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Mortal combat: an apparent intraspecific killing by a male Black-capped Chickadee
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Hof, D. and Hazlett, N. (2012), Mortal combat: an apparent intraspecific killing by a male Black-capped Chickadee. Journal of Field Ornithology, 83: 290–294. doi: 10.1111/j.1557-9263.2012.00377.x
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Outside the Government: To the Last Man
On television, Torchwood's second season rumbles merrily on with Helen Raynor's To the Last Man. It's an odd thing that Torchwood takes the initial three episodes of its first season as quite so much of a template for its second season. Nevertheless, that is what we have here - an episode focused on reintroducing the team, an episode focused on Gwen bonding with an alien victim, and a ghost story by Helen Raynor. This time the focus of the ghost story is Tosh, not Owen, but nevertheless, the pattern is remarkably consistent.
But where Ghost Machine was an odd and oblique number with a structure that continually twisted out of shape, To the Last Man works with straightforward linearity, moving from its initial premise to its inevitable conclusion with a placid efficiency. This is not, in this case, a bad thing. To the Last Man picks a reasonably potent set of images such that it's direct path from start to finish is tragic rather than predictable. Save a slight pacing glitch at the end (Tosh having to project into Tommy's mind feels like using an extra scene to do what should have been done earlier), this marches along towards a satisfyingly doomful end.
Beyond that, it's flecked with character moments. Tosh would use Tommy as a surrogate for an actual relationship. And Tommy's bewildered disappointment at the things Tosh doesn't pursue in her life stings just right. Better yet is Owen's genuinely concern for Tosh, and the way in which it pays off longer standing character bits. Those who have seen the series know exactly why Owen is the one warning Tosh about the dangers of time-displaced love affairs. Even a somewhat lightweight scene, such as Tommy's railing against the stupidity of continuing war as we cut to a news broadcast about Iraq is quietly elevated. The cliched bashing of the "war to end all wars" descriptor of World War I, which is usually employed because it's the most lazily straightforward way to criticize militarism imaginable, is enlivened immeasurably by the tiny detail of Tommy describing World War II as "three weeks later."
Indeed, Tommy in general is a particularly deft example of the man out of time. The decision not to emphasize Tommy's anachronistic nature is a sound one. He largely understands the world around him. He takes on an interesting role within the world, able to make meaningful statements about it precisely because he's seen snapshots of it over the course of nearly a century. 2008 is a peculiarly good time for a World War I story, coming right as the last of the veterans were swallowed up by the past, such that what we have with this story is one of someone whose sense of our history exceeds that of anyone save for Jack himself.
As with her previous ghost story, all of this forms a deft canvas, and makes it more than a little inscrutable why Raynor, on Doctor Who, is wasted on the early-season monster two-parters where her obvious strengths aren't catered to at all. It's a bizarre spectacle to see a writer with obvious gifts in creating a world that feels nuanced and haunted is perpetually used to do the most thunderingly obvious and superficial sorts of stories that Doctor Who does.
And yet To the Last Man doesn't quite hold together. As with Sleeper, the root of the problem is that Torchwood is a sci-fi show, and thus when it abuts a sci-fi concept with normality, it actually needs to spend more time on normality. Torchwood, in other words, functions best on the logic of magic realism, but has an unfortunate tendency to opt for an attempt at realistic magic instead. And so in this case Tommy, after half an episode of pleasant nuance, becomes a mouthpiece for various anti-war sentiments framed in the most obvious way imaginable, with little to no thought to the fact that the entire grammar of the series goes against him. All of his railing against Captain Jack for being just as bad as the officers in World War I is pointless; the show can't let us really believe that of Captain Jack. And so it's moralizing of the most vapid sort.
Ultimately, To the Last Man succumbs to the problem that plagues most World War I stories, which is that they're obsessed with reminding everybody of just how awful World War I was. It differs inasmuch as it doesn't focus on the usual tropes of how horrible trench warfare is, instead focusing on the cruelty of executing shell shock victims for cowardice. But the fact that it provides a slightly more varied approach to the usual "World War I was the worst thing ever" rhetoric is not really in and of itself valuable. Everything that was good in the first part of the story focuses on the ways in which Tommy is able to provide World War I's perspective on everything that came after.
This is the other thing that's so good about the "three weeks later, World War II" scene - it gives us the intriguing experience of seeing World War I criticize all of the future. When every trope of World War I focuses on its status as the most futile and barbaric war ever, seeing it turned around so that World War I gets to call everything else out for not learning its lessons is compelling. And so to see the story shift back to being about how awful World War I is and how Tommy is going to die in a horrible, pointless way unique to World War I is a titanic letdown.
And there's no particular reason for it. Nothing about the premise of To the Last Man requires this ending. Yes, it requires a tragic ending in which Tommy and Tosh are separated and, ultimately, in which Tommy dies. But the details are up for grabs, and the script ultimately picks the least interesting option on offer. Not for the first time this season, Torchwood has a choice between going for the obvious or going for something unusual or unexpected, and it ends up being obvious.
In this regard it's got problems akin to those of Sleeper, although unlike Sleeper, the bits of thundering obviousness are at least balanced out by its moments of real cleverness. But the larger problem is here, and visible in comparing To the Last Man with Raynor's previous story. It's not just the way that Ghost Machine was structured unusually, changing shape midway through the episode. It's the way that Ghost Machine was about an entire haunted landscape - a vision of Cardiff with its tragedies and romances lurking in the margins, haunting the present day. Ghost Machine provided a world teeming with the past.
