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All about cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling must be convenient and fast to be a viable alternative to the car. The Dutch achieve a very high average speed for cycling because you can cycle almost non-stop on many routes. Routes improve constantly. Traditional junctions have been replaced by roundabouts with priority for cyclists in recent years. This reduces the number of stops in the cities and that makes non-stop cycling possible. The main North-South cycle route in 's-Hertogenbosch is one such route where junctions were replaced by roundabouts. That led to a cycle route where you have priority on every drive way, side street and junction for five kilometres until you reach the city centre 30km/h (19mph) zone.
Pictures on the site of the city archive show that the route was not always like that. The streets were all built with cycling infrastructure designed in from the start. Even the street that was built in the 1930s had a separate cycle path/service street right away. Pictures from the 1930s show cycle paths/service streets next to a central carriageway. However, when you look at pictures from the early 1980s we see they have disappeared and there are parked cars where they were. In a complete reconstruction in 1985 the cycle paths returned to their old locations. Not at the expense of parking; the carriage way was narrowed so there was still room for parked cars.
In the area of the city that was constructed in the 1970s, the cycle paths were also designed in right from the first time the streets were constructed. Originally the cycle paths were surfaced with concrete tiles, but these tiles have been replaced by red asphalt in the 1990s. The junctions used to be traditional four arm cross roads with traffic lights, and they were replaced by roundabouts in the late 1990s, early 21st century. It was only then that non-stop cycling became possible. Because this was a gradual change, nobody seems to have noticed. Nobody calls this a "cycling super highway" or anything like it. It's just another cycle route. There was no fanfare, no bragging and nobody used this for political gain. The Dutch don't really think twice about their bicycle infrastructure, they just use it in high numbers. But they forget they can and want to do that because their infrastructure is so well-designed.
The first video is the full 5 kilometre route in very high-speed. The second video is the full route in normal speed.
Full 5 kilometre route in under four minutes.
Full 5 kilometre route in almost 16 minutes (real-time).
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This believe it or not, is footage taken on one of Boris's Cycle Superhighways in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCH2b0H9K0
I don't get mixing bus lanes with other vehicles, and certainly not bikes. Buses carry many people and deserve priority over private vehicles. Bikes and buses are just a terrible mix – bikes may slow down buses or vice-versa (it depends), but the potential for harm doesn't bear thinking about. Fail on many levels.
Mark, what is the speed limit on the street pictured? Melbourne planners often refuse to implement cycle tracks; they build buffers/space for cars & parking dependent on speed, and claim there is "no space" on what I consider a wide street. Perhaps I am unreasonable?
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The roads shown on the pictures are 50 km/h maxspeed. In the video, the roads that the cycleway is next to after 6:00 are 50 km/h, any roads seen before 3:40 are 30 km/h.
Small correction: When I said all roads before 3:40 are 30 km/h, I did not mean to include the road looked down at at 3:07, that one is 50 km/h
The one I was curious about is this – https://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/janschofferlaan2009.jpg
I guess that has to be 30km/h, not 50.
Well, one could consider around 1:10 and 3:30 in this video places where the cycle track is alongside a 30 km/h street. Although it's probably more correct to say that there are a cycleway and a 30 km/h street parallel to each other rather than one being alongside the other.
it's the car parking here that's the problem. The Dutch would have had the lanes in the following order from outside to inside: Pedestrians, cycles, car parking, vehicles… as that mad lane order in the Googleview above shows, all cyclists are put into the door zone and have no proper escape from motorised vehicles.
I agree with your first remark that the car parking is the issue, and that the cycling provision should be on the other side of it, but I don't think what you describe is what the Dutch would do. As Mark writes, here the road would probably be traffic calmed, with 30 km/h limits, measures to avoid rat runs, and likely no cycleway at all because the road is tamed enough to use. Alternatively, it could be made into a real artery, in which case the car parking would be removed completely and the cycleway separated from the carriageway.
Very amusing how foreign countries look upon our cycling infra and even more funny how people keep on saying the Netherlands are flat. Remember 2012 world cup races, the Amstel Gold Race? If you ever want to experience how awesome the Netherlands is to ride, come and visit the south of Limburg! In this area we have climbs that run up from 12 to 22% (make sure to plan the Keutenberg, Eyserbosweg and Doodeman in your route).
And about those roundabouts and the cycling lanes; yes it's nice that we have those BUT: there is a lot of debris on them because cities cut costs and do not clean or maintain them on regular bases. The cycling paths shown in foto's and video's are usually in bigger cities. If you live rural like me there are not so much of them around and when; these are mostly overcrowded and used as a footpath too.
To be honest I don't like riding in the city, I rode in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam, I consider those the most scary cycling experiences I ever had. So it might be better than in the surrounding countries, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows like most people think.
Visit Limburg in the South of the Netherlands if you have a chance, you'll love it!
It's interesting that some of the intersections converted to roundabouts seemed to have (according to google maps) 4 lanes. And now they've 2 lanes only, on the roundabout at least.
Another great post. Thank you.
It seems that in this area a change has been made from one-way cycle paths to wider two-way cycle paths. Is there any rhyme or reason to when they are chosen? Are they considered safer, faster, easier to use in certain circumstances?
Actually, there is a one-way cycle path on the other side of the road from 9:00 onward.
I don't know about any official reason, but as a user, I prefer two-way cycle paths because they allow usage of the other direction for overtaking and such, so the effective width of the cycle path is larger (assuming the width is double that of the one-way path). It might also be more space-economical, because cycle paths nowadays are usually set some distance away from the carriageway. A two-way cyclepath needs only one such section of non-road-surface, two onew-way cyclepaths need two (also because of aforementioned reason, two-way cycle paths can sometimes be narrowing than the double – the minimum in non-exceptional circumstances is 2m for a one-way path, but 3.5 (not 4) for a two-way path, if I recall correctly).
Thank you once again for showing us the best of Dutch expertise in cycling infrastructure and telling us about the changes over time.
Priority to bicycles should become a global rule all over European cities as there is no other transportation mode as convenient, cost efficient and energy efficient. Cycling is the only tool that can enable us to drastically reduce the catastrophic effects of the over use of automobiles and other motorized vehicles: Accidents, pollution, obesity.
This is a good reason enough to unroll the red carpet for bicycle users and make a general rule to give them priority. We have to keep this in mind!
If the hill is too steep (Like where I live: It's called Mount Formose for a reason…) you can always push your bike. It's sweat free at walking speed. Or get a foldable bike and take it with you in the bus through the steep hill. After that it is so much easy (or it would be if I hadn't to cycle on the road most of the time). That why in many places I choose the pavement: It is much safer here in many places!
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My favorite little mobile phone action role-playing game is back and better than ever today, as Gamevil unleashes the first fully HD installment of the Zenonia series for iOS devices. Did I mention it's free?
I've loved Zenonia since the first moment I set eyes on it, but it's never looked quite as good as it does in Zenonia 4. Replacing the jaggy sprites of its predecessors with razor-sharp HD animations designed with Apple's retina display in mind. Along with polishing up the graphics on level three, Gamevil has also added three difficulty levels and a brand-new two-on-two player-versus-player arena perfect for proving the power of your tiny people.
In Zenonia 4 an ancient evil of some sort threatens the world, the perfect excuse for bringing together four heroes from the first three games — Regret, Chael, Ecne, and Lu — to hack and slash their way through hordes of enemies in order to make the pretty colors and flashy lights happen.
What, you want depth? Then download the free game and find it yourself!
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Anyway...let's talk pastors...John Hagee...part of John McCain's entourage...says the Catholic faith is the spawn of the devil, the anti-Christ...other charming things...even has a timeline with graphics to prove it!
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Friday, July 14, 2017
For those who aren't sure which bands to check out at Pitchfork, local publications The Reader, Red Eye, Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune are offering their top picks. You can also find the complete schedule, as well as thumbnail bios of the participants, in the current issue of Innerview Magazine. It came out a while ago, but there may still be some copies left at stores like Reckless Records.
Secret Colours, a major power on Chicago's psychedelic music scene, will bring its new lineup to Martyrs' on Lincoln Avenue tomorrow night to celebrate the release party of its new Dream Dream album. Yoko And The Oh No's and Soft Candy are also on the bill.
It will be Six Degrees Of Susanna Hoffs when the Chicago-based indie band The Handcuffs joins Matthew Sweet in downtown Springfield, IL tomorrow at the Amaranth Apple Fest. Sweet has worked with The Bangles as a producer, and recorded three albums of well-chosen cover tunes with Hoffs. Handcuffs drummer Brad Elvis (previously with Big Hello, The Elvis Brothers, and Screams) helped out on drums for a few songs when The Bangles played City Winery Chicago a few years ago. Captain Ivory, The Starter Jackets, and Bruiser Queen are also performing tomorrow at the Amaranth Apple Fest.
The people of Park Ridge, IL must really get into their outdoor festivals. I went past the downtown area this morning while taking the Metra to work, and there was already a crowd of people in the street at 7:00 a.m. for Taste Of Park Ridge. They were drinking coffee from a Dunkin' Donuts truck rather than beer, but that still counts as partying.
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Power pop fans in the Los Angeles area are no doubt familiar with the all-star benefits staged by the Wild Honey Foundation. The events are often tributes to famous bands, particularly The Beatles and Big Star, and the profits go to charitable organizations like the Autism Think Tank. The Wild Honey Foundation is currently seeking donations so it can build its own in-house sound system for future shows rather renting speakers, etc. Anyone interested in helping out can send money to the Wild Honey paypal account. For those in L.A., Wild Honey has a benefit for the Autism Think Tank coming up on July 23 with Marianne, Kristian Hoffman, and special guest Eleni Mandell.
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YippieFest, the newborn love child of the Abbie Hoffman Died For Our Sins Festival, is seeking a "social media guru" to help spread the word about its debut at Prop Thtr on the weekend of August 18 – 20. Much like Abbie Fest, which ran for 30 years at the Mary-Arrchie Theatre, YippieFest hopes to stage three days of theatre, comedy, performance art, and music. Some Abbie Fest vets, like Frank Carr and Desiree Burcum from Famous In The Future; and Carla Hayden and James Moeller from Black Forest Theatre, are among the planners. They're also still looking for more participants, so anyone interested in performing should check out the official YippeFest website.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) – Gov. Mark Dayton says he does not support a statewide moratorium on silica sand mining for now, but he backs tougher regulations.
Dayton told the Post-Bulletin of Rochester for a story published Wednesday that he wouldn't hesitate to call for a moratorium if the industry starts to spiral out of control. But he says he doesn't think Minnesota has reached that point.
The governor also praised officials in the southeastern city of St. Charles for their recent decision not to move ahead with a major silica sand project.
Silica sand mining has been a hot topic at the Capitol this session. The round grains of pure silica sand under parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin are in demand from oil and gas drilling companies that use it for hydraulic fracturing.
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Three Trapped Tigers have released a ton of super-super videos, as well as equally excellent music on which they are based. Their latest video is going to be quite difficult to top, though. Perhaps they should just stop. It's for 'Reset', which is taken from their current full-length Route One Or Die and stars Matt Berry of Mighty Boosh, Darkplace and Volvic adverts fame.
Video sums up the music's theme pretty well, doesn't it? The band are currently on a UK tour with support from Seams, and you can see where and when they'll play below.
20 - Nottingham, Spanky Van Dykes
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On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, over 300 delegates, including 16 African Ministers of Culture, Tourism, Environment and Home Affairs as well as representatives from the African Union, the African World Heritage Fund and experts in cultural and natural heritage from across the continent and around the world actively participated in a high-level conference on the theme of "Living with World Heritage in Africa" from 26 to 29 September 2012 in Gauteng, South Africa.
The conference mobilized Ministers to participate in a variety of colloquiums. The Ministers' Roundtable discussions allowed the Ministers to reflect on and define their priorities for World Heritage Conservation, and to issue a Statement in support of the Government of Mali..
This conference, which is considered the largest regional celebration of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention to date, provided a platform to discuss experiences with World Heritage, role of communities, challenges and opportunities in achieving sustainable development while protecting and conserving natural and cultural World Heritage properties in Africa.
During the opening ceremony, the Minister of Culture of South Africa, Mr Paul Mashatile, alerted participants about the underrepresentation of the African continent on the World Heritage List and called for all to "…strive to put forward more of its places of Outstanding Universal Value for nomination to the List." Furthermore,
the Deputy Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Getachew Engida, appealed to all Ministers of Culture to ensure that their Governments contribute to the African World Heritage Fund, a UNESCO Category II Centre based in South Africa, which is actively working to strengthen the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Africa and to assist States Parties in harnessing the potential of their heritage for sustainable growth and development.
In response to this call, the Government of Nigeria announced their donation of 1 million USD to the African World Heritage Fund.
Three parallel panel discussions explored in-depth aspects of World Heritage in the context of Sustainable Development, Local Communities and Sustainable Tourism.
An outstanding moment in the conference took place when 13 various community representatives from across Africa took the floor to give their perspectives on living with World Heritage. One of the key phrases resulting from the conference englobed the spirit of all participants regarding the safeguarding of World Heritage in Africa: "nothing about us without us!"
In addition to confirming the solidarity and engagement of African stakeholders in protecting and promoting World Heritage, the conference reinforced the network of heritage practitioners and high-level ministers responsible for World Heritage. Moreover, the participants agreed upon a set of recommendations (see below) that include: key phrases, principles, general recommendations and specific recommendations regarding extractive industries as well as recommendations concerning the three themes of: World Heritage and local communities, World Heritage and Sustainable Development, and World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism.
Last but not least, the conclusions and recommendations from this conference provided the basis for the Second African Position paper on World Heritage, which the region's State Parties intend to propose for adoption by the African Union and the World Heritage Committee (noting that the First African Position Paper adopted in 2005 called for the creation of the African World Heritage Fund).
The outcomes of this international conference on "Living with World Heritage in Africa" was presented to the Africa Group at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 5 October 2012, and will also be presented to the African Ministers of Culture Conference in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (29 October to 2 November 2012), and in Kyoto, Japan on 6 November 2012 during the Closing Event of the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention.


