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From his seminal TV program Cosmos, Carl Sagan attempts to explain the fourth dimension of spacetime. The story starts with Edwin Abbott's Flatland, but Sagan being Sagan, his explanation is especially lucid.
From his seminal TV program Cosmos, Carl Sagan attempts to explain the fourth dimension of spacetime. The story starts with Edwin Abbott's Flatland, but Sagan being Sagan, his explanation is especially lucid.
This video is a combination of two things I like very much: long zoom histories and how things are made. The first part of the video follows the story of graphite back to the Big Bang.
[Carl Sagan-eque interlude: "If you want to make a pencil from scratch, first you must invent the universe."]
The second part shows how pencils are made. Most surprising discovery while watching: Henry David Thoreau (yes, that one) was a talented pencil engineer:
John's thoughtful son David*, unemployed after graduating from college, started helping out with the family business. He developed new refining techniques that made Thoreau pencils less brittle, less greasy — at the time, they were the finest pencils America had to offer. The Thoreaus were able to offer a variety of pencils, from No. 1 (the softest) to No. 4 (the hardest). That numbering system survives today.
The best artists invent their own tools. (via the kid should see this)
From the landmark science series Cosmos, Carl Sagan narrates the evolution of humans from the first cells billions of years ago.
If you divide 1 by 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 (that's 999 quattuordecillion btw), the Fibonacci sequence neatly pops out. MATH FTW!
At the end of Carl Sagan's Contact (spoilers!), the aliens give Ellie a hint about something hidden deep in the digits of π. After a long search, a circle made from a sequence of 1s and 0s is found, providing evidence that intelligence was built into the fabric of the Universe. I don't know if this Fibonacci division thing is on quite the same level, but it might bake your noodle if you think about it too hard. (via @stevenstrogatz)
Update: From svat at Hacker News, an explanation of the magic behind the math.
It's actually easier to understand if you work backwards and arrive at the expression yourself, by asking yourself: "If I wanted the number that starts like 0.0…000 0…001 0…001 0…002 0…003 0…005 0…008 … (with each block being 24 digits long), how would I express that number?"
(thx, taylor)
A supercut of all the times Carl Sagan says "million", "billion", "trillion", and "quadrillion" during Cosmos.
Update: Oh man, and here's Sagan saying "billion" once but stretched out over an hour.
(via @ptak)
Why do humans explore space? We "love to sail forbidden seas". This is a beautiful short video narrated by Carl Sagan showing future human exploration of our solar system.
Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea of the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds — and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.
The shot starting at 2:25 of the exploration of one of Jupiter's moons (Europa?) is fantastic. (via ★interesting)
Raffi Khatchadourian's long piece on the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is at once fascinating (for science reasons) and depressing (for political/bureaucratic reasons). Fusion reactors hold incredible promise:
But if it is truly possible to bottle up a star, and to do so economically, the technology could solve the world's energy problems for the next thirty million years, and help save the planet from environmental catastrophe. Hydrogen, a primordial element, is the most abundant atom in the universe, a potential fuel that poses little risk of scarcity. Eventually, physicists hope, commercial reactors modelled on iter will be built, too-generating terawatts of power with no carbon, virtually no pollution, and scant radioactive waste. The reactor would run on no more than seawater and lithium. It would never melt down. It would realize a yearning, as old as the story of Prometheus, to bring the light of the heavens to Earth, and bend it to humanity's will. iter, in Latin, means "the way."
But ITER is a collaborative effort between 35 different countries, which means the project is political, slow, and expensive.
For the machine's creators, this process-sparking and controlling a self-sustaining synthetic star-will be the culmination of decades of preparation, billions of dollars' worth of investment, and immeasurable ingenuity, misdirection, recalibration, infighting, heartache, and ridicule. Few engineering feats can compare, in scale, in technical complexity, in ambition or hubris. Even the iter organization, a makeshift scientific United Nations, assembled eight years ago to construct the machine, is unprecedented. Thirty-five countries, representing more than half the world's population, are invested in the project, which is so complex to finance that it requires its own currency: the iter Unit of Account.
No one knows iter's true cost, which may be incalculable, but estimates have been rising steadily, and a conservative figure rests at twenty billion dollars — a sum that makes iter the most expensive scientific instrument on Earth.
I wonder what the project would look like if, say, Google or Apple were to take the reins instead. In that context, it's only $20 billion to build a tiny Sun on the Earth. Facebook just paid $19 billion for WhatsApp, Apple has a whopping $158.8 billion in cash, and Google & Microsoft both have more than $50 billion in cash. Google in particular, which is making a self-driving car and has been buying up robots by the company-full recently, might want their own tiny star.
But back to reality, the circumstances of ITER's international construction consortium reminded me of the building of The Machine in Carl Sagan's Contact. In the book, the countries of the world work together to make a machine of unknown function from plans beamed to them from an alien intelligence, which results in the development of several new lucrative life-enhancing technologies and generally unites humanity. In Sagan's view, that's the power of science. Hopefully the ITER can work through its difficulties to achieve something similar.