To the Last Man, however, offers a world dominated by a single, immutable horror from the past. World War I is an absolute concept, unchangeable, with nothing new to say about it. Ghost Machine had our world haunted by the tiny lived moments - fears and terrors and loves - that make up lives. To the Last Man has our world watched over by a deathless sentinel from the master narrative of history, whose end is to be swallowed up by the historical tragedy from whence he came. The only reason not to call it heritage theme park history is that a World War I theme park is not a particularly appealing concept.
In a way, this shift is noted in the new opening credits, which instead of suggesting that we have to become ready for the changes of the 21st century suggest instead that Torchwood is presently ready. The hubris here is unmistakable, but there's a larger issue, which is that we've fundamentally shifted the sort of narrative we're telling. "The 21st century is when everything changes, and you've gotta be ready" is a slogan suggesting possibilities and transformation. "The 21st century is when everything changes, and Torchwood is ready," on the other hand, reverts Torchwood back to its original Victorian conception - the fixed state of affairs imposing its will on the rest of the world. Torchwood will guide us as everything changes. Torchwood is the way.
In this regard the refutation to Tommy's objection that Jack is just as bad as the generals is baked into the program. Jack knows the future. Jack knows what's right. The show consciously positions him in charge of the master narrative of history's development, such that his word cannot be questioned within it. Given the way in which Torchwood explicitly stems out of Victorian imperialist ideology - the same ideology that ultimately caused World War I. In this regard, the show quietly undermines its own ostensible message, and certainly ends up abandoning its most interesting approaches from the previous season. This isn't a show about the strange abutting of mundane and fantastic spaces anymore. It's just a show about solving the case of the week.
This does represent a moral turn for the series, although it would be stretching the point to suggest that the moral turn is the point of the exercise. The moral turn is just a consequence of what appears to be an active decision to relaunch the show on BBC Two in its most generic version imaginable. We've gone to a "hook new viewers" approach that means having the show be a familiar and unthreatening part of the televisual landscape. There's a sense that the show is being punished for its success; having done reasonably well as an odd BBC Three show, it now gets "promoted" to being a blander BBC Two show. The degree to which this can reasonably be treated as a reward is debatable, to say the least.
One consequence of this has been a real drain on the characterization. Part of why the Owen scene jumps out is that it's the one moment in the episode where the characters feel like they're being pushed to interesting places. After a first season that went to great lengths to take the sympathetic Gwen Cooper and push her in uncomfortable directions. Here, however, all of the characters are remarkably static. Rhys - the character most responsible for pushing stories to interesting places - has been absent for two episodes, after a bare cameo in the first. Ianto - the other interesting perspective - has become a fully fledged Torchwood member, and, by extension, more or less generic. Jack is no longer a dangerous figure of mystery. Nobody is doing anything to rock the boat. Even Tosh, who's the focus of the episode, doesn't really do much of anything. She's back to being a generically repressed woman who doesn't stand up for herself or pursue anything other than work. Not that she was ever allowed to stray that far from that template over the course of the first season, but there was at least some movement.
But here nothing is allowed to shift. The entire world of this story is designed to be a straightforward tragedy with a clear cut moral point. The story never threatens to do anything other than exactly what it sets itself up for in the first few minutes. Its world is almost cynically simple and straightforward. It's not that it's a bad story. It's effective, and it tugs heartstrings when it means to. It's just that it's a well-made piece of generic television. This is perhaps preferable to deeply flawed attempts at being interesting. But when you know everybody involved is capable of both, it's tough to be that excited about the choice.
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"All of his railing against Captain Jack for being just as bad as the officers in World War I is pointless; the show can't let us really believe that of Captain Jack."
The thing is, I *can* believe that about Captain Jack. As with Sleeper, the episode works a lot better if you assume the message is meant to be "actually, the Torchwood Institute - introduced in Doctor Who as the bad guys - is still kind of horrible." And with this interpretation, the hubris of "Torchwood is ready" becomes Jack's equivalent of "Time Lord Victorious". (Especially since, with hindsight, we know Torchwood is going to prove completely unready for anything.)Replies"All of his railing against Captain Jack for being just as bad as the officers in World War I is pointless; the show can't let us really believe that of Captain Jack." I think I'm inclined to agree with what Diabhid C says - this show has never had difficulty showing us that Jack can do bad things (sacrificing a child on two separate occasions, for example, even if there was "no other way"). We have other other characters for sympathetic angles and audience POV, which allows them to take Jack to different places (though this is something that isn't really taken advantage of enough). He needs to keep a sympathetic angle to a certain extent, that's true, but having us thing bad things of him? Never been a problem. He's never been (and never becomes) an unambiguous hero or good guy. To be clear, I'm also not saying that the moralizing is successful, just that it's not a failure because it casts Jack as a bad guy (it's a failure because it's not especially well written).
And on a related subject I'm not sure how "being a blander BBC Two show" squares away with the first episode of the season, the one which should really try and hook viewers in, being that the first episode consists of a big hot man-on-man snogfest, self-indulgent fan references and a jealous gay love story (with a twist!). Isn't that the opposite of being bland and just trying to fit in to the schedules (and certainly not familiar and unthreatening)? If they really wanted to do that wouldn't it have been more sensible to, say, focus on a bit of Gwen-being-all-domesticated and relegate the Jack n John stuff more to the background? True the two episodes which follow the debut are a bit on the bland side (though I at least give this one points for trying - it's just in this case the strange abutting of mundane and fantastic spaces happens to the guest character of the week rather than the regulars) but I don't think things are quite as clear-cut as presented.I think you aren't giving the officers from World War I enough credit. Look at battles like Gallipoli or Passchendaele where men were fed into a meat grinder. Or the execution of men suffering "Shell Shock". The deployment of Mustard Gas. If Jack were to order thousands of men to their deaths for a few miles of land, use chemical weapons or summarily execute Gwen after a traumatic experience prevented her from doing her duty to Torchwood, it would be the end of him as a character. We are willing to tolerate a difficult sacrifice from time to time or something slightly shady. He's still in the right 99% of the time. For him to truly become as monstrous as those men he's compared to here, it would be a fatal wound to the character.
