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After over 35 years of providing relevant, technical content to the building performance and weatherization communities, Home Energy will end its run after this issue. Starting with the Spring 2020 issue, the magazine will be called the Building Performance Journal. The goal of this rebranding is to hone our new format into a valuable benefit of the Building Performance Association's (BPA's) membership, serving as one of the organization's flagship informational and educational resources. The new publication will become BPA's technical journal, and work in conjunction with our newsletters and other media outlets to keep you abreast of the latest industry information that's important to you.
BPA brought me onboard as HEM's publisher a couple of months ago, just in time to pen this last editorial for the magazine. Coincidental timing? Hardly. My mandate is to be the agent of change. Not just for the sake of change, mind you. I'm here to help steward the evolution of a respected periodical into something more. My experience as a consultant, contractor, and trainer in the indoor environment industry for the past 30 years have prepared me well for the job.
In 2013 I founded Healthy Indoors Magazine, the magazine of the indoor air quality profession and became its publisher. My background also includes video production, marketing, and graphics design. I am as comfortable in a dingy crawl space or atop an oscillating manlift as I am on a computer keyboard. When I'm not playing journalist or producer, I still actively perform fieldwork in the IAQ industry, Tyvek suits and all.
Building Performance Journal will build upon Home Energy's legacy of credible, technical content.
While the Winter 2019 edition will indeed be the last issue of Home Energy under that name, the magazine's story doesn't end here. Much of its content has already been archived in digital form on the publication's HomeEnergy.org web site—and that's not going anywhere. This array of information will be preserved and remain part of the BPA's information resources for its membership going forward.
Building Performance Journal will build upon Home Energy's legacy of credible, technical content. We will be incorporating new regular sections and departments, such as product spotlights and policy updates to cover the various industry sectors served by BPA. With an emphasis on the digital publication, we will incorporate rich media, such as videos, live social media streams, and existing assets, like direct linking to the Home Energy Pros Forum, to give you easy access to the news and information resources you need. We will also continue to publish a print edition that will include select features and columns from our digital edition for each issue in 2020.
Healthy Indoors Magazine will remain as a media partner for the organization and become another BPA-member resource, as a free informational pass-along to their clients. Advertisers will see some great opportunities to reach both industry practitioners and end-consumers as Building Performance Journal and Healthy Indoors Magazine team up to offer some special combined ad packages in 2020. This new publication advertising tandem will create an extended market reach and enhanced ROI for BPA's advertising programs!
All of us simply cannot continue on our current unsustainable path in this world. Climate change is real. Our buildings are contributing factors in this crisis. How we design, operate, and maintain them can make a difference. The building performance industry has an opportunity to be one of the catalysts, to actually be agents of change by helping our nation reduce its carbon footprint and create healthier, more comfortable indoor environments. What we do as an industry is truly important. Bold thoughts? For sure. But necessary ones. We all need to up our games.
As we enter this new decade, fraught with challenges, filled with opportunities, we at the Building Performance Journal will be there to support your efforts, with our sincere commitment to providing you with the timely, credible information you need!
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[Daniel Ronay, baker extraordinaire, shares with us his recipes for both water and egg challahs. Photos by Daniel Ronay. CS]
Dough Formulation
Bread in its simplest form, requires four ingredients: flour, water, yeast, and salt. Any other specialty breads can have ingredients added to enhance the flavor, color, softness retention, etc.
There are 2 main mixing methods I'll tell you about. The 1st and easiest procedure used by bakers and homemakers alike, called the Straight Dough Method. The straight dough method is a single step process in which all the ingredients are mixed in a single batch. The dough is bulk fermented and can vary from 1-4 hours depending on conditions.
The 2nd method is called the Sponge and Dough. With the sponge and dough method, the major fermentation is done with a preferment called ,"the sponge", in which normally 50-70% of the total dough flour is fermented as the preferment stage. Bulk fermentation can be 4 -6 hours, then the dough stage. Advantages of this method compared to straight dough: slightly lower yeast levels, yields bread with better flavor, optimum volume. The disadvantage, however, is its longer processing time in comparison.
Water Challah
16 oz or 454 grams – Water
.75 oz or 21 grams – Fresh yeast
28 oz or 794 grams – High Gluten Flour
.5 oz or 14 grams – Salt
.13oz or 4 grams – Malt Syrup (optional for crust color slight taste)
.5oz or 14 grams – Sugar
.5oz or 14 grams – Shortening or oil
Total weight 2 pounds 14 ounces
Mix about 10-12 min. Ferment @ 80 F. for 90 min. Make up 2 loaves Bake in 425 F. with steam. Easy way to make steam is put ice cubes in a pan on bottom of oven when you first start out.
Egg Challah
1.1 oz or 31 grams – Fresh Yeast
8oz or 227 grams – Water
3 0z or 85 grams – Sugar
.56 oz or 16 grams – Salt
4 oz or 112 grams – Oil
5 oz or 148 grams – Eggs
28oz or 794 grams – Eggs
Mix to development ferment @ 80 F. for 60-80 min Make up to 2-3 loaves proof for approx 45 min bake at 350F.
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Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini have a new book, titled "Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive." As you might have guessed, it makes a compelling case for itself. Here's an excerpt.
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How can inconveniencing your audience increase your persuasiveness?
Colleen Szot is one of the most successful writers in the paid programming industry. And for good reason: In addition to penning several well-known "infomercials" for the famed and fast-selling NordicTrac exercise machine, she recently authored a program that shattered a nearly twenty-year sales record for a home-shopping channel. Although her programs retain many of the elements common to most infomercials, including flashy catchphrases, an unrealistically enthusiastic audience, and celebrity endorsements, Szot changed three words to a standard infomercial line that caused a huge increase in the number of people who purchased her product. Even more remarkable, these three words made it clear to potential customers that the process of ordering the product might well prove somewhat of a hassle. What were those three words, and how did they cause sales to skyrocket?
Szot changed the all-too-familiar call-to-action line, "Operators are waiting, please call now," to, "If operators are busy, please call again." On the face of it, the change appears foolhardy. After all, the message seems to convey that potential customers might have to waste their time dialing and redialing the toll-free number until they finally reach a sales representative. Yet, that surface view underestimates the power of the principle of social proof: When people are uncertain about a course of action, they tend to look outside themselves and to other people around them to guide their decisions and actions. In the Colleen Szot example, consider the kind of mental image likely to be generated when you hear "operators are waiting": scores of bored phone representatives filing their nails, clipping their coupons, or twiddling their thumbs while they wait by their silent telephones — an image indicative of low demand and poor sales.
