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Back when SolidWorks was new, and FEA simulation was the purview of dedicated specialists, I could assume that anyone who is using the SolidWorks Simulation must already have an engineering degree. That's not so anymore. The widespread adoption of SolidWorks by Industrial Designers, Artists, Machinists, and other creative trades, has democratized the 3D CAD user base. The Simulation tools are now available to a much wider audience.
I get two or three hotline calls a month from people who are trying to research, or interpret, material properties for doing an FEA simulation. Not that I mind that! I'd much rather have someone call in-person with a question, rather than to just take their chances with some Internet searches. There is a particular hazard to Wiki-Engineering. You can seem to get exactly the right answer, quickly, and only later find out that it was the right answer to a slightly different question. The more technical trades are fraught with such small but meaningful variations on terms, scope of applicability, etc.
And the frequency of such inquiries is rising, so it's time to consolidate a lot of our replies into a blog post. So I'm going to do a couple of extended tech tips, each one on a critical Material Property you have to input into a simulation. Then I'll do a follow-on series on how you interpret the stress and strain results.
In the SolidWorks Simulation dialog for Material Properties, the fields colored RED are the ones that are absolute must-have to perform the analysis.
Must-Have: Elastic Modulus
The Elastic Modulus is the single most important property you have to get right when setting up a Simulation.
Each Finite Element in your mesh is essentially a spring. It is not a simple, one-directional spring, but in fact is a six-dimensional spring, but it is a spring nonetheless. And the most important property for determining how that spring will flex under a load, is to know the stiffness, or Spring Rate. When you buy a simple coil spring, you specify the Spring Rate as some number of pounds per inch:
The spring rate depicted above is not solely a function of the spring material, but also the spring geometry – especially the wire diameter, coil diameter, and the number of turns. But for FEA we need a more generic property, one of the materials only, independent of the shape. That generic stiffness property is called the Elastic Modulus. It is also frequently called Young's Modulus, and also Tensile Modulus – all are exactly the same thing. It is arrived at by putting a dog-bone shaped strip of the material into a tensile-tester, and pulling on it in the long-wise direction, (oriented vertically in the figure below).
Getting test data
Test set-up for measuring Elastic Modulus of a thin strip of material. The machine gradually applies an increasing force, and graphs the ratio of force for each increase in length.
The raw data from the testing machine is in the exact same form as in the catalog listing we saw earlier – the Spring Rate is a force per unit change in length. But – we can generalize this result, first by computing what the Stress must be in the controlled, constant-thickness area of the dogbone. If the original thickness of the dogbone was, say ½" both ways before the test, then the cross-sectional area of the specimen would be 1/4 sq. in. At a point where the machine recorded a force of 100 lbs, we would report this instead as a stress of 400 psi.
s = Engineering Stress = Force / original cross-sectional area
s = F / A
If we did the test pictured above, on a specimen with a length of 10 inches, and then repepeated the test a day later on a specimen that was machined to be 20" long, you would expect different results – the longer specimen would be less stiff, so would stretch more than the 10" specimen, for the same input stresses. So the second way we must generalize the test result is to make it independent of the length of the particular dog-bone we used. We don't actually report the growth of the specimen, as a deflection in inches. We instead report the Strain – the percentage that the specimen grows, compared to its original length.
e = Engineering Strain = change in specimen length / original specimen length
e = dL / L
Geometry-Independent Stiffness
So the Young's Modulus (aka Tensile Modulus, aka Elastic Modulus) you must input to Solidworks Simulation, to represent the generalized stiffness of our Finite-Element springs, is the Engineering Stress divided by the Engineering Strain. Strain is a change in length, divided by length, so it actually has no units. Stress has units of psi, (or in SI, Pascals, which is Newtons per sq. meter). So the units of the Elastic Modulus will also be in PSI (or Pascals);
E = Elastic Modulus = s / e (lbsf/in2 or N/m2 )
OK, on a good day, your Simulation system should help confirm good design intuition, so here's some hard numbers to help ground you. Let's look at a plot of Engineering Stress, vs. Engineering Strain, for a typical metal.
An average Steel can withstand a Stress of about 60,000 psi before starting to take permanent damage. The Strain at the point of yielding is usually about 0.2 % of the test-specimen length, or about .002
The Elastic Modulus, then, is the SLOPE of the graph above. You can see that across the useful, working stress levels of this material, the slope is pretty near constant. Wonderful!!! Engineers just love things that are linear! So what exactly IS the Elastic Modulus of the steel plotted above? As long as we keep the stresses within the useful, working limit at the left side of the graph, then Young's Modulus is:
E = 60,000 psi / .002 = 30,000,000 psi.
That's not wrong; 30 million. I get calls about this. Young's Modulus is big. Expect big numbers. Since the Strain at which most metals start to tear is a relatively small number, (and even plastics will have working-strain limits of about 1% or 2%), you are looking at a pretty big number that is always divided by a really small number.
Typical values of Elastic Modulus:
Steel 30,000,000 psi
Aluminum 10,000,000
Wood 1,500,000
Nylon 6/6 400,000
Polyethylene 40,000
Rubber 1,800
Second common source of errors when inputting Elastic Modulus; Beware of the European Comma!!!
If you are researching a material, (especially a plastic) from Bayer or Sabic or some other non-USA locale, remember that they frequently use the comma as a decimal separator, instead of the period. Since a Pascal is a much smaller unit of stress than PSI is, you get even bigger numbers in SI, and so E is reported sometimes in Pa, and sometimes in MegaPascals, Mpa – Pascals x106
If you're looking at a data sheet expecting unusually large numbers, anyway, and some European university or material provider or design agency lists a value of 12,600 Mpa, understand that it is not 12.6 thousands of MegaPascals, it is in fact 12.6 MegaPascals, the comma is a decimal. Tricky!!!
Flexural Modulus?
Finally, if you are researching a plastic material, you sometimes get no information on Elastic Modulus, you instead get a Flexural Modulus. What's up with that? The short answer: If you are given only a Flexural Modulus for a plastic, you can usually assume this is the same thing as the Elastic Modulus, they are near enough to the same thing but arrived at by way of a different test.
