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Just been to the Cape and wanted to share Seal watching. If you go to the Head of the Meadow Beach in North Truro and you walk about 20 minutes east , you will see seals in the water and on the beach. The Park ranger does not let people come close to the seals but one can still see them. People will suggest to go during low tide. When I was there the seals decided to leave exactly at low tide. . So be there an hour before the lowest tide point. I did not take the seal watching boat so I do not know if it is better than seeing them on the beach.
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It is fun to see seals in the wild . They have been much more plentiful in the Massachusetts and Connecticut coastal areas. We often see them in fishers island sound. Z
The down side is that they are food for sharks and we kind of look like seals to sharks.
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They are a disaster for fishermen, dangerous up close, and attract Great White Sharks, resulting in beaches being closed.
They are better than elephant seals in California, though.
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We saw seals out on the waters from Portsmouth, NH last week while on a boat ride not specifically for seeing seals, but we saw them.
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sadly I think it is time to cull the herd,
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What I can't figure out is why they have moved so far south.
In general, seals don't like warm weather and warm water.. Less than twenty years ago, seals didn't arrive in Nantucket until Thanksgiving, and they went back up north in April. Now they live and breed here all year round.
Logic would suggest that global warming would keep them north, but they are spreading south as far as Long Island Sound.
Does anyone have an explanation?
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We saw the same thing this year at Head of the Meadows. We had binoculars, and it was impressive because there were so many of them.
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Interesting question Ack. I'm sure there are quite a few scientists and fishermen studying the migratory changes. Perhaps it was simply that the numbers were so diminished when they stopped culling back in the 70's? I have no idea, and wouldn't even bother to make an uneducated guess.
I know that this summer marine biologists tagged their first grey seal in Chatham, MA. Up until the save the seals nixon era program they were culled. Problem is that the cute harpseal was their poster seal. The grey seal could and perhaps should become a food source, however, introducing it is like trying to market Bambi and the barbie. The numbers have gone off the charts all over as far as I have read. Even in Hawaii, fisherman are showing an early concern for the protected monk seal.
These are two interesting articles. Canada wants to cull, but their is little incentive to cull for the fishermen unless they can source the meat.
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madi, I apologize if I have overshadowed you lovely report. It is always wonderful to witness wildlife in their environment. Although there is a bit of a population crisis, that doesn't diminish how fun it is to watch seals. And anyone who happens to read your report should take the stroll.
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There have been seals on Long Island for MANY years - on the Atlantic side - not sure about the sound. When we went surf-fishing at Jones Beach or Robert Moses in the fall - November or nicer days in Dec - there were often small groups of seals on the beach - although naturally we couldn't get anywhere near them.
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Yes, my, winter absolutely, but the summer thing is new and I suspect that
Lookin_glass's suggestion of population pressure is probably the right one. In the absence of predators, human or other, warm water becomes preferable to no food, forcing the seals south as fish stocks collapse. Of course, the more the population grows, the more the food supply becomes inadequate . . . .
A vicious circle indeed, though the Great White sharks are doing their best to solve the problem.
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Exclusive info on shooting of border watcher by feds
Kalen "Tiny" Riddle and Casey Nethercott had a run in with Federal Agents on either August 30th or September 8th at Nethercott's ranch. A source says that agents appeared at the ranch's gate for an unknown reason. Riddle and Nethercott approached the gate and which time the agents leveled their weapons at the pair. Riddle was carrying a firearm and placed his weapon on the ground...
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Good morning donuts! Another hour on the elliptical and stretching at the gym this morning. I'm feeling good that i'm maintaining a good bit of fitness, but I'm getting tired of cross training. Trying to stay positive though. I'm grateful I can still work out aggressively in other ways besides running. Gotta look at the bright side.
Go Docket and AmiK!
flinders: another great day for running this morning in Atlanta. Hope you've got the same again.
PRs: 1:39:24 (HM) 3:47:02 (FM)
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Well, I finished and truthfully, that's about all I can say! I think I probably set a record for a positive split! Will do a RR later but the short story is I felt great for the first 1/2 (ran with another forumite and we hit 13.1@2:02...perfect. At around mile 14ish, my ITBS kicked in and I knew I needed to slow down so I told George to go ahead. By mile 16, it was so bad I could honestly only run for 1/2 mile at a time. I tried Biofreeze, stretching but nothing helped. I limped the rest of the way in for a 4:33:47. Truthfully, I don't think I could have hit a 4:00 with the hit but maybe somewhere between a 4:05-4:10. Obviously, I am pretty disappointed and several times I considered DNFing it hurt so bad (still does!!) but I finished. Feeling pretty blah at the moment but I guess I just need processing time.
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mdawg, how long until you can run?
Ami, sorry about the ITBS. You know you can totally nail your next marathon. Just focus on getting healthy and I'll be happy we get to keep you for a little longer!
10.6 miles of hilly roads today at 10:55 average. I was pretty tired and moving slow. DH was running a 5 mile race (he did great with a 38:something) so I ran the first half of the course, made a loop around the lake and then rejoined the race course just as the middle of the pack hit the lake. I heard my name and looked over to see my friend! She said she had a goal time so I sped up to stick with her and we busted out 9 minute miles to the last hill which is .6 miles long and STEEP! I cheered her up the hill and then jumped off before the last turn to the finish line. I found DH and then we jogged back down to the car and headed home. Only 39.1 miles for me this week. I feel like a slacker!
