs and decide based on subject matter and, often, location of music video shoot, whether or not said song is appropriate for summer time listening. The songs deemed worthy of the coveted "Summer Jam" status have been approved by our crack squad of musicologists (or probably just me, Matt) to be played at maximum volume at beach parties, backyard barbecues, and on road trips all summer long. It is understood that at the conclusion of Summer, these songs are to be packed away and forgotten about for the next eight months until summer rears it's sweaty, sunscreen-coated head again next year. That is understood, right?
Sunday's installment feature a collection of surfing-themed songs. The decision to make The Beach Boys' "Surfin' USA" a GEP-approved summer jam was a no brainer, as were our decisions to induct both Weezer and The Drums into our growing summer canon. The final song on our list however, The Trashmen's stunningly inept, mind-numbingly insipid Rivingtons'
mash-up "Surfin' Bird" was not granted summer jam status, in fact, I came down on it pretty hard, going as far to question whether or not it actually counted as music at all.
I wasn't content to merely air my disgust on this blog. I took my hatred of "Surfin' Bird" to my personal Facebook page. Friends, family, people I've met exactly once, people I haven't seen in years and don't care to see ever again, people I don't particularly like, etc. needed to know how I felt about the song. And so I made this simple missive my status update: "'Surfin' Bird' by the Trashmen is probably the worst song ever written, provided it was actually written down at all." "Take that, you dumb surfing bird," I thought.
It did not take long for my peers to respond. "I am now going to de-friend you. BLASPHEMY!" wrote one young man. "Dislike!" another wayward soul commented. Surprised, I posted a follow-up question: "Honest question: Who is this song for? My assumption is people who hate music. I'm thinking though, based on your reaction, that you both like music and enjoy this particularly song. So, please, tell me why."
Rather than a straightforward answer, I received this:
I can only assume that this means that certain people enjoy "Surfin' Bird" because it was prominently featured in a Family Guy bit. But is it "Surfin' Bird" they enjoy or is it Family Guy? And look at the clip again, I mean, if you really need to, it is painfully unfunny. Family Guy isn't celebrating The Trashmen's one and only hit, but rather pointing out how incessantly irritating it is. Stewie doesn't throw up his hands and sing along. He shoves a fucking revolver in his mouth. So not even your friends over at Family Guy Inc. like "Surfin' Bird." They just thought it would be funny to make Peter Griffin sing it. It isn't, but there you go.
Then again, I'm not sure this is the real reason people like "Surfin' Bird." That would be illogical. Why would you like something just because something else you like referenced it? If you like something, it would stand to reason that there is something likable about said something. As far as I can tell there isn't one likable thing about "Surfin' Bird." Here's the song if you haven't yet experienced it:
I ask again, what is good about this? The vocals? The lyrics? It sounds like a mental patient smoked a carton of cigarettes, skipped his night time meds, and recorded himself screaming about birds while a shitty garage surf band played along. It's catchy, sure, but it's catchy like AIDS is catchy.
Perhaps it is a nostalgia thing. I remember very clearly my dad playing this song for me on his old record player when I was a little kid. It was the weirdest thing I'd ever heard. I couldn't believe songs like it actually existed. It was strange and funny, and I thought it was great. Then he played "Stairway to Heaven" for me. Then he introduced me to The Beatles, The Mamas and The Papas, and Chet Atkins. After that, how could I ever take "Surfin' Bird" seriously again? These guys were making real, honest-to-goodness music. The Trashmen were blabbering nonsense words.
Another FB friend attempted to change my mind on "Surfin' Bird" by provided a link to Pee Wee Herman performing the song in some movie, and while it did make me giggle, it didn't change the fact that the song "Surfin' Bird" is utter crap.
Can any of you so-called "Surfin' Bird" fans explain to me why I'm wrong? Honestly, no one has answered my initial question. And the answer, "It's fun," doesn't count, because "Surfin' Bird" isn't fun. It's grating and it's awful.
But, hey, what do I know? I like this "song."
Sunday, February 10, 2013
GEP Best of...: Bring Me The Head of the Surfing Bird
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TranscriptLEIGH SALES: The NSW Minister for Police has been forced to resign for conduct judged not befitting a minister; Matt Brown admitted dancing in his underpants at an office party but denies allegations of lewd behaviour involving a female colleague.
He had been in the job just less than three days. Emma Griffiths reports.
Emma Griffiths: Just another day in NSW politics.
MATT BROWN, FORMER NSW MINISTER: I tendered my resignation because I behaved in a way not fitting or befitting a Minister.