In 1976, legendary cosmologist and astronomer Carl Sagan tried to recruit a 17-year-old Neil deGrasse Tyson to Cornell University. In April of that year, Tyson wrote Sagan a letter informing him of his intention to enroll at Harvard instead:
The Viking Missions referred to in the letter were the two probes sent to Mars in the mid-1970s.
Tyson occupies a role in today's society similar to Sagan's in the 1980s as an unofficial public spokesman of the wonderous world of science. Tyson is even hosting an updated version of Sagan's seminal Cosmos series for Fox, which debuts on March 9th. Here's a trailer:
Letter courtesy of The Seth Macfarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive at the Library of Congress, which is chock full of great Sagan stuff. And yeah, that's Seth Macfarlane, creator of Family Guy and much-maligned host of the Oscars. Macfarlane was a big fan of the original Cosmos series and was instrumental in getting the new series made. (via @john_overholt)
Been waiting for this one for awhile: a three-minute trailer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
The show will be hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson and is being produced by Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) and Sagan's widow Ann Druyan. If MacFarlane's involvement raises some eyebrows, it shouldn't: he came up with the idea of rebooting the series and is apparently a big space nerd and fan of the original series. (via devour)
From a collection of his papers recently acquired by The Library of Congress, a 1954 reading list from physicist Carl Sagan. Huxley, Plato, Shakespeare, and the Bible are all on there among many others. If I understand mathematics properly, and I think I do, using the associative property, if you read all these books, you will become as smart and cool as Carl Sagan was. Or is it the transitive property?
This is a bit of a head-scratcher…the guy behind the Family Guy (Seth MacFarlane) is teaming up with Carl Sagan's widow and Neil DeGrasse Tyson to do a sequel to the landmark science series, Cosmos. The series will air in primetime on Fox.
The producers of the show say the new series will tell "the story of how human beings began to comprehend the laws of nature and find our place in space and time." They go on to boast: "It will take viewers to other worlds and travel across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience."
I'll be tuning in but will be pleasantly surprised if it does well in the ratings or is any good.
Nerd Boyfriend, a site that details the sartorial choices of desirable nerds, shows us where to buy the outfit Carl Sagan wore in Cosmos.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe.
That's Carl Sagan in Cosmos. Here's the recipe for Carl's apple pie.
Maybe you're tired of un-pop-music-like things being run through Auto-Tune, but I'm not quite there yet. This Auto-Tuned Carl Sagan mix is very nearly sublime.
The entire Cosmos series is available for free on Hulu, in 480p no less (US only). From the Wikipedia:
[Cosmos] covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until 1990's The Civil War. It is still the most widely watched PBS series in the world. It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 600 million people, according to the Science Channel.
(thx, sam)
A map of the Milky Way done in the style of the London tube map.
I was re-reading Carl Sagan's novel Contact recently, essentially a series of arguments about SETI wrapped into a story, and he alludes to some sort of cosmic Grand Central Station. That, coupled with my longtime interest in transit maps, got me thinking about all of this.
At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by the true dimensions of even the Milky Way Galaxy, they took steps that ensured that their descendants would be unable to see the stars at all. For a million years humans had grown up with a personal daily knowledge of the vault of heaven. In the last few thousand years they began building and emigrating to the cities. In the last few decades, a major fraction of the human population had abandoned a rustic way of life. As technology developed and the cities were polluted, the nights became starless. New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and had stimulated the modern age of science and technology. Without even noticing, just as astronomy entered a golden age most people cut themselves off from the sky, a cosmic isolationism that only ended with the dawn of space exploration.
That's Carl Sagan in Contact from 1985. The effects of light pollution were documented in the New Yorker last August.
Several episodes of Carl Sagan's Cosmos series are available on Google Video. They were all there at some point, but it looks like some got taken down.
Scientists who have tried drugs have included Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and Stephen Jay Gould. Like Sigmund Freud, fictional detective Sherlock Holmes was a fan of cocaine. (via cyc-c)
The New Yorker recently ran a feature on how a couple of mathematicians helped The Met photograph a part of The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries. That same week, they ran from their extensive archives a 1992 profile of the same mathematicians, brothers David and Gregory Chudnovsky. The Chudnovskys were then engaged in calculating as many digits of pi as they could using a homemade supercomputer housed in their Manhattan apartment. There's some speculation that director Darren Aronfsky based his 1998 film, Pi, on the Chudnovskys and after reading the above article, there's little doubt that's exactly what he did:
They wonder whether the digits contain a hidden rule, an as yet unseen architecture, close to the mind of God. A subtle and fantastic order may appear in the digits of pi way out there somewhere; no one knows. No one has ever proved, for example, that pi does not turn into nothing but nines and zeros, spattered to infinity in some peculiar arrangement. If we were to explore the digits of pi far enough, they might resolve into a breathtaking numerical pattern, as knotty as "The Book of Kells," and it might mean something. It might be a small but interesting message from God, hidden in the crypt of the circle, awaiting notice by a mathematician.