More nuanced answer: Many plastics have a lot lower stiffness than metals do, and most annoyingly, the useful working portion of their Stress-Strain curve is very often not terribly straight – (see below).
Another thing that goes on with plastics is that they can exhibit a great deal more stiffness when loaded in Compression, then when loaded in tension. For many metals, we don't worry about this distinction. But just imagine for a moment that you have a design for a living hinge, or a spring clamp, or some other thin-walled plastic thingy that expects to see a whole lot of bending forces.
The upper side of the beam above will be loaded in compression, the lower surfaces, in tension. For a material that was equally strong in tension as in compression, you would expect the neutral surface (dashed line) to be right in the middle of the beam. But for many plastics, the compressive stiffness is higher, the tensile stiffness is lower, and so the neutral surface shifts upward, (a smaller net cross-sectional area in compression is stiff enough to resist the larger cross-sectional area under tension). If you simply assume that the Compressive stiffness and the Tensile stiffness are the same, you would under-predict the overall strength of the beam.
The ASTM test for Flexural Modulus will therefore subject the test specimen to pure-bending instead of pure-tension. You then report the Flexural (Bending) Modulus by hand-calculating from the measured load, what the bending-moment must have been, and then from this number you back out the peak tensile stress (bottom surface) and compressive stress (top surface) – As if they were the same, (so as if the neutral axis were in fact in the center). What this does is give you a number that is generally stiffer than the real pure-tensile stress, but lower than the real pure-compressive stress. It's a pretty good average.
SO: If you are simulating a plastic part that is loaded mostly in tension, input the Elastic Modulus. If it is loaded mostly in bending, (or is subjected to a wide mixture of stress directions in the most-highly loaded regions), input the Flexural Modulus as the Elastic Modulus. And if your chosen vendor gives you ONLY the Flexural modulus, then the choice is easy!
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Caigua is the odd, twisted-shaped green gourd with a hollow center that is found all over Peru. I have not yet discovered its botanical history. From a culinary point of view, Peruvians empty the vegetable of seeds and veins and fill it with fish or chicken stuffing. It is popular with families and ubiquitous in public markets.
Since, caigua is not, to my knowledge, available in New York, Peruvians have suggested that sweet red or green peppers can be legitimately substituted.
The Stuffing
The Broth Sauce
1. Cut out a 2-inch round from the top of each pepper and remove the core and seeds. Set aside.
2. Make the stuffing: Bring the water to a boil. Add the fish fillets,cover the pan, and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Remove the fish and cool. Reserve 1 cup broth. Pull the cubes apart into threads. In a bowl mix the fish threads with the moistened bread and add the egg, onion, salt, and pepper, mixing well.
3. Make the broth sauce: Heat the oil in a skillet. Add the onion, tomato, paprika, and garlic paste and stir-fry over low heat for 3 minutes. Add the 1 cup reserved fish broth and bring to a boil.
4. Fill the peppers with the fish stuffing and replace the tops. (Should there be any stuffing left over, shape egg-sized fish balls and set aside.)
5. Place the stuffed peppers in the broth sauce (with any fish balls from any leftover stuffing). Simmer, covered, over low heat for 15 minutes.
Serve hot, with rice.
Special Note: The same stuffing may be used to prepare egg-shaped balls, Albondigas de Pescado. Cook in 1 cup of either fish or chicken broth for the time indicated in the recipe. Serve with rice.
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Ironman 2012: Dispatches from the finish line
11:35 p.m.: Joe Bellantoni, a blind Ironman competitor from Kinnelon, reached the finish line in Riverside Park. His time was 16 hours, 22 minutes and 38 seconds. He finished at 11:30 p.m. with his guide Mike Erstad.
8:31 p.m.: It's been nearly 14 hours since the Ironman U.S. Championship began, and sunset has come and gone. But the stream of finishers remains steady here in Riverside Park.
And several finishers from North Jersey have weighed in on what was, no doubt, an intense day of running, swimming and biking.
Roman Kochanowsky, of Wayne, who took about 11 hours and 50 minutes to finish his fifth Ironman, said the marathon segment was the toughest he'd ever faced at an Ironman.
"You had hills and steps (going up and coming down frrom the George Washington Bridge)," Kochanowsky said. "But crossing the bridge and seeing the Manhattan skyline was the high point of the race. It was exhilarating."
As tough as the run was, the swim was manageable thanks to the way the water was flowing this morning.
"You were with the current," said Ridgewood's Chris Campos of the swim in the Hudson River. "They can complain about the water being dirty, but they can't complain about the current."
Even the winners said the current made the swim faster. Campos finished his race in 10 hours, 51 minutes and 59 seconds.
8:18 p.m.: Meet some of the top Ironman finishers from North Jersey
With the top five finishers in the men's and women's divisions complete, North Jersey Ironman triathletes are now crossing the finish line in New York City. Here are some of them, and their times:
Yoshitomo Mori, of Fort Lee, finished as North Jersey's top finisher, crossing the finish line in 10:20:39 for 117th place overall and eighth place in his age group (45-49). Mori, who entered as one of the most experienced racers from North Jersey with 10 previous Ironmans, got better as the day progressed. After finishing the swim in 64th place in his bracket with a 48:08 2.4-mile swim, he moved to 31st during the 112-mile biking segment with a 5:36:44. He moved into eighth place with a 3:48:08 marathon run. His goal entering Saturday was to break 11 hours, which he beat by nearly 40 minutes.
Davis Carter, 32, of Hackensack, shined in his first full Ironman competition, finishing in 10:23:40, good for 122nd place overall and 24th in his age group (30-34). He was consistent in all three phases Saturday, finishing in 23rd place in the swim (44:29), 25th place in the bike (5:29:34) and 24th place in the run (3:57:09).
Timothy McCarthy, of Elmwood Park, was competing in his second career Ironman and finished in 126th place overall and 26th in his age bracket (30-34). His top time came in the Hudson River, finishing the swim in 44:07 -- 20th best in his group.