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AmiK, congrats on the finish, marathoner! Hope the ITB heals quickly.
I almost PRd today, oops. I missed it by 10 seconds. I did the first HM at easy pace to compensate on the 100% humidity and when I hit the HM mark, I accelerated, ending with a 4-5 minutes negative split. Very happy with how I ran it especially considering no albuterol and having run a HM yesterday.
heading back to Miami. I'll write an RR tonight.
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
It's always fucking hot in Miami!
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Ami: Sorry to hear about the ITB issues derailing your race. But, the most important thing is: Congrats on finishing!!! Don't let the time get you down; you finished a marathon! Also, enjoy the rest of your trip! [But on the ITB, did it give you a problem during your LRs or flare up during training, or did this flare come out of the blue? (I can't remember if you mentioned ITB during your training; we've all been discussing injuries and I can't remember who has ITB issues, calf issues, PF, et cetera)].
mdawg: It was 50ish this morning, so warm enough to run in just shorts and a tshirt. But we had fog/low cloud and drizzle, which I actually like to run in, but it makes it so that not a drop of sweat evaporates during the run, so I finished up a sodden mess.
7.1 this morning @9:03 average pace. Happy to be running pain free.
Lapped by Docket and Banshee.
Banshee: nice run!
Docket: Congrats!! Looking forward to the RR.
Thank you all for the well wishes! I feel a bit better now that I have showered and eaten a snack....ITB still hurts just to even sit though!
Banshee: nice run today!!
Flinders: I started having trouble about 6-7 weeks ago. Went to the chiro, etc....but honestly today was the first it has ever been.
Docket: That is awesome!!! You should be very proud of an almost PR after doing Goofy and with the heat/humidity!! I am sad we didn't get to meet. We will be at DTD tonight if you will be around!
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Amik - Go ahead and put the little bit of disappointment aside for awhile. You are a marathoner! Congratulations! Take a good break to celebrate and then lets see about getting that ITB settled down so you can get to training for your next race.
Docket - Awesome!!
Banshee - good run! You too flinders!
Hang in there mdawg.
Funny run today. 39 deg, drizzle, rain, and windy. Wore a rain jacket and shorts. Had to run laps as half of my course was cut off due to flooding conditions. 12.6 miles @ 8:42 pace. HR was 75% of MHRR which would say that my fitness has increased a good deal since last training cycle. Finished out my first cut-back week with 38 miles. Tempo run this Tuesday morning and I am actually looking forward to it.
Donuts!!!! Happy running!
PRs...5K - 20:36, 4mile - 26:15, 13.1 - 1:32, 26.2 - 3:42
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Docket - Nice job on the near-PR! Especially with the goofy challenge.
Ami- either way, you finished and can call yourself a marathoner...now go to Graston!!!
Me- 10 mile "race" in central park today that was an excuse to hang out with friends - I did it at a 9:38 pace, so pretty easy. Rest day for the rest of today and tomorrow.
13.1: 1:45 | 26.2: 3:55
Hey all,
Got in 8.8 @ 9:25 to finish the week with 41. Ran again in the Elixirs, and I'm really loving these shoes.
Ami, congrats on finishing your first under very difficult circumstances! I'm very proud you didn't DNF. ITBS sucks!!! I ran 3 Halfs last year with my ITBS problems, and I can't imagine doing another 13.1. Enjoy this experience, and then, like Sprink said, go to GRASTON!
Docket, donuts to you! Can't wait to read the RR.
Sprink, what was that 10 miler? Was it a real race or a fun run or what?
Flinders, great to hear you are pain free again. 7 without pain is the most in quite a while, I think.
Mdawg, I feel pretty confident that your test run is going to go great. Are you feeling better?
Banshee, great miles!
PRs: 21:35 (5K); 1:46:46 (HM); 4:30:46 (FM)
Would've loved to but we are already back in Miami. Next time!
and you can be sure you'll smash that PR next time.
Thank you all for the well wishes! I feel a bit better now that I have showered and eaten a snack....ITB still hurts just to even sit though!
Banshee: nice run today!!
Flinders: I started having trouble about 6-7 weeks ago. Went to the chiro, etc....but honestly today was the first it has ever been.
Docket: That is awesome!!! You should be very proud of an almost PR after doing Goofy and with the heat/humidity!! I am sad we didn't get to meet. We will be at DTD tonight if you will be around!
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Mdawg – Keep at it, you'll come back strong
AmiK – Great job!!! Sorry about the ITB
Docket – You keep proving our "Killing It" theme of 2013
Banshee/Cbus/Flinders/Sprinkles – Nice runs.
Indi – Nice run. I love that feeling when you see fitness improving over time
Me – 9 TM miles @ 9:50 and 1% incline, all pain free. Lots of stretching the last couple of days has loosed up things a bit. Finished week with 41.5 miles. An hour of yoga later tonight
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mdawg - hang in there. you'll be back to running soon.
