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The economy being simulated in these models is a rather special one, based on pure, free-market trading. The exchange of assets is all that ever happens here; there is no production of new wealth, and no consumption either. Leaving out so much of the real economy is an obvious weakness, but there is a compensating advantage: What remains is a closed system. In the model, wealth is a conserved quantity, like energy or momentum. Because the total amount of wealth never changes, one person can get richer only if another grows poorer.
I find it helpful to think of this miniature economy in terms of a yard sale, where all the participants put their goods out on the lawn Saturday morning, then stroll up and down the street making trades with their neighbors. At the end of the day, after all transactions are completed, an auditor reviews everyone's inventory and calculates their new net worth.
Many economic models assume that all transactions occur at precisely the right price. Indeed, prices are correct by definition in such models: Whatever price is agreed to by a willing seller and a willing buyer is the value assigned to an asset. Given such perfect pricing, nothing interesting could ever happen in the yard-sale economy. I might trade my old toaster for your broken VCR, but if we negotiate the terms of the deal correctly, my net worth will not change in the slightest, and neither will yours.
In practice, the assumption of perfect pricing seems a little unrealistic. Some buyers are more discerning than others, and some sellers are more persuasive. There are bargains to be had, and there are bad deals—concepts that could hardly exist if we did not agree that merchandise has a true and proper value, which does not always correspond exactly to the price paid.
Even slight departures from perfect pricing bring a new dynamic to the yard-sale model. If I buy your rusty wheelbarrow and pay more than it's worth, I am left slightly poorer after the transaction, and you are a little richer. Conversely, if I pay less than fair value, I gain a little, and you lose. In either case there has been a transfer of wealth, typically a small fraction of the price paid. These transfers are where the action is in the modeled economy; as a matter of fact, the model can ignore the transaction itself—there's no need to talk about toasters and wheelbarrows—and simply consider the net transfer of wealth.
The question is: What happens when this process is repeated many times? If some of the traders are shrewder than others, you would certainly expect them to do well in the long run; likewise the perennial suckers are going to lose their shirts. But suppose that everyone is equally skillful, so that who wins and who loses is purely a matter of chance. The amount of gain and loss is also determined at random—but it's always less than the total wealth of the poorer agent, so that traders never risk losing more than they own.
Before reading on, you might try to predict what will happen in such an economy. If everyone starts out with the same bankroll, how will the assets be distributed after many random exchanges? Will the levels of wealth remain uniform? Perhaps the system will evolve toward a Gaussian distribution, with most people having a middling amount of money, while a few are very poor and a few are rich?
Here is the answer given by the computer experiment: If trading continues long enough, essentially all the wealth winds up in the hands of one person. The yard-sale economy, as formulated in this model, is a winner-take-all lottery. The traders might just as well put all their goods in one big pile, and then roll the dice to decide who keeps it all. (Strictly speaking, one trader gets all the goods only if wealth is quantized—if there is some smallest unit of value below which one's worth falls to zero. If wealth can be subdivided indefinitely, the winner's share comes arbitrarily close to 100 percent but never quite gets there.)
This condensation of all property in the hands of one individual is an economic catastrophe—something like the formation of a black hole in astrophysics. It's obviously bad news for the majority of the people, who are left penniless. But even if you happen to be the big winner, your victory may prove hollow. Although you have all the riches in the world, you can't buy a thing, because no one else has goods to sell. And you can't sell anything either, because no one has money to buy with. The whole economy is frozen.
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I just logged on after many months, looking for some of Minnie's recipes (which I didn't find btw). I hardly recognized some of the Avatars!
Ashen, reading your "occupation" I was reminded of the old sailor's adage that "When the rum is gone, Port is left".
I'm tempted to jump back in, but I really don't have time for FB, Twitter, e-mail, work and this. Anyway, it was fun to read a few of the forum posts of the last day or so.
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Things are heating up across the Northeast this week. A blistering heat wave has spread over the region, with extra-high temperatures also reaching the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes.
In the Northeast, a heat wave is defined as three or more days in a row with temperatures above 90 degrees. Temperatures are expected to top out in the low to middle 90s Monday through Thursday from Hartford, Conn. and Providence, R.I. to New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.
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But outdoor temperatures will feel even warmer than that. Heat index is a measure of how hot it feels outside, taking into consideration both temperature and humidity. This week, experts say heat index values may reach the upper 90s and low 100s. "If the heat index value is around 110 in the south and about 105 in the north, then that's considered a period that you want to be careful," Jannie Ferrell, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, told TFK.
The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory Monday for New York City. It will be in effect until midnight Tuesday. This means temperatures can be dangerous, and people should avoid tiring outdoor activities and should try to stay cool.
Major League Baseball's 84th annual All-Star Game will take place in New York City on Tuesday night. By Tuesday evening, temperatures are expected to hover around the mid to upper 80s, but lots of humidity could make the air feel hotter.
Earlier this month, temperatures rose above 100 along the East Coast. It was the first time in almost nine years that temperatures hit the triple digits in New York City's Central Park and at Philadelphia International Airport.
What's causing such hot weather? A large zone of hot air in the upper atmosphere has settled over the East Coast, Ohio Valley, and Great Lakes. Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and Cincinnati will also see temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s over the next few days.
Relief from the heat will not arrive until the end of the week, when a cold front will slowly shove the hot, humid air southward. This change will begin Friday in the southern Great Lakes and over the weekend in the Ohio Valley and Northeast.
