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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:46 am
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On July 21, 2008 at 05:27 PM, shadyg said...
Re: dorkydi
Yes, the traditional creme brulee recipe uses roughly half of the egg yolk specified in this one. I use the one listed in "The Professional Chef", which -- while specifying by weight -- calls for 4 yolks per pint of cream. The window for getting the custard to set perfectly is narrower, but the end result is much more delicate.
If the Professional Chef recipe you like specifies 4 yolks per pint of cream, why do you say to use 8 yolks for a pint? Have you forgotten there are 2 cups in a pint? I just made Alton Brown's recipe that is 6 yolks per quart (3 yolks per pint) and it's like eating a vanilla cloud. Your recipe must be much thicker using more than twice as many yolks.
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 2:46 am
Post subject: Runny Creme Brulee
Anyone have any ideas why my creme brulee might be runny besides starting out with cold water for the water bath? I have made creme brulee successfully many times in an electric oven. Once I got a new oven that is gas, my creme brulees are runny. They don't seem to solidify at all. Could the gas oven be my problem?
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 1:27 pm
Post subject: Re: Runny Creme Brulee
Nicole wrote:
Anyone have any ideas why my creme brulee might be runny besides starting out with cold water for the water bath? I have made creme brulee successfully many times in an electric oven. Once I got a new oven that is gas, my creme brulees are runny. They don't seem to solidify at all. Could the gas oven be my problem?
Starting with cold water will drastically increase the cooking time required for your custards to solidify. The gas oven shouldn't make a difference unless the oven is running cooler than it should be (an independent oven thermometer could help to determine that). How much longer did you cook the creme brulee before you determined it wasn't going to solidify?
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 12:22 pm
Post subject: Mango Creme Brulee?
I wonder if I can process mango in a food processor and make Mango Creme Brulee. Would it ruin the texture?
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:19 am
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Pureed mango should be fine going into it, maybe use a bit less sugar, but it will change the texture a bit. Unless you only used mango juice, the mango pulp is going to change it a bit. I would also cook it slightly longer.
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:01 pm
Post subject: creme brulee
I love the way Mr. Chu has presented this recipe and have forwarded the link to an engineer in Germany who really enjoyed this treat in a bistro in Wisconsin. Thank you for presenting it with both the American and the European measurements. I've made this dessert using old time recipes, and it can be a complicated, hair pulling task. Michael Chu has made it all so simple, just like my husband (the resident engineer) might have written it if he weren't busy doing other things.
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 4:59 am
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Last year I had Valrhona Chocolate Creme Brulee served with Salted Caramel Sauce at the La Lucciola Restaurant in Bali. It was divine and have been thinking about trying to reproduce it back here in New Zealand. It was great to find this site with so many useful comments about making CB that I'll use this recipe as the base and go on from here. Just got to find a salted caramel sauce recipe!
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:04 am
Post subject: slightly easier modification
I lost my tried and true recipe (ratio really) for creme brulee, but this one is close enough that I can't tell the difference. The ratio of yolk-to-cream is important to get right, but one egg yolk more or less isn't going to be a deal breaker I guess. Personally, I like having a high yolk-to-cream ratio like this recipe has since I like a heavy and luscious custardy creme brulee rather than the lighter one you get when you only use the chef "recommended" 3-4 egg yolks to 2 cups cream.
Anyway, I wanted to mention that there is an easy modification to help ensure perfect custardy consistency every time -- deeper well ramekins. The ones shown here are wide and thin. They work fine, but timing is a little more tricky for the beginner and it is easy to overcook the creme.
I personally use deeper but narrower ramekins that hold the same amount as shown here. I find them far more forgiving since you can get a 1) higher water bath for better insulation and 2) decreasing the surface area while maintaining the volume causes the heat to percolate slower into the matrix, allowing smoother cooking and less chance of cooking through too quickly.
On the other hand, I cook at a higher temperature, 285-300, and cover my ramekins with foil to reduce evaporation from the creme. I also start with hot-ish tap water instead of boiling in the water bath to help make sure that the water and the creme are brought to temperature together and slowly. This also means I cook for longer, usually about an hour twenty to an hour and a half.
I don't know how much of this is superstition on my part as I've never experimented much since I started getting the consistency where I wanted it, so YMMV...
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:34 am
Post subject: creme brulee and this message board
What a fantastic place to learn from you experts on creme brulee! I have been reading all the comments for almost an hour and have learned quite a lot. I plan to make the basic recipe listed here and will use vanilla beans if I can find them. I believe I will make it in a casserole dish instead of the ramekins. This is because I don't want to buy the ramekins and have to store them. I also don't actually want the carmelized or burnt sugar at all. My sister says then it's not creme brulee, but it's the custard I want. I want to try a chocolate one sometime also.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:11 pm
Post subject: Great Creme Brulee
This recipe tastes great, but i can't ever get the broiling right. I now use a flambe kit from dessertsnow.com & it comes out perfect every time. No torching & great aromas
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:46 am
Post subject: Creme Brulee
A great way to brulee if you don't have a torch is using a heat gun. I have one from ice hockey, used it to replace the blades. Anyway, works great on my creme brulee!