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Garlic as far as the eye can see. I harvested all the garlic from both my own back yard and the farm location where I ran a trial garden over the last year. This year it didn't grow quite as large as last year, but I still think it was a success. I need to get it a bit more separated for curing, but right now it's so hot and dry out that it's drying nicely even in a heap. I'll hang them from the rafters soon. With a little bit of luck this garlic, replanted, will turn into a for-profit crop in 2014
Last night when I went to bed I had about 30 ears of sweet corn JUST about ready to pick in my 10'x10′ three sisters garden. This morning there were about 7 or 8 little ones left. Something–probably Raccoons–harvested all the rest and removed them while I was sleeping 20 feet away. They knocked down and broke the corn stalks, so now the pole beans have nothing to grow on either. And obviously if they ate here once, they could be back for the cucumbers and melons that are starting to grow on all those vines. This is what we get for no longer letting our cat(s) outside.
But enough bad–More good! I have been eating tomatoes every night all week. This year of trialling new varieties has exposed me to at least 2 more favorites that are doing quite well in my yard. I will definitely add "Church" to my permanent list of tomatoes to grow, and I think "Pink Sweet" will be on there as well. I will review them here within the next week or 3.
My 8 pepper plants seems to be doing better than average this year. I usually don't get to pick any peppers until August and this year they are already sizing up and producing lots of fruit.
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Below we have covered the main types pneumatic valves and manifolds RS carries:
- Manual control valves – Allow for the manual control of air flow around a pneumatic air system. They can be used to control the flow of air in one direction but not another, in a pressure relief situations where pressure needs to be dissipated outside of the system or to control the amount of air which is passed around the air flow system.
Manual control valves are available in a number of control methods from knobs, levers to foot pedals. Control valves are as modular meaning that multiple valves can be used in conjunction with each other to create various different combinations of flow.
- Solenoid valve connectors – In simple terms solenoid connectors are a devices which actuate a pneumatic valves by a user or control system remotely by converting energy into a linear motion which actuates the valve.
- Pilot-operated relief valve (PORV) – Are used to control pressure in overpressure events. The difference between these control valves and other pneumatic control valves is they use the system pressure to seal the valve, when an over pressure situation is detected they open until the overpressure event has passed, then return to their previous closed state.
- Pneumatic Solenoid Valve – These valves open and closed states are controlled by energy. In a closed state no air can pass through the system and vice versa when the energy is applied to the solenoid. They can be used to control cylinders, large valves or air tools. Pneumatic Solenoid Valves have two or more ports which control various air circuits to which they are affixed. The state of which ports are open or shut is controlled via a solenoid
- Pneumatic Bases – Allow for the mounting of multiple pneumatic valves in a given location
- Pneumatic Manifolds – Allows multiple pneumatic fittings to share / connect to one single air or source. Manifolds are available in various port sizes and materials to support high and low pressure applications.
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I have some sad news - Frank's dad (Jared's Grandpa) passed away last Wednesday. We will still be maintaining our current hours thanks to the help of family and friends, but none of the familiar faces you usually see will be here on Wednesday, September 29, from 4 pm to closing and Thursday, September 30, from 9 am to mid afternoon. If you can stop at a different time, we'd really appreciate it. If you do stop during those times, please be patient with the wonderful people who will be helping us out. If you'd like bushels on Wednesday or Thursday, please call us ahead of time (608) 635-4780) so we can have them packed for you. (Actually, that's a good idea anytime and will save you a wait.) We will not be at the Waunakee Farmer's Market on Wednesday, September 29, but will be back the following week.
Thanks to all of you for your support and understanding during this difficult time.
Savor & Sample – Apple Country Apple Fritters
from the kitchen of:
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
1 cup finely diced, peeled, cored apple
¼ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon grated orange peel
3 Tablespoons orange juice
½ teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
Oil for deep frying
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
In a mixing bowl combine egg, milk, apple, sugar, salt, orange peel, orange juice, and vanilla. Sift together the flour and baking powder and fold into the egg mixture stirring just until all the flour is moistened. Drop batter by rounded teaspoonfuls into deep hot oil (365 degrees). Fry until deep golden brown, about 3 minutes, turning once. Drain fritters thoroughly then roll in mixture of sugar and cinnamon. Serve warm drizzled with maple syrup.
***For all the other fantastic recipes made at the 2010 Savor & Sample Festival visit the Columbia County Extension Website: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/columbia/
Apple Season After Honeycrisp
Yes, the rumor's are true. Our Honeycrisp have all sold out for the season. Combined with the early ripening date, the fewer bushels of apples from our trees and their huge popularity, honeycrisp had a short lived season this year.
If the honeycrisp are all gone why on earth would you still visit the orchard!? Well, we do happen to group 42 other varieties of delicious apples too! I wanted to tell you about a few that you should try out if you are a Honecrisp lover…
Jonagold – this is the apple that most Honeycrisp eaters go to after the Honeycrisp season is done.
Firm, crackling, juicy, slightly tart, flesh. Superb, rich, full flavor. Finest dessert and eating quality. Good cooking properties. Will store in common refrigerator for 3 months. Jonathan x Golden Delicious cross.
Cameo – a sweeter alternative than the Jonagold. This apple is slow to brown after being cut which is fantastic for school lunches!
Firm and crisp with a highly appealing subacid, aromatic flavor. Creamy white flesh doesn't brown when cut. Possibly Red Delicious x Golden Delicious found growing in Washington state.
Fireside – another sweeter alternative – if one of your favorite things about the Honeycrisp was there size – this is a great apple for you!
Very large fruit with sweet, pleasant flavor and fine-grained flesh good for fresh eating, salad, and baked apples. Good storage life. McIntosh x Longfield cross released by the University of Minnesota in 1943.
These are just three examples of some fantastic apples we have available still in our shop. Feel free to ask for a sample (or two, or three) the next time your in. We want you to go home happy!
Cool Car at the Orchard
The other weekend a really neat looking car was parked in our lot. I had to turn the register over to Diane for just a few minutes so I could snap some pictures:You don't see one like this everyday.
Savor & Sample – Apple Pie Burrito Recipe
I've been asked by many for recipes from the food demonstrations at this year's 2010 Savor & Sample Festival. I'm finally getting to posting some. If you can't wait for the others go directly to the Columbia County Extension Website: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/columbia/
Apple Pie Burritos*
Ardyce Piehl
Taste of Home
Field Editor
8 Flour Tortillas (9 inch)**
1 – quart jar of apple pie filling (I used Lapacek's "Apple Pie in a Jar")
2 Tablespoons Butter, divided (I start with 1 Tablespoon and add as needed
when I am browning them)
Cinnamon Sugar***
Instructions – For each burrito:
1. Place tortilla on a plate and spoon ¼ Cup of apple pie filling down the center of the tortilla.
2. Fold in edges and then fold over top and bottom to hold the pie filling inside, burrito style. Repeat for each tortilla.
3. Heat one Tablespoon butter over medium heat in an electric skillet (approx. 300 °) or in a pan on the stovetop.
4. Place the burritos in the pan, fold side down and brown for 1-2 minutes, or until lightly browned. Turn the burritos over and repeat browning on the other side.
5. Remove from pan and sprinkle with Cinnamon Sugar.
*Try this recipe with other seasonal fresh fruits like peeled and thinly sliced peaches, pears and apples. With fresh apples, add two unwrapped caramels before folding/browning. Try sprinkling with brown sugar and cinnamon for a change!
**Note: Any size flour tortilla may be substituted. Adjust amount of pie filling accordingly.
***Make your own Cinnamon Sugar by mixing ½ Cup granulated sugar and 4 teaspoons of Cinnamon—can add more or less to taste!
Never Too Young for the Apple Orchard
Fresh Apple Salsa Recipe
For those of you who attended the Savor & Sample Festival we hosted a few Sunday's ago you may have been lucky enough to try out Diane's 'Fresh Apple Salsa'.
Here is the recipe for those who missed or for those who just thinks it sounds delicious (which it is…)
Fresh Apple Salsa
- 6 apples, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 small onion, chopped
- 1 mild chili pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1 small jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
- 3 T lime juice
- 1 T cilantro, chopped
- 1/4 t salt
Combine all ingredients. Serve with tortilla chips.
Did you know? Some apple varieties don't brown after you slice them like the Ginger Gold, Cortland, and Cameo.
Enjoying a Caramel Apple from Lapacek's Orchard
I looked out the window the other day and saw these two cuties, Jackson & Maiya, enjoying their caramel apple. I asked their parents if I could take some pictures and they agreed. How great are these!? To see the other shots I got of Jackson and Maiya click HERE!
Booyah Recipe
I've been meaning to blog about some of the fantastic food you all were able to try at Savor and Sample two Sunday's ago but it just hadn't happened yet. Today I am going to share my Uncle Chuck's Booyah Recipe which he gave me verbal permission to share.
Chicken Booyah Recipe
Makes 25 Gal.
- 50 lbs chicken (cut up)
- 6 lbs. beef stew
Add enough water to cover and BOIL FOR 2 – 1/2 HOURS. Pick Bones
- 7 lbs of onions, chopped
- 7 bunches celery, chopped
- 7 lbs carrots, chopped
- 14 cups peas
- 12 cups corn
- 12 cups mixed veggies
- 4 cups green beans
- 4 cans tomato soup
- 2 quarts tomato juice
- 2 small or 1 medium head cabbage, shredded fine
- 25 lbs. potatoes, diced
- 1 1/2 cups salt
- 1/2 cup pepper
Serve with oyster crackers and ENJOY!