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While the heat is here, experts say to be careful and to stay smart about which activities you do outside. People are advised to drink plenty of water and stay in air-conditioned areas as much as possible.
"Try not to play outside during the heat. When there's a heat advisory or heat wave, kids want to play outdoors, but it's not smart to stay outside," Ferrell said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers some tips for staying healthy in hot weather:
• Slow down, and reduce strenuous activity. Whenever possible, do outdoor activities in the early morning or late evening instead of midday.
• Dress in lightweight, loose, light-colored clothing.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Eat light, easy-to-digest foods.
• Seek out shade if you have to be outdoors for extended periods. Spend more time in air-conditioned places.
• Check on elderly neighbors, friends, and relatives to make sure they are okay.
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Republicans suffer from a dearth of high-profile celebrity allies, but country star Sara Evans was an exception: an award-winning Nashville star and mother of three, she was a frequent entertainer at rallies for George W. Bush, and her husband, Craig L. Schelske, became an activist in GOP politics. "Evans sees a natural crossover between country tunes and Republican politics," the Portland Oregonian wrote in 2002. "Like any country star worth her rhinestones, she sings about daddies and mommas, truck stops and broken hearts," but in accordance with her Christian faith, "she [will not] write nor sing songs about adultery." Before Evans' exit this week from the network celeb talent contest Dancing with the Stars, a straight-faced Tom DeLay urged Republicans to vote for Evans in her dance-off against fellow contestant Jerry Springer: "We need to send a message to Hollywood and the media that smut has no place on television by supporting good people like Sara Evans."
This week, Evans dropped out of the top-rated twinkle-toed dog and pony show, alleging that her soon-to-be-ex husband is a pervy, porn-hording adulterer. Somewhere, White House flacks may have felt they dodged a bullet: in 2002, Schelske was a White House-backed candidate for a House seat. But for the good sense of Republican voters in Oregon's 5th Congressional District, who failed to elect him, Schelske could have been a Bush-anointed Congressman — and the Republicans' right wing could have had another "family values" scandal on its hands.
As it is, the White House can't be too stoked. Schelske was a Steering Committee Member for Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, and kept his hand in national GOP politics via his Craig PAC, which has been raising money to support Republican candidates in 2006, and to "assist the Republican Party in promoting common-sense, conservative policies to guide elected officials." But now that Evans' divorce filing is public, tabloid readers are likely wondering about the disconnect between Craig PAC and what Evans' court filing calls "Craigs Lists."
According to Evans, Schelske has recently taken leave of that good-'ol common sense he's been promoting. The gory court filing — obtained by the Nashville Tennessean and posted on its web site — alleges everything from intoxication and verbal abuse to adultery and internet sexcapades. Specifically, the documents claim that Schelske was caught red-handed by one of the couples' three young children while watching a porn flick on TV, that he cheated on his wife with the children's former nanny, and that he stored on his computer scores of photographs of himself posing with a hard-on, including images of Schelske having sex with other women: "On his computer, husband maintains 'Craigs Lists,'" the filing claims. "Many of them involve requests for three party sex and anal sex. Husband's 'Craigs Lists' are composed of personal ads on his personal sex engine involving him and prospective sex partners.'" (In 2004, when I interviewed Evans for a parenting magazine, she was adamant in explaining that "I don't let my nanny raise my kids"; however, when on the road, the family traveled in close quarters, with their nanny sleeping on the same bus as Evans, Schelske, and their young children.)
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Pawlenty, whose name has figured prominently in speculation about the Republican vice presidential selection process, tells "CBS This Morning" he thinks the news media have been obsessed by questions surrounding Romney's taxes. And he accuses President Barack Obama of "hanging shiny objects before the public and the press, and the press is taking the bait."
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No matter how bad 'ambulance billing' is, things could be worse ...
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, on Feb 2, 2009
That's what city officials and the public learned this week with the release of a special City Auditor's report on billing irregularities that may have cost the city tens of thousands of dollars -- perhaps several hundred thousand -- in recent years.
This report caught my personal attention for several reasons. One was a general interest in city flaws that cost money that could be better spent on services and projects of real value rather than being wasted.
Another reason is from the past: The paramedics program was created as a result of a five-part series of investigative articles I wrote for the erstwhile Palo Alto Times many years ago, in 1971, in fact.
Those articles resulted in the creation of the paramedics program, after the late Joe Carleton took up the cause and lobbied the City Council and city officials. The articles outlined serious, sometimes life-threatening shortcomings of the private ambulance services locally and statewide.
These were not just billing problems -- they were problems with inadequate (if any) training, ambulance crews not knowing streets, how patients were handled in cases of serious illness or accidents, and cut-throat competition between firms.
So no matter how serious the current billing problems are -- and they seem quite serious, as outlined in Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner's coverage this week -- things could be worse. Thus far, no allegations or reports have surfaced about problems with patient care emanating from the life-saving service, which next year will be observing its 40th anniversary.
At the time of the series, one medical official estimated that proper training and operation of an emergency-response service could save at least eight lives a year in Palo Alto. Let's see, 8 x 40. …
The core problem at the time was that state law required ambulance crews to get First Aid training within a few months of getting a job with an ambulance firm, as I recall. But because most employees of ambulance firms -- who often had to put in 90-hour shifts -- were young and single, the pattern was that an attendant would quit one company just shy of the required time and get a job at another.
This created a life-and-death "musical chairs" pattern of virtually untrained crew members never getting trained, unless they were lucky enough to land on a crew with a more experienced member who knew something.
