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One strategy for limiting rabies spread is to establish vaccine corridors by distributing vaccine baits - vaccine doses hidden in fishmeal - to wild raccoons. This cordon sanitaire strategy limited rabies in Ohio to sporadic cases from 1997 until 2004, when a single rabid animal was detected - 11 kilometers beyond the buffer zone - in northeastern Ohio. By modelling the spread of past outbreaks, the authors had already shown that local transmission was significantly reduced when townships were separated by geographical barriers. The authors incorporated the likely effect of Ohio's five major rivers on transmission from local points along the Pennsylvania or West Virginia border but also adjusted their model to estimate the potential impact of long distant translocations, such as the occasional garbage truck ride. They estimated that rabies would take just 33 months to spread across central Ohio - compared to 48 months to cross the much smaller state of Connecticut - and cover the state within 41 months. This transmission rate - 100 kilometers/year - significantly surpasses previous estimates, which range from 30 to 60 kilometers/year. The potential for such rapid spread, if unchecked, "is quite alarming," the authors warn.
Given the unpredictable nature of rabies transmission - challenging efforts to identify potential leaks in vaccine corridors and sites of dispersal - the authors' simulations provide a valuable resource for anticipating alternate outbreak scenarios and preparing multiple game plans to prevent or contain them. They also indicate the best sites for establishing a new vaccine barrier. And given how fast raccoon rabies could spread, Real and colleagues make a strong case that halting its western march depends on a strategy based on early detection and high-powered intervention programs - a sensible approach for any infectious disease.
Citation: Russell CA, Smith DL, Childs JE, Real LA (2005) Predictive spatial dynamics and strategic planning for raccoon rabies emergence in Ohio. PLoS Biol 3(3): e88.


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René Atlass is an artist from Antwerp, who was active in the field of comics during the late 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. In 1968 and 1969, he drew a couple of short stories starring the character 'Doudi' for Tintin. From 1970 until 1975 he was irregularly present in Spirou with the slapstick comic stories of the characters 'Jules et César'. René Atlass spent several years in the United States, where he apparently worked on a comic strip called 'Little Skimmy' for Random House, and where he participated in Ross Andru and Mike Esposito's ill-faited underground comic book Up Your Nose And Out Your Ear.
Little Skimmy, original art for sale at Heritage Auctions (was this comic ever published?)

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The Westron or Common Speech is the closest thing to a universal Language, at least at the time during which The Lord of the Rings is set. Westron is an English word, derived from West, not a word from the language itself.
The Westron speech is derived from the Adûnaic tongue of Númenor, and originated as a creole language on the western coastlands of the continent of Middle-earth, when the Númenorians established trade outposts and forts there. From there, it spread to most of the lands through which the action of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings passes, with the notable exception of Mordor.
Westron is a translation of the original name Adûni, and "Common Speech" translates the Westron term Sôval Phârë, of identical meaning. In Sindarin the language was called Annúnaid (Westron), or Falathren (Shore-language).
In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Westron was presented as having been completely translated by English. This had certain important implications: first of all, proper names with derivations somewhat evident to speakers of Westron had been translated, to preserve the effect. Thus, names like Baggins, Bagshot Row, Peregrin, Rivendell etc., are presented as not the actual names. (For example, Meriadoc Brandybuck's actual name is supposed to have been Kalimac Brandagamba, short Kali (meaning jolly, gay). 'Meriadoc', short 'Merry', is designed to maintain the reference to merriness contained in the original name. Likewise Peregrin Took's actual name was Razanur Tuc, short Razar (name of a small apple). 'Peregrin', short 'Pippin' contained both the actual meaning of the full name (traveler, stranger) and the reference to an apple). Sam Gamgee was actually named Ban Galpsi, short for Banazir Galbassi. The ending of the 'true' Hobbit name Bilbo was also changed: in Westron it was Bilba, but Tolkien changed this to -o because -a is usually a female ending in English.
Placenames and other features were also presented as having been translated from an original form: Rivendell (Sindarin Imladris, "cloven valley") was actually called Karningul, and Bag End was actually called Labin-nec, after Labingi, the real form of Baggins. In some cases the explanations became quite involved, such as the river Brandywine (Sindarin Baranduin, "golden-brown river") was actually called Branda-nîn, a punning Westron name meaning "border-water", which was later punned again as Bralda-hîm meaning "heady ale".
The translation went one step further by also changing all languages akin to Westron. Rohirric, the language of the Rohirrim was translated by Anglo-Saxon, as Rohirric is an archaic relative of Westron (since the Edain from whose speech Westron is derived were related to the ancestors of the Rohirrim) much as Anglo-Saxon is an archaic relative of English. Similarly, the tongue of Dale, from which came the names of the Dwarves of Durin's house, was translated by Old Norse, a language related to Anglo-Saxon and modern English as Dalish was related to Rohirric and Westron.
This utter translation of Westron by English was taken so far that some sources that should give actual Westron have been turned to English too. For instance, in Moria, an illustration of the runic text on Balin's gravestone is given. the text is said to mean "Balin Son of Fundin, Lord of Moria" in both Khuzdûl and Westron... but while the first part of the inscription seems to really be a bit of Khuzdûl (Moria is rendered as "Khazad Dûm"), the second part is actually plain English, just written in certar.
Outside the context of the story, it is clear that most of the "original" forms in Westron or other languages were devised by Tolkien long after the English "translations" were chosen. Several of the Westron forms given above were not published in Tolkien's lifetime. Tolkien never worked out Westron to the same extent as Quenya and Sindarin or even Adûnaic.


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LOS ANGELES/LONG BEACH SEAPORT – Inside a cavernous warehouse near this bustling hub of international commerce, where massive cargo ships and tall cranes scrape the sky, Randy Rosales flicks open his knife.
Wearing black gloves, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer glides the blade through the taped opening of a plain cardboard box.
The box is a puzzle — a tiny piece in a multi-billion-dollar war pitting a world of highly skilled, highly motivated smugglers against a much smaller army of customs officers armed with, among other things, pocket knives.
Supposedly, this box is filled with women's accessories from China. But it's part of a bigger shipment of handbags, wallets, hats and other items from an importer who used to send items through the port every month, yet, as Rosales sets to work, hasn't been sending stuff to the United States for eight months.
Such a lapse is a red flag. Along with sniffing out terrorists and terrorist weapons, customs officials are supposed to watch out for counterfeit goods. And importers who work at odd intervals sometimes deal in counterfeit goods.
So Rosales, using his knife, opens several of the importer's boxes.
Most of what he finds is generic stuff. But as he digs in he notices that a few of the importer's boxes are labeled as being filled with popular brands. The mix of generic and name brands is another red flag.
Rosales holds up a cream-colored sun hat sporting the label of a well-known women's retailer. Taking a closer look, he notices some sloppy stitching. Also, as he holds it, the hat feels flimsier than it should. And the price — $12.95 – is suspiciously low for a genuine item sold by this particular retailer.
As he starts to slash open several more boxes – only a fraction of the hundreds of boxes that have been unloaded from a 40-foot cargo container — Rosales offers an opinion:
"At this point, I'm thinking this may not be a legitimate shipment."

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In the relentless and seemingly one-sided fight to keep counterfeit goods from entering the country, Customs and Borders Protection officers rely on old-fashioned know-how combined with state-of-the-art screening technology.
