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Fifty Shades of Grey may be making this the summer of sex, but a new survey shows what Canadians really crave is a kiss.
In polling 1,163 people across the country, romantic social network Zoosk finds nearly nine in 10 men and women wish their partner planted one on them more often. Curiously, both genders have the perception of taking the lead on lip-locks: the majority of women (55 per cent), as well as the majority of men (76 per cent), claim they typically initiate kissing in a relationship.
"Kissing is a great way to express your love without saying a word," says Shannon Tebb, a dating and relationship expert from Toronto.
"It can also lead to more intimacy, which is why I tell my clients they should really kiss their (partner) at least four times a day: when they wake up, before they leave each other, when they return to each other, and before bed."
The survey, conducted to mark International Kissing Day on July 6, shows fully 93 per cent of Canadians are comfortable with public displays of affection. The majority of women feel it's important to be with someone who's a good kisser, whereas men are more willing to overlook substandard smooches because their partner "might be better at other things."
Perhaps surprisingly, women claim to prefer French kisses (the tongue tango), while men are inclined to more "sensual" exchanges. Both sexes, however, agree that a kiss goodbye trumps a kiss hello.
The most common age for a first romantic kiss in Canada, according to the survey, is between 15 and 17 (35 per cent), followed by 18 and older (20 per cent), and 12 to 14 (31 per cent).
About half of Canadians will pucker up on a first date (54 per cent), whereas a separate sample of adults from Europe reveals it's far less common to do so overseas: just 29 per cent of Germans, 32 per cent of the French and 37 per cent of Danes say they kiss on a first date.
Finally, Canadians are clear on what they don't want in a kiss: bad breath, too much tongue, a wet or sloppy approach, brevity and — with apologies to Fifty Shades of Grey fans — biting.
The survey was conducted online May 11 to June 11 and has no reported margin of error.


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WBOTTOM LINE: 'Everybody will pay more money,' Dr. Schneider says of future fuel prices predicted for climate change management. 'But we're already paying money in the form of burned-down forests and children's asthma. That's what we call "external cost." You've got to make the price of energy include all the costs.'
Dr. Stephen Schneider is a climatologist, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University and a 1992 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" recipient. He has been in the trenches of the climate change battle since the 1970s and has advised presidents from Nixon to Obama on how to manage the threat posed by global warming. The insanely busy Schneider (the following interview was cobbled together from four separate phone calls during which he was at the airport, grabbing a bite to eat, waiting in a doctor's office and rushing to class) is also a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His new book, Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate, will be published next month by the National Geographic Society. Writer Jessica Lussenhop caught up with him to discuss the 350 concept—which refers to reducing our current carbon dioxide load to the sustainable figure of 350 parts per million—and more.
How long have you been on board with the 350-parts-per-million figure?
Stephen Schneider: Since back in the 1970s. We were well below 350, and I was trying to get us off the pathway of the mega-increases, and we failed. The issue will [now] be, how much are we going to overshoot the safe target? There's no doubt we already have, and we will go far before we go back.
As we look to reduce that number, what new technologies are you excited about?
We have to work across a whole spectrum and see who wins. I call it a "learning-by-doing feeding frenzy." Let's see how much carbon we can take out of smokestacks and coal plants so that we have a smooth transition toward renewables. And can we put it underground permanently and safely? Not clear. Let's work on that. How about putting it in high concentrations into algae, and the algae can be used for biofuels? Great idea. How about bio-char? Let's take agricultural waste or forest plantation waste, cook them at 300 degrees for an hour and get the natural gas off of the top, and then get char—which is sort of charcoal at the bottom—which you can add to the soil and sequester carbon.
There are even crazy ideas to build artificial trees, a chemical process where you run water by certain kinds of chemicals. And then there's a little company in Silicon Valley called Calera, and they're going to try and actually see if they can make real cement by a different chemical process that, instead of giving CO2 up when it hardens, it takes it up.
So now, will it work? Will any of these things work? We don't know yet, but we've got to give all these clever ideas a chance. Problem is, can you scale it up from the thousands of tons in current demonstrated experiments to the hundreds of billions of tons it has to be to offset a significant fraction of potential CO2 emissions eventually? So the big problem is the s-word: scalability.
What are some ideas that you're not so excited about?
I'm un-excited about throwing dust in the stratosphere. It's called "radiative forcing offset." Instead of controlling the CO2, you're controlling the number of watts per square meter beating on the earth. The reason it's very unexciting to me is there is a degree of inadvertent climate modification. The second problem is, who do you trust? We now know that the extra CO2 we have in the air—a significant amount of it, 20, 30 percent—is going to last a thousand years in the air. That means we have to have a group of climate controllers for centuries. Do you think that we can trust this planet to have world peace for that long? I mean, to have cooperation, where there's not going to be a lapse? And the final reason is, it doesn't stop ocean acidification.
The only way I could conceive of why they would want to do radiative forcing management would be if the world proves to be so morally bankrupt and does absolutely nothing in the next 25 years, and mega-catastrophic outcomes start to occur. You know, super-hurricanes and all that stuff. People say, "Oh my God, what have we done?" It takes another 30 years to slow down the supertanker, and then we used this kind of stuff for a few decades while we invent carbon-removal geo-engineering. I might reluctantly say, "Well, if you have a heroin addict and you initially get them on methadone on the way to the hospital, it's probably better than dumping them."
What about solutions on a policy level?
One is performance standards. California has the lowest energy use and the lowest carbon dioxide footprint per capita. It's a big footprint, but per capita it's the lowest in the United States. Europe and Japan are around California. So how could that happen?
There's always been a culture of public protection. California has had, for the last 40 years, rules, and these rules are very strict building codes on double-pane windows and insulation and air conditioners and refrigerators and lots of other things. The states have to set up an energy commission, and the energy commissions set the rules. The U.S. must do this, the rest of the world must do this. It's what we call the low-hanging fruit. It's the cheapest way.