The Chudnovsky article also reminds me of Contact by Carl Sagan in which pi is prominently featured as well.
According to Wolfram Research's Mathworld, the current world record for the calculation of digits in pi is 1241100000000 digits, held by Japanese computer scientists Kanada, Ushio and Kuroda. Kanada is named in the article as the Chudnovskys main competitor at the time.
(Oh, and as for patterns hidden in pi, we've already found one. It's called the circle. Just because humans discovered circles first and pi later shouldn't mean that the latter is derived from the former.)


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Consultation and breast implant sizing system can help you decide what size is best for you
Thank you for your question. Consultation with a plastic surgeon who is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, experienced in cosmetic breast surgery, and who has an excellent reputation in your community the most important factor for you to achieve the result of your seeking in breast augmentation.
The plastic surgeon will take biometric measurements of your breast and body and based on those measurements therefore as available to recommend and appropriate size for you. However if you can find a surgeon who utilizes the Mentor Breast Implant Sizing system specially shaped implants can be placed into your bra to give you an idea of how you will look with various sizes. There is also a test you can do at home called the Rice test which is described in the article in the link below.
Web reference: http://drseckel.com/boston-breast-implants/boston-breast-augmentation-how-to-choose-size-of-breast-implant/
Implant size
Thanks for your question - there are multiple variables involved when you consider breast imnplant sizing. They include the width of your chest wall, theamount of extra breast skin and its elasticity, and also your volume/size goals. An in person consultation will be able to assist you in figuring out the best size for you! Best of luck.
Web reference: http://www.christopherdavidsonmd.com/boston-breast-augmentation.html
Breast sizing
There are several variables in determining implant size. When recommending implant size for my patients, I consider the followings: 1) patients' anatomy (height, weight, chest width, chest height, amount of breast tissue) and 2) patients' desired look/goal. Without knowing your chest measurement and breast tissue amount, I cannot give you any recommendation. You should visit with board-certified plastic surgeon who will examine you. Try implant sizers to get a rough estimate of the size you may want. As you know, bra/cup size will vary depending on the brand. Good luck with you.
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Breast implant sizing
The more breast surgery I do the more I realize that there is no correlation between the size or model (profile) of implant used and resulting cup size. This may have to do with several factors including: the amount of breast volume the patient starts with, the shape of the patient's chest wall (concave or convex), the type and model of breast implant selected (saline/silicone and low/moderate/high profile), bra manufacturer variance in cup sizes, the degree of filling of the cup with breast tissue, and the subjective differences in patients perceptions of cup size.
Much of the final "look" achieved after breast augmentation surgery depends on several factors:
1. The initial shape, size (volume of breast tissue), symmetry of the patient's breasts. In general, the better the preoperative breast appearance the more likely the breast augmentation "look" will be optimal.
2. The experience/skill level of the surgeon is important in determining the final outcome. For example, the accurate and gentle dissection of the breast implant pockets are critical in producing long-term well-placed breast implants. I personally think that these 2 factors are more important than any others, including type (saline or silicone) or model (low/moderate/high profile) of implant.
3. The type of implant used may determine the final outcome, especially if the patient does not have significant covering breast or adipose tissue. For example, some surgeons feel that silicone implants have a more natural look and feel than saline implants because silicone gel has a texture that is similar to breast tissue. Each patient differs in the amount of breast tissue that they have. If a patient has enough breast tissue to cover the implant, the final result will be similar when comparing saline implants versus silicone gel implants. If a patient has very low body fat and/or very little breast tissue, the silicone gel implants may provide a more "natural" result. On the other hand, saline implants have some advantages over silicone implants. Silicone implant ruptures are harder to detect. When saline implants rupture, they deflate and the results are seen almost immediately. When silicone implants rupture, the breast often looks and feels the same because the silicone gel may leak into surrounding areas of the breast without a visible difference. Patients may need an MRI to diagnose a silicone gel rupture. Saline implants are also less expensive than the silicone gel implants. Other differences involve how the breast implants are filled. Saline implants are filled after they're implanted, so saline implants require a smaller incision than prefilled silicone breast implants. On May 10, 2000, the FDA granted approval of saline-filled breast implants manufactured by Mentor Corporation and McGhan Medical. To date, all other manufacturers' saline-filled breast implants are considered investigational. As of 2006, the FDA has approved the use of silicone gel implants manufactured by the Mentor Corporation and Allergan (formerly McGhan) for breast augmentation surgery for patients over the age of 22.
4. The size and model of breast implant used may make a significant difference in the final outcome. Therefore, it is very important to communicate your size goals with your surgeon. In my practice, the use of photographs of "goal" pictures (and breasts that are too big or too small) is very helpful. I have found that the use of words such as "natural" or "C cup" or "fake looking" or "top heavy" means different things to different people and therefore prove unhelpful. Also, as you know, cup size varies depending on who makes the bra; therefore, discussing desired cup size may also be inaccurate. I use intraoperative sizers and place the patient in the upright position to evaluate breast size. Use of these sizers also allow me to select the breast implant profile (low, moderate, moderate plus, high-profile) that would most likely achieve the patient's goals. The patient's goal pictures are hanging on the wall, and allow for direct comparison. I have found that this system is very helpful in improving the chances of achieving the patient's goals as consistently as possible. By the way, the most common regret after this operation, is "I wish I was bigger".