They have low-tech knives to open boxes, and high-tech imaging devices to peek inside. They have experience and energy. They have intuition.
But, mostly, they have a numbers problem.
The LA/Long Beach port is the world's sixth busiest, with more than 5.1 million cargo containers passing through each year. Here, a container is offloaded from a ship every six seconds, and each container can hold enough stuff to fill a three-bedroom house. Of the nation's total cargo container traffic, 44 percent flows through Long Beach/Long Angeles.
In one sense, such a large-scale fight is simple. Carlos Martel, CBP director of the LA/Long Beach seaport, says that when searching for a needle in a haystack, as his people are, the smart thing to do is to shrink the haystack.
And that, he says, means targeting shipments from supposedly "high-risk" countries while making random checks on familiar, trusted importers. It's a balancing act: to ensure the free flow of trade, while also enforcing more than 140 federal laws and regulations to keep out the illegal stuff.
"We're the front lines," says Martel, 43, who oversees several hundred employees at the two ports.
"We're here to protect the American public."
Since 9/11, millions of dollars in new technology has been invested to make the job of busting traffickers in fake goods easier. Orange County-based brands like Oakley, Wet Seal and Paul Frank now stand a better chance of protecting their trademarks, Martel says.
Over the last 10 years, seizures of goods that infringe on intellectual property rights – including trademarks and copyrights – have grown more than 400 percent both locally and nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, parent agency of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"We've (improved our screening process) by leaps and bounds," says Martel.
In the old days, CBP officers who roam the ports' 7,500 acres carried little more than a knife and firearm. They'd do that to inspect cargo coming in on ships so large that, in some cases, they can't squeeze through the Panama Canal.
Now, CBP officers have different tools – pagers to detect radiation, mobile X-ray machines, density meters and gadgets known as "vapor tracers." And the screening, Martel explains, often begins at the ships' point of origin, where some CBP officers and officials from partner agencies are stationed.
Martel, only two months into his job as port director, declines to divulge many specifics about enforcement strategy. But he says officers use a "layered" approach to sniff out and eventually seize counterfeit items.
The fight isn't totally about money. Many of the faux goods pose safety hazards to consumers. The CBP recently seized 151 life-size Santa Claus decorations, along with a snowman and a polar bear. The importer, from China, claimed that the decorations met U.S. certification standards – but they didn't.
"These things can explode and turn your Christmas into a tragedy," says CBP spokesman Jaime Ruiz.
Two men with guns stare into computer screens.
One of the port officers studies an X-ray image of the contents of a container that the men are screening. The men work while sitting inside a slow-moving vehicle that hugs the container, kind of like a huge claw.
The X-ray can penetrate through a foot of steel to find stuff that looks suspicious, including false floor sections or compartments built into the sides of containers used to hide drugs, guns, money or other contraband.
(Money is often the illicit good being smuggled, and it's often found in seemingly innocuous items. Officers once found $500,000 stuffed into two rice cookers. And they found $40,000 tucked inside the pages of a magazine.)
Port officials call the X-ray machine a "nonintrusive inspection" device. Other nonintrusive devices include hand-held wands that officers scan along the outside of containers to detect unusual levels of radiation. Such radiation can be a sign of weapons though, more often, it's produced by such goods as ceramics, which can emit radiation naturally.
John Lesiczka, chief of the port's Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team, says his officers typically X-ray 500 containers a day, sometimes by firing a beam out as far as 80 feet.
The two officers looking into the computer screen inspect cargo identified on shipping manifests as apparel from Indonesia and Bangladesh, and radiators for electrical transformers from India.
Everything looks good, so they move on to the next container.
Homer is a bong.
The likeness of "The Simpsons" character is among hundreds of illegal items – in this case drug paraphernalia — seized by CBP officers. The items reside on shelves and tables, creating an unofficial Counterfeit Museum inside a warehouse near the port where containers often are taken for closer inspection.
The museum includes fake Nike tennis shoes, bogus Louis Vuitton handbags, sham Red Bulls, phony True Religion jeans, counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes – and much, much more.
CBP Chief Officer Guillermina Escobar, who leads the Merchandise Enforcement Team, points out a girl's bicycle seized in 2009. The pink bike met virtually no U.S. safety standards – with problems ranging from rust on the tubing and no reflectors to bad joint welds.
The bike came from an importer in China. That country is, by far, the biggest offender when it comes to trying to sneak sham goods into the United States. Last year, China was the country of origin for about 66 percent of all the items seized by CBP officials.
Escobar says that as long as consumers continue to buy suspiciously discounted "brand-name" items at swap meets, on the Internet and at other venues, the flow of illegal merchandise into the U.S. will continue.
"These items not only hurt the economy, but they also pose serious health and safety issues."
Still, the rewards for successful smugglers can be huge.
The CBP says markups on counterfeit name-brand goods sold in the United States range from 300 percent to more than 3,000 percent.
CBP Officer Rosales checks with the importer of the so-called brand-name sun hats and other accessories to see if the shipment – from China – is legitimate.
He also checks with the trademark holder.
After a couple of days, he determines that the items are genuine.
Are the officers winning this war, or are the bad guys?
That's tough to say.
Last year nationally, CBP officers seized $1.5 billion worth of goods that violated trademark and copyright laws, but an accurate estimate of the total value of this illegal racket is difficult to come by, port officials say.
Typically, it takes two to three days for CBP officers to determine if items are bogus. As for prosecuting the bad guys, that's the job of a different agency: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Rosales says his job has made him something of a retail/brand name whiz – much to the amusement of his wife.
"Lucky for me," he says, "I'm a fashionista."
Register News Assistant Patrice Bisbee contributed to this story.
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FigurePets™ Archive
FigurePets are limited edition FigurePrints®
depicting the in-game companion pets from World of Warcraft®.
They are produced using the same high tech process as FigurePrints and are released in limited edition sets, three pets at a time.
Once the sale period expires for a pet, that pet in that pose will never be manufactured again.
This means these pets should become as rare and valuable as the rarest pets in the World of Warcraft.


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Two girls and two boys will have new bikes this Christmas, thanks the owners of Ideal Glass and Mirror.
Two girls and two boys will have new bikes this Christmas, thanks the owners of Ideal Glass and Mirror.
Terry Swinson and his business partner Greg Brown wheeled in four new bikes to The Free Press office as toy drive donations on Tuesday, helping to load up a Christmas tree that continues to grow with unopened gifts for children.
Folks can continue to give to the toy drive at The Free Press office, 2103 N. Queen St., or at the Salvation Army across the street until Dec. 17.
As owners of Ideal Glass and Mirror on N.C. 55 West between Kinston and Moss Hill, Swinson and Brown want to encourage other companies to mirror their own contributions this holiday season.
�We�d thought it would be a good thing to help the needy out,� Swinson said. �This year, we want to challenge other businesses to do the same.�
Swinson has two children and four grandchildren, which gives him a soft spot for kids.
�There are a lot of kids who wake up on Christmas morning and don�t get anything and we try to make some of them happy,� he said.