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I will remember looking at her jewellery in the sun. In recent years, I would go up to Elizabeth's home all the time to make sure she was exercising or I would send someone else to make her get in the pool. She was not a fan of exercise, so most of the time we would end up taking out her jewellery and just looking at it in the sunlight.
We first met when I was 21 and she was 23 and found we were very relaxed together. I can't remember how it happened, but then I can't remember much now about when I was 21. A man I knew was in love with Elizabeth, I think, and I knew both of them.
At that time, people were not fawning all over her – except the men, of course. We would talk mainly about work. We were both working six-day weeks and she was looking for the next piece of work. She never had a scheme, though. She was the kind of person who felt that things just happened when they should happen. Her marriage to Michael Wilding was ending and, although he was a nice person and was very nice with her, Elizabeth had adventures to go on. And, when I think of it, one of those adventures she never got around to having was to be anonymous. She talked to me about being a regular housewife. She honestly wanted that – to look after a home and kids.
She had been a star since she was a child and was not as naturally outgoing as me anyway. When I was pregnant, I would go to her house and eat ice-cream and she would tell me what the rest of pregnancy was going to be like. Later on, she would come to my one-room shack on the beach. She told me so much about her life there, not just about her childhood but about things that had happened to her and which I will never tell.
I introduced her to Mike Todd, her third husband, on Around the World in 80 Days and then watched the negotiations between them. And they were negotiations. She was very funny. She used to bargain with him about going out to dinner.
Later, she told me about asking for $1m to do Cleopatra and she laughed. She never expected anyone to pay it. But she was a good businesswoman and later she turned all that into a multimillion dollar concern. She felt that, since she was perceived as a product, she might as well use it. Elizabeth was always regarded as a prize and she knew how to manipulate that with men, too.
She did not see herself as "Elizabeth Taylor" at all. She was much more like a Yiddisher momma, to be honest. She used to say she was going to have to be "Elizabeth Taylor" and put on that show. That was the gig, after all. It's what she had to do.
She was so much more down to earth than you would imagine. I miss her deep, deep humanity – something you don't find very often. And, of course, her humour. We wanted to make fun of the world together. Not to look down on it, though. We just watched.