Mike Llerandi, of Franklin Lakes, was competing in his 20th Ironman of his career and came in 134th place overall with a time of 10:33:48. He finished in 12th place in his age group (45-49). He had two previous Top-5 finishes.
Annmarie McAninch, of Ridgewood, was in 41st place in her age group (35-39) following the first two portions of the event. She finished the swim in 51:20 and the 112-mile bike ride in 7:11:20.
Jordan Waxman, of Rockleigh, started off strong in the first leg of the event, registering a 43:30 in the swim. He was in 87th place overall and eighth in his age group (45-49) heading into the bike segment. But Waxman had bike-related issues during the second leg of the race. The problems caused him to post a much-higher-than-usual 6:42:15 in the biking stage. As he moved on to the final leg -- the marathon -- Waxman experienced cramps and decided to end his Ironman prematurely. It was a disappointing performance for Waxman, whose best Ironman finish ever came last year in 10 hours and 48 minutes.
7:55 p.m.: Top five men and women Ironman finishers
Top Five Men's Results
1. Jordan Rapp, age 32, Thousand Oaks, CA, 08:11:18
2. Maxim Kriat, age 28, Ukraine, 08:24:32
3. Jozsef Major, age 33, Hungary, 08:27:00
4. Trevor Wurtele, age 33, Kelowna, BC, Canada, 08:29:20
5. Markus Thomschke, age 28, Pulsnitz, Germany, 08:30:02
Top Five Women's Results
1. Mary Beth Ellis, age 35, Superior, CO, 09:02:48
2. Rebekah Keaton, age 34, Australia, 09:13:24
3. Amy Marsh, age 35, Rochester, NY, 09:15:57
4. Sarah Piampiano, age 32, Cumberland, ME, 09:30:29
5. Tamara Kozulina, age 36, Ukraine, 09:33:23
5:15 p.m.: Awaiting our North Jersey finishers
The athletes are arriving at a faster clip now, at 10 hours and 30 minutes since the start of the race.
It's a festive atmosphere with music playing and the announcer recognizing each finisher with their first and last name and hometown. Each intro is punctuated with the words "You are an Ironman. Congratulations."
The chute beneath the finish line is packed with volunteers ready to help each competitor off the course and maybe dump a bottle or two of water over their head.
We are now waiting for the first North Jersey finishers to come in. Several local competitors said before the race that they were hoping to break 12 hours which would bring them in just before 7 p.m.
Stay tuned.
4:23 p.m.: Women's winner crosses the finish line
Mary Beth Ellis, a 35-year-old from just outside of Boulder, Colo., has won the women's race. She finished in 9 hours, two minutes and 48 seconds. Hundreds of fans in the bleachers roared their approval when Ellis arrived, clinching her fifth Ironman victory.
Ellis and Jordan Rapp, the men's winner, both talked about how difficult the run was in today's near 90-degree temperatures. But both raved about the view, especially as they ran over the George Washington Bridge.
"It was pretty iconic," Ellis said.
Meanwhile, as the sun dips in the sky, finishers continue to roll in. And as they cross the line, a voice announces their name on a loudspeaker and says "you are an Ironman!"
The finishers will keep on rolling in long after dark -- the last are to arrive around midnight.
3:01 p.m.: Men's winner crosses the finish line
Jordan Rapp, a 32-year-old who grew up in New York, has won the men's division with a time of eight hours, 11 minutes and 18 seconds.
Rapp, who lives in Thousand Oaks, Calif., is a 2002 graduate of Princeton University. This is Rapp's fifth Ironman victory.
Second-place finisher Maxim Kriat, of Clermont, Fla., finished more than 13 minutes later at 8 hours, 24 minutes and 32 seconds.
Before he crossed the finish line, Rapp raised both arms toward the sky and gave high fives to several spectators.
After crossing the finish line, he laid on the asphalt and smiled. He called it "as hot a run" as he'd ever competed in. Temperatures today approached 90 degrees.
2:50 p.m.: Challenge reaches the 8-hour mark
Competitors have reached the eight-hour mark in the Ironman race, and here at the finish line - in Manhattan's Riverside Park near 85th Street -- a crowd of several hundred has gathered to meet the triathletes.
The first finishers should be arriving within the next 10 minutes. They'll certainly be tired after swimming 2.4 miles in the Hudson, biking 112 miles along the Palisades Interstate Parkway and running a 26.2 mile marathon.
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My friend had a contractor renovate his whole bathroom. After it was done there was about a 2 ft square spot where the grout has sunken in a lot. He doesn't know how it happened or when it happened after it was finished. I know your not suppose to grout over old grout. Is there any way to fix this with out ripping all the grout in the whole bathroom and re-grout the whole thing? The contractor was a complete hack after looking over his work
You can remove the grout from that section only and re-apply new matching grout.
after removing grout and applying the new stuff, what about the bonding of the new/old grout on the edges where its removed and not removed? Too small of a spot to worry about?
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|I did this because I've never ever seen any Gilver cosplays before. EVER. It was kinda sad, so I decided to have a go at it! The bandages aren't too bad, I can breathe through them all right, and vision's all good too! The only discomfort I got was from my nose - it kinda got squashed, so when I took everything off, it was BRIGHT RED and I had to desperately powder it before going to the cosplay ball.
It was a very very cheap costume too - I just got the tie and shirt, and bandages. Just covering myself in bandages didn't work so well so I cut up an old shirt of my mum's and that served as a way to contain all my hair and basically make it easier to wrap myself. I might try this again one day, sticking a white wig underneath for the extra craziness, and getting myself a decent Yamato. Also I'd want to try wrapping my hands too.
Eeeee Gilver :D I saw this on Expo site, but just EEEE why was I not online? Well I was I just went to bed early like a sensible person. Hum... can you eat in that or do we have to mash stuff up and feed it to you through a straw? XD
Good choice! I've never seen anyone cosplay Gilver before!
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no one ever cosplayed gilver! and it took me a longgggg time to sus out that it was vergil backwards. xD ashame i didnt see you at expo D=
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Freaking awesome!!!
Nice idea since i see no one doing it
Thats so cool. Very epic.