Now consider how your perception of the popularity of the product would change when you heard the phrase "if operators are busy, please call again." Instead of those bored, inactive representatives, you're probably imagining operators going from phone call to phone call without a break. In the case of the modified "if operators are busy, please call again" line, home viewers followed their perceptions of others' actions, even though those others were completely anonymous. After all, "if the phone lines are busy, then other people like me who are also watching this infomercial are calling, too."
Many classical findings in social psychology demonstrate the power of social proof to influence other people's actions. To take just one, in an experiment conducted by scientist Stanley Milgram and colleagues, an assistant of the researchers stopped on a busy New York City sidewalk and gazed skyward for sixty seconds. Most passersby simply walked around the man without even glancing to see what he was looking at. However, when the researchers added four other men to that group of sky gazers, the number of passersby who joined them more than quadrupled.
Although there's little doubt that other people's behavior is a powerful source of social influence, when we ask people in our own studies whether other people's behavior influences their own, they are absolutely insistent that it does not. But social psychologists know better. We know that people's ability to understand the factors that affect their behavior is surprisingly poor. Perhaps this is one reason that the people in the business of creating those little cards encouraging hotel guests to reuse their towels didn't think to use the principle of social proof to their advantage. In asking themselves, "What would motivate me?" they might well have discounted the very real influence that others would have on their behavior. As a result, they focused all their attention on how the towel reuse program would be relevant to saving the environment, a motivator that seemed, at least on the surface of it, to be most relevant to the desired behavior.
In our hotel experiment, we considered the finding that the majority of hotel guests who encounter the towel reuse signs do actually recycle their towels at least some time during their stay. What if we simply informed guests of this fact? Would it have any influence on their participation in the conservation program relative to the participation rates that a basic environmental appeal yields? With the cooperation of a hotel manager, two of us and another colleague created two signs and placed them in hotel rooms. One was designed to reflect the type of basic environmental-protection message adopted throughout much of the hotel industry. It asked the guests to help save the environment and to show their respect for nature by participating in the program. A second sign used the social proof information by informing guests that the majority of guests at the hotel recycled their towels at least once during the course of their stay. These signs were randomly assigned to the rooms in the hotel.
Now, typically, experimental social psychologists are fortunate enough to have a team of eager undergraduate research assistants to help collect the data. But, as you might imagine, neither our research assistants nor the guests would have been very pleased with the research assistants' sneaking into hotel bathrooms to collect our data, nor would our university's ethics board (nor our mothers, for that matter). Fortunately, the hotel's room attendants were kind enough to volunteer to collect the data for us. On the first day on which a particular guest's room was serviced, they simply recorded whether the guest chose to reuse at least one towel.
Guests who learned that the majority of other guests had reused their towels (the social proof appeal), which was a message that we've never seen employed by even a single hotel, were 26 percent more likely than those who saw the basic environmental protection message to recycle their towels. That's a 26 percent increase in participation relative to the industry standard, which we achieved simply by changing a few words on the sign to convey what others were doing. Not a bad improvement for a factor that people say has no influence on them at all.
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|March 24 – 30
|ICC Americas 50 Overs Match Practice Series
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|Bermuda, USA, Cayman Islands, Suriname. Organised by ICC to give USA and Bermuda international 50-Overs match practice in preparation for WCL Division 3 in Bermuda in April
|April 28 – May 5
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|July 7 – 14 TBC
|ICC Americas U19 Division 1 Championship
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Web developers are reporting that the Safari Web browser in iOS 6 is breaking the applications they're writing thanks to aggressive caching. Discussion of the issue on Stack Overflow explains that Safari is remembering the server responses to certain requests and then reusing those responses, even though a new response should be requested every time.
Web requests can take many forms, but there are two main kinds:
GET and
POST. As a general rule,
POST should be used when you expect there to be a side-effect of some kind;
GET should be used when there is no side-effect. So, for example, a search for a book on Amazon should use a
GET; since searching doesn't change any state (it doesn't place any orders, or change your billing information, or anything like that),
GET is appropriate. The final "Buy" button in the checkout, however, should use
POST, because it has a big side-effect: your credit card gets billed, a book is shipped out, and so on.
Because of this fundamental difference, the two have different default rules about caching.
GET requests can generally be cached; the result of a
GET is broadly expected to be the same each time, and since there's no side-effect from a
GET it doesn't actually matter if a browser sends the request to a server, or just uses a cached response.
POST, on the other hand, generally can't be cached. If you want to know what the result of a
POST is, you have to ask the server again, because the response may very well be different—to use the Amazon example again, your credit card might refuse the transaction the second time around, or the book may now be out of stock.
POST responses are not completely uncachable, but according to the HTTP specification the responses must explicitly indicate that they can be cached. The responses to
GET requests don't require this explicit indication; instead, there are generic rules that are applied.
Evidence suggests that Safari on iOS 6 is ignoring these rules. Developers are using
POST for operations with side-effects, but Safari is caching the results and not giving applications the correct response. The result is that the apps are prone to breaking.
A number of solutions have been proposed at Stack Overflow. When developers have control of both the server and the client, they can configure the server to explicitly indicate that responses shouldn't be cached. This shouldn't be necessary, and isn't required for any other browser, but Safari will pay attention if caching is suppressed. When developers only control the client, they can add a timestamp or similar to each
POST they make, to ensure that no two posts are identical. This assumes that the server doesn't mind receiving a timestamp it neither wants nor asked for.
Whether this is a bug or a deliberate attempt by Apple to improve perceived performance of its browser is as yet unclear. We've asked Apple for comment, but as yet have heard nothing back.


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Anderson Cooper adds Valentine's Day to the RidicuList and offers up some date alternatives for the romantics out there.
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Wonderful! AC never disappoints.
Ps who Cares if people want to express their love a little extra once a year
This is by far the worst video I have ever seen. AC, that was boring, and not worth my time. My husband is serving our country, report on better things, c'mon, your a journalists; not a character on snl
Once again a classic – you just keep getting better as you go!
Yes, Anderson. Happy Singles Awareness Day!
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Tommy Caldwell Repeats The Path (5.14 R)
Tommy Caldwell has made a rare repeat of The Path (5.14a/b R) at Back of the Lake in Alberta, Canada. The Path was first established by Sonnie Trotter in 2007, who spotted an old, bolted project and became enticed by the line. The gear-protected climb has seen only a handful of repeats.