The result was that some patients were permanently paralyzed or more seriously injured by being handled ineptly, while others simply died in transit from heart attacks or other acute illnesses.
The high rotational turnover also left ambulance crews with no one who knew the local streets.
A colleague of mine at the Times was thrown from her horse along Alpine Road when it shied at some construction work for the new I-280 freeway. She suffered a broken hip. When the ambulance headed back toward Stanford Hospital, the driver turned right at Alpine and Junipero Serra Boulevard. My friend, in pain but looking out a side window, had to tell them they were going the wrong way and that they needed to jog left and right to get onto Sand Hill Road to get to the hospital. Oh. OK.
A fire official recounted how firemen were dropped off at corners of tricky subdivisions -- such as the Greenmeadow or Barron Park neighborhoods -- to wave the ambulance crew in the right direction. Just follow the string of firefighters.
Then there was the cut-throat competition.
I first heard about companies racing each other to pick up patients to get the lucrative transport fees, then confirmed with multiple sources.
In one instance in East Palo Alto, an officially dispatched ambulance crew from San Mateo County arrived at the address of a heart-attack victim to find him being wheeled out of the house on a gurney by a Palo Alto-based company. When the newcomers protested, a Palo Alto crew member responded by pointing out that the patient was on their gurney.
Well, yeah, the late arriver said, holding aloft a set of keys to the Palo Alto ambulance, which he then tossed into a bush and claimed the patient while the Palo Alto crew scrabbled to find their keys.
I confirmed this incident with a crew member of one of the ambulances as well as with other medical people.
I got a kick five years later when the film, "Mother, Jugs and Speed," came out and included a scene at a golf course where one crew tosses the other crew's keys into the rough and claims the patient. It was the one really funny part of a mostly crummy film that even its star-power stars Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel couldn't resuscitate.
Critic Vincent Canby of the New York Times rightly described it thus: "'Mother, Jugs and Speed' is a rip-off of vulgarity, poor taste and shock, which, like guns, should be kept away from film makers who don't know how to use them. …"
But I've always wondered where they got the idea for the tossing of the ambulance keys into a bush.
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 3, 2009 at 1:13 pm
If the city pays for the paramedics, why are citizens billed when their services are used? Should we be we billed if the fire department puts out a fire? Are we to be billed if we call the police to catch an intruder in our residence? Lastly, why do we hire an outside company to prepare the bills? They probably cost more than keeping the paramedics trained. Can't our large city staff handle this?
This whole area need an in-depthlook.
a resident of Downtown North
on Feb 3, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Two years ago my husband was taken from the Palo Alto Clinic Urgent Care to the Stanford ER - a distance of sixth-tenths of a mile. He did have oxygen and already had an IV in which the paramedic decided to re-do. Cost $800.00 for this trip which took less than five minutes. . Palo Alto transport 'accepts assignment' which means it can charge Medicare patients ONLY according to the Medicare payment schedule which was about $400 then. We had to pay 20%. I shudder to think what those not on Medicare have to pay. And of course, the homeless don't and can't pay anything. There is a suggestion at City Hall to increase these fees - which would especially hurt the elderly who comprise the majority of the transports.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 4, 2009 at 8:29 am
Good piece, but perhaps you can send Gennady to report whether non-City ambulances still have the problems you found in 1971. Have the standards and rules changed? Palo Alto is the only city in Santa Clara County to opt out of the county system. Do other cities and towns have problems with the county system?
The Merc reported a couple years ago that Santa Clara and San Jose's city ambulances have been a flop.
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a resident of another community
on Feb 4, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Kate, you need to keep in mind that you're not just paying for the cost of your transport- you're paying for the cost of the SYSTEM necessary to provide it to you.
Of course, as with anything else, the ambulance service can charge anything it wants- they are completely at the mercy of medicare and other insurance providers choose to pay, which don't even cover the cost of the transport in most cases. Nevermind the system behind the transport. And then there's the homeless that you mention, and other people with no insurance and no intention of paying....
a resident of another community
on Feb 4, 2009 at 10:53 pm
One of the little known perks for City employees is free paramedic transport, should they ever need it in the area served by Palo Alto.
Art Kraemer has got it right. Why should Palo Alto residents be charged for this, when they already pay with their taxes. Especially at the same time City employees, who are not Palo Alto tax payers, pay nothing.
a resident of another community
on Feb 5, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Again one needs to look at City Hall and the City Managers Ofiice.
When the PAFD started paramedic service they were not even handling 1500 emergency calls a year with one ambulance. Now the PAFD is handling near 8,000 emergency calls a year, with a whopping 1.5 ambulances. A whole .5 increase in ambulance numbers. It's only .5 because the City Manager and City Council think taking the Fire Pumper at Station 1 in busy, dense downtown PA and its 3 members and putting them on a ambulance at night is a good idea.
This means many nights there is nobody at Fire Station One. It's vacant! The Fire Pumper crew could be as far away as San Jose on the ambulance!
The residents and store owners in downtown Palo Alto have no idea that Fire Hall is empty many nights for hours. If you have a fire or medical need you will be waiting for another PA resource or one from Menlo Park (if they are able). Down town Palo Alto is at a major risk! The City Council and City Manager are gambling to save money and increase revenue on public safety!
A healthy needed program needs attention and money, not slum lord tactics. Taking every cent and not supporting a need is doomed to failure.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 5, 2009 at 9:57 pm
No matter who transports, there is a bill. PAFD charges less than the back up company AMR (American Medical Response).