I hope this helps.
Web reference: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/choosing-your-size.htm
Small frame
My recommendation, solely based on the information your provided and not a picture, would be a smooth round silicone breast implant placed under the muscle. A saline implant placed in someone with little to no breast tissue may be noticeable and unnatural looking. Silicone implants are soft and natural looking, especially if you stay a modest size given your frame.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2007 @ 04:06 PM CDT
> Please, could you put in writing that OOXML describes all MS' earlier formats, that it faithfully describes MS Office 07 output to such an extend
> that ALL of it can be read and written by other applications and that MS will make sure future versions of Office will indeed use this format or its
> later versions as their default format. Also we would like a declaration that MS will follow future versions of ISO OOXML in their office suits.
That OOXML can carry the same information as earlier binary formats can be verified by whether old files can be imported into Office: after about 10 months or more of release, there has only been a couple of shortfalls that I have heard of, but these seem to be Office 2007 bugs rather than file format issues AFAICS. Whether it is 99.999% or 99.9% of the information from the binaries, I cannot say. No-one needs to trust my word or your word, they can look for articles saying that Office 2007 cannot handle feature X (since OOXML is the native format.)
That DIS 29500 describes all the output: it is clear that it does describe in enormous detail and that people have had no trouble implementing it, except for a handful of edge cases where there are flags to say that the document may have been affected by a bug from a particular version of Word, but not describing the bug in much detail. These include incredibly trivial things: the most common example cited concerns formating full-width spaces like Word 95: however full-width spaces are only used in conjunction with ideographic characters, and this only really effects some kinds of CJK text (probably just the Japanese) and is not even implemented in recent version of Word (on my testing.) Even more telling, the Japanese National Body's comments on this issue do not make a big fuss about it: they have an admirable sense of proportion: it is extraordinary that the parrot nations who don't use ideographic characters should think that bugs relating to zenkaku spaces are so important, while Japan Standards Association thinks it is so minor.
But, all that being said, Ecma have said they will get documentation describing the flags better for FDIS 29500. All drafts have incomplete sections. Big deal.
Of course, OOXML is no different from HTML or ODF in being extensible, so they all can contain media files or other binaries in any arbitrary type. That is not an issue of DIS29500 but of extensibility.
On the issue of what MS will do, it is important. If FDIS29500 does not get accepted as a standard, what is there to stop them arbitrarily changing Office's format? It plays directly into their hands to have OOXML non-standard, and you should not fool yourself that their enthusiasm for standards is not a cost of doing business that they would rather do without. They are standardizing because the anti-trust writing is on the wall, so they are trying to get the best result they can, given that, IMHO. Having MS open up, document, clarify their IP, get review, put a process where other stakeholders get some kind of input, all these are wins for users including the Open Source community.
As for commitments to IS29500, when it is finalized at the BRM then everyone will be able to see whether they can live with it. It is no different from ISO PDF: if the ISO committees tinkered with it to make the ISO version of PDF incompatible, then they would stroy its value.
> And you work closely with MS people. If you don;t know, why should we trust anyone else.
Well, I have done maybe four or five weeks work for them as a client (schema conversion, training courses, editing, seminars) in my life (excluding travel time), and I have never even signed a non-disclosure agreement. I don't know if that counts as "working closely"...
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Just a rough estimate from experienced airedale owners would be nice. Female. 8 months old currently about 55 lbs. she was the biggest of her litter(I've heard this may or may not matter). Her sire was about 100 lbs her dam about 90. She grew like a weed the first 6 months but seems to have come to a halt. By 5 months she was around 40 lbs. I'm just curious.
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I'm on a roll! Having blogged about Jamie's Italian in Sydney, I'm now going down southwest of Sydney to Melbourne, yet another large Australian city well known for its culture and FOOD! I have previously blogged about cakes and such in Melbourne, and today, I'll be telling you all about this awesome Mexican restaurant in Melbourne's CBD which is by far the BEST Mexican food I've eaten anywhere ever. In fact, Jon concurs, and he said (and still says) it's the best food he has eaten in Melbourne. I think so too. In fact, it is so yummy that a gazillion other people out there agree, so be prepared to queue, that's all I can say.
Mamasita is perhaps one of the most nondescript places I have ever come across – its entrance is but a small door with a tiny sign that says "Mamasita". The restaurant itself is located on the second floor. If you see queues snaking out of the door, you'd better be prepared to wait at least 2 hours because this means that the queue has snaked down from the 2nd floor, along the stairs and down to the street level. Jon and I probably waited for 2 hours or more, because when we arrived, the queue had just reached the door (which was a good thing since it was cold outside). If there are only a couple of guests ahead of you, you can opt to have drinks at the bar first before being seated, but we chose not to, because we wanted our empty bellies to be able to devour all that yummy Mexicana food!