The Path (5.14a/b R) at Back of the Lake in Alberta, Canada. The Path was first established by Sonnie Trotter in 2007, who spotted an old, bolted project and became enticed by the line. One month ago, at Rock and Ice's annual photo camp (see issue 213), Trotter explained that while he wasn't opposed to sport climbing he felt that certain routes, such as The Path, are better left traditionally protected simply because they are more fun that way. He decided to remove the existing bolts and establish the route using gear instead.
Caldwell had attempted The Path two years earlier on rest day while working on The Shining (15 pitches, 5.13+) on nearby Mt. Louis. After top-roping the route a couple of times this year, he returned and was able to successfully stick the redpoint on his second lead attempt.
Caldwell has made a name for himself in several facets of the sport, including sport climbing, traditional climbing, and big wall free climbing. He completed the first ascent of Kryptonite (5.14c/d) and Flex Luthor (possibly the first 5.15a in North America and still unrepeated) at Colorado's Fortress of Solitude. He was also the first person to free climb numerous routes on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and has set several speed records in Yosemite as well.
As for the future, Caldwell will be traveling to Salt Lake City this week to compete in the Psicobloc Masters Deep Water soloing competition. He will be competing with other top names in climbing, including Chris Sharma, Dave Graham, Daniel Woods, Nalle Hukkataival, James Webb and more. The women's bracket of this exciting event is equally stacked, drawing competitors like Sasha Diguilian, Emily Harrington, and Lynn Hill. In August, Caldwell plans to return to his home in Estes Park, Colorado to boulder and climb on Longs Peak's Diamond. Afterwards, he intends to return to Yosemite to continue working on the Dawn Wall project, which if completed could be one of the most difficult big wall free climbs in the world.
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November 28th, 2011
New advice to prevent and correct flat head syndrome in babies
Since 1992, when the American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending that babies sleep on their backs, the number of deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS - the number one cause of death among infants younger than 1 year of age - has been cut in half, according to the CDC.
However, as the number of SIDS deaths have gone down, pediatricians have seen a dramatic increase in babies having flat head syndrome. About 13% of healthy infants have some form of positional plagiocephaly (which means "oblique head" in Greek).
"[Babies] spend almost all their time on their back," says pediatrician Dr. James Laughlin, "that leads to some positional flattening or molding of the head, depending on how the baby sleeps."
Most babies' heads are slightly asymmetrical. Their skulls are soft and made up of movable plates (which are necessary for baby to make it through the birth canal). In between these plates are spaces, which allow the skull to expand so that the brain can grow. If the baby's head always rests on the same spot, the skull plates move in a way that leaves a flat spot, according to the NIH.
The AAP and NIH caution that even though having your baby sleep on its back can lead to a flattened head, parents should not stop placing babies on their backs to sleep. Asymmetry of the skull when caused by positional molding doesn't cause developmental delays, says Laughlin. "This is cosmetic."
The new report, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday, suggests that pediatricians should counsel new parents about how to avoid flat head syndrome when they bring their newborns in for their check-ups in the first 2 to 4 weeks of life.
Until a baby is one year old, doctors should also screen for skull deformities at every wellness visit.
Only if the flattening of the head worsens by the time baby is 6 months old and the infant has serious flat spots should head-molding helmets be considered, according to the new guidelines. "There is currently no evidence that molding helmets work any better than positioning for infants with mild or moderate skull deformity," according to the report.
Surgery should only be considered when all other options have been exhausted, and after consulting with a surgeon who specializes in these types of cases.
There are simple steps parents can take to prevent flat spots, and they can also be used to minimize the progression if a positional skull deformity has already developed:
– Increase "tummy" time, which is supervised time during the day when baby lies on its stomach. A baby should spend at least 30 to 60 minutes a day on it's belly, something that can be done immediately after birth. This will help develop neck and shoulder muscles, says Laughlin. It has also been shown to "enhance motor developmental scores," according to this new report.
– The NIH recommends changing the direction your baby lies in the crib each week. They say this change will encourage the baby to turn his or her head in different directions to avoid resting in the same position all the time.
– Some babies prefer to hold their head to one side. Laughlin suggests laying them down in a different way when they're awake, so they have something interesting to look at on the opposite side. If you have them in a car seat or sitting in something else, you can also change the position to make the baby look in the opposite direction.
– Parents may find their babies sleep well sitting in a car seat, but this is another way they can develop an asymmetrical shape, especially in the first 6 months of life. So experts suggest babies shouldn't spend a prolonged period of time in a car seat (unless they are in a car of course) or bouncy seat.
– Cuddle! The NIH says "getting cuddle time with the baby by holding him or her upright over one shoulder often during the day," is another way to prevent flat spots.
"In the majority of these cases, this will correct itself on its own, without any or only minimal intervention," says Laughlin. "Because more than half of infants will improve by 6 months of age, repositioning should be attempted as initial treatment. In most cases, flat spots usually go away when a baby starts sitting up on its own.
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Fairmont State gathered past athletes and friends to celebrate and induct The Class of 2012 into the Athletic Association's Hall of Fame. Inductees included: Martha Ganoe (volleyball); Kristen Gattuso (women's basketball); Haywood Highsmith (men's basketball); George Opron (baseball); John Feronti (swimming); Jarrod Furgason (football); and Bill Stewart (football).
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Nearest Communities to Ree Heights Listed By‑County ...
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ree Heights, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ree Heights:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Ree Heights.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ree Heights is located in Hand County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hand County: Beadle, Buffalo, Faulk, Hyde, Jerauld & Spink.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ree Heights. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Hand County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Ree Heights (which is Hand County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Ree Heights
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
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It's Oscar weekend, and that means L.A. is buzzing with celebrities and gawkers alike. LACMA is not immune. On view in the Resnick Pavilion is Larry Fink: Hollywood Parties, 2000–2009. These are just any Hollywood parties; for ten years Fink was invited to shoot Vanity Fair's legendary Oscar parties. Neither documentary nor fanatical, Fink's photographs capture the small, human moments.
Opening on the top floor of the Ahmanson Building this weekend is the small installation of stunning photographs by Firooz Zahedi, Elizabeth Taylor in Iran. Zahedi accompanied Taylor to Iran in 1976 where they visited ancient Persepolis, Shiraz, and Isfahan. Though Taylor adopted the traditional dress of her surroundings, Zahedi's photographs show that it was hardly enough to contain her star power.