I'm impressed that anyone cosplayed this ^_^
Haha thanks everyone!!! XD I'm not quite the only Gilver out there, I might have inspired someone though. Thanks so much for all your comments. I'm impressed by how sore my nose was afterwards, I didn't think it'd be that painful >_>
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Animal guests have their care and comfort needs met in this no-kill, non-profit sanctuary. The facility has temperature-controlled housing, clinic, a peaceful cemetery and is set in an area of natural beauty surrounded by Little Woman Pond, enchanting woods and footpaths through the leaf-covered grounds. An art gallery and gift shop featuring animal-themed items allows visitors a chance to take a bit of the atmosphere home with them while helping our work here.
Dr. Arreola, founder of Little Woman Home for Animals, remains chief caregiver and hero to his animal guests, assisted by a small but dedicated group of capable volunteers helping carry on the mission. He is a retired Veterans Administration Counselor and Vietnam Combat-Wounded Veteran. After Vietnam, his focus shifted to rescuing animals and wildlife. The name "Little Woman" came from a precious Chihuahua rescued over 35 years ago from an abusive situation, the first of so many animals cared for over the years. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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The Year I Ate My Heart Out
The second semester of my freshman year of college, I was lucky enough to study abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Although I'd been to Israel before on school, family, and youth group trips, my study abroad experience gave me a deeper experience of, and as a result, commitment to, the country than I'd ever had before. I got to explore the places that don't usually appear on tourist itineraries and make friends with both native Israelis and Palestinians. Because I was so young when I studied abroad, it also happened that I learned how to do my own grocery shopping in the Israeli shuk. As anyone who's been to Israel knows, the shuk is loud, colorful, and bustling - a far cry from the tidy fluorescent-lit Costco aisles I was used to commanding with my mother on Thursday afternoons.
At first with friends and then finally on my own, I became comfortable with the shuk, and learned to differentiate its many fruit- and fish-stacked rows of booths. I even made friends with some of the vendors, like the herb seller who always laughed at how delighted I was with the enormous bunches of parsley and cilantro a few agurot (equivalent to dimes) purchased. My friends and I reveled in the abundant and inexpensive fresh fruit, the rich cottage cheese, the pita still warm from the oven. I was spoiled by the ease of access to the best produce imaginable, and a fresh avocado sliced in half became a regular lunch. And, although I'd been a vegetarian for years before I studied abroad, I even ventured into the world of meat in Israel, hesitatingly selecting fresh chicken cuts for Shabbat.
In Israel, cooking and eating were events, and meals often were affairs that began as soon as we were out of class and lasted well into the night. A group of friends and I - three Jews, two Christians, and three Muslims - began having Shabbat dinner every week. The unlikely meal that quickly became our ritual was chicken tikka masala. Although it's nowhere near an Israeli recipe, the fresh ingredients made it Israeli for me. The smell will always bring me back to my days spent roaming Har HaTzofim, delving into Kabbalah, Islamic history, and sudden adulthood.
Since I've returned from Israel, I've again become vegetarian, and it's probably not a bad thing, as I can't imagine chicken tikka masala ever again tasting as good as it did around a table crowded with friends and unbridled joy. But I have continued many of the habits I picked up in Israel, such as venturing into unknown worlds, doing my best to engage with and understand people from all walks of life, and making time to make food with the people I care about. Food, whether it be hummus, knafeh, or chicken tikka masala, brings people together. Everyone should take the opportunity to explore Israel's diverse culinary offerings, wander the shuk, and eat delicious fresh food in an incredible place with the wildest of strangers.
If you are looking for an opportunity to explore Israel soon, check out the Hazon Israel Sustainable Food Tour, a six day trip in which participants get to learn about Israel's sustainable food movement first hand. It is a completely unique opportunity to meet food movers and shakers, get a deeper understanding of Israel's sustainable food movement, and explore its lush landscape. This tour sounds to me like a completely unique opportunity to engage with the earth and a range of people you would never otherwise meet, and maybe, to find your own tikka masala.
Molly Oberstein-Allen is a rising senior studying Letters at the University of Oklahoma. She's interning for Hazon's Thought Leadership department over the summer, and is thrilled to get to explore New York City. In her spare time, Molly enjoys traveling, reading, and looking at subway maps.
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It's a very bad time for racism in the United States. It would make sense to work toward lowering the level of racial tension in the country, rather than inflaming it. It's one thing to honour the fallen soldiers of the American civil war, but it's another thing altogether to insist on waving a flag that to so many, represents violence, hatred and oppression toward African Americans.
Last week, a young man yelled a racist slur at Kanye West's wife, calling her a "n*gger lover." As disrespectful as this incident was, it serves as a reality check for Kanye and his ilk. The man who made the N-word rhyme with "Gold Digger" for a hit song now laments having to "raise my daughter around ignorance and flat-out blatant racism." Cry me a river, Kanye! It is high time hip-hop honchos had their consciousness awakened. Jay-Z, Yeezy and many more have propagated this mess. The bitch they rap about -- her name is Karma.
Over the weekend, the Toronto Star revealed a disturbing trend at Sutton District High: Some students there have taken to sporting the Confederate flag "on bandanas, lighters, belt buckles, backpacks and pickup truck windows." Yes, the same Confederate flag proudly flown by the South during the U.S. Civil War.


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A Public Health Approach To Regulating Firearms As Consumer Products
It is indisputable that firearms are consumer products. In the United States, there are an estimated 192 million firearms in private hands. Broadly speaking, firearms can be divided into two categories: handguns and long guns. About sixty-five million of all civilian-owned firearms are handguns. More than one in three households have at least one firearm, and about one in four U.S. adults personally own one. In rural areas and certain regions of the country, ownership rates are still higher. Like other consumer products, firearms are manufactured by foreign and domestic corporations, then sold to consumers through a system of distributors and dealers. In 1998, about 1.2 million handguns were produced in the United States; 532,000 more were imported. Also like most consumer products, firearms are advertised in both specialized publications and mainstream media.