Then there's the tax on carbon. That's the market solution. It could be a direct price—meaning you just have a tax, $50 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted—or a shadow price, which is a cap. You've heard of cap and trade. What cap and trade means is that you cap the emissions, x number of million tons for the whole economy. Now that means every power plant and every other person has some limit. And you're not going to cap an individual driving a car, so what you're going to do is cap the gasoline purchasers. It's got to be mandatory—either cap or price. I prefer price, I could live with a cap. I'll manage.
The last part of it—for me, I will pay more money. So will you. Everybody will pay more money. But we're already paying money in the form of burned-down forests and children with asthma. That's what we call 'external cost.' You've got to make the price of energy include all the costs.
There's one side of the problem. We've got a world used to the current price, and for those people with low incomes, it's going to be very difficult. For me, it's going to affect the quality of the Pinot Noir I drink. A poor person, it's going to affect the quality of the protein their family eats. So not only do you have to protect the commons by having a fee for dumping your waste in the atmospheric sewer, but you also have to deal with the people who would be differentially hurt. I do not believe you hold the sustainability agenda of the planet hostage for poverty. You've got to cure poverty, but not by artificial low prices and energy.
So what you would have to do is two things: protect the commons through increasing the price of energy, and then deal with poverty through, say, vouchers for people to buy a very highly efficient new hybrid car, free or low-cost improvement to the energy efficiency of their homes or a cash return.
We have to deal with equity, and we have to deal with environmental effectiveness, and this means two acts of good governance in a world that has trouble getting one act of good governance.
So I'm not pretending what I'm saying is easy. But there's no defensible reason we couldn't do everything I just said. The only thing is political will and people's awareness.
Do you see that kind of political will in the Obama administration?
Dramatically. Relative to the past, dramatically. Remember, in the previous administration we were going in the wrong direction. In this administration, what we've got is the political will to get things done. They've put their money where their mouth is. They got with the stimulus bill $100 billion—that's a lot of money—for green-tech development.
They still have congress in bed with all the special interests in their districts. Every coal mine, every power plant, all the farmers who want to use fertilizer at the lowest price—these people only think about their own bottom line and their own backyard, never concerned about the country and less about the planet. So the difficulty is, he's got to fight with the pork-barrel lions in congress, including Democrats, and it takes major leadership. He's got to make compromises, but he's got to turn the ship around. You don't turn a tanker around quickly.


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So, I Doctored A Baseball. That Happened.
My friend Dirk Hayhurst is getting a lot of ink – and a lot of grief – for correctly identifying that Clay Buchholz of the Red Sox was doing something to his pitches in Toronto. Whether Buchholz is mixing rosin with sweat, water, or some other kind of gelatinous abomination, Hayhurst noted the trick, called it out, and gave a combination of rebuke and complement today.
I'll leave it to The Baseball Police to determine to what degree Buchholz is cheating (i.e. acceptable or legal cheating, or unacceptable and thus illegal cheating). I'll laugh out loud at the contention that Hayhurst is in some way homering this, or trying to make a name for himself, or trying to tear Buchholz down. Hayhurst was a major league pitcher, which means the odds that he cheated in some way are about 101 out of 100 (I'm on the pitchers' side on this. All rule changes since 1893 have been designed to screw the pitcher into the ground to increase hitting).
Pitchers doctor the baseball in the big leagues. Buchholz isn't innocent because nobody ratted him out before Dirk did. Teams don't push it because then their pitchers will be policed ('So seven of our guys cheat? We have tape of twelve of your guys cheating – and five of them are hitters'). If you look back at the bizarre Kenny Rogers 'hand discoloration' saga from Game Two of the 2006 World Series there is reason to hypothesize that Tony LaRussa went to Jim Leyland and said 'this is over the top. Get that crap off his hand – and all your other guys' hands – or I'm going to the Commissioner.' I mean, that could easily explain why Tigers pitchers Todd Jones, Fernando Rodney, Joel Zumaya, and Justin Verlander made errors in the next 22 innings: they were having trouble holding on to the baseball.
But this is not really about any of that.
This is about a simple fact: I doctored a baseball.
I was taught to do it by an ex-big league pitcher, I used the skill while throwing out a ceremonial first pitch – and it worked like a charm.
"Hey, why can't I hear you clearly?" asked my friend the ex-MLB pitcher (not Dirk Hayhurst).
I explained I was on the ferry to Staten Island to throw out the first pitch at a Yankees' minor league game and the cell reception was mediocre. "Oh. I suppose you know what to do to raise your chances of not humiliating yourself, right?" I told him I hadn't really thought about it. "Well first, what happens when somebody throws a ceremonial first pitch in the dirt?" I told him that to the best of my recollection, people booed or laughed derisively. "But what happens when they throw it over the catcher's head?" I said there was a lot of ooh-ing and aah-ing. "So aim high, not low.
"Second thing, don't go up on to the mound." No? "No! The mound is for pitchers. You are not a pitcher. All you can do with a mound is fall off it. Stand on the skirt of the mound in the front. This'll give you the illusion of standing on the mound.
"But most importantly, get the baseball as early as possible." Here he got very quiet. "Pick at the seams." What did you say? "Pick. At. The. Seams. With your fingernails. Just pull up on the stitches with your nails. Get the baseball half an hour before the game, or if you have to, just find a ball somewhere and start picking at the seams, then use that for the first pitch." Seriously? "Why would I make this up?" But what could it possibly do? "You'll see."
So given the undeniable logic of his first two suggestions about throwing high and not actually getting on the mound, as soon as I got to the Staten Island ballpark I grabbed a loose baseball and tried to pick at the seams with my fingernails.