AmiK - sorry to hear the ITBS flared up. But congrats on sticking it out and finishing your first! And I echo Cbus's recommendation to go get Graston (of course!)
Banshee - pretty cool that we can run almost 40 miles and feel like that's slacking!!
Docket - very nice negative split there! And so close to your PR! Congrats!
Flinders - nice pace on the 7 and glad to hear it was pain free!
Indiana - nice pace on the 12! I can't say I ever look forward to my speedwork!
Cbus- nice job on the 8.8! I've heard a lot of good things about the Elixers. I'm afraid to stray from my sturdy stability shoes though.
Josh - nice job on the 9!
I got my 10 done... 5 miles of suck and 5 miles of pleasant. Still coughing some but it's not as bad.
Hope you all had a good weather weekend. It was nice to see 50+ in MI. It was the first time i ran in running shorts without sweatpants in January.
docket - congrats ! look forward to the race review !
AmiK - sorry to hear about the ITBS. Way to tough it out to the finish though. Hang in there !
Indiana - nice run - that's pretty fast- yeah it's interesting with the rain puddles. Most of mine today were on sidewalks so i debated running through it squarely or just running on the grass next to it
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Amik you should be proud of yourself for toughing it out!
Docket, great performance- you don't seem to have tapered, then ran a half the day before, well done!
Indi, I am slowing down as the years go by, enjoy your progress.
Banshee and cbus, good weeks for both of you. Cbus, chick peas make me think of hummus, I like middle eastern food, tahini, tabouleh...
Mdawg, stick with the xtraining, it will pay off.
Flinders, glad to hear the 7 went well. I do remember you inviting the other thread to join us.
Me, 12 and a bit today, 4 runs and no xtraining for the week.
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The top TSA official at Newark airport will be reassigned instead of fired.
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Dominating the town is the Cathedral of St. Ursus (1762–73, on an earlier foundation), which since 1828 has been the cathedral church of the bishop of Basel. Other notable buildings are the Jesuit church (1680–88), the Clock Tower, or Zeitglockenturm (1250), the 15th-century town hall, and the Zeughaus, or Arsenal (1610–14), which houses Switzerland's finest collection of armour and old weapons. Solothurn also has some fine 16th-century fountains, bulwarks, and gates that survive from the medieval fortifications, as well as a modern museum.
The city's industries include watchmaking, engineering, and the manufacture of machinery, electrical and technical equipment, textiles, and paper. Solothurn's position at the foot of the Jura Mountains and near the navigable portion of the Aare River has always made it a junction of various routes; seven railway lines branch off there. The population is German - speaking with a Roman Catholic majority. Pop. (1990 2007 est.) 15,480184.


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What will it mean to pay per byte while surfing the net?
You've no doubt seen the news about Time Warner Cable changing their broadband pricing structured from a flat-rate plan to a tiered plan. Their claim is that this system will give 'light users' a break in the amount they pay for broadband.
If you haven't followed the story, let me bring you up to speed. First, here's an online statement that TWC directed Wired to. And here are two of Wired's relevant articles: Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics, & Bowing to Pressure, Time Warner Alters Broadband Caps. For a real-world example of how the pricing changes will impact a typical young family, check out Lara Crigger's article at Gamers With Jobs, The Meter Is Running (though note that Ms. Crigger wrote her piece before Time Warner tweaked their pricing).
OK, all caught up?
I've been trying to wrap my mind around the ramifications of this kind of pricing scheme, and every time I think I've got a handle on them all, more pop up. Putting a price on transferring a bit of data...that changes everything. There's really no analogous service that most of us pay for. You might think about your electricity or water bill, and they are close, but since they're necessities there's only so much impact pricing changes would have. The cost of electricity would have to really skyrocket before we all decided to start using candles instead of lights at night (and the government would step in well before things got to that point). Also there are no 'caps' on these services. You don't worry about exceeding your electricity limit and having to pay a premium surcharge for every kilowatt hour you go over.
The closest service I can think of would be a cell phone plan where we're billed by the minute and do pay a premium price for every minute after our plan's allotment. But a minute is easy to keep track of, and easy to control. If I talk to you for 10 minutes, I know I've spent 10 minutes of my allotted time. There are no surprises or 'hidden minutes' to worry about. When I go to a web page, I don't know how much bandwidth that's going to use. I can guess at the content of the actual page, but what about all those flash ads? What about the flash ads that stream audio and/or video? Suddenly I'm paying to download those (while the ad-serving company is paying to send them to me).


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Theta storage tanks were the primary component of a Malon waste export vessel, designed for the containment of theta radiation, antimatter waste and other industrial byproducts during transport. The tanks were moderately radiation proof, but prolonged proximity to the tanks still led to radiation exposure. In the event of a tank breach or other high radiation leak, the tanks could be jettisoned into space.
In 2375, Fesek told Chakotay of a legend which claimed poisonous radiogenic waste creatures were created and lived in these tanks, causing damage to the ship. (VOY: "Juggernaut")


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Blue panda is my name for god these days. We constantly converse, the blue panda and I. For real. My brain observes, questions, interprets, and judges things, and I imagine this giant, beautifully animated, panda-god responding. Usually he just laughs, sometimes with me, sometimes at me. His big panda tummy shakes up and down. Sometimes he stops laughing and he whispers insights and understandings and helpful ways of thinking about things. In the last few months I've passed along some of this blue panda wisdom and some people have found it so helpful that they forwarded it on throughout the interwebs!