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Joakim Noah suffered a mini-meltdown after being ejected last night against Sacramento, but he's a master craftsman, and so wasn't about to leave the court without individually telling each ref what he thought about them.
After picking up his second technical for arguing a foul call, Noah pointed to each of the three refs in turn and shouted, "Fuck you." Upon being escorted off the court, Noah had one last "Fuck you" for the entire arena. Yeah! Damn the man. Fuck everything and everyone! I'm going to my room!
A genuinely contrite Noah apologized afterward, and maybe headed off a fine from the league:
"I'm really disappointed. I shouldn't have acted that way. I apologize, I'm sorry to all three referees out there. They're out there trying to do their jobs and I should never have said the things that I said. I hope they accept my apology and I hope I can move on from this.''
Noah said he was upset with the game, an eventual 99-70 Kings win in which he was one of six from the floor at the time of his ejection. It also marked the end of his double-digit rebound streak at 18 games, and the Bulls once again fell under .500. Meanwhile Carlos Boozer is complaining about playing time, Tom Thibodeau is firing right back, and the team's a mess. Noah can be somewhat excused.
Because it was inevitable, here's your Joakim Noah/Half Baked mashup:


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When the phone has no actions to perform, because you leave it alone or for example contacts are not synchronizing or gmail application is not fetching a new mail e.t.c., then the best thing that the phone has to do is to go to... sleep (suspend). In this state the phone consumes very little power.
There are also 5 other power schemes that the processor s5pv210 can use to reduce power consumption: Normal, Idle, Deep Idle, Stop and Deep Stop. We are interested in the first three states Normal, Idle and Deep Idle.
In Normal state the CPU is running, that is, some software is running.
In Idle state the CPU core is idle, that is, the CPU core clock is disabled but the remaining parts of s5pv210 are running.
In Deep Idle state the CPU core power is supplied but is powered off by the internal power switch. The remaining parts of processor may become power gated except the Audio power domain for low power MP3 playback.
Samsung in gingerbread kernels used only the Idle scheme. Deep Idle was implemented in the kernel but it was disabled by default. All known GB custom kernels have enabled Deep Idle state.
With stock kernels only Normal, Idle and Sleep states are used. Examples of these states use:
Normal state: User uses browser, or reading emails, watching video etc
Idle state: User listen to music and screen is off, no other software is running.
Sleep state: No user activity, screen is off, no activity of background services and processes.
Kernel checks many times per second different factors and decides which power state to use.
Deep Idle can be used as a better alternative of Idle state and the major benefit is when user listen to music. Then IF and only if all other conditions (factors) are satisfied the kernel decides to go to Deep Idle. That is, as we mentioned, CPU powered off, TOP powered off and L2 cache is powered off. Only Audio is on and that's why we have a major benefit. Another option of Deep Idle is the TOP=ON which means that the TOP module is still powered. This is used when bluetooth is enabled (powered).
Regarding power consumption, Sleep is always the desired state. Below the states ordered by the power they consumes (Normal consumes more power):
Normal -> Idle -> Deep Idle (TOP=ON) -> Deep Idle (TOP=OFF) -> Sleep
How to enable Deep Idle?
a) Simply check the Deep Idle option in Semaphore Script Manager or b) use this command on a terminal emulator or adb shell:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/deepidle/enabled
How to enable Deep Idle Statistics?
a) Simply check the Deep Idle Statistics option in Semaphore Script Manager or b) use this command on a terminal emulator or adb shell:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/deepidle/stats_enabled
Why statistics are not enabled by default?
Simply for saving CPU cycles. Kernel checks for entering Deep Idle (or Idle) many thousand times per minute. So, disabling statistics we have less overhead in CPU. What is the difference? Not to much, but better little than nothing.
What is TOP?
S5PV210 internal modules are grouped into 11 power domains based on their functions. One of these domain is the TOP and it includes these modules: Clock Management Unit (CMU), GPIO(OFF), Bus components, VIC, TZIC, Internal memory (IROM and IRAM), NAND controller, OneNAND controller, CF controller, SRAM controller, Peripheral DMA, Memory DMA, CoreSight, JTAG, Modem interface, Security sub-system, TSI, HSMMC, USB HOST, USB OTG, DRAM controller, CHIPID, IEM_IEC, Security key, SPDIF, PCM, SPI, KEYIF, TSADC, I2C, I2S channel 1 and 2, AC97, PCM, System timer, Watchdog timer, UART.
So, Deep Idle with TOP=OFF power gates all the above modules.
How to check if Deep Idle works?
Enable Deep Idle and Deep Idle statistics then run music player and select your favorite music (it must be your favorite song in order to deep idle work properly). Switch the screen off and wait few seconds (or wait until your favorite song is finished). Check with this command in a terminal emulator or adb shell deep idle statistics:
cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/deepidle/idle_stats
Alternatively you may just open the idle_stats file in the above directory using a root explorer like application.
I only get TOP=ON statistics
Bluetooth or GPS or Vibrator is running
How to power down Bluetooth?
Use this command:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/bt_rfkill/rfkill/rfkill0/soft
Unfortunately I didn't manage to find a way to enable it again. I tried an rfkil script but it doesn't work for me. If you find a way, please let me know.
I only get Idle statistics (neither TOP=ON nor TOP=OFF)
Something is preventing kernel to enter in deep idle state. This maybe normal. For example:
LCD controller is enabledUSB is connected
G3D (GPU) is active
MFC (multi format codec) is active
SDMMC controller is active
How can I find what is preventing deep idle?
That's why I implemented dflags in deep idle. Kernel check many factors to decide if it can enter deep idle. All these check are encoded in dflags. dflags is an integer number. If you read this number and decode it in binary you will get the results of the last check. Each check is a bit set in binary format. For example:
dflag = 3 binary = 11. This means that LCD controller and camera are active. (Please note that I disabled camera check for preventing kernel entering deep idle). The flags in dflags (most of the are self explanatory):
You may enable debugging with
echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/deepidle/ddebug_enabled
The you may use this script to get the value of dflags every second.
#!/system/xbin/busybox sh
while true; do
cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/deepidle/dflags
sleep 1
Leave it to run and try to enter your phone in deep idle. The switch on the screen and read the last values and convert the to binary. Values 0 or 1 lead to deep idle. Other values lead to Idle.
Source: Samsung's SPV210 RISC Microprocessor User's Manual.


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Friends of Incline Trails formed in November 2012 as an all volunteer group of local residents. We are hikers and mountain bikers who want to improve the trail experience in the Incline Village area. This open group collaborates and coordinates with a number of agencies and organizations, including: the US Forest Service, Nevada State Parks, Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association, the Nevada Land Trust the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, and the Incline Village General Improvement District. Comments and suggestions to Friends of Incline Trails (FIT) are encouraged and welcome.
Our current focus is on the Incline Flume Trail and the Incline Lake area.


