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Steakcraft: The Ultra-Premium Steaks of Le Cirque
Behind the scenes of New York's premium dry-aged steaks. An in-depth look at the aging, cooking, and presentation of New York's premium dry-aged steaks from beef expert Nick Solares.
Steak Fact Sheet
Cut: Ribeye and New York Strip
Grade: "Beyond Prime"
Breed: "Pure Japanese breed" unspecified
Pre-Cooked Weight: Ribeye, 20 oz. (for two); Strip, 10 oz.
Price: Ribeye, $116, served with mushroom side; Strip, $68, served with sides
Price per Ounce: Ribeye, $5.80; Strip, $6.80
"I'll take another steak," is a quip that most steakhouse waiters tire of hearing from customers their first week on the job. But the other day, within the gilded walls of the Le Cirque, I actually witnessed someone order another steak after their first—and they weren't joking.
The steak in question is no joke either: a 10-ounce New York strip that sells for $68, with beef from 7X, the same Colorado-based "pure Japanese breed" beef purveyor for Circo's steaks. Because of a perplexing legal entanglement, 7X can't divulge the exact breed of cattle that they raise, but suffice it to say that the price and overabundantly marbled loin confirm that this is some special beef indeed. The gentleman who ordered the second steak, a Le Cirque regular, certainly thought so.
Le Cirque's chef Christian Fischhuber showed us how he prepares both a New York strip for one and the ribeye for two. The latter is cooked in a steakhouse-quality broiler and sliced tableside. The strip can also be served this way, which is of course the purist approach, or in the classic au poivre style, which includes tableside flambéing and is reflective of the grand dining tradition of Le Cirque.
Take a look through the slideshow to see chef Fischhuber prepare both styles of steak served at Le Cirque.
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Did God become man so that He could better understand the temptations and struggles we go through?
The "so that" and "better understand" are crucial here. God did not need to become man to know and understand (let alone "better understand") our human struggles, as the testimony of pre-incarnation Scripture makes clear: 1 Samuel 2:3, 16:7, 1 Kings 8:39, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Psalm 1:6, 11:4f, 14:2, 33:13ff, 34:15f, 102:19f, 139:1-16, Prov.15:3, 16:2, 24:12, Isaiah 40:12-17 (passages I could find rather quickly, I'm sure there are many more of this sort). It is man who lacks understanding (Psalm 14:4); the Lord's understanding of us and our hearts is perfect and complete. As the Apostle Paul says, "Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!" (Rom.11:33) - He who "will judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ" (2:16).
The stated purpose of our Lord's coming from heaven and taking our human nature was "to save His people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21), to "give His life a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45), "to seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:10), to reveal the Father (John 1:19, 14:8,9), to "do the will of Him who sent Me ... that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day" (John 6:38f), to bear the sins of many, to destroy the works of the devil, etc., etc. I am not aware of any passage that says that the Son became man in order to understand better His creature.
Having said all of that, however, Hebrews does point us to one of the great encouragements that belongs to believers in Christ because of His incarnation. We now may know that our great High Priest in heaven does have a perfect understanding of our weakness and temptations (4:15, cf. 5:7-10). We should never say that there was something lacking in God's perfect wisdom and understanding. However, when God the Son took our flesh and blood, His understanding became like ours in addition to what it was before; that is, He now understood from experience, from "inside" our human nature. This is not presented as a purpose of His coming in our nature, but as a blessing to us in consequence of His coming in our nature.
Of course, as nothing that happens lies outside of the eternal and sovereign plan of God, even this was planned and could therefore be said to have been a purpose of the incarnation. But the point of it is not that God sought out a way of improving His understanding of His creature man, but rather that God condescended to grant to us this wonderful assurance - namely, that we can know that when we have sinned or are struggling with a temptation too great for our strength, at the Father's right hand His Son is interceding for us with a knowledge and sympathy (fellow-feeling) of our experience that is like our own - except without sin - praise Him!
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The Pumpkin Patch: An Oregon Specialty
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Reba McEntire admits there are some similarities between her new ABC show Malibu Country and her last sitcom Reba. But she thinks that works to the new show's advantage.
"Both are great... entertaining shows [that] the whole family can sit down and watch," the 57-year-old country superstar tells TVGuide.com.
Like her character on the WB series that ran from 2001 to 2007, this Reba is a newly single mom ready to start over — only this time around she's the one who's doing the leaving. In the premiere (Friday, 8:30/8:30c, ABC), Reba's famous husband "apologizes" during a press conference for cheating and instead of standing by her man she ups and leaves, taking her two kids to California.
"Reba is a career woman trying to make sure her family is OK," McEntire says. "She's going to be dating and trying to get back on her feet with her music career."