Book of Blue Panda
Chapter 1, Verses 1-5
1. Our human brains and our broken hearts have a strong need to make sense of things. We are desperate to understand everything that happens, especially when we are in a lot of pain. And so we create stories about the past. We label ourselves and we label other humans. There is nothing wrong with being human and many of our interpretations and stories and labels are valid. But it helps to be aware of our tendency to interpret the past and then believe that our interpretations and our stories are what "really" happened.
2. In the past, some stuff happened. Maybe your partner had an affair or maybe you lost custody of your children. But watch how fast and how much like a strong reflex you turn those factual events into huge, significant stories. "If only we had gone to counseling." "If only I had been someone different." "She never loved me and doesn't know how much I loved her." "I was an awful parent." And then we give everyone, including ourselves labels, like "broken" and "unlovable" and "not good enough" and "ex-rat-bastard-jerk-face."
3. Set all of these beliefs and stories and labels on this imaginary kitchen table right here. All of these stories are NOT TRUE. They are your extremely biased and completely self-serving interpretations of the past. All together they form an epic piece of historical fiction, starring you, the tragic martyr, the lonely super-hero, and the dark super-villain. Pure fiction. Yes, some stuff happened, but in attempting to understand it and in order to feel that you can exercise control of things in the future, you have made up some stories and you have come to believe many things (about yourself, about other individuals, and about humankind in general) that are pure hogwash.
4. Don't try to stop yourself from interpreting and understanding things. Just be aware that you're doing it and be aware that there is a large distance between all of the random, benign, infinitely complex and incomprehensible stuff that happens, and your deliciously alluring set of interpretations and beliefs. You have created stories that you use to understand your past and these are the stories that you will use to shape and limit your future.
5. Dust off your imagination and think about how it would feel to let any unkind or stressful stories, interpretations, and beliefs go. Imagine letting them float up off this kitchen table and disperse into nothing. What really happened? Nothing that means anything cruel or significant or even noteworthy about anyone or anything.
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i anxiously await further musings from the great blue panda.
btw, does this make you his prophetess?
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Awesome first cruise!: Norwegian Jewel Cruise Review by pianomom2
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Awesome first cruise!
Destination: Alaska
Embarkation: Seattle
The Norwegian Jewel offered freestyle dining, and we really liked the flexibility and choices we had, and that we didn't have to dress up to dine. Each restaurant had great choices and very good food. The buffet was always very good, too, with wonderful fresh fruit each day.
They kept the two pools at 86 degrees, so unless it was raining, people were constantly in the pool and/or hot More tubs.
Our stops were Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway. These were all quaint fishing towns that were fun to explore. In Juneau we took a 4 mile hike up into the hills, and really enjoyed the plants, flowers and waterfalls. Cruising Tracy Arm fjord and seeing glaciers was amazing! We also saw many whales, both humpback and Orca's, from the ship. There were many seals, dolphins, porpoise, eagles and more to see!
We met many sweet people and enjoyed talking with them, hearing where they're from and about their lives.
The evening shows were fantastic! We appreciated that all of the shows were "clean" and parents didn't have to worry about their kids hearing inappropriate comedy.
This cruise was everything we hoped for and we can't wait to take another one! Less
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Beautiful town. We could see a long waterfall from the ship, so we headed out to find it. We had about a 4 mile hike and it was worth it! So beautiful, relaxing, quiet. We had the place to ourselves. Checked out the town cemetery, I think the oldest stone we found was 1819 or so. (Yeah, we're weird)
We were too early for the salmon run, but heard that this is amazing to see a little later in the summer.
Quaint little fishing town. Too many jewelry shops for our taste. Fun to explore.
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A charity which helps give vulnerable young people a chance is to open a new education centre.
Young London Today, based in Selhurst, work with vulnerable teenagers from 16-years-old who need help making the transition to living independently.
The charity, which also does work in Lambeth and Lewisham, officially launched in 2013 but workers been doing work in Croydon for the past decade.
But after seeing a number of cuts to support services in the borough for young people who are not in education and employment, the charity now plan to open an education centre.
The centre would be based in what is currently an industrial unit in Gloucester Road, opposite the building from where the charity runs at the moment.
Peter Lang, operations manager at the charity, said the centre would teach basic maths and English as well as working with UKBA to teach a course in English as a second language.
Mr Lang said they will work with schools, PRUs, youth offending teams and the police in terms of getting referrals to the centre which he hopes will open in September 2014.
The unit will include classrooms, workshops and therapy rooms and the charity is already interviewing candidates to teach English at the centre.
Young people who attend will also be asked to sign a promise that no guns, drugs, knives or any other weapons will be brought into the centre.
This is to prevent any tensions occurring between potential rivals.
It is hoped the centre will reinforce the work the charity already does with young people in preparing them for the world of work.
There are also plans to create links with local businesses and set up apprenticeship placements for the young people to gain experience in a working environment.