I don't know if I expected them to come loose, like that wandering thread in your suit or your sweater that turns out to be 44 inches long. All I know is, nothing moved. I could've used a nail file or a drill bit and I wouldn't have been able to budge them. After 20 minutes of this, I realized that my friend the pitcher had just foisted one over on me. He had gotten me to pick at the seams of the ball as the equipment manager gets the naive batboy to go search for the "key" to the batters' box.
Nevertheless, I went over to the catcher, P.J. Pilittere, and warned him I would be aiming head-high to avoid all those boos, and I stopped moving after I reached the skirt of the mound. And I pulled the ball whose seams I had pointlessly and with eminent futility pulled at for 20 minutes, went into a mock wind-up, and let go a pretty decent pitch that I could instantly see was going to hit the mitt, which Pilittere was appropriately holding face-high.
And about fifteen feet in front of the plate the ball dropped like it had been hit by a poison dart. It split the strike zone perfectly and nearly hit Pilittere in his privates except that he deftly swung the glove down and grabbed my textbook cutter. And as I stood there amazed he ran out towards me with a big smile on his face and said exactly four words: "Picking at the seams?"
I got my friend the ex-pitcher on the phone immediately. "Told you so." I asked him how on earth the ball could have been defaced when I had no sense whatsoever that the picking had had any impact at all. "That's physics. I was a Communications major. All I know is: it doesn't take much. That's why they throw out your first inning warm-up ball and give you a fresh one nowadays. But in school I used to get the game ball half an hour before first pitch and I never threw anything except strikes, just like that one. An artificial cut fastball. Which all the batters would then be convinced I had in reserve all game long."
He added one more thing: "You're welcome."
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… and yes: Eckersley's comments describing (dismissing?) Hayhurst as "a lifetime minor league pitcher that's watching video" on NESN the other night were classless utter trash, regardless of what Buch was or was not doing.
Funny story! My boss (a rabid SF Giants fan) is wondering what I'm cackling about. So relieved you took your friend's advice and didn't humiliate yourself, Keith. 🙂
Obviously, no one shared this trick with Dick Cheney, when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Washington Nationals in 2006. He whapped the ball or "threw it like a girl" as I used to hear my brothers say whenever I'd attempt to throw a baseball as a kid. As might be expected, Cheney's pitch hit the dirt and bounced. That's what happens when you have bad aim, whether it be out hunting with a friend or throwing out the first pitch (I'm still cackling). The booing said the rest, though I'm pretty sure the crowds were booing Cheney for a variety of other reasons. 😛
Obviously MLB has strict Catholic upbringing – venial sin and mortal sin – doctoring a baseball say 3 Hail Marys – taking a drug to try and heal faster – mortal sin – go to hell – go straight to hell
This was a funny story, I'm still chuckling about. I could just picture you questioning the sanity of your friend after he told you to pick at the stitches (facial expression alone would be enough!). It's good to have friends "on the inside" to help you out of a potential embarrassment. He gave good advice. At least you didn't "throw it like a girl", not that you would ever appear that way. I don't understand why when the illustrious Garfoose a.k.a. Dirk Hayhurst pointed out what Clay Buchholtz was doing, he should take any heat. It was on the video in living color for all to see. What is happening with baseball? Nothing that hasn't gone on for ages, but with technology ever more involved, I take it we are going to find out a lot more of the untold secrets established a long time ago now coming out in living color. Thank you, Keith, for the chucks and such.
How true; "Nothing that hasn't been going on for ages…"
Well, Keith, you had me laughing with this post. thanks for a great story.
A great story, and tell Don Sutton hello.
Worthy of your hero…
No, none of your baseball heroes, the literary one… Thurber of course…
Used to like the Thurber stories he would do at the end of broadcasts.
Why hasn't Keith Olbermann given thought to pitching a once a week show to HBO? Seems as if a perfect fit either before or after Bill Maher. One show a week would be good enough to make the kind of uncensored show he couldn't on other networks without all of the repetitive nightly rehash and confusion. He'd be able to sum up a weeks events along side Bill Maher.
Seriously, am I the only person to see the advantages. Once a week, unlimited by the usual competitive daily jumble.
Loved this piece. Have ALWAYS found Dirk's insights into the murky world of ML pitching to be spot on. If he tells me Clay was cheating, he was cheating. I trust him to know what he's talking about. Not to mention that Morris backed him up. Keep up the great work KO, both you, and your friend Dirk help keep it real
Yes science. It's called Fluid Dynamics. Magnus forces and laminar flow etc. See"The Physics of Baseball" by Robert K.Adair. Bart Giamatti, his old friend from Yale had appointed Dr.Adair 'physicist to The National League
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Microsoft started its ads carpet-bombing yesterday by releasing a slew of covert graffiti Ads for its Surface devices. One of the Ads is shown above (borrowed from The Verge), and immediately I saw it a few things jumps to mind, and I have searched the Net and discovered almost everybody missed the subtle messages hidden in this picture above.
First let me start on the background. Why did Microsoft choose an old and dilapidated building to paint this Graffiti, they could have chosen a bridge or a nicer background, right? The house is standing next to a White-washed building. All this denotes the Old Windows Infrastructure, old and beaten of course. This Old building is Surfacing something new (pun intended). The white-washed building is the walled garden called Apple platform competing with this old platform.
Now, see those four lamps above the Graffiti? Five of them are burning (One is behind the board) and one is not burning. That denotes the release cycles of Windows 8, the fifth lamp is not burning because Windows/Surface is almost done. All the lamps burning will signify in this case that Windows and Surface fully ready.
Now comes my favorite part, the Stop signpost and the bikes. Anyone remembers what Steve Jobs called Windows when comparing it with the Mac? He called Windows a Truck, that trucks are dependable utility vehicles to get the job done, and Macs are Sports cars that you love to ride in the weekends or when you are feeling sexy, etc etc. Now, read what is on the signpost: "Truck Restriction" it says! Is this a coincidence? I think not.