There are also important differences between firearms and other consumer products. Unlike nearly all other products commonly found in households, firearms are specifically designed to injure or kill. As a result, there were more than 32,000 firearm-related deaths in the United States in 1997, and approximately another 64,000 serious nonfatal injuries. In addition, more than 670,000 violent crimes were committed with firearms in 1998.
This special deadliness increases the need to regulate firearms. In the United States, however, we have failed to regulate firearms in the manner we regulate even less deadly consumer products. In particular, we have not implemented comprehensive product-based regulation of firearms, as we have effectively done for other consumer products, in order to reduce the incidence of firearm-related injuries.
As public health researchers and teachers, our reasons for arguing that consumer-product regulation of firearms is needed are neither philosophical nor ideological. Rather, they are based on our understanding of the potential benefits of gun regulation for the public's health.
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2. Your Source is 13 Years Out of Date
no federal court has ever struck down any gun law as violative of the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court has not directly addressed the Second Amendment since 1939
Your source is 13 years old. In the intervening time, the Supreme Court has struck down several gun laws as violating the 2nd Amendment. Any back-door attempt to regulate them out of existence will meet a similar fate ..unless of course Obama gets to pick a few new judges.


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Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
National Public Radio
|4/9/2009"Iowa's Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday that the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couple."That makes Iowa the third state, and the first in the Midwest, where gay marriage will be legal."
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|4/15/2009"For most of the country, the unanimous decision this month by the Iowa Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage was an unexpected and seemingly random victory for a movement that has long drawn its deepest support from major cities in liberal coastal states.
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|4/16/2009"Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer?turned?lover Howard K. Stern is suing an author for $60 million for claiming in a book that he's gay. Lambda Legal doesn't like that, because there's 'nothing shameful about being identified as gay.'
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Gay Advocates Eye Supreme Court
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|5/8/2009"...Rumors surfaced this week that two highly qualified lesbians had made President Barack Obama's initial list to replace Justice David Souter.
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The New York Times
|5/18/2009"When a loved one is in the hospital, you naturally want to be at the bedside. But what if the staff won't allow it?"'I have this deep sense of failure for not being at Lisa's bedside when she died,' Ms. Langbehn said. 'How I get over that I don't know, or if I ever do.'
Bush v. Gore Foes Join to Fight Gay Marriage Ban
The New York Times
|5/27/2009"...David Boies and Theodore B. Olson appeared on the same team on Wednesday as co-counsel in a federal lawsuit."...Their mutual goal: overturning Proposition 8, California's freshly affirmed ban on same-sex marriage. It is a fight that jolted many gay rights advocates.
Gay rights advocates rip suit to undo Prop. 8
San Francisco Chronicle
|5/28/2009"Gay rights advocates Wednesday blasted two veteran attorneys for filing a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn Proposition 8, California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban, saying the move is premature and could be disastrous for the marriage movement.
Olson, Boies Unite to Fight Calif. Same-Sex Marriage Ban in Federal Court
|5/28/2009"Gay-rights lawyers on Wednesday welcomed longtime conservative lawyer Theodore Olson into the fight for same-sex marriage, but warned him and liberal colleague David Boies that they could hurt the cause more than help it by launching an attack on California's Proposition 8 in the federal courts.
Ignorance over HIV and AIDS persists
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I think more games are doing DLC is because it's so accessible and easy to patch the game now, with Steam and all. If you buy the game retail, you buy the game retail on a disk and it can't be patched, I'm looking at AoE here, with all of it's huge content expansions. Though that just doesn't justify getting 5 new things in a 5 buck dlc.
DLC honestly sounds like something that fuck Bobby Kotick would've thought up
I do miss expansion packs though.
Probably get sins of a solar empires expansion just because its an expansion.
EDIT: i would like the Borderlands 2 DLC to be just like Borderlands DLC, with entirely different concepts(Zombie Island), a fun arena mode(Underdome), a shit ton of content(General Knoxx), and The Claptrap revolution one, which i haven't played yet.
So they release FUCKTONS OF DLC. They just release a lot of free updates and stuff as well, and in TF2 most of the DLC is obtainable without paying.
In Portal 2 however the DLC is buy-only. Although no one even understands why it has DLC in the first place.
Back in the day this content would have been included in the game.
Back in the day you'd be limited to 64k ram.
Gearbox does good, very good with DLC. See duke nukem forever's. And borderland's dlc was better than the actual game, so everyone chill, they got this.


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The Times Editorial: Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini's household yesterday denied he made anti-gay statements at the weekend, saying the comments ascribed to him by The Times were a "reckless interpretation".
On Sunday, the king said: "Traditionally, there were no people who engaged in same-sex relationships. There was nothing like that and if you do it, you must know that you are rotten. I don't care how you feel about it. If you do it, you must know that it is wrong and you are rotten. Same sex is not acceptable."
Yesterday, the royal household said he had been expressing his concern that "nowadays you even have men who rape other men. The king said this was a clear sign of moral decay".
But we stand by our story and our translation of his comments.
If King Goodwill's comments were merely an expression of concern about the moral decay in our society, why did President Jacob Zuma - present at the ceremony - feel the need to soften the monarch's words, by saying: "Today, we are faced with different challenges . challenges of reconciliation and of building a nation that does not discriminate against other people because of their colour or sexual orientation"?
Quite frankly, it does not behove King Goodwill to make such utterances, particularly in the public arena.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in South Africa since 2006, when the Civil Union Act was passed. Furthermore, our constitution outlaws discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
There are many South Africans who view King Goodwill as their monarch, and who are immensely proud of their Zulu heritage, who might view this as encouragement to openly support an anti-gay stance.
It is altogether too easy for politicians, traditional leaders and prominent figures in society to claim that they have been "misinterpreted".


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Umpire Tom Hallion Calls Price A 'Liar' Following Accusations
By: John Mamola
David Price earned is first win of the season on Sunday afternoon, but it's being overshadowed by the 7th inning ejection of Rays starter Jeremy Hellickson. After a questionable ball call on 1-2 pitch by Price in to Dwayne Wise in the White Sox half of the seventh inning, Price was visibly upset with the call by home plate umpire Tom Hallion. The following pitch was a ground out to Price to end the inning, and Price was seen yelling back towards Hallion as he walked to and into the dugout.