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Norma,On the matter of the amount of cheese, if you were to increase that amount by a half-ounce, you would still be within the limits if we assume a 13% weight loss during baking. However, with rounding of Nutrition Facts, you could go to 4 ounces and still be OK.If you decide to repeat the Parkay Squeeze garlic sauce clone, you might omit the pinch of salt next time. I don't know which Butter Buds product you used, and in what amount, but a teaspoon (2 grams) of the Butter Buds Sprinkles contains 60mg of Sodium (http://www.butterbuds.com/nutritionfacts/sprinkles.html). A bit over a teaspoon of the Buds Sprinkles would put you within earshot of the PJ Nutrition Facts for Sodium for the PJ Garlic sauce. I don't have a good explanation for the disparity in the two samples of the PJ Garlic sauce you examined. It may be that the two samples came from different lots or were made at different times or had different ages. Or maybe there is an inherent chemical instability in the underlying product itself. If I had to pick a reason, I think it would be the latter since the peel-off label on the mini-tub of the PJ Garlic sauce says to shake the product. That tells us that there must be some separation of the ingredients used to make the product. Even the container for the Parkay Squeeze product says to "shake well" (and refrigerate).Sometime you might try using a pizza screen in lieu of the perforated disk. Neither was designed for deck oven use even though some pizza operators use them in their deck ovens. But, at this point, I would say that as between the screen and disk, the screen is perhaps the more commonly used in deck ovens.Peter
Norma,Your number for your baked clone of the PJ Cheesesticks was very close to the weight number given in the PJ Nutrition Facts. Based on the numbers you mentioned for your unbaked clone, the unbaked clone weighed 14.25 (skin) + 3 (cheese)+ 1.5 (clone garlic sauce) = 18.75 ounces. The baked weight was 16.3 ounces. That compares with the 16.79 ounce number from the PJ Nutrition Facts, or a difference of only 0.49 ounces, or a bit less than a half-ounce. The weight loss from a percentage standpoint was about 13%. I wondered what that number would be. We don't know what the corresponding losses would be in one of the PJ conveyor ovens using either a screen or a disk but maybe the small amount of cheese on the skin and no toppings results in greater losses during baking. In any event, if you liked the results you achieved, the numbers suggest that you can increase the amount of cheese and/or the clone garlic sauce a bit and stay close to the PJ Nutrition Facts numbers. Alternatively, you can increase the dough weight a bit. Of course, you can alter the numbers any way you see fit to make the clone Cheesesticks even better, whether you decide to offer such a product at market or not. Can you refresh my memory on what was in the clone garlic sauce that you used? Was it the I can't believe it isn't Butter clone or one made with the Parkay Squeeze margarine spread? Or maybe something else. Also, did you like your clone Cheesesticks better than the ones you had recently from the PJ shop you visited? And did you come to any other conclusions?Peter
Peter,Isn't the missing weight from the .50oz of garlic sauce that Norma did not add? She used 1.50oz garlic butter. Papa uses 2oz.Nate
Nate,It could be. Can you tell me how you know that PJ is using two ounces of Garlic sauce? I don't recall seeing that anywhere.Peter
Norma,Can you tell me what flours you have on hand, particularly unbromated flours?Do you plan to follow-up on the Whirl and McCormick products?Peter
Norma,Can you tell me how much Power flour you have left, and also what bromated flours you have on hand?Peter
Norma,As you may recall, I have been using a range of 13.4-13.6% as the range of protein values for the flour blend that I believe Papa Johns has been using. Since I have not discussed how I came up with this range before, this is perhaps as good a place as any to discuss this matter.If you go to Reply 493 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6758.msg260046/topicseen.html#msg260046, you will see the most current ingredients list for Papa Johns dough. You will also see that the first three ingredients are wheat flour (unbleached), malted barley flour, and wheat starch. Wheat starch is a wheat-derived product that is often used for its blending qualities. Also, when used in a baked goods product, it will provide added tenderness to that product. But one of the most important things to know about wheat starch is that it is about 86-88% carbohydrates (see the Nutrition Facts at https://store.nexternal.com/cbfi2000/storefront/wheat-starch-p14.aspx). What that means is that if a portion of a given fixed sample (e.g., a 100-gram sample) of flour is replaced by wheat starch, that will dilute the protein content of the flour and reduce its protein content. I believe that PJ starts out with a fairly high protein, high-gluten flour and replaces part of it with wheat starch to lower the protein content, and at the same time help with the mixing of the dough and add a bit more tenderness to the finished crust. From a quantitative standpoint, the amount of wheat starch need not be great. Since federal law (see http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=137.105) says that if barley malted flour is to be used it cannot exceed 0.75%, and since the wheat starch is listed next to the malted barley flour, that means that the amount of wheat starch will be less than 0.75%. I dont know what specific base flour PJ is using or the amount of malted barley flour it is using but if we assume a base flour with a protein content of around 14-14.2%, which is the type of hard wheat flour that ConAgra mills in its Decatur, Alabama mill, malted barley flour at 0.75%, and wheat starch at just below 0.75%, the effect of the wheat starch will be to reduce the protein content of the blend to around 13.4-13.6%. Even if we are off by a fraction of a percent, I do not think the difference will be noticeable in the finished product. With the above as background, the best flour of the flours you mentioned to use for the PJ clone Cheesesticks is the Power flour. That flour falls within the above protein range and it is unbromated. Unfortunately, you do not have enough of that flour for the dough formulation (reproduced below) that you will be using. I could perhaps come up with a three-flour blend that would use up your remaining Power flour, but I would prefer to avoid the added layer of math complexity to do that, even if it means having to use a bromated flour. All of the other unbromated flours you mentioned (Mondako, KABF, KAAP and Better for Bread) are too low in protein content and would have to be supplemented with vital wheat gluten. I would also like to avoid that approach at this point. Instead, I would rather use the All Trumps flour to raise the protein content of such flours. And, likewise for the bromated Occident flour.Having played around with the flours that you have or will soon have, and using the Mixed Mass Percentage Calculator at http://foodsim.toastguard.com/, here are some possible flour blends:63.16 grams (2.23 ounces) Mondako (11.9% protein) and 178.95 grams (6.31 ounces) All Trumps (14.2% protein)58.11 grams (2.05 ounces) KABF (11.7% protein) and 184 grams (6.49 ounces) All Trumps (14.2% protein)72.63 grams (2.56 ounces) Occident (12.2% protein) and 169.48 grams (5.98 ounces) All Trumps (14.2% protein)All of the above blends should have a final protein content of 13.6%. Since you have worked extensively with the above flours and know how they behave and perform, I will leave to you to decide which of the blends to use for your next experiment. It is also possible to come up with other blends if you so wish. Here is the recommended dough formulation:Flour Blend* (100%):Water (56%):IDY (0.45%):Salt (1.9%):Vegetable (Soybean) Oil (5.55%):Sugar (5.89%):Total (169.79%):242.11 g | 8.54 oz | 0.53 lbs135.58 g | 4.78 oz | 0.3 lbs1.09 g | 0.04 oz | 0 lbs | 0.36 tsp | 0.12 tbsp4.6 g | 0.16 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.82 tsp | 0.27 tbsp13.44 g | 0.47 oz | 0.03 lbs | 2.96 tsp | 0.99 tbsp14.26 g | 0.5 oz | 0.03 lbs | 3.58 tsp | 1.19 tbsp411.08 g | 14.5 oz | 0.91 lbs | TF = N/A*The Flour Blend should have a protein content of 13.4-13.6%Note: The dough ball weight is the same as used for a 12" pizza; the corresponding thickness factor = 0.12821; no bowl residue compensationFor the clone garlic sauce you plan to use, you should use 2 ounces, by weight, on the 12 skin, as was discussed earlier in this thread.Peter