Before AMR, there was no such thing as consistent quality EMS service which is why Palo Alto Fire went into the Paramedic business back in the 1970's. Because Palo Alto has it's own Fire Department Paramedic's, it's quality control, level of competency, and longevity exceeds private enterprise.
If anything, we should be concerned about inadequate ambulance coverage at night because the downtown fire engine is routinely out of service for hours at a time as it becomes the "back up" ambulance for the entire city. The the second ambulance shuts down at 8pm!
a resident of Downtown North
on Feb 5, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I've heard the same. I've also heard that when the downtown fire engine responds as an ambulance, the next closest fire station sends a fire engine. I think it means that if during that time there was a fire downtown the first two fire engines are not available?
a resident of another community
on Feb 6, 2009 at 8:43 am
Memeber. It was edited out.
2 calls and the fouth due engine is responding into downtown.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 9, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Seriously.... how many City employees do you think are transported per year? Can't be many as very few live in town. The few City employees that are transported are usually taken to the ER because of getting hurt on the job... certainly a justifiable use of City equipment and employees.
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 12, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Jay, what about the utilities billing? This is something that affects every single resident. It's strange that although natural gas prices are lower now than they were 2 years ago in 2007 the city keeps charging 2008 peak bubble prices. Could you please investigate this?
I've never ridden in an ambulance in my life...knock on wood.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Mar 11, 2009 at 7:26 pm
My partner had a TIA just last week and was taken to the Veteran's Hospital. Thank goodness he was OK but we joked afterwards that he'd taken the most expensive ride up Arastradero Road he's ever likely to take!!
I don't know how someone got a a ride for $800, that was cheap by today's prices. In fact you really have to make sure you've got a legitimate emergency to call the paramedics, and that you can pay the bill afterwards. I wonder how many non-emergency calls they get and who pays?
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 17, 2009 at 10:42 am
why don't you guys report on the fact that you have layed off 20 percent of your workforce over the past couple months?
i find this highly interesting
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 1, 2009 at 4:43 pm
"Art Kraemer has got it right. Why should Palo Alto residents be charged for this, when they already pay with their taxes."
No he didn't!
The concept is pretty simple - to hold down the cost of Fire the ambulance service is more or less self funded. If all of the services were free residents would have to pay higher taxes.
The users pay for the service. In most cases that means the service is covered by insurance companies. The service charges are less than a regular (AMR) ambulance would charge. An important thing to remember is you do not have to take the ambulance - it becomes a very expensive taxi ride in non-emergency situations. Also remember insurance companies may not cover an ambulance ride if you can not demonstrate an emergency situation.
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You are right about one thing......Sanchez is a bad QB.

It's very true that i hated Tebow at UF....probably more than I do now....but that was 2 years ago. I can'tdislike him SOLELY for that anymore. Now i just dislike the hype machine around a bad football player

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Publishing the genetic sequence of a transmissible influenza virus might be scary, but harder decisions are yet to come
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Spring, 1918: The war, thought to be "the war to end all wars," had dragged on pointlessly for close to four years. The United States had only entered this conflict a year earlier, its isolationism finally overcome. By the spring of 1918, some 1.5 million U.S. servicemen had been shipped to the European theater. This number would grow to more than 4 million by war's end. Many of these soldiers found themselves involved in trench warfare, where ground was gained, lost and regained. More than 50,000 U.S. soldiers and sailors eventually died in battle.
At about the same time, a second front, both subtle and no less deadly, was opening up far from Europe. On the morning of March 11, 1918, Albert Gitchell, a cook at Camp Funston, showed up at the camp's infirmary complaining of a bad cold. By the end of that week, soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas, where Camp Funston was located, were falling ill at an unusually high rate. The first deceptively simple report of what was to become one of the greatest human pandemics appeared in one sentence in the weekly journal Public Health Reports: "On March 30, 1918, the occurrence of eighteen cases of influenza of severe type, from which three deaths resulted, was reported at Haskell, Kans." This was, for the moment, a highly contagious—but not highly lethal—strain of influenza. Most of the people afflicted by the first wave of infection would recover. But these same infected soldiers were being shipped to the European front at a rate of 10,000 a month, carrying influenza to a continent devastated by war. Placed in close quarters under unsanitary and stressful conditions, American soldiers were transporting an already potentially dangerous virus into virgin territory. Sometime between late spring and early summer of 1918, the virus evolved: It now easily infected young men and women, a cohort comparatively spared from infectious diseases. Afflicted individuals reported violent symptoms from the outset. Soon, their fevers spiked, their breathing became labored, their headaches shattering. Hours—or at most a day—later, many patients would die, drowning in their own secretions, gasping for breath.
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 eventually claimed 57,000 American soldiers—more than died in the war itself. The movement of soldiers and civilians from infected areas disseminated this more lethal form of the influenza virus back to the United States and around the world. By the time the worldwide influenza pandemic flickered out in 1919, more than 50 million deaths could be blamed on it. Out of a world population of approximately 1.85 billion, an astonishing 25 percent may have been infected during the outbreak.
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#671 Mon 10 Sep 12 1:14pm
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- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
You can occasionally find some canned pumpkin here but it really is not common at all and takes some searching out .
Coco ... I think that just grated nutmeg might be nice in pumpkin pie.
I was sent some pumpkin pie spices that were bought in trader joes . I found them ok .
I also was sent some canned pumpkin .
Canned pumpkin is ok but I liked the texture and taste of the fresh pumpkin better.
Maree , I can't think what spice it is that the iPad does not like you to name ,,, got me really puzzled .