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 1:06 am
Post subject: The wonders of the instant-read thermometer
For those asking about how to tell when done (when baking in oven), try using an instant-read thermometer... when centers reach 170-175 degrees, take them out, remove from water bath (wide tongs work well for this), set on rack to cool to room temperature (approx. 2 hrs., this allows middle to keep cooking), then cover w/ plastic wrap and put in fridge to fully cool (min. 4 hrs.). Tip - for accurate readings, the thermometer needs to be inserted w/ tip in center of food - not touching pan, not just at surface. Worth the investment, not only for this dish, but so many others! Happy eating....
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 2:48 am
Post subject: Re: creme brulee
glow wrote:
After being refrigerated to cool, my creme brulee developed a top layer that tastes like hardened butter; not a desirable addition. When removed, the rest of the custard was perfect. How can I avoid this from forming?
Also, if the ramekins are glass, and the custard has been chilled, won't they break when put under a broiler or when they are torched to get the sugar crackle on top?
I've experienced this under three different circumstances:
using pasteurized egg yolks
letting the cream boil
using 40% heavy cream (instead of 36%)
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:36 am
Post subject: re:film ontop of brulee
you need to put glad wrap/cling wrap on top of your custard before placing it in the fridge this should stop a skin from forming
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Theory and Practice in the Austrian School
This month's Cato Unbound looks at the Austrian school of economics. Specifically, how do Austrian insights apply to the "real" world—not just theory, but economic history and policy?
In his lead essay, Professor Steven Horwitz argues that Austrian economists are making important and under‐appreciated empirical contributions. The Austrian school even stands to teach mainstream economics a good deal about how to conduct empirical work and interpret it properly.
To discuss with Horwitz, we have invited three other distinguished economists, each of whom has been influenced by the Austrian school—while ultimately settling elsewhere methodologically: Bryan Caplan, George A. Selgin, and Antony Davies.
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Conditional Sharing – Virtuoso ACL Groups Revisited
Previously we saw how ACLs can be used in Virtuoso to protect different types of resources. Today we will look into conditional groups which allow to share resources or grant permissions to a dynamic group of individuals. This means that we do not maintain a list of group members but instead define a set of conditions which an individual needs to fulfill in order to be part of the group in question.
That does sound very dry. Let's just jump to an example:
@prefix oplacl: <http://www.openlinksw.com/ontology/acl#> . [] a oplacl:ConditionalGroup ; foaf:name "People I know" ; oplacl:hasCondition [ a oplacl:QueryCondition ; oplacl:hasQuery """ask where { graph <urn:my> { <urn:me> foaf:knows ^{uri}^ } }""" ] .
This group is based on a single condition which uses a simple SPARQL ASK query. The ask query contains a variable
^{uri}^ which the ACL engine will replace with the URI of the authenticated user. The group contains anyone who is in a
foaf:knows relationship to
urn:me in named graph
urn:my. (Ideally the latter graph should be write-protected using ACLs as described before.)
Now we use this group in ACL rules. That means we first create it:
$ curl -X POST \ --data-binary @group.ttl \ -H"Content-Type: text/turtle" \ -u dba:dba \ http://localhost:8890/acl/groups
As a result we get a description of the newly created group which also contains its URI. Let's imagine this URI is
To mix things up we will use the group for sharing permission to access a service instead of files or named graphs. Like many of the Virtuoso-hosted services the URI Shortener is ACL controlled. We can restrict access to it using ACLs.
As always the URI Shortener has its own ACL scope which we need to enable for the ACL system to kick in:
sparql prefix oplacl: <http://www.openlinksw.com/ontology/acl#> with <urn:virtuoso:val:config> delete { oplacl:DefaultRealm oplacl:hasDisabledAclScope <urn:virtuoso:val:scopes:curi> . } insert { oplacl:DefaultRealm oplacl:hasEnabledAclScope <urn:virtuoso:val:scopes:curi> . };
Now we can go ahead and create our new ACL rule which allows anyone in our conditional group to shorten URLs:
[] a acl:Authorization ; oplacl:hasAccessMode oplacl:Write ; acl:accessTo <http://localhost:8890/c> ; acl:agent <http://localhost:8890/acl/groups/1> ; oplacl:hasScope <urn:virtuoso:val:scopes:curi> ; oplacl:hasRealm oplacl:DefaultRealm .
Finally we add one URI to the conditional group as follows:
sparql insert into <urn:my> { <urn:me> foaf:knows <http://www.facebook.com/sebastian.trug> . };
As a result my facebook account has access to the URL Shortener:
The example we saw here uses a simple query to determine the members of the conditional group. These queries could get much more complex and multiple query conditions could be combined. In addition Virtuoso handles a set of non-query conditions (see also oplacl:GenericCondition). The most basic one being the following which matches any authenticated person:
[] a oplacl:ConditionalGroup ; foaf:name "Valid Identifiers" ; oplacl:hasCondition [ a oplacl:GroupCondition, oplacl:GenericCondition ; oplacl:hasCriteria oplacl:NetID ; oplacl:hasComparator oplacl:IsNotNull ; oplacl:hasValue 1 ] .
This shall be enough on conditional groups for today. There will be more playing around with ACLs in the future…
Protecting And Sharing Linked Data With Virtuoso
Disclaimer: Many of the features presented here are rather new and can not be found in the open-source version of Virtuoso.