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Since no one else wanted to start it, I will.
Since no one else wanted to start it, I will.
It isn't even coming out until next year dude, how is that too early?
I think he means the campaign started too soon. Some people didn't even get to play the first game and they already make a second one!
Speculation can start anytime! But I do agree that a new campaign won't become real until the production is finished and we've got reasonable line-of-sight to delivery from China.
I personally think that the second one came out so fast because they want to play on the nostalgia that was created from the first game being made and the upcoming movie (which is going to be terrible [my opinion]. And, I will not be watching it.).
I am kicking myself because I miss the GB2 Kickstarter and of course GB1 although I bought the Mass Hysteria pack off of Ebay and have it now. Funny how the retail version is very thin without the Kickstarters. Gozer, Zuul, and Vince should have been in the retail version at least.


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In one of the recent discussions on our Forum, I realized PMP® aspirants have lots of questions on verification and validation. There is a lot of confusion about these two terms because "Verify Scope" process of PMBOK® Guide 4th Edition is changed to "Validate Scope" process in PMBOK® Guide 5th edition.
Let's start with what PMBOK ® Guide 5th Edition has to say about it:
"Verification is the evaluation of whether or not a product, service, or system complies with a regulation, requirement, specification, or imposed condition. It is often an internal process."
"Validation is the assurance that a product, service, or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders. It often involves acceptance and suitability with external customers."
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CHILLICOTHE, Mo., May 27 (UPI) -- A Missouri man faces charges for letting a 10-year-old girl drive a car in which he and four children were riding when it was struck by a train, police say.
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox told United Press International Erin Graves, 31, of Chula, Mo., has been charged with five counts of child endangerment, a Class A misdemeanor, which if tried and convicted for the Tuesday incident could yield a one year jail term or $1,000 fine.
Cox said Graves allegedly let the girl drive. She accelerated when attempting to cross railroad tracks but was struck in the rear of the vehicle by an oncoming train, spun counter-clockwise before coming to rest, the (St. Joseph, Mo.) News-Press reported Thursday.
No one was injured, Cox said, and nothing was broken but the truth.
"Mr. Graves initially told me he was driving, was talking and listening to the kids in the car, and there was a comment made about 'Trying to outrun the train,' or 'Let's not outrun the train,'" Cox said. "[He said] his foot slipped off the brake and hit the gas."
Upon further investigation and questioning of witnesses, authorities confronted Graves, who retracted his statement and admitted he had left the driving to the 10-year-old while he sat in the front passenger seat, the News-Press said.
"I believe alcohol may have been a factor with Mr. Graves' decision-making ability," Cox said, declining to name the relationship between Graves and the children.
Cox told UPI Graves was released on $5,000 bond. His next court appearance is June 8.


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Henry Samueli spun my head around so fast I thought it would snap off. He explained why the worst possible thing that could happen to the electronics industry might be a good thing for Broadcom, the company he co-founded.
Moore's Law is slowing down, and its end appears to be in sight, he said. No surprise. Back in May he became the first semiconductor executive I ever heard frankly acknowledge this increasing apparent reality. Then he added a new head-snapping twist:
From our perspective [this situation] gives us more breathing room to be clever about design. Most people run to the current process node as fast as they can. That's going to change. Instead of running to the next node, you will come up with new architectures and circuit designs, and that will create more opportunities on the design side, bringing more value to a company like Broadcom.
Laughing, I asked, "So Moore's Law is ending… and that's a good thing for Broadcom?"
We both laughed. "Yes, in a way it is," he said.
While Samueli argues Broadcom could expand its slice, the overall pie will slow its pace of growth, a prospect that quickly sobered up our conversation.
There will be a slowdown in rate of innovation in products [end users] buy. The smaller/cheaper/faster [dynamic] is definitely going to slow and potentially 15 years from now even stop — then it's a matter of leveraging the system as a whole rather than the end product.Samueli is not alone in speaking frankly about this trend. In a keynote at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), one of the top gatherings on the future of semiconductors, Geoffrey Yeap, vice president of technology at Qualcomm, painted a similar picture.
Chipmakers face "more material/process cost and design complexity… to meet product specifications for low leakage/power and higher performance," he wrote in a paper for the IEDM proceedings.
"This positive feedback loop drastically accelerates the increase in die cost ($/mm2)… making area scaling less attractive," Yeap wrote. "We are getting dangerously close to this inflection point as the scaling box with four sides of speed, density, power, and cost is becoming smaller as we march towards the 7 nm node."
Engineers are researching several areas in hopes of countering or at least slowing down the trend. They include new backend materials and processes, multiple 3D chip stacking efforts, and industry collaboration on extreme ultraviolet lithography, 450mm wafers, and design optimizations of all sorts, Yeap wrote.


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To educate is to seek meaning in everything. It is to teach others to seek the meaning of things. This means mixing the dreams of children and young people with the experience of adults and the elderly. This exchange must always take place, or else there can be no humanity because there would be no roots, no history, no promise, no growth, and no prophecy.
— Pope Francis, 5 June 20
I write it myself, edit it myself, censor it myself, publish it myself, distribute it myself, and spend time in prison for it myself.
— Vladimir Bukovsky
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery—isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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Seasonal businesses suffer because of weather
Rain slows down businesses in southeastern Wisconsin
Living in southeastern Wisconsin has meant warming up to spring's chill, but below normal temperatures and a good dose of rain has slowed the seasonal change and slowed business for those counting on sunshine.
"We're kind of under the crunch to get it done," said Joe Kresl, of Hawks Nursery.
By Saturday, the dust has to settle on a new patio for a golf outing at North Hill Country Club in Menomonee Falls.
"We started April 1. We should have had it done in six weeks, but in the second week of April, we had two solid weeks of rain," Kresl said.
Workers at Hawks Nursery put on the finishing touches that Mother Nature delayed.
"It continued raining, and it's been raining on and off all spring. It's been terrible and very hard to get projects in the ground," Kresl said.
Kresl said hardscapes can finally be finished, and flowers can finally be planted.
In Lake Geneva on Thursday, a boat emerged from hibernation. Water sports have been under wraps.
"I've worn jeans to work more times than I did ever last year," said Maddie Lenz, who works at Gage Marine.
Workers at Gage Marine said ice pushed back getting piers in water.
"The ice went out about a month later, so all of our crews working on the docks, the piers and the marina have really been working overtime, trying to get the boats and piers ready for all of the customers," said Bill Gage, of Gage Marine.
It's been a washout on water and land where early seasonal business has been hurt.
"People seeing business off, just like it was mentioned, 10, 20, 30 percent in some cases," Gage said.
Business owners said the weather comes with the territory with life in Wisconsin.