The sign is saying Truck restriction here, this is a play-ground for the young and hip, denoted by those bikes. Look at that shiny Vespa posing for you right there like a model on a sidewalk. All these denotes hip youngsters. This Ad is telling you, "Windows is truck-no-more", it is the playground of hipsters. That is what we are getting with Windows 8 and Surface. Sorry old people, Elvis has left the building! Microsoft cannot build its future on old dilapidated OS, it needs the new generation on-board, that is the future. You either take it or leave it. That is the strong message Microsoft has been sending out with Windows 8, the bold move to remove anything recognizable in Windows is a telling sign. You either come on-board and embrace the future, or be left behind in the dust of history.
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Universally available prekindergarten is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. Raising lifetime wages (and thereby tax revenues) and reducing the likelihood that children will drop out of school, get involved in crime, and become a burden on the justice system more than make up for the costs of early childhood education."China is so far ahead of us... in setting goals. Come on, everybody, let's gets some more aggressive and expansive goals. Surprisingly, it's absolutely free, having goals. And in these goals, children stay in school, crime plummets, and taxes soar!
Other countries have realized this. China reportedly has set a goal of giving 70 percent of all children three years of prekindergarten education — far ahead of the modest one year proposed by President Obama — by the year 2020.
Some people criticize Obama for "moving the goal posts" about this or that, but look over there. It's the Chinese. They've got amazing goals. Okay, now you can look at Obama's goals. So modest!
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FMScout: Twitter Spotlight is another project for fmscout.com i recently finished. The purpose of the plugin is to show status updates from multiple twitter users in a quick and fancy way. The plugin is built to work with the new Twitter Api1.1 rate limits and with the proper configuration it's possible to actually show tweets from a big number of accounts without worrying about getting banned from twitter. Currently fmscout.com is only fetching data from ~15 accounts with ~40 to be the ultimate goal but going tripple digits is possible with longer Cache TTL policy.
It involved a lot of javascript code, and the js plugin is based on JQuery and JsRender to render all the on the fly html code. The tweets appear in multiple tiles which get flipped randomly every x seconds. All tiles and twitter accounts get the same "spotlight" by shuffling them like a deck of cards instead of randomly picking one every time. My javascript was a little rusty and this project was a lot of fun to build and see in action.
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ABSTRACT This study examines the language and literacy experiences of Kurdish minority children during their first year of mainstream schooling in a southeastern village in Turkey. I employed ethnographic research methods (participant observation, multi-modal data collection, interviewing, and focus groups) to investigate the language practices of the children in relation to language ideologies circulating in the wider context. I focused on the perspectives and practices of one 1st grade classroom (14 students) but also talked with seven parents, three teachers, and two administrators. A careful analysis of the data collected shows that there is a hierarchy among languages used in …
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Agent Orange Tied to Lethal Prostate Cancer
Findings from U.S. veterans should raise awareness of chemical warfare's hazards, researcher says
MONDAY, May 13, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- A link exists between exposure to Agent Orange and deadly forms of prostate cancer in U.S. veterans, according to a new study.
Agent Orange was a chemical spray that was heavily used during the Vietnam War era. It was often contaminated with dioxin, a potentially cancer-causing chemical. Previous research suggests that exposure to Agent Orange increases the risk of prostate cancer, but it wasn't known if it specifically increases the risk of more dangerous forms of the disease.
In this study, researchers looked at more than 2,700 U.S. veterans who underwent a prostate biopsy. Prostate cancer was diagnosed in 33 percent of the veterans, including 17 percent with high-grade disease, according to the study, which was published online May 13 in the journal Cancer.
Exposure to Agent Orange was linked with a 52 percent increase in overall prostate cancer risk, a 75 percent increased risk of high-grade prostate cancer and a more than doubled risk of the deadliest forms of the disease.
The findings suggest that determining veterans' exposure to Agent Orange can help identify those who may be at increased risk for prostate cancer, leading to earlier detection and treatment, said Dr. Mark Garzotto, of the Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center and Oregon Health & Science University, and colleagues.
"It also should raise awareness about potential harms of chemical contaminants in biologic agents used in warfare and the risks associated with waste handling and other chemical processes that generate dioxin or dioxin-related compounds," Garzotto said in a journal news release.
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LA SÉGUINIÈRE, FRANCE (Sept. 24, 12:50 p.m. ET) — Leading European toolmaker Shapers' Group has established a new mold manufacturing plant at Kaluga, in the heart of Russia's expanding western automotive industry zone.
Shapers' Group, part of Arrk Corp., which comprises the French tooling business Arrk Tooling Sermo France and Germany's Zimmermann Formenbau GmbH, invested 3.5 million euros ($4.5 million) to set up the Russian facility.
The firm intends to make compression molds in Kaluga, providing a range of services from model development to plastic product prototyping.
The business will repair and upgrade molding and non-molding equipment for plastics processing as well as metal forming dies.
Shapers' Group focuses on serving the automotive sector through its six plants worldwide including facilities in La Séguinière; Gladenbach, Germany; Bydgoszcz, Poland; Wuhan, China, and Pune, India. The group also has partnerships in North America, Portugal and China.
With 900 employees worldwide, Shapers' Group achieved annual sales of 85 million euros ($109 million) and produces around 550 molds per year.
Zimmermann and Sermo were originally acquired by Japan's Arrk Group in 2005 via its offshoot Arrk Product Development Group. Two years later, the companies created a joint venture in Wuhan, and in 2009 the two mold making firms came together to form Shapers' Group.


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To all of my Jewish Hostess readers! Meet Lucy Blatter a new mom and kosher foodie. She loves to blog and will contribute to our medley of kosher recipes on the site. I'm craving this egg white frittata and thinking of buying a frittata pan from HERE. Enjoy!