Last time we saw how to share files and folders stored in the Virtuoso DAV system. Today we will protect and share data stored in Virtuoso's Triple Store – we will share RDF data.
Virtuoso is actually a quadruple-store which means each triple lives in a named graph. In Virtuoso named graphs can be public or private (in reality it is a bit more complex than that but this view on things is sufficient for our purposes), public graphs being readable and writable by anyone who has permission to read or write in general, private graphs only being readable and writable by administrators and those to which named graph permissions have been granted. The latter case is what interests us today.
We will start by inserting some triples into a named graph as dba – the master of the Virtuoso universe:
This graph is now public and can be queried by anyone. Since we want to make it private we quickly need to change into a SQL session since this part is typically performed by an application rather than manually:
$ isql-v localhost:1112 dba dba Connected to OpenLink Virtuoso Driver: 07.10.3211 OpenLink Virtuoso ODBC Driver OpenLink Interactive SQL (Virtuoso), version 0.9849b. Type HELP; for help and EXIT; to exit. SQL> DB.DBA.RDF_GRAPH_GROUP_INS ('http://www.openlinksw.com/schemas/virtrdf#PrivateGraphs', 'urn:trueg:demo'); Done. -- 2 msec.
Now our new named graph
urn:trueg:demo is private and its contents cannot be seen by anyone. We can easily test this by logging out and trying to query the graph:
But now we want to share the contents of this named graph with someone. Like before we will use my LinkedIn account. This time, however, we will not use a UI but Virtuoso's RESTful ACL API to create the necessary rules for sharing the named graph. The API uses Turtle as its main input format. Thus, we will describe the ACL rule used to share the contents of the named graph as follows.
@prefix acl: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#> . @prefix oplacl: <http://www.openlinksw.com/ontology/acl#> . <#rule> a acl:Authorization ; rdfs:label "Share Demo Graph with trueg's LinkedIn account" ; acl:agent <http://www.linkedin.com/in/trueg> ; acl:accessTo <urn:trueg:demo> ; oplacl:hasAccessMode oplacl:Read ; oplacl:hasScope oplacl:PrivateGraphs .
Virtuoso makes use of the ACL ontology proposed by the W3C and extends on it with several custom classes and properties in the OpenLink ACL Ontology. Most of this little Turtle snippet should be obvious: we create an Authorization resource which grants Read access to
urn:trueg:demo for agent http://www.linkedin.com/in/trueg. The only tricky part is the scope. Virtuoso has the concept of ACL scopes which group rules by their resource type. In this case the scope is private graphs, another typical scope would be DAV resources.
Given that file rule.ttl contains the above resource we can post the rule via the RESTful ACL API:
$ curl -X POST --data-binary @rule.ttl -H"Content-Type: text/turtle" -u dba:dba http://localhost:8890/acl/rules
As a result we get the full rule resource including additional properties added by the API.
Finally we will login using my LinkedIn identity and are granted read access to the graph:
We see all the original triples in the private graph. And as before with DAV resources no local account is necessary to get access to named graphs. Of course we can also grant write access, use groups, etc.. But those are topics for another day.
Technical Footnote
Using ACLs with named graphs as described in this article requires some basic configuration. The ACL system is disabled by default. In order to enable it for the default application realm (another topic for another day) the following SPARQL statement needs to be executed as administrator:
sparql prefix oplacl: <http://www.openlinksw.com/ontology/acl#> with <urn:virtuoso:val:config> delete { oplacl:DefaultRealm oplacl:hasDisabledAclScope oplacl:Query , oplacl:PrivateGraphs . } insert { oplacl:DefaultRealm oplacl:hasEnabledAclScope oplacl:Query , oplacl:PrivateGraphs . };
This will enable ACLs for named graphs and SPARQL in general. Finally the LinkedIn account from the example requires generic SPARQL read permissions. The simplest approach is to just allow anyone to SPARQL read:
@prefix acl: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#> . @prefix oplacl: <http://www.openlinksw.com/ontology/acl#> . <#rule> a acl:Authorization ; rdfs:label "Allow Anyone to SPARQL Read" ; acl:agentClass foaf:Agent ; acl:accessTo <urn:virtuoso:access:sparql> ; oplacl:hasAccessMode oplacl:Read ; oplacl:hasScope oplacl:Query .
I will explain these technical concepts in more detail in another article.
Sharing Files With Whomever Is Simple
Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box.com – they all allow you to share files with others. But they all do it via the strange concept of public links. Anyone who has this link has access to the file. On first glance this might be easy enough but what if you want to revoke read access for just one of those people? What if you want to share a set of files with a whole group?
I will not answer these questions per se. I will show an alternative based on OpenLink Virtuoso.
Virtuoso has its own WebDAV file storage system built in. Thus, any instance of Virtuoso can store files and serve these files via the WebDAV API (and an LDP API for those interested) and an HTML UI. See below for a basic example:
This is just your typical file browser listing – nothing fancy. The fancy part lives under the hood in what we call VAL – the Virtuoso Authentication and Authorization Layer.
We can edit the permissions of one file or folder and share it with anyone we like. And this is where it gets interesting: instead of sharing with an email address or a user account on the Virtuoso instance we can share with people using their identifiers from any of the supported services. This includes Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, Yahoo, Mozilla Persona, and the list goes on.