DeleteI suppose that is factually true - obviously we're not seeing Jack being literally responsible for something like the half a million people that died at Ypres, or gassing people with mustard gas or whatever - I was more trying to say that the show has no problem showing him in a bad light and whilst he might not be on a par with the officers who perpetrated those atrocities, from a "trench eye view" it's entirely possible that a Tommy, even one with his one-day-a-year with Torchwood perspective, might be able to see an equivalency (even if, from our point of view,we know the two things don't equate with each other).
DeleteThe issue is one from Kant's ethics - treating a person as a means to an end rather than as an end in themselves. The scale of Jack's unethical behavior is not that of WW1 generals and the stakes are higher and he has a reasonable chance of success - so from a utilitarian perspective on ethics there is no comparison between Jack and a WW1 general. Yet he is still a manipulative, cynical f*ck.
Tommy in general is a particularly deft example of the man out of time
But he never makes use of a throwable round red white and blue shield. That omission made Tommy less believable for me.
a World War I theme park is not a particularly appealing concept.
Yes, when Troughton visited one he immediately said "Filthy stuff ... Let's try and get away."


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Maurice Larrivée allegedly showed up this Sunday morning at a grocery store to buy a case of two dozen beers at 8:45.
The cashier allegedly warned the 69-year-old man that he appeared too drunk to drive and, along with fellow employees, tried to convince him not to get back in his car.
Larrivée allegedly ignored the request, and left.
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The last time Larrivée was charged with DUI, in 2005, he lost his licence for five years.
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An influx of $77 million into the District's coffers will not be enough to fund even two of the nine spending priorities the D.C. Council settled on for any additional money the city collects, according to revenue projections released Wednesday.
The revised June estimate marks a Pyrrhic victory for the District. Revenues exceeding projections indicate a healthy local economy. But while the newfound cash will cover a $1.8 million beautification program the council agreed to fund with any surplus dollars, it falls $6 million short of a $32 million commitment to the city's public health care system.
That means priorities further down the list, such as hiring additional Metropolitan Police Department officers, will not be funded unless revised revenue estimates in September paint a rosier picture.
Council member Jack Evans objected to the $32 million obligation, which council members inserted into their list of priorities at the mayor's request during late-stage budget negotiations.
"It would have taken care of everything had we not had this $32 million item dropped in from the sky at the last second," the Ward 2 Democrat said. "So it's disappointing for me to see that, indeed, everything as I had laid it out was exactly as it would have happened, and now it's all messed up."
Mr. Evans, chairman of the council's Committee on Finance and Revenue, voted against the fiscal year 2012 budget after the council failed to put his priorities - grandfathering in the tax on out-of-state bondholders and police recruitment - at the top of their wish list.
David A. Catania, at-large independent and chairman of the Committee on Health, had warned against adding the $32 million expenditure to the council's list of priorities. The commitment would tip the city's hand in negotiations with a managed care organization, and parties should pursue untapped pharmaceutical rebates to address the financial gap, he said.
Mayor Vincent C. Gray on Wednesday said his administration was put in the "odd situation" of having to submit a budget before it received actuarial data from Medicaid negotiations that revealed the spending pressure.
He said the Department of Health Care Finance will provide the council a document that sets forth "exactly how the $32 million was arrived at, whether there are any opportunities for savings there, and then we'll work with the council to figure how we can close the $6 million gap."
Mr. Evans said there are a few options, including reopening budget talks. While there may be little appetite for renegotiating, "You have to fix this," he said.
Otherwise, the council could find spending cuts or hope for a positive revised estimate in September.
The latter option might not work out, because, "As we all know, the economy has slowed down substantially," said Natwar M. Gandhi, chief financial officer for the District.
Mr. Gandhi also noted that the District is doing "far better than any other major city in the country" in economic terms.
Although the June estimates reveal $107.1 million in additional revenue for this fiscal year and $77.2 million for the next - placing the city in an enviable position - a slowdown in federal government wages and procurement, market pressures from Europe, high oil prices and slow job growth are hampering financial progress in the District, he said.
Unrealized dollars have been the source of great debate among the council, who spent hours prioritizing anticipated funds without any guarantees on how much would be in the city's piggy bank.