The account of exactly what happened and who said what is where this story picks up.
David Price told reporters following the game that Hallion told him to "throw the ball over the f***ing plate" and said for Hallion to do that was "terrible."
"For him to talk to me that way, something has to be done about that" said Price.
Hallion had a different account of the ejection, saying he did not use a profanity to Price and calling Price a 'liar.' "I'll come right out bluntly and say he's a liar," Hallion said, voice raised. "I'm denying what he said I said, pretty strongly. I said, 'Just throw the ball.' That's all I said to him."
Hallion went on to say that Price's body language insinuated that Price was indeed "pissed off."
The Rays starter then took to twitter with additional comments about Hallion calling him a liar.
Someone give me the definition of a coward please— David Price (@DAVIDprice14) April 28, 2013
Someone please give me the definition of accountability...— David Price (@DAVIDprice14) April 28, 2013
1. I am not a liar 2. I would not make that stuff up 3. My own dad doesn't speak to me that way 4. Again I am not a liar #accountability— David Price (@DAVIDprice14) April 28, 2013
Think our entire dugout would ERUPT cause an ump told me to throw the ball over the plate? No, I'm sorry that wouldnt happen #accountability— David Price (@DAVIDprice14) April 28, 2013
And then to be called a LIAR about the entire thing??No chance...#accountability— David Price (@DAVIDprice14) April 28, 2013
There's only one person lying about all this and his name starts with a T and rhymes with pom— Jeremy Hellickson(@JHell58) April 28, 2013
Unbelievable someone would mis remember so quickly. Stay in your lane. Nobody cares what you have to say. #tom— Matt Moore(@MattyMoe55) April 28, 2013


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When Connie van Kints was laid off last year from Ovis, a Dutch bakery company, it took her only four months to find a new job at the same pay. The 53-year-old grandmother now reconfigures hard-disk drives at United Parcel Service Worldwide Logistics' high-tech warehouse in the small eastern city of Roermond, near Eindhoven. Opened in 1996, the UPS facility employs 60 people, is hiring four more per month, and will increase its space 50% by yearend. "We're having a hard time finding enough workers," says senior sales executive Theo de Vlieger. No wonder: Unemployment in the Netherlands has fallen to 4%, a 17-year low. Meanwhile, four miles away across the border, German joblessness tops 10%.
Europe's big economies have a lot to learn from its smaller ones. While France and Germany will be lucky to turn in gross domestic product growth between 2.5% and 3% this year, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Portugal are growing faster--in some cases much faster. It's not dumb luck, either. Eager to qualify for the first round of European monetary union in 1999, Europe's little tigers, whose total GDP is just 28% of Germany's, have done more than just wrestle down their budget deficits and interest rates. They have tackled politically sensitive, structural economic reforms that most core countries have scarcely started (table).
FLEXIBLE NEGOTIATORS. Now their efforts are bearing fruit. Building on its 10% corporate tax rate for manufacturing and international services, Ireland has lured dozens of foreign multinationals and nurtured a technology and finance boom. After a wrenching recession in the early 1990s, Finland boasts a restructured manufacturing sector that is among the world's most competitive, plus a thriving electronics industry with global cellular star Nokia Corp. at its center. Flexible labor laws and wage restraint have turned the Netherlands into a low-cost exporter. And tiny Portugal, thanks in part to sweeping privatization, grew faster than any other Continental European Union country last year, at 3.5%.
As the EU prepares to adopt a common currency, the tigers' strong growth is raising some concerns among central bankers and economists. While long-term interest rates among the EMU's charter members have converged, short-term rates, still set by national central banks, remain disparate. At 4.36%, Portugal's three-month Treasury bills pay 120 basis points more than Germany's.
When the new European Central Bank begins setting monetary policy for the entire euro zone on Jan. 1, it will look at the zone's average economic strength. That means Europe's fast-growing tigers could get stuck with interest rates too low to keep inflation in check. "There is some danger of overheating," warns Pedro Braz Teixeira, head of macroeconomic and fixed-income research at Spanish bank Banco Santander de Negocios Portugal.
For Europe's small economies, the trick will be holding the line on wages and applying taxes judiciously. Ireland's steamy growth rate and the punt's 15.1% drop against sterling over the last year could push inflation above 5% for 1998, from 1.5% in 1997. Yet experts say that with prudence on wages and taxes, Dublin can keep the party going. That will mean offsetting election-year demands for cuts in sky-high income taxes with wage pacts that keep labor costs competitive.
What may help is that the tigers have made huge progress toward flexible, competitive labor markets. Ireland, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands permit overtime, weekend work, and layoffs to be negotiated between individual unions and their employers. In core Europe, national regulation still governs such issues and keeps costs high. Hourly total compensation in Germany is $31.87, compared with $23.33 in the Netherlands and $14.12 in Ireland.
The smaller nations also see the benefits of modest pay hikes. Says Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok: "Workers have said, `O.K., we will abstain from wage increases, but in return we get jobs.' My job has been organizing this trade-off."
The tigers also have core Europe beat when it comes to supplementing old-line manufacturing with high-growth services. In Finland, cellular technology has spawned not just $10.5 billion Nokia but job-creating startups. Finnish industry has revamped, too, cutting costs and shedding marginal businesses. In 1997, industrial operating margins averaged 12.6% of revenues, compared with negative numbers in the early 1990s. UPM-Kymmene Group, Europe's second-biggest forest-products company with $10 billion in sales, has sold off unprofitable units and reduced its workforce by 18%.
SOARING STOCKS. Portugal, meanwhile, is positioning itself for monetary union by pushing aggressively into financial services. In the banking sector, growth has been fueled by privatization of all but one state-owned bank over the past few years. Their profitability is impressive. The top three private banks posted returns on equity of 19% to 25% in 1997. All are pushing retail services, particularly in fund management, to banking-starved Portuguese. Thanks in part to pension-fund reform, funds under management grew by 43% last year, to $25.4 billion.