For this small demo I will share a file with my LinkedIn identity http://www.linkedin.com/in/trueg. (Virtuoso/VAL identifier people via URIs, thus, it has schemes for all supported services. For a complete list see the Service ID Examples in the ODS API documentation.)
Now when I logout and try to access the file in question I am presented with the authentication dialog from VAL:
This dialog allows me to authenticate using any of the supported authentication methods. In this case I will choose to authenticate via LinkedIn which will result in an OAuth handshake followed by the granted read access to the file:
It is that simple. Of course these identifiers can also be used in groups, allowing to share files and folders with a set of people instead of just one individual.
Next up: Sharing Named Graphs via VAL.
YouID Identity Claim
TPAC 2012 – Who Am I (On the Web)?
Last week I attended my first TPAC ever – in Lyon, France. Coming from the open-source world and such events like Fosdem or the ever brilliant Akademy I was not sure what to expect. Should I pack a suite? On arrival all my fears were blown away by an incredibly well organized event with a lot of nice people. I felt very welcome as a newbie, there was even a breakfast for the first-timers with some short presentations to get an overview of the W3C's work in general and the existing working groups. So before getting into any details: I would love this to become a regular thing (not sure it will though, seeing that next year the TPAC will be in China).
My main reason for going to the TPAC was identity on the Web, or short WebID. OpenLink Software is a strong supporter of the WebID identification and authentication system. Thus, it was important to be present for the meeting of the WebID community group.
The meeting with roughly 15 people spawned some interesting discussions. The most heatedly debated topic was that of splitting the WebID protocol into two parts: 1. identification and 2. authentication. The reason for this is not at all technical but more political. The WebID protocol which uses public keys embedded in RDF profiles and X.509 certificates which contain a personal profile URL has always had trouble being accepted by several working groups and people. So in order to lower the barrier for acceptance and to level the playing field the idea was to split the part which is indisputable (at least in the semantic web world) from the part that people really have a problem with (TLS).
This lead to a very simple definition of a WebID which I will repeat in my own words since it is not written in stone yet (or rather "written in spec"):
A WebID is a dereferencable URI which denotes an agent (person, organization, or software). It resolves to an RDF profile document uniquely identifying the agent.
Here "uniquely identify" simply means that the profile contains some relation of the WebID to another identifier. This identifier can be an email address (foaf:mbox), it can be a Twitter account, an OpenID, or, to restore the connection to the WebID protocol, a public key.
The nice thing about this separation of identity and authentication is that the WebID is now compatible with any of the authentication systems out there. It can be used with WebID-Auth (this is how I call the X.509 certificate + public key in agent profile system formally known as WebID), but also with OpenID or even with OAuth. Imagine a service provider like Google returning a WebID as part of the OAuth authentication result. In case of an OpenID the OpenID itself could be the WebID or another WebID would be returned after successful authentication. Then the client could dereference it to get additional information.
This is especially interesting when it comes to WebACLs. Now we could imagine defining WebACLs on WebIDs from any source. Using mutual owl:sameAs relations these WebIDs could be made to denote the same person which the authorizing service could then use to build a list of identifiers that map the one used in the ACL rule.
In any case this is a definition that should pose no problems to such working groups as the Linked Data Protocol. Even the OpenID or OAuth community should wee the benefits of identifying people via URIs. In the end the Web is a Web of URIs…
And Now For Something Completely Different: Resizable Bootstrap Modals
(Update: Now with better overflow handling.)
I have been doing more CSS + JS as I would have liked these past months. I am still a newbie but today I did something which I am happy enough about to make it into a short blog post.
Twitter's Bootstrap CSS framework is a nice basis to get your web page going. It also has modal windows. JQuery has the resizable function which allows to add resize handles to any div. In order to make this work with a Bootstrap modal I did the following things:
1. Slightly change the positioning of the jQuery resize handles so they do not force scrollbars on the Bootstrap modal and do not add a weird border:
.ui-resizable-s { bottom: 0; } .ui-resizable-e { right: 0; }
2. A little bit of JS magic to properly reposition the modal once it has been resized:
$(".modal").on("resize", function(event, ui) { ui.element.css("margin-left", -ui.size.width/2); ui.element.css("margin-top", -ui.size.height/2); ui.element.css("top", "50%"); ui.element.css("left", "50%"); $(ui.element).find(".modal-body").each(function() { $(this).css("max-height", 400 + ui.size.height - ui.originalSize.height); }); });
Just look at the Bootstrap modal's margin in Firebug or something similar to understand the first two statements. The top and left values are to fix the positioning in Opera. The last statement is to also resize the modal body for proper overflow handling.
Now just enable resize on all modals or on whatever modal you want:


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Coach Gerardo Martino, who replaced Tito Vilanova in the close-season, has sought to keep his squad fresh by resting and rotating players who have also had international commitments.
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Our sweet pea seeds send out, April issue and Get Growing
Dear neighbours and NZ Gardener family,
Our April issue should be with our subscribers now and available in supermarkets and service stations (having been distributed prior to the lockdown restrictions). Whether or not it's on the stands yet is a bit patchy ... but then the incredibly brave and hard-working supermarket staff have quite a bit on their plate right now so I understand if there is a delay! Please, please, please everyone ... don't go out to buy it! Normally of course we love you buying NZ Gardener but right now it's far more important that you stay home and stay safe. (You can buy a copy with your online shopping though! That's safe and I think we are all in the market for something uplifting to read right now).