Norma,Thank you for catching the link problem with Reply 493. I composed the post in Word because of its complexity, and I tested the link in the Preview mode to be sure it worked, but somehow a comma got in front of a tag. I have corrected the link. I agree that wheat starch is an interesting ingredient. And it took me a while to note its significance. What is nice about wheat starch is that it is a fairly pure and neutral product. It is mostly carbohydrates as I mentioned but it has almost no fat, no sugars, no dietary fiber, almost no vitamins or minerals, and minuscule amounts of sodium and protein. The Nutrition Facts do not indicate water content, so I assume that the difference between 86-88% and 100% is largely water. For our purposes, I looked for flours that are in the desired protein range that do not have wheat starch as an ingredient. I believe that the primary ingredients that contribute to crust tenderness are the large amounts of sugar and oil, as you noted. The wheat starch quantity would supplement that but not materially. Maybe some day we will learn exactly why PJ uses it. As for your garlic clone sauce, you should use your best judgment based on the results of your last experiment. However, if you don't mind, when you decide to use one of the PJ Garlic sauce mini-tubs, would you mind converting the contents of the mini-tub to a volume measurement, using standard measuring spoons? And if you can weigh the mini-tub before using the contents and also weigh the mini-tub container itself after it has been rinsed out, that would also be helpful. These measurements might confirm some our numbers and help us zero in more closely on how much Garlic sauce PJ uses to make its Cheesesticks.Peter
Norma,To answer you question about the use of wheat starch, I have not done much in the way of research to see the extent of its use in pizza doughs. However, I vaguely recalled that Domino's was using wheat starch in one or more of its doughs. I found the Domino's ingredients list at http://cache.dominos.com/homev8/docs/menu/dominos_nutrition_v2.21.00.pdf. From that list, you can see at page four that the dough for Domino's hand tossed crust includes wheat starch. Thank you for the ingredients list for the Admiration Pan-Whiz product. As I was getting ready to ask you for that information, I saw that you were referencing the document containing that information. From the ingredients list, I see several components that are used or are similar to those used in the PJ Garlic sauce. I believe that the Admiration Pan-Whiz ingredients list means to recite that the soybean oil is partially hydrogenated but, apart from that, it is quite possible that Admiration is using much more soybean oil than PJ uses. I come to this conclusion because one ounce of the Pan-Whiz product contains 28 grams of Total Fat. A one ounce mini-tub of the PJ Garlic sauce contains 17 grams of Total Fat. Also, whereas the PJ Garlic sauce contains water, the Pan-Whiz product does not. That perhaps explains why the Pan-Whiz product does not contain emulsifiers such as mono- and diglycerides. Emulsifiers are required in the PJ Garlic sauce to bind the water and oils together. Other similarities between the Pan-Whiz and PJ Garlic sauce include the use of salt, lecithin, butter flavor, color through the use of beta carotene, and a flavor protector. The only way to know how effective the Pan-Whiz product is as sauce for cheesesticks is to give it a try. However, if the objective is to try to morph the Pan-Whiz product into a clone of the PJ Garlic sauce, I believe that there are better ways of doing it. But since you started this thread to come up with a non-clone of the PJ Garlic sauce, you are free to exercise discretion as to the use of the Pan-Whiz product in its own right as a sauce for cheesesticks.Peter
Norma,As I see it, there are essentially two ways to create a garlic sauce that tastes like the PJ Garlic sauce. The first way, which is the premise of this thread, is to look at various products that contain butter-like flavors and combine them with sources of garlic flavor. The butter and garlic flavors can take many different forms. For example, they can be real flavors or artificial flavors, or even a combination of real and artificial flavors. Usually, there will be a carrier for such flavors, such as an oil (hydrogenated or not) along with other ingredients that are commonly found in margarine products. Since many of these products do not contain the same ingredients as the PJ Garlic sauce, they have to be tested to see if their flavors approximate the flavors of the PJ Garlic sauce. This can be a hit or miss proposition. Examples of products in this category include the Whirl product and the Pan-Whiz product. They have to be tested to see if they meet your needs.The second way of creating a garlic sauce that tastes like the PJ Garlic sauce is to try to clone that sauce. That means trying to find and combine the same types of ingredients as are used in the PJ Garlic sauce and hope that you get the same flavors. This approach is the one that was described in the PJ clone thread, with an example being discussed at Reply 552 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6758.msg260974.html#msg260974. For that specific example, the Parkay Squeeze margarine product, a butter flavor such as imparted by the McCormick product that you hope to receive, and dry garlic powder would be combined and tested to see if the final product tastes like the PJ Garlic sauce, or possibly even better. There is no reason why both methods can't be tried, either serially or in parallel. It comes down to how much effort you are willing to devote to the project.I am familiar with the J.O.Y. company and its products. I first became aware of that company in May of 2008. As best I can tell, Papa John's used J.O.Y. to extend its product line to include frozen pizzas sold to schools and other end users under the Papa John name. Those products are not included at the PJ website. And you will not find any Nutrition Facts for the frozen pizzas at the PJ website. I suspect that PJ is no longer offering those products. A few years after I first learned of J.O.Y., I tried to revisit the J.O.Y website only to find that the website no longer existed. Tonight I found a website link for J.O.Y. at http://www.texaswomenventures.com/portfolio-company-3-j-o-y-foods-inc-current.aspx, but when I clicked on the link, it was dead. I think you can stick a fork into this one. Peter


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We�ve just celebrated the 4th of July for Independence. Every American takes pride in their forefathers, patriots who founded this great country.
Those folks worked hard and long to build a republic they hoped would last forever. They were willing to take up arms against what they thought to be a tyrannical government who had deaf ears to their needs.
The patriots risked life, limb and freedom to really be free. They claimed independence and wrote the best guide they could for free living when they penned the Constitution. That document is amazing, second in importance only to the Holy Bible. The Constitution was even written so that it could be added to as needed when appropriately done in accordance with itself.
Regardless of your political viewpoint, you should be able to agree with the above statement, with the possible exception of the portion related to the Bible. I know that some of you of different than Christian faith, or no faith at all may choose to hold out that statement. I hope you don�t.
Next, I want to issue a challenge to all of you. Please do your research, by encyclopedia, history books, internet, or other reference materials to discover the reasons the Revolutionary War was started. Based on my own research I�m doubtful that you�ll find more than a dozen reasons.
Once you�ve found the reasons for the war, list the reasons in numerical order, dates or sequences aren�t really important.
Then, make a new list of things occurring now, or that have occurred in the last 18 months within our government that you would consider wrong, or that infringed on your individual rights. Include those things that affect taxes.
My prediction is that you will have a list much longer than our forefathers had when they decided to pull away from Britain�s rule.
Ask yourself what you are willing to do to change things? Be honest, especially with yourselves.
My suggestions for positive change is in the following order:
1. Get on your knees and ask for God�s forgiveness for our failure to stay faithful to God. Ask Him for directions to repent so that we may once again have His Blessings for our Nation.
2. Unless God directs you otherwise, stay in contact with your representatives in government and hold them responsible for any actions you see them take that is not in line with God�s desires for us.