The small screen is also getting some love from LACMA this weekend. Tonight in the Bing Theater we are presenting a selection of the UK's best television commercials as chosen by top ad execs from around the world. For instance, extreme shepherding:
Tomorrow night our tribute to Jane Fonda comes to a close with 1981's On Golden Pond, in which Fonda starred with her father, Henry, in his final performance (for which he won an Oscar, as did co-star Katherine Hepburn). The film is followed by Julia, from 1971, a period drama about playwright Lillian Hellman and her childhood friend, Julia. The film stars Fonda alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Jason Robards Jr., and Hal Holbrooke.
If you've not been bitten by the Oscar bug at all, then come to the museum on Sunday evening for a little respite in the form of the Capitol Ensemble, performing works by Schubert and Brahms as part of the free Sundays Live concert series.
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On Tuesday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the next stage in an ambitious project called Phoenix, which it hopes will bring about the first demonstration of robotic, in-orbit satellite servicing in 2015.
The servicing, however, won't involve the repair of an existing satellite—instead, one that has already been retired will be scavenged for spare parts. If all goes well, the antenna (or aperture) of the defunct satellite will be linked with one or more small "satlets" that will return it to active duty.
"[Phoenix is a] modest effort to increase the return-on-investment for DoD [Department of Defense] space missions," Dave Barnhart, a DARPA program manager, said at a recent press conference.
It costs a lot of money to put something into geosynchronous orbit, and not everything that's been put there remains active. In many cases, this is because of the failure or obsolescence of only some of their hardware, while other parts remain perfectly viable and functioning. (In fact, we already know they've functioned after launch and deployment.)
In short, the Phoenix project is essentially a very complicated recycling program.
"If you have the ability to utilize hardware that's up there, you can do this at a lower cost," Barhart added.
Reducing space junk
Although many of the parts of satellites are highly specialized or internal to the structure, a few standard pieces—the aperture, solar arrays—are easily accessible and can be used on hardware with different purposes.
Barnhart described a system where there would be a single dedicated launch to put the robotic servicing hardware in space. After that, the program would start looking for commercial launches with extra space and weight available. These would be used to send up small satlets to rendezvous with the mechanic.
The DARPA manager suggested the process would be akin to putting spare parts into the repair platform's toolbelt. Once that was done, the orbital mechanic would move into the graveyard orbit and make its way to a retired satellite (with the full permission of the satellite's owner).
Once there, the goal is to neatly slice off the aperture while avoiding creating additional space debris in the process. That would then be connected to one or more satlets that would handle various functions, like pointing the aperture in the right direction, transmitting data through it, and providing power for the other functions. The exact collection of satlets that get attached will depend on how much the program intends to get out of the aperture.
Obviously, something like this requires having a lot of different pieces in place, and Barnhart was talking to the press because DARPA feels they've made progress in many areas and are ready to work on the remaining ones. He mentioned that the robotic arm was working, and they have prototypes of the cameras that would help manage the approach to and grappling of the target satellite. The agency is now working on specific tools for the arm to use, and how to safely handle the charge difference that can build up between different objects in space.
The processes will involve a mix of automated and controller-based software, and Barnhart said DARPA is also starting to test the teloperations system, which has both physical manipulators and a touchscreen interface to allow ground-based controllers to have some direct input on events taking place in orbit. To demonstrate its progress, DARPA has put together a video showing a simulation of its future mission, with embedded images of the real-world test hardware and software that are being used to make it a reality.
140 defunct satellites to be targeted
What's next for the Phoenix program? Some of it involves testing the hardware in more realistic environments. Barnhart talked about looking for "N-degree of freedom facilities," in which the test hardware could operate. DARPA researchers also intend to start finding ground station providers that are capable of tracking the servicing satellite as it moves to reach different graveyard orbits while supporting a full virtual environment on the ground.
Out of the 500 satellites in the graveyard orbits, DARPA has identified about 140 that have apertures that should be good for harvesting. The program has been allocated $180 million over four years to get the demonstration mission off the ground, and the pieces are starting to fall into place.
Longer term, however, the program is likely to depend on launch costs going down and the ability to hitch rides for satlets on existing launch schedules. The aperture usually isn't expensive hardware, and Barnhart said it was only about 2-3 percent of a satellite's entire mass. By reusing it, however, Barhnart said you can get a larger return on investment for your initial cost and amortize it over a larger number of years. In the end, getting Phoenix to work should save some money.
Probably more significantly, though, developing the technology could save money in other ways. Apertures sometimes fail to unfold once a satellite reaches orbit, and learning to manipulate them in space raises the prospect of repairing those failures. Apertures aren't the only thing that can be salvaged, either.
Barnhart said that solar panels are also an obvious target, but they may require more specialized hardware to do power conversion, attach wiring, etc.—he told Ars that these added another layer of complexity DARPA chose to avoid for the demonstration mission.
But if Phoenix ever becomes capable of handling these added complexities, then the program could potentially become self-sustaining.


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Monday, April 26, 2010
Goat Herder's Mac 'N' Cheese - Blue Monday
Mustard Field - Alvadore Oregon
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...If goat herder's actually made mac 'n' cheese this is what they'd eat. This creamy pasta is made from goat's milk and chevre with bits of hot pepper and tomato added for a splash of color. I've used small shells as a vehicle to capture the lovely sauce the macaroni is warmed in, but any pasta could be used. Those who love the crunch of a classic mac 'n' cheese will probably be disappointed with this version, but anyone who is willing to experiment and is looking for a new approach to an old favorite will be pleased. Goat's milk has a salty undertone and is a bit sweeter that cow's milk. While the milk is not popular in the United States, it is the milk of choice in other parts of the world. You should be able to find it in most large grocery chains or in the dairy section of health food stores. This version of mac 'n' cheese is assembled from fully cooked ingredients that are combined and warmed just before serving. The final dish is creamier than it's more common counterpart and it is wonderful as a side with plain grilled meat or poultry. It is very rich so keep serving portions slight smaller than you would normally serve. This is a lovely pasta and, fortunately, it is also easy to do. While I doubt you'll have to worry about leftovers, they will keep for several days if well-wrapped and refrigerated. I hope you'll give this a try. Here's the recipe.
Goat Herder's Mac 'N' Cheese...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
3 cups goat's milk
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and very finely diced
1 large Roma tomato, seed and very finely diced
4 ounces crumbled goat cheese
8 ounces cooked shells or other small pasta
1) Place goat's milk, salt and pepper in a 3-quart sauce pan and bring to a simmer. Simmer until reduced by one-third. Lower heat and keep warm.
