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So now that everyone has their lard rendered let's make some shortbread.
Wait. What?! You haven't rendered your lard yet?
I understand. Some people are less than thrilled to be fondling pig fat. If you haven't gotten around to producing your own batch of the white gold then do yourself a favor – make some bacon.
Enjoy said bacon. Maybe even make some bacon caramels. Or a BLT since there is no better time to bite into a tomato so sweet it's as if the sun itself has been feeding the ruby orbes spoonfuls of sugar.
But whatever you do do not throw out your bacon fat. Nothing goes to waste – especially not the salty, smoky and creamy drippings that come from cooking bacon. Use the fat to cook your eggs, butter your toast with it, grab and spoon and eat it – well, not really – that's gross.
Make shortbread with it.
The other night I had a vision – covered in sugar. Inspiration for a new dessert hit and I listened then immediately set out to make my dreams a reality.
Before all my crazy lard rendering experiments I thought about the possibility of baking with bacon fat. I imagined the slightly salty and savory flavor would be an intriguing complement to caramel, maple, molasses and cream.
What manifested from that thought was a slight modification of David Lebovitz's Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream and tender shortbread infused with bacon fat. A grown up ice cream sandwich.
And even though they are messier than my 1 year old at meal times the taste was as exciting as the dream that inspired its birth.
The bacon flavor was subtle – just enough to let you know something was unique about these cookies. Enough to make the complexity of the ice cream scream even louder and enough to calm the sweetness so that eating multiple ice cream sandwiches is highly possible.
On their own these cookies are fantastic. Yielding a tenderness only possible with ample fat.
The secret ingredient will have your tasters questioning your sanity but one bite later they'll be eating their words – and all of your cookies so watch out for that.
In these penny pinching times do your part – don't waste anything – including your bacon fat. Make cookies with it.
Bacon Fat Shortbread Cookies
3/4 cup butter, room temperature
3/4 cup bacon fat, room temperature (if you did render lard you can also use that – and good for you!)
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. salt
3 egg yolks
2 tbl. vanilla extract
3 3/4 cup All-Purpose flour
*This recipe makes a LOT of cookies. Feel free to cut the recipe in half or wrap some of the dough very well and freeze. Should last at least 1 month.
In a medium bowl combine the butter, bacon fat, sugars and salt and cream until well blended or about 2 minutes. Add the egg yolks one at a time, making sure each yolk is well incorporated before moving on to the next. Stir in the vanilla. Add the flour and mix until just combined.
Roll the dough into a log (or multiple logs as this makes a hefty amount of dough) on wax or parchment paper. Refrigerate until firm. If you plan to use the dough for ice cream sandwiches make sure the log is big enough to produce cookies large enough to hold plenty of ice cream. My cookies were about 3-4 inches wide.
When ready to bake pre-heat your oven to 325*. Carefully slice the cookies 1/4-inch thick. Arrange on a parchment lined sheet tray and bake for 10-15 minutes or until the edges are golden.
*If you can find some or have it on hand try replacing some of the sugar with Maple sugar. I'm sure it would be completely fantastic.
David Lebovitz's Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream
* I added replaced half of the sugar with brown sugar in the ice cream custard.
* I added 2 tbl. Maple Syrup to the Caramel Praline mix-in.
This ice cream is incredibly rich. The best homemade ice cream I have ever made – and I've made more than one should be allowed in a lifetime.
The key to its rich and unique flavor is to get a deep dark color when carmelizing the sugar.
David Lebovitz is a sugar genius. His instructions and photos hold your hand every step of the way.


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I guess the remaining opinion I hold is that it is possible that there is a driver on board the LCD
according to the attached data sheet it should be out of regulation
Plus, out of regulation doesn't mean it doesn't pass power anymore. It just that its ability to regulate output voltage is gone.
The reality is that you have a very high gain DC amplifier with an unstable reference voltage.
a more understandable comparison might well be that you have a really big car (The Regulator) moving across an area (output Voltage) without a driver (The Reference Voltage) High gain because the reference term is a current (Typ 100uA) controlling a regulator capable of an Ampere of current and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that 100 uA is a tenth of a milliamp and as the name implies a milliamp is 1/1000th of an ampere so we have a gain of 10 X 1000 and no stable input reference. The typical result for an NPN pass type (AKA 78XX series) is oscillation and for the PNP Pass types like the AMS1117 the reference term is a part of the load current... So there is a minimum current that must be drawn from the regulator for the regulator to be stable and a processor unfortunately doesn't fit that condition... again the result is typically oscillation.
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Let me be the first one to say that I have absolutely no clue what the above is talking about and I doubt you do.
To give you some sense, I have a board with the following load: 3 avrs, 1 pic, 1 1602 lcd, two hc132 oscillator (14Mhz + 70k), two hc04 oscillators (4Mhz + 12Mhz), 1 4-digit 7-segment led, 1 25Mhz oscillator, 1 14.7Mhz oscillator, one rgb led, 9 bright leds, 2 7-segment leds.Powered from a 15v Verizon phone adapter, regulated down to 3.3v, the linear regulator (to220, no heatsink) is lukewarm. I think I measured my current consumption at one time and it was around 50ma.
I made my first discrete 40 years ago...
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The Cubs look to get back into the win column this afternoon after losing an ugly game yesterday to the Rockies. One of the few bright spots yesterday was Javier Baez, he is not in today's starting lineup against the Indians.
1. Bonafacio– LF
2. Murphy – 3B
3. Schierholtz – RF
4. Rizzo – DH
5. Cstillo– C
6. Olt – 1B
7. Barney – SS
8. Almora – CF
9. Alcantara – 2B
SP – Travis Wood
It's almost like Rick Renteria and crew know how badly we want to see most of the top prospects together in the lineup at once and refuses to, but, that's his job to get everyone ready…. I guess.