There was just two of us, but we ordered heaploads of food because well, 5900+ other people on Urbanspoon can't be wrong right? You can also check out the menu first, or you can get the friendly waitresses to recommend dishes for you. They will also kindly stop you from over-ordering (like they did in our case).
Mamasita is what I always imagined a Mexican bar to be like – dimly lit, smoky (not really in this case since no one smoked but it was the 'feeling' of smokiness if you get what I mean), and full of laughter and conversation. There are a few large communal tables, big enough for 8-10 people, and we were seated at a small tall table for two, on bar-top height chairs. Thanks to the long wait, the food does not take too long after ordering to arrive.
For starters, we had the Elotes Callejeros, which is a "street style" chargrilled corn with queso, chipotle, mayo and lime. It costs A$4.40 per cob, but it's DAMN delicious. It was so delicious that we ordered another one after wolfing one down. Best corn ever.
Next, we had the tostaditas – I think we had the tostaditas de Carnitas (A$14) , which is a slow braised pork shoulder with jalepenos. A tostadita is basically a mini fried tortilla, but boy oh boy, these were super delicious and not soggy at all. And I cannot help but repeat myself – the proportions were perfect (ie the amount of meat to sauce to tortilla) and everything was seasoned so perfectly – the amount of spice to saltiness to sweetness is seriously perfect. To say that every bite is a symphony to the senses is not an understatement people! I also wanted to try the ceviche, which is a raw fish marinated with citrus and seasoned with chili etc because it was another popular item on blogs, but I figured it would something like sashimi and since I wanted to try the other food more, so that was given a skip.
The next dish was the quesadilla de Pollo (A$14), which was a chargrilled chicken with 'pico de gallo', coriander and queso fresco. If you have eaten Spanish or Mexican or Latin cuisine before, you will probably know that queso fresco is this creamy white cheese which is almost like a cross between cottage cheese, cream cheese and goat's cheese. I love it, mainly because it is slightly tangy, just like goat's cheese. Pico de gallo is in other words, another name for salsa, which usually contains tomatoes, onions and jalapenos.
Our mains was grilled prawns with toasted garlic and green almond sauce (A$24), or camarones gigantes al ajillo. These, as well, were perfect. The garlic was toasted to perfection – brown enough to have bite, but not burnt. The prawns were large, fresh and juicy, and mind you, not the type of juiciness you get from soaking prawns in alkaline solutions, which is a common practice locally. We also had a side of frijoles baked black beans (A$4.50) to go along with all that food, which was commendable but not as delicious as the other things we had. The level of mastery of food preparation at Mamasita is just crazy. I have had the privilege to try what I term atas restaurants or fine dining which impresses the hell out of me because of the crazy but complimentary food and ingredient pairings you get sometimes, but what seriously blows my socks off is how they have transformed something so commonplace and homely to something impressive. Just like how Jamie Oliver transformed the plain humble salsa to an explosion of flavours, Mamasita has mastered how to grill and cook the meats to perfection, such that it is still juicy, and the additions such as coriander or even the jalapenos are not just mere additions but thoughtfully included to increase the flavour experience. In fact, everything felt so perfect that I didn't even had to add any additional flavourings (cue the hot sauce you see). It's akin to having pizza – the pizzas I ate in Naples were so beautifully balanced that there was no need for additional parmesan or chili flakes or tabasco sauce.
For dessert, I chose to have the blue corn flautas with pumpkin mousse and praline, which I see is no longer available on the menu!! The flautas are basically flour tortillas rolled up in a flute, and then fried, much like the cannoli in Italian / Sicilian cuisine. These were extraordinary, because how often do you get to eat blue corn flour tortillas? They had a strong maize-ish taste, but it went so so well with the pumpkin mousse. Although everything initially sounded 'earthy' to me, I felt that the praline and dulce de leche tied everything together for a sweet finale.
There were so many other things I wanted to try and which I knew would be delicious (I know this has been repeated to death but I cannot find the right words to describe how good and fantastic the experience at Mamasita was), but alas we were just two people! 🙁 Till the next time Mamasita! This will definitely be a fixture (alongside Prahran Market and Burch & Purchese) whenever I go to Melbourne!
1/11 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia
Contact: +61 3 9650 3821
Opening hours: Mondays to Thursdays, 12pm to 12am, Fridays and Saturdays 12pm to 2am, Sundays 1pm to 10pm
Website: http://www.mamasita.com.au/
Price: $$
Note: Reservations only accepted for groups of 8-10, but you will have to order their Chef's Selection banquet
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Hi Janine, very scrumptious spread. Everything look so appetizing. Excellent pictures.
Have a ie weekend.
Sorry, type wrongly. Have a nice weekend. 🙂
Oh my! I've never seen such exquisite and delectable Mexican food in my life! This looks simply amazing! Only wish I could visit it now! Haha


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Everyone knows that OJ was guilty, everyone knows that Barry Bonds was on steroids, and everyone knows that Armando Galarraga pitched a perfect game.