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Liftmaster 823LM Remote Light Switch
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COMMENT: Works great so buying another. by Joe C 6/8/2013
COMMENT: To control my outside lights with my garage door remote by Eric T 2/27/2013
QUESTION: I'm interested in the Liftmaster Remote Light Switch 823LM. Do you have any idea what the range in distance this light switch has

I want to operate it with a Liftmaster
emote control 895max or my Homelink button in my car. by Ed H 11/26/2013
QUESTION: Is there a limit to how many of these switches can you add to your home Will all the switches be controlled together or will you be able to control each switch separately from the smart phone app? by None N 9/5/2013
ANSWER: I was told that you can control 16 light switches but for some reason I couldn't get past 12 but I haven't tried again in a long time. You control each switch separately and their software works great. It used to be a little troublesome at times but not anymore. I think you will like it. by C O a
ANSWER: i have four, I don't know of there is a limit, but they all can be controlled separately with your smartphone. by A L a
ANSWER: You can set up 18 or 19 devices on one gateway. They are controlled individually when logged into the gateway via phone app or internet. You name each device, and when you turn each device on and off, it shows you in almost live time whether it's lightson or off, garageopen or closed. As far as ease and convenience, you just tap and scroll, tap and scroll. by John S a
STAFF ANSWER: You can control each separately from the smart phone app. You can actually label each one within the app to identify them properly. You can have 25 devices programmed to it. And I believe it has recently been changed and you can control even more. by Matthew O a
QUESTION: Are there any distances to be concerned with when using this device either from the opener or controller? by Bryan A 8/24/2013
ANSWER: If you are using the garage door opener, I believe your switch/door would need to be within range of the opener for the light to work. If you are using smart phone app to control the light/door - as long as your switch is within the wifi limits of your house, you can open it from anywhere you have a data connection by K A a
ANSWER: This switch fits into any receptacle box perfectly. It is no different than any other switch. Instructions are well detailed also. by Joe C a
ANSWER: I just installed one inside my garage. I am able to control it with my remote from at least 60 feet outside with the garage door closed. by Edwin K a
ANSWER: I have not any problems with any switches I installed. I have them installed on two floors. by K A a
ANSWER: I found this on the LiftMaster Support Center. Considering walls and typical obstructions, I think <300 feet is probably ideal:

What is the range of the internet gateway to a device

The MyQ's 900MHz Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum FHSS gateway transceiver has an installed range of 300-600 feet. This is subject to local conditions and is not guaranteed. by Frederick T a
QUESTION: Will this switch also allow someone to operate the lights manually like a push-button switch or is it only able to be operated remotely? by Walter P 8/5/2013
ANSWER: Yes, this switch can be operated both manually and with "synced" remote. I am using it to control operation of exterior coach lights.

Enjoy! by Michael W a
ANSWER: Yes it will by R I a
ANSWER: YES, this switch can be oprated manually like a ON/OFF push button switch. by A J a


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A Preliminary Study of the Human Brain Response to Oral Sucrose and Its Association with Recent Drinking
Article first published online: 10 JUL 2013
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12194
Copyright © 2013 by the Research Society on Alcoholism
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Volume 37, Issue 12, pages 2058–2065, December 2013
Additional Information
How to Cite
Kareken, D. A., Dzemidzic, M., Oberlin, B. G. and Eiler, W. J. A. (2013), A Preliminary Study of the Human Brain Response to Oral Sucrose and Its Association with Recent Drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 37: 2058–2065. doi: 10.1111/acer.12194
Publication History
- Issue published online: 3 DEC 2013
- Article first published online: 10 JUL 2013
- Manuscript Accepted: 22 APR 2013
- Manuscript Received: 18 JAN 2013
Funded by
- Department of Neurology at the Indiana University School of Medicine
- Elvin S. Eyster Fund in Neurology. Grant Numbers: R01 AA017661-01A1S1, T32 AA007462, R01 DK089070
- Alcoholism;
- Ethanol;
- Neuroimaging;
- Flavor;
- Taste;
- Gustation;
- Sucrose
A preference for sweet tastes has been repeatedly shown to be associated with alcohol preference in both animals and humans. In this study, we tested the extent to which recent drinking is related to blood oxygen level–dependent (BOLD) activation from an intensely sweet solution in orbitofrontal areas known to respond to primary rewards.
Sixteen right-handed, non-treatment-seeking, healthy volunteers (mean age: 26 years; 75% male) were recruited from the community. All underwent a taste test using a range of sucrose concentrations, as well as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during pseudorandom, event-driven stimulation with water and a 0.83 M concentration of sucrose in water.
[Sucrose > water] provoked a significant BOLD activation in primary gustatory cortex and amygdala, as well as in the right ventral striatum and in bilateral orbitofrontal cortex. Drinks/drinking day correlated significantly with the activation as extracted from the left orbital area (r = 0.52, p = 0.04 after correcting for a bilateral comparison). Using stepwise multiple regression, the addition of rated sucrose liking accounted for significantly more variance in drinks/drinking day than did left orbital activation alone (multiple R = 0.79, p = 0.002).
Both the orbitofrontal response to an intensely sweet taste and rated liking of that taste accounted for significant variance in drinking behavior. The brain response to sweet tastes may be an important phenotype of alcoholism risk.


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Ugh... Exercising...
I do not HAVE time to exercise, but I've been MAKING time to exercise.
In my efforts to lose weight, I've started working out and I don't like it.
I don't enjoy running. I think I'm pretty crummy at running.
I don't like to "move my body". That just sounds weird.
But, I made up my mind to JUST.DO.IT!
We've just past the halfway point of the month, and I've been going out 4 times a week to humiliate myself at the local park or dance in the basement. Most of the time my husband is able to run with me. It's nice to have company, but I find it distracting at times.
He likes to point out how slow I am - yes, I know I'm slow but I'm out here.
He points out that the 90 year old man has passed me - as if I didn't notice that myself.
He points out that the 8 month pregnant woman has lapped me - thanks for boosting my self-esteem there.
But he is supportive. He encourages me to keep moving, to make it to the next hill, to push to the next tree. And he doesn't get angry when I cuss at him for pushing me.
Besides, it was nice to kick his butt when we did the Wii Just Dance workout. Lol!
I think I'm doing pretty good.
The top right photo was our first run.... ugh... 13 minutes to go .9 miles... pathetic!
But the very next day I shaved off TWO minutes from the same fun.