3. Vote for those who tell you they will always consider God�s will first.
4. Be willing to stand against a tyrannical government in any way necessary, but only as God directs.
5. Remember, if anyone you�ve elected is not leading you along the path God chooses then he or she is not a proper leader.
6. Continue to pray everyday for the healing of our nation.
Beauford Burton
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An energy-efficient alternative to the laser no longer requires a deep freeze. The first plug-in, room-temperature polariton laser, reported in the June 13 Physical Review Letters, could soon find its way into electronics and medical devices.
Traditional lasers work by stimulated emission, in which atoms energized by electric current emit light. In polariton lasers, light is emitted by polaritons, particle-like couplings of light and matter. While polariton devices will never produce laser beams powerful enough to burn through metal, their big selling point is that they require very little electricity.
Last year, two research groups reported building polariton lasers that ran on electricity rather than another laser. But both lasers worked only in near-absolute-zero temperatures (SN: 6/29/13, p. 16


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From The Dallas Morning News, "African American Museum hosts mural exhibition by Hale Woodruff," by Michael Granberry, on 28 September 2012 -- Bold and unnerving, the Talladega Murals bring with them a staggering reputation. They endure as some of the most poignant depictions of slavery ever painted and rank as Hale Woodruff's greatest artistic achievement.
For five months, they're making their home in Dallas.
"Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals From Talladega College" officially opens Saturday and runs through February, though visitors to the State Fair of Texas can see them now.
Director Harry Robinson heralds the show as a landmark moment for the African American Museum of Dallas, ranking it among the top five in the venue's history. Retired chief curator Phillip Collins, who's overseeing the presentation of Woodruff's paintings in Fair Park, calls the exhibition "a very important show, not only for its artistic merit but also its historical content."
Dallas is the farthest west of 10 American cities to host the show, which began as a collaboration between Talladega College in Talladega, Ala., and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, which last year embarked on a two-year project to "restore, research and exhibit" the murals.
Commissioned in 1938 to commemorate the 1867 founding of Talladega College and "celebrate its success as one of the nation's first all-black colleges," the murals have remained in Talladega since they were completed.
Restored and prepared at the High Museum for the national tour, the murals comprise what organizers call "six monumental canvases arranged in two cycles of three." They portray "heroic efforts to resist slavery as well as moments in the history of the college, which opened in 1867 to serve the educational needs of a new population of freed slaves."
Dallas' is the only independent African-American museum in the country to stage the show, says Robinson, who sees an added benefit in its being a "homecoming for Hale Woodruff."
Woodruff, who died in 1980, "exhibited here in 1936, at the Hall of Negro Life, during the Texas Centennial," Robinson says. "It was on this spot right here."
Robinson sees the show as profound because "it talks about a topic, or features work on a topic, that a lot of people are not comfortable with. When you talk about the slave ship La Amistad, there was mutiny on the ship, where the slaves decided, 'We're not going to be slaves.'"
Collins sees it as nothing less than "the first civil rights movement in the country."
The first cycle of Woodruff's murals depicts the uprising on the Amistad, "the trial that followed and the freedom and return to Africa of captives on the ship," according to the show's description. Companion murals show themes of the Underground Railroad, the founding of Talladega College and the construction of Savery Library, for which the murals were commissioned.
Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College
Arguably, the most disturbing image is The Mutiny, which portrays an incident on the West Coast of Africa in 1839, when 53 Africans were kidnapped in what is now Sierra Leone, then sold — victims of the Spanish slave trade.
"Men, women and children were shackled and loaded aboard a ship," reads the description, "where many endured physical abuse, sickness and death during a horrific journey to Havana, Cuba."
Artist Hale Woodruff
Robinson is proud of the murals having been painted by a black artist and in Talladega.
Born in Cairo, Ill., in 1900, Woodruff studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Ind., and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. He was influenced, Collins says, by the great Diego Rivera, under whom he studied mural painting in Mexico.
Collins deems Woodruff "significant for his ability to combine the visual arts and the formality, the history of painting," which he merges with Western European and African-American culture to create a stew that becomes a jarring look at American history. His content, Collins says, deals nobly and unforgettably with African-American culture.
"With the way he positions his figures, he conveys what we call 'the pride,'" the curator says. "The whole idea of the new Negro comes out."
The new Negro embodies education, history and pride, "and is," Collins says, "something Woodruff conveys in all of his work." (source: The Dallas Morning News,)


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Big changes debuted in the October issue of Southern Living magazine. Southern Living always seemed to be a "sister" publication to the recently shuttered Southern Accents, and with their new direction, they might be hoping to attract some of those readers. But, they also seem to be going after the younger Cottage Living reader too. Everything about the magazine now seems geared to a younger demographic, which I think is great. A lot has changed – gone are the tiny pictures which have been replaced with much bigger ones. There are new layouts, graphics, and fonts, and there is new editorial content – such as a Recipes Index, a new Small Scale Decorating Projects column, a Great Southern Drive each month (my fav,) new columns on entertaining and cooking, and there is "Gardening 101" for the novice/weekend gardener. And these are just a few examples of the new columns – there are many more.
The new colorful layouts and graphics.
What always attracted me to Southern Living were the decorating stories – but with the small pictures and their typical one or two page stories, they usually left me wishing for more. This month – the decorating section showcases much longer stories along with the new larger pictures. My favorite decorating story this month was five pages long!
My favorite decorating story in this month's Southern Living was about this cottage. While most decorating stories in the past were usually one or two pages – this story was five!
I love what the homeowner did – he enlarged and framed a letter to create instant, yet personal art!
The cottage's kitchen – I love the sink's backsplash and wall hung faucet.
Another great art idea – maps!
I'm thrilled Southern Living is changing – it's all for the better. If you have been a fan of the magazine before, you will love it even more now. If you've never read it before – give it a try!
Fellow blogger, interior designer, author, artist, fabric designer – Jackie Von Tobel is a whirlwind. How she has time to do it all amazes me. Two years ago she wrote and illustrated Window Treatments, a sort of drapery bible (available HERE) – but Jackie is not one to sit around and twiddle her thumbs. Even before Window Treatments was published, Jackie was already thinking ahead to her next book:
And here it is: The Design Directory of Bedding by Jackie Von Tobel, available HERE. In her new book, Jackie again wrote and illustrated it - over 544 pages – a feat that just astounds me! The book is organized into sections – making it easy to find exactly what you need for either yourself or a client if you are an interior designer. Published again by Gibbs Smith – the book features all of Jackie's detailed art work. Her next project which was borne from her two books is her own fabric line! I'm hoping Jackie might now take a long, much–needed vacation. But I doubt that, I'm sure there is something new brewing in her head. To win a free book, visit Jackie's blog, HERE.
Some of my favorite illustrations from Jackie's new bedding book:
Jackie has illustrated examples of headboards – here she tackles iron ones.
And here she designed a headboard made of shutters.
Here Jackie designs slipcovered headboards.
I love this canopy bed, so pretty!
And here is an example of a raised canopy. Each section is accompanied with a detailed explanation of the designs.
Two coronas, ala Jackie Von Tobel!
And finally, an example of the volume of illustrations – four versions of one neck roll.
Jackie, good luck with your new book ! You certainly deserve it, now go get some rest!!!!