Through 8.2 innings, the Detroit righty had retired each and every batter he faced. With one out to go, a missed call by the now infamous umpire Jim Joyce cost Galarraga what would have been the third perfect game in only a month and the 21st in history.
Talk shows and newspapers were immediately flush with commentary on instant replay and even the possibility of Bud Selig ruling a reversal of the call. The commissioner did in fact meet to discuss both matters the following day. After the meeting, Selig announced that expanded instant replay will be discussed more in depth in the future, and the missed call was to remain a hit leaving Galarraga with only a great story and perhaps the best perfect game in the history of baseball – if you consider that he used 28 outs, rather than 27.
It's conceivable that no one wanted the call to be reversed more than Jim Joyce himself, but regardless, changing this one call would be effectively "opening Pandora's box." As the league's rules stand now, there is no instant replay for controversial calls aside from home runs. When there is no instant replay, it wouldn't make sense for the league to use deferred replay after a game is finalized in this one instance. Reversing this call would in essence be the immediate institution of replay. Assuming Selig is not psychic, there is no way of knowing what could happen as soon as next week. If he reversed this call, would a similar issue arise before expanded instant replay is adopted in the MLB? (Who would have guessed there would be – or almost be – three perfect games in only one month?) What would be next? Changing an error to a hit after a game just to extend a hitting streak – assuming of course the error was called, well, in error?
It goes without saying that Selig had a huge decision to make. If he opted to reverse the call, Joyce and Galarraga could sigh in relief and move on, but as much as I hate to admit it, the integrity of the game would have been compromised. That being said, if there had already been some form of instant replay on close plays instituted in the league and the umpires still got the call wrong, Selig would have an obligation to reverse the call. That form of correction is not an option, however, and while it may be in the future and should be, it would not have been right for Selig to make an exception the rules just so one player can have a title and a place in history – regardless of the accomplishment's rarity and prestige.
I don't mean to sound like a conservative old school baseball purist; I am a firm believer in using the available technology to get the calls right. In this particular instance, however, Selig made the correct decision. My gut reaction was for him to reverse the call, but after reflecting on the consequences, it's rather clear that he was right.
Let's not forget, there's a reason there have been so few perfect games. While there are many games that could have been perfect if one great defensive play were made or if one bad call was correct, this one will stand out because of when that flaw occurred. If the bad call were to take place in the third inning, would this be as big an issue?
It's important to remember not only the missed call, though, but also the class with which both Joyce and Galarraga handled the situation. The box score may have not been flawless, but neither are human beings. The lesson to be learned is far deeper than instant replay and perfection.
Tags: Armando Galarraga, Bud Selig, Detroit Tigers, Instant Replay, Jim Joyce, perfect game
I've got to agree with you Justin. Gut thought was that this play had to be overturned, but baseball has always been flawed to human error. I know its a far cry, but how many other 1 hitters may have been broken up in the earlier part of a game by a bad call? Should we go back and change all those?
The only question I do have regarding this all is why the game was not played under Protest. If you recall, the Yankees/Royals game way back was replayed because of the error on a home run call in the George Brett game.
Yeah, after thinking it over, they really can't award him a perfect game. As soon as another batter stepped to the plate and recorded an official plate appearance, it's impossible to call Galarraga's game perfect. Because it took 28 hitters (even though he technically retired them all).
Great point, Grant. The George Brett homerun actually changed the outcome of the game, however. If it counted, the Royals won. If not, the Yankees won. In this instance, regardless of a perfect game or not, the outcome would be the same. If we're talking the difference between a win or a loss, there's a whole different issue at hand. Since he retired the next batter and the score remained the same, a protest wouldn't make a ton of sense. When it comes down to it, the win/loss record is all that truly matters.
I don't see why the game shouldn't be overturned; it definitely can be. All Selig has to do is say, "It's a perfect game," and presto.
It's not the replay issue that's harming the integrity of the game, as everyone seems to think. It's the blatant screwed up calls like this that's harming the integrity of the game. Even the umpire admitted the call was wrong.
If the higher ups approve of wrong doings like they do, the game will get less and less popular, and more and more meaningless.
Maybe I'm a baseball purist…but as soon as another batter (the 28th hitter) stepped up to the plate, it automatically can't be a perfect game. That's what makes perfectos so special. What do they do, pretend he didn't come to the plate with a runner on in the ninth? Once you erase that situation, you're messing too much with the record books.
If the umps huddled, and then paused the game to call Selig, and he decided it was a perfect game, then that's OK. Because technically it was 27 up, 27 down.
Galarraga recorded the final out with a runner on base. That's what it says in the books…so that by definition is not perfect.
Even without getting the official title of perfect game, because of the controversy people will probably remember Galarraga's night long after they forget about Dallas Braden or even Roy Halladay.
If Joyce had immediately changed his mind meeting with the umpires it could have been somewhat salvaged officially but they didn't go down that road.


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My wife and I have decieded to "up sticks" and move the boat to the Caribbean where, inspired by similar stories we want to live out the rest of our lives. " questions:
Is This feasible?