2) Combine butter and flour in a small skillet and whisk over moderate heat until a roux forms. Whisk into goat's milk. Bring mixture back to the simmer and cook until sauce thickens. Adjust salt and pepper to taste. Stir in lemon juice, jalapeno, tomato, cheese and pasta and cook until cheese melts and pasta is warmed through. Again check for seasoning. Serve hot. Yield: 4 to 5 servings.
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62 comments :
- bj said...
Hi, Mary..I am up at 1 am and not a bit sleepy. Usually a few minutes at the computer puts me in a sleepy mode...
This Mac N Cheese sounds really good. I've never tasted goat milk..not too anixous but this recipe sounds so good.
I also read you got a virus using FB...sometimes I worry about that, too. So many people and so much going on. People I don't know always want to be friends but I am going to be a lot more careful accepting them. Thanks for the warning.
xo bj
- April 26, 2010 at 2:02 AM
- Diane said...
I love pasta - it gives me lots of energy, this sounds really good. Diane
- April 26, 2010 at 2:21 AM
- Unknown said...
Very interesting entry, thanks for sharing!
- April 26, 2010 at 2:23 AM
- Ciao Chow Linda said...
Years ago I bought goat's milk from some local people with goats - I won it at an auction. Would love to try your mac n cheese - looks and sounds delicious. Love the field of wild mustard greens - I wrote a post last year about foraging for them - they're delicious by themselves with garlic or in pasta. http://ciaochowlinda.blogspot.com/2009/04/foraging-for-wild-greens.html
- April 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM
- Sushma Mallya said...
very beautiful pictures, loved the dish as well..
- April 26, 2010 at 2:38 AM
- DailyChef said...
wow this looks awesome. Never tried goat milk before, oddly enough.
- April 26, 2010 at 3:26 AM
- Federica Simoni said...
adoro la pasta!! questo è piatto è davvero eccezionale!!bravissima!! un abbraccio e buona settimana!!
- April 26, 2010 at 3:35 AM
- Devaki said...
Dear Mary - You always take us on a beautiful journey before culminating in a wonderful dish.
So original using fresh chevre in mac and cheese. Lovely with the tomatoes.
Ciao, Devaki @ weavethousandflavors
- April 26, 2010 at 3:36 AM
- giorno26 ¸¸.•*¨*•. said...
Hi Mary,
in Italia amiamo molto la pasta con il formaggio Parmigiano Reggiano....
E' il mio piatto preferito !
Buona giornata Myriam
- April 26, 2010 at 4:02 AM
- My Little Space said...
Mustard green is very common and cheap over here. Full year supply! No more blue Monday btw, that Mac & Cheese looks like sunshine to me! Yummmm...mm.... Have a wonderful day!
Blessings, Kristy
- April 26, 2010 at 4:23 AM
- ♥Sugar♥Plum♥Fairy♥ said...
Hulllo dear Mary, the pics of the fields full o blooms are lovely...thanxx for the happy sunshine ..
and the Goats cheese n Mac ,sounds very interesting, our tiny idyllic state makes lods of goodies difficult to find but i sure wanna try this one...
- April 26, 2010 at 4:29 AM
- Allie and Pattie said...
Mary, I ALWAYS have goat cheese in the house and remember drinking goat's milk when we visited my Aunt's mountain home in the mountains in Italy- I will absolutely make this dish!
xoxo Pattie
- April 26, 2010 at 4:29 AM
- Ana Powell said...
Lovely, creamy and delicious.
Awesome photo x
- April 26, 2010 at 4:54 AM
- Lucie said...
Beautiful pictures, Mary! Your mac n cheese looks delicious.
- April 26, 2010 at 5:11 AM
- Joanne said...
I love a good goat cheese. And to put it in mac and cheese form sounds fantastic! It makes me kind of wish I were a goat herder...
- April 26, 2010 at 6:55 AM
- Deana Sidney said...
I just had to see what a goat herder would eat, Mary! Let me say that is one lucky guy! I doubt anyone short of Mary ANtoinette at her little farm would be so fortunate... can't wait to try!
- April 26, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Sweet Southern Prep said...
One quick question, I'm considering this for dinner tonight, since it looks so delicious. Do I have to use goat's milk? Would whole milk work fine also? Thanks!
- April 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- black eyed susans kitchen said...
Beautiful pictures, and a very interesting recipe. Love that there is still a mac and cheese that will be new to me. I love goat cheese, so this should be delicious.
♥, Susan
- April 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- Kim said...
I would love the tang that the goat's milk provides. It looks so smooth and creamy Mary! Another fabulous recipe.
- April 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- SmilingSally said...
I prefer a creamy mac 'n cheese rather than some crunch, so this recipe would be "right up my alley." Happy Blue Monday, Mary.
- April 26, 2010 at 8:27 AM
- Tony said...
so when is the cook book coming out mary? :)
- April 26, 2010 at 9:10 AM
- pam said...
goat cheese is one of my favorites so this is definitely on my list!
- April 26, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- Maria said...
Love this version and the flowers are so pretty!
- April 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Mary | Deep South Dish said...
Sounds very interesting Mary! What a bright background for your photo. What do you use for all of these interesting background colors for your photography?
- April 26, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Cathy said...
I haven't noticed goat's milk in the market. I'll have to pay attention the next time I'm in Whole Foods. Goat's milk cheeses are some of my favorites.
- April 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM
- hobby baker Kelly said...
Wow. YUM. Must try this. Maybe for lunch...
- April 26, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Holly said...
Oh yummmm!! Looks really good-I love creamy mac n cheese!
- April 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Valérie said...
Beautiful! I love goat cheese, and this must give the old mac 'n' cheese a terrific makeover!
- April 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Becky K. said...
Mac and cheese is a favorite at our house. Your recipe sounds interesting. I have not had goat's milk since I was a teen. It didn't thrill me then, but I should try it again.
Becky K.
- April 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- C.G. the Foodie said...
I love goat milk and this recipe sounds fabulous. Thanks!!!
- April 26, 2010 at 12:32 PM
- Cherine said...
Your pasta is mouthwatering !!
- April 26, 2010 at 12:44 PM
- From the Kitchen said...
Why the umbrellas? Because it has been rain, rain, raining on my head! Why not the umbrellas? Good question. I found them on another blog and they were "up for grabs". I followed the photo to flickr and, sure enough, the photographer (from Barcelona) wanted no credit and therefore did not leave his name just saying "enjoy" in Spanish. I love the photo and have made a copy to hang in a grouping of photos.
They are still up because, somehow, my post for this morning has still not posted. It says "scheduled to post at 11:04 a.m." but it's past that time and no post. First time for this! So, check back for "Potage Vert Pre" maybe later today, or.....