Marlene M.
"Welcome! As a Jewish mom and full-time writer, I have my hands pretty full. So I'm always scouring the Web and my enormous collection of cookbooks for straightforward recipes that don't require too many ingredients or too many steps. Oh, and they get extra points if they actually taste good.
Follow along as I recreate recipes from some of the biggest names in the foodie world. You should know in advance that I rarely find a recipe I can't make easier (I'm the queen of shortcuts– Rachael Ray eat your heart out!)
I suspect that some will be great, and some not so much. Either way, it should be a fun ride. Here's to discovering some great, new (and easy!) dishes."
Giada de Laurentiis' Egg White Frittata with Lox and Arugula (or, in my case, spinach)
This recipe is really, really easy. If I hadn't been photographing the steps, I think the whole thing would have taken about 20 minutes. I made a couple of substitutions (as usual), and it still came out good. In the future, I might use fresh, roasted salmon instead of smoked salmon, but the smoked salmon definitely upped the easiness factor.
Note: The recipe says it serves 4-6 people. I don't know, Giada must have a really small appetite, because my husband and I polished it off between the two of us. That's either the sign of a good recipe, or that we're pigs. I think both are true.
Oh, and another note: This frittata can be served at room temperature, which makes it perfect for a dairy shabbat lunch.
Here's how it goes (full kosher recipe is below)
First, I whisked the room- temperture egg whites. Then I poured in the milk (I substituted 1 percent milk for the cream — this is supposed to be healthy, remember?). Then I added the lox, salt, pepper and lemon zest (did I mention I hate zesting lemons? I wish you could buy ready-zested lemons). But anyway…. So far so good. Easy, easy, easy.
Next, I heated the garlic and spinach just until the spinach wilted. Why did I use spinach instead of arugula you ask? I wish I could give some impressive answer. But the real answer: FreshDirect (freshdirect.com) was out of arugula.
Next step was to pour the egg mixture into the skillet, and give it all a quick stir. No tricks there.
I cooked that for about 4 minutes and threw it in the oven for another 10.
And then… the finished product!
Okay, okay, it's not that beautiful looking. But it was tasty. And served with a simple roasted sweet potato, it was a satisfying, filling and healthy dinner. I'd even make it again soon. What more could we ask for?
Recipe Ingredients
8 egg whites, at room temperature
1/2 cup whipping cream
6 ounces lox, chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
1 lemon, zested
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 packed cups (2 ounces) arugula
1 clove garlic, minced
Put an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In a medium bowl, whisk the egg whites until fluffy, about 30 seconds. Add the cream, lox, lemon zest, salt, and pepper.
In a 10-inch, ovenproof, nonstick skillet, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the arugula and garlic. Cook, stirring frequently, until the arugula has wilted, about 1 minute. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir to combine the ingredients. Cook, without stirring for 4 minutes. Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake until set, about 10 to 12 minutes.
Slide the frittata onto a platter. Using a serrated knife, cut the frittata into wedges and serve warm or at room temperature.
Recipe courtesy of the Food Network


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Fr. Boris Kriger of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia spreads the Gospel teachings to Orthodox Christians living throughout the greater Toronto area. Since entering the priesthood in 2012, Fr. Boris Kriger has worked within the Diocese to welcome new church members and help them grow in faith. He currently serves as the rector of the Huntsville, Ontario-based Orthodox Holy Transfiguration Church, which he founded. Additionally, he leads services at Holy Ascension Orthodox Church in Aurora.
Fr. Boris Kriger also shares and spreads the Orthodox faith outside of his work as a member of the clergy. He has published several theological writings over the years, including The Book of Acts and Its Value and Importance Today; Schism of 1054 and Attempts at Reunion; and Christianity and Islam, VII-IX. Fr. Boris Kriger also founded and currently edits both Orthodox Faith, a periodical published in three languages and distributed worldwide, and Orthodox Television, an online distribution platform for Orthodox sermons. Additionally, he serves as editor-in-chief of AltaSpera Publishing House, through which he oversees publishing of books, newspapers, magazines, and other literary materials.
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After much talking with her and the realization we're entering into what is usually the snowiest month of the year here in the great state of Colorado; she talked me into getting a "spare" sidecar rig. Martha just couldn't see me enduring the next few snow storms trapped in a rental cage you see. Nor did she want me out there on Brigitta, my two-wheeled "spare" motorcycle on days when there might be a chance of snow.
After resisting weakly (OK, not at all), she convinced me and we went up to Fort Collins, CO this morning to take a serious look at their offerings. They had two Ural sidecars in stock at Unique Rides, a 2011 Orange and Silver Patrol and a 2012 Forest Fog Gear-UP.
Our first inclination had been to look at the green one above though the orange one had a "can you see me now" fascination for yours truly after my recent accident. A closer look at the Gear-UP with its Forest Fog color scheme, which to us resembled an dark green formica counter top, pretty much eliminated it from the final choice. Being a 2012 model, it was also a few hundred dollars more in price.
The 2011 Patrol above, looked very nice in her orange color scheme with silver trim. I knew there were no significant technical/engineering improvements between the 2011 and 2012 models; and that the 2011s were improved quite a lot in many small ways over previous years of Ural Rigs. Please see here for a listing of changes/improvements between Ural model years: LINK.
Here's a link to Ural's website with some professional pictures of the Orange Patrol: LINK
I was also convinced the bench seat on the Patrol would be more comfortable during long hours in the saddle than the single tractor seat on the Gear-UP, this conclusion having come from reading Scooter in the Sticks' wonderful reviews of the Ural Patrol rig he had a chance to ride: Becoming a Ural Adventurer
These were the only two Urals in stock, it's a small shop after all but Randy the owner runs a tight ship and he was most helpful in answering questions from me and other patrons who were looking at his motorcycle offerings. Randy and Tammy, his wife, sell Trikes, Royal Enfields, Genuine Scooters and more. The website for the dealership is here: Unique Rides. Randy told me you can order the Ural of your choice, and if they've got it in stock at the warehouse in New Jersey, it can be here in as little as a week! If they don't have the one you want, the next shipment from Mother Russia comes in Mid-March!