#672 Mon 10 Sep 12 2:24pm
- Forum super champ Occupation Just being me
- Member since Fri 28 Mar 08
Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
I didn't like Trader Joe's canned pumpkin as much as Libby's. I haven't bought spices at TJ's, so can not comment on the quality, but there's nothing in a pumpkin pie that you wouldn't be able to get and some of it, you probably have on hand.
#673 Mon 10 Sep 12 10:39pm
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- From Queensland, Australia
- Member since Sun 14 Mar 10
Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
I have never had canned pumpkin - didn't even know it was something you could get canned!!
I have been making the odd pumpkin, spinach & fetta risotto lately and it seems to always taste amazing.
You could also do a pizza with pumpkin slices on it (totally yum).
#674 Thu 13 Sep 12 2:29am
Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
Hi Coco,
I just saw your question, I have SO many wonderful pumpkin recipes! One of my favourites I got from this site, thanks Jamie Oliver!
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vege … ton-squash
I have Indian, Moroccan.... so many recipes. Ask if you are interested!
This is the one I will aim to make, because I haven't got around to it yet. You might like to try it too?
Torta Di Zucca (from Guy Grossi)
Sieve 1 1/2 cups flour
Mix in 1 tsp salt, 2 tsp fresh chopped sage, 2 tsp fresh chopped rosemary
Rub in 100g softened butter
Mix to a dough with 1/3 cup water, wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate an hour, or overnight.
1.5 kg pumpkin in small pieces, season with salt and pepper. Bake 15 mins at 180C or until cooked through.
Cool, blend.
Heat olive oil, saute I leek white, finely chopped, until golden. Take off heat.
Mix in the pumpkin, 1 up grated parmesan, 1 cup grated gruyere, 2 eggs and 1 tbsp softened butter.
Roll out pastry to line a 20cm pie plate. Fill. Cover with remaining pastry.
Bake at 180C 30 - 40 minutes until golden.
Serve hot, warm, or cold.
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#676 Tue 25 Sep 12 12:45am
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Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
I made pumpkin risotto tonight with dinner. It was really good and none of those pesky "pie" seasonings!
I roasted it with olive oil, fresh rosemary, salt and pepper. It was so good. I could have eaten it just like that. I'll be making it again on the 1st! Now I feel inspired to try other recipes!!!
#677 Tue 25 Sep 12 12:55am
Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
Yay Coco! pumpkin risotto is one of my favourites!
#678 Tue 25 Sep 12 2:41am
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- From Newcastle, Australia
- Member since Sat 10 Mar 07
Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
Sounds good, Coco
#679 Tue 25 Sep 12 7:19pm
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- From Living in the Wild Woods
- Member since Wed 16 Jan 08
Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
To tell the truth, I really don't like pumpkin............I mean, I grow them & they do very well, & so I'm obliged to eat them, but I'm not fond of them.
I really don't like them in desserts at all...........I tend to make a Curried Pumpkin Soup, which because of all the other flavours prevents it tasting too 'rooty'.
I made Pumpkin Pie one Hallowe'en at the Farmshop I worked at for the customers to try (which boosted pumpkin sales astonishingly)................most people loved it, but I didn't!
#680 Tue 25 Sep 12 7:20pm
- Forum champ Occupation Walking the Old Ways
- From Living in the Wild Woods
- Member since Wed 16 Jan 08
Re: Wouldn't it be cool?
.............I have to say I don't feel like this for other squashes though!
I adore Butternut Squash...........it isn't as cloyingly sweet when cooked.


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I hope the poor fellow gets every penny and bankrupts those greedy scoundrels.
"Dr. Evil, there isn't that much money in the whole world!!"
I think Steven Colbert may give this man the "Alpha Dog of the Week" or a "Tip of the Hat"
ha! silly stuff
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After the publication of so many popular books on quantum mechanics, it must now be common knowledge that the physics of the very small is strange and that even the greatest scientific minds of the last century have had trouble adapting to its implications. Going beyond the atomic scale, one can bring the strangeness of quantum physics into the realm of everyday objects by looking at systems that are correlated in a quantum mechanical way over macroscopic distances. This is what entanglement is about.
In Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics, Amir Aczel describes the history of this topic. After providing a standard story of the old quantum mechanics of Einstein and Bohr in the first part of the book, he chronicles the period that was ushered in by John Bell's 1966 locality theorem and is currently characterized by a flurry of work on topics such as quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography.
Bell's theorem tells us, in short, that the correlations between quantum mechanical systems cannot be explained by classical probability theory unless one accepts the existence of a nonlocal interaction that acts faster than the speed of light. This result has the form of a set of statistical inequalities—Bell's inequalities—that give limits on the experimental outcomes that can be explained with a classical, local theory. Quantum mechanics violates these inequalities and is thus intrinsically a nonlocal theory. More important, though, is the fact that one can experimentally verify these violations of locality, without having to assume that our current theory of quantum mechanics is absolutely correct. Such experiments have been done over the past 30 years with ever-increasing levels of thoroughness, and their outcomes tell us that not only quantum physics as we know it but also future, improved theories of nature will have to be nonlocal if they are to account for these observations.
The potential beauty of a popular book on entanglement lies in the fact that the conundrum this phenomenon poses can be explained to anyone with a basic understanding of statistics and the way physical theories are supposed to work. This is quite unlike the more common situation of the reader having to accept on good faith that it is really remarkable that, say, energy is quantized, that mathematics cannot be axiomatized or that pi is transcendental.