In this issue we offered to send out sweet pea seeds to any reader who sent us a SSAE. Just to reassure you, we will still send out sweet pea seeds to any reader who is keen to participate. We are just not quite sure when! Ignore the dates in the magazine of when you needed to send the envelope in by - that has been indefinitely extended. But we cannot wait to send you the seed and for those flowers to bloom as by then we will be well through this or even have it behind us. And keep letting us know what you are sowing and growing, send in pictures of your harvest, your flowers or what you are sharing.
We always love hearing from NZ Gardener readers but now when we are all staying apart that connection means more than you can imagine. Stay home, stay safe and stay in touch everyone. For the most updated gardening advice, subscribe to our digital e-zine Get Growing, which will be delivered to your inbox completely free.
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Kia ora Auckland, it's time to dust off that old camera, get out and about and show the rest of your neighbours your favourite, treasured spots in your region. It could be an awesome view, the shy wildlife or even the old buildings that are wanting their stories to be told.
Go ahead, get snapping and illustrate what's beyond your backyard.
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A Consumerist reader was scammed into giving a donation to Livestrong that he didn't consent to, as he found out when he got home and discovered an unauthorized donation on his receipt.
Here's the quick version: employee asks for a Livestrong donation, guy declines, employee charges him for a donation anyway. The customer has been calling and asking for a refund, but all Radio Shack personnel keep telling him to waste gas driving back to the store to get his dollar back.
Yes, it may just be a dollar, but it's called a donation for a reason. Make sure to check your receipts when you exit the Shack, it smells like RS employees are getting some sort of kickback for getting Livestrong donations. [Consumerist]


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Let us also not forget to mention the RFT does not have facial hair. A rarity for a Rebel to be sure.
Here the Trooper doesn't look super duper tall...same height as Han maybe a little taller due to the bucketI'll probably get 20 of these guys
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Zaragoza river aquarium. Photo courtesy of the Zaragoza Tourist Board
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This is the largest river aquarium in Europe, and its 3,400 square metres are home to freshwater species from all over the world.
The river aquarium is located in what was originally the venue for the Zaragoza 2008 International Exhibition. In its facilities you'll find aquatic animals from the five most important rivers on the planet: the Nile, the Mekong, the Amazon, the Darling Murray and the Ebro. The aim of the aquarium is to educate, investigate and disseminate by taking a journey through the natural aquatic wonders of the planet. It offers multiple educational activities particularly designed for younger children, such as dramatised visits, educational workshops, routes for schoolchildren, and the chance to spend a night or celebrate your birthday surrounded by fish. Some of the species children will learn about on their visit include sturgeons, anacondas, piranhas, otters, crocodiles and even mammals who live outside the water such as titi monkeys.
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Brittani VanderWiele
Class of 2011
Major/Minor: Environmental Studies/Anthropology,Archaeology,Economics
Campus Involvement
- Major: Environmental Studies
- Minor: Anthropology, Archaeology, and Economics
- Greek Life: Alpha Chi Omega
- WC Catering
- Center for the Environment & Society Recycling Assistant/Intern
- Intramural Soccer, Football, Kickball
Alpha Chi Omega
As Vice President of Membership Development for Alpha Chi Omega Beta Pi, Brittani's duties include promoting moral, social, cultural, and personal development of members through the organization and execution of a balanced social calendar. She focuses to get the chapter more involved with the community through volunteer work.
Hometown and high school? Fallston, MD; Fallston High School
Favorite class? Environmental Archaeology because it is a class combining my major and minor, so of course I liked it!
Recommended professor? Dr. Leslie Sherman. She is so passionate with everything she does that it is impossible not to be excited to learn.
Most memorable experience as a first-year student? Pre-orientation at Echo Hill- I got to know some great people and I had a few awesome adventures before the other freshmen even moved in.
If you could be a condiment, which one would you be and why? Ketchup. Who doesn't like ketchup!?
If you had a superpower, what would it be and why? The ability to have super speed because I always have too many things to do in too little time!


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Got this idea from my brief discussion with NP07 and Fusion about Junoon. There is so much variety and quality music in the subcontient that a lot of us dont even know and and mostly limited to Film music.
So guys please jump in and tell us the stuff you like to listen, latest stuff you have been listening to and would like to recommend. It can be anything, folk, sufi, classical, filmi..anything. I will start with couple of albums that I have been listening to these days :-
1. Ustaad and Divas, you can listen to some of it over here :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn8t1QI1VKg
2. Kailash Kher, some of his stuff :-
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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
AILA's Featured Issues pages provide a one-stop shop on current immigration-related issues that AILA is actively tracking. This includes government actions and resources, AILA's policy recommendations, and materials and talking points to engage with Congress and the press.Start Your Research
AILA Doc. No. 10120166 | Dated December 18, 2010
12/18/10 Update:
On 12/18/10, the Senate failed on a motion to invoke cloture on the DREAM Act (H.R. 5281) by a 55-41 vote. The failed vote means that the DREAM Act will not progress any further in the Senate.