Mr Lang said: "In terms of education provision we just noticed there was a gap. We saw that since the spending review things like Connexions and other education providers were hit hard due to cuts.
"Basically the average 16-year-old who is excluded from school has not got anywhere to go. We want to fill that gap.
"For Croydon it will be something that is fairly unique. We have been fortunate to see some of our young people make it into employment and start providing for themselves which is fantastic.
"We want to see more successes like that."
For more information go to young-london.org.
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At the bustling public library in Arlington Heights, Ill., requests by three patrons to place any title on hold prompt a savvy computer tracking system to order an additional copy of the coveted item. That policy was intended to eliminate the frustration of long waits to check out best sellers and other popular books. But it has had some unintended consequences, too: the library's shelves are now stocked with 36 copies of "Fifty Shades of Grey."
Of course, librarians acknowledge that when patrons' passion for the sexy series lacking in literary merit cools in a year or two, the majority of volumes in the "Fifty Shades" trilogy will probably be plucked from the shelves and sold at the Friends of the Library's used-book sales, alongside other poorly circulated, donated and out-of-date materials.
"A library has limited shelf space, so you almost have to think of it as a store, and stock it with the things that people want," said Jason Kuhl, the executive director of the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Renovations will turn part of the library's first floor into an area resembling a bookshop that officials are calling the Marketplace, with cozy seating, vending machines and, above all, an abundance of best sellers.
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The Adobe Developer Connection released an update of the Flex cookbooks today. Some of the changes include:
- Ratings: The average rating for each cookbook post is calculated now by mathematic average for the cookbook post (the sum of the ratings, divided by the number of ratings). The Top posts are listed in an order based on a Bayesian calculation, which takes into account all ratings for all posts in the cookbook, and is sometimes called a "weighted rating." Learn more about Bayesian methods from Wikipedia.
- We added warnings for Safari users to use either FireFox and IE. Unfortunately the cookbook recipe form does not work with Safari right now. We hope to remedy that situation in an upcoming release.
- We fixed the Comments RSS feed.
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- Various bug fixes for the launch.
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What a great alternative to basic black ballistic nylon luggage? Why settle for dark, dingy luggage when you can throw your clothes in this chic weekender bag?
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Hopefully, the new year arriving Tuesday will be better than 2012.
The year just ending saw Mother Nature on a rampage with hurricanes, tornados, floods, wildfires and a devastating superstorm.
But on the positive side, the world did not end Dec. 21.
In this age of dire predictions and apocalyptic prophecies from seers and mystics gazing into crystal balls, it's nice to anticipate events that aren't quite so cataclysmic.
Our friend, Judy Hevenly, a Los Angeles psychic, author and international lecturer featured in "The 100 Top Psychics in America," has compiled a list of predictions for 2013 on everything from the new mayor of Los Angeles to Amazon coming out with its new iPhone.
Last year, I should point out, Judy correctly predicted for The Sun that 2012 would bring the re-election of Barack Obama, a power outage in New York, and Jean Dujardin would get the Best Actor nod at the Academy Awards.
For 2013, however, Judy sees big trouble brewing for San Bernardino.
She is predicting some changes in the city. Its citizens, she says, will come together and take matters into their own hands to keep the city working more efficiently.
She also said that there will be new cultural activities for young and old; and new parking structures/parking meters will be built to bring in extra revenue.
For more Hevenly info, visit judyhevenly.com.
Have a happier and more properous New Year.
Reach Michel via email, find her on Twitter @michelnolan, or call her at 909-386-3859.


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AN HOUR before the first guest arrived, a beam of late morning sunlight lit up a memorial plaque in the corner of Palmdale Cemetery.
It was struck in early January 1996, when David Tandy succumbed to a two-year battle with osteoporosis.
At the time, his middle son Ryan was just 14 years old and struggled to attend the funeral. Traumatised by the confronting farewell, Tandy vowed never to attend another one while he drew breath.
His death last week set that promise free and on Wednesday Tandy revisited the place of his father's cremation. In body and spirit. His coffin sat before 250 mourners, half as many as the chapel could accommodate.
In the pews inside and on the pavers beyond were some of rugby league's most respected figures.
Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy, former skipper Robbie Kearns and centre Will Chambers travelled to the Central Coast to pay their respects, while Andrew Ryan, James Maloney, Brett Finch, Steve Turner and Mark O'Neill all drove from Sydney to do likewise.
Each of them saw enough good in the 32-year-old to sustain allegiance to the game's outcast.
The stigma of Tandy's conviction made it difficult to publicly proclaim in his favour, but on Wednesday they too were freed. On invitation from Tandy's mother Carol, Bellamy addressed the service.
"Ryan will never, ever be forgotten at the Melbourne Storm," he said.
"Our memories are his passion for the game and loyalty to his teammates. He had an ability to make us laugh, and today, unfortunately, an ability to make us cry."
When she spoke a short time beforehand, Carol called for laughs instead of tears.
Her grief might have lifted as each speaker drew mirth with anecdotes from Tandy's incident-packed life.
Few in the audience knew of his extraordinary pain threshold, undergoing root canal surgery without anaesthetic as a nine-year-old.