- April 26, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Big Dude said...
Looks and sounds good to me, but I didn't even get past the name when Bev said "if it's made with goat cheese I'm not interested."
- April 26, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- sweetlife said...
love this mac and cheese, perfect for a grown up party...or hungry kiddos..goat cheese and goat milk what great flavors, sorry about the virus..
- April 26, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Unknown said...
wonderful recipe with a wonderful snap....
- April 26, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Beansieleigh said...
Well.. I've never tried it with goat's cheese, but homemade Mac-n-Cheese has always been a favorite of mine, ever since I was a little girl! Yours certainly looks good, and I'm sure it's delicious! Happy Blue Monday! ~tina
- April 26, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- The Red Umbrella said...
Love the photo of the mustard field!
- April 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- The Diva on a Diet said...
My goodness, Mary, this looks and sounds exquisite! I'm a huge mac 'n cheese fan and alway on the lookout for a new twist. Love the goats milk here and also the addition of the jalapeno. Wow, I can't wait to try this!!
- April 26, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- Louis la Vache said...
This is faaaaabulous, Mary!
(And «Louis», always anxious to promote the dairy production of his bovine cousins, even forgives you for using goat's milk instead of cow's milk...)
Here's the correct link to Eleonora's food blog. «Louis» thanks you for pointing out the broken link. He also has the link to her blog in his right side bar above the link to your blog.
- April 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- Samantha @ The Savvy Soybean said...
This looks absolutely fantastic! I love goat cheese/milk and its tangy flavor. What a sophisticated, beautiful site you have.
- April 26, 2010 at 2:54 PM
- taste traveller said...
That's funny - I just made some mac & cheese too (Happy Monday!) Normally I use goat milk & cheese too, it seems so much creamier & nicer. Plus I've been indoctrinated by my local goat cheese farm. Nice pics!
- April 26, 2010 at 3:37 PM
- Angie's Recipes said...
I should not have entered this post at 945pm....now I feel so hungry!
- April 26, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Any kind of M&C is good M&C.
- April 26, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Juliana said...
Love your version of the mac n cheese...never had with goat cheese :-)
- April 26, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Unknown said...
that looks great Mary and those flowers are soooo pretty...so much yellow....LOL!!!
Have a great day!
- April 26, 2010 at 5:09 PM
- Tuty @Scentofspice said...
Goat's milk is actually quite good. The first time I tasted it was over two decades ago.. fresh from the goat :)
The mustard field looked so glorious, Mary. Thank you for sharing those lovely photographs.
Have a blessed week.
- April 26, 2010 at 5:41 PM
- Marice said...
these are perfect! yummy and lovely scenery :)
u may view mine here
- April 26, 2010 at 6:07 PM
- Biren said...
The pasta looks very inviting and the fields are flowers are so lovely!
- April 26, 2010 at 6:14 PM
- Jen_from_NJ said...
Hi Mary, I would love to try your version of mac 'n cheese. It looks so creamy and delicious. The jalapeno must give it a nice little kick. Perfect!
The mustard field is just gorgeous!
- April 26, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- Claudia said...
Love the mellow, creamy tang of this. I'm a mouse, I confess. I'll take any cheese (that's you know... real) in my mac 'n cheese.
- April 26, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- La Bella Cooks said...
I have never tried this with goats milk before but would love to try it someday soon. We have loads of mustard growing all around us too. Beautiful but horrible for those suffering from allergies!
- April 26, 2010 at 7:41 PM
What a delicious and fancy version of mac n cheese. Love goat milk and cheese. I must try this!
- April 26, 2010 at 8:33 PM
- Sweet Southern Prep said...
Made it! Husband loved it! Thanks so much for the yummy recipe. I'll definitely use it again. :)
- April 26, 2010 at 9:27 PM
- D said...
Mary, when I was 5 and we moved in with my maternal grandmother, goat's milk is what we drank, and your post took me back to when we would go with my grandfather and take the goats to the "ball diamond" to feed.
These days as we grow older and the old metabolism slows, I try to stay away from carbs, but there is something about mac n cheese and especially anything that has goat cheese, I am willing to try. Thank you Mary.
- April 26, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Jeannie said...
Delicious looking Mac n Cheese! My sons would definitely love this dish! They love anything with cream and cheese come to think of it! Beautiful photos too! Brightens up my pc screen:D
- April 26, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- JEANNE said...
Hi Mary, Goats milk does not sound tasty to me. I really dislike milk in general. However, I bet this is delicious. Creamy sounds good to me.
I do love home made Mac and cheese. Forget the stuff in a box. Smile.
Happy cooking.
Hugs, Jeanne
- April 26, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
I do love Mac and Cheese makeovers! This use of goat cheese sounds so fresh and creamy, and evocative of the land.
- April 26, 2010 at 10:43 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Fun--love the use of the goats milk in this. I love goat cheese too. A beautiful dish. ;-)
- April 27, 2010 at 4:31 AM
- D said...
Dear Mary, I wanted to be sure you saw my response to your question regarding the "ball diamond".
I grew up on the east coast in coal country; my grandfather came to the US in 1909 to work in the coal camps which had company stores, company housing... and company baseball teams. The "ball diamond" was what used to be a company baseball field, a level playing area and sloping rising hillsides.
Overgrown and of course no longer used as a ball field by the time I came along in the 40's, my grandparents used it to take their goats to graze.
Thanks for the reminder. ;)
- April 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- ♥ Kathy said...
I love goats milk cheese..one of my faves!
- April 27, 2010 at 10:36 AM
- Gypsy Girl Gourmet said...
My sister and I LOVE goat cheese. This recipe is at the top of the list to try! Yum!
- April 27, 2010 at 1:43 PM
- Andreas said...
Sounds really delicious.
Goat milk and jalapeno pepper....
- April 27, 2010 at 3:42 PM


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Grilled Minted Beef Kabobs
This is the stuff of the barbecues of my childhood: hamburgers with a Meditteranean twist. These are perfect with Moroccan Tomato Salad (below). If you are avoiding beef or lamb and decide to substitute ground turkey, increase the amounts of seasoning to taste and add three tablespoons of olive oil to the mixture.
1 medium onion, quartered
4 large cloves garlic
1 small bunch of flat-leaf parsley, including stems
1 small bunch mint, leaves only
1 tablespoon cumin
! tablespoon paprika
Good pinch of cayenne, or more to taste
2 pounds of extra-lean ground beef, or extra-lean ground lamb, or a combination
Freshly ground pepper
Makes about 6 servings
Prepare the grill or preheat the broiler
Combine the onion, parsley, and mint in a food processor and pulse untul finely choppe, do not let mixture get watery. Transfer to a bowl, and mix in the cumin, paprika, cayenne, beef and pepper to taste..