And finally – today, there is this new book on Michelle Obama. Soon to be released, it was written by Mary Tomer who founded Mrs-O HERE, a hugely popular blog all about our First Lady's fashion sense. Often compared to Jackie Kennedy who shared Michelle Obama's love of fashion, Mrs. O is the first First Lady since Jackie-O who has had so many books written about her fashion style. But, it is this one fashion book on Mrs. O that really captured my attention because it was written by another blogger! I love that so many bloggers are now stepping out in publishing. The book is very comprehensive, starting with the young, single Michelle, through her marriage, motherhood, the campaign, and ending with her stay in the White House. Most exciting are the interviews with many of Mrs. O's favorite designers. Mrs. O – The Face of Fashion Democracy is available for pre-order HERE.
While I was sent the book for review – I don't want to spoil it for you by showing the pictures from it, so instead, I have chosen to show photographs of Mrs. Obama taken in the White House – this way, we can combine fashion with interior design! And also, while I know many of Cote de Texas readers are Republicans, I hope you will also enjoy these photos – with the historical and quite beautiful White House as the back drop!
The Official Portrait of our First Lady, taken in the famous Blue Room, with Thomas Jefferson looking down over the scene. Here she is wearing her trademark look – a sleeveless Michael Kors dress that shows off her highly toned arms!
Here, you can really see a lot of the decorating details in the Yellow Oval Room in the Private Quarters of the White House. I love the fabric on the chair Mrs. O is sitting on!
On a tour of the White House, the first couple are shown the State Dining Room. I wonder if she is examining the curtains? Look at that molding!!! Abraham Lincoln is gazing down here – can you imagine living with such art work?
Another sleeveless dress in the Blue Room.
Here, the couple is in the Diplomatic Reception Room – with its beautiful mural. Sleeveless again! George Washington is surveying this scene.
The Green Room – I love these personal, intimate shots of the two of them. They always seems to be speaking a private language between each other.
Mrs. Ronald Reagan, another fashion icon, comes for a visit. Notice the huge blue and white pot, the jib door, the beautiful fireplace and mirror. I wonder what Mrs. Reagan thinks when she comes back – they must be bittersweet memories since her husband is no longer here to enjoy it with her. I also wonder about the china – do you think this is the china that Mrs. Reagan designed? That would have been such a sentimental touch. I wonder if Mrs. O has designed their china yet.
Another former First Lady visits, Mrs. Jimmy Carter. The woman in red is the Vice-President's wife, Dr. Jill Biden. Mrs. O is so tall – you can really see it in this picture. What a view!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Clintons and the Carters pay a visit to the Oval Office. I love the rug that President George Bush created for this office, I hope the Obamas keep it. I wonder what Clinton and Emmanuel are saying???
Another secret message to the First Lady dressed in yellow. Do you think she planned to match the curtains here?
The Blue Room with its exceptional set of furniture. President John Tyler looks down on another shared laugh between the two!
The Governor's Ball in the State Dining Room. Do you see Governor Arnold? I love that the President is pulling out his wife's chair! This dress by Peter Soronen was a stunner with the huge pearl necklace accessorizing it.
Off the Blue Room, is the Red Room with another set of incredible antique furniture. This is the cutest picture! Even the page is laughing at the first couple.
The Blue Room, the day after the inauguration. It's time to update these curtains I think.
The beautiful halls of the White House – he must be rushing her here! Typical husband!
Ok –Mrs. O isn't in this picture, but what a beautiful picture of the Green Room!! What is he looking at?
My favorite! The first President ever to hold a Passover Seder! Despite all the reports of the Obama's hanging out with left wing radicals, actually many of their friends and members of their staff are Jewish. During the long campaign, the tradition of holding a family Seder was started. Did you know that Michelle's uncle is also one of the most celebrated black Rabbis in this country? The very young and very beautiful First Lady Francis Cleveland looks over the Seder held in the Old Family Dining Room. Maybe they'll invite me next year!
To pre-order blogger Mary Tomer's book on our First Lady's fashion style, Mrs. O The Face of Fashion Democracy, go HERE.
To order Jackie Von Tobel's The Design Directory of Bedding, go HERE.
And be sure to visit your local book stand and pick up the new Southern Living magazine.
And one last reminder: if you haven't already, please visit the Skirted Roundtable HERE to listen to interior design great Charlotte Moss talk about her life and everything else! She is so fascinating!


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HTC Paying Apple $6 to $8 Per Phone? That's Crazy Talk.
Rumors that Apple's recent settlement with HTC allows it to collect between $6 and $8 in licensing fees for each smartphone the Taiwanese company ships in 2013 are just that — rumors. Baseless, too, according to HTC CEO Peter Chou, who went out of his way today to dismiss them at a product launch in Tokyo.
"I think that these estimates are baseless and very, very wrong," Chou said. "It is a outrageous number."
How outrageous? Well, obviously, Chou wouldn't say. "I'm not going to comment anything on a specific number," he said. "I believe we have a very, very happy settlement and a good ending."
So there you go. That claim of $6 to $8 is ludicrous, but since details of the settlement are confidential, it's impossible to verify how far off that estimate is. Unless, of course, Samsung succeeds in forcing Apple to provide it with a copy of the settlement, which the company believes is material to its own legal battle with the iPhone maker. Then we'll see just how outrageous those numbers are.


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Old-school: Simon on Maungatapu Saddle heading down towards Nelson.
Porika Track - overlooking Lake Rotoroa.
Maruia Saddle public road.
The Braeburn track.
Paul on the Warfedale.
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American Academy of Microbiology releases resistance report
What do cancer cells, weeds, and pathogens have in common? They all evolve resistance to the treatments that are supposed to eliminate them. However, researchers developing the next generation of antibiotics, herbicides, and anti-cancer therapeutics rarely come together to explore the common evolutionary principles at work across their different biological systems.
The new American Academy of Microbiology report "Moving Targets: Fighting Resistance in Infections, Pests, and Cancer" concludes that scientists working on different kinds of treatments have much to learn from each other. Applying lessons learned about the evolution of resistance in different biological systems during the earliest stages of drug and pesticide design could lead to more effective treatments for patients, farmers, and public health organizations.
Do you think the oncologists at a cutting-edge research hospital ever sit down with local farmers? Do you think the pharmaceutical researchers developing the next generation of anti-HIV drugs spend any time with the plant scientists working on the next generation of Roundup Ready soybeans? If your answer to both questions is no, you would be mostly right. Even though all of these people are dealing with exactly the same evolutionary phenomena, they do not recognize themselves as a single scientific community and rarely get a chance to learn from each other. What they all have in common is that they are trying to eliminate an unwanted living entity but the treatments they develop eventually lose effectiveness because the target evolves resistance.
The emergence of resistance is a phenomenon with ancient evolutionary roots, although the human role in triggering resistance was little appreciated before the advent of widespread antibiotic and pesticide use in the 1950s. In Silent Spring, the prescient Rachel Carson wrote in 1962 that "by their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled." Sadly, in the fifty years since Silent Spring was published, biologists, doctors, and farmers continue to be plagued with resistance evolution by the species they seek to control. This phenomenon is witnessed in medicine in the emergence of antibiotic resistance and when tumors become intractable to standard anti-cancer medications, in agriculture when insecticides and herbicides lose effectiveness, and in public health when disease-carrying insects develop resistance to control strategies. The report "Moving Targets: Fighting Resistance in Infections, Pests, and Cancer" makes clear that a multi-disciplinary approach to the phenomenon of resistance can be very powerful.