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Vikings' Christian Ponder open to trade, but maximizing time otherwise
MANKATO, Minn. — Christian Ponder would welcome a trade if the Minnesota Vikings found a new home for their former starting quarterback, who has been reduced to running the third-string offense in training camp.
But Ponder knows a deal is unlikely given his struggles last season and guaranteed salary for 2014. So he's trying to make the most of his time under a new offensive staff led by coordinator Norv Turner and the few practice reps he gets behind Matt Cassel and rookie Teddy Bridgewater.
"There are benefits for me being here," Ponder told USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday. "I'm learning a lot. It's less stressful. At the same time, I've always got to be ready, because football's a crazy game. I could play at some point. But it's an opportunity for me to learn. I do really feel like it's going to benefit me in the long run.
"If something happens — I get traded, or there's an opportunity elsewhere to play — I want to play. But this is where I am right now. I can't control it."
Ponder, 26, was the No. 12 overall pick in the 2011 draft and started 35 games over his first three NFL seasons. But he lost the job for good in 2013, when he posted a 77.9 passer rating in nine starts, and the Vikings moved on by re-signing Cassel and using another first-round pick (32nd overall) on Bridgewater.
The Vikings owe Ponder a fully guaranteed $1,760,277 base salary in the last year of his rookie contract, though that figure could be offset in part if they cut him and he signs elsewhere. As of now, the most likely scenario is the Vikings keep three quarterbacks, giving them options if something happens to Cassel — the probable Week 1 starter — and Bridgewater isn't deemed ready.
"For as hard as it's been for (Ponder), he's been a true pro's pro, and I know how difficult that is and the circumstances he's in right now," Vikings general manager Rick Spielman told USA TODAY Sports.
"But Christian has done everything asked, has really worked his tail off, and I think he should be commended for that, too. Very easily, it could've become a distraction, and he's been nothing but positive with the current circumstance he's in."
It'd be tougher if Ponder weren't in a good place personally. His wife, ESPN reporter Samantha Ponder, gave birth July 2 to a daughter named Bowden Sainte-Claire Ponder, whom they're calling "Scout." The two have been on sidelines often during camp.
"I can get frustrated in practice. When you're getting three reps a day, you can walk away and be a little disappointed," Ponder said. "I go in the locker room, check my phone, and my wife sent me a picture of our daughter smiling. The fact that some things are more important than football, it definitely helps."
What does Ponder need to do to be an NFL starter again?
"I've got to go to the right situation, and there obviously are things I've got to improve upon in my play," Ponder said. "The turnovers (45 in 35 NFL games) were big with my three years as a starter. That's something I've got to change and keep developing the mental side of the game. That's something that Norv and Scott (Turner, the Vikings' quarterbacks coach) really preach.
"We're doing a lot of protections and being able to check plays and change plays at the line. We're doing a lot more. I think it's really going to help me in the mental side of things and understanding the game. It's just getting that next level and not making the same mistakes I did before."
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It's been a while from the day I started writing Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby but it's finally out! You can get it from bookstores, Amazon or its main site at Packt. It's available in both a paper and a digital version (PDF), so get it now!
The main idea behind this book is actually quite simple and it started out in this blog. The first 'clone' I wrote was the Internet search engine in 200 lines of code, which was really very much scratching an itch that I had while I was in Yahoo, about a year and a half ago. I was interested in search engines athen and I wanted to write a very simple search engine to illustrate the principles behind an Internet search engine. That gave me a chance to try out Sinatra, the minimalist web application framework, which worked out really well for me eventually. In turn, that kickstarted me into on a whimsy challenge to do the same with Twitter in the same number of lines of code, using Sinatra and later, TinyURL in 40 lines of code. After that it was only a short leap to writing a whole book about it.
While the original idea revolved around writing clones with the smallest codebase possible, eventually the book evolved to be about writing minimal-feature clones written using the Ruby libraries that I now love to use i.e. Sinatra, DataMapper and Haml. The fundamental premise of the book still remained though, that is to illustrate how clones of popular Internet applications can be written with Ruby.
While this is a highly technical book with lots of code, I added in plenty of elements of the reasons and rationale (according to me, that is) why and how certain features of those applications work. For example, Twitter's and Facebook's features for connecting their users ('friending' features) in a social network are different, because they target users differently. Twitter's friending features are primarily one-way and do not need explicit approval while Facebook's friending features are two-ways and need explicit approvals from both parties. This means design and implementation differences, which are explained in detail in the book.
The experience in writing this book was good, and I have learnt tremendously in the process though it was a struggle. I can say this now that it's published, but there were certain times I wanted to throw in the towel because of the messy my career was in then. I was still in Yahoo when I started, and I continued while doing my consulting work which eventually led to Garena, then wrapping up before I left Garena and finally being published now as I'm in HP Labs. It took a longer time to finish this than my first book, because of the upheaval in my career in the past year or so and also because overall I wanted to come up with a better book. This resulted in a book that has been revised repeated as companies, statistics and technologies changed. When I started, TinyURL was the king of the hill of URL shorteners while bit.ly was up and coming having just taken over as the default URL shortener in Twitter. TinyURL is now one of the players, with bit.ly probably the largest but Twitter has come out with its own shortener. Facebook Connect was the way to go when I wrote the chapter on Facebook, but the Open Graph APIs has taken over since then. Twitter used both HTTP Basic Authentication and OAuth when I was writing, but has switched over completely to OAuth now. And I expect the list to go on and on.
Still, it has been a good journey and a good fight. Finally publishing it is a grand feeling second to none (except when I had my first child). Hope you enjoy the book!


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Children learn best if they can place new material in the context of what they already know, sort of like having "hooks" on which to hang the new material. Jesus did this with his disciples, every time he said, "Ye have heard it said . I say unto you ."
They also need to understand the relevance of what they are learning: "What am I trying to learn and why do I need to know this?" They need a clear picture of the goal toward which they are working.