They had no idea that he was a neat freak who showered at least four times a day.
That he survived Hurricane Wilma while on a Cancun holiday in 2005, the fiercest storm to ever lash the northern hemisphere.
That he was fastidious about spelling when it came to texting females.
That he insisted the bacon go beneath the breast on his chicken burger.
That he won a dance-off in the Rewind Room at Club Troppo.
Or that he once did charity work with delinquent teens for Father Chris Riley's Youth of the Streets program.
The universal knowledge of Tandy's gambling and drug problems gave many a reason to frown.
With no public recognition of his positive traits, the grim response would always be the same. Tandy knew it would last a lifetime and he was right.
His tragic demise gave many cause to reflect and reveal. The smiles followed thereafter.
Carol introduced her tribute as the "last thing I will ever be able to do for Ryan."
For the next seven minutes she displayed the resilience that was passed on to her son, who played the 2009 grand final with a torn bicep.
She described him as "dreamer", herself as a "realist". He was blinded to the awful realities, she was too keenly aware. And yet she only had half an idea of the man her son had become.
Tandy could not bear to let her know the truth, so he told no one and suffered alone.
Carol concluded: "I feel this huge emptiness and so I stand before you all with my head held high. I can proudly say that Ryan Tandy was my son and there was never a moment that he was not loved. Thank God he was in my life. He's with his dad now and may he rest in peace."
From today Ryan Tandy will be immortalised in the corner of Palmdale Cemetery, directly behind his father's plaque.
The late morning sun shines there, illuminating a life that spent too long in darkness.


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Last week, New York Times reporter Charlie Savage unearthed an internal Romney campaign memo advising the candidate to bring back Bush-era "enhanced interrogation techniques" if elected. Though the memo notes that "it is difficult to point to concrete ways in which the Obama Administration's renunciation of enhanced interrogation techniques has undermined America's effort in the fight against terrorism," it recommends a President Romney "pledge" to "rescind President Obama's executive order restricting government interrogators" from torturing detainees.
This Wednesday, Jack Goldsmith, the head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) under President George W. Bush, concluded that any return to the use of torture or any other so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be both "indisputably illegal" and strongly opposed by the interrogators who would be tasked with the torturing. Goldsmith, a prominent right-wing legal mind who focuses on terrorism and the law, wrote that a Romney administration would likely not rescind Obama's torture ban for these reasons (among others):
Bush Lawyer: Proposed Romney Torture Policy Is "Indisputably Illegal"
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We think it might be something in the water, but nine Ladue News staffers have been pregnant within the last year, and babies are coming out of the woodwork!
To celebrate the blessed events, LN hosted a shower as "an homage to all the estrogen in the air," says senior writer Trish Muyco-Tobin, who planned the festive fete with associate editor Jenny Fisher and advertorial coordinator Diane Alt. "We wanted it to look and feel like an old-fashioned ladies' tea party, with lots of dainty finger food, flowers everywhere, pastel colors and other feminine flourishes," Muyco-Tobin says.
Accordingly, a staffer's home was set up like a tearoom, complete with flower-laden bistro tables. The official honorees were managing editor Meredith Boggess and creative design director Julie Streiler, who hadn't yet had their babies. "But actually, it was the first gathering of all the office babies who'd been born within the year," Trish explains. "And having the shower at someone's home instead of the office conference room gave us enough room to invite more friends, including a few Ladue News alums who'd worked here years ago."
In keeping with the traditional ambience, all the food was lovingly made from scratch. "True to the girly-girl theme, there were no barbecued ribs or burgers or other guy food," Trish says. The menu included fruit kabobs, vegetables and dip, Trish's chicken salad croissants, editor Dorothy Weiner's sinfully rich mushroom quiche, and lumpia, Filipino spring rolls made by Glenda Muyco, Trish's mother. Dessert, which any woman will tell you is actually the main course, consisted of office manager Kathy Cowhey's famous lemon squares and a vanilla butter cream 'welcome babies' cake from Lubeley's Bakery. Staff photographer Jason Mueller, the only adult male allowed, seemed to enjoy himself nevertheless.
About 35 guests sipped ice tea and fruit punch while catching up on gossip and exchanging labor tales ("After about 17 hours, I didn't know if I was pushing, breathing, panting or singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner'") and savvy parenting tips ("Sleep whenever you can, just try not to do it while you're driving"). And, although everyone admired the pastel centerpiece from Ladue Florist, the real center of attention was, of course, the babies. "It was hilarious, everywhere you looked, someone was holding a handful of someone else's baby!" recalls Trish.
The 'girly-girl' ambience turned out to be prophetic: both expectant honorees gave birth to adorable baby girls. Meredith and Josh Boggess welcomed Elise Rose on June 13, and Julie and Brandon Streiler opened their arms to Isabella Marie July 16. All LN parents and babies are doing fine, but the rest of us are thinking twice about using the office water cooler.