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Western Province claimed their first Currie Cup title since 2001 with a 25-18 win over the Sharks in Durban on Saturday.
Western Province claimed their first Currie Cup title since 2001 with a 25-18 win over the Sharks in Durban on Saturday.
Province centre Juan de Jongh scored the only try in a thrilling, high-paced rematch of the 2010 final while fly-half Demetri Catrakilis contributed 17 points with the boot, including two drop-goals.
De Jongh's try four minutes before the interval gave Western Province a 16-12 advantage at the halfway stage.
Sharks fly-half Patrick Lambie kicked all of his team's points and his first four penalties gave the hosts a nine-point lead before the visitors fought back.
Indeed in the early stages it looked like the visitors from Cape Town would once again fall foul of Lambie's boot but – unlike the final two year's ago when the home side dominated – WP took control in the second period, especially in the line-outs where Eben Etzebeth reigned supreme.
Catrakilis opened the scoring in the third minute with a penalty but the Sharks replied with a three-pointer of their own from Lambie 10 minutes later.
The Sharks pivot added three further penalties before Joe Pietersen – who came on as a replacement for the injured Bryan Habana in the 15th minute – landed a monster place kick, from just inside his half, to narrow the gap to six points in the 33rd minute.
Shortly afterwards De Jongh's try changed the flow of the game.
The Springbok midfielder's try was a superb solo effort which silenced the partisan home crowd.
De Jongh ran onto an inside pass from Catrakilis, midway between the Sharks' 22 and the halfway line, shrugged off the challenges of two Sharks defenders and beat Lwazi Mvovo with a deft side-step before scoring under the posts.
Catrakilis added the extras and on the stroke of half-time he slotted another penalty which gave the visitors a 16-12 lead at the break.
John Plumtree's charges were dominant in the scrums throughout and shortly after the break Lambie narrowed the gap to a point after WP's front-row infringed at a set-piece.
Lambie added another penalty, after Frans Malherbe was penalised for not rolling away at ruck, midway through the half which put his side back in front.
Province then upped the ante and were camped close to the Sharks' try-line for long periods but could not breach the home side's defence.
Catrakilis added another penalty after the Sharks strayed offside at a ruck and he sealed the victory with two well-taken drop goals inside the final 15 minutes.
Man of the match: WP skipper Deon Fourie was given the official award while Demetri Catrakilis and Eben Etzebeth both deserve a mention, but we'll go for Juan de Jongh, who scored scintillating try and was a thorn in the Sharks' side from start to finish.
Moment of the match: The Sharks had a stranglehold on the match until De Jongh's moment of brilliance seemed to breathe life into the rest of his team-mates. Up to that point, WP's players – especially the forwards – seemed to be making up the numbers but they soon increased their intensity and gradually took control of proceedings.
Villain of the match: Nothing to report here. Both sides played hard but fair.
The scorers:
For the Sharks:
Pens: Lambie 6
For Western Province:
Try: De Jongh
Con: Catrakilis
Pens: Catrakilis 3
Drops: Catrakilis 2
The Sharks: 15 Louis Ludik, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Paul Jordaan, 12 Tim Whitehead, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Pat Lambie, 9 Cobus Reinach, 8 Keegan Daniel (c), 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Anton Bresler, 4 Steven Sykes, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Craig Burden, 1 Beast Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Kyle Cooper, 17 Wiehahn Herbst, 18 Jandre Marais, 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Charl McLeod, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Odwa Ndungane.
Western Province: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Demetri Catrakilis, 9 Nic Groom, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Don Armand, 6 Deon Fourie (c), 5 De Kock Steenkamp, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 1 Steven Kitshoff.
Replacements: 16 Deon Carstens, 17 Brok Harris, 18 Wilhelm van der Sluys, 19 Jebb Sinclair, 20 Louis Schreuder, 21 Marcel Brache, 22 Joe Pietersen.
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This gutsy new book by British political consultant and publisher lifts the veil on the lies of history, the lies of statistics, and the lies of economics, that make up the orthodox message of authoritarian feminism.
Book: Mike Buchanan, Feminism: The Ugly Truth, published February 13, 2012 (Kindle)
Extracts from Erin Pizzey's Foreword:
'Mike Buchanan is a very brave man. I've known other men who've tried to draw the public's attention to the damage done by the radical feminist movement. Many lost their jobs and none of them were able to find a publisher for their books. Men have been thrown out of their own houses and unjustly accused of domestic violence towards their partners, and some of sexually abusing their children. The legitimate interests of men in Western society are being systematically assaulted by radical feminists and this book goes a long way to providing the evidence.
Men are starting to campaign more effectively for their interests, though they have a long way to go before they halt the tide of radical feminist influence, let alone start to reverse it. Feminists can also expect more challenging from another quarter. An increasing number of women are summoning up the courage to openly criticise them. This shouldn't surprise us, given that the vast majority of women don't share the radical feminists' political ideology.
With every year that passes more women become aware of the damage man-hating and family-hating radical feminists wreak on society in general, and women's interests in particular. These women are becoming more vocal, and their number is on the rise... How much more damage will feminists be allowed to wreak before they're more widely recognised as the evil women they are?'
This book provides long-awaited answers to over 50 of the most challenging questions in the modern era including:
1. Are you a misogynist if you only hate feminists? 2. What is feminism in the modern era? 3. How do radical feminists view the world? 4. Are feminists less intelligent than normal women? 5. Are feminists less attractive than normal women? 6. Do feminists suffer from PPS (Permanent Premenstrual Syndrome)? 7. Why do feminists deny the different natures of men and women? 8. Why must taxpayers stop financing Women's Studies and Gender Studies courses? 9. What are the big fat feminist fantasies, lies, delusions and myths? 10. Are feminists delusional? Is the pope a Catholic? Do bears crap in woods? 11. How are feminists killing men and women? 12. Are some feminists (e.g. Tracey Emin) a pain in the arts?
The book contains an appendix of quotations and ends with a sample chapter titled 'Would you like to have sex with my wife?' from Mike Buchanan's international bestseller 'Two Men in a Car (a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France)'. It also contains the plate section from the book (16 photographs).
About the Author
Mike Buchanan (1957- ) is a British writer with a particular interest in the damage wrought in the developed world by radical feminists: feminists (usually, but not exclusively, women) who campaign and scheme not for equal opportunities for men and women, but for equal outcomes (e.g. gender balance in the boardroom) regardless of the relative numbers of men and women willing to take on such roles and able to perform them successfully.
This book follows two earlier books which critiqued the differences between the genders, and radical feminism, in the context of politics ('David and Goliatha: David Cameron - heir to Harman?') and in the context of the world of work ('The Glass Ceiling Delusion: the REAL reasons more women don't reach senior positions'). Mike Buchanan worked as a consultant for the Conservative party (2006-8) but resigned his party membership in late 2009 in protest against the decision of David Cameron, the leader of the party, to introduce all-women prospective parliamentary candidate shortlists for the ensuing general election, using for this purpose legislation introduced (without prior notice in the Labour party's 2005 manifesto) by the radical feminist MP Harriet Harman.