Imagine handing your child a thousand-piece puzzle. Do you give him all the pieces with no box, and expect him to put it all together? Or do you give him the pieces with a picture so he can see what it should look like when he is finished? He will probably group all the sky together first, or build the straight-edged border first and then add on from there—beginning with what is familiar to him (his hooks) and fitting the new pieces in from there.
Your child's natural strength and learning preference is his learning style. The sensory way he remembers things is his learning modality.
According to Cynthia Tobias in The Way They Learn, five guidelines can help you understand how your child learns and processes new material best:
We all overlap in the different categories, so use the learning styles information here as a guideline, not as a hard-and-fast rule or to label your child. Our goal is to help you find ways to unlock your child's mind to be receptive to the knowledge and information you want to input. In other words: He is accountable to let you know the key isn't fitting—not to make it fit! Your job is to find the right key.


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New THE FINAL DESTINATION Poster On The Interwebs
Jim here. There is a new THE FINAL DESTINATION (formally FINAL DESTINATION: DEATH TRIP) poster on the net (UGO). I like the tagline a fair bit: "Rest in pieces" and the imagery itself is definitely eye catching, but still I think something is missing from it.
The feeling I get from this poster is definitely a gimmicky 3D feel and seeing as though this is a 3D horror movie we can expect some of this taking place. Not too much I hope. I thought MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D did a good job of balancing it out despite the constant temptation to use it.
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For some time now here at Purl, we've been bursting with enthusiasm about the subject of needlepoint. We are so thrilled to announce that we now have a breathtaking selection of handpainted needlepoint canvases based on the amazing work of the renowned late illustrator Charley Harper. We've been anxiously awaiting their arrival since January, but because each canvas is meticulously handpainted, we had to contain our excitement until now. Finally they are ready to share with you! (You can find our entire collection right here). The design above is our first completed sample, it's called Rainforest Birds. This sample was one of those all Purl projects that many people had a hand in. We had to fight over who got to start it! Our resident needlepoint expert, Nikki, (and the manager of Purl Patchwork) won and she stitched most of the birds. Then Joelle took over finishing the birds and starting on the background, and finally Molly stepped in to finish it up. We stitched it entirely in our new collection of Paternayan Needlepoint Yarn which comes in over 400 rich and stunning colors (please see below for a color key with the exact colors we used if you'd like to make one like ours, you can download and print the color key full size here.).
We are crazy over the work of Charley Harper (1922- 2007) and we're not alone! Harper was an American artist and illustrator whose primary subject was wildlife. He called his style "minimal realism" because he concentrated on pattern, color and shape rather than detail. Others have called him an American Modernist but to us his whimsical, beautiful work is simply timeless.
In the 1950's, Harper did a famous and highly collectible series of American bird portraits that appeared twice a year in the Ford Times. The series is stunning and we hope that someday they will ALL be available in needlepoint canvases! When the magazine was still in print, one could even order original silk-screens of these birds from the magazine. Some of Harper's work can still be found today at The Art of Charley Harper, which is a wonderful site that sells both the vintage prints and all the books that feature his work. Harper applied his talents to many other things as well, from illustrating the 1961 Giant Golden Book of Biology to over 50 ecological posters for nature centers, wilderness reserves, parks and zoos and more. The painting above is called Mystery of the Missing Migrants and it might be our favorite. The artist represented 45 different birds in this piece!
We think that needlepoint canvases are an ideal display of Charley Harper's work since the bold designs and wonderful colors lend themselves to needlepoint's graphic quality. The painting above is another of our favorites, it's called Gregarious Grosbeaks.
Handpainted needlepoint canvases are extra special because the artist takes extra care to paint the colors on the canvas grid in such a manner that it is perfectly clear what color each stitch should be. If this process weren't taken so seriously, colors would bleed from one hole of the mesh to the next, making it unclear what colors should be used for what stitches and therefore creating a much less satisfying result.
Needlepoint canvases are usually made of stiffened cotton, they come in a variety of mesh sizes which relate to the number of threads woven per inch. The sample above is a 13:1 canvas, which means 13 stitches per 1-inch. Canvases typically come in sizes of 10:1, 13:1 and 18:1. Depending on which mesh size you choose, different thicknesses of yarn should be used. The more threads per inch on the canvas, the smaller the holes and the thinner the yarn needed. If your yarn is too thick for the mesh it will shred, if it's too small, you will have show through on the finished piece. Yarn that is made specifically for needlepoint like our Paternayan Needlepoint Yarn comes in small skeins that are made up of 3 loosely plied strands of 2-ply yarn that are easy to pull apart. For our 13:1 canvas we stitched with 2 of the 3 strands, if we were stitching a 10:1 canvas we would have used all 3, or alternatively on an 18:1 canvas we would have only used 1 of the 3 strands. (Each skein of needlepoint yarn worked with 2 strands on a 13:1 mesh covered approximately 2-square inches.) We used approximately 12 skeins of the background color, 2 skeins of the black, and 1 skein of each of the other colors. Keep in mind that you can use any yarn you'd like as long as it's neither to thick nor too thin. A little experimenting is encouraged!
If you've never needlepointed before you may be surprised to discover just how fun and easy it is! We worked our Rainforest Birds sample entirely in the ultra simple basketweave stitch pictured above (If you need more in-depth instructions on how to needlepoint we highly recommend the TNNA How To Needlepoint Booklet).
If you'd like to get started with needlepoint, please check out our entire collection of Charley Harper Handpainted Needlepoint Canvases!