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Perceptual grouping is a pre-attentive process which serves to group local elements into global wholes, based on shared properties. One effect of perceptual grouping is to distort the ability to estimate the distance between two elements. In this study, biases in distance estimates, caused by four types of perceptual grouping, were measured across three tasks, a perception, a drawing and a construction task in both typical development (TD; Experiment 1) and in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS; Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, perceptual grouping distorted distance estimates across all three tasks. Interestingly, the effect of grouping by luminance was in the opposite direction to the effects of the remaining grouping types. We relate this to differences in the ability to inhibit perceptual grouping effects on distance estimates. Additive distorting influences were also observed in the drawing and the construction task, which are explained in terms of the points of reference employed in each task. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the above distortion effects are also observed in WS. Given the known deficit in the ability to use perceptual grouping in WS, this suggests a dissociation between the pre-attentive influence of and the attentive deployment of perceptual grouping in WS. The typical distortion in relation to drawing and construction points towards the presence of some typical location coding strategies in WS. The performance of the WS group differed from the TD participants on two counts. First, the pattern of overall distance estimates (averaged across interior and exterior distances) across the four perceptual grouping types, differed between groups. Second, the distorting influence of perceptual grouping was strongest for grouping by shape similarity in WS, which contrasts to a strength in grouping by proximity observed in the TD participants.
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Guido Kroemer (INSERM), Peter Vandenabeele (University of Ghent), Jacques Piette (University of Liege), Ruggero de Maria (Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome)
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Coordinator of DFG Clinical Research Group KFO 167 "Deregulation of Apoptosis in Diseases", Coordinator of EU project, Marie Curie Research Training Network "ApopTrain", Coordinator of BMBF consortium "Targeting apoptosis for cancer therapy", Principal Investigator, EU project APO-SYS "Systems Biology of Apoptosis in Cancer and AIDS" (7th FP), Principal Investigator, EU project IAP6/18 "Signal transduction in inflammation: from gene to organism", Principal Investigator, BMBF project TranSaRNet "Translational sarcoma network"
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A spike in the price of animal feed is making milk much more expensive in Arizona, but other grocery prices have dropped - for now.
New figures Tuesday from the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation show the average cost of a gallon of whole milk was running $3.07 this past quarter. That's up more than 25 percent from the same period just three months earlier.
But that increase is more than offset by a price decline for most of the other items in a typical marketbasket, said Peggy Jo Goodfellow, the organization's marketing manager. The price tag for that basket is pegged at $47.97, down from $49.75 in the first quarter- and $3.22 less than the same period a year earlier for the same items.
Helping the bottom line for shoppers are lower prices for meat, especially ham and bacon. One likely reason is that grocery stores are trying to hang on to their shares of the market, Goodfellow said.
"In Arizona, our retailers are very competitive," she said. Various markets all ran pork specials during the time the Farm Bureau was doing its quarterly survey.
But Goodfellow cautioned that higher prices may be on the horizon, for the same reason that milk is now more expensive: the cost of feed. The only difference is timing.
"In dairy, it's more of an immediate reaction to the feed price because dairy is a 24-hour cycle," she said. But the current higher cost of feed won't show up in meat prices until later, when the animals go to market.
"We don't have a crystal ball on this, but it does look like we're going to see higher meat prices," she said.
That presents an opportunity for consumers who have large freezers and can shop at the current discounts, especially for pork and chicken, which has also come down in price.
Some items did see slight price increases in the last three months: orange juice, vegetable oil, toasted oat cereal and a bag of American salad mix.
The quarterly survey is based on what federation shoppers found at markets around the state. The prices do not reflect use of coupons or supermarket affinity cards that give discounts.
Item 2nd qtr 2013 1st qtr 2013
Red delicious apples (pound) $1.53 $1.59
Russet potatoes (5 pounds) $2.32 $2.35
Ground chuck (pound) $3.52 $3.68
Sirloin tip roast (pound) $5.69 $5.94
Sliced deli ham (pound) $3.69 $4.09
Bacon (pound) $4.07 $4.81
Boneless chicken breasts (pound) $2.55 $3.29
Whole milk (gallon) $3.07 $2.42
Shredded mild cheddar cheese (pound) $4.38 $4.43
Grade A eggs (dozen) $1.86 $1.90
All-purpose flour (5 pounds) $2.35 $2.36
Orange juice (1/2 gallon) $3.26 $3.17
Vegetable oil (quart) $2.40 $2.42
American salad mix (pound) $2.85 $2.80
Toasted oat cereal (8.9 ounce box) $3.15 $3.10
White bread (20 ounce) $1.19 $1.40
-- Source: Arizona Farm Bureau Federation
"We don't have a crystal ball on this, but it does look like we're going to see higher meat prices."
Peggy Jo Goodfellow, Arizona Farm Bureau Federation
Marketbasket of 16 selected basic items:
2013 2nd qtr - $47.97
2013 1st qtr - $49.75
2012 4th qtr - $50.54
2012 3rd qtr - $49.25
2012 2nd qtr - $51.19
2012 1st qtr - $50.79
2011 4th qtr - $51.39
2011 3rd qtr - $50.71
2011 2nd qtr - $51.31
2011 1st qtr - $47.85
Source: Arizona Farm Bureau Federation


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Betty L. Talbert
LEBANON -- Memorial services have been set for 6 p.m. Saturday, July 26 at the Church of God Worship and Ministry Center, 1007 Hartsville Pike, for Mrs. Talbert of Lebanon.