Form about 18 logs approximately 1 inch in diameter and 4 inches long. Thread onto wet wooden or metal skewers. Broil for 2 to 3 minutes on each side. Serve hot. allow 2 to 3 skewers per guest.
As Levana tells us above, this dish combines perfectly with:
Moroccan Tomato Salad
We Moroccans cook tomatoes, sun-dry tomatoes, pickle tomatooes, candy tomatoes-we prepare tomatoes in every way possible. In Mediterranean climates, they are spectacular year round, inexpensive and bursting with color and fragrance. Recently, it has become easier (altjhough not cheaper) to get decent tomatoes throughout the year in the United States. This salad includes capers, gherkins, and preserved lemons; it is delightfully fragrant, colorful and refreshing. If you do nopt have preserved lemons on hand, simply omit them and proceed with the recipe. If you must make this salad ahead of time, make it without the tomatoes (up to two days ahead), then add the tomatoes before serving.
6 plum tomatoes, seeds and juice discarded, diced
2 tablespoons minced purple onion
4 sprigs flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
2 tablespoons capers, preferably tiny nonpareils
1/4 cup minced dill pickle
6 pitted green olives, minced
2 pickled hot peppers, chopped (optional)
1/4 of a preserved lemon, skin onl, rinsed and finely chopped
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
salt and pepper
Makes 6 servings
Place all ingredients in a glass bowl and mix well. Serve at room temperature.
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The human brain is wonderfully complex. Within it, there are billions of neurons, each collecting information and determining whether to respond to it. In some cases, groups of neurons compete for an outcome; when a group reaches a certain level of activity, its output ends up being chosen. To help make their case, these neurons can send positive signals to each other, and they can inhibit others with different agendas. Ideally, this system improves the chances of reaching an optimal decision; it's an elegant way to make sense of lots of competing input.
As if we didn't think bees were cool enough already, Science reports this week that this approach to decision making is echoed in the behavior of honeybee swarms. Just as our neurons emit inhibitory signals, bees can hinder other hivemates that are advocating a different course of action. As with neurons, the swarm's collective decision is made when a particular threshold is reached. But, unlike neurons, the bees have a very physical means of inhibiting those with a competing message: they headbutt them.
When a group of honeybees are ready to create a new colony, thousands of bees, along with one queen, set off from their old hive. Scout bees are faced with the task of finding a suitable nest and reporting back to their group with the location of the best nest site; the information is communicated via the famous waggle dance. Unfortunately, the scouts don't always agree on which site is best. So how does a swarm decide where to relocate?
A group of researchers found that, upon returning to the swarm, scout bees will "headbutt" other scouts that are promoting a different nest site. This headbutt transfers a vibrational signal that, when repeated enough times, causes the other bee to stop dancing. Once a certain threshold is reached—that is, enough scouts that were advocating alternative sites have been headbutted into submission—the decision is made, and the swarm will move to the winning nest site.
The researchers created an analytic model based on differential equations, taking into account the interaction rules they learned by observing swarming bees. The model suggested that this type of cross inhibition is often necessary in order for the swarms to reach a decision. Without inhibitory signals, bees may be able to "induce" some bees to switch sides, but it's likely that enough bees will switch sides to keep the swarm from entering a stable deadlock. The use of inhibitory signals, as well as a threshold, ensures that a decision will be reached and the swarm will be in agreement as it lifts off to colonize a new nest.
While a honeybee swarm and the human brain have some aspects in common, they're from such distinct evolutionary paths that the degree of similarity between their strategies is pretty incredible. Clearly, this type of system is a particularly effective way to make a decision that has to incorporate multiple sources of biological information.
Science, 2011. DOI: 10.1126/science.1210361 (About DOIs).
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PTSD, it is terrifying and it is inevitable. The more you think about it, the more you realize that everyone on Dwarf Fortress has post-traumatic stress disorder. I can't say I'm surprised though, especially with what the average Dwarf Fortress player considers "fun".
On an unrelated note, I have to attend an exam on Thursday. A handwritten exam for a computer programming course (ugh).
I know my subject very well, but I'm not good at writing by hand, especially code. So I'm probably going to fail, despite getting nearly a hundred on everything else.
None the less, please wish me luck!
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For the uninitiated:
making massive doomsday devices that flood the world with lava=fun.
Forcing Mermaids to mate and then killing their offspring for their valuable bones=fun.
Carp=the deadliest creatures imaginable, AKA FUN.
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Levar Burton asks for help to reboot 'Reading Rainbow'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeVar Burton's fundraising effort to bring "Reading Rainbow" to the online masses is a by-the-book success.
The goal of raising $1 million by July 2 was reached within hours of the campaign's launch Wednesday on Kickstarter, according to the website. More than 23,000 donors had pledged $1.1 million and counting.
Burton was the host of "Reading Rainbow," the children's literacy program that aired on public TV through 2009.
"It was my mother who taught me that, by picking up a book, I could 'go anywhere' and 'be anything,' " Burton said in a posting on Kickstarter.
Contributors can claim rewards ranging from autographed memorabilia to a private dinner with Burton to a chance to put on the visor that the actor wore on "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
"We're not just getting pledges, but so much email love that our server froze," said Mark Wolfe, Burton's business partner. "I'm so happy to help. LeVar taught me to read," is among the typical messages, he said.
A tablet version of "Reading Rainbow" was released in 2012 and became a top-selling education app. It provides access to hundreds of books and Burton's videotaped "field trips" to historic and other places, said Wolfe, who co-founded the for-profit RRKidz company with Burton.
The Kickstarter campaign is intended to help bring an online version to more children for a $5 monthly subscription fee, Wolfe said. Many more families have access to computers than tablets, he said.
An educator-specific format will be created for schools and made available free to at least 1,500 of the neediest classrooms, RRKidz said.
Burton and Wolfe hold the global rights to "Reading Rainbow" in partnership with the show's creator, public TV station WNED in Buffalo, New York, according to a release.


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Distraught Dutch mother: 'Send my children home'
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A distraught, grieving mother summed up a swelling mood of despair and anguish in the Netherlands on Sunday at faltering efforts to repatriate the bodies of loved ones killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, appealing directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to return the bodies of her son and his girlfriend.
Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, whose son Bryce and his girlfriend Daisy Oehlers were killed when the plane was shot down Thursday over Ukraine, said she was appalled their bodies and those of other victims had been left lying for days.
"I am not a politician," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "But I know for sure that Mr. Putin can do something."
Earlier, at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, she made a simple, but heart-rending appeal to the Russian President: "Mr. Putin, send my children home," she told Sky TV. "Send them home. Please."
International monitors say armed rebels have limited their access to the crash site and Ukrainian officials said armed rebels took 192 bodies away from their workers by force Sunday.
Fredriksz-Hoogzand's son and his girlfriend were among the 193 Dutch victims of the crash, making this nation of 17 million the hardest hit by the tragedy. The Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
Grief is turning to anger for the Dutch as pro-Russian rebels hamper efforts to recover the dead and investigate the cause of the disaster.
"No words can describe it," Fredriksz-Hoogzand told AP. "Bodies are just lying there for three days in the hot sun. There are people who have this on their conscience. There are families who can never hold the body of a child or a mother."
She said she sent Bryce and Daisy on vacation to Bali to get over the grief of Daisy's mother dying two and a half months ago.
"It's a tragedy on top of a tragedy," she said.
Asked Sunday night what delay was acceptable in returning bodies to their families, Prime Minister Mark Rutte replied: "Zero. Nothing is acceptable. All this should be done two days ago. But we are working as hard as possible to ensure a quick repatriation."
Across the nation, worshippers at church services prayed for the victims of the disaster and their next of kin.
At the St. Vitus church in the central city of Hilversum, Father Julius Dresme described the nation's pain.
"It's terrible, and everybody's hearts are bleeding and crying," he said. "And it makes (people) restless and people feel sorrow, and feel a little anger but mostly sadness, confusion."
In Rome, Pope Francis led thousands of tourists and pilgrims assembled in St. Peter's Square in prayer for peace in Ukraine and the Mideast.
"I invite you to remember and to keep praying for tensions and conflicts which are going on in different parts of the world, especially in the Middle East and in Ukraine," he said.
Others mourned privately.
At the Amsterdam student rowing club Skoll, a single member sat weeping Sunday as she wrote in a condolence book for two members of the club who died, Karlijn Keijzer and her boyfriend Laurens van der Graaff.
Amid the grieving, Rutte is pushing for Putin to use his influence over the rebels in eastern Ukraine to ensure a full investigation into the tragedy.
He said Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans was on his way to New York to speak to the United Nations and Security Council members "to further expand the international coalition pushing for quick recovery of the bodies and getting to the bottom of the terrible events on MH17."
A day earlier, Rutte angrily condemned the rebels for interfering with the wreckage and bodies in Ukraine.
"This is totally disgusting. It is also serious because it undermines the investigation," he said.
Rutte called Putin on Saturday and had what he described as "an extremely intense telephone conversation."
"I told him the time is running out to quickly show the world that he intends to help," Rutte said. "He must take the responsibility now with the rebels and show the Netherlands and the world that he is doing what is expected of him."
Rutte said he planned to speak to Putin again Sunday night.
Best-selling Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf went further in a front-page appeal for decisive action to protect the crash site.
Under the Dutch headline, "Enough is enough," the paper called for NATO troops to be deployed in Ukraine to secure the wreckage and bodies in eastern Ukraine.
"At the same time, special forces must be deployed to track down the perpetrators of this mass murder and bring them to the Netherlands to face justice."
Also Sunday, the chief executive officer of Malaysia Airlines, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, arrived in the Netherlands and signed a condolence book at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport for victims of the crash.
The airline also announced it was "retiring" the flight code 17 of its Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur flights "out of respect for our crew and passengers of the mentioned flight code" and replacing it from July 25 with the flight code 19.
Fredriksz-Hoogzand said her only concern was getting back the bodies of her son and his girlfriend.
"She was such a kind girl," she said, her voice cracking with emotion. "And she has been murdered, together with my son. They were totally innocent."


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Willie Nelson
Life Path Number 5
" We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way."
Willie Nelson is an American singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, author, poet and actor who has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, is a country music icon, and an activist for use of bio-fuels and legalized marijuana.
He was born on Sunday April 30th 1933, in Abbott, Texas, United States.
The key to Willie's personality is freedom. Willie loves travel, adventure, variety and meeting new people. He possesses the curiosity of a cat and longs to experience all of life.
Willie Nelson loves to be involved in several things at the same time as long as he is not tied down to any one area. Nelson likes change, new things and new horizons. He makes friends easily; his personality is upbeat and often inspiring attracting people from all walks of life. Willie has a way with words and an uncanny ability to motivate others. He can be in sales, advertising, publicity, promotion, politics or any profession that requires communication skills and understanding of people.
Willie Nelson likely lacks discipline and order. He can also be impulsive, doing or expressing things he regrets later. Freedom and a need for adventure sometimes is not properly controlled by those born with this Life Path, causing problems with drug abuse, overindulgence in food or sex, or generally abusing the gift of life.
Willie is sensual and loves to taste all of life. Sex, food and other sensory experiences are essential to the enjoyment of his life. He finds it difficult to commit to one relationship, but once committed, Willie Nelson can be as faithful as an old dog.
He is multi-talented and possesses a variety of diverse abilities. However, discipline and focus are the true keys to Nelson's success. Without these, many of the tasks Willie begins will remain unfinished and he will fail to realize the true fruits of his abilities. With hard work and perseverance, however, the sky is the limit. Willie Nelson may be perceived as a wild child by adults and a source of concern by his family. However, he must not be obliged to hurry his choice of career. He is often a late-bloomer and needs to experience life before he can truly know and commit to his heart's desire. Willie's challenge is to learn the true meaning of freedom. Change is constant in his world, requiring adaptability and courage.
Willie Nelson should try to maintain an exercise program, keep his body in shape and limber. The flexibility and durability of Nelson's body will promote security and confidence within him. Willie yearns for freedom, and self-employment attracts him powerfully. His challenge is to settle into one area to cultivate his ability sufficiently to earn a living and attain success. Once Willie Nelson finds his niche, the motivation and inspiration he supplies others with will bring him much in return, and Nelson will find his friends and colleagues supporting and promoting him on the road to success.
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About Willie's Life Path number
If ever there was a single moment of total transformation, it was actually the moment of Willie Nelson's birth. In that instant, Willie stepped through a door in time into a new reality - the reality of human life. The most critical number in Nelson's numerology chart is based on the date of his birth - the moment when the curtain went up in Willie Nelson's life.
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