The following Monday, I had the help of music and went 3 miles in about the same amount of time that I did 2.5 miles. That's pretty cool.
Finally, we decided to break up the run at the 1/2 mile mark and do some burpees, squats, lunges, and stuff that really left us sore!
We are also looking forward to getting some hiking in, but that takes more time out of the day, and I already feel short on time.
We are also looking forward to getting some hiking in, but that takes more time out of the day, and I already feel short on time.
My husband has also been very supportive at meal times. He's tried everything that I've made and eats what I'm eating. There have been no complaints about the Paleo dinners and the lack of junk food in our fridge. He knows that it's good for him as well.
This past week we tried two new foods - Eggplant and Butternut Squash. They were both acceptable, but I've got to find new ways to make them.
The cauliflower faux-tatoes were good! I got the recipe from HERE. (BTW- I am in love with that blog right now.) Shameless plug - If you want to start a low carb / gluten free / Paleo diet, follow I Breathe, I'm Hungry on Facebook. She is constantly sharing FREE amazon e-books. What's not to love about free?
I miss my ice cream :(
I miss the ritual of ice cream.
I miss the cool cream in my mouth and I miss the high I get from eating it.
So, I decided to try my hand at Paleo Ice Cream.
Did you know that there are many different versions of Paleo Ice Cream? Just like regular ice cream, so I picked one that looked the most appealing and didn't require me to buy anything weird.
Besides, Cherry Garcia is my favorite ice cream, so I had to go with that for my first time.
Recipe from HERE
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Want my overall opinion of the ice cream??
It's not ice cream. There is no creamy texture. It's not hard and icy, but it's not smooth and creamy either.
It has a strange flavor from the coconut milk. This was my first time EVER using coconut milk in a recipe so I wasn't sure what to expect. But it's there. Maybe I'll try it with a banana or strawberry to cut the coconut taste.
Will I make it again? Maybe. I'll try a few different varieties and see if I like something better. Since there is no milk in a Paleo diet, I may have to opt for more of a low-carb version and use cream in it.
Paleo Ice Cream - "Faux Cherry Garcia"
Prep Time: 1 hour
Keywords: gluten-free low-carb soy-free sugar-free vegetarian cherry coconut chocolate ice-cream
Ingredients (1 pint)
- 13.5 oz can full fat coconut milk
- 1 bag of fresh or frozen cherries (10 - 12 oz).
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup of honey
- 1/4 cup of mini-chocolate chips, semi-sweet- I used Enjoy Life brand
If your cherries are frozen, thaw them ahead of time or on a defrost setting in the microwave. I found it was a bit easier to cut partially frozen cherries.
Slice 3/4 of the cherries and set aside. These will be added at the end.
Place the remaining quarter of the cherries, in a blender or food processor, and puree until no chunks remain. Add in the coconut milk, vanilla and honey and pulse until smooth.
Pour mixture into electric ice cream maker and let it do its thing. I let mine run for 20 minutes. When the mixture thickens, slowly add in the chopped cherries and chocolate chips. Let the ice cream make stir them in for a few minutes.
Remove and serve immediately for a soft serve dessert or place in a plastic container and freeze overnight.
*NOTE - since there is no dairy in this mixture, it will get very, very hard. Let it thaw for a few minutes on the counter before trying to serve.


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Dialogue in stories means writing how each character speaks. This not only helps to promote the story and further the action, but exemplifies characterization as well.
I wrote this article, Let the Dialogue Speak, out of frustration. Afterward, a writer friend told me I should get frustrated more often!
Instructions here apply to multi-genre writing. That is, it applies to fiction, nonfiction, and all types of writing in which characters speak.
These instructions have been industry standard when writing stories as long as I can remember.
irritates me that after learning a lot of obvious dos and don'ts of
writing, someone invariably comes along and tries to change the status
quo. They wish to make inroads into the process, make their mark or
reputation by putting a new spin on accepted norms.
Dialogue in writing stories has a certain duty to perform. The words spoken, and not the narration, do a much better job at building characterization in stories.
Beats and speaker attributions, which you will learn in the samples below, have their place in writing, but must be used cautiously.
Let the Dialogue Speak covers these points well. Enjoy.
Let the Dialogue Speak
Proper use of "said" and the use of "beats" will keep stories flowing smoothly.
My opinion is that, in most cases, there are no substitutes, given what said does when used properly in stories.
Said is simply a speaker attribution and tells us who said what in the course of conversation.
However, said can become grossly overworked when assigning the conversation to a particular character. This is why many people have tired of it.
This is an example of overuse:
"About ten minutes," his father said.
"I'm going back to the street then," Pablo said. "I'm winning all the races."
"Hey-hey," Rico said. "Be on time for dinner."
"Si, Papa," Pablo said.
Taken from my novel, The Tropics, the conversation flows much better when written this way:
"About ten minutes."
"I'm going back to the street then," Pablo said, starting to run away. "I'm winning all the races."
"Hey-hey," Rico said. "Be on time for dinner."
"Si, Papi."
In each sentence, both dialogue and narration contains slight variations. The description of actions included with dialogue is referred to as beats. The characters are not only talking. They are involved in doing something at the same time they speak.
When the actions of characters are included, the writer must be careful not to overuse beats. They serve the purpose of avoiding dialogue containing a running string of "saids" or speaker attributions.
I wholeheartedly agree with Renne Browne and Dave King. In their book, "Self-Editing for Fiction Writers," they say:
you substitute the occasional speaker attribution with a beat, you can
break the monotony of the 'saids' before it begins to call attention to
A beat is not necessary in writing stories,
but it makes for smoother reading and understanding of the characters.