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Equities are slightly higher this morning, the dollar is also slightly higher, bonds are lower, oil is trying to break $100 a barrel again, and food commodities are higher for the sixth day in a row – Merry Christmas.
As I told you to expect last month, this month produced a large spike higher in Durable Goods Orders due to a single large aircraft order from Boeing. That order caused Durable Goods Orders to jump 3.8% in November, here's Econonotaclue:
New orders for civilian aircraft led to a huge spike in durables orders. Otherwise, durables orders were modestly positive. New factory orders for durables surged 3.8 percent, following a no change the prior month (prior revised estimate, down 0.5 percent). The November boost was much higher than the consensus forecast for a 1.9 percent jump. Excluding transportation, durables grew 0.3 percent after a 1.5 percent gain in October (prior revised estimate, up 1.1 percent). The November rise fell short of expectations for a 0.4 percent increase. However, upward revisions are offsetting.
Outside of transportation, new orders were led by primary metals and machinery with fabricated metals and "other" also gaining. Weakness was seen in computers & electronics and also electrical equipment.
A disappointment was in civilian capital equipment excluding aircraft which dipped 1.2 percent after a 0.9 percent decline in October. Shipments decreased 1.0 percent in November after a 0.8 percent fall the month before.
Overall, durables point to continued gains in manufacturing but not at a robust pace outside of aircraft.
Look for next month's report to disappoint.
Reality? Durable Goods is a national embarrassment. Not only does this not make me proud, it makes me ashamed. Below is a chart showing Durable Goods Orders, as measured in dollars against MZM, the largest dollar measurement currently produced. Note that Durable Goods Orders, measured in dollars, collapsed in 2008 – at the low point it was only $150 Billion, not that far above where it was in the early '90s. In dollars, it has now risen to a little over $200 Billion, a figure that is a little short of doubling in the past two decades. But what you have to consider is that the supply of dollar during the same time period went from roughly $2 Trillion all the way to nearly $11 Trillion, more than 5 times the amount! And I'm here to tell you that MZM vastly understates the total moneyness that exists today:
Durable Goods Vs. MZM:
Let me translate what I said above in a way that is a little easier to understand – the reality is that Durable Goods Orders are massively shrinking! If you were to measure the actual total widgets produced here in the United States, the numbers are dramatically less. What are we producing in reality? Dollars. Dollars backed by DEBT. Debt that pays interest to private individuals. The same individuals who are shipping our manufacturing overseas. The same individuals who where wrongly given the authority to produce money from nothing. Illegally and in direct conflict with the Constitution – Article 1, Section 8.
Think I'm wrong about that? Take a look at the following chart of Durable Goods versus M1. You will see a very strong correlation:
Durable Goods vs. M1:
Note that downturns in Durable Goods are always met with increases in money supply. We produce money and are absolutely losing our ability to produce real goods. The end game for our money is getting close. They cannot allow the math to get smaller or all the figures measured in dollars will collapse, and there goes their power and control – they know this, so they won't allow it to happen. They will try and try to create ever larger numbers in the money space, just look at Europe's latest "LTRO." This is what kills money systems. A structural reset of some type is nearing – look for "other events" to distract you.
Now, to make reality very clear for Durable Goods, we are going to divide Durable Goods by M1 so that we can see the effects of money creation on something that is measured in money:
Durable Goods Divided by M1:
That's right... Durable Goods fell off a cliff to new all-time REAL lows, and is near that area still, despite massive money printing - that's the reality and it is laid bare by that chart.
Meanwhile, Personal Income reported for November disappointed, coming in at .1% following October's .5% (revised lower of course). Note that the wages and salary component is actually negative. Consumer Spending was also very anemic, rising only .1%. Gee, what happened to that "record setting" Black Friday that the media is still claiming set all kinds of records and was up like 15% over last year? Well, that was all bullshit:
Personal income and spending posted modest gains in November. Meanwhile, PCE price inflation was soft. Personal income in November grew 0.1 percent, following a 0.4 percent increase the month before. November's gain fell short of analysts' forecast for a 0.2 percent rise. However, the wages & salaries component slipped 0.1 percent after a 0.6 percent increase in October. The rise in personal income was led by gains in rental income and dividends combined with a decline in contributions for government social insurance.
Consumer spending in November advanced a soft 0.1 percent, following a 0.1 percent increase the month before. The market consensus was for a 0.3 percent gain. Weakness for the latest month was in nondurables (reflecting lower gasoline prices) which fell 0.3 percent after a 0.2 percent dip in October. Durables jumped 0.8 percent in November as services edged up 0.1 percent.
Headline inflation firmed but both headline and core inflation remained soft. The headline PCE price index was unchanged after dipping 0.1 percent in October. Analysts had called for a 0.1 percent increase. The core rate held steady at 0.1 percent in November and matching market expectations.
Year-on-year, headline prices were up 2.5 percent, compared to 2.7 percent in October. The core was up 1.7 percent, matching the pace of the prior month.
While November income is little disappointing, that is less so after taking into account earlier healthier gains. However, spending is sluggish though less so after discounting inflation. Real PCEs rose 0.2 percent in each October and November after jumping 0.5 percent in September.
Overall, the fourth quarter is showing improvement over the third but not as much as earlier hoped. But the majority of the Fed's FOMC will be happy with the recent inflation numbers, allowing the Fed to stay loose for some time.
Nothing but manure, the stench is distracting. Again remember that these measurements are first measured in dollars! So, even with all the money printing occurring, both personal income and consumer spending were only able to eek out .1% gains – absolutely pathetic, oh, and not even close to real!
If you want to see real, here it is.
Below is a chart showing Personal Income versus M1. Note that since 1975, personal income has supposedly grown from about $2.8 trillion to a little more than $11 trillion, an increase of roughly 4 times. However, the supply of money during the same time grew nearly 8 times, or about twice the rate of growth!
Personal Income vs. M1:
Now, if we divide Personal Income by M1, then the picture of REAL Personal Income becomes clear (not the trumped up version of Fedspeak "real" – that is not real, it is a lie because they drastically understate inflation):
Personal Income Divided by M1:
Yowzzaa… That is the reality right there. Note that your income to the money supply has never been weaker! That is a picture of the SQUEEZE that you are in. You are put into that squeeze by the people who profit (wrongly) from the creation of your money. You are being paid in debt! Talk about nutty, you owe interest on the money which you are being paid with! And you don't owe it to your government, you owe it to a few private individuals! Nuts! If I offered to pay you in debt, you would refuse, right? Yet that is exactly what you've been accepting your entire life, just not stated clearly to you.
I hope that wakes people up, you are truly feeding the matrix with your work… and it doesn't have to be like that at all, all we have to do is say NO MORE.
Bonus Chart for those "buy and hold investors..."
S&P 500 Divided by MZM:
I, Nathan Martin, no longer consent to the lies.


text: Dec 4, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded four contracts worth $11.4 million in an effort to develop a 30-minute test for H5N1 avian influenza.The CDC said it awarded the funds to spur development of tests that doctors and field epidemiologists could use to test patients for both H5N1 and other flu viruses. Currently, testing for H5N1 in the United States must be done in 1 of about 100 designated laboratories and takes from 4 to 24 hours, depending on shipping time, the CDC said.Last month the World Health Organization (WHO) listed a rapid diagnostic test as one of the top priorities in avian and pandemic flu research. The CDC said it hopes a rapid test can be ready and licensed within 2 to 3 years."The creation of a point-of-care test to rapidly detect human cases of H5N1 avian influenza would be a major step forward in our ability to protect public health," Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a news release.The four companies, their tests, and the contract amounts are as follows:Cepheid, Sunnyvale, Calif.—GeneXPert Flu assay, $2.4 millionIquum, Marlborough, Mass.—LIAT, Lab-in-a-Tube, $3.8 millionMesoScale, Gaithersburg, Md.—Multi-Array Detection, $706,241Nanogen, San Diego—a novel point-of-care immunoassay system, $4.5 millionOver the next year, the companies will work to develop tests that can detect flu viruses and distinguish seasonal strains from H5N1 within 30 minutes, the CDC said. Existing rapid tests can tell only if a patient has a seasonal influenza A or B virus.CDC spokeswoman Christine Pearson told CIDRAP News the contracts are intended to fund the first two of five development phases.The goal for the first two phases is to produce a prototype test that can be evaluated by the CDC, said Dr. Ruben Donis, chief of the molecular virology and vaccines branch in the CDC's influenza division. He said the agency will fund further development only if the prototype has "acceptable performance characteristics."In a news release, Nanogen said that if the CDC funds all five development phases, the company would receive a total of about $12.5 million over the next 2 to 3 years.The four companies were chosen from 13 applicants, the CDC said. Selection criteria included the technical specifications of the test, experience in developing diagnostic tools, staff expertise, and access to labs with sufficient security to handle H5N1 viruses.The agency also promised to provide funds for a repository of influenza reagents and other materials to help in development of the tests.See also:Dec 4 CDC news releasehttp://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/r061204.htm