12/17/10 Update:
On 12/16/10, Senate Majority Leader Reid filed cloture on the DREAM Act (H.R. 5281) setting the bill up for the critical cloture vote in the Senate expected for Saturday, December 18. The Senate will need 60 votes for the DREAM Act to move forward.
This is the vote we've all been waiting for. With only days left in the lame duck session of Congress, there won't be another chance.
All congressional offices should be contacted, but if you live in these states, we REALLY need your support because one of your Senators is a SWING VOTE on DREAM!ALASKA: Murkowski
12/09/10 Update:
On 12/9/10, the Senate decided to shift its focus to the House-passed version of the DREAM Act (H.R. 6497) and withdrew consideration of S.3992 by a 59-40 vote. We now expect the Senate to take up H.R. 6497 within the next several days - likely after the tax cuts and other big issues get addressed.
12/08/10 Update:
Late on 12/8/10 the House passed the DREAM Act on a vote of 216 to 198. The DREAM Act was added as an amendment to H.R. 5281. The text of the House bill was filed on Monday night as H.R. 6497.
The Senate is expected to vote on the DREAM Act Thursday morning. The Senate, by agreement, postponed their vote to ensure that the House could complete its vote.
12/08/10 Update:
On 12/8/10, a new version of the DREAM Act was introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R. 6497) by Rep. Berman (D-CA).
The bill contains numerous changes from the latest version of the DREAM Act introduced in the Senate (S.3992). For more information on the main differences between H.R. 6497 and S. 3992, read AILA's analysis.
Shortly after its introduction, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its cost estimate for H.R. 6497, which showed that the bill would reduce deficits by about $2.2 billion over the 2011-2020 period. For the purposes of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (Pay-Go), the bill would decrease deficits by $4 million over the same period.
We expect votes on the DREAM Act to take place today, but the timing remains extremely fluid at this point.
12/07/10 Update:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed for cloture on the DREAM Act (S.3992) the fifth version of the DREAM Act introduced in the Senate during the 111th Congress, setting DREAM up for a vote by Wednesday, December 8th.
On 11/30/10, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed a new version of the DREAM Act (S.3992) with the aim of attracting broader support for DREAM to get the requisite 60 votes to pass the Senate during the current "lame duck" session of Congress.
The earliest Reid could file a cloture motion on the new bill would be this coming Thursday, December 2nd. After waiting out the requisite 30 hours post-cloture, it could "ripen" over the weekend, and effectively come up for a vote on Monday, December 6th at the earliest.
The new version addresses many of the concerns raised by Republicans and tightens the restrictions on eligibility in several respects. Among other changes, the new version does the following:
Senator Durbin (D-IL) has also recently introduced two paired down versions of the DREAM Act (S.3962) and (S.3963) in the hopes of getting the bill passed during the lame duck session.
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 10120166.
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Hydro Boost brake systems???
I am trying to set up a remote brake system on my 49 chevy truck frame that has 4 wheel disc. The problem i have is LACK of room between the frame. I have a cross member welded for support and takes up alot of the room on the sides! The truck has airbag system set up and i had to remove existing brace member.
I was considering a Hydro Boost System that runs off of the power steering pump and has no BULKY vacum booster to locate. They are very small and dont need alot of space.........
Has anybody got any info about the pro and cons of this system besides the price.
Thanks in advance!

You need to read some of the older posts on this just in the last few weeks
I installed a hydro boost, booster in my 66 impala a few years back. the booster came from the junkyard and was of an 84 caprice. its a no brainer, just run the pressure hose from the pump to the booster, then from the high pressure outlet on the booster to the steering box pressure inlet. and lastly run two lowpressure hoses, one from the lowpressure outlet from the booster, the other from the outlet of the steering box, join them with a small y pipe, and run that into the return on the pump and your done.
it works like no vacum booster ive ever driven. i can lock all four wheels at 100 mph with a firm push on the pedal. (not that ive ever driven 100 mph officer...)
ant the units never wear out, so 100 bucks at the junkyard and some new hoses and your set, only thing is that you have to have the hoses made, but any good hydraulic hose company can whip them up in 5 minutes.
I have installed a GM hydraboost under the floor of my current project because there was no room for anything else.....it has to have a accumulator to store fluid under pressure if there is a engine failure.
My hydraboost is a new one($186 -NAPA), the application was a 85 or 85 cadillac w/a diesel engine. A accumulator is no longer available from cadillac however I'm thinking one from a 1 ton Chev trk should work........if there is any more info out there I LIKE TO HEAR IT. I've searchased the web & could not find anything.....thanks Don
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Today is the final day of the editorship of Drew Christiansen, SJ. And we would be very remiss if we did not offer a word--several words--of gratitude for Drew's generous leadership of our magazine in the last seven years.