Beats also move the story along.
For example, if you are speaking in live conversation with someone, you hear their words and watch their body language, or watch what they direct your attention to. The beats are their gestures.
In reading stories, beats allow for a silent pause; a moment to digest what is being said and the action emphasizes the dialogue.
On the page, a speaker attribution identifies who is speaking. The word said is accepted because it remains in the background. It does not make us pause to visualize or try to understand the way that the character speaks.
Here's another example when said has been replaced incorrectly:
"Senorita," Lazaro interrupted. "There's a reason why he never spoke of her."
"You know about her?" Ciara quizzed.
"Si, si. She had breast cancer," Lazaro sympathized.
Now the same dialogue, again from The Tropics, written a better way:
"Senorita," Lazaro said. "There's a reason why he never spoke of her."
"You know about her?"
"Si, si. She had breast cancer."
aspect of smooth writing is that when only two characters speak,
you need not identify each by name each time they say something.
You also need not include any speaker attribution at all, unless the dialogue string is too long.
Simply establish who spoke first, who responded, and the reader will follow along. Also, a good place to insert a few beats is in any string of dialogue where speaker attributions are not used.
This gets more complicated when you write dialogue for three or more people sharing conversation in stories.
A few more speaker attributions are acceptable. An occasional beat also aids in showing us the characters actions. This prevents a string of attributions each time a new voice chimes in.
Here's another example of over-use (but not from my book):
"I thought you two were tight as sardines," Brad said.
"Not that tight," Ruby said.
"Guess we all had it wrong," Denny said.
"You guys and your assumptions," Ruby said.
Here's the cleaned up example:
"I thought you two were tight as sardines," Brad said, as he pressed a hand against the gun inside his jacket.
"Not that tight!" Ruby looked around the room, all the while feigning nonchalance and looking like any other customer in the bar.
"Guess we had it all wrong," Denny said as he took another sip of his drink.
"You guys and your assumptions…."
In the revised example, when a speaker attribution is not included, we still know who is speaking.
Using a beat makes it easy to know to whom the dialogue belongs, so leave off the attribution when writing like this.
Also in the above correct example, you get a better sense of characterization. These people do things and have quirks that establish their personalities.
Notice, too, that "chimed in" or "quipped" or "volunteered" or "whispered" and such other attributions did not substitute for the word said.
What really happened among all the "saids" in the second example is that the word said receded into the background and allowed us to fully comprehend the urgency of the conversation.
Because of the punctuation, we didn't have to be told about voice inflection or any other way that the speaker spoke. Doing so would have made us stop and visualize the action or the tenseness of the conversation.
The choice of words and punctuation in the dialogue did that for us, with the help of said, which quietly did its part, as it should. Our eyes read the important words, while said registers only subconsciously. All we need to further the action is to read on.
Attributing dialogue to certain characters need not be overdone. Proper punctuation does that for us.
For example:
exclamation point tells us the remark was an exclamation and not a
quiet statement or a question. It is not necessary to repeat to the
reader that it was an exclamation.
Readers do not like redundancy. It's very off-putting, as if the writer is sure the reader won't get it. Therein lies the erroneous motivation for writers to use attributions other than said.
An experienced reader comprehends the first time through when proper punctuation is used in writing.
Many writers make the mistake of thinking they can add impetus to conversations by including many and varied attributions. This is as bad a practice as using your hands and arms in front of your face when you speak.
When talking, words and intonation speak for themselves and most hand gestures, at best, are rude. So, like hand gestures, a writer may irritate a reader through redundancy.
Yet another incorrect usage of attributions has become quite common:
"It's way over there," he pointed.
"I'd like to take you home with me," she lilted.
These are unemotional sentences that do not need further modification through speaker attributions.
"Smiled," "pointed," and "lilted" did not speak those words. Such verbs have no place as speaker attributions in stories. The characters said them.
Only in a few instances can said be replaced correctly. One way those sentences can be written properly, and sparingly, is given below.
Notice the punctuation:
"It's way over there," he said, pointing.
"I'd like to take you home with me." Her voice was low and lilting.
Here are two last examples of punctuation and attributes that just don't convey what they were meant to:
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When it comes to design, most folks have one of three common attitudes. The first is, "Yes, design is vital to accurately communicate our brand." They pony up the bucks and pay professional designers for their talent and ideas.
Others say, "Heck, it's technology that matters. We'll have our in-house designers put a pretty face on it." They create development budgets to match their priorities.
The third contingent is convinced information is more important than looks. "What matters is what we say. We don't want all that graphic stuff to get in the way of our copy." They go with a spare, Jakob Nielsen-like approach that emphasizes text with a Wall Street Journal-like look.
They're all wrong.
OK. That's kind of harsh. They're not totally wrong. Each approach does have its merits. Brand representation is vitally important. Technology, and how it works, is vital, too. And the copy... well, if your site serves up information, people must be able to read it for it to have any value.
If you look at what really makes the difference for consumers online, you'll learn credibility is what matters. The Net has a big credibility and trust problem. According to Consumer Internet Barometer, consumers' trust in the Internet has been decreasing. It was never too hot in the first place. Over the past year, the trust measurement never topped 30 percent of users. Surprisingly, there's a big gap between trust and satisfaction. Measures for the latter have hovered steadily around 40 percent.
Of course, when you look at what people do online (mainly, communicate with others, research, conduct work-related activities, and buy things), the satisfaction number seems appropriate. We may not actually trust information we see, but we're fairly satisfied with the ability to find what we're looking for and communicate with others. Still, if the Internet were a company, it would be nervous about those numbers.