Soon, it was time to test ride the Patrol and Martha took the following picture of me in their practice area and even shot a video of me getting a feel for the rig:


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I changed the Ext.Loader.setPath call and removed the source within the demo directory so make sure your setPath call is pointing to where the sqlite directory is, relative to app.js. Ext.Loader needs this during testing to load in the files and sencha command needs it to grab the contents of the sqlite files to put them into the single app.js file for production or testing builds.
An issue with the demo app not working when it's been built into production or testing (ie, into a single js file) has been sorted.
It's a fix that works; for some reason when Sencha is in a single file the models will be initiated and their proxies created BEFORE the onReady method of the Ext.Application call is executed. In a pre-build, multi-file development environment, the model calls are after.
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PLANNING WITH CONTINUOUS RESOURCES IN AGENT SYSTEMS by Janusz Marecki A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Janusz Marecki
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A Las Vegas developer has been bounced between tribal and federal court in an effort to protect his financial interest in the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a popular glass bridge that extends from the canyon's edge on tribal land in western Arizona.
On Friday, David Jin's attorneys will argue before the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that the Hualapai tribal court system hasn't given Jin a fair shot and that he shouldn't have to fight his legal battles there.
The tribe has denied those allegations and will urge the San Francisco court to uphold a ruling that said Jin first must exhaust remedies in tribal court. By signing a contract with a business arm of the tribe in 2003, Jin allowed it to be governed by Hualapai law, the tribe said.
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Jin invested $30 million to build the horseshoe-shaped bridge that gives visitors a view of the Colorado River 4,000 feet below. He and the Hualapai Tribe have been locked in a contract dispute that led the tribe to sever the contract with Jin and for Jin to pursue legal action for alleged constitutional violations.
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Quick a rundown of the picks…then some comments:
- T Bryan Bulaga
- DE Mike Neal
- S Morgan Burnett
- TE Andrew Quarless
- T/G Marshall Newhouse
- RB James Starks
- DE CJ Wilson
I was pleased with the Bulaga pick. I think he could help soon if needed and he looks to have serious long-term upside. I liked the Morgan Burnett pick too. We need safety help. In fact, a glance at the roster indicates that right now, safety is one position by total number where we lack. I depart from many by liking the Quarless pick. I saw this guy play and I think he could be an added weapon. We are not necessarily settled at TE. Sure Donald Lee hasn't been used recently like he once was, but I also don't know if he's as adept at getting himself open as he once was. Havner could be decent yet, but I'm not sure. And as great as Finley appears to be, we're an injury away from needing help. I think bringing in a young TE makes a lot of sense here. I like bringing in a guy like Newhouse too who may have some versatility to play both T or G (though whatever he plays in the NFL, I hope MM and staff start him at that position and keep him there – and my hope is that they're bringing him in to play guard because that's one area I think we're weak at the moment.) Starks in intriguing simply because of some of his numbers, but he also seems to be a carbon copy of Ryan Grant. Tallish, strong, downhill runner. Wouldn't give us much it seems in the way of a different style, but I suppose having two Ryan Grants running at you all game would get annoying after a while for defenses. (Yet another TT snapped up who has just recovered from a season-canceling injury.)
But I find TTs two picks of DEs very interesting. Much has been written about Jenkins and Jolly being free agents in 2011 etc. BUt one thing I've begun to wonder about a bit is this: are the staff and TT truly pleased with the play of the 2 starting DEs? I didn't think they were that bad last year, especially in the first year of a new scheme. But I also didn't think they tore it up. I wonder a little bit if TT picked these guys because he simply had them rated highly or if he thinks we need some depth on the line.
Overall, I'd have to say I'm neither disappointed nor pumped about this draft. It got off to a great start I thought with the Bulaga pick Thurs night, but thereafter it sort of faded into non-ness if you will. Perhaps it's because I'm just not too familiar with the players picked. Perhaps it's because I'm not convinced some positions of needs were addressed. I should admit that I'm pleased we've added 5 O-Linemen through the draft and free agency already. This is an area we need some serious improvement and some serious added depth. I do wish we'd taken a CB or two and maybe another LB (though the lack of attention paid to LB in the draft boosts my hopes for Desmond Bishop playing more). I also am not sure if there just weren't any good punters available, but we could add another guy or two there.
For those disappointed in the draft, do take a look here – because some of those positions of need were addressed apparently in the free agency chaos. Among others, 3 more O-lineman were signed, 3 LBs, another RB, a CB and a S.


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Starts at 35 mill. Not bad for a fighter as capable as it is supposed to be.
Seems a little low. Engine, wings and wiring must be optional.