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Carmelo Anthony and Knicks face elimination after Game 4 loss to Pacers
INDIANAPOLIS - The Knicks will need a monumental comeback, and a major change in how they're playing, to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
For the second straight time, the Knicks were overmatched against the Pacers and were beaten, 93-82, in Game 4 last night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
The Knicks trail the Eastern Conference semifinal 3-1 and face elimination in Game 5 tomorrow night at the Garden. But Carmelo Anthony is confident they will be back in Indiana for Game 6 Saturday and their season won't end in this round.
"I believe," Anthony said. "I really believe that we can do something special here. I'm very confident that we can do something special here. We must win Thursday and figure it out from there.
"We remain very confident. We've got to believe within ourselves because nobody is going to believe in us and have the confidence enough to say we have a chance to win this series. I believe that."
The Pacers are the ones overflowing with confidence. They never trailed in this game and put the Knicks in an 18-point hole in the third quarter.
The Knicks never really came close to making it a competitive game in the second half. Indiana led by double digits for all but 6.2 seconds after halftime.
"I still do believe that we are the better team," Anthony said after leading the Knicks with 24 points but going scoreless in the fourth quarter for the second game in a row. "We're just not playing at that level right now."
The Knicks offense stalled again. They shot 31-for-87 from the field (35.6 percent) and were once again manhandled on the boards 54-36.
This after Mike Woodson brought Pablo Prigioni (three scoreless minutes) off the bench and inserted Kenyon Martin (29 minutes, zero points) in the starting lineup to play alongside Anthony and Tyson Chandler. Woodson went big most of the night, but it hardly mattered. Paul George grabbed 14 rebounds, Roy Hibbert 11 and David West 10 for Indiana.
"Rebounding-wise we got hammered on the boards again," Woodson said.
"They're pinning their ears back," Chandler said. "It's not just one or two guys, it's five guys crashing the boards. We have to make them pay for it. If they're going to send five guys, we've got to get fast-break points to continue to slow them down, but we haven't been able to capitalize on it."
Anthony promised before the game to be more aggressive after taking 16 shots in Game 3. He ended up 9-for-23 and fouled out with two minutes remaining.
J.R. Smith scored 19 points but had another bad shooting night (7-for-22).
George Hill led Indiana with 26 points. George added 18 points and seven assists and played strong defense on Anthony.
The Knicks had many questions and concerns coming into the game aside from figuring out how to beat the Pacers.
Anthony wanted to clear the air with Chandler for his comments about the Knicks being too selfish offensively. Chandler said he wasn't referring to Anthony. Smith and Martin were quarantined the previous two days with a virus and Iman Shumpert (16 minutes, 0-for-6 from the field) played with swelling and soreness in his surgically repaired left knee.
Now Woodson and the Knicks have even more questions because of how ineffective they have been. They have played nothing like the team that won 54 games and earned the second seed in the East.
"I can't lose hope," Woodson said. "It takes four games to get out of this series. We go home and handle our business at home and get back here on Friday and see if we can force a Game 7."


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College of Education works to help displaced Katrina students
LSU's championship spirit extends beyond the end of football season and infuses our nationally recognized programs all year long. Our championship spirit both on the field and in the fields of research, education, and community service represents some of the University's most important victories.
In Renaissance Village, one group is known as "the parachute people." The ones who bring colorful learning, physical energy, and caring consistency to life among the rows of white trailers the children of Katrina call home.
Through the Delta Express Program, service-learning students from a variety of majors are working through the LSU College of Education to address the physical and educational needs of children who live in the community of 600 white trailers just north of Baton Rouge.
"The goal of the program is not just to prepare teachers," said Dean M. Jayne Fleener. "I think in many respects we are creating better citizens."
In "After-School Camp," children of families displaced by Katrina receive daily formal and informal tutoring through their LSU student mentors. When their homework is complete, kinesiology students engage the children in an hour of organized physical activity, which at times might include a colorful parachute.
"They can't pronounce kinesiology, so they call us 'the parachute people' or 'the ball people,'" said Russell Carson, assistant professor of kinesiology, whose students have worked there since early 2006.
Mary LeBlanc, director of the Renaissance Village Learning Center, said most families are headed by single mothers who have struggled since Katrina to make a stable home for their children. When the trailer park community opened after the storm, the children were developmentally delayed on so many levels, LeBlanc said.
"Many hadn't been in school for a year. We had to have as many hands on deck as we could get," she said.
Today, due to efforts by Delta Express, village staff, and school partners, more than 90 percent of Renaissance Village children regularly attend school. Of the students who participate in "After-School Camp," 12 kindergartners received graduation certificates, and every fourth and eighth-grader who completed the LEAP (Louisiana Educational Assessment Program) test passed in 2007.
"At the beginning of the school year I thought, 'What are we going to do?'" LeBlanc said. "But with the (College of Education) tutors coming in regularly, doing their 'magic' – what they were taught in the classroom to help children – it just completely turned around. We had a warm nurturing environment, and the kids looked forward to coming. It just all came together."
The Delta Express: Meeting Educational Needs
The involvement of the College of Education began just days after the storm.
"We started in the (Baton Rouge) River Center, taking our students and kinesiology faculty with balls, hula hoops, and jump ropes to engage the children there in physical activities," Fleener said. "We started out in crisis mode. When you look at service-learning in terms of community service, teaching, and research, our first efforts were primarily service – trying to get out and pick up what we could."
When evacuees moved to the Renaissance Village trailer community, so did the College of Education's service efforts. The result was Delta Express – a university-community collaborative devoted to providing educational support for children and families of crisis.
Delta Express began as a partnership between the College of Education and the UC (University-Community) Links network of the University of California, Berkeley. UC Links provides access to quality educational resources for children from low-income communities. Through Delta Express, community, school, and university partners create a safe, welcoming, and engaging environment for interactive learning among older and younger peers.
Not Just for Education Majors
Service-learning courses that are part of Delta Express are open to students with majors outside the College of Education. The course, "Working with Children of Crisis," was created to meet the needs of Renaissance Village children.
"The service involves tutoring and mentoring," Fleener said. "The educational goal of the class is to study children of crisis."
LSU students also tutor and mentor through a course called "Education, Schooling, and Society." Because of the service-learning component, students in this course learn a lot more about schools and the challenges that schools face than in a course that just reads about schools and society, Fleener said.
For the past two semesters, Carson's service-learning kinesiology students (physical education majors and others) have introduced physical activity and social development through a program he now calls "Le Pas" or Lifetime Exercise and Physical Activity Service-learning program. "Le pas" means "the step" in French.
"I'd like to think the French meaning of 'le pas' has materialized at Renaissance Village," Carson said. "We have provided the children with 'the step" they deserve."
His students design and conduct physical activities that emphasize fitness as an important key to personal and social development.
"Our goal is to get the children excited to move, to have fun moving, and to cooperate with one another," Carson said. "We emphasize fun, all-inclusive activities, and the clear connection between lifetime motor development and social development."
The children of Renaissance Village are not the only ones who are learning. Carson's students have, too.
"I believe for learning to occur, students must actively experience and apply what they are being taught in the classroom. What a better place to do this than with a population that needs it most," he said. "This service-learning element has enabled class discussions – mostly student led – to emerge on the topics of racial understanding, cultural competency, and civic awareness and purpose."
Overcoming stereotypes of class, race, and poverty; reaching out and caring about others; and developing technical skills and personal character are outcomes of the experiences these LSU students have had that are often lacking in traditional field placements, Fleener said.
"Russ has responded to the need of crisis and embraced a 'teachable moment' to creatively offer service to those displaced by Katrina," she said.
Demonstrating Caring Consistency
One of the most important elements of the College of Education's program is its consistency, especially in contrast with the upheaval the children have faced before and after Katrina.
"Many service groups at Renaissance Village have come and gone, but not us," Carson said. "The children know we will be there every day. Our stable presence has allowed us to grow relationships with these kids."
According to LeBlanc, the mentors took a "bare knuckles approach" at the beginning of the program, helping children with behavioral problems and learning disabilities get through the school year. For the first 10 months of the program, LSU students returned faithfully day after day to help with homework in less-than-ideal conditions created through a lack of supplies and inadequate facilities.
This caring consistency resulted in changes in both learning and behavior among the Renaissance Village children.
"We found in May (2007) that, by working on homework almost exclusively, we saw a change," LeBlanc explained. "Between the mentoring and the tutoring, behavior problems started vastly improving."
Now, when the children arrive at school, they have their homework and other projects completed, she said.
"They saw they were starting to get respect, which resulted in changes in their behavior. The transition has been remarkable, and our children are proud," LeBlanc said.