What makes consumers nervous? Auction sites, for one thing. Most online fraud reported involves undelivered merchandise and nonpayment. Credit card fraud continues to be a problem, too. Online, credit card fraud is 19 times greater than offline. There's enough danger to get consumers worried about typing in that credit card number.
Where does design enter the trust equation? A study from Consumer Web Watch, an organization created by Consumers Union (publishers of Consumer Reports) to advance the cause of credibility on the Web, sheds interesting light on the issue.
Over 2,600 people participated in a study that asked them to rank and comment on the credibility of Web sites. People were randomly assigned two sites in any of 10 different categories, then asked to concentrate on whether they found the sites credible. Results were initially astounding, though not at all for those who recognize the value of design.
Overall, the two most important factors consumers indicated when trying to determine whether a site was "credible" were: "Design Look" (46.1 percent) and "Information Design/Structure" (28.5 percent). "Name Recognition and Reputation" trailed at 14.1 percent. "Identity of Site Operator" accounted for 8.8 percent of the credibility measure.
Why does design and information architecture (IA) account for more credibility than name recognition? The answer may have to do with the very nature of the Web.
Online differentiation is difficult. Many analog world cues consumers rely on (such as quality of photographic reproduction, the paper stock a catalog or a mailer is printed on, a store's cleanliness or status location, or customer service acumen of salespeople) aren't available online. The Web "flattens" experience. Online, one site is as far away as another. All are displayed on the same monitor and face the same technological limitations. As all consumers know by now, barriers to entry for those wanting to set up an online storefront are fairly low. Taken as a whole, consumes look for something that says, "Yes, this company is credible." It just so happens design and IA are the two major components of that "something."
In the analog world, any consumer receiving a beautifully printed direct mail piece (mailer, catalog, etc.) immediately knows the company sending it is solid. No fly-by-night operation can afford glossy, four-color catalogs on heavy stock with beautiful pictures. Whether they know anything about the process of producing such a piece or not, consumers know expensive when they see it. Expensive means credible.
On the Web, a lack of this kind of tangible credibility cue causes consumers to turn to the intangible. Even if they don't know how much designers cost (or what constitutes good design), they know quality when they see it. Even if they could never comprehend a site architecture diagram, they intuit the difference between sloppy, illogical structure and structure that reflects lots of thought and research. Sites that just work better mean credibility.
Next time you (or your clients) get ready for a site overhaul, stop and ask yourselves how important credibility is to your business. If you're a fly-by-night spammer, it ain't that important. But if you're a company with hopes of not repeating the mistakes of your dot-com predecessors, get interested in credibility. In an increasingly commoditized and intensely competitive world, a recognizable brand isn't enough. You need a brand people can trust.
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Read the book and was really moved by the story. I could not put it down once I started. Like life it isn't always full of sunshine but this story is about an amazing boy who had the strength to find his own during such turbulent times in Nigeria with his little sister without his mom's knowledge. I would highly recommend this book to everyone.
Although I kept a diary in some of the very early years described in this book, most of what I have written is actually from my clearly vivid memory.
Once in a while I would sit with friends, colleagues and even strangers and the topic of me and my sister having being smuggled away to Nigeria while we were kids would crop up, I would have to elaborate on this topic a little more and my audience would always be intrigued. Time after time the same opinion would come up from them. "You should write about this" they would say and I would say yeah maybe one day.
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Deutsche Bank is cutting several senior jobs in its investment banking business in Dubai, including directors, as it cuts costs to adapt to a tougher investment banking environment globally, three banking sources said.
The German lender last week outlined plans to cut bonuses, axe more jobs and sell assets, and senior executives said expected job cuts would be "over and above" the 1,900 positions already announced.
"There are at least seven people confirmed to be leaving front office roles (in Dubai)," said a source familiar with the matter, adding the jobs were mostly in the investment banking business.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that three or four of the job cuts were at director level.
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"A lot of the job cuts in the region have so far remained confined to junior level bankers. Shifting higher up shows the region is clearly no more an appealing destination as it used to be for investment bankers," one of the banking sources said, adding Deutsche is cutting about a quarter of its total Dubai investment banking team.
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Other global banks, including Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Rothschild, have also shed investment banking jobs in the region in recent months, as dwindling deal volumes and a low fee paying culture makes the business model unviable.
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That fee pool has to be shared between as many as 20 global banks who have hired or brought in some senior bankers to lure business in the region.
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Harriet Tubman became famous as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s. Born a slave on Maryland's eastern shore, she endured brutal beatings by her master and the harsh regime of the field hand. Her life was a testimony to the fierce resistance of African-American people to slavery.
In 1849 Tubman fled Maryland, leaving behind her free husband of five years, John Tubman, and her parents, sisters, and brothers. "Mah people mus' go free," her constant refrain, suggests a determination uncommon among even the most militant slaves. She returned to the South at least nineteen times to lead her family and hundreds of other slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Utilizing her native intelligence and drawing on her boundless courage, she eluded bounty hunters seeking a reward for her capture, which eventually went as high as forty thousand dollars. She never lost a fugitive or allowed one to turn back.
Two things sustained her: the pistol at her side and her faith in God. She would not hesitate to use the pistol in self-defense, but it was also a symbol to instruct slaves, making it clear that "dead Negroes tell no tales." Timid slaves seemed to find courage in her presence; no one ever betrayed her. She affirmed her faith in God in her statement, "I always tole God, I'm gwine to hole stiddy on to you, an' you've got to see me trou [through]."