The CF does currently have an expeditionary fighter capability with the CF-188
Upgraded CF-18 fighter jets have no where to flyAir-to-air refuelling Chris Wattie National Post September 23, 2004 The Canadian air force now has the ability to send its CF-18 fighters almost anywhere in the world, with their own precision bombs and their own air-to-air refuelling tanker, but Bill Graham, the Defence Minister, said yesterday he has no plans to use the air force's new-found mobility.The air force will take delivery of its first converted CC-150 Polaris transport plane in two weeks, an air force spokesman said, giving the Canadian Forces the ability to send a self-sufficient squadron of fighters abroad for the first time in seven years."Within a period of weeks, you could have the entire force on the ground and flying combat missions at the other end," said Brigadier-General Dwight Davies, the chief of operations for 1st Canadian Air Division."There's no geographic impediment to us deploying these aircraft anywhere in the world ... we can get, in a very short period of time, to anywhere on the globe."The Canadian Forces is spending $80-million to turn two of its five Polaris jets into air-to-air refuelling tankers, essentially flying gas stations for CF-18 fighters.The newly fitted tankers can also carry passengers, allowing the air force for the first time in decades to send a Canadian expeditionary squadron abroad, complete with jets, pilots and ground crew.Crews must still be trained in refuelling techniques and some airborne electronics must still be added to the Polaris tankers, but they are expected to be operational by early next year. A second tanker aircraft will be ready by next April.But despite calls from NATO and embattled Afghan government, the Liberal Defence Minister said yesterday he will not send the fighters to fly air cover for Canadian and allied ground troops in Afghanistan."I can't tell you if we're sending them anywhere at the moment, certainly not Afghanistan for now. But we want to make sure they have the resources to maintain that capability."Mr. Graham, speaking with the National Post after he addressed a gathering at the Royal Canadian Military Institute, said the air force will wait until they are asked to deploy the CF-18s before they commit them overseas."Let's make sure they get to the mission that's appropriate. Afghanistan is not that mission at the moment."The Defence Minister said in his speech at the institute that one of his priorities will be giving the Canadian Forces much-needed rest after back-to-back overseas missions in Afghanistan and the Arabian Sea."The high operational tempo ... has had an impact on our men and women in uniform and their families. As I've said before, they need and deserve a break.""This is why we are now moving to reduce our operational commitments and begin a period of regeneration."The United States sent an "informal request for forces" to the Canadian military in 2002, asking if they could deploy a squadron of CF-18s to southwest Asia to provide close air support for U.S. and coalition ground forces hunting down Taliban and al-Qaeda holdouts in Afghanistan.According to Defence Department memos obtained by the National Post, Canadian staff officers determined that the proposed mission was possible. But Vice-Admiral Greg Maddison, the deputy chief of defence staff, turned down the U.S. request because of concerns that it would appear to be indirectly supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq.Brig.-Gen. Davies said that the air force is now in a better position to provide a "six pack" of Canadian fighters for an overseas mission, thanks to the new refuelling tankers and a multi-billion-dollar modernization program for the CF-18."Expeditionary capability, which is the ability to deploy abroad, is a significant area of focus and importance to the air force," he said. "[And] we can deploy fairly significant levels of combat power even as we speak."Two of Canada's four fighter squadrons have been converted to the upgraded versions of the fighter jets, equipped with modern electronics, radios and targeting computers to allow them to use up-to-date precision bombs and missiles."It has been a great success story," Brig.-Gen. Davies said of the modernization program."The resulting modernized aircraft, with the weapons suite that goes with it, is a virtually state-of-the-art fighter that is world-class. It's a remarkable piece of equipment."As well, the air force has acquired stockpiles of precision-guided weapons in recent months as well as additional electronic "sensor pods" carried under the fighters' wings to control laser- or GPS-guided bombs.Six of the new fighters, accompanied by one of the CC-150 tankers, can be airborne and on their way to an international hot spot within days, Brig.-Gen. Davies said. "One of the principal things that the CF-18 brings to the table is not only does it provide a significant amount of combat power, even relatively small numbers, but it is deployable rapidly," he said."It will provide a capability to the Canadian government that -- should they choose to use it -- would have utility in a vast number of scenarios anywhere in the world."With the new air-to-air refuelling planes, Brig.-Gen. Davies, said the air force can now go where it wants without relying on American or rented tankers. As well, he said, Canada can now support its fighters on the ground, even building its own air base if necessary."We have the ability to put in place a fully instrumented airport, where we would have control towers, [navigational] aids, communications and air traffic controllers and so on," he said."It's not an endless capability and to sustain such an airfield [abroad] would be a challenge, but no more than we are challenged in many other areas of the Canadian Forces to support a deployed operation."
Raytheon Completes JSOW Operational Test and Evaluation Firings (Source: Raytheon Company; issued Sept. 22, 2004) TUCSON, Ariz. --- Raytheon Company's unitary/penetration variant of Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW-C) has completed operational test (OT) firings with nine of 10 shots successful against a wide range of targets. JSOW-C was developed by a team that includes the U.S. Navy, Raytheon, BAE Systems and Thales Missile Electronics. â Å"JSOW-C will be a significant addition to the warfighting capability of the Navy and Marine Corps,â ? said Capt. David Dunaway, the Navy's JSOW program manager. â Å"We look forward to the fleet introduction of JSOW unitary.â ? JSOW-C incorporates a Raytheon-developed uncooled, long-wave infrared seeker with automatic target acquisition algorithms, providing the Navy a launch-and-leave weapon with a long-range standoff precision strike capability. JSOW-C will be the first U.S. weapon to incorporate the two stage broach blast fragmentation/penetration warhead, developed by the United Kingdom's BAE Systems. Thales provides the fuze. JSOW-C has a unique capability for a glide weapon in its ability to attack a hardened target in a near-horizontal mode. Operational testing took place primarily at the Naval Air Systems Command's Pacific Land Range at China Lake, Calif. OT tests the entire weapon system under fleet Navy and Marine Corps operational conditions. Delivery began this month of the first production missiles ordered under a previous low-rate initial production contract in July 2003. JSOW-C was tested against a wide array of targets ranging from radar sites to caves and hardened bunkers including targets where concealment and other methods were used to attempt to deceive the missile. â Å"We are very pleased with the success of the JSOW OT firings,â ? said Ron Shields, Raytheon's JSOW program director. â Å"The performance of our weapon against the concealment and deception exceeded expectations.â ? JSOW is a joint Navy and Air Force program. It is a family of low-cost, highly survivable, air-to-ground weapons employing an integrated Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation system that guides the weapon to the target. More than 400 JSOW-As have been used in combat operations to date. The JSOW family uses a common and modular weapon body capable of carrying a variety of payloads and handling multiple munitions. Its long standoff range of up to 70 nautical miles allows delivery from well outside the lethal range of most enemy air defenses. The AGM-154A (also called JSOW-A) variant dispenses BLU-97 combined-effect bomblets for use against soft and area targets. It is produced for use on the F/A-18, F-16, F-15E, B-1, B-2 and B-52 aircraft. The AGM-154C (JSOW-C) is currently being produced for Navy F/A-18s and has been selected by Poland for use on its F-16s. The Navy/Raytheon team is developing a Block II configuration of the JSOW weapon system that provides significant cost reductions to all JSOW versions. The first Block II configuration weapons will be delivered in 2007. Additionally, other JSOW improvements are under way to add anti-ship capability, reduce unexploded ordnance concerns, hit moving targets, provide bomb hit indication, provide network capability and further reduce costs.