What; assuming the answer to the above is yes, do I have to prepare for.
I know nothing about the area but would love to give this a go. At my age, the bucket list starts to stare you in the face and calling you names!!
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Welcome aboard SP.
Since you say "move the boat", what do you have? Are both you and your wife experienced sailors and have you lived aboard for any length of time before?
It's a bit hard to say that you will like to "live out the rest of our lives" in the Caribbean, if you "know nothing about the area".
It's beautiful for sure, but its huge and diverse. There are big differences and costs from one island to the next and, except any territory of your native country, you will have to deal with and pay for visitors visas.
Is it feasible? Sure.
Realistic? Depends on a lot of stuff you haven't revealed yet. We look forward to hearing more.
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OK, thanks for a very prompt reply I'll take the questions in the same order.
Boat: Currently Hunter 41DS. Seriously considering Beneteau Sense 50.
Reasonably experienced sailors altho my wife is very reluctant to do night watches on her own.
Have not "lived" aboard. Max time at any one time 2 weeks.
Know nothing about the area, just need to be nearer the US and family all of whom live there.
I know it's a dream but unless you give it a go, you'll never know and I don't want to go to my grave saying "...if only"
Good luck with your planning and your retirement. Before deciding to go to the Caribbean you need to do a lot more research and probably should think about going for a winter season to see how you like it. I will start you off with a few things to consider.
There is the whole question of hurricane season - roughly June to October. Most, but certainly not all, cruisers try to out of the Caribbean for this time (it is also very hot). People tend to go at least as far south as Grenada and many will have their boats hauled and return to their home countries for several months.
There are fascinating cultural differences to enjoy with islands having English, French, Spanish, and Dutch backgrounds. In the Eastern Caribbean most islands are a daysail apart.
Some cruisers move around a lot while others stay put, you will discover which you are.
We are monohull sailors but could see the advantages of a cat for Caribbean cruising/living.
When thinking about getting to the Caribbean and moving around while there it is all about wind direction. The trades will be both your best friend and worst enemy.
Have fun.
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Good input from Killarney, who is halfway around a circumnavigation so knows a bit about this.
It sounds like the sailing part is reasonable and even two straight weeks is enough to have some idea what would be getting into. We have many first time posters who have never been on a sailboat and plan to set off on incredible adventures. Glad to see you're more grounded.
You nationality is going to have some impact on what will be easiest for you and what it will cost. Before I set off on anything permanent, why don't you take a holiday and rent a bareboat somewhere to see what its all about. You just can't lose.
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Just remember, most of the year, the wind in the Carib is honking with limited # of anchorages available. Better like mooring fields and/or marinas!
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Have the same dream and working it through. Selling current boat and new boat comes in April. Have gone down to Carribean looking at various islands to "home port". ( just got back from USVIs- sailed with a liveaboard couple on a Skye 51 for a day and learned some). Have worked through budget/insurance/mail/residency/taxes/communications/legal etc. Selling house but buying small pied a terre in states so still have a "home" on land. Still working out options for hurricane season. Only advise is go step wise if you can and listen closely to folks who are already "living the dream". Look at your next boat as the boat you BOTH can single in any weather and you can sail when you are 80. Think if you are going to go coastal then Bahamas then eastern carib. or ARC to BVIs or the ditch or one shot to Carib. Think if you may ever want to do the pond or other blue water. Every time you buy and sell a boat it's a PIA and from what you say like me this is your "last boat". Best of luck.
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Thank you all and so good to read nothing but positive comments:
So here's the plan. Spend at least one winter bareboat chartering in the Caribbean, try to figure it out and get legals etc. sorted.
We are a British couple and my daughter is going to sponsor us into the US, got that figured.
The issue now is do I buy my next boat in the US and try to sell my current one here (French Mediterranean) or do what Ancasta have suggested buy the boat in the UK with mine as a PX and then sail the new one across the pond with one of the rallies; target date Christmas 2014. Only I can figure that one. Thinking of the Beneteau Sense 50 with Dock 'n Go. Lots of room, simple to sail, not too big, comfortable with roller reefing to the main. My Hunter gonna be an issue with the mainsail in my dotage, my wife already needs an electric winch to get the main up.
So thanks again for the encouragement a great project for us let's hope the house sells quickly. Anyone want a beautiful home in France? Just a thought :)
The OP is from Britain. He is likely used to honking winds ... and they won't be warm like in the Caribbean. You can pick your windows and rarely have more than 25 knots and you will be reaching. Generally great sailing, although Bequia to St Vincent (8 miles) was quite miserable.
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I'm just trying to highlight that Caribbean sailing/cruising is going to involve more time spent in marinas than you'd imagine.
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Now that most TVs can connect to the Internet, many continue to evolve after you buy them. Usually, though, this evolution only consists of new online services, bug fixes and if you're lucky, some minor operating system improvements. Samsung's Evolution Kit, though, takes things to a whole other level, giving you a hardware upgrade that essentially turns your 'old' Samsung ES7000 and Samsung ES8000 TVs (the only 2012 sets that support it) into completely new sets for just £250.