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By Carol Berkin
Like the other branches of the national government, the court system has evolved over the course our history. The structure of the court was not fully defined in the Constitution. The first effort to organize the court and clarify its duties and limitations came after the ratification of the Constitution in the Judiciary Act of 1789, and one of the Court's most important powers, judicial review, was not established until John Marshall's long tenure as Chief Justice. Over the centuries, the number of justices on the court has sometimes varied and the authority of the court has waxed and waned. Yet for most Americans, the robed figures who pass judgment on the constitutionality of legislation and who resolve major conflicts between states are among the most respected citizens in the nation. While the bench was once occupied only by white men, today's court reflects the steady growth of equality and democracy: its modern membership has included African Americans, women, and representatives of ethnic groups within our society.
In this issue, History Now examines the functions of the court, the court's composition, and the philosophical differences that have emerged within its membership over the centuries. It also provides a case study of one of the major crises in the history of the modern court: Roosevelt's "court packing" plan, and provides a portrait of one of the justices, Sandra Day O'Connor. Each of these essays can serve as the basis for critically important lessons for our nation's future voting citizens.
In "The Form and Function of the Supreme Court," Professor Charles Anthony Smith walks us through the origins of the court, its structure and jurisdiction, and its decision-making processes. Next, in "The Supreme Court Then and Now," A.E. Dick Howard traces the expanding domain of the Supreme Court, from the establishment of the principle of judicial review to the nineteenth century focus on issues of federalism to the extraordinary range of issues it grapples with today. In the process, Howard raises several perplexing issues about the role of an unelected body in a democracy. In "The Marshall and Taney Courts: Continuities and Changes," Professor Richard Bernstein examines two of the most influential Chief Justices and the impact of their judicial philosophies on the evolution of the court. In "FDR's Court-Packing Plan: A Study in Irony," Richard Menaker offers a fascinating look at one of the most controversial events in the court's history. Menaker sets the historical context for Roosevelt's radical proposal and offers a revisionist interpretation of the impact his plan had on the court's shifting view of New Deal legislation. Finally, Meryl Justin Chertoff's essay, "Sandra Day O'Connor: A Life of Action" provides a compelling portrait of one of the modern court's path-breaking justices.
As always, our archivist Dr. Mary-Jo Kline provides a wealth of resources for those teachers who want to read more on each of these topics. And, our teacher-reviewers, Bruce Lesh, winner of the OAH Teacher Award, and Philip Nicolosi, winner of the NCHE Gagnon Prize for Excellence in Teaching, offer reviews of two excellent books that might be used in the classroom. Our master teachers have created lesson plans for elementary, middle school, high school, and AP classes. And don't miss this issue's interactive feature, "15 Supreme Court Cases Every High School Student Should Know."
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Carol Berkin is Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books including Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Conservative, First Generations: Women in Colonial America, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, and Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence.


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A new Newspeak word
We are in a post-1984 world. That's hardly surprising - 1984 is now a long time ago. When Dr Grumble first started reading George Orwell, 1984 was still a long way off. Neither Animal Farm nor Nineteen Eighty-Four seemed terribly meaningful books then. Themes of pigs taking over or incessant public mind control seemed fanciful. Others knew better. Lauded though Orwell's books were, he did not come over to the young Grumble as a man with a remarkable prescience. It was all just too unreal for Grumble. The world could never be anything like the fantasies created by Orwell.
But Grumble was young then. Youth lends an inevitable naivety. Some of us can shake this off with age. Some can't. For most, as we near the time we must leave this world, truths we could not see before may begin to dawn. The future matters more to the young than the old but they know less about it that the old. Knowledge of the past gives insight into the future. Perhaps that accounts for a strange paradox: the old, you see, worry about the future more than the young. The young are only interested in the present. That's where their concerns lie.
Blogging is a young person's thing. It's new. The old can be slow to adopt new things that they have never needed in the past. Grumble is not of the Facebook generation. He does not feel the need. But he does feel the need to blog. Most of the medical bloggers with a message are, to put it politely, not young. They all have a substantial mileage behind them. Take a look, in contrast, at the few medical student bloggers. They are preoccupied with the present: exams, boyfriends, a new placement - these are the things that dominate their lives. They have little in the way of a past. Not long ago they were at school. Their limited past makes them unable to see the future. Grumble was once like that.
How has the passage of time altered Grumble's view of Orwell? Does he now realise that the lauding of Orwell was justified? Now that we are living in the future, just how prescient has Nineteen Eighty-Four turned out to be?
Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1948 not long before Orwell died. Sadly, he wasn't that old but he was old enough to have some mileage and a considerable insight into the future. It's sad now to read of Orwell's illness and physical decline. If he were to see Dr Grumble as a patient today, he could easily be cured. But in 1948 the treatment of tuberculosis was in its infancy. Streptomycin was not readily available. By the time he received it, it was too late.
Just imagine that world in 1948. Not only was there little in the way of effective treatment for infectious diseases, technology of all sorts was very primitive by the standards of today. There were few televisions, no video cameras. Computers as we know them were non-existent. The internet was beyond anyone's dreams. Yet much of what Dr Grumble considered fanciful when he read Orwell in his youth has come to pass. We live in a world of all pervasive surveillance. Not only do we have cameras on street corners and in shops but there are cameras to recognise your car's number plate and log it on Big Brother's computer. We have no secrets any more. If you are younger than Grumble, you will seek out your sexual partner online on sites built for the purpose. Your drunken antics will be recorded on Facebook. Young doctors, whether they like it or not, have their whole working lives immutably entered into their eportfolios. Few worry about any of this. Not the young anyway.
Newspeak is all around us. For 'plurality' read 'privatisation'. For 'contestability' read 'commercial'. For 'polyclinic' read 'private provider". The NHS is riddled with examples. What could be worse than not saying what you mean? Is it lying or concealing the truth? Do they intend to deceive? Does it matter?
The world has moved on to technical levels undreamed of by Orwell. Google's computers essentially know how you think. Employers log every web page you have ever looked at. Your service provider may do the same. Emails are scanned by the people in Cheltenham for subversive words. The workings of your mind are known. Whether anyone cares or not is another matter. The important point is that the technology to see into your mind is there.