However, if entanglement is explained improperly (if it is "dumbed down" too much, for example), it will not seem different from traditional probability theory, and the attentive reader will wonder what all the fuss is about. One common, incorrect, explanation goes as follows: "It is possible to have two quantum mechanical particles whose properties are unknown. If, however, we measure the characteristics of the first particle, then by the laws of quantum physics we immediately know the characteristics of the second one as well. This happens without any interaction with the latter particle, and Einstein therefore called it 'spooky action at a distance.'" This fictional account, impressive as it may look on first sight, describes nothing more than a traditionally correlated system of two particles: When we choose between two closed hands, one of which holds a small prize, we face the same situation. The revelation that the hand we selected is empty tells us immediately that the other hand contains the prize, and vice versa. Clearly this does not qualify as "the greatest mystery in physics."
Although Aczel does not make the above mistake, he does not convey very well what is so mysterious about entanglement. In the first part of the book, he puts a lot of emphasis on merely the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, and he appears not to be particularly eager to tell readers how Bell's theorem led to the far-reaching conclusions that have been drawn from it. It is almost as an afterthought that Aczel tries to show how the outcomes of a relatively simple experiment force us to accept that nature does indeed work in a nonlocal way that defies common sense. And when he finally does so, late in the book, the essentials get buried under information about "half-silvered mirrors" and other experimental issues that, as previous popular texts have proved, are unnecessary for a proper understanding of the central idea.
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Nobody was hurt when a vehicle crashed through a local restaurant Thursday, officials said.
According to Cpl. Larry Moss of Lake Charles Police, a 1996 Lincoln Towncar crashed into Mazen's Continental Cuisine, 217 W. College St., around 5 p.m.
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The vehicle crashed through the south wall and went about 40 feet inside before it stopped.
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The comedian last night made his jokes so over the top, that instead of being amusing he was a water clown.
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Last year I dug some vitex up at a beek's bee yard and planted it out at the edge of my yard. The larger plants in the beeks yard had honey bees working them. I planted four small clumps late last summer and they have done well and easily have 5-6 times as much vitex as I started with. What is kind of strange is that I haven't seen a honey bee on the plants, I know they may come by while I'm not around but it seems like by now I would have seen some honey bees on the flowers. Bumble bees and other flying critters visit but no honey bees. Of the other critters there is a wasp-looking insect that is the most frequent and numerous visitor to the vitex. They're quick and flighty, not holding still if you approach them with a camera. I'm thinking some type of paper wasp, but I'm not sure. I've seen some other images here and there that resembled these but have yet to see an ID attached to them. Does anybody know what these wasps(?) are?
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Mossberg, Nov 3, 2009.
That was really a GOOD ONE hahahahahhaa...
Indeed. It seems the Trotters might need to get everyone involved in the act anyway. If he signed with the Washington Generals then he could really be himself.
- I think I is only making about $3.1M per.
I hear ya T. What the hell do the quivering masses expect for a lousy $378K per game? It's hardly worth suiting up.....
You're a bad bad person...
I'm really bad at decimal points, so I did see this. I think it's only $37.8k per game. And that's before taxes too!! So, total league salaries last year divided by points scored is $8,731. That's how much it cost to score a single point. So, $3.1MM / 8.731 = 355 355 / 82 = 4.3. So, if AI were to score anything over 4.3 points per game, he would be a steal.
Re: Memphis gets rolled.. So all he has to do is take it inside and dust the floor with his hiney 3 times a game and the Grizz are in the bonus?!? Geez - that mi amigo is a steal. I guess that's just about 19k per shoe tied per game? He was averaging about 22 minutes per game, so he was pulling about $1727 per minute, what's he complaining about? His earnings per minute decrease for each additional minute played, he should've been trying to play 3.7 minuters per, then he'd be pulling a cool $10,000 per minute!
Re: Memphis gets rolled.. $3.1MM doesn't go very far in the NBA these days.
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Californicating in Los Angeles... Not So Much

This just in: getting laid in L.A. might just be a thing of Hollywood movies.

This just in: getting laid in Hollywood might just be a thing of Hollywood movies.
At least, that is what I and many other postgrads were warned of upon our entrances to Tinseltown. We were also warned not to ever call the city of Los Angéles Tinseltown.
Los Angeles, of course, is Españolish for "The Angels," which derives its name from the major motion picture Charlie's Angels, directed by McG in 2000. After making the pilgrimage to this media mecca with a one-way ticket to LAX—which I assume has its linguistic root in the Los Angelean phrase "chillax"—it was a matter of time before I began to notice a few obstacles in the course to a successful one-night stand in Los Angeles. As questions like "Isn't this inconvenient for singles?" or "But how would they spend the night?" added up throughout the year, so did another: "Have you guys seen the 'Women of L.A.' video yet?"
"The Women of L.A." is a comedy music video from actor D.J. Lubel's straight male perspective on the challenge of scoring on this field. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the song garnered nearly half a million views within 24 hours of being uploaded to the prestigious website YouTube.com. The song tells the tale of a young schlubby New Yorker (I can relate) who goes out for a night on the town with his bros only to discover the less-than-convenient nature of Los Angeles' present but problematic hookup culture. If you don't want to take Lubel's word for it, he has cameos from the guy who played the principal on Saved by the Bell, the guy who played Urkel on Family Matters and the guy who played Pauly Shore in all the Pauly Shore movies.