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ST. LOUIS — Saint Louis University School of Public Health researchers are building strong collaborative relationships with prominent physicians, scientists and public health professionals in China to study the connection between air pollution in Wuhan, China, and poor pregnancy outcomes.
|Members of the Wuhan Environmental Monitoring Center leadership team show sophisticated equipment to (far right) Zhengmin Qian, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology at Saint Louis University School of Public Health and the school's dean, Edwin Trevathan, M.D., M.P.H.
The study examines the link between the environment and the health of 100,000 infants, said Zhengmin Qian, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor and departmental chair of epidemiology at Saint Louis University School of Public Health and principal investigator.
The study is expected to take about four years to complete. It is supported by the Health Effects Institute, a nonprofit organization that funds research on the impact of air pollution on health, and by the Chinese government, which has an elaborate system of computerized air quality monitors.
"We have wonderful collaborators in Wuhan who already have outstanding infrastructures for public health research and practice in place. Completing the study will require the collaboration and cooperation of all health entities in the city of Wuhan and the Hubei province and we are excited to work together," said Qian, who calls Wuhan his hometown.
"The China CDC, China EPA, major universities, large hospitals and community health centers already are teaming up with us and fully engaged in building upon their new partnership with Saint Louis University."
Qian, who spent June in Wuhan, plans to be in the city for extended visits twice a year to supervise the research.
He is leading more than 100 collaborators in evaluating the relationship between high levels of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and carbon monoxide in the air and pre-term birth, low birth weight and babies who are small for their gestational age.
With 9.1 million residents, Wuhan is the most populated city in central China, and like many large cities, has problems with air quality.
China has made a concerted effort to improve the health of babies. Wuhan doctors and nurses educate young women of child-bearing age about vitamins, nutrition and exercise so they can give their babies a jumpstart on a healthy beginning.
"There's much we can learn about how the Chinese health system focuses on improving the health of young women so they can be the mothers of a healthy generation," said Edwin Trevathan, M.D., MPH, dean and professor at SLU's School of Public Health who visited Wuhan in December.
"The work they are doing now will mean better health for children five to 25 years from now. Our Chinese friends and colleagues see the Wuhan study as critical to the overall health of their society."
To support China's commitment to protect the health of its children, Saint Louis University researchers will look at how exposure during various stages of pregnancy to air pollution, which varies throughout the year, affects babies. The first leg of the research looks at records of more than 100,000 mothers-to-be in Wuhan. The second part will focus on gathering data door-to-door from 10,000 pregnant women and looking at the impact on birth outcomes of additional factors such as family income, smoking and alcohol consumption.
"They're very concerned about the impact of air pollution on the next generation," Trevathan said. "We'll help them find out and in so doing, learn about what we can do to help our kids.
"This project is not only going to help us learn more about how to improve the health of women and children. It will help us in solidifying our relationship with Chinese colleagues in Wuhan, which is one of the most important relationships we have in global health."
Qian said he is working on the research project with childhood friends who still live in Wuhan. He has designed the research protocol and his Chinese colleagues are doing much of the information gathering because of their experience implementing large projects.
"Like St. Louis, Wuhan is located at the intersection of two major rivers. We feel a special kinship to Wuhan because it is an official sister city of St. Louis," Qian said. "What we learn from this type of global research also can be used by the people of St. Louis. We will do the study internationally and the result will benefit our local community."
Qian sees the research collaboration as a springboard to other studies, such as future research on the relationship between air pollution and birth defects.
The Wuhan research fits well into Saint Louis University School of Public Health's focus on maternal and child health epidemiology, added Trevathan.
Locally, the school is leading the National Children's Study, the largest study of child health ever conducted in the United States. Researchers are following more than 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 from diverse backgrounds and communities to learn about the effects of the environment and genetics on the growth, development and health of children.
Accredited since 1991, Saint Louis University School of Public Health is the only accredited school of public health in Missouri. It is one of 48 fully accredited public health schools in North America and the only accredited Jesuit or Catholic school of public health.
Read about the National Children's Study.
Learn about the School of Public Health's global initiatives.
Learn more about Zhengmin Qian, M.D., Ph.D.


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This is it: the polls are officially open for voting in the Republican primary for Texas's vacant Senate seat. Today is the day Craig James finds out if his gay-baiting self-funding, low-polling, hooker-murder-denying Senate campaign will bear fruit, or be all for naught. Judging from the latest numbers, which you can see above, Mr. James probably shouldn't have quit his day job.
According to the most recent polling data, collected last week, Craig James is polling 3 percent on the eve of the election. That's solidly between "Undecided" and "Other," both much worthier candidates than James. Public Polling Policy points out that their margin of error is +/-4.5 percent, so James's actual numbers once the votes are counted could be effectively zero.
The results should some in sometime after polls close at 7 p.m. local time. Plenty of time to get your champagne on ice.


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Stephan Schmidt has posted a new note today about the upcoming publication of "Exploring PHP", a book he's been working on.
I have been working on this together with Frank, Christian, Sandro and Kore and the book features five articles on advanced PHP topics. All articles in the book have been written in German.
He specifically mentions a part he contributed - a look at event-driven development (for component applications). The book also talks about using various PEAR packages and SimpleTest. The planned release date is August 17th from Entwickler Press (published in German).


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Dominican hair products and hair stylists are quickly earning an outstanding reputation throughout the United States. I am sure that many wonder if this is just a new fad or if the products and stylists actually deserve their reputation. To determine their credibility lets analyze their hair treatment process.
What hair products do they use?
Dominican stylists like others use the popular name brand products such as, Sebastian, Biolage, Paul Mitchell, Nexus etc. However, they also use the traditional Dominican hair products made out of natural fruits, vegetables, or animal protein.
What is their styling process?
After washing the hair they apply the hair conditioner. Then cover hair with a plastic cap and let you sit under the bonnet dryer for ten to twenty minutes. Later they will rinse it out and do hair rollers. After that you will probably be sitting on the drier anywhere from half an hour to one hour. This depends mostly on your hair type and length. Afterwards, they will move in to styling your hair. If you just want your hair straight this is the time when they will straighten the curls or waves left by rollers with a blow dryer. They rarely like to just blow dry hair without doing the rollers first.
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How to Take Care of Black Children's Hair Appropriately
Whether you want to want to get rid of that gray hair or you just want to have a new look, dying is a good way to achieve it. Unfortunately, hair dying entails consequences that may damage and dry your hair when used inappropriately. The selected color of your dye should blend with the original color of your hair and eyebrows and to enhance your features. Experimenting is good, but dyes can be rough on your hair when used frequently. Although it is best to dye at a professional salon or stylist, it is much cheaper at home with the same creative effect. Before you see the top 10 hair dying mistakes, it is important to have an understanding of the different types of hair dye that are available so you can put them in context.
Types of Hair Dye
1. Permanent hair dye
While dying your hair permanantly is, by some, considered in and of itself a mistake, the obvious benefit is that it lasts for a considerable time. As the hair grows, it is applied to the roots. It contains ammonia and peroxides, which can possibly cause dryness and damage. Exposure to the sun and salt water will cause the color to fade. That's why in order to maintain the color, it is best to cover your hair by using a hat or bandanna when going outside.
2. Long-lasting Semi-permanent
- Number 4: Picking a color that does not fit with your natural hair color
Pick a color one shade lighter when dying your roots. This will make the transition from your colored hair back to your natural hair color graceful without roots that are a completely different color sticking out. Obviously, this rule does not apply if you are dying your hair a completely different color than your natural hair color.
- Number 3: Losing hair
After dying, always rinse with cold or tepid water to avoid your own hair from falling out.
- Number 2: Over-dying hair
If you did not achieve the desired effect, using Liquid Tide can correct this. A couple of days of use will lighten the color until your hair returns to the original color. Instead of over-dying, do touch-ups every four to five weeks to keep your hair color picture perfect.
- Number 1: Dying eyebrows and eyelashes
Never use hair dye on eyebrows and eyelashes! Ask for medical help when dye gets into your eye.