If you own a Kindle your reading habits will be known. If Amazon were to decide that you should no longer be reading Nineteen Eight-Four, they can just delete it without your permission. Of course you might think that they never would. But don't forget that Nineteen Eight-Four has been banned as intellectually dangerous to the public. Anything could happen. In fact it already has. Amazon has already seen fit to delete Nineteen Eighty-Four from your Kindle. The reasons were not actually too sinister but the incident does reveal the frightening control Amazon now has over our your personal virtual library. They don't need your permission they just delete your books. It's just like Big Brother.
Grumble could go on. If we do not already live in an Orwellian world, today's technology certainly makes it more possible than ever.
But let us be thankful that we still have control of our own minds. We are free to express our views in blogs like this. There is no way the ruling class can touch our minds, is there? In any case why should anybody want to? We all agree that we should be free to think and do as we please.
OK. Grumble is bamboozling you. No government, democratic or otherwise, has ever wanted us to think or do as we please. You might think you are free but you are not.
Dr Grumble has some sceptical readers who by now will think that he is well and truly off his trolley. There is obviously no way that there is anybody close to government working on controlling your mind. That is just ridiculous.
But, dear reader, you might just be wrong. There might already be an institute for government working on how to control your thinking and your behaviour? They might even have hired a surgeon to help them. Which can only mean one thing. Brain surgery. OK. That last bit cannot be true. Or is the world even more Orwellian than we realise?
By the way, there is another Newspeak word that Grumble has just come across. It is Mindspace. What do you think that really means? It couldn't be Newspeak for mind control could it? Brain washing even? And could there be a surgeon involved? Surely not.


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Over the past several years MathWorks made tuning of PID controllers easy with automatic PID tuner. But what about more complex, multivariable control systems that have multiple coupled loops with several PID controllers and other tunable elements such as gains and low-order filters?
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Proms diary: Tristan and Isolde
Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a cast led by soprano Violeta Urmana and tenor Robert Dean Smith
As storm clouds gathered over South Kensington, Semyon Bychkov lifted his baton to conduct Wagner's offering to Love, Tristan and Isolde. At a little over four hours, the opera was a bit of light relief for the Prommers and Wagnerites who had been sitting through the first three parts of the Ring cycle during the week – with just Götterdämmerung still to be performed the following day.
Barenboim and the Berlin Staatskapelle, who had been performing the Ring, ceded the stage to the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a cast led by soprano Violeta Urmana as Isolde and tenor Robert Dean Smith as Tristan. If any of Wagner's operas is suited to concert performance, this is surely it. Astonishingly little happens for about three and a half hours of the work - this is the ultimate psychological drama and it plays out in the music.
And what music! From the revolutionary opening 'Tristan' chord, Wagner paints a picture of despair, hopeless longing and sensual nihilism. Bychkov and the orchestra revelled in it - unfortunately, often at the expense of the singers, who were inaudible for much of Act III.
Urmana was an empathetic Isolde and her voice had depth, passion and a gleaming top end. Tenor Robert Dean Smith was a last minute replacement for Peter Seiffert and, although his voice was beautiful, it lacked something of the power of Urmana's. Though the orchestra didn't help the balance issues.
Mihoko Fujimura's Brangäne and Kwangchul Youn's King Mark were excellent, each stealing a couple of scenes - Fujimura with Brangäne's 'Einsam wachend' aria and Youn with Mark's doleful lament for Tristan's betrayal.
Despite these high points, the work didn't really come alive - everything felt a little too polite for an opera which is, essentially, a four-hour explosion of desire - until the closing Liebestod. But those closing 10 minutes are some of the most heart-wrenching in all of opera and at this point Urmana, along with Bychkov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra acquitted themselves well.
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The B.I.C. goes to the doctor
The B.I.C. went to the doctor with her mother and her grandmother yesterday. You can see some of her hair popping up. Are people grossed out when babies are born with a lot of hair? I was. So is that nasty or something? Also, as I've heard from many of you, people are really pissy about Beyonce wearing blue all the time. You all need to give me a list of what we can and cannot criticise about mothers, ok? It's not ok to sh-t on Michelle Williams for opening her Golden Globe acceptance speech (and campaigning) by talking about her daughter. It's totally ok to sh-t on Beyonce for going hard blue to celebrate her child's name. Your judgy rules confuse me. A manual would be helpful.
As for that persistent and ridiculous (to me) theory that she faked her baby and the proof is in how fit she is now and how it would have been impossible to lose the weight so fast etc, etc, etc...
No doubt, B looks good. No doubt, her body resumed its pre-form rather quickly. You know who else's body resumed its pre-form quickly? Keri Russell.
Keri had a baby 10 days before Beyonce. Check her out in New York last week. Are we allowed to say that different bodies respond differently? Or do all women who've had babies react exactly the same way? Put that in your manual too.
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This takes a little bit of code to explain but I posted the code in gist and
notated it thoroughly
I'm writing a lisp wrapper for OpenCV c++ interface and my lisp code
wraps around c wrappers for the c++ so in my code used for testing there will
be my c wrappers and c++ OpenCV code intermixed.
Here is an example of what I can do in C https://gist.github.com/W-Net-AI/11205899
that I can't in Lisp, The code is notated thoroughly telling exactly whats going on. the
Lisp code is https://gist.github.com/W-Net-AI/11205892 it too is notated thoroughly.
The question I'm asking hinges on the output of the detectMultiScale c wrapper for the c++
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Steve Jobs had a few remarks (tips?) for President Obama in the fall of 2010, including that the president was to be a one-termer.
In the new Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, he writes that Jobs found regulations in the United States punitive, making it difficult to build new factories.
[Excerpts from the upcoming biography were published on the Huffington Post.]
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"You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them.