Drew Christiansen took over as editor in chief after the painful and public departure of Thomas J. Reese, SJ, who had resigned his position at the request of the Vatican. (The full story of Tom's resignation would probably make a good book, or a doctoral dissertation, some day.) Needless to say, Drew came in during what was probably the most difficult period in the magazine's long history. And yet the Jesuit provincials in the United States, and Father General, understood that Drew's unique talents, qualifications and capabilities made him uniquely suited to the task during this extremely challenging time. Drew had worked for several years with the Office of Justice and Peace at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; before that he was known as a distinguished moral theologian; and he had also written extensively in the pages of America magazine. He was also well versed in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue. All in all, he was a fine successor to Fr. Reese. And in the midst of doubts over how the magazine could continue after the Vatican intervention, in our first editorial after Father Reese's removal the editors spoke of their hopes for the future and stated that, even in the midst of controversy, we would not mistake diversity for dissent. Drew understood that distinction well.
Drew's steady hand, his calm demeanor and his cordial relations with the church's hierarchy, helped us to navigate our way through some trouble seas over the next few months. Once things settled down, he was able to make many changes in the magazine, all for the good. Perhaps his greatest legacy is the remarkable staff of lay editors he hired during his time here. Of course Father Reese had already hired Patricia A. Kossmann as our superb literary editor; but Drew added to the stable with Tim Reidy, our online editor; Kevin Clark, associate editor; and Kerry Weber, associate editor. Our editorial director during Drew's term, Karen Sue Smith, who retired just yesterday (to the sadness of all), rounded out a great team of lay editors, who worked seamlessly with the Jesuit editors. Drew truly understood the value of collaboration in ministry, and had a flair for identifying good talent.
Most readers know that Drew also has an abiding interest in the politics and policies of the Middle East, having spent extensive time working the field of Jewish-Christian relations, Israeli-American relations, as well as in relations between the Vatican and Israel. (He seemed to know everyone in those worlds, and in the worlds of ecumenical and interfaith affairs.) So the magazine, during these years of intense conflict in the Middle East, was particularly well positioned to comment on the issues facing the region. As a moral theologian, Drew also helped guide the magazine in its reflection on many of the most vexing moral issues of the day, drawing from his vast experience and wide knowledge of the tradition. The editors all agreed that it was never less than fascinating to hear Drew explain a particular aspect of moral theology, a dimension of church history, or forgotten papal document, with consummate ease and fluidity. I always marveled at his ability to make difficult moral topics accessible, and bring to bear the church's rich tradition on issues of contemporary relevance.
But Drew isn't simply an academic. I used to often encourage the editor in chief to write as much as he could on spiritual topics. Whenever he turned his pen (or computer) to spirituality, I was, like so many other readers, inevitably delighted. In his Of Many Things columns, as well as his occasional articles on such topics as, say, Teilhard de Chardin and spiritual conversations, his writing always made for wonderfully surprising reading. By that I mean this: with his profound knowledge of theology and his deep spiritual sensitivities, he was able to see things in a new way--even in areas that I felt that there was not much new to say. A 2007 article on the saints and martyrs, for example, helped me to see that familiar topic in a brand-new light.
Drew will be taking a sabbatical at Boston College and then will be taking up a position at Georgetown University. Thus, he can enjoy a bit of a rest, and then move into a job that will not only place him in one of the great Catholic universities, but also return him to Washington DC, where he will be able to continue his wise and gentle influence on the church and the world of national and international politics. Drew's rest will also be made easier with the knowledge that Matt Malone, SJ, a hugely talented man, is poised to take over on Monday, and improve the magazine in his own way. (So far I've worked for three editors--George W. Hunt, SJ; Thomas J Reese, SJ; and Drew Christiansen, SJ; and each have "remade" in a sense the magazine. So exciting changes lie ahead for readers.)
I hope you will join me in wishing Father Christiansen well after his labors for the magazine, for the Society of Jesus, for the church and for the People of God.
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''who had resigned his position at the request of the Vatican''
Really, is that factually correct? I have heard that this is a great exaggeration of what actually happened. But what do I know?
Hunger for control? 1. Imposittion of new translation of Missal without real consultation or feedback from the faithful and the bishops. 2. ICEL, a true collegial instrument jettisoned and replaced by Vox Clara, a construct of the Vatican. 3. Similarly, the Vatican interfered with the bishops' control of Caritas International and in its reorganiztion put its own people in charge. 4. The USCCB and other national conferences of bishops formerly acted by majority or two thirds vote of the bishops. Recent new Vatican rule. Vote by bishops must be unanimus. If not, send it to the Vatican. 4. Father Reese's forced removal by the Vatican.


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Bartolomeo was mesmerized by the sheer magnificence of the sword, he could feel the berserker's spirit from where he was standing . He slowly walked over to the sword and placed his hands on it. He closed his eyes for a moment.
"Oh great spirit of the land and blade, I am not foe but friend, a friend from the sea and will fight beside you, we will strike fear in are enemy's and vanquish the evil that plagues the land. I Bartolomeo son of Lucien pledge friendship to you."
Bartolomeo stood back startled on what had come over him. He obviously did not understand what had happened and looked at Gandalf who had entered the room.
"Hmm very interesting" Gandalf was saying to himself, he was smoking his pipe and his grey eyes were fixed on Clarion.


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Bob Ackley may be the only person who has driven up and down every single street -- 1,500 miles total -- in Washington, D.C.