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We first heard about Evolution Kits at CES in January 2012. We didn't pay them as much attention as we probably should have, mainly as we knew it would be well over a year before we actually got to see one of these kits in the flesh.
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Actually, the oblong of metal isn't that little. Its dimensions of 127(w) x 91(h) x 16(d)mm go way beyond the sort of hardware upgrade 'cards' (like PCMCIAs) we're used to seeing. Which obviously raises hopes that it's got a lot more going on under its bonnet than your typical hardware upgrade.
The kit is also remarkably well made. It's finished in a lovely brushed metal on all the sides that will be exposed when it's attached, and the Evolution Kit wording is embossed on the bodywork glamorously in a metallic finish. Not bad for a bit of add-on kit you'll probably never see again once it's been fixed in to position.
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At one end of the kit can be found a couple of 'hinges' and a slim little slot for inserting a provided LAN adaptor cable, while at the other is a button for releasing the locking latch that holds a fitted kit in place on your TV's rear.
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Samsung provides a simple, diagram-based one-sheet guide to installing the kit, as well as a more fulsome instructions manual. However, despite these aids we still found installing the kit more tricky than it really ought to be.
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Beware, though, that you immediately lose the Channel 5 catchup service when you plug this in, having waited so long for it to arrive on your ES8000.
Overall, I find the improvements only minor, and not worth the price tag.
So, essentially, its a fancy add on STB, for £250!
can i buy one in say 2014/15? having just spent 2.5k on my ES8000, another 250 on top is a bit soon..... :-/
If this is an upgrade for a Samsung TV, I'd hate to experience what the original TV had to offer...
To be honest, I don't need a remote on the tv, I don't need to wave at it telling it commands, whole reason I didn't spend the extra money in the first place. But I want to know if this thing really improves picture quality and more specifically the movement issues on my tv,if it does I will purchase because I feel I got gipped with fast moving images looking terrible. I want to know how much better motion display will be. Have the es7300 I believe
To bad they didn't remember to add a smart card slot ! For cable users ! So this oxymoron examples after you purchased a Smart TV to add brains to it ? LOL
I bought one when they first came out, got one from amazon for $179, they got it from a camera shop in NYC. Installed it turned tv, completely wrecked the tv, lost all my apps. Lost all the movie apps that I was getting FREE from HBO, Encore, Starz and etc...Had to take it out of the 60" ES8000 while hanging on the wall. Real piece of shit from Korea, I mean China....
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most programmers are advised not to overload global operator new/delete, especially when you are writing a library for users. But I find these game engines do it. Any reasons?
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Posted 21 May 2013 - 11:52 PM
most programmers are advised not to overload global operator new/delete, especially when you are writing a library for users. But I find these game engines do it. Any reasons?
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Posted 22 May 2013 - 12:40 AM
When writing a core game engine like Unreal/CryEngine, you're basically writing the very core of your application. In this sense, you're not making a library, but the immovable foundations of your app, so you can do what you want. In this situation, you're making an application and other people are writing libraries for you, e.g. these engines will use Bink, FMod, Scaleform, SpeedTree, etc, etc, and it would be bad for these libraries to override a global function, because then they couldn't be properly integrated into applications.
especially when you are writing a library for users
As Frob mentions above, engines will override global memory functions primarily for tracking, profiling and debugging purposes.
Posted 22 May 2013 - 06:12 AM
The most frequent (and excellent) reason to use a custom allocator is to assist in hunting bugs. If you are on a debug build, most good allocators will record where the allocation took place, record an optional comment to help in debugging, include a dead zone around the allocation to help track down overruns, and occasionally even stop execution when accessed after being released.
Another good reason to use a custom allocator is to do things the standard allocators do not provide. Many standard allocators have poor performance for frequent small allocations, or they may not provide ways to get specific alignment, or they may not provide methods to simply discard the contents rather than following a traditional destruction and teardown, or whatever else you may have a need for.
Finally, in cross-platform development it is sometimes necessary to provide a memory manager that works the same on all systems.
Keeping that in mind, it is best for professional library creators to build libraries that can have their allocators replaced. That does not mean that you as the library provider replace them, instead it means that the consumer of the library have the ability to replace them with their own allocators to meet their needs.
On the other hand, a poorly written memory manager can cause no end of trouble. Bugs in the system can be insanely difficult to hunt down, poor implementations can cause performance problems and other issues. Usually if you have to ask questions about it then you probably aren't qualified to do it.
Consequently, overriding the allocators is something normally recommended AGAINST unless you have a specific need. For hobby work and small stuff the built-in debug libraries generally have pretty good debug support. If you do have a specific need, it is generally recommended to use an existing, well-written and debugged library.
Engines like you mentioned benefit from all three of the benefits listed above, and they use a solid implementation to avoid the potential problems listed above. That means their use of a custom allocator within their engine is a reasonable decision for them, where it may not be a reasonable decision for a student, or an inexperienced, or a hobby developer.
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