Rounding out the cast is neighbor Kim (Sara Rue) and Reba's eccentric family, including her son Cash (Justin Prentice), daughter June (Juliette Angelo) and her no-nonsense (and slightly loony) mom Lillie Mae, played by Emmy winner Lily Tomlin.
"Lillie Mae is the liberal in the family and the person who's open minded," McEntire says. "She'll go out and you never know what she'll come back talking about or doing. Or who she's going to bring home!" McEntire says. "You never know what Kim will spring on Reba. There's an element of surprise."
While the show has just lined up guest star Travie McCoy, McEntire already has a long list of friends that she'd like to have on —and some she's already invited!
"I've already asked Blake Shelton and Kelly Clarkson and they said yes," she says. "Alec Baldwin would be a hoot to work with, I'd love to have Bette Midler on the show, Carol Burnett ... the list goes on. Maybe I can get Betty White, she's on the set next to us."
Malibu Country premieres on Friday at 8:30/7:30c on ABC.
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Man swims to shore after boat capsizes in Banana River
A local man survived the capsizing of his boat Monday in the Banana River Lagoon in Brevard County.
It was an exhausting morning for the man, who managed to retrieve his boat and his belongings when it looked as though he might lose everything.
The man, who did not give his name, was dripping and bedraggled when he first got out of the water. He'd been boating in the Banana River near the Pineda Causeway, when he fell out of the boat.
The motor was still running and the boat was going in circles around him; he had no way to get back on, and that is when a driver saw him and called authorities.
The boater swam for his life, resting on a channel marker and wading when he got to shallow water.
The man then had to wade back into the river -- his car keys were still in the boat, which ended up capsized.
With help, he got it righted and bailed out. He even found the keys.
Fish and Wildlife officers helped him tow the boat back in.
It appears that the boat is in pretty good shape and he didn't lose much so he'll be able to go back in the water.
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Why this Youtuber let her best friend sleep with her man
A VLOGGER has stunned viewers with the reason she let her best friend sleep with her boyfriend.
YouTuber Lena Nersesian, who calls herself Lena The Plug told her 900,000 subscribers she wanted pal Emily to have sex with Adam so she can "try his penis," according to The Sun.
In an odd twist of logic she reasoned that as Emily knew everything about her sex life, she should join in.
She said: "Girls and guys share their sexual stories with each other.
"Friends tell each other everything so Emily has seen pictures of Adam's d***, she knows all about our sex life, I tell her everything.
"And now, I don't have to tell her, she can just try his penis."
The term "over-sharing" could have been invented for this moment.
Adam was pretty happy to take part in the online experiment, although he said he was feeling the pressure to "perform."
He said: "Let me just say, I can't even wrap my f****** head around how my life got to the point where I'm engaging in - not only this activity in the first place - but with two girls that look like this."
The girls are then seen in skimpy outfits twerking for Adam - who has his own YouTube channel - before he joined them on the bed.
After the girls had sex with him - off camera - the threesome discussed their antics in X-rated detail.
Adam said: "That was probably one of the greatest experiences of my life."
But Lena's explanation seems to have left some watchers baffled.
One user wrote: "That was just weird, seriously."
Another added: "Just because you talk about your partner doesn't mean your mates all need to sleep with them to understand."
A third added: "Why the f*** are you both even proud, I'm so confused, IS THIS EVEN NORMAL?"
The girls also received a torrent of abuse from viewers, who called them "sluts" and "whores" in the thread.
Before the romp, Lena revealed that it's not the first time they had "collab'd on a penis."
She went into intimate detail about an unnamed "A-list rapper" that invited them back to his house before bedding them both in and "awkward" threesome.
Earlier this year, Lena caused a stir when she promised to release a sex tape if she got 1 million subscribers.


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KTVU Producers Fired for Naming Asiana SF Crash Pilot as 'Sum Ting Wong,' 'Wi Tu Lo' (VIDEO)
KTVU Producers Fired for Naming Asiana SF Crash Pilot as 'Sum Ting Wong,' 'Wi Tu Lo' (VIDEO)
Three KTVU producers have been fired after they oversaw a mistake in which their broadcast identified the pilots of the ill-fated Asiana Airlines crash with fake, racist names.
The three KTVU producers who have been released from their contracts at the network include investigative producer Roland DeWolk, special projects producer Cristina Gastelu and producer Brad Belstock.
According to a San Francisco Chronicle report, all three producers were fired after an internal investigation took place into the embarrassing July 12 broadcast.
The network has been in damage control since posting the names of the four pilots flying the Asiana flight as "Captain Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow."