Meanwhile, the privatization boom has powered the Portuguese stock market, up 78% in 1997 and 43% year-to-date. For the newly privatized telecommunications, electricity, and cement giants, that has meant a pile of fresh capital to expand in emerging markets such as Brazil and Africa. Low interest rates haven't hurt, either. "I will pay for my expansion from cash flow," beams Miguel Horta e Costa, vice-chairman of Portugal Telecom, which intends to bid for a chunk of Brazil's Telebras.
As the tigers race ahead of France and Germany while all get ready to submit to a single new central bank, pessimists fear that Europe isn't ready for monetary union yet. Brendan M. Walsh, economics professor at University College Dublin, worries that Ireland's boom will increase pressure for income tax cuts--the last thing a fast-growth country needs. Yet other experts are sanguine. Robert A. Mundell, economics professor at Columbia University, for one, believes that improved productivity in Europe's hot economies will let wages rise faster than prices. "It sounds foolish for the Irish to be complaining," he adds. For the moment, Europe's tigers should probably be boasting instead.


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Although Samsung has made a lot of progress in design, build quality and specification it still has some way to go in overall performance. The WB5000 starts up fast enough in just under three seconds, but the single shot mode shot-to-shot time of nearly four seconds is pretty slow. In continuous shooting mode it can manage just under a frame a second, but the shooting rate is erratic and slows down noticeably after eight shots.
The autofocus system is also somewhat slower than most of its competitors, although it is still pretty quick by most standards. Low light focusing is slower still, but it is reliably accurate. The AF assist lamp has a range of around three metres. The pop-up flash is quite powerful and has good frame coverage even at wide angle. It has a recycle time of approximately six seconds after a full power flash.
The WB 5000 is powered by a 3.8V 1130mAh lithium ion rechargeable battery, which should be powerful enough, but it is moving a lot of glass around whenever the zoom control is operated. Samsung's official spec sheet doesn't list any tested battery duration, but I found that after a full charge the battery indicator was down to one bar after around 100 shots, which is a bit worrying.
Another area where Samsung needs to do some more work is overall picture quality. The quality of the Schneider Keuznach lens is very good with excellent edge-to-edge sharpness, and the software distortion control means that even at the wide-angle end there is no visible barrel distortion. The sensor is of the small 1/2.33-inch type, and dynamic range is very limited, with very little shadow or highlight detail. The camera has a Dynamic Range Optimiser feature, but it's not particularly effective, only boosting exposure to increase shadow detail, and colour saturation is also rather lacking. There are also some problems with image noise, or rather noise control. There are distortions in colour gradients and visible noise at 200 ISO, and significant loss of detail at 400 ISO. The 3200 and 6400 ISO high-sensitivity settings are available at lower resolution (5MP and 3MP respectively) but the image quality is very poor.
For a first attempt at a superzoom camera the WB5000 is a very good camera. Design and build quality are excellent, it a list of features comparable with its market rivals, and like most Samsung cameras it is competitively priced. Its only weak points are its overall performance and its mediocre image quality.
A photograph of children outside a primary school?! How dare you, I'm off to form an angry mob right now! We'll be looking for you outside Exeter Cathedral's West Window tomorrow, complete with flaming torches and misspelt placards..
More seriously though Cliff, are you sure that "Samsung has never made a superzoom camera" before? What about the (quite good) 15X Zoom Pro815 you reviewed in August 2006?
I saw samsung just announced the HZ50W in the PMA 2010 which should be the successor of this model I think.
... err does it have a viewfinder? Another thing it seems there are no super superzooms as image quality is often around the "7" mark...? Going back awhile I remember that fixed focus lenses were considered way better quality than zoom lenses... Nevertheless superzoom cameras are fun and capable of some really good photos.
Noodles - Your memory is clearly better than mine, I'd forgotten all about the Pro815. What a bizarre contraption that was; two LCD monitors, one of them 3.8 inches, a 15x zoom with no stabilisation and the slowest AF ever. Pretty decent picture quality for the time though.
Kai - Yes, you're probably correct. The photos I've seen of the HZ50W do look a lot like the WB5000, and the speed with which Samsung has been updating its camera range recently make it likely that an updated 14MP version will appear soon.
Terry - 3rd paragraph, page 2. It has an electronic viewfinder, although not a particularly good one.
Terry - Another thing it seems there are no super superzooms as image quality is often around the "7"
my thougths too, until I remembered this:
@Cliff: Hah, the only reason I remembered it existed was because of it's complete and utter breeze-block like weirdness. Almost bought one once, but ended up being boring and got an S9500 instead..
Thanks for the link Splogbust... and another thing!... why do electronic "viewfinders" have to be such a shoddy compromise on an instrument where optics take prime place...? A camera is all about the "view" before your eyes surely? I have a superzoom that has an awful electronic viewfinder...
I struggle with the review.
Why award the camera 8/10 overall when the thing that is most important - the image quality - is so poor I wouldn't change my Fuji S602 (now 6 years old) for it as the images look at least as good as the Samsung, if not better!
I can't even understand how it got 7/10 for image quality when the test shots are clearly poor by any standard, especially the ISO tests - mottling at 64ISO???
If that was me it'd be marked down a couple of points on image quality alone and at the price I'd say it was pretty poor value for money.
The price is very good actually, consider the feature it offers. Many other superzooms are more expensive than this one.
For image quality, I'd mark down one point to 6. but 7 is still fair. We should understand the score is relative. When u look at the score of compact camera, u are comparing to other compact camera. When u look at score of entry-level DSL, U are comparing to other entry-level DSL. as well as superzooms, When u look at the score, it is comparing with other superzooms. The score is not a absolute value for all kinds of camera.
And most superzooms have lower image quality. So the standard is also lower.
... time to find your 35mm SLRs, buy a roll of film, put your fixed focus 28mm or 50mm on the front and take some quality photos...?!
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North Sydney Mayor Genia McCaffery has no idea what the council was thinking when it agreed to a 50-year lease on a block of land in Ward Street which is now a lucrative 498-space car park.
What she does believe is that the deal wasn't very good.
Though the council still owns the multi-million dollar site, it could hardly be said to be enjoying the return some might expect.