Jobs also cited the teachers' unions in America as "crippling" the education system. He said an 11-month school year, and a school day that lasted until 6 p.m., were reforms the system needed.
A merit-based system for teacher evaluation -- and firing -- was another suggestion to the president.
Being Steve Jobs -- workaholic with the highest expectations of himself and others -- he spared few words in his chat with Obama.
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WASHINGTON -- She was born in Baltimore, but House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is rooting for San Francisco.
Asked which team she will back in the Super Bowl, the daughter of former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. said she would have to side with her adopted home. Pelosi represents a district located within the city of San Francisco.
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I believe there are only a few left who remember my first day back on '06. Well, that was today, only of that year and not this one, and that means that I've been more or less around for 6 years! Wow, how the time flies. So, yeah. Thanks for all the awesome memories to those members both new and old and I'm looking forward to many, many more!
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The Government of Bali has given official approval for a revolutionary island-wide rabies vaccination program that will saves the lives of thousands of street dogs who might have formerly succumbed to strychnine poisoning.
A recent press release from The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) explains:
""This program will save hundreds of thousands of lives–both dogs and humans," said Kate Atema, IFAW Director of Companion Animals Programs.
IFAW is supporting the initiative which is being led by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), working with the Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) and also using the expertise of IFAW's Bali-based team, Indonesian Animal Welfare (InAW).
"No longer will dogs be randomly killed following an outbreak of rabies," said Atema. "This is a vital first step towards eliminating the disease from Bali by 2012. The government should be commended for embracing vaccination as a more effective and humane approach to controlling rabies."
In order to control rabies across the island, the vaccination program must roll out rapidly. The program aims to vaccinate at least 70% of the island's dogs within six months by simultaneously deploying up to 12 teams of 8 to 10 expert animal handlers, veterinarians and educators.
Bali , which was considered rabies-free until an outbreak of the disease in 2008, has a large unvaccinated roaming dog population which can spread the disease quickly. Humans can contract the disease from a bite by an infected dog, and infection is nearly 100% fatal if not treated immediately. The rapid spread of rabies has caused the death of hundreds of Balinese and led to widespread fear and indiscriminate dog killing.
"Culling dogs does not eliminate rabies in the long-term," said Atema. "The only recognized strategy for the elimination of rabies, according to the WHO (World Health Organization) is a comprehensive vaccination program coupled with public education."
The project has been made possible by a generous donation of nearly all the necessary rabies vaccines from AusAid (the Australian Government's overseas aid program). IFAW has committed a significant financial contribution to this project. WSPA/BAWA and the Balinese government are responsible for the project's implementation, including organizing and training vaccination teams, training for local authorities, and public education.
Bali has nine regencies and BAWA has already completed a successful pilot vaccination program this year. This program aims to reach more than 70 per cent of the dogs in the remaining regencies within 6 months."
Learn more about how the IFAW is helping dogs and cats worldwide.


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It is inevitably one of the first games a player looks for when the new season's fixture list is released—the clash with his former club.
David Horst did not have to wait long for a reunion with his old employers, as the Portland Timbers visit BBVA Compass Stadium on Sunday (2 p.m. CT, TICKETS) just four months after the defender swapped the Rose City for the Bayou City.
Horst spent three years with the Timbers and featured in the franchise's first-ever MLS game back in 2011. However, his 2013 campaign was cut short after just two appearances when he suffered a season-ending leg injury, coincidentally against the Dynamo. When Houston stalwart Bobby Boswell left for D.C. United last December, the Dynamo swooped to acquire the Pennsylvania native in exchange for a fourth-round pick in this year's MLS SuperDraft.
So far it has been a shrewd piece of business for Dominic Kinnear's side, especially since another ex-Timbers defender, Eric Brunner, is yet to play this year because of injury. Though Horst is looking forward to Sunday afternoon and knows it is no ordinary match, he is also aware that once the game kicks off he needs to forget the past and treat his erstwhile coworkers no differently from any other opponent.
"You always have something to prove to the team that you used to play for but I've got to stay within myself in the game. You can't get too crazy going into the game, I've got to keep a level head and just keep playing the way that I've been playing and that's all I can do," he told reporters on Friday at Houston Sports Park.
The 28-year-old has been a success story in the early weeks of his career in orange, providing composure, solid positioning and, at 6 feet 4 inches, a hefty physical presence at the heart of the defense. The only blemish came when he picked up a red card against FC Dallas for a late tackle, which earned him a one-match suspension.
But that was an aberration: it was Horst's first red card in an MLS career that began with Real Salt Lake in 2008. For a tough-tackling center back—indeed, for a player in any position—Horst's disciplinary record is remarkable. He has made 48 MLS appearances, logging 3809 minutes on the field, yet has only collected one yellow card, back in 2012.
The Dynamo will need him to be at his error-free best on Sunday. Horst's scouting report on Portland boils down to this: they are much more dangerous than their results this year suggest.
Former University of Akron head coach Caleb Porter arrived in Oregon ahead of the 2013 season and had an instant impact, leading the Timbers to first place in the Western Conference and being named MLS head coach of the year. The Timbers ousted arch-rivals Seattle Sounders in the Western Conference Semifinals but were beaten by Salt Lake in the penultimate round of the playoffs.
So far in 2014, however, the Timbers are yet to click into top gear. They entered the weekend as one of four winless teams in MLS—though they are hard to beat, having tied four of their seven matches.
"Portland's got a lot of attacking talent that's for sure between Darlington Nagbe, Diego Valeri and whoever plays up top for them. They're a very dangerous team. Their record may not prove it this year but all those guys proved it last year, they can score goals, they can create goals and they're going to keep the ball and make a lot of runs through," said Horst.
"There's going to be a lot of movement and we've got to track the runners and know where everybody is on the field. Everybody that's playing up top for them is dangerous so it's very important to know where each and every guy is at all times. It's early in the season yet and they've had some great goalkeeping performances against them. They're right there creating a lot of chances and they're still a very good team."