Mike Buchanan has written nine books since 2008, the titles of which are (in reverse chronological order): Feminism: The Ugly Truth (being launched in February 2012 in ebook editions) / The Glass Ceiling Delusion / David and Goliatha: David Cameron - heir to Harman? / The Joy of Self-Publishing (also available in ebook editions) / Buchanan's Dictionary of Quotations for right-minded people / Buchanan's Dictionary of Quotations for right-minded Americans / Two Men in a Car (also available in ebook editions) / The Marriage Delusion: the fraud of the rings? (a hardback - the paperback edition is titled 'The Fraud of the Rings') / Guitar Gods in Beds. (Bedfordshire: a heavenly county) / For Kogan Page: Profitable Buying Strategies: How to cut procurement costs and buy your way to higher profits' - this title is also available, helpfully, in a Chinese language edition. Mike Buchanan is the proprietor of LPS publishing, a British publisher, further details on the business and its titles may be found on Lpspublishing.co.uk.
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How Facebook Will Succeed in Search
In August 2011, I went out on a limb about Facebook's strategy for search. Search is a feature every Web user needs — and by knowing its users so well, Facebook has some incredible and unique ways to change the game. But at the same time, it would be a losing proposition for Facebook to compete head to head with Google. Still, I predicted Facebook would enter search by the end of 2012. As the news bore out on January 15, 2013, I was off by two weeks.
As close as that timing was, when it comes to how they would enter, I was dead right: Rather than going head to head with Google, I said it would focus exclusively on where your graph is far more valuable than even the best redux of the entire Web.
But now that it has announced its beta launch, the question is, what does it need to do to get it right? Here are five important things Facebook should keep in mind in order to succeed in search.
- Keep expectations low. If there's one thing Facebook should have learned from its IPO, it's that it's far better to set expectations low and exceed them than to sell high and disappoint. Any user who types a day's worth of typical Web searches into Graph Search is going to walk away with one conclusion: Facebook's new product is terrible at most of the things that Google has taken 15 years to be great at. Users who have a bad experience rarely give you a second chance.
- Meet users where they are. One huge red flag is Facebook's bent to "diseducate" users from their "bad search habits." Oh, the attitude of it! But worse than attitude, it's a bad recipe. Consumer products and Web services have taken off by presenting people with experiences they love, and offering an interface that they like and naturally adapt to. Facebook needs to adapt to its users' searches, not the other way around.
- Reopen Open Graph. Back in September 2011, Facebook came out guns blazing, ready to work with the rest of the Web to fill in the graph with more user information, connections and actions. At the time, the promise was that websites and publishers who connected to the graph would give Facebook great information, and get Facebook viral traffic love in exchange. But unfortunately, with its decisions to pull back from social readers and so-called "frictionless sharing," Facebook dropped its end of the bargain, and most publishers and other sites have given up on it. The catch now is that Facebook needs that information desperately — or else far too many searches will come up empty. Facebook needs to reconnect with the rest of the Web — and if it doesn't, then Graph Search will quickly hit a ceiling.
- Give users a great reason to participate. One of the reasons that Open Graph didn't go so well for Facebook is that users wanted out of their own unbalanced equation: Facebook got greedy and started posting users' actions on the feed — whether the users wanted it to or not. What it forgot to do was work on the WIIFM — what's in it for me? In the new world of Graph Search, it's clear that my "Likes" benefit my friends and friends of friends. But Facebook needs to come up with better experience enhancements that will help me. The good news is that search can open up a whole world of possibilities. The restaurant I just found on Facebook desktop search should be primed for navigation directions on my mobile — and then as a check-in destination when I arrive. Whether it's a "Like" or another action, give me reasons to tell you what's important.
- Expand the wedge. Developing Graph Search couldn't have been easy — even in its initial builds that have supported relatively specific and small sets of queries. But the key to whether it succeeds will not be in which searches it works well at launch, but rather the rate at which that set expands. Facebook just inserted the thin edge of the wedge into the search pie. Now it needs to steadily — daily, weekly and monthly — expand that wedge by becoming more and more useful. That kind of frequent improvement is exactly what cemented Google's position, and it's what will allow Facebook the opportunity, over time, to take it over.
Facebook has a huge opportunity in search. Whereas Google competes in search by understanding your intent, Facebook can do so by knowing you personally. For Facebook, search represents a monumental opportunity to increase usage, reassert its relevance to users who have burnt out on the service and grow its business. But it will require thoughtfulness in how it develops and introduces the service in order to achieve it.
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Benedict XVI has become the first pope in 600 years to resign, ending an eight-year pontificate shaped by struggles to move the church past sex abuse scandals and to reawaken Christianity in an indifferent world.
Benedict XVI become the first pope in 600 years to resign Thursday, ending an eight-year pontificate shaped by struggles to move the church past sex abuse scandals and to reawaken Christianity in an indifferent world.
As bells tolled, the Swiss Guards standing at attention in Castel Gandolfo shut the doors of the palazzo shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday (2 p.m. EST), symbolically closing out a papacy whose legacy will be most marked by the way it ended — a resignation instead of a death.
In a changing of the guard, the Swiss Guards in their yellow-and-blue striped uniforms handed over the responsibility of protecting Benedict to Vatican police as some of the faithful outside shouted "Viva il papa!" — Long live the pope!
The pope's journey into retirement began with an emotional send-off from the Vatican, with Swiss Guards in full regalia and prelates kneeling to kiss Benedict's papal ring one last time. Benedict's closest aide wept by his side as they took their final walk down the marbled halls of the Apostolic Palace.
As bells tolled in St. Peter's and in church towers across Rome, the 85-year-old Benedict flew by helicopter to the papal vacation retreat in Castel Gandolfo in the hills south of Rome where he will spend the first two months of his retirement.
Benedict leaves behind a church in crisis, still coping with the fallout of the sex abuse scandals, a central Vatican administration torn by divisions, and what Benedict said was a crisis of faith, with baptized Catholics in places of ancient Christian tradition thinking they can do without God.
In his final public remarks as pope, Benedict pledged to continue working for the good of the church in his retirement. He told a packed piazza from the palace balcony that, as of his retirement, "I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this Earth."
Benedict also reached out to the wider world electronically, sending a final tweet from his Twitter account, (at)Pontifex: "Thank you for your love and support. May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives."
The day began with Benedict's final audience with his cardinals, where he pledged his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his successor, a poignant and powerful message that was utterly unexpected.
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It's called Facebook. And quite a few people are using it lately.
In case you haven't heard of it, Facebook is a "social networking" tool that lets you connect with others without the having to leave your house or talk on the phone, which, let's face it, can be exhausting. Instead, you share pictures and stream-of-consciousness thoughts with a network of people known as your "friends."


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Been playing with the latest 5.6 build (which has been around for a while actually), and found some bugs, mostly with the "Pandora" feature.
1) With no songs in queue, enabling Pandora mode turns on, but does not begin playing music. (expected)
2) With a single song queued and playing, enabling Pandora mode will STOP the current song, and play the next song (auto-generated by the Pandora mode)
3) With multiple songs queued and any of them playing, enabling Pandora mode will clear the queue, generate it's own queue based on the current song, and begin playing that song.
4) When DISABLING Pandora mode, the current song (and any queued after it) continue to play. (expected)
5) If re-enabling Pandora, steps 2 and/or 3 apply again.
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1) Pandora continues playing current song/queue, then begins auto-generating while the final song in the original queue is being played.
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