Last year ratepayers received rental revenue the equivalent of about 21 reserved car spaces, which are each currently selling for $536 per calendar month. The rest went to Wilson Parking, the holder and operator of the lease until 2020.
But things used to be even worse for the council.
Until 1992 it was getting about $5000 a year from the lease, which had been traded and transferred through a number of companies before finally being bought by Wilson Parking for $18.3million six years ago.
"I mean it was a bad deal," said Cr McCaffery. "There is no doubt about that, but you have got to look at what the environment was like in 1970 compared to now.
"It is just annoying they entered into a lease of that length ... If we were doing it now we would say we should have a share in the turnover of the business."
She is referring to the original deal entered into by the council and a little-known company called Verco Properties to develop what, at that stage, was a combination of small property holdings that had been consolidated by the council.
Records at the Australian Security and Investment Commission show that the directors of Verco Properties include members of the Belgiorno-Nettis family who, in turn, own one of Australia's largest construction companies, Transfield.
The mistake made by the council, according to Cr McCaffery, was entering into a lease whose principal benefit came at the end of a 50-year term. Though it gets the car park unencumbered at the end of the lease, first it has to endure many years of below-market annual returns.
"We have talked long and hard about it and we have looked at whether we should buy them out and do a development," she said. "But it is a bit silly paying that kind of money when in 17 years time we get it for nothing. It would be much better to just sit and wait.
"It [the car park] is estimated to be worth $30million in 2020 so even though at the moment we are getting a low rental return we get the whole business for nothing. So you've got to add that."
What the council will do with the property in 2020 is another matter.
One possibility, she admitted, is that it will be knocked down
to make way for another development - a joint venture with private industry.
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Klenät, klena, klejne, kleina, kleyna, and fattigmann are all names for a fried pastry common in the Nordic countries. It is also found in nearby countries (such as Lithuania, under the name Žagarėliai). The name is related to klen, the Swedish term for "slender",[1] but is originally of Low German origin, which may indicate that the pastry was originally German. It is made from flattened dough cut into small trapezoids. A slit is cut in the middle and then one end pulled through the slit to form a "knot". The kleina is then deep-fried in oil or another kind of fat.
In mainland Scandinavia, klenäter are traditionally eaten around Christmas,[2][3] most commonly in the southern parts of Sweden,[3][4] but also in Iceland, Norway and Denmark, the Baltic states, as well as Northern Germany.[4] They may be sprinkled with sugar. Icelandic Kleinur are a very common everyday pastry, sold in bakeries (singly) and stores (in bags of ten or so) all around the country, and eaten plain.[5]
The pastries are used as part of a Christmas game in Scandinavian culture[citation needed]. They are tied to a string and hung in an open doorway. The game requires two people to play, but a crowd must be present to enjoy. One participant must attempt to bite the kleina off the string, using only his or her mouth (no hands!), while the other participant manipulates the unadorned end of the string.
Klenäter are an old type of pastry[4] and are mentioned in Icelandic cookbooks as early as 1800.[6] They are also referenced in a Swedish poem by Anna Maria Lenngren from 1800, called Grevinnans besök (English: The Countess' Visit). In the poem, a countess is invited to a dinner party at the home of a pastor, where she is served klenäter as part of the entrée.[7][8] Klenäter also frequently appear in Christmas stories by famous Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909.[9]
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In Norway, klenäter are known as fattigmann (English: poor man), or Fattigmannbakkels (English: poor man pastry), because, it was said, the high cost of making the cookies could leave you impoverished (fattig).[10] Fattigmann tend to be made with cinnamon, cardamom and a dash of cognac as well as the other ingredients listed above.[11]
They are also eaten in the areas of North America where Scandinavians settled during the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.[12][13]
The dough for klenäter is made from flour, egg yolks, sugar,[3][14] and margarine or butter.[15] The dough is rolled out and then cut into strips,[4] in Iceland often with a special cutting wheel called a kleinujárn. (A pizza cutter can also be used.) The size may vary, but about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long is typical. The uncooked strips are covered with plastic wrap and left to rest for two hours in a cold place.[16] They are then fried in oil or sometimes lard and the dough expands into shape.[3] Traditionally, Icelanders fried kleinur in sheep tallow, but today oil is typically used.
Lemon juice,[15] brännvin or cognac are optional ingredients in klenäter. Water mixed with acetic acid can be used instead.[4][15] An alternative type of klenäter is smördegsklenätter (English: puff pastry klenäter).
Klenäter should be kept in a dry place.[4] The non-fried dough can be preserved in a refrigerator for a week. Klenäter are best served medium-warm and newly baked.[17]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Matlexicon - Klenät" (in Swedish). Milda (Unilever). Archived from the original on November 9, 2003. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ "Liten ordbok om mat". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). December 1998. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ a b c d "Klenät". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ a b c d e f "Klenäter (klenor)" (in Swedish). Menyse.com. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ Inés Pacheco, Let's Go: Europe on a Budget 2008, New York: Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-37858-5, p. 536.
- ^ Marta María Stephensen, Einfaldt Matreidslu Vasa—Qver fyrir heldri manna Húss-freyjur, Leirárgørdum vid Leirá, 1800, OCLC 82628726.
- ^ Lenngren, Anna Maria (1852). Skalde-försök (in Swedish). Bonnier. p. 83.
- ^ "Grevinnans besök" (in Swedish). Portal Dagensvisa. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ Sewall, Lena. "I Selmas julspår". Nya Wermlands-Tidningen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ "Fattigmann". Uncle Phaedrus. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
- ^ "Fattigmann | Kaker | TINE.no".
- ^ "Term: fattigmanns bakkels (food)". Dictionary of Wisconsin History. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ Burckhardt, Ann (2004). A cook's tour of Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-87351-468-2.
- ^ Friis, Margit (1948). Bord duka dig: Margit Friis' kokbok (in Swedish). Allhem. p. 78.
- ^ a b c "Klenäter". Hemmets Journal (in Swedish). Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ "Klenäter" (in Swedish). MixWell. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ "Bakning" (in Swedish). Dansukker. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
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