Tubman collaborated with John Brown in 1858 in planning his raid on Harpers Ferry. The two met in Canada where she told him all she knew of the Underground Railroad in the East. Advising him on the area in which he planned to operate, she promised to deliver aid from fugitives in the region. Brown's admiration for her was immeasurable, and he wanted her to accompany him on the raid. Tubman planned to be present but was ill at the time and could not participate.
Tubman's resistance to slavery did not end with the outbreak of the Civil War. Her services as nurse, scout, and spy were solicited by the Union government. For more than three years she nursed the sick and wounded in Florida and the Carolinas, tending whites and blacks, soldiers and contrabands. Tubman was a short woman without distinctive features. With a bandanna on her head and several front teeth missing, she moved unnoticed through rebel territory. This made her invaluable as a scout and spy under the command of Col. James Montgomery of the Second Carolina Volunteers. As leader of a corps of local blacks, she made several forays into rebel territory, collecting information. Armed with knowledge of the location of cotton warehouses, ammunition depots, and slaves waiting to be liberated, Colonel Montgomery made several raids in southern coastal areas. Tubman led the way on his celebrated expedition up the Combahee River in June 1863. For all of her work, Tubman was paid only two hundred dollars over a three-year period and had to support herself by selling pies, gingerbread, and root beer.
After the war, Tubman returned to Auburn, New York, and continued to help blacks forge new lives in freedom. She cared for her parents and other needy relatives, turning her residence into the Home for Indigent and Aged Negroes. Lack of money continued to be a pressing problem, and she financed the home by selling copies of her biography and giving speeches. Her most memorable appearance was at the organizing meeting of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 in Washington, D.C. Two generations came together to celebrate the strength of black women and to continue their struggle for a life of dignity and respect. Harriet Tubman, the oldest member present, was the embodiment of their strength and their struggle.
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IDG News Service - Keeping IT one step ahead of expansion plans at independent grocery chain Drakes Supermarkets is CIO Rod Koza's remit for 2013.
Koza has headed up IT at the company for six years and previously worked in various technology roles in the resources sector.
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Drakes Supermarkets operates 57 supermarkets, three newsagencies and one liquor store distributed across South Australia and Queensland. However, there are plans to expand into other states in the future as CEO Roger Drake plans to turn the company into a national fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) chain.
What does your role at Drakes Supermarkets involve?
I'm responsible for all IT in the business and that includes everything which plugs into a network port such as bakery scales. I also run our help desk and strategic systems including enterprise resource planning [ERP] and point of sale [POS].
What IT projects have you been working on?
Paramount to technology and ordering is the requirement to have hand-held personal digital assistants [PDAs] which are used to scan product codes in our stores.
The old PDA technology meant that you scanned a product code into the device and then walked all the way to the back office, stuck it into a cradle, created a product order and then sent that order to all the suppliers. This was all well and good but it meant staff spent a lot of time walking to the back office.
What we needed was a better solution and by chance we came across the Aerohive Networks radio frequency [RF] product which has now been rolled out across all of our stores. The solution means supermarket staff can use PDAs, iPads and other tablets for product ordering on Drakes' network while on the shop floor. Information about product lines, such as when the item is coming on special, can be accessed by staff on their device. It has saved our staff time and increased productivity.
Roger Drakes' vision is for the company to become a national supermarket so we want to venture into a third state and have 100 stores.
To support that, we need to upgrade IT systems from a small family company to a corporate environment. That includes an ERP system which will be rolled out in 2013 and a standardised integrated payroll.
We have also begun trials of mobile device management [MDM] to allow store supervisors to visit different supermarkets and record their notes on an iPad using the company Wi-Fi network.
The plan is to roll out the MDM system by mid-2013 but we need to formulate an MDM policy because we don't want to act like Big Brother. However, we need to control the fact that the new front door for people sneaking into your organisation is via mobile devices.
What are some of the challenges you face in the role of CIO?
We are now on the cusp of going from a family-oriented business to a corporate methodology. The challenge for me is to keep one step ahead so that IT can cope if Drakes acquires 10 new stores.
What are the three biggest issues facing CIOs today?
Data security is still paramount to everybody. CIOs are also looking at what role social media plays in the organisation and what boundaries need to be set. The third issue is the cloud. Most CIOs are sitting there thinking, `When is that first [cloud] breach going to happen?' And when it does, what is that going to mean to an organisation?' More organisations are becoming accepting of the cloud but I think it is with intrepid caution that they do it.
While we are dipping our toe in the cloud, it is information that won't affect us if it did get hacked.
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Police responding to a report of a shooting late Friday found a man and a woman dead from gunshot wounds in a hotel room, Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen said.
Police would give no other details on the two people, their relationship, or the circumstances of the shooting. Police would not comment on whether the deaths were connected to the Emmy awards.
Coroner's officials had yet to begin their investigation, but said they were a man in his late 60s and a woman in her mid-50s.
The luxury hotel was also the site of Whitney Houston's death in February. The singer drowned in the bathtub of her fourth-floor room, just a few hours before she was to attend record executive Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party in the ballroom downstairs.
An HLN spokeswoman, Alison Rudnick, said the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will go on as scheduled. The cable news channel will be broadcasting live the ceremony, which honors the best in soap operas and talk shows.
The hotel also hosts several other annual galas, including the Golden Globe Awards.
Before the Friday shootings, Beverly Hills had just six homicides since 2008. Such rare cases usually draw national attention, as in the death of a Hollywood publicist who was shot while she was driving after a movie premiere in November 2010. Police say Ronni Chasen was killed in an apparent bungled robbery by a career criminal who later killed himself when approached by police.
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