It was not long before the network realized that it had provided the public with false, and racist names, and they quickly issued an on-air apology.
The network has also followed that quick apology up with official statements on social media sites Twitter and Facebook, and has also issued an official apology on their website.
The network has insisted that none of its staff made up the names, and they received the information from the NTSB - The National Transportation Safety Board.
In response the NTSB has released a statement blaming one of its interns for confirming the incorrect names to KTVU.
Even though KTVU has pointed to the information as coming from NTSB, it has stated that it accepts "full responsibility" for not checking the information and for mistakenly broadcasting the potentially offensive names.
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The KTVU statement says: "We made several mistakes when we received this information. First, we never read the names out loud, phonetically sounding them out. Then, during our phone call to the NTSB where the person confirmed the spellings of the names, we never asked that person to give us their position with the agency. We heard this person verify the information without questioning who they were and then rushed the names on our noon newscast."
Here is a video showing the live broadcast from KTVU announcing the fake names that sparked the controversy and has led to the firing of three producers:


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The Build repository is a separate codebase which includes all of the bits and pieces that we use to run our builds, make update sites, and all that good stuff. The build materials are managed collectively by the committers to the various components of STP - we're not lucky enough to have a dedicated build team.
If Buckminster build systems are something you like, and you think our build could be improved then we really welcome any patches or ideas you may have. Take a look at the open Build bugs for inspiration!
Where's the Source?
STP uses SVN, and is a multi-repository project, with one repository for each sub-project or component. Individual components can be built (in most cases) independently, but sometimes cross-dependencies exist, and of course a full roll-up build implies access to all the relevant repositories.
SVN repositories can be access through the HTTP protocol, for anonymous read-only checkouts, and the SVN+SSH protocol, for committer checkouts. Here are the repository locations.
How Do I Build?
Once you've checked out the relevant project(s) from SVN in the IDE, the IDE will build it for you, saving all that tedious mucking about with the command line. But if you would like to be able to build it headless then there are a couple of options. If you have shell access to the build.eclipse.org build infrastructure you can build it there with a minimum of hassle. Note that shell access is only given to committer that have specific responsibilities for builds. If you want to build it on your local machine, you will need to first construct what we call the platform, which is an Eclipse installation with all of the dependencies in place, installed as features and plugins. The dependencies will change version from milestone to milestone as we head for a roll-up build in the mid-year big-bang release.
What about some Useful Links?
If you are hacking the build, you need to know some things about Buckminster, which is our shield against the slings and arrows of the raw PDE build with its strange Ant script behaviour. Buckminster is relatively new, having started up in 2006, but has built a lot of solidity and experience with Eclipse and other projects outside the Eclipse community. Plenty of information is available from the linked wiki page, and I would recommend articles like Buckminster/Examples/Building_an_Update_Site How to Build an Update Site to get you going. The guys on the [Buckminster newsgroup] and the [Buckminster-Dev newsgroup] are usually very responsive too.


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Raffles, photo contest, vendors, rescue groups & much more!
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Westford, MA 01886
General Information Day of the Walk Info Registration & Pledges
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Come join us for a fun day with other dog lovers!
Come join us and many other dog lovers for a day filled with family and canine fun while helping us raise money for homeless dogs! Join us for a pleasant in the beautiful woods at the Middlesex County 4H Fairgrounds. A walk leader and water for all walkers and dogs will be provided. All well-behaved dogs are welcome.
The day will be filled with enjoyable activities including an agility demonstration, canine good citizen testing, doggie games, raffles, vendors and more. Joining us, we'll have many dog rescue groups and vendors with wonderful dog related items for sale.
We invite children to come with their parents, however only adults 18 and over can hold dog's leash.
Over the past years our annual walk has been a great success. This year the walk will again be one of our major fundraising events. Our goal is to raise funds for the countless numbers of German Shepherd Dogs in need throughout New England. All money raised will go for the care of the dogs in GSRNE's foster care program. Because we are a fully volunteer, 501(c)(3) charitable organization, we rely on the generosity of GSD-lovers to fund our programs. This is one of two major fundraisers we have each year.
You can help by collecting as many pledges as possible! Your sponsor sheet and checks are due the day of the walk; please bring to the registration table between 10:30am-11:30am. If you cannot attend or want to pre-register, send your pledge forms and check(s) or money order(s) in the mail no later than Sept. 17th to:
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This limited-edition print has the original artwork size of 11"x14" printed onto a 16"x20" museum-quality, cotton rag paper with archival ink. This print will be signed and numbered in pencil directly under the artwork area. The first person to purchase will receive print #1/25!