Kinnear agrees. "The one thing they're missing is a win. They have a lot of good players. They haven't had the results they've been looking for but I think they're a good team that can cause you problems in a number of ways," said the Dynamo head coach.
The home side are also eager to return to winning ways. The last Dynamo victory came on March 15 against the Montreal Impact. Kinnear said that part of his job this week has been to ensure confidence remains high.
"I think the guys have been through a couple of stretches last year where we had bad runs of results, it's never easy but I always say there are no easy games out there. You can't look ahead and go, we'll pick up three points there and there," he said.
"There's always tough obstacles in the way, the most important thing is to make sure your head's up and looking forward rather than kicking the ground and feeling sorry for yourself."


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1 in 3 Teens Admits to Texting While DrivingBy By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter | HealthDay – 4 hrs ago
THURSDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Although more teen drivers are buckling up and not driving drunk than in years past, another danger -- texting -- is posing a new threat, U.S. government research shows.
One in three high school students said they had texted or emailed while driving during the past month, says a research team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"Texting or emailing while driving can have deadly consequences that are entirely preventable,"Howell Wechsler, director of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health, said during a noon press conference Thursday. "So while we are pleased to see changes in many behaviors related to motor vehicle crashes, we are alarmed by some of the new findings, especially those involving distracted driving."
There was some very good news from the new report: Over the past 20 years there have been marked improvements among teens in terms of wearing seatbelts, not riding with drunk drivers and not driving drunk, Wechsler's team found.
"The most notable finding in this report is the significant reduction in risk behaviors related to motor vehicle crashes, which are the leading cause of death among youth in the United States," Wechsler said. "They account for more than one in three teen deaths every year."
From 1991 to 2011, the time span covered by the report, the number of high school students who said they "never or rarely" wore a seat belt dropped from 26 percent to only 8 percent.
Over the same period, the number of students who said they had recently ridden with a driver who had been drinking dropped from 40 percent to 24 percent. The number of teens who said they had been drinking while driving fell from 17 percent in 1997 to 8 percent in 2011, the report notes.
"These trends show that we are making great progress in helping our nation's youth make positive health choices," Wechsler said. "Over the past decade there has been a 44 percent drop in motor vehicle crash deaths in teens aged 13 to 19 years old."
But new distracting, potentially dangerous behaviors such as texting have also emerged. "For the first time, the report offers national data showing that the use of technology [such as cellphones] among youth is resulting in new risks," Wechsler said.
In addition, the report found that one in six teens had been bullied through email, chat rooms, instant messaging, websites or texting in the past year.
Other highlights of the report include:
- In 2009, 19 percent of teens smoked; in 2011 it was 18 percent.
- Marijuana use rose from 21 percent in 2009 to 23 percent in 2011.
- More high school students smoke marijuana now than smoke cigarettes.
The data were collected by interviewing more than 15,000 high school students from around the nation. For the first time, data were collected using both landline phones and cellphones.
More information
To see the full report, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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The end of 2014 marked the close of our £100 million Centenary Campaign. Here's what you helped Bristol achieve.
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Among recent enforcement actions taken by the Department of Labor and the SEC were lawsuits to recover lost funds mishandled by pension plan administrators, charges against a Cyprus-based company over illegal binary options, and charges against a wealth management company and former fund manager for insider trading.
Also, top officials at a Detroit investment advisor were charged with stealing funds from a police officers' and firefighters' pension fund, and additional charges were filed in the case of a Venezuelan bank kickback scheme.
Execs Charged With Raiding Detroit Police, Firefighter Pension to Buy Strip Malls
Chauncey Mayfield, the founder, president and CEO of MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors in Detroit, was charged by the SEC, along with four top executives at the firm, in the theft of money from the pension fund managed by the firm for the city's police officers and firefighters. Mayfield used the nearly $3.1 million to buy two strip malls in California, and the four helped him cover it up instead of exposing the theft.
Chief financial officer Blair Ackman, chief operating officer Marsha Bass, chief investment officer W. Emery Matthew, and chief compliance officer and general counsel Alicia Diaz were also charged.
Mayfield took the money, without permission, from a trust account for the pension fund in 2008. He used it to buy the California malls and title them in the name of a MayfieldGentry affiliate, and then later told Ackman what he had done. By May 2011, the others knew of his theft, and instead of turning him in and risking the loss of the pension fund's business, they all went out of their way to cover it up and mislead the pension fund.
At a critical budget meeting with fund trustees in 2011, Diaz stressed MayfieldGentry's success in generating a cash return for the pension fund, and touted a projection that MayfieldGentry would remit $4.96 million to the pension fund in 2012. Diaz never told the pension fund trustees that the cash remittance would be reduced by more than 60% once the stolen money was taken into account. At the same meeting, Matthews claimed that MayfieldGentry had achieved a benchmark-beating 6.8% return for the pension fund. He didn't explain that the 6.8% return would be materially impacted by the $3.1 million theft.
The executives came up with a plan to secretly repay the pension fund by cutting costs at the firm and selling the strip malls. The money Mayfield stole, according to the SEC, could have provided a year of benefits for more than 100 retired police officers, firefighters, and surviving spouses and children. The plan to replace the money failed when MayfieldGentry could not raise enough capital to put the stolen amount back into the pension fund.
They still did not reveal what had happened until May 2012, the evening before the SEC was to file a complaint against Mayfield and the firm for their participation in a "pay-to-play" scheme involving former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Treasurer Jeffrey Beasley of Detroit. The pension plan immediately terminated the relationship. Mayfield and his firm agreed to settle the charges by paying back the stolen amount, but have neither admitted nor denied the settlement allegations. The settlement must be approved by the court.