"The Women of L.A." song basically got its own TV show in the form of Hello Ladies on HBO. My first job when I moved to this city was production assistant on the show, which follows Stephen Merchant as he struggles to find or make love in Lalaland. The show's premise is essentially an anti-Entourage about a guy who wishes Los Angeles was the way it was depicted in Entourage. Each episode is like a sexually frustrated version of Gilligan's Island where we tune in to see if Merchant's new tactic (renting a limo, throwing a pool party, befriending tough guys) will help him get laid (or booted off the island).
So, for those readers living in the real world, I have compiled some hypotheses to explain why the Land of (Soy) Milk and (Organic) Honey is such a dry desert.
The Sprawl
The man-made monstrosity that is Los Angeles seems to have been made by a man who is asexual. Every annoying joke about traffic, freeways and transportation in L.A.—and every "The Californians" sketch on Saturday Night Live—is, sadly, spot-on. Unfortunately for all the single ladies and guys on the prowl, the geography in this city is so spread out and scattered that most people end up driving to bars. Nobody wants to, nor should they, drive under the influence. As D.J. Lubel sings in "The Women of L.A.," "All the bars close at 1:30/Which means they're way too sober to sleep with me/Plus my only credit on IMDB/Is an extra on Community."
The Last Call
And how can you score if it's game over within a couple hours? In Manhattan (my birthplace), if someone yells, "Last call!" in a crowded bar at two A.M., it is because they are a huge fan of Carson Daly's talk show. A later closing time doesn't just allow for more drinking, it also allows more people coming in and out, and thus more options—as well as more time to get to know a potential one-night-stander. So you do the math; I don't need to pull out a graph displaying the correlation between alcohol consumption and sexual activity. I can just use some anecdotal evidence in the form of several text messages referring to me as a "drunken mistake." And not just from ex-lovers—also from my parents.
The One-Night Stand Commute
Seriously, are you going to take a chance on a guy you just met and travel in awkward silence together to the Valley? How much are you into this stranger that you're willing to drop an obscene amount of cash on a taxi to take you an obscene number of miles away? And then imagine being at the person's place that night. How are you supposed to escape if things aren't going down the way you wanted? You can't, at least not easily or economically. This is why so many clubbers and bar-hoppers both arrive and leave in the same group. One friend might already be trying to escape an awkward situation at the bar. Are you going to make her go all the way home just so you can maybe go all the way and score home? The climax might not be worth the drama.
The Industry Incest
Speaking of drama, a disproportionate number of Los Angeles inhabitants are employed by the entertainment industry. A disproportionate number of celebrities and wannabe celebrities make their home in Los Angeles because a disproportionate number of their meetings and auditions will be here. A disproportionate number of those people are as objectively good looking as anything with the word "good" in it can be. This undeniably perverts the standards, the expectations and the overall "vibes," as Angelenos would say in their thick Angelean accents.
As Stephen Merchant told reporters promoting his anti-love letter to L.A., "It's populated by those people trying to become actors and stars…It's a city where the rules are very clear. If you are good-looking, if you have great teeth and great hair, the door is open to you…It's almost like high school again." Remember how hard it was to get laid in high school, even penned up with ridiculously hormonal and horny people? Hollywood is a high school where the jocks and cheerleaders have prettier faces and prettier cars—where they don't just look as hot as the cast of The O.C.—they are the actual cast of The O.C.
When I first arrived in town, I decided to conduct an experiment. I went out to a bar on the Sunset Strip with my guy friends and two of them pretended to be drunken fans of mine. I tried to act miserable as they posed in flash photos with me and before I knew it, straight out of a movie, a girl grabbed my arm and told them to step off because she was my girlfriend and we just wanted to have a normal night alone.
That's not something I'd do now because, as I've learned, in the company town that this is, every person in the biz knows each other. So unless you have enough money to blow it all on blow and live the Bling Ring life, you better not get too shwasty in public. Moreover, it can be hard to distinguish industry networking from going out romantically since everyone is asking each other out all day long. And while you're out spending money and time "doing lunch" and "grabbing drinks," make sure to overtip your waiter and bartender, because you never know who they'll be after tomorrow's audition. Same goes for your Lyft or Uber driver on top of the cost of your ride.
The moral of the amoral story is it's hard out here for a wannabe pimp. There's a reason Tinder's headquarters is located on the Sunset Strip. Then again, there are nearly four million people who magically cohabit in the foreign land of Los Angeles. So maybe people in my social circles are just not very good at hooking up.*
If you are insulted by this ending and consider yourself a member of my social circle who works at an agency, studio or name-droppable production company, please remove this from your memory and let's do drinks soon.*
**But it'll have to be in a couple months, I am super swamped. Ugh, pilot season, right?! Haha, okay, just have your underpaid assistant leave word with my unpaid intern. So psyched to catch up!


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Full Drive: 2011 Nissan LeafOctober 27, 2010 / By Scott EvansTo illustrate this, Nissan sent us on a driving loop designed to simulate a typical day in the life of John Q. Public with waypoints the gym, the grocery store and the kids' school. To set out, you simply press the starter button and a chime lets you know the Leaf is on and ready to roll. Move the computer mouse-like shifter to the left and down to select drive, and off you go. A meter next to the speedometer reminds you how hard you're pressing the accelerator pedal, and little trees grow when you drive gently. Below, other gauges show your battery level, remaining range, and a graphic display of the amount of available power going to the wheels or being regenerated. It's different, but nothing particularly odd. The range remaining, of course, is the big sticking point for many. While all our cars have a range limited by the size of the gas tank, quick refueling alleviates so-called "range anxiety." The Leaf's considerably longer recharge time, then, seems worrisome. Nissan's retort? It says U.S. Census data shows that some 90 percent of Americans drive less than 100 miles per day, which, conveniently, is the Leaf's advertised range. According to the data, roughly 72 percent of us drive less than 50 miles per day and 26 percent of us drive only five to 10 miles per day. Translation: The Leaf's range isn't an issue unless you're planning a road trip.