Retired from Nortel, she died Friday, July 18, 2008.
Survivors include: husband Mac F. Talbert and children Jerry Haytt, Donna Anne, Teresa D. Watkins, Cynthia Kaye Coppersmith, Mark L. Thompson, A. Craig Thompson and Lisa (Darren) Morse.
Also surviving are stepchildren Johnny and Judy Thompson, 16 grandchildren and eight grandchildren, her mother Rosa Williamson of North Carolina and siblings Virginia Rainey and Joe W. Cole; as well as many beloved nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by father Joe W. Cole. Partlow Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.


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Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a threat to all totalitarian regimes. The romance should not take away from the reality of the artist's power. Yosif Feyginberg's 2002 documentary Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey provides a concrete example of that power in action. In 1957, a 24-year-old Canadian virtuoso pianist named Glenn Gould visited the Soviet Union on an official mission of cultural exchange. Gould's presence made such an impact among the Russians who heard him play that, fifty years later, Feyginberg is able to interview people for whom the encounter with Gould is still one of the most significant events of their life.
A theatre director named Roman Viktyuk describes a packed house in Leningrad, waiting for Gould to arrive: "The place was full of people. Everyone here was expecting a miracle." That expectation was already subversive; miracles weren't supposed to be necessary after the Revolution. Vladimir Tropp, a pianist, adds: "Gould was the first to reveal this world to us. The Berlin Wall existed in music as well, and perhaps Gould was one of those who were breaking that wall." Another fan confesses that "we started to live by each recording of Gould." The Russians who heard him play began to love Gould more than the Revolution.
The power of the artist before a totalitarian state is a central element in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Academy Award winning film, The Lives of Others. Hailed by everyone from Roger Ebert to the Village Voice to William F. Buckley, the film takes place in the East Germany of 1984 and centers on the moral transformation of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), a straight-edge, true-believing son of the Revolution and an agent of the Stasi, the communist secret police. A grubby minister of culture named Bruno Hempf (Thomas Thieme) has ordered Wiesler to tap into the life of Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch), a playwright who happens to be the lover of an actress whom Hempf is secretly, obsessively pursuing. Hempf wants Wiesler to uncover some pro-Western and counter-revolutionary dirt that he can use to destroy Dreyman and take the actress for himself. Albert Camus reminds us that there are crimes of passion and crimes of logic, and in this case, passion (Hempf) and logic (Wiesler), both evil in their own way, are united in a common cause, the persecution of Georg Dreyman. In the course of the film, however, Wiesler will change; he will betray the Revolution and he will save Dreyman from conviction and arrest.
What causes Wiesler to change is not argument, but beauty. He is moved to tears when he hears Dreyman (through hidden microphones) playing a piece titled "Sonata for a Good Man" on the piano. Dreyman plays the piece in mourning after he has heard that a close friend committed suicide. Wiesler also pilfers one of Dreyman's books—an anthology of Bertolt Brecht's poetry—and reads with wonder, his eyebrows raised heavenward for the first time. Apart from art, Wiesler is also touched by the artists themselves: by Christa-Marie, the coveted actress, and her struggles with addiction and artistic insecurity (not to mention Hempf's disgusting sexual advances); by Dreyman's problematic balancing act between his loyalty to the GDR and love for his subversive friends (among them, the director who commits suicide). It doesn't happen abruptly, but Wiesler changes—he "loses faith in his ideology," as von Donnersmarck explained to PBS's Charlie Rose. By the end of the film, Wiesler has secretly subverted Hempf's commissioned investigation of Dreyman. He has abandoned ideas—destructive ideas—for a pair of human faces.
Santiago Ramos has written for The Pitch, Commonweal, First Things and Image Journal. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in philosophy at Boston College. This piece originally appeared in First Things magazine, in 2007.


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Andy Lee and Megan Gale have split after four years together, the pair have announced in a statement.
"In October, Andy and Megan parted ways. They remain great friends and both think the world of each other," the statement said.
The 35-year-old David Jones model met comedian Lee, 29, when she appeared on his radio program on Melbourne's Fox FM in August 2006.
In an interview with Fairfax Media last year, she had described her Melbourne-based boyfriend as "effortless" to be with.
"He's got a very positive energy about him. He's very rarely negative. He isn't wisecracking and making jokes all the time but he is a really fun guy to be around. It's just so effortless to be with him.
"You can have that romantic physical relationship with someone ... and [they can] be your mate as well."
In August, Lee and Hamish Blake announced they were quitting their daily Fox show, replacing it with a weekly two-hour show and a free weekly podcast.
"We wanted our listeners to be the first to know," Lee said. "We're scaling back ... we're going to be fun-sized.
"Many ideas have been put on the backburner over the last five years as they couldn't work in conjunction with daily radio. We thought 2011 was a good time to put some of those ideas on the frontburner."
The pair also made a dig at cricketer Shane Warne's dalliance with British actress Liz Hurley, joking: "Rumours that Megan was seen kissing Liz Hurley in a glass elevator are false and for those concerned, don't worry as Andy managed to secure Hamish in the split."


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