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Ocean's 'twilight zone' plays important role in climate change
New study identifies a critical link influencing the ocean's ability to store carbon dioxideUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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The results of two international research expeditions to the Pacific Ocean, published April 27 in the journal Science (cover story as seen in image on right), show that carbon dioxide—taken up by photosynthesizing marine plants in the sunlit ocean surface layer—does not necessarily sink to the depths, where it is stored and prevented from re-entering the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. Instead, carbon transported to the depths in sinking particles is often consumed by animals and bacteria and recycled in the twilight zone—100 to 1,000 meters below the surface—and never reaches the deep ocean.
Using new technology, the researchers found that only 20 percent of the total carbon in the ocean surface made it through the twilight zone off Hawaii, while 50 percent did in the northwest Pacific near Japan.
The twilight zone acts as a "gate," allowing more sinking particles through in some regions and fewer in others, complicating scientists' ability to predict the ocean's role in offsetting the impacts of greenhouse gases. It also adds a new wrinkle to proposals to mitigate climate change by fertilizing the oceans with iron—to promote blooms of photosynthetic marine plants and transfer more carbon dioxide from the air to the deep ocean.
"The twilight zone is a critical link between the surface and the deep ocean," said Ken Buesseler, a biogeochemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and lead author of the new study in Science, co-authored by 17 other scientists, including two from the University of Hawaii. "We're interested in what happens in the twilight zone, what sinks into it and what actually sinks out of it. Unless the carbon that gets into the ocean goes all the way down into the deep ocean and is stored there, the carbon can still make its way back into the atmosphere. Without long-term carbon storage at depth, the ocean can do little to stem the increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that impacts the earth's climate."
Buesseler was a leader of the ambitious project, funded primarily by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), called VERTIGO (VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean). More than 40 biologists, chemists, physical oceanographers, and engineers from 14 institutions and seven countries participated in the two VERTIGO cruises in 2004 and 2005 to investigate how marine plants die and sink, or are eaten by animals and converted into sinking fecal pellets.
These sinking particles, often called "marine snow," supply food to organisms deeper down, including bacteria that decompose the particles. In the process, carbon is converted back into dissolved organic and inorganic forms that are re-circulated and reused in the twilight zone and that can make their way to the surface and back into the atmosphere.
One of the sampling sites was Station ALOHA, the NSF-funded Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) research site. Since 1988, HOT investigators have catalogued information about the biologic, chemical and physical parameters of the surrounding ocean, making it one of the most comprehensively characterized sites on our planet.
Both the VERTIGO and HOT programs had several noteworthy roots, none as important as the VERtical Transport and EXchange (VERTEX) program that ran from about 1980-1988, just as HOT was getting started. VERTEX pioneered many new methods of analysis and provided novel data sets on the chemistry and microbiology of the 'twilight zone'. Dave Karl, one of the researchers in this study, was one of the principal investigators in VERTEX which conducted field experiments in the NE Pacific including several stations off Hawaii. "The HOT program established station ALOHA in October 1988 and continued many of the investigations that began during VERTEX, including but not limited to the export of particulate matter from the surface layers of the ocean and the relationship between primary production and export," says Karl. "These observations from station ALOHA/HOT were used, in part, to develop the hypotheses that were tested during the VERTIGO program. Therefore in many ways VERTIGO was built on a HOT foundation."
The sites off Hawaii and Japan were selected because they had been the focus of long-term ocean observations by co-authors David Karl (University of Hawaii) and Makio Honda (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology). Oceanographer Robert Bidigare (University of Hawaii) made measurements of phytoplankton pigments on samples collected during both cruises. Biologists Deborah Steinberg (Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences) and Mary Silver (University of California, Santa Cruz) were needed to identify plankton species and understand differences in the food webs that propel the marine carbon cycle. Thomas Trull (University of Tasmania, Australia), Philip Boyd (University of Otago, New Zealand), and Frank Dehairs (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) all study the Southern Ocean and could provide important perspectives contrasting ocean carbon cycle off Antarctica and in VERTIGO. David Siegel (University of California, Santa Barbara) helped track the ocean currents and pathways of the sinking particles. James Bishop (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley) was funded by the US Department of Energy to deploy new autonomous optical sediment traps designed to follow the hourly changes in sedimentation as well as ship deployed particle sampling systems to quantify the abundance and composition of particles in the twilight zone.
"This combination of expertise could not be found in any single lab or country," Buesseler said. "We were fortunate to attract such a diverse group of talented scientists willing to unravel the secrets of the twilight zone and its role in the global carbon cycle."
While many studies have investigated the surface of the ocean, little research has been conducted on the carbon cycle below. The VERTIGO team examined a variety of processes to open a new window into the difficult-to-explore twilight zone. They successfully used a wide array of new tools, including an experimental device that overcame a longstanding problem of how to collect marine snow falling into the twilight zone.
The problem is that particles sink slowly, perhaps 10 to a few hundred meters per day, but they are swept sideways by ocean currents traveling many thousands of meters per day. To collect sinking particles, scientists use cones or tubes that hang beneath buoys or float up from seafloor. That, Buesseler said, "is like putting out a rain gauge in a hurricane."
Buesseler and WHOI engineer Jim Valdes developed Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Traps (NBST)—free-floating devices that sink to a programmed depth within the twilight zone and neither sink nor rise. They are swept along with the currents for several days, collecting particles, and then programmed to resurface, transmit their position via satellite, and wait for recovery, more than 10 to 20 miles away from where they were dropped into the ocean.
"It's a bit like finding a needle in a haystack, since they are so small and difficult to spot, especially in rough seas that are common in the open ocean," Valdes said.
Water column and sediment trap samples collected on both cruises were returned to Robert Bidigare's lab at the University of Hawaii for analysis. The goal was to determine the composition of phytoplankton (the "primary producers") at both study sites as well as the amount and makeup of phytoplankton removed from the upper ocean by sinking and zooplankton grazing processes.
On their first scientific mission for VERTIGO in 2004, Buesseler and Valdes could only wait and hope their devices would work. "Seven NBSTs went in the water and all seven came back with their precious cargo—a first in ocean sciences history," Buesseler said.
Why more carbon reached the depths in the northwest Pacific might be due to many factors. Waters there are full of silica that plankton incorporate to make shells. Do the silica-laden plankton weigh more and thus sink faster, giving bacteria less time to break them down? Do lower water temperatures in the northwest Pacific slow down the breakdown of organic carbon? Do different populations in the food webs at different sites change how organic matter is broken down and marine snow is produced? Scientists will continue to explore these regional differences in the ability of carbon to reach the deep sea.
The next step for the Hawaii researchers will be a major research cruise on the University of Hawaii's research vessel the R/V Kilo Moana. "As we learn more and more about the sea around us, including the deep ocean, we gain an appreciation for how important and how fragile life in these regions can be," says Karl. "By gaining a better understanding of how organic matter and energy are processed in the mid-depths of the ocean we can better predict how life in the sea may be affected by human-imposed climate change including greenhouse gas production. The twilight zone may be the largest habitat for life on our planet in terms of volume, yet we are just beginning to understand who lives there and how they make their living."
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A Journey to the Ocean's Twilight Zone — Oceanus Magazine www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=15328
Swimming in the Rain — Oceanus Magazine www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=15329
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To celebrate Drupal's tenth anniversary and the release of Drupal 7, I have decided to go on a Drupal tour, to celebrate, educate and spread the word on all things Drupal. I'm kicking-off my Drupal tour with a trip to Australia.
It's important for me to meet with other community leaders around the globe and promote Drupal. While down under I will be meeting with Drupalistas and non-Drupalistas, Acquia customers and partners, press and analysts. My goal is three-fold: (1) to promote Drupal, (2) to gain insight from users and prospects on the choices they make when it comes to choosing a web platform and building websites, and (3) to figure out how to further improve Drupal.
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- 24-25 January – Melbourne: there is a Drupal meet-up scheduled on January 24th at 6pm in the Belgian Beer Café Eureka.
- 26-27 January – Sydney: there is a Drupal meet-up scheduled on January 27th at 6pm in the The Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel.
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New in Las Vegas: Aria buffet redo, cool Wynn lounge
It's hard to keep up with everything that happens in Vegas, but here are some high-profile developments in the food and drink department:
Buffet lovers should know that the ARIA resort at CityCenter has revamped its spread (a good thing, since when I visited a year ago, it was fine, but didn't stand out from the smorgasbord of other Vegas buffets).
Here's what's new, according to MGM Resorts International:
• Two food stations, Fish Market and Latin, have been added, bringing the total to 11. Others are Sweets, Asian, Italian, Pizza, Mediterranean, Tandoori, Latin, Carvery, Diner, Salad Bar.
• The buffet still includes Vegas buffet staples such as prime rib and crab legs and you'll see freshly made kabobs, Indian naan made in a rare tandoor oven in a Vegas spread. There are what MGM calls "small batches of signature dishes made throughout the day to ensure optimal freshness" and more quality ethnic cuisine. Fresh fish is cooked in front of customers.
• More emphasis is placed on custom dishes, such as made-to-order pastas.
This sounds as if it could be inspired by Caesars Palace's recently unveiled $17 million Bacchanal Buffet, with chefs cooking their native cuisines in front of you, lots of custom dishes and a dizzying array of unusual menu choices.
But ARIA/MGM says the buffet remodel has been in the works for a while and was not inspired by Caesars. ARIA has been open a few years, and revamping was in the cards, management says.
ARIA Buffet costs range from $17.99 for weekday breakfast to $39.99 weekend gourmet dinners. It offers an all-you-can-drink option which covers unlimited refills on beer, wine and sangria for an additional $12.99.
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Down the Strip, the eyes have it at the new restaurant/lounge at Wynn Las Vegas' Encore resort.
A giant LED screen image of the orbs of Steve Wynn's bride of a year and a half, Andrea Hissom, dominates the ultra-hip Andrea's lounge. The eyes even slowly and seductively change color.
Andrea's melds sleek decor, elegant Asian cuisine, drinks and bites, and boasts a "musical chef" who decides on refreshment for the ears. Andrea's is envisioned as a stop for the set that will later in the evening frequent the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore nightclubs, such as XS, where Prince Harry famously partied last summer.
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Vegas regulars might want to know that Andrea's formerly was known as Switch.
Andrea Wynn was quotable in an interview with veteran star chronicler Robin Leach, who now lives in Vegas and reported on the opening for the Las Vegas Sun.
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The live-action Mario movie is like a giant scab on your knee. It's gross, and an eyesore, yet for whatever reason many of us just can't resist picking at it.
Most of the time that invokes painful memories, but not today. Today it'll provoke some different, much stranger emotions.
Witness Golden's Super Mario Bros. The Movie: Coloring Book. It's a book that's supposed to recreate the action of the film with simplified, black & white imagery, but either the bottom-drawer artists hired for the job hadn't actually seen it, or they were cocky enough to try and make some visual (and narrative) changes.
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SAN CRISTOBAL CUCHO, Guatemala (Reuters) - Ivan Vasquez cried as he hunched over the 10 wooden caskets of his parents, six siblings and two cousins who were struck down in a rock quarry collapse caused by this week's powerful earthquake.
Vasquez was studying to take an accounting exam when the 7.4-magnitude quake struck on Wednesday, killing his entire immediate family as they dug in the quarry for material to reinforce the walls of their adobe home.
Braced by friends and relatives as he neared collapse, the 18 year old dressed in a black sweater and dark jeans choked down water between screams.
"Why did you leave me," he sobbed. "You were all such good people."
Wednesday's quake was the most powerful to hit the Central American nation since 1976, when a 7.5-magnitude quake killed more than 20,000 people. The quake destroyed roads and forced evacuations as far away as Mexico City.
Officials estimate that 52 people have been killed and say at least three more are missing. Most of the dead were buried under debris in the San Marcos state, a mountainous region near the Mexican border.
Vasquez's father Egidio, 45, was well known around town as a skilled builder and president of the local sports association.
He left for work on Wednesday morning with his 43-year-old wife and their four sons, two daughters and two nephews aged between three and 14. When the earthquake struck, the quarry wall caved in, burying them all under tons of sand and rock.
"There were working for their lives and they lost their lives," Egidio's sister Albertina Vasquez said. "I'm never going to see my brother again."
More than 1,000 people led by the mayor followed the funeral procession through the rural village to the family grave site as a band's somber music sounded throughout the small town.
"Today they leave a large void in the community of San Cristobal Cucho," said Mayor Pedro Vasquez, who is not related to the family, as he fought back tears. "My heart and soul ache."
Family members and friends huddled together, supporting each other and mourning the death of Egidio Vasquez and his family.
"He was a great friend and he will continue to be," said Octavio Orozco. Rescue workers in bright yellow helmets were still digging through the rubble in San Marcos to find one more person who might be buried.
Some 650 people slept in shelters on Thursday night after more than 3,500 houses were damaged in the nation of 14.5 million people and countries such as Spain and Venezuela have pledged support for recovery efforts.
Guatemala President Otto Perez said he will send a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama demanding that the United States cease deportations of Guatemalans in light of the destruction.
"I hope they make the decision to grant temporary protection status to Guatemalans living in the United States," Perez told journalists.
(Reporting by Mike McDonald; Editing by Michael O'Boyle and Lisa Shumaker)


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'We played two very good teams out of Florida this week," women's assistant coach Jamie Aid said. "We are continuing to have difficulties closing games. We have some specific things that we will go to work on this week. The girls are showing a will to fight, and we were encouraged to see that against FGCU. We are looking forward to a good week of practice and time to prepare for this weeks coming matches."
The Lady Bisons opened the match on a sour note when they were swept in doubles play to start off with a 1-0 deficit.
Senior Kara Jackson and freshman Alyssa Bellini were defeated at No. 1 doubles by Iris Rendon and Bettina Botha 8-3.
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Sophomore Carlina Jow and senior Julianne McMeen lost to Bibiana Almeida and Jen Evans at No. 3 8-1.
The Lady Bisons transitioned into singles play but went on to record only one win.
The Lady Bisons lone singles win came at No. 3. Bellini steadily outplayed Botha to post a 6-2, 6-2 victory.
Jackson, in her first match at No. 1 this season, fell to Bechtel 6-3, 6-2, while Keevil, who stepped down to No. 2, was defeated by Rendon 6-1, 6-0.
Hansen fell to Evans 6-1, 6-3 at No. 4, while Jow was defeated at No. 5 by Almeida 6-1, 6-2.
At No. 6, McMeen lost to Mandic 6-0, 6-1.
The Lady Bisons return to Nashville to face North Florida in their next A-Sun match up at the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center on Friday, March 25.
1. Rendon and Botha (FGCU) def. Jackson and Bellini (LIP), 8-3
2. Mandic and Bechtel (FGCU) def. Hansen and Keevil (LIP), 8-2
3. Almeida and Evans (FGCU) def. Jow and McMeen (LIP), 8-1
1. Morgan Bechtel (FGCU) def. Kara Jackson (LIP), 6-3, 6-2
2. Iris Rendon (FGCU) def. Elizabeth Keevil (LIP), 6-1, 6-0
3. Alyssa Bellini (LIP) def. Bettina Botha (FGCU), 6-2, 6-2
4. Jen Evans (FGCU) def. Danielle Hansen (LIP), 6-1, 6-3
5. Bibiana Almeida (FGCU) def. Carlina Jow (LIP), 6-1, 6-2
6. Gyanna Mandic (FGCU) def. Julianne McMeen (LIP), 6-0, 6-1
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120 Chief - Chief of Department.
120 Deputy - Deputy Chief
Other departments referenced may include:
Station 96 - Kananaskis Emergency Services
Station 151 - Cochrane Fire Department
Station 167 - Ghost (Benchlands) Fire Station of Bighorn Emergency Services
Station 168 - Jamieson Road Fire Station of Bighorn Emergency Services
Station 169 - Exshaw Fire Station of Bighorn Emergency Services
Station 101 - Elbow Valley Fire Station of the Rocky View Fire Service
Station 102 - Springbank Fire Station of the Rocky View Fire Service
Foothills Station 6 - Priddis Emergency Services
Foothills Station 31 - Canmore Fire Rescue
Foothills Station 60 - Tsuu T'ina First Nation Fire Department
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ATV or UTV or QUAD - off-road vehicle i.e. quad, 6x6, etc
AUXILIARY - utility vehicle (equipment/personnel transport)
BUSH BUGGY - 4x4 brush fire fighting truck
BOAT - watergoing vessel
ERU - Emergency Response Unit (personnel transport)
ENGINE - pumper truck
MEDIC - Ambulance service transport unit
PRU - Ambulance service quick-response/non-transport unit
PWC - Personal Water Craft (jet ski)
RESCUE - medical response/vehicle rescue/technical rescue unit
RAPID RESPONSE or RRV - Rescue support unit
TENDER - Water tanker
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The fire service in this region does not use "ten codes" or other obfuscation methods. However, there are a few acronyms or similar identifiers in use.
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AC1, AC2, AC3 - Aircraft incident (level 1 = non-urgent standby; level 2 = aircraft emergency; level 3 = confirmed crash)
AQ or AIQ - Available in Quarters (at station)
AOR - Available on Radio
CO - Carbon Monoxide
COs - Conservation Officers (Alberta Sustainable Resources Development staff)
CSR - Confined Space Rescue
DF - District Familiarization (out on the air in the area)
EMS - see AHS
FRESC - Foothills Regional Emergency Services Communications
FREMS - Foothills Regional Emergency Medical Services (past name for Foothills-area ambulances, still used to refer to FRESC and their fire departments
Forestry - Alberta Sustainable Resources Development Forest Protection Division staff
IaR - I Am Responding (alerting service)
KES - Kananaskis Emergency Services
LOI - Location of Interest (past history at address)
MVC - Motor Vehicle Collision
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Canada offers to lead new NATO operation in Iraq
BRUSSELS (AP) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his country is offering to lead NATO's new military training mission in Iraq for the first year and stands ready to provide 250 troops plus helicopters for the effort.
Trudeau said Wednesday that it is important to help build the conflict-ravaged country's resilience against the Islamic State group.
Speaking at a German Marshall Fund event on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels, Trudeau said that "we have to build that democracy and strengthen it," and doing so "is something that we believe in deeply."
NATO leaders are expected to announce later Wednesday that the alliance is stepping up its troop training and military academy building effort in Iraq, with hundreds of trainers operating out of the capital, Baghdad.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, speaks to a Latvian soldier as he inspects the troops as he visits Adazi Military Base in Kadaga, Latvia, on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Canadian prime minister says he hopes the upcoming NATO summit will send a message of broad support for unity and solidarity but acknowledges that there will "no doubt be calls for greater investments in defense spending" - a key issue that is badly dividing the military alliance. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov) - The Associated Press
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, center, arrives for a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. NATO leaders gather in Brussels for a two-day summit to discuss Russia, Iraq and their mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) - The Associated Press


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Carnegie Hall concert honors black history
NEW YORK -- In a rehearsal room near Times Square this week, some two dozen men with Broadway-honed voices huddled to strategize.
They were practicing choral work ahead of a landmark concert Monday at the mighty Carnegie Hall, and creator-producer Chapman Roberts knew what those voices will be facing.
"We will be accompanied by a 65-piece orchestra and they're going to be giving it all they got," Chapman said, triggering some nervous clapping. "Now there's a way to not compete with them. And that is: don't try."
Chapman and his singers have a very personal reason to get their sound just right: Their black tie, music-stacked, one-night-only concert celebrates the legacy of African-American men on Broadway.
"The Black Stars of the Great White Way" will feature the music of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Louis Jordan, Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway and Paul Robeson. Tickets range from $35-$200.
Stars such as Ben Vereen, Andre De Shields, Cecily Tyson, Phylicia Rashad, Chuck Cooper, Savion Glover, Hinton Battle and Chita Rivera will be on hand, and original cast members from "Five Guys Named Moe," ''Smokey Joe's Cafe," ''Motown" and "The Scottsboro Boys" will sing.
The nine honorees include household names like actor Robert Guillaume to pioneers like Geoffrey Holder, a principal dancer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1955; dancer-choreographer Louis Johnson, whose credits include "Damn Yankees"; and Harold Wheeler, an orchestrators on the original "Promises, Promises" in 1968.
"The accomplishments have gone unnoticed and we are having a good time digging it up and celebrating with everybody," says Chapman, an original "Hair" cast member who became a Broadway musical supervisor and arranger.
The idea of the concert began with Norm Lewis, who, even before becoming Broadway's first black Phantom in "The Phantom of the Opera," had heard young men to call him an inspiration for roles in "Les Miserables" and "The Little Mermaid."
"I saw that and I said, 'If they're seeing me this way, I want to celebrate the people I felt that same way about -- Andre De Shields, Robert Guillaume, Chapman Roberts.' No one had ever celebrated that. I wanted to celebrate black men on Broadway."
As the show's go-to guy, Roberts certainly has his work cut out. He anticipates a nonstop lineup of songs that culminates in all the performers -- over 100, including seven Tony winners -- sharing the stage for three songs. "We've never all been in same room together," says Roberts. "There's a huge legacy that's going to be on that stage."
The only downside is he has only 2 1/2 hours to showcase decades of rich history. "I've condensed it as much as I possibly can," he said. "Basically, everyone's going to come out and go, 'Ba-da-bum-dum-dum' and Bam, they're out."
Adds Lewis with a laugh: "You won't be satisfied, but you'll be satiated."
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hello all... i apologize if i've missed a post on this, but i'm wondering if you all can help me with something. i'm looking for a source/list of how to substitute non-vegan/vegetarian ingredients without using processed products. i really don't like to use the "mock-meats" and such, and i think you can make really tasty vegan food without using them, but when i try to modify recipes, and i google substitutes, thats what i generally get... just some specifics of what i mean by substitutes, i recently read (haven't tried it yet though) a recipe that uses butternut squash as a cheese substitute in mac&cheese. sounded so good! at the moment, i'm looking for a good kale recipe, a lot of them include bacon as an ingredient, what would be a good bacon replacement/substitute? it doesn't have to taste just like bacon, only fill that niche... i was thinking that cashews might do the job? does that make sense?
I agree. I don't need to mock meat. I have only been meatless for a year and I don't miss it at all so I don't need substitutes for it. And it is hard to find common recipes that don't use those substitutes. I get discouraged when I search for something and that is what I find. So now I just think differently. Instead of trying to convert my old recipes, I make something new. I try to stay as close to natural as I can.
I recently tried kale and didn't like it but I think that was just because of what I did with it. I tried to make kale chips. But I also just made a wonder soup from golden beets and included the beet greens. I think you could easily make a delicious soup using kale. To fill that bacon niche maybe you can just use olive oil or seasame oil. There are other flavored oils to but I have not tried them yet. I see you post is from the 19th so I am sure you came up with something. What was it?
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Mark McLoughlin is a Red Hat developer working on various parts of Fedora's Cloud and Virtualization stacks.
Way back when, he used to hack on GNOME, but that's all long forgotten now.
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- asalkeld is seeing glance-api crashing
- Russell Bryant and William Henry making good progress adding a Qpid RPC driver to Nova
- apevec pushed latest openstack-keystone into EPEL6
- pbrady fixed the docs build in openstack-glance
- pbrady started work on libguestfs support in Nova
- Bob push quantum into F16 updates
- Pete continues to test swift
- Russell switched Nova to MySQL by default
- mdomsch proposed an OpenStack hackfest at FUDCon Blacksburg
- Cole posted his notes on getting Horizon working
- pbrady posted his notes on using multiple versions of Python eggs
- pbrady's python-sqlalchemy0.7 for EPEL6 was reviewed and approved by Steve Traylen
- toshio's python-nose1.1 for EPEL6 was reviewed and approved by Toshio. Alan Pevec, pbrady and Toshio all tested it to ensure it could get into the buildroots for sqlalchemy
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Facts and figures and individuals arecarefully rolled together to look like they are all the beneficiaries of presidential largesse. The comment that the "M&G investigation has revealed President Ian Khama's extensive use of the Botswana state to establish a far-reaching network built on patronage" sets the tone in nailing all who were mentioned.
This article about Botswana, a small country in terms of its economy, population and power in the world, is similar to many that regularly appear in the Gaborone media. In fact, it is mild by comparison. Botswana's vigorous free press hammers all and sundry on a daily basis, including Khama, the government and opposition parties, without evidence of much fear or favour. This context says much about the strength of our societies and institutions in our region.
Botswana is a young nation, having grown quickly from a tiny base with a very small, well-educated leadership in the early 1960s to a vibrant, democratic and independent-minded nation with many of the stresses such success brings to a society.
I question whether, to meet the critical storyline, the M&G has unfairly savaged some honest people's reputations.
The Botswana described by government spokesperson Jeff Ramsey as a small country where "everybody knows everybody … and where many business, political and civil society leaders are friends and even relatives" might seem an odd observation to make unless one accepts that in 1960 the population was almost 500 000 people (the size of Bloemfontein) and the country's tertiary educated leadership numbered at most a few hundred. It is true that everyone knows almost everyone else – it's a "nation village".
Tsetsele Fantan is one of the people drawn into the cast mentioned in the article. My life first crossed her path in 1987 when I met an independent-minded, egalitarian and competent professional in her fields of human resource management; she was pioneering HIV treatment in the workplace at Debswana mining. A few years later she was head-hunted by the Bill Gates- and Merck-supported African Comprehensive HIV/Aids Partnership – no known political or family connection there. Her reputation for good governance as a director of companies and organisations is, to my knowledge, uncontested.
Implying that such an individual owes her various careers to patronage is not justified even by the accident of birth that makes her a relative of the Khama. In fact, she is the daughter of a cousin of Sekgoma II, paramount chief of the Bamangwato people from 1923, who died in 1925. Sekgoma II is the grandfather of Khama and Fantan is related through his grandfather's cousin.
The article does not illustrate a single instance in her career when patronage advanced her. The appointment to a tribunal (not much largesse there) overseeing complaints against the Directorate of Intelligence Services is precisely because she is the "bolshie" individual such tribunals require. Such an appointment cannot be made other than by the president's office, which is not dissimilar to a democracy anywhere in the world.
The dilemma with having such first-hand knowledge is that one questions the foundation and relevance of the circumstantial fact in a story such as the M&G's one. Reflecting on the society that makes up today's Botswana and how fast it has evolved into a vibrant country with a critical middle class and independent union movement will contribute to a better informed critique of long-established political and business interests in Botswana or elsewhere. In doing so, spare a minute to remembering that individuals are more than what they are; it is who they have become. – Tom Tweedy, Johannesburg


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Tuesday was the 9th annual Military Family Day held by the state Senate.
Individual condolence resolutions were read by Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, a veteran of the Vietnam War and U.S. Marine Corps., for each soldier. Family members for each soldier were invited to attend, and those families present were given a state flag and a copy of the resolution.
A balloon release followed on the steps of the State Capitol.
Since 2005, the Senate has honored 180 Louisiana soldiers in similar ceremonies.
Honored Tuesday were Louisiana National Guard Sgt. Michael Norbert Perry Jr., U.S. Navy Air Crewman Joseph "JP" Fitzmorris, U.S. Martin Lance Corporal Esrom "Izzy" Joseph, Louisiana Army National Guard Sgt. Kevin Weiner, U.S. Marine Sgt. Michael J. Guillory, Louisiana Army National Guard Specialist Ryan Michael Delrie, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Larry Dolan Bunn, U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Henderson and U.S. Army Lt. Col. Don C. Faith.


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Bernhard's Bread Bakery
The only thing fresher than Bernhard's breads, pastries and deli sandwiches, is his brand-spankin' new organic certification. Organic European breads, baked on the daily? Yes, please.Baking was always Bernhard's hobby, but it wasn't until he made the move to Atlanta from Luneburg, Germany, that it became his career. And in 2007 he made another move—from his old location in Duluth to Marietta. But after sampling this European bakery's goods, we're not entirely convinced that his location matters. Count us in as one of Bernhard's customers who would drive almost any distance to get those loaves of certified organic bread, fresh sandwiches and authentic German comfort food that he's been slinging since 2000. Heck, he could probably move back to Germany, and we'd make a pilgrimage. That bread, you guys...
Yessir, each and every loaf, from the Spelt Whole Grain to the Harvest Festival is organic, making Bernhard's the only such bakery in metro Atlanta to boast the certification, which he earned in July. But Bernhard didn't change his tune when organic food became trendy; no, he's been using organic flour since the beginning. And we can't think of a better complement for said organic breads than a high pile of meats, cheeses and veggies. Luckily, Bernhard is happy to oblige with a whole slew of deli sandwiches flying out of the kitchen. These spoils are, of course, best enjoyed in the small seating area to the side of the bakery, but they're available to go, too. Just grab an Esterhazy (hazelnut meringue layers, filled with rum-flavored buttercreme and topped with a rich chocolate ganache) on the way out. Yes, we'll be back. And often.
Menu Highlights:
Authentic German Lunch Specials, $7.95
The French Melt, $6.95
Pastrami Sandwich, $6.95
Roast Beef Sandwich, $6.95
Esterhazy, $3.85
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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The girls and I kicked off
Week 1: Me on the Map of the
Smart Summer Challenge by making
Life-Sized Body Maps today!
We started out by tracing ourselves on
big pieces of brown contractor's paper.
Then, we traced over our pencil outlines
with crayola marker.
"C" chose Pink (of course)
and "E" chose black.
We collected a stack of "E"s human body and anatomy books.
Then, we got to work making
organs and bones.
"C" drew the brain first,
she knew where it goes and talked
about Daddy's brain tumor...
for more info on that one, see the post on my sidebar
Cutting out organs from construction paper
It was really neat watching "C"'s "A-Ha!" moments
as she figured out where her heart is,
that her skeleton holds her up so she's not floppy,
where her intestines are,
and that's where poop comes from! : )
White masking tape formed bones.
"C" was fascinated by the spine.
We talked about back bones while we were visiting
the Natural History Museum in Washington DC
on Saturday -- standing in the dinosaur room
she was asking about their spines,
so I bent over and had her feel all of the bumps on mine.
She remembered that today when we started making
the spine on her "body map"
We used bubble wrap for lungs since
they're full of little air chambers/pockets.
Q-tips made really good finger bones
(but they're hard to cut so mom needed to do that,
didn't want to chop off any real fingers while
making pretend fingers!)
Crepe paper streamers were used for the intestines.
Noodle teeth.
"E" is still working on hers,
she wanted to save it to finish with her friend
that is coming over for a play date tomorrow morning.
Wonder what her friend's mom will think?!
This post is part of the Smart Summer Challenge.
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Candace, one of our hostesses, over at Naturally Educational and her kids
made adorable life-sized, painted, self portraits today!
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has all kinds of fun up her sleeve this week too!
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June 20, 2008
Code Booster
Award-winning research on code optimization explores multicore computing
Contact: John Hules, 486-6008
At the 2008 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) held in Miami, the award for Best Paper in the "applications" category went to a research paper on ways to make a popular scientific analysis code run smoothly on different types of multicore computers.
Samuel Williams, a researcher from Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division (CRD), was lead author of the award-winning paper, titled "Lattice Boltzmann simulation optimization on leading multicore platforms." Williams and his collaborators chose to focus on lattice Bolzmann code as a way to explore a broader issue: how to make the best use of multicore supercomputers.
The multicore trend in supercomputing started only recently, and the computing industry is expected to add more cores per chip to boost performance in the future. Unfortunately the trend is taking flight without an equally concerted effort by software developers, says Williams. In the winning paper he writes, "The computing revolution towards massive on-chip parallelism is moving forward with relatively little concrete evidence on how to best to use these technologies for real applications."
Williams and his colleagues settled on the lattice Bolzmann code that is used to model turbulence in magnetohydrodynamics simulations, which play a key role in several areas of physics research, from star formation to magnetic fusion devices. Unfortunately the code, LBMHD (LB for lattice Boltzmann, MHD for magnetohydrodymanics), typically performs poorly on traditional multicore machines. In their paper, the researchers describe how they developed a code generator that could efficiently and productively optimize a lattice Bolzmann code to deliver better performance on a new breed of supercomputers built with multicore processors.
The optimization research performed by the authors resulted in a great improvement to LBMHD code performance — substantially higher than any published to date. The researchers also gained insight into building effective multicore applications, compilers and other tools.
Jonathan Carter of NERSC, Lenny Oliker of CRD, John Shalf of NERSC, and Kathy Yelick of NERSC were coauthors of the paper, which was presented at the IPDPS in Miami in April, 2008, and won Best Paper Award in the application track. Yelick, who is NERSC Director, was a keynote speaker at the symposium.
Oliker, Carter, and Shalf were authors of a paper that won the same award last year, "Scientific application performance on candidate petascale platforms," coauthored by CRD researchers Andrew Canning, Costin Iancu, Michael Lijewski, Shoaib Kamil, Hongzhang Shan, and Erich Strohmaier. Stephane Ethier from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Tom Goodale from Louisiana State University also contributed to the work.
In their recent work on LBMHD, the researchers determined how well the code runs on several processors used to build computers today: Intel's quad-core Clovertown, Advanced Micro Devices' dual-core Opteron X2, Sun Microsystems' eight-core Niagara 2, and the eight-core STI Cell Blade (designed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM). They also looked at Intel's single-core Itanium 2, to compare its more complex single-core design with other, simpler multicores.
The researchers first looked at why the original LBMHD performs poorly on these multicore systems. Williams and his fellow researchers found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, memory-bus bandwidth didn't present the biggest obstacle. Instead, lack of resources for mapping virtual memory pages, insufficient cache bandwidth, high memory latency, and/or poor functional unit scheduling did more to hamper the code's performance.
The researchers created a code generator abstraction for LBMHD, in order to optimize it for different multicore architectures. The optimization efforts included loop restructuring, code reordering, software prefetching, and explicit "SIMDization" (single-instruction, multiple-data vectorization). The researchers characterized their effort as akin to the "autotuning methodology exemplified by libraries like ATLAS and OSKI," means of automatically searching for the best codes to address specific problems.
Their results showed a wide range of performances on different processors and pointed to bottlenecks in the hardware that prevented the code from running well. The optimization efforts also resulted in a huge gain in performance — the speed of the optimized code ran up to 14 times faster than the original version. It also achieved sustained performance for this code higher than any published to date: on two of the processor architectures, over 50-percent of peak flops (floating point operations per second).
Compared with other processors, the Cell processor provided the highest raw performance and power efficiency for LBMHD. This processor's design calls for a direct software control of the data movement between on-chip and main memory, resulting in the impressive performance. Overall, the researchers concluded, processor designs that focused on high throughput using sustainable memory bandwidth and a large number of simple cores perform better than processors with complex cores that emphasized sequential performance.
They also concluded that autotuning would be an important tool for ensuring that numerical simulation codes will perform well on future multicore computers.
Additional Information
- "Lattice Boltzmann simulation optimization on leading multicore platforms," by Samuel Williams, Jonathan Carter, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, and Katherine Yelick, was selected as Best Paper in the Application Track at IPDPS 2008.
- "Scientific application performance on candidate petascale platforms," by Leonid Oliker, Andrew Canning, Jonathan Carter, Costin Iancu, Michael Lijewski, Shoaib Kamil, John Shalf, Hongzhang Shan, Erich Strohmaier, Stephane Ethier, and Tom Goodale, was winner of the Best Paper at IPDPS 2007.
- More about IPDPS, the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
- More about Samuel Williams's research
- More about autotuning


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If there's anything old mob movies have taught people, it's to always pay your protection money. Well, that, and the secret to a good sauce is garlic. A car dealership in China learned the hard way what happens when you don't do what a gang wants.
All looks fine for the first thirty seconds or so, until about 20 guys bust in with sticks and start smashing windshields and really anything that looks like it'll break.
Just remember, always pay that protection money. Either that, or the dealership gave the boss a particularly bad deal on a new Shanxi Victory.


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By Judith Colihan Oct 11, 2011 0
Knowledge is Power
What I thought I knew about autism some two decades ago could have fit on the head of a pin. Brief snippets of made-for-TV movies and a character on a favorite weekly series told me that autism was either something that could be "overcome" through countless hours of hard work and obsessive dedication on the part of the autistic child's parents, or a lifelong, debilitating condition that doomed the sufferer to a world of non-communicative isolation. The one thing I did not know—the most important thing of all—was that my life was playing out on the autism spectrum. That fact was impacting every facet of my existence, every decision I made about my present and future, every choice in my past. Two decades ago, as I was making my way into the adult world, what I knew about autism and the transition to adulthood and beyond was exactly nothing.
But now, I know more about autism than I ever thought there was to know. With the diagnosis of my son in the late 1990s, and my daughter several years later, my knowledge base from the parent perspective grew by leaps and bounds. Along the way, I began to suspect that much of what we identified as my children's strengths and struggles mirrored those of my own past—and present. But it was not until years later that I made the decision to "kinda" find out for sure if the ratio of Aspies to neurotypicals in my household was more like 3:1 than an even split. I sought out what I classified as an informal diagnosis and proceeded to test out different strategies that I knew had been successful with others and apply them to my own life. This approach gave me the strength I needed to come up with a plan to achieve career goals that had been all-but-forgotten. Suddenly (!) I find myself with a Master's degree in Special Education, and am now enrolled in a doctoral program in the same discipline, while teaching adolescents and young adults with developmental disabilities in a Career Education program at a private school in Pennsylvania. Most recently, I made the decision to seek out definitive answers about what made me tick, and as suspected, the answer came back: Asperger's Disorder. Truth be told, there was a time where I would not have minded the word "disorder" so much, but I have come too far, and learned to much, to feel comfortable using that word to describe how my brain is wired. As long as I can continue to find ways to use my Aspie powers for good instead of evil, there's not too much disorder in my little world, after all!
Had I known some two decades ago what I know now—as a parent, as an educator, as a student, as an autistic person—I can only imagine what a difference it would have made in my own life, and the lives of the people who matter to me the most: my neurotypical husband (God bless him!) and my children. What I can hope for at this point is that it is not too late for them to share in the benefits of what I now know, and what I am learning still. I hope, through this column, to have the opportunity to talk about the ins and outs of becoming and living as an autistic adult. And because I am spending unending amounts of effort, energy and tuition on studying special education issues (my dissertation is going to be related to transition issues in some way, shape or form) and more than 35 hours a week as a teacher in Career Education, I hope to be able to provide, at the very least, an informed perspective. Because there is one thing I have learned since finding out that I'm autistic: Knowledge is power. All of a sudden, after a lifetime of knowing what I wanted for myself professionally and not having any idea of how to get there, I'm a teacher…and a writer.


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Giving the People What They Want aka 2009 in Search Terms
BBJ over at SLC Dunk is doing a "Ten Days of Christmas" series in which he's counting down the Top Ten Jazz stories of the year, so definitely go read that. Over here at the ever-frivolous Living and Dying by the Jazz, you'll be getting the Top Ten Search Terms (that led people here) of the Year.
[Reading through the list, you may be inclined to believe that I'm making stuff up or have re-ranked the list for comic effect. I assure you, this is not the case.] Here we go:
10. Some Variation of "Just Kill Me" / "Just Kill Me Games" / "Kill Me Now Games"
What can I say…Googlers come to the right place–a Jazz blog–when they are seeking games that make you lose the will to live. This, for example. Or this. Or this.
9. Deron Williams Chin Strap / Beard
Maybe Deron is some kind of facial hair trendsetter and I just don't know it. When he first started sporting the beard during the Beijing Olympics, I have to say I hated it. In fact, I even threw up a fanshot at SLCDunk polling the dunkers on it. Now, I look at old pictures of him and think he looks young and chubby without it. The power of the human mind to adapt is simply amazing.
8. Carlos Boozer's Love Life (some variation of wife, girlfriend, divorce, and divorce reason)
As you all know by now, Boozer filed for divorce last spring and reconciled with CeCe over the summer. Moving on…
7. Rob Pelinka
For those that don't know, Rob
Lowe Pelinka is Boozer's agent. I did one post on him, "Questionable Character Attracts Questionable Characters," last summer when Boozer was on his Tour de Whore and Pelinka did nothing to shut him up. The two of them just have a whole buncha shady history between them.
6. Living and Dying by the Jazz / Jazz Fanatical
Self-explanatory: name of this blog [I now realize I should have made the URL and blog name, like, you know, the same, but too late now].
5. Kris Humphries' Girlfriend
I believe I've only mentioned Humphries once in the entire history of this blog, and it was in passing. The bio on his official website does not mention a girlfriend or wife, but then again, it still lists him as a Raptor so it's probably not the most up-to-date website on the Internet. Therefore, this is all I have to offer:
4. Good / Best FB Quotes
I'm assuming these people were looking for quotes to put in the "Quotes" section of their Facebook profiles, but down our way, FB Quotes refer to dumbass things that come out of Boozer's mouth. You know, stuff like raise, regardless, I'm a starter, I was told I'd be traded, etc. Check out Top 5 Most Dumbass FB Quotes of '08-'09, aka the tip of the iceberg, if your curiosity is piqued.
3. Deron Williams' Wife / Girlfriend
Deron's then-girlfriend-now-wife Amy famously stole the show at the 2005 NBA Draft with her "smoking hotness," which led to posts going up all over the Internet requesting pictures of her. Watch the draft video or click here for more.
2. Deron Williams' Hair / Long Hair / Hairstyle
Hey, maybe Deron's some kind of coiffurial trendsetter too. And I actually did once do a post on the evolution of his hair from high school until now. In my defense, it was May, there were six months of interminable no-Jazzness stretching out in front of me, and I was bored out of my mind.
And at Numero Uno (requisite drum roll)…: (New) Jazz Uniforms
I suppose that refers to the new green throwbacks we got going on this season:
For the record (Front Office, are you listening????), I prefer the purple. More here and here.
LOL Honorable Mentions:
–"David Stern's mustache"
–"NBA players shaved armpits"
–"Mrs. Bryant ring"
–and the piece de resistance…"did carlos boozer do masha"
So there you have it, Living and Dying by the Jazz's Year in Search Terms. Cheers.


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Alabama Counties: Coosa County
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Coosa County was created by the Alabama legislature on 1832 Dec. 18, from lands included in the Creek Indian Treaty of Cusseta, 1832 Mar. 24. It was named for the Coosa River, which forms its western boundary. The word "Coosa" is believed to mean "cane-brake" in the Alibama-Kossati Indian dialect.
Coosa County lies in the east-central part of the state. It is bordered by Shelby, Talladega, Clay, Tallapoosa, Elmore, and Chilton counties. It currently comprises 675 square miles. A site on Albert Crumpler's plantation on Hatchemalega Creek was chosen as the county seat and given the name Lexington. In 1835 the name was changed to Rockford. Other towns and communities include Equality, Nixburg, and Goodwater.
Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921.
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Below, left: the newspaper account, as it appeared in the May 8, 1957 edition of the Huronite and Daily Plainsman (Huron, South Dakota). Right, the incident as related by Bill's mother, Elvirta Knutz, in her diary:
"Tuesday night an electrical storm came up and a bolt of lightening struck Bill's house; they knew it struck but didn't know it set a fire so they went to bed. It struck about 12 and about 1:30 they all woke up smelling smoke. Bill went out for a look, Betty did too they saw the kitchen-roof was a blaze; Betty opened the stair door, it was full of smoke and 1 wall was on fire. It just happened the kids and all slept down stairs because of the storm which was a good thing; for they would have been trapped up stairs. Bill was going to phone for the fire department but the phone was burnt out also the electricity. Lillian and the kids carried out things; Bill did too when he got back. Mrs. Ted Walters phoned to us about a quarter till 2 so we went over. They run out of water and so they couldn't save the house, they broke out windows and carried out things. Everything up-stairs burnt, so did everything in the kitchen and bathroom; some things were saved in the (living) room, some burned. The kids' clothing all burned except what they had on; Betty was without shoes and Donny had his pajamas on, no shoes. Before we left the scene of the fire some neighbors came with clothing. Every one were helping with donations of clothing, canned goods, cooking utencils [sic], towels, and wash-cloths."
My mother, who was a teenager at the time of the fire, said the house was actually struck by lightening twice; the first bolt took out the electricity, and the second started the fire. She also related that her father ran to the neighbor's house rather than drove, a distance of over a mile away, to use their phone. When it became apparent that the house could not be saved, the firemen broke out windows and threw whatever of the family's belongings they could grab, out into the yard.
The two older girls stayed with Bill's sister in Huron, and the rest of the family stayed with Bill's parents. In the meantime, they began looking for a house that they could move to the farm:
However, the plans changed when they found a house in town, pictured at right, and purchased it on May 20. Bill made daily trips to the farm to do his chores. The new house was just a half block from the home of Maurice and Loretta Sloan, their farm friends who had recently moved to town. My grandmother and Mrs. Sloan maintained their close friendship for the rest of their lives. My grandfather continued making daily trips to the farm until he sold it about 1972.


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These weird-looking contraptions are Bluetooth earphones, comprising two earpieces and a transmitter that plugs into the bottom of your iPod. You can pair the 'phones with other Bluetooth devices (but there's no microphone so it's pointless hooking it up to a mobile phone).
Setting up the earphones is easy with an iPod - and no syncing is necessary. Simply select the track you want, press pause, insert the transmitter, then press play on either the iPod or the right earpiece and away you go. The transmitter works up to a range of around 15 feet.
The controls on the earpiece include play/pause, which is also on/off, plus volume and forward and back track buttons. Sound quality is excellent.
The only drawback is that you look pretty odd wearing these large rectangular chunks of plastic in your ears. They're reminiscent of those giant earrings worn next to enormous shoulderpads in the mid-80s. Any takers?