Meanwhile, Mayfield awaits sentencing in a parallel criminal case in connection with his guilty plea for participation in the pay-to-play scheme.
SEC Warns Against Binary Options, Charges Cyprus-Based Company
The SEC has issued a warning to investors about the potential risks of investing in binary options and has charged a Cyprus-based company with selling them illegally to U.S. investors.
Binary options are options contracts whose payout depends on whether the underlying asset (such as company stock) increases or decreases in value. Investors buying binaries could either receive a payout on expiration of the contract if the company value increased, or could lose everything if it decreased.
The company charged with selling binaries, Banc de Binary, has not registered the options as required, nor has it registered with the SEC as a broker despite acting as one. But it has been busy selling binaries to U.S. investors via YouTube videos, spam emails and other Internet advertising, and its reps have been directly in touch with investors via phone, email and instant messenger chats.
Banc de Binary started selling binary options to U.S. investors in 2010, according to the SEC. In doing so, it has attracted numerous investors, some of whom have very little money but were persuaded to open trading accounts and then buy binary options whose underlying assets include stock and stock indices.
The SEC is seeking disgorgement plus prejudgment interest, financial penalties and other penalties against Banc de Binary; the CFTC also announced a parallel action against the company. In addition, an investor alert on binary options was jointly issued by the SEC's office of investor education and advocacy and the CFTC's office of consumer outreach.
Whittier Trust, Former Fund Manager Charged by SEC with Insider Trading
South Pasadena, Calif.-based wealth management company Whittier Trust Co. and former fund manager Victor Dosti were charged by the SEC with insider trading in a scheme involving the securities of Dell, Nvidia Corp., and Wind River Systems.
Dosti got his information from Danny Kuo, a Whittier Trust fund manager whom Dosti supervised. Kuo was charged by the SEC in January 2012 and is currently cooperating with the investigation. Kuo had also passed tips to the multibillion-dollar hedge fund advisory firms Diamondback Capital Management and Level Global Investors.
The SEC said that Dosti used nonpublic information that had been gleaned from employees at Dell and Nvidia to trade in advance of five quarterly earnings announcements in 2008, 2009 and 2010. He managed to bring in profits and avoid losses that together amounted to more than $475,000 for Whittier Trust funds. He also made $247,000 in illicit profits for Whittier Trust funds by trading Wind River stock after Kuo passed along detailed information the latter had gotten from an Intel employee about Intel's confidential negotiations to acquire Wind River in 2009. Whittier Trust and Dosti agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million to settle the charges, the former to pay disgorgement of $724,051.62 plus prejudgment interest of $75,296.00 and a penalty of $724,051.62 and the latter to pay disgorgement of $77,900.00 plus prejudgment interest of $2,951.43, and a penalty of $77,900.00. The settlements must be approved by the court.
DOL Sues to Restore $4.9 Million to Pension Funds
After an investigation by the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Department of Labor has filed complaints on behalf of defined benefit pension plans at the Iowa-based foundry Fairfield Casting and the Michigan-based manufacturer Fourslides. Both suits were filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky; they allege improper use of pension funds and are aimed at restoring $4.9 million to the plans.
The investigation revealed a number of violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Among them were the use of plan funds to purchase and lease company property; purchase of customer notes from affiliated companies; transfer of assets in favor of a party-in-interest; payment of excessive fees to services providers; payment of fees on behalf of the companies; and failure to provide an updated summary plan description to participants. In all, the prohibited actions cost the plans some $4.9 million.
Named in the suits were George Hofmeister, trustee of the Revstone Casting Fairfield GMP Local 359 pension plan and the Fourslides plan, and Robert La Courciere and Pamela Babbish, former trustees to the Fourslides plan who had discretionary authority and control over the plan's assets and took part in decisions related to the violations. Also named was Bernard Tew, managing director of investment service provider Bluegrass Investment Management, which serves as investment advisor to both plans.
In addition, Fairfield Casting, formerly Revstone Casting Fairfield, and Fourslides were named in the suits, as well as Nelson Clemmons and William Tweardy, members of the investment committee for the Revstone Casting Fairfield plan who had discretionary authority and control over the plan's assets and took part in decisions related to the violations.
Revstone Industries is a related entity to both Fairfield Casting and Fourslides, which are owned by the Hofmeister children's irrevocable trusts. George Hofmeister serves as the chairman of both Fairfield Castings and Fourslides.
Some of the actions were particularly brazen, considering that in Revstone's case, they began within days after Castings LLC took control of the Revstone plan in December 2010 and acquired the assets of the Revstone plan's former sponsor, Dexter Foundry Inc. The Fourslides plan fund misappropriation began in March 2006, with the coup de grâce being a 2009 loan of nearly half that plan's assets for the benefit of a party-in-interest.
Additional Charges Filed by SEC in Venezuelan Bank Kickback Scheme
The SEC has filed more charges, this time against the former head of the Miami office at brokerage firm Direct Access Partners (DAP), for his role in a massive kickback scheme to secure the bond trading business of a state-owned Venezuelan bank.
Last month four individuals were charged for enabling the global markets group at DAP to generate more than $66 million in revenue from transaction fees related to fraudulent trades they executed for Banco de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Venezuela (BANDES). Some of that money was kicked back to the vice president of finance at BANDES, who authorized the fraudulent trades.
As managing partner of the global markets group, Ernesto Lujan, said the SEC, was an integral participant in the scheme, which included sham arrangements to hide the kickback payments and route money to the BANDES official through shell corporations. Lujan and others charged in the scheme deceived DAP's clearing brokers, executed internal wash trades, interpositioned another broker-dealer in the trades to conceal their role in the transactions, and engaged in massive roundtrip trades to pad their revenue.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced criminal charges against Lujan in a parallel action, and the investigation is continuing.
Check out SEC Enforcement: Broker Busted for Lying to Investigators on AdvisorOne.