EMMA GRIFFITHS: Police Minister for 2.5 days, Matt Brown has been forced to quit the frontbench. Details have emerged of a party in his Parliament House office three months ago, it was Budget night and the then housing and tourism minister decided to strip down and dance in his underwear.
MATT BROWN: As is the tradition in the Parliament, work colleagues get together and celebrate the Budget.
EMMA GRIFFITHS: He doesn't dispute that happened, but he has rejected other allegations that he simulated a sex act with the Labor member for Wollongong Noreen Hay in front of her daughter, both vehemently deny the reports.
MATT BROWN: I want to state categorically they are lies; they are not true, they did not happen.
NOREEN HAY, NSW LABOR BACKBENCHER: I reject specific allegations of improper behaviour by Matt Brown towards myself or my daughter.
NATHAN REES, NSW PREMIER: He's denied it to; she's also said it didn't occur, now they are the two key players in that particular sordid episode.
EMMA GRIFFITHS: Nathan Rees has been Premier for less than a week, the scandal dropping a bomb on his ambitions of restoring public confidence in the Government.
NATHAN REES: Bitterly disappointed that he's let the team down, bitterly disappointed that our credibility, my credibility is back to square one.
EMMA GRIFFITHS: There's widespread speculation that the story of Matt Brown's antics has been leaked now as a deliberate political payback to Nathan Rees, he says there's every possibility it's linked to factional infighting.
He's ready to read the riot act.
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EMMA GRIFFITHS: The Opposition dismissed his call for a bipartisan plan to improve MPs behaviour.
BARRY O'FARRELL, NSW OPPOSITION LEADER: Let me let you in on a secret, there is a code of conduct, it's just that the Labor Party continues to ignore it.
EMMA GRIFFITHS: Matt Brown will stay on as a backbench MP representing the bemused voters in the seat of Kiama, the State's third Police Minister in less than a week, Tony Kelly has been sworn in this afternoon.


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I remember the emotions I went through when I first decided to purchase the Instant Pot: Excitement. Skepticism. Anticipation. But when that beautiful big box arrived at my door, all emotions faded into one. Absolute overwhelm. How do I unbox this thing, let alone use it?!
I knew enough from stovetop pressure canning that I wanted to treat the pressure cooking experience with the same safety and caution. And it doesn't help that I'm the type of person who MUST read every page of an owner's manual before I can use something.
So I did what any smart and overwhelmed person would do. I stuck my Instant Pot in a closet. For two months.
It finally took the help of my good friend Tricia (who happens to run Once A Month Meals) to get over my mental IP block. She came to my house and walked me through everything I needed to know. We actually filmed our escapades, if you want to watch.
Fast forward three months. I'm now absolutely IN LOVE with my Instant Pot. In fact, I just ordered a second one and unboxed it the moment it came.
Unfamiliar with the Instant Pot? It's an electric programmable pressure cooker that cooks food quickly without compromising food quality or integrity. It can cook frozen ground beef in 25 minutes and roast a whole chicken in 30. It can make hard boiled eggs in 2 minutes …and there's no need for an ice bath!!!! It can make delicious bone broth in 1 hour — the stuff that used to take me 24 hours to make. People rave about its ability to make perfect cheesecake and creamy oatmeal in a fraction of the time.. It can also serve as a yogurt maker and rice maker. AND it functions as a slow cooker. AAAAAAAAND you can make up freezer meals and cook them STRAIGHT from frozen — no thawing!
If you're unsure how to get YOUR Instant Pot out of the box and use it, you've come to the right place.
Don't forget, you can click here to see all of our handy tips about the Instant Pot and here for all our Instant Pot recipes!
Step 1: Open the Box
Take a deep breath. Awesomeness is about to happen. If you purchased your IP online, it most likely came in a giant brown box. Inside that box is a large white box. Open that one.
Step 2: Set Stuff Aside
If you're a must-read-the-manual person like me, this may be hard. But save yourself some sanity. Set it aside. Also remove the Styrofoam packaging around the lid. Carefully lift your IP out of the box.
Step 3: Remove the Plastic Wrapping
Once you've removed the IP from the box, free it from the plastic. Turn the lid counter-clockwise and remove the lid (there are arrows to guide you). Inside your pot, you'll find a bunch of handy tools, two cups, and your electric plug, which we'll get to momentarily. Be sure to remove the plastic around the stainless steel metal insert/bowl.
My particular Instant Pot model came with a rice paddle, rice cup, soup ladle, and trivet. Set those aside to be washed and used later. There is also a power cord and condensation cup which we will use immediately.