50 mile range for me would be fine, but would be a seocnd vehicle, obviously.My biggest knock on the Leaf is the fact that while it is perfect for someone living in the city, most city dwellers dont have private garage parking with an outlet.
Sure your typical daily drive may be about 50 miles. But in real life, crap happens. And in real life in an emergency situation you may be stuck on the side of the road.I want to be able to go nearly anywhere with my next car (more specifically, I'd like to be able to drive from Sacramento to Riverside in less than 2 days), so it's definitely not for me.lol
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I like the fact that I wouldn't ever have to go to a gas station. The negative is that this car would be limited to certain errands, such as commuting a known route.
If the conditions were right. . . I'd buy one too. . . but it'd have to simply be for short range transportation . . .then I'd still have a nice sporty fuel annihilating car in the garage too :-) Currently with my daily drive I can't. Also for a daily driver. . . it doesn't have to be the best looking or sportiest. . I'd just see it as transportation. . .thats what the sports car would be for!
jsnowbordr47:Sure your typical daily drive may be about 50 miles. But in real life, crap happens. And in real life in an emergency situation you may be stuck on the side of the road.I want to be able to go nearly anywhere with my next car (more specifically, I'd like to be able to drive from Sacramento to Riverside in less than 2 days), so it's definitely not for me.lolThat's actually a very good point that I'd never thought about.Emergencies happen, and the Leaf seems ill equipped to deal with some of them. Living in Denver, I value my freedom of mobility too much to consider the Leaf.
It's a good car, Its just hurt by the range anxiety! I find myself all the time having to go pick up my daughter cause my wife cant. Or my wife needing me to bring something to her that she forgot at home. Or my son getting hurt at a friends house across town,etc...
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The 100 miles is what gets me, that appears to be in near perfect conditions, and with the Leaf's battery being air cooled, it could be way off the 100 mile mark in any area with temp extremes. I want to see more real world driving tests in very hot weather, non-flat roads, and very cold weather. If it can still reach 100 miles, I will be more impressed. The air cooled battery could affect battery life also leading to a required battery replacement sooner than expected.
what's its range in -20 to -48? because that's at least 35% of the year here.
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Most people don't drive more than this on a daily basis, seriously. But as someone else mentioned, shyt happens and if this was your only car that shyt would hit the fan.
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I think it'll be interesting to see if all the people angry over all their precious EV-1's getting sent to the scrap heap will go for the Leaf (pretty much an EV-1 with more passenger and cargo capacity, range is the same) or opt for the Volt. Or just keep thier Prius'. Personally, while I rarely have a daily need to go more than 100 miles, I wouldn't want to be confined so much like that...it'd have to be a 3rd or 4th vehicle for short errand runs....and to me, right now, is a waste of money.
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If I was buying a new car it'd have to give me the option of taking it on road trips and going wherever I wanted... which the Leaf simply cannot do. Emergencies and road trips happen.Also it'd have to be attractive which I honestly think the Leaf is hideous looking. Why did they have to make it so ugly? Why cant an electric car look cool and not shout "HEY IM ELECTRIC LOOK AT ME" because usually that means "im ugly".
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I couldn't justify this. It'd have to be a 2nd vehicle. Plus, some cars get 40 mpg's, that is a cost of roughly 7 dollars to go the hundred miles of the Leafs range. I'd rather pay the 7 bucks and be able to make a side trip if need be.
GM to the end.
1st off there is no way in hadies I could own a car this ugly! Seriously what were they thinking? This thing makes a Prius look good (FYI that's pretty sad)2nd Nissan cheapened out on this car, get this car out of the normal weather (extreme heat or cold) and it will be penalized by a good margin. I've read where they're only getting around 70 miles out of a charge...I'll have to find that article.


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get together with a bunch of friends and dress in your best golfing attire. prepare a list of 9 bars where each person will consume one designated drink for each of the 9 bars (preferably within walking distance of one another or get a designated driver). pass out score cards. scoring goes as follows: one stroke would be one drink, two strokes would be taking two tries to finish the drink, etc. a stroke isn't a gulp... just finish the drink right away when you start it. one can manipulate these rules. keep track of your score. after 9 bars, the one with the lowest score wins. can get interesting if the drink is really strong.
by Yes, My Name April 09, 2006
A fun, challenging, often vomit-inducing college sport. The rules are simple. Players travel to 18 bars (the front and back 9 may be played on separate nights), and an hour (or half-hour if you want to make it intense) is allotted for each bar. Teams of 1 lady and 1 gentlemen are set up and score cards are distributed. Par is set ahead of time for each bar and you must drink to reduce strokes. Different drinks can be valued differently (i.e., a beer= -1 stroke, singles= -2, doubles= -3, long islands= -4, etc). Puking yields a +5 penalty. Golf attire is mandatory.
Bar One (Par 5): Joe drinks a long island iced tea (-4) and Sally drinks a double sprite and vodka (-3). Total: -7 + 5 = -2.
Bar Nine (Par 4): Joe and Sally decide bar golf is the most brutal game they've ever played.
Bar Nine (Par 4): Joe and Sally decide bar golf is the most brutal game they've ever played.
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush


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