This print will need to be printed after it is ordered, which may take up to a week to get back from the print shop. The print will then be shipped out within a few days. The print will be rolled up and shipped in a cardboard tube.
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51-9071.07 - Precious Metal Workers
Cast, anneal, solder, hammer, or shape gold, silver, pewter or other metals to form jewelry or other metal items such as goblets or candlesticks.
Sample of reported job titles: Artist, Bench Mechanic, Caster, Fabricator, Goldsmith, Pewterer, Platinum Smith, Restoration Silversmith, Silversmith
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets.
- Solder parts together or fill holes and cracks with metal solder, using gas torches.
- Polish articles by hand or by using a polishing wheel.
- Pierce and cut open designs in ornamentation, using hand drills and scroll saws.
- Position and align auxiliary parts in jigs and join parts, using solder and blowtorches.
- Examine articles to determine the nature of defects requiring repair, such as dents, uneven bottoms, scratches, or holes.
- Shape and straighten damaged or twisted articles by hand or using pliers.
- Anneal precious metal objects such as coffeepots, tea sets, and trays in gas ovens for prescribed times to soften metal for reworking.
- Rotate molds to distribute alloys and to prevent formation of air pockets.
- Weigh and mix alloy ingredients, using formulas and knowledge of ingredients' chemical properties.
- Carry castings or finished items to storage areas or to different work stations.
- Heat ingots or alloy mixtures to specified temperatures, stir mixtures, skim off impurities, and fill molds to form ingots from which parts are cast.
- Design and fabricate models of new casting molds, and chipping and turning tools used to finish product surfaces.
- Rout out locations where parts are to be joined to items, using routing machines.
- Determine placement of auxiliary parts, such as handles and spouts, and mark locations of parts.
- Form concavities in bottoms of articles to improve stability, using tracing punches and hammers.
- Weigh completed items to determine weights and record any deviations.
- Design silver articles, such as jewelry and serving pieces.
- Peen edges of scratches or holes to repair defects, using peening hammers.
- Secure molded items in chucks of lathes, and activate lathes to finish inner and outer surfaces of items.
- Research reference materials, analyze production data, and consult with interested parties to develop ideas for new products.
- Position articles over snarling tools and raise design areas, using foot-powered hammers.
- Trim gates and sharp points from cast parts, using band saws.
- Verify that bottom edges of articles are level, using straightedges or by rocking them back and forth on flat surfaces.
- Engrave decorative lines on items, using engraving tools.
- Sand interior mold parts to remove glaze residue, apply new glaze to molds, and allow it to dry for mold assembly.
- Strike articles with small tools, or punch them with hammers, to indent them or restore embossing.
- Wire parts such as legs, spouts, and handles to article bodies in preparation for soldering.
- Hammer out dents and bulges, selecting and using hammers and dollies with heads that correspond in curvature to article surfaces.
- Assemble molds, wrap molds in heat-resistant cloth, and ladle molten alloy into mold openings, repeating casting processes as necessary to produce specified numbers of parts.
- Strike molds to separate dried castings from molds.
Technology Skills
- Computer aided design CAD software — Metal designing software
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator ; Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Anvils — Double horn anvils; Flat horn anvils; Hex anvils
- Automatic lathe or chucking machine — Automatic lathes
- Ball peen hammer — Ball peen hammers; Peening hammers
- Bench vises — Adjustable bench vises
- Blow torch — Gas torches
- Burnisher — Burnishers
- Calipers — Digital calipers
- Curved nose pliers — Bent chain nose pliers
- Dapping punches — Dapping cutters
- Diagonal cut pliers — Flush cutters
- Drop hammer forging machine — Foot-powered hammers
- End cut pliers — Sidecutters
- Engravers — Engraving tools
- Flat nose pliers
- Hammers — Dead-blow hammers; Planishing hammers; Riveting hammers; Silversmiths' hammers (see all 5 examples)
- Hand clamps — Ring clamps
- Hand or push drill — Hand drills
- Jewel appraising tester — Stone gauges
- Jeweler scissors — Jewelers shears
- Jewellers pliers — Jewelers' chain-nose pliers; Ring bending pliers; Ring shank pliers; Split ring pliers (see all 9 examples)
- Jewelry mandrels
- Loupes — Jewelers' loupes
- Magnifiers — Binocular magnifiers
- Mallets — Plastic mallets
- Metal testing instruments — Gold testers
- Power buffers — Polishing wheels
- Power grinders — Flex shaft machines
- Power routers — Routing machines
- Power saws — Jeweler's saws; Mini band saws
- Power scissors — Disc cutters
- Precision file — Precision files
- Precision screwdriver — Jewelers screwