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Cut-Away View of the Hybrid Wood Stove Combustion System
Secondary combustion occurs across the top of the firebox. The fireback slopes so that you can easily see the secondary flames. Secondary air is preheated by passing across the back of the stove before entering the fireback.
Any exiting smoke and particulates not burned by secondary combustion must pass through a catalytic combustor, where they are ignited at temperatures as low as 400 degrees. The catalytic combustor is made of stainless steel foil, tested and approved for continuous operation at 2,100 degrees F. The thickness of the foil is approximately 50 microns (the thickness of a human hair), which is why it heats up and "lights off" so quickly.
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To fix the coming crunch, federal regulators think they've come up with the right solution: Give companies like Verizon and AT&T a lot more frequencies on the wireless spectrum to play with. But where will all those extra channels come from?
That's where the television industry comes in. If all goes according to plan, next year hundreds of TV stations will get a big check to shut down operations and give up their spectrum. Then the agency will turn around and sell that invisible treasure to the wireless companies so that when you fire up your data connection, you won't get caught in an online traffic jam. All told, the FCC hopes to take about 20 channels worth of spectrum that are currently licensed to various TV stations across the country and auction them off to the wireless companies in various local markets.
The TV stations are cagey about whether they intend to participate. A key industry group, the National Association of Broadcasters, is eyeing the auctions with a mix of uncertainty and optimism. But the whole plan can only work if enough broadcasters volunteer. So to help build support for it, a few dozen TV stations that strongly support the idea have banded together to promote it — anonymously.
In principle, the deal benefits everybody. Broadcasters who are struggling to make ends meet can exit the industry with a nice chunk of change. Wireless companies get to use the newly freed-up spectrum. And some revenues from the auction will go toward funding new government projects like a dedicated nationwide first-responder network.
In practice, the politics have proven rather delicate. The more broadcasters choose to exit the industry, the less bargaining power the industry will have in future negotiations, said Scott Wallsten, a senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute.
"If you think about this from the view of the National Association of Broadcasters," Wallsten says, "then if the auction succeeds, they lose a good chunk of their membership."
That has set up a weird dynamic among TV stations; after all, some intend on staying in business even as others contemplate getting out. Muddying matters further, no TV station wants to telegraph its intentions for fear of exposing themselves to the local competition. So while 70-odd stations have joined so far to support the spectrum auction, none of the group's members has knowledge of the others' identities.
Preston Padden, a former president of ABC, represents the anonymous alliance, known as the Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition.
"I can tell you it includes a broad range of stations," he says. "Some of them are broadcasters that I've known in my career for 30 years or more; some of them are newer entrants. We have a significant number of ethnic minority owners who are potentially interested in selling."
If the minority stations fold, however, it'll leave the TV industry just a little less diverse — a little less interesting, you could say. And it's not just foreign-language broadcasters that might exit — we're also talking about religious broadcasters, college- and family-owned stations or others that are among the least profitable in their markets. These niche stations could begin to disappear as they accept the buyout, too. What'll be left are the big network affiliates — your local ABC, CBS or NBC stations.
"It's hard to imagine any major network affiliate participating in the auction," says Wallsten. "If they participate, they'll have among the highest bids because their business is worth the most." By contrast, the FCC would rather pay broadcasters who will accept a lower price for their spectrum.
Getting out of the industry completely isn't the only option. FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel says the auction should give station operators an incentive to move frequencies and share their channel with other stations. Consumers might wind up watching one station for a certain part of the day, and another station for the rest of the day on the same channel, but it would help open up more spectrum cheaply.
However the auction unfolds, it's almost certain to mean a more limited TV landscape. Still, the National Association of Broadcasters isn't about to oppose the plan.
"We want this to be a successful auction," says Dennis Wharton, an NAB spokesperson. "The last thing we want as the NAB is to be back at this in three or four years and have the wireless folks claim that, 'Well, we tried a voluntary approach — now let's force them to give up the airwaves.'"

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Pushing our infant son in a stroller, my wife and I stepped out of the terminal at Simon Bolivar International Airport and were approached by several taxi drivers offering to take us to Caracas. One of them, a soft-spoken young man in his 20s, offered the lowest fare by far, and I handed him one of our bags.
The small white car crawled up the hill in the darkness, then slowed and stopped. Doors opened. Two men burst into the car, one in the front passenger seat and the other in the back seat, pressing against my wife.
"Be calm," the young man in the back said, holding up a revolver so that we could see it, a frightened look in his eyes.
"Don't worry, nothing's going to happen to you," the man in the front said, turning another gun on me. "Don't look!"
That ordeal eight years ago introduced me to life in Venezuela, a country where events often collide in unpredictable and dramatic ways and where a wide gap frequently separates the reality on the street from the socialist-inspired dreams that President Hugo Chavez has instilled in his followers.
During more than eight years covering Venezuela, I have gained more street smarts, become a tougher, more resourceful reporter and developed a deep affection for this country where I've met many warm, free-thinking people.
Venezuela's many long-term challenges, such as crime, corruption, a troubled economy and bitter political divisions, can seem as vast as the sea of crude oil that Venezuela sits atop. And with Chavez battling cancer, the country could be headed for big political shifts and possible turmoil.
A couple of years after the robbery, I found myself sitting in the passenger seat of a Toyota 4Runner while Chavez drove through the lush, green plains of Apure state.
In our interview, he talked about his years as an army officer plotting against the government and how growing up in the rural plains had shaped his radical ideas.
"What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what made me a rebel," Chavez said.
When he slowed and lowered the tinted window, passers-by gawked and then broke into a run, screaming, "Presidente!"
One woman ran to the window with tears in her eyes and cried out "I love you!"
Chavez clasped hands and planted kisses, while they asked him for help replacing shacks with houses or treating sick relatives. Chavez promised to rescue them all.
It was a role I saw him play many times: the larger-than-life leader supporters expected to solve their many problems. At rallies, I watched as people pressed letters into the hands of Chavez's aides, asking for money to help their poor neighborhoods or fledgling cooperatives.
It was a remarkable up-close look at a populist leader in the mold of the classic Latin American caudillo, who often seemed to want to use his power and charisma for good.
But there was a downside. He could use the same force to sideline opponents and rule Venezuela with few checks.
He dominated power to such a degree that he once said on television that Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni should go to jail for 30 years for freeing a banker while he awaited trial. Today, she is still under house arrest.
Some Chavistas told me at political rallies that a leader like Chavez comes along once in a century, and that may be one point Venezuelans can agree on, whether they love or hate him.
At a news conference in late 2011, I asked him point-blank what type of cancer he was diagnosed with, whether sarcoma as some have speculated, or another type. He had managed for months not to reveal many details about his illness.
Chavez chuckled at the question at first, then said: "You know more than I do."
He explained that a baseball-sized tumor had been removed from his pelvic region and asked: "You want me to tell you more? What for? What for? ... Isn't there some morbidity in that?"
More than a year later, after saying tests showed he was free of cancer, Chavez won re-election. Eventually, he announced the cancer was back, but he still has not said what type.
One morning in January, I noticed dozens of young men had blocked an avenue by dumping trash in the road and setting it ablaze. Police in riot gear lined up and pushed the embers off the pavement, while the protesters milled around on the sidewalk.
They explained that they'd been demanding jobs at a construction site where the government was building public housing, but the company in charge wouldn't hire them.
"The only thing we want is to work," said one of the protesters, John Jairo Bello. "We're hungry to work because we have children. We have to eat."
The nervous, uncertain look in their eyes reminded me of the young men who had stolen my family's belongings and left us on the highway back in 2005.
With the guns pointed at me, I had wondered about the robbers: Who are they? Off-duty police officers trying to supplement their income? Or simply a gang of young toughs who prey on foreign tourists? What desperation drove them to this?
I remember putting my head down and laying my hands on the back of the front seat as the robbers demanded money and jewelry. I slowly pulled my wedding ring off my hand and reached for my wallet.
Our son, just shy of 1 year old, began to cry in his baby seat. My wife hummed a lullaby, and that quiet, noble song had brought me enough clarity to think how we might escape.
As we passed through a tunnel, I told the guy in the front seat: "You've got everything now. You can leave us anywhere."
On a stretch of freeway flanked by slums, they finally pulled over. The car sped away carrying our suitcases. Alone, we embraced nervously, and then walked on pushing our son in his stroller through the darkness.
As I prepare to leave, I know I'll miss the macaws flying past my window and the spectacular views of El Avila, the forested mountain that towers above Caracas.
I also will remember the rivers, polluted and majestic.
The Guaire River runs through Caracas filled with sewage and flanked by the encampments of drug addicts under freeway overpasses. Back in 2005, Chavez had pledged a full cleanup, saying on television, "I invite you all to go swimming in the Guaire soon."
Recently, as I drove across the river, I noted it still smelled of sewage and detergent, and it seemed a fitting metaphor for Venezuela's many unresolved problems. They existed before Chavez burst onto the scene, and they're likely to remain long after he's gone.
A few years ago, I swam a race at the meeting of the Orinoco and Caroni rivers, a grueling endurance test of 3.1 kilometers (1.9 miles) that's an annual tradition.
With hundreds of others, I stepped into the mud-brown waters, and we stroked out into the middle of the Orinoco. The challenge was staying on course amid the strong currents, which knocked some swimmers off track. I was proud to make it to the other shore with the majority.
Now this, too, seems like a fitting way to think of the challenges that lie ahead for Venezuelans.
While some people call the situation hopeless or insist that one political camp or the other holds the answers, I take the view that the country's problems can be solved. The challenges are many, but Venezuela has plentiful oil earnings, creative entrepreneurs, and a strong sense of national identity that transcends the pro- and anti-Chavez political divide.
They must now make it across a turbulent stretch, aiming for the shores of a better future as a united nation.
Ian James has been the AP's bureau chief in Venezuela since 2004. He finished his assignment in the country this week.


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|The May Check is in the Mail
|By Alex Dunne
|May 3, 2011
Carl Siefring has earned the ICCM title which will be awarded to him at the 2011 ICCF Congress in Jarvenpaa, Finland. Carl learned the game at age 4 or 5 from his father. He played on his chess team in high school, but only got serious about the game in graduate school. He then discovered email chess and gained some successes – second in the IECG cup tournaments in 1997, 1998, and 1999, another second place in the 2008 IECG cup and a third place finish in the 2004 Electronic Knights Championship.
Carl works as a research physicist studying the upper atmosphere and ionosphere and has built scientific instruments for over 20 sounding rockets and 11 satellites.
There is much beauty in this game. The opening is macho madness, with both sides hurling haymakers at each other when survival for either side looks doubtful. And then: an exchange of Queens and we enter into a delicate endgame where with precise calculation Siefring brings home the point.
Where does White go wrong in this game? I will leave that for 1. e4 fanatics to discover.
1….c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 0–0 10.0–0–0 Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.g5 b4 13.Ne2 Ne8 14.f4 a5 15.f5 a4 16.fxe6 axb3 17.cxb3 fxe6 18.Kb1 Rxa2 19.Bh3 Qa5 20.Bxe6+ Kh8 21.Ng3
Black was slightly better after 21. Bxd7 Ra1+ 22. Kc2 Qc7+ 23. Nc3 Rxd1 24. Qxd1 Qxd7 25. Nd5 Nc7 as in Millstone-Braakhuis, 27th World Championship 2003.
21...Nc5 22.Bc4 Nc7 23.Bxc5
White suffered an acute collapse after 23. Rhf1 Ra8 24. Bxc5 Qxc5 25. Qf2 Qxc4! in Baramidze-Nielsen, Bundesliga 2006
23...Ra1+ 24.Kc2 Rxd1 25.Qxd1 Qxc5 26.g6 Rf2+ 27.Kb1 Qd4
After 27...h6, chances are roughly balanced. Instead Black seeks the greater promise of the endgame with an active Rook and passed d-Pawn.
28.Qxd4 exd4 29.gxh7 Bf6 30.Rf1 Rxh2 31.Nf5 Be5
Meeting White's threat of Nxd6 and Bg8.
32.Rd1 Ne8 33.Nxd4 Nf6 34.Nc2 g5 35.Nxb4
White has to seek some activity. He cannot just leave his pieces bunched on the queenside doing nothing.
35...Rxb2+ 36.Kc1 Rh2 37.Nd5 Nxd5 38.exd5 g4 39.Rg1 g3
The Pawn advances with the threat of 40...g2 and ...Bd4
40.Bf1 Ra2 41.Kd1 Kxh7 42.Rg2 Ra1+ 43.Ke2 Kh6 44.Rg1 Kg5 45.Kf3 Rb1 46.Ke4 Bf4 47.Rh1 Rxb3 48.Bh3 Re3+ 49.Kd4 Re2 50.Rg1 Kh4 51.Rh1 Be5+ 52.Kd3 Rh2After 53. Rxh2 gxh2 54. Bg2 Kg3 Black plays ...Kf2 and g1, winning the Bishop and the d6 Pawn will eventually queen. 0–1
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Quote: The bane of correspondence chess is the clerical error -- Walter Muir
Mikhail Umansky
Mikhail Umansky who died on the 22 of December 2010 was arguably the strongest correspondence chess player ever. He won the 13th World Chess Championship with an undefeated 13-3, a point and a half above his nearest rival. In the ICCF World Champions Jubilee Tournament in which the nine living World Champions competed, Umansky finished first with a 7-1 score, two points ahead of the field.Umansky also announced his intention in 2006 of becoming the first professional correspondence chess player, but heart problems cut short that career. Umansky shows the power of technique in this masterpiece against 6th World Champion Horst Rittner.
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Rebecca Ruth of Springfield, Illinois, member of USCF and CCLA, died at age 43.
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Who Are the Quitters ?
Correspondence chess has a bad reputation of having too many players quit, withdraw, drop out, or forfeit their games. I decided to see just how bad it was and so I looked at the number who did so in the last completed major USCF CC tournament, the 2004 Golden Knights. What follows is not a scientific investigation – it covers only two tournaments – but it revealed an interesting comparison.
In the 2004 Golden Knights there were 308 entries for Round One. Thirty dropped out of the preliminary round (9.7 %) seven dropped out of the 98 in the semifinal (7.1 %) and two dropped out of the 28 in the final (7.1 %). Thus out of the 434 players 39 dropped out or 9 % of the correspondence players over the course of six and a half years (January 7, 2004 to July 15, 2010)
There were some reasons – death and health reasons were most cited.
Then I took the Open division of the 2010 World Open as a relatively comparable OTB tournament. The Open division had 98 entries and 25 dropped out. That is a 25.6 % dropout rate over the course of seven days (June 29 to July 5, 2010). As far as I can tell, none of the reasons for dropping out was death. And it is the CC community that has the reputation of dropping out.
Go for Boroque
by Jon R. Edwards
It began two years ago. It was an early Spring day. I'm sure the birds were out and the sky was blue. But that's not the point of the story.
One of my co-workers told me about an interesting chess set in a local gift shop named Go for Baroque. Nice items, high prices. You know the routine. Here in the window was a set that depicted the "Town" against "Gown." On the white side were the officers of the University, the President, some cabinet officers and distinguished members of the faculty, with gothic towers for the rooks and students in assorted garb as pawns. Representing black: the local Mayor and his administration. Pedestrians, local characters, and parking meters (the pawns) filled out the set.
With the board, it was "on sale" for $1,200. Needless to say, at that price, I didn't buy it. I did something far worse. I made a move. 1.e4, of course. The clerk behind the counter didn't seem to mind that I had touched the set, and, after a very brief look at the overpriced merchandise, I left. Later that day, my co-worker quizzed me about the set. I gave an honest if somewhat cynical reaction: "Fun set. Very high price. Not the sort of set that I would ever use. Some non-chess player will probably buy it."
Some of you have already figured out what happened next. After all, this is Princeton, New Jersey, home to the oddest assortment of people you'll ever find. Two days later, as I passed by the shop, I noticed in the window that someone had played 1...c5. So I went in and played 2.Nf3. And so it went. Within a few weeks, there was a buzz around town. Well, perhaps only a low hum. That I was playing the University side and that someone else had taken command of the "Town."
This new approach placed a whole new slant on correspondence chess. In all of my experience, this was the first time that I had ever played a game against a totally unknown opponent. The real surprise, for me at least, was that my opponent was a pretty good player. He knew the Dragon to move 18 and then deviated with a really interesting move that seemed to challenge theory. I asked the store clerk if he knew who was playing black, but it turns out the clerk didn't seem to care enough about the job to pay attention to such details. I thought perhaps that my opponent might have been the clerk himself until I came in one day to discover that he had restored the starting position, and incorrectly at that. Needless to say, I restored the actual position.
By fall, there was scarcely a lunch hour that I didn't go in to see if my opponent had left a move, or to hang around just in case my opponent finally might happen to drop by. Move by move, the game proceeded, and more and more people were coming in to the store see the current position. The clerk didn't seem to mind even though none of the observers or I ever bought anything there.
By late summer, my attack had potential, and I was just about to launch into a rather typical Dragon rook sacrifice when the game suddenly ended.
I've had correspondence games in which opponents went silent; I've played a few in which my opponents died. I recall one opponent who resigned because the position had become "too complicated." But this was the first time that one of my games ended because a store went bankrupt. Go for Boroque did just that. Right around the 23rd move. So the question is... anyone care to adjudicate a game?
When good Pawns beat bad pieces:NIMZO-INDIAN DEFENSE
The new world champion demonstrates that Rooks can be delicate creatures too. Watching how they slide back and forth on the first rank brings to mind ballroom dancers.
Walker finds a smooth ending
Mark Capron, in the Iowa State Championship, shows a neat tactic everyone should familiarize themselves.


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Depending on how old and how large your TV is, your analog beast could be toting around eight pounds of lead and other heavy metals such as barium, cadmium and chromium (let's assume four pounds per set is average). If you multiply all that lead by 100 million (the estimated number of analog TVs in current use or storage) you get a frightening figure -- 200,000 tons of heavy metals that eventually need proper disposal.
The good news is that plenty of people are perfectly happy with their analogs. Only 12.6 million households (11 percent) receive OTA (over-the-air) signals. Everyone else is on cable or already has a digital set-top converter, and for those folks an analog television works just fine. As long as they keep their cable they never have to switch to a digital TV, unless of course they want hi-def.
The bad news is that a whole lot of people will be dumping their old sets. Secondhand stores like Goodwill have stopped accepting old televisions, and though most municipalities have banned cathode tube televisions, there are still plenty of ways for crafty dumpster dumpers to get rid of those unwanted sets illegally.
According to the latest government stats, over 60 million people have already requested coupons to replace their analog TV sets. Of those, 30 million have received them. Though many people will likely stash their analogs in the garage for a while, we can safely assume tens of millions of sets will be discarded in the next few months.
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In this article, we feature the Top 7 video songs of actress Jyothika selected from different movies she has performed till date. These videos are selected based on popularity in Youtube. So here enjoy the the top 7 Jyothika video songs in Youtube.
#1 – Uyirin Uyire from Kakka Kakka
"Uyirin Uyire" is an evergreen song which will last for many decades to come. Surya and Jo has performed outstandingly well in this amazingly choreographed song from Kakka Kakka. A big set of applause goes to Gautam Menon for his directorial skills.
#2 – Swasame from Thenali
"Swaasame" is an excellent melody from the movie Thenali. Kamal & Jo has done a wonderful job in making this video beautiful.
#3 – Kaatrin Mozhiye from Mozhi
"Kaatrin Mozhiye" is another sweet melodious song composed by Vidya Sagar for the movie Mozhi.
#4 – Senyoreeta from Poovellaam Kettuppar
Senyoreeta is a chilling stage performance from the movie Poovellam Kettuppar. Surya & Jo shares the screen.
#5 – Uyirile Enathu Uyirile from Vettaiyadu Vilayadu
Uyirile Enathu Uyirile is melody from Vettaiyadu Viladu in which Jo & Kamal Hassan forms excellent screen presence.
#6 – Newyork Nagaram Urangum Neram from Silunu oru Kaadhal
NewYork Nagaram is a composition by A R Rahman for the movie Silunu Oru Kadhal. Surya & Jo shares the screen.
#7 – Churidhar Anininthitu Vantha from Poovellam Kettuppar
This is another song from the Surya Jyothika couple. No wonder they form an amazing pair in real life as well.
So hope you have enjoyed these 7 Jyothika video songs. We will be compiling similar video series on Jyothika and other actress as well in coming days. Stay tuned!
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China's world-beating growth has been built on the backs of hundreds of millions of people willing to work for wages low enough to make a labor boss in the West weep. Economists in and out of China have warned that model is bound to play out as China eventually runs out of surplus labor.
But when?
Two International Monetary Fund economists say China will become a labor-shortage country sometime between 2020 and 2025—and there isn't much China can do about it. In economist jargon, that's when China will reach the "Lewis Turning Point," named for British and St. Lucian Nobel laureate Arthur Lewis.
That's the point when labor becomes scarce enough that wages rise sharply, industrial profits are squeezed, investment falls—and developing countries hopefully have figured out a way to grow without relying on cheap labor.
If China manages the change skillfully, IMF economists Mitali Das and Papa N'Diaye say, it would be a boon to itself and the rest of the world, "potentially raising output particularly in those countries within (China's) supply chain (mainly emerging Asia) and commodity exporters."
Wealthy countries that export to China would also benefit, but less so, the economists say.
But a lot of countries, particularly those in Latin America and Africa, don't manage to round the Lewis Turning Point at all and get stuck at a relatively low level of development.
What's most striking about the IMF paper is that there's relatively little China can do to push back the Lewis Turning Point and give the economy more time to adjust.
"Demographics will be the dominant force driving the depletion of surplus labor," they write.
It has long been predicted that China's working-age population will decline because of a declining birth rate and Beijing's one-child policy. The IMF economists' model uses United Nations forecasts that the decline will begin in 2020.
But that forecast now looks optimistic. Earlier this month, China's National Bureau of Statistics said the size of the working-age population fell by 3.5 million to 937 million in 2012—a shift to a shrinking worker pool from the growing workforce that buoyed Chinese growth throughout the last decade.
The IMF examines four possible policy responses China could pursue to delay running smack into the Lewis Turning Point. Trying to boost fertility won't do much because it takes a long time for babies to grow into workers. Liberalizing the financial sector by increasing interest rates for depositors would make things worse because people will feel richer and have less incentive to work, further reducing the workforce. Ditto for raising productivity, which would make companies more profitable and increase their need for workers.
What could help, they write, is increasing labor mobility by reforming China's work registration system, so more workers in urban areas are entitled to full social benefits. That would accelerate the movement of workers from rural areas to urban ones, where the low-wage factory jobs still predominate. That would delay the turning point by about five years, they figure.
Still, the Lewis Turning Point is likely to come within the tenure of China's two new top leaders, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang. For China, that means a rough road ahead.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:18 am
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Best tip for juicy pork chops? Buy thick cut pork chops instead of the usual ½" thick ones. 1" thick is a whole lot easier to cook. I cook them at about 450°F and flip them when they look right. Used to need a thermometer, but now I can just tell.
Please excuse the lack of precision: I'm just an industrial engineer.
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Post subject: is a spice grinder really necessary?
Since the ingredients in your rub are already ground, and since the rub is going to sit on the pork chops for 8 hours or more anyway, it seems unnecessary to me to go to the trouble of grinding in a spice grinder. I would think the flavors would be infused nicely into the meat in 8 hours from the spices in their already-ground state straight out of the bottles, with further grinding superfluous.
Any thoughts or experience in this regard? Thanks.
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Post subject: Re: is a spice grinder really necessary?
just a passerby wrote:
Since the ingredients in your rub are already ground, and since the rub is going to sit on the pork chops for 8 hours or more anyway, it seems unnecessary to me to go to the trouble of grinding in a spice grinder.
I grind the cumin and red pepper because they come in larger "chunks" than the other spices. I grind them to reduce their particle size so you won't get a bite of solid cumin (which has an impressively strong taste). Using cumin powder will solve this problem, or if you like the pieces of cumin, then you won't need to grind at all.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:13 pm
Post subject: Nice straightforward recipe!
I've used this one twice, the second time with a couple of variations. I got great results both ways, but this original way was a little better.
The second time I didn't have enough "heads-up" time, so I used some store-bought McCormick Pork Rub I had used before on Memphis-Style ribs. I also used the little trick of putting on a light coating of olive oil before applying the rub. It helps the rub stick to the meat, makes the meat a little less prone to stick to the grill, and helps it brown up nicely.
If you need to save some time, these tricks worked out for me. Otherwise the times and temps presented were dead-on. Good job!
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:29 pm
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How does one go about getting a 'real' pork chop, as opposed to the sliced pork loin they call 'pork chops' in the butcher section these days. My Dad, in his butchering days, sliced between the ribs - and only 'chopped' the 'T' at the top. Now, it seems, they just set the saw at 3/4" or whatever and cut the rib into fragments.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:50 pm
Post subject: Brining Pork Chops;
For really nice juicy chops use at least 11/2 inch thick chops
and brine for at least 12 hours.
1/2 cup salt, 1/2 cup of sugar and some Orange juice in
one gallon of water. Yes, Orange juice at least one Orange.
In this day and time very few folks get sick from pork chops
that are under cooked. Besides, no one lives forever.
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 4:11 am
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Great recipe! I have to admit I was a bit skeptical that all those ingredients for the rub were going to produce a tasty chop (I'm a ME not a chemmie) but once I pulled them off the grill - all my family and I were doing was licking our chops!
2 thumbs up recipe.
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:09 pm
Post subject: gave grilled pork chops
I didn't have time to let the spices sit and infuse. I made my rub (cutting down that amount of salt by 25% or more) and put the chops on the grill. This was my very first time cooking pork on a grill. I got caught up doing other things and forgot to check on and turn my meat and time and I burnt one side of some of the chops. Surprisingly, it was still really tasty. My family said I need to grill pork this way more often--they really enjoyed the meal.
Thank you.
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My daughter, an Electrical/Computer Engineer and her boyfriend (ME) were over and he grilled out for us. I enjoyed the grilled pork so much, I wanted to make some myself. While Googling, I found this website and laughed out loud. I'll try this recipe and will be back for more of them. Thanks for a good laugh and good food.
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:33 pm
Post subject: Grilled pork chops and spare rib rub
That's more or less what I've been trying but I didn't always get the proportions the same so different results. Good to see the proportions written down. I will try again. (My excuse for bad cooking is always "I'm not a cook, I'm an engineer".
I was using these herbs, more or less, mixed with yogurt and left to marinate. Never knew if I was doing right or wrong. Is there any benefit to marinating, say over night?
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>>marinating overnight
two edged sword. an acid marinate will affect the protein in pork - essentially causing it to tighten up and resemble 'cooked' before it ever sees a pan - 'more cooking' can produce 'dry hard pork'
dairy - yogurt and buttermilk for example - are relatively mild on the acidity marinate scale.
a lot of how moist the pork will be, after cooking, depends on the state of 'lean' - essentially any really lean meat - poultry to pork - tends to dry out an become hard/tough - overcooking does not help that problem.
in the thread you'll find thoughts about brining pork - the aim is to get some water aka moisture back into the meat before cooking. depending on your source of pork and how fat/lean it is, you might want to experiment with that. the other factor mentioned - 'thickness' - should not be dismissed out of hand. a thin pork chop is much more likely to become hard&dry than a thicker one - basically because it can 'overcook' faster/easier. the 'margin of error' in cooking a 1/2 inch thick chop to tender and juicy vs. dry as cardboard is probably less than 2 minutes. a 1-1/2 inch chop more than double that. "sticking it in the oven and setting the timer" could be a major failure point on thin stuff.
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:26 pm
Post subject: Good rub
The wife and I both enjoyed this rub on some good Iowa chops
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>and cook until an instant read thermometer registers 145°F (63°C) [336 K].
336 K ???? You really ARE! an engineer!
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In this article, we'll discuss how to properly evaluate a potential migration from Unix to Linux. We'll see when a migration is or is not a good idea.
Reasons to migrate
There are three reasons why companies may want to consolidate and/or migrate to a different architecture.
Something's got to change if your servers are crashing all the time; you're talking too much in reliability meetings; you can't meet service level agreements (SLAs); and technical support is telling you your operating system (OS) is no longer supported.
If your current operating system is outdated, then you may be forced to either upgrade or migrate. This might be the perfect opportunity to plan a modernization effort.
What are you spending to maintain your current environment? If you count hardware, software, application licenses, maintenance and storage, it's probably a lot more expensive than you think.
At the end of the day, the decision to migrate or not may depend on return on investment (ROI). Can a migration reduce your current expenditures by a significant amount? Project management offices (PMOs) will prioritize the projects that deliver the best ROI for the company, so you must be prepared to justify the investment.
New leadership
Whenever a new CIO comes onboard, after a predictably short honeymoon/reflection period, you will start to see different vendors passing by his or her office. In many cases, regardless of how well the existing environment is performing, the new CIO will want to make his or her mark on the corporate technological infrastructure. And that may mean a migration.
Researching your options
If the decision has been made to re-architect your server farm, you'll need to research the options available to you. Naturally upgrading your existing architecture is a possible solution. You can leverage your existing staff's knowledge about the infrastructure as you upgrade to more powerful and reliable systems.
A second option would be migrating to another Unix platform. A third would be migrating to Linux.
Suppose you are with a large Sun shop, and your studies have shown that you could potentially save millions by consolidating and migrating to IBM. (This is just an example, and arguments could be made for Sun's advantages, too.)
In these hypothetical evaluations, you've seen that IBM's POWER5 architecture supports both Unix (IBM's AIX) and Linux (RHEL4 and SLES9) on the same server, so you would have more options at your disposal than you would have had by staying with Sun or migrating to HP.
If you already have strong Linux engineers, running Linux on this hardware platform might be perfect for you. IBM pSeries servers enable you to run multiple logical partitions on one frame (server) and even to micro-partition a single CPU to host both Unix and Linux applications (using IBM's Advanced Power Virtualization).
For database applications that need maximum reliability and performance, you might consider Unix partitions. For application and/or Web servers, a Linux partition might be the right call here.
The right reasons to move to Linux
Don't move to Linux because you heard it was free. Linux distributions from SUSE and Red Hat are certainly not, and neither is the phone support. Don't think about moving to Linux because you love the Linux PC you have at home or because your technical people like it. There must be a real, compelling reason to migrate to Linux from Unix.
If the direction of your company is to scale horizontally and/or you're uncomfortable with big iron, you may want to consider blade technology. A high performing, clustered blade solution running Linux might be the best solution for you.
One of the biggest selling points of Linux is its ability to run on commodity hardware in the form of PCs as well as the big iron.
With some flavors of Unix, you're forced to buy the vendor's associated hardware (at a premium price). Almost all Linux distributors do not sell hardware, so there's no hardware lock-in. With Linux, however, you may have limited peripheral choices on the client side because of the scarcity of drivers for some Linux distros. (Note: Some hardware vendors do package their own Linux distros with their servers or PCs.)
Your objective must always be to leverage technology solutions that will align themselves with corporate initiatives. Does your company want to use only one vendor's proprietary applications? If that vendor also sells Unix, then you might as well get the benefit of using an OS tuned to those apps. However, if your organization wants to choose best-of-breed applications -- whether they're proprietary or open source -- Linux is a good choice. Also, if your goal is to reduce costs, Linux fits.
Don't think that Linux is just for small applications in departments. Linux is definitely an enterprise solution option for all types of server consolidation and migration projects.
Do the studies, talk to vendors and chart out at least four different technology scenarios. You may find that your best solution will be less of a complete Unix, Linux or Windows solution, but a mix of all three. As long as you can justify the environment from an ROI cost perspective and you feel comfortable that you can support a heterogeneous environment, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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Pat Caddell is right: WTF is wrong with the republicans and Mitt Romney's campaign? This was Mitt's race to lose, and Caddell believes he is losing.
Nowhere was this more evident than during the tragic death of a U.S. ambassador in Libya that was lied about for nine days, because the press and the administration did not want to admit it was a terrorist attack.
"We've had nine days of lies over what happened because they can't dare say it's a terrorist attack, and the press won't push this," said Caddell. "Yesterday there was not a single piece in The New York Times over the question of Libya. Twenty American embassies, yesterday, are under attack. None of that is on the national news. None of it is being pressed in the papers." Caddell added that it is one thing for the news to have a biased view, but "It is another thing to specifically decide that you will not tell the American people information they have a right to know."
We can plea all we want for people to vote for Romney, but he needs to cooperate and start playing hardball. If Obama can stage a false flag that results in the deaths of Americans, and find the scapegoat, Romney can certainly step up to the plate and ask some hard questions of the press and Obama. This is what is meant by a mediocre campaign…its his to lose and he's losing it. Only the massive support of the people and voting in the tens of millions are going to overcome the sure cheating by the Obama camp and those like Karl Rove who would like to preserve everything for the next Bush.
Silence on Obama's Lack of Constitutional Eligibility
This is the biggest story of these last four years…and the Obama regime in collaboration with the lame stream media–including FAUX news, has successfully diverted attention from this by any number of false flags. Notice the timing of the assassination of the Ambassador falling shortly after Romney began his critique of Obama's foreignness? And right after more information emerges about who funded Obama's Harvard education and pressure upon Secretaries of State to reject the false nomination certificate promulgated by the Democrats? Obama surely has more false flags up his sleeve as part of his October playbook, continuing to divert attention away from his illegal occupation of the White House.
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If you want to know more about how food additives tie in with the chemistry that goes on in the kitchen, a downloadable booklet entitled 'In the mix' is accessible from the home page, or from the image on this page.
Chemicals have always been welcome in the kitchen: sodium bicarbonate, pectin, yeast, acetic acid etc.
Every cook is a chemist. The first chemical laboratories, back in the Middle Ages, were glorified kitchens, and many chemical processes derive from techniques of cooking. The vital technique of distillation was perfected in the course of man's search for intoxicating drinks. And far from being dehumanizing, such chemical processes have an ancient magic and glamour, as the great Italian writer Primo Levi pointed out (he was also a chemist):-
Distilling is beautiful.
'First of all, because it is a slow, philosophic, and silent occupation, which keeps you busy but gives you time to think of other things, somewhat like riding a bike. Then because it involves a metamorphosis from liquid to invisible (vapour) invisible, and from this once again to liquid; but in this double journey, up and down, purity is obtained, an ambiguous and fascinating condition, which starts with chemistry and goes very far. And finally, when you set about distilling, you acquire the consciousness of repeating a ritual consecrated by centuries, almost a religious act, in which from imperfect material you obtain the essence, the usia, the spirit, and in the first place alcohol, which gladdens the spirit and warms the heart.'
Every kitchen contains a battery of chemical reagents, each with their specific chemical purpose; e.g. sodium bicarbonate, pectin, yeast, acetic acid, sodium chloride; and also substances, such as milk and eggs, that are not usually thought of as chemicals but which actually miracle reagents that chemists would still be incapable of creating if they didn't already exist.
In many cases, ingredients that sound like chemicals are derived from natural products: lecithin from soya is similar to egg lecithin, acetic acid comes from vinegar, Vitamin C is the active ingredient of lemon juice, and so on. The principle of using additives is something that every cook, high or low, uses every time they prepare a meal. To understand the processes of making sauces, meringues, bread and cakes, of marinading, tenderising and caramelising is to become a food chemist, and it greatly enhances the pleasure of cooking to see it from a chemical point of view. Cooking is chemistry in action, with the added benefit that you can eat the results.


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Although the precise location is not immediately evident, it seems to be an orchestra room in the Town Hall, with a large pipe organ forming a grand backdrop. There are eighteen men seated and standing around the room, apparently watching the final play in a game of snooker or billiards. Apart from the postcard's caption, which refers to the 3rd Southern General Hospital, the main clue to who these men are lies in their clothing. Six of the men are wearing ordinary suits, the remaining twelve are garbed in what are generally termed "hospital blues."
An image of this postcard view is included within the Oxfordshire County Council's Photographic Archive, the location described as St Aldate's, Oxford, and a further view which includes the billiards table on the stage in the background demonstrates that the entire Town Hall was converted, even the stalls. The Woodrow Wilson Archive has a similar view with somewhat better definition. A post on the Great War Forum suggests that the Town Hall Section had 205 beds reserved for malaria cases amongst the Other Ranks. The single stripe on the arm of the man about to strike the ball with his cue confirms that he was a Lance Corporal, and indeed an "other rank."
"I look pretty thin, Eh!"
Paper print, Collection of Barbara Ellison, Coloured by Andre Hallam
My grandfather Charles Leslie Lionel Payne (1892-1975) and his younger brother Harold Victor Payne (1898-1921) both spent time wearing hospital blues. My grandfather served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), having immigrated to Canada in 1912, initially with the Canadian Army Service Corps (CASC) and then with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps (CMGC). Harold joined the British Army in England towards the end of the war and served with the Tank Corps. The photograph above, accurately coloured by Andre Hallam with the expert historical assistance of various members of the Great War Forum, shows Harold (sitting at centre) and friends wearing hospital blues at an unknown location. "I look pretty thin, Eh!" is handwritten in pencil on the reverse.
"Wounded Soldiers - I've met 'em. Yes sir."
Paper print, Collection of Barbara Ellison
Unfortunately his British Army service documents did not survive the Blitz - some 60% of the British Army's Great War service records were destroyed by German bombs in 1940, and the remainder badly damaged – so it is difficult to be sure of his movements. A postcard sent to his family in Derby in November 1919 shows that he was then "in Cologne awaiting demob[ilization]" from the British Army on the Rhine (BAOR), was "quite well" and recorded hopefully, "guess I shan't be long now." I suspect that he took ill shortly after, before he could be demobilised. He died on 1 May 1921 at Derby. His mother was devastated, and although she would outlive him by a decade, I get the impression that she never really recovered from the shock. I have yet to order his death certificate, which may provide clues to his illness, and state whether or not he was still in the Army at that time.
Sgt. Leslie Payne, Winter 1918/1919
Paper print, Collection of Barbara Ellison
Sgt. Leslie Payne, CMGC, Winter 1918/19, in England or Canada
My grandfather's CEF service records, on the other hand, have survived more or less intact although, sadly, I have no photographs of him wearing hospital blues. The portrait above, in which he wears his army greatcoat adorned with sergeant's stripes, was probably taken in the Winter of 1918/19, after his recuperation had ended. I obtained a copy of his records from the Library & Archives of Canada some years ago. From this treasure trove of shorthand scribblings, indecipherable abbreviations and obtuse acronyms, and together with transcripts of the CMG Corps history and the War Diaries for his unit, I was eventually able to piece together a detailed itinerary of his movements.
Constance May Hogg, Christmas 1913
Postcard, Collection of Barbara Ellison
By the spring of 1918, my grandfather had been in the Canadian Army for almost three and a half years, two and a half years of this on the Western Front, and two years as a machine gunner. He had fought at the Battles of St. Eloi Craters (April 1916), Mount Sorrel (June 1916), Flers-Courcelette (September 1916), Vimy Ridge (April 1917), Lens (June 1917) and Passchendaele (November 1917) and appears to have survived unscathed – at least physically - with not a single day of sickness or other misadventure recorded. During a period of rest and recuperation Leslie was granted two weeks of leave on 26th November, and he lost no time in heading home. Four days later, having been granted permission to do so by his Commanding Officer, he married his sweetheart "Con" at Chester, and was back with his unit by 14th December.
Canon de 380 m/m capturé par les Australiens près de Chuignes et destiné au bombardement d'Amiens
Postcard with 1930 postmark, Collection of Barbara Ellison
On 20th April 1918, as part of the overall reorganization of the CMGC being undertaken at that time, Leslie was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, and thus put in charge of a machine gun section, comprising two Vickers machine guns with crews. On 9 July he was sent to the Canadian Corps School on a four week long training course. He probably returned to his unit just in time to participate in the very successful Battle of Amiens, on 8th, 9th and 10th August.
Paper doily, Collection of Barbara Ellison
No. 2 Company of the 2nd Battalion CMGC was relieved and withdrawn from the line into reserve at Caix, allowing Leslie and his crew to enjoy the luxury of real food in Amiens on the evening of 11th August. After a week of rest, during which time the ranks were brought back up to strength by very welcome, but green, reinforcements, the entire Canadian Corps was moved back to the Arras Front. Leslie's company arrived at their billets in the village of Monts-en-Ternois at noon on the 21st, and was bussed to the front lines the following day.
According to the corps history, the massive task of the Canadian Corps was to drive in south of the Scarpe towards Cambrai, to break the Quéant-Drocourt Line and, once the Canal du Nord was reached, to swing southward behind the Hindenburg Line. No. 2 Company was, as usual, to be in support of the 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade on the right front, the attack scheduled for the 26th.
The machine gun crews were assigned positions on high ground near Telegraph Hill, from where they would form part of a series of 16 batteries putting up a creeping barrage of indirect fire to cover the infantry's advance. One machine gun was all0tted to every 35 yards of front. Zero hour was at 3 a.m., when the barrage commenced. By 6 a.m. reports of casualties and guns put out of action - by the German counter-barrage - were coming in from crews hampered by thick mist and smoke from the artillery barrage.
Testing a Vickers machinegun, September 1916
Image © and courtesy of Library & Archives of Canada
Some time during the day Leslie was hit in the left shoulder, probably by a machine gun bullet, although it could have been a piece of shrapnel. He was not the only one, the 2nd Battalion CMGC suffering its greatest number of casualties of any single attack in the war up to that point, with a total of 27 men killed and 183 wounded between 26th and 28th August. The CO's report stated:
Lack of stretchers was very pronounced. In some cases our wounded lay out for over 12 hours and in all cases it was most difficult to evacuate our casualties or to attend to them in the absence of stretchers or bearers.
Hospital Ship Princess Elizabeth
Image © and courtesy of Ian Boyle/Simplon Postcards
He was stretchered first to the nearest first aid post or dressing station, then to No 42 Casualty Clearing Station, where it was ascertained that the "foreign body" was still lodged in his shoulder. Later that day he was evacuated to No 4 General Hospital in Camiers, on the coast. As soon as space could be found in the transports, he was shipped across the Channel aboard the Hospital Ship Princess Elizabeth, a converted Isle of Wight paddle steamer, arriving at the County of Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury St Albans on 30th August.
An examination at Napsbury the following day is reported on his Medical Case Sheet, in the usual almost indecipherable handwriting:
Entry 2" internal to point of acromion. F.B. (Foreign Body] palpable mid way between this + axilliary fold on post surface. Clean.An X-ray examination report described a "Bullet present subcutaneous," and a notation makes it clear that he was a "walking," rather than "stretcher" or "chair," patient. Although no X-ray image appears to have survived in his records, the image of a skiagraphic above, extracted from a fellow soldier's service record, shows a similar lodged bullet. On 6th September an operation was conducted and the doctors successfully removed the offending piece of lead.
Patients and nurses at Napsbury St Albans, 1917
Image © Rohan Price and courtesy of Hertfordshire Genealogy
The subsequent entries on his medical records indicate that he "returned from auxilliary, healed" on 4th October, and was discharged to the Canadian Military Convalescent Hospital at Woodcote Park, Epsom three days later. He was given a final medical examination on 8th October which pronounced him fit "Di" and, after recuperating for another week, he was discharged on Monday 14th and sent on furlough for ten days.
154 Almond Street, Normanton, Derby
Image © & courtesy of Google Maps Street View
Of course Leslie headed straight home to Derby but when he arrived he found Con very ill. She succumbed to influenza at 154 Almond Street, Normanton, Derby on Sunday 20th October. It was the second major wave of the "Spanish" flu epidemic in the United Kingdom, with hundreds of thousands dying, and Leslie's distress during the journey back to the Canadian Machine Gun Depot at Seaford, Sussex on the 24th must have been acute. The regulation requirement to report to the Paymaster that his wife was deceased, and therefore he was no longer entitled to separation pay, would no doubt have added insult to injury, the loss of $25 a month being the least of his concerns.
At 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918, the day that Leslie received his final TAB inoculation, the armistice between the German and Allied Forces came into effect, and the war was suddenly over. Without Con, Les must have looked at peace time with mixed emotions. Who knows what their plans had been? Would they have gone back to Winnipeg together, where Leslie had a decent clerk's job at Eaton's department store waiting for him? It seems likely. He was eventually demobilised in Canada in February 1919, after a prolonged stay at Kinmel Park in Wales and a trip across the Atlantic on the S.S. Olympic, but that's a story for another time.
Leslie Payne, Summer 1915 (left) and Winter 1918/19 (right)
Paper prints, Collection of Barbara Ellison
I find it telling how much he changed in that short space of time. He was a fresh-faced 22 year-old when he enlisted in the CEF in November 1914, and a haggard 26 on discharge. He looks at least a decade older in the later photo, not just three or four years, and I'm sure it was not just his appearance that was different. I've been told that Grandpa hardly ever talked about the war, at least not to anyone who ever felt comfortable to share such confidences with others, and from what I can tell this was not uncommon amongst Great War veterans.
How should he communicate and explain such a kaleidoscope mish-mash of contradictory emotions and experiences in which they had been suddenly immersed on the Western Front, in Leslie's case, for 2 years, 11 months and 14 days? Their subjection, after rudimentary initial training, to a totally unfamiliar environment, the exhausting slog of marching and carrying supplies to the front, the tedium and discomfort of life in the trenches, the camaraderie eventually engendered between members of a machine gun crew who lived every moment of every day together, often within inches of each other, for months on end, and the anticipation of death at any moment, from any quarter, in the trenches, eventually replaced with mind-numbing resignation – all these would have been incomprehensible to their families and friends back home.
I hope that he was eventually able to dispel at least some of the dark thoughts, but I am sure there were many others that he could never forget. And nor should we.


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