I would REALLY like to see a new fighter aircraft for Canada in the not so far future. We would never get to have something as advanced as the F-22... That would be AMAZING but no, way to expensive. That sucker is so expensive even the American's themselves almost canned the project, until they realized the potential of that aircraft. Anyway, the F-35 would be great for Canada. Unfortunatly by the time we buy them, they'll be shortly on thier way to the graveyard. I mean, realistically, by 2020, most modern nations will be just releasing or very close to releasing thier next generation of military aircraft.
PS> Howcome we aren't getting our aircraft modernized to say, the F/A-18E+F Superhornets? I know thier a wee-bit expensive! About 50 million, would that be it? I seen one at the CNE (Canadian Nation Exhibition) Airshow in Toronto this summer, damn plane really tore the sky apart! But so did our Canadian CF-18 Hornet, but why not even upgrade to that level?
If we were to get the JSF in the 2020 timeframe, the aircraft will only have been in service with the United States for 6-8 years (depending on version), added to the fact that likely the Americans and British would get their orders first, so 2020 wouldn't appear to be a unreasonable ISD.
The Hornet and Superhornet are almost completely different aircraft. (Superhornet is larger) IIRC, we are supposed to be upgrading our Hornets to the same level as the current USN and USMC hornets. (C/D models?)
Doesn't the JSF have only one engine?I don't think the Canadian government will buy a single-engine interceptor. I thought that was part of the reason Canada chose the F-18 over the F-16 25 years ago.air533
Washington PostMarch 16, 2005Pg. 6GAO Questions Cost Of Joint Strike FighterBy Renae Merle, Washington Post Staff WriterLockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is at a crossroads, the Government Accountability Office said yesterday, calling the original plan for the project "unexecutable."The fighter was designed to be a low-cost replacement to the Air Force's F-16, with different versions being developed for the Navy, Marine Corps and British forces. But it is now expected to cost $244.8 billion to produce a planned 2,400 planes. Development will cost $44.8 billion, including a $10 billion increase identified last year, the report said.Nearly half the increase, $4.9 billion, is needed to lower the aircraft's weight because being heavier hurt "the aircraft's key performance capabilities," the report said. The Pentagon said more money was also needed to add anti-tampering technology to keep sensitive technology safe.Spending on the program will eventually increase to $1 billion a month from $100 million a month as the Defense Department invests in tools, facilities and workers, according to the report. The final design of the fighter should be set before the Pentagon makes those investments so that costly changes will not have to be made later, a GAO official said."While delays are never welcomed, time taken by DOD now to gain more knowledge and reduce risk before increasing its investment may well save time and money later," the report said. "Now is the time to get the strategy right." It also said the strike fighter will have to compete with other expensive programs for "scarce funding."The Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter office said it has already addressed the concerns raised in the report, the first of five annual reviews of the program ordered by Congress. The latest plan for the program, which includes delaying the first aircraft delivery one year until 2009, "reflects an acquisition strategy with the most appropriate balance of technical, cost, and schedule risks to meet program objectives," the office said in a written statement."Much progress has been made since last year. The F-35 has resolved its weight problem," said Lockheed spokesman Jeff Adams.


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It's a busy day here in the Dig It! 2015 office and we can't wait to share it with you. Just because we're in an office and not knee deep in mud, doesn't mean that our jobs are any less exciting! Trust me.
In case you haven't heard of us, Dig It! 2015 is a year-long celebration of Scottish archaeology, co-ordinated by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Archaeology Scotland. Two fantastic organisations, which are definitely worth checking out.
From kids taking over museums, and people exploring the story of their own local area, to digs, festivals, competitions, there are so many ways for people to get involved. We will also be exploring our past through song, art, performance and story-telling. It will be exciting, fun, grassroots and messy – just like archaeology and archaeologists.
But somebody has to set it all up! This means that the Dig It! 2015 team is always running around, meeting with organisations and individuals and coming up with fantastical new ideas to celebrate Scottish archaeology. Yup, "fantastical". You heard me.
Today, we started off by catching up from yesterday's meeting in Glasgow. Two members of the team met with a Scots Language Development Officer at Education Scotland to discuss how they could get involved in Dig It! 2015. The resulting idea was the "Archaeology of Language" using two of our themes – Identities and Arrivals – to explore how the people who have settled in Scotland have left their mark on our language, through the words we use, the placenames we have and even our own surnames.
We also have a very interesting meeting next week, where we will start to combine archaeology with gaming, so we made sure that everyone was caught up on all of the details. This could be a great way to engage with young people who might not have thought about archaeology before now. What will come from the meeting? A game? An app? A lecture? Who knows!?
For lunch, we walked through the Meadows to Summerhall, which is a creative hub for the arts. We're currently working with various artists and theatre companies, and we are always looking to add something new to the programme. Again, this is a great way to engage with new audiences. After all, archaeology is for everyone!
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If any of you would like to get involved with Dig It! 2015, please do not hesitate to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. It's going to be a great year!


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