Step 4: Remove the Film Cover
Across your digital display is a film protection cover. I highly recommend you remove it. (Especially so you don't later give yourself a heart attack wondering why your display suddenly looks cloudy with condensation building behind it. Don't laugh — this actually happens to quite a few people!)
Step 5: Attach the Condensation Cup (if your model has it)
I have the DUO60 7-in-1 model which comes with a condensation cup. Look at the plastic tools that came tucked inside your bowl. It's the cup that is rectangular looking. Turn your IP around and snap it in place to the back. It's actually hard to see it, but I promise it fits.
Step 6: Insert the Power Cord
Insert your power cord into the back of the Instant Pot. Be sure you push it in firmly. More than one person has thought their IP had manufacturing defects because it wouldn't turn on. Turns out, you just have to make sure the plug is secured all the way.
Step 7: Make Sure The Weighted Knob Is On
On the top of your lid you'll find a giant black weighted knob that swivels back and forth to indicate sealing (closed) or venting (open). This is one of the most important parts of your Instant Pot. Make sure that knob is fully attached and pushed down all the way.
Next to the weighted knob you'll also see a small round metal pressure pin. It stands tall when high pressure is achieved and falls when pressure is normalized. If you flip your lid over, you should hear the pin "clink" – letting you know it is free of obstruction.
Step 8: Check the Sealing Ring
Inside your lid, you'll find a rubber ring (also called a sealing ring). You will need to remove this rubber sealing ring and wash it each time you cook. Each time you cook, you should remove it to make sure it is intact, is free of debris (because you're going to wash it eah time, right? *cough*), and doesn't have any nicks or cuts. (If you find that it does, please throw it away immediately and replace it with a new one!) I keep my sealing rings in ziplock bags labeled "savory," "sweet," and extra. Because the rubber rings can retain faint odor, I like to keep a spare on hand.
Simply snap the sealing ring back into place. I find it is easier to start snapping it in by the nobs on the inside of the lid. I also highly recommend keeping a spare sealing ring on hand so that if yours does wear out, you aren't stuck! Instant Pot now offers special color-coded ones so you can easily decipher between sweet and savory rings.
Speaking of nobs, you'll notice some on the inside of your lid. In the picture above you see two variations of the same lid. The removable metal case (blocking shield) is designed to help prevent food from escaping into the pressure pin. Remove this from time to time to clean and wash.
Step 9: Plug Into The Wall
Now here comes the exciting final step! Plug your Instant Pot into your outlet! You should hear a happy beep greet you (I love that sound!) and the display should read OFF.
Step 10: Run the Steam Test
You're alllllllllllllmost ready to get started cooking! But there's one more thing you need to do – run the steam test.
This can take awhile. While you're waiting for the steam test to do it's thing, keep scrolling down.
You'll see a list of interesting articles that will help expand your knowledge of everything the Instant Pot can do, including Instant Pot accessories you should know about.
There are quite a few people who say the steam test isn't necessary… to just go ahead and cook. However, I feel like the steam test helps break in your Instant Pot and work out any kinks and factory dust. Plus, it's hard to go wrong boiling water. 😉
So here's how to do the Steam Test:
- Plug your Instant Pot into the outlet. It will beep once and say OFF.
- Fill your stainless steel bowl with water to the 3L line. If you want to speed up this process, use HOT water. (EDIT: I've received a lot of feedback that you don't have to use as much water as the manual says. 2-3 cups is more than plenty. Use your discretion.)
- Check the sealing ring to make sure it is attached (this is a good habit you want to ingrain).
- Attach the lid. You'll know it's attached properly when you hear beeps.
- Move the sealing valve to "sealing" (toward the back).
- Press the STEAM button. It should light up.
- You'll see two buttons [ – and + ]. Push the [-] button until your display reads 2. This stands for 2 minutes.
- Now, step back. The IP is going to do its thing. Here's what's happening:
The IP will automatically start after a few seconds – and the display will switch to ON. The water inside your IP is now going to rapidly heat (though "rapid" is a relative term; remember – a watched pot never boils, haha). You might see some wisps of steam escape from the pressure pin. Once the IP heats up enough to create pressure, the pin will pop up. The display will switch from ON to 2 (and give you some more happy beeps). The display will then countdown the minutes to zero and – wait for it – give you more happy beeps. Then the IP will automatically switch to keep warm. But it will show that display with a giant L001 which means it has been keeping warm for 1 minute. It will continue to count upward with the minutes. There are two ways to release pressure: either wait for the pressure to release naturally and for the pin to drop (and then the lid will unlock) OR turn the sealing valve to "venting." But be aware – steam can shoot out! This is called a quick pressure release.
So… now you're all set to cook in your Instant Pot!
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