While Ackley, a plain-speaking New Englander, enjoyed exploring the nation's capital, which he described as "beautiful," this was serious business. He was measuring leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is also the main component of natural gas. Measured in terms of warming the atmosphere, methane is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
In January, the former gas inspector drove around with researchers Robert Jackson, a scientist at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, and Boston University's Nathan Phillips. They were trying to create a map of all the gas leaks in the district, some of which can pose a safety hazard as well as causing climate change.
"It took me 21 days, working about 14 hours a day," said Ackley.
The team was replicating an experiment they did last year in Boston. There, as in D.C., they drove a car equipped with special sensors, made by the Santa Clara, Calif., company Picarro Inc., that detected and mapped leaks from the aging pipeline systems underlying the city.
Although the results for the District of Columbia are not final, preliminary numbers indicate that the nation's capital has thousands of leaks from its natural gas distribution system. It has a number of leaks per road mile similar to that of Boston, but has about twice as many miles of road, said Jackson.
The district also appears to have bigger leaks than Boston's, he said. In Boston, the researchers counted 3,356 leaks. They also determined whether leaks were from natural gas pipes or more natural sources, such as landfills, where it is created by decaying garbage.
Since methane has different ratios of carbon isotopes in it, instruments can determine whether methane is coming from a fossil fuel source or from a landfill or a wetland.
A problem in older cities
Most of the leaks the researchers found came from the pipeline system, said Phillips. This is not surprising, given the age of many of the pipeline systems in older cities.
"The problem that we've seen in Boston is not unique to Boston. It's something that characterizes the Eastern Seaboard," said Phillips.
The technology the team used was pioneered by Picarro. It allowed the researchers to measure leaks and the concentrations of methane in those leaks and map them. That's the first phase of the work.
Next, they try to learn more about the rate at which gas from various leaks is being released to the atmosphere. To do that, the researchers have to make a second trip, returning to the source of a representative set of leaks.
They're currently doing this in Boston. Many of the leaks, said Phillips, are at manholes, or on curbs where the sidewalk meets the asphalt.
To measure the leak rate, the researchers cover the leaking area with an empty container of a known volume and measure the rate at which the container fills up with gas.
Once they have measured leak rates from various locations, they plan to use create a statistical distribution to represent an overall estimate of just how much methane is leaking, said Phillips. The researchers plan to compare this to the results of another experiment in which sensors are monitoring the city's air from the tops of buildings, seeing how much methane can be measured rising out of the city into the atmosphere.
Seeping from long-buried pipes
Just how big the volumes of methane leaking from the aging pipes of Boston or the District of Columbia are is a measurement that might change whether natural gas can be regarded as a more climate-friendly source of energy.
The effort to figure out where those leaks occur, and how big they are, is in its infancy.
Distribution, the part of the gas supply chain that Jackson and Phillips focus on, involves a complicated patchwork of possibly leaky pipelines, particularly in older cities.
While gas utilities certainly prioritize plugging leaks that could cause explosions, they have fewer incentives to plug those that don't pose an explosion risk.
In a city like Washington, the pipeline distribution system consists of pipe materials that include cast iron, unprotected or protected steel, copper and plastic. Cast iron is often the oldest and leakiest, especially at the joints, although other pipeline materials can also develop leaks.
According to 2012 data reported to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration by Washington Gas Light Co., the company has about 1,200 total miles of pipeline in the District of Columbia.
Of that length, 419 miles is cast iron. There is less than 100 miles of unprotected steel, and the majority of what's left is divided between coated steel and plastic.
Too small to explode
Gas companies prioritize finding and fixing any leaks known as "Grade 1" leaks. These are leaks likely to be explosion hazards, where gas is collecting and concentrating. If gas is leaking to the atmosphere and does not pose a safety hazard, it may not be made a priority for repair.
"Depending on the seriousness of the leak, the [Department of Transportation] guidelines state whether our crews repair the leak immediately or follow up with the repair at a later time," wrote Ruben Rodriguez, direct of corporate communications for the company, in an email.
While it might seem as if gas companies would prioritize fixing any large leaks, since they would result in lost profits, Jackson said those financial incentives are not always as strong as one might think.
Gas companies calculate the difference between the amount of gas they send out and the amount that is metered at customers' homes or businesses. The difference, which is primarily caused by leaks and pressure and temperature errors in gas measurement between where the gas is sent out and where it is metered, is referred to as "lost and unaccounted-for" gas.
Some public utility commissions allow the utilities to charge their customers for this difference. In the District of Columbia, the charge makes up 3 percent of a customer's monthly cost, The Washington Post reported in March.
"I think usually the gas companies know where the big leaks are," said Jackson. "It's very common for us to step out of a car and start sampling on the street and have people walk out of a house or restaurant and say, 'What are you doing?' When we tell them we are looking at natural gas leaks, you have someone say: 'I have called this leak in multiple times.'"
Jackson is quick to point out that the object of his work in D.C. and Boston is not simply to tell gas companies they have thousands of leaks. Rather, it's to understand which leaks are important to plug, and how they are distributed throughout the system.
If the researchers are able to determine that 10 percent of the leaks are leaking 90 percent of the gas, which is possible, then fixing just a few leaks will result in a big reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, said Jackson.
"It's not very useful for us to say 'There are 3,300 leaks in Boston; go fix them all.' It's much more useful to say, 'If we fix these 100 leaks, we'll keep 50 percent of the gas from leaking out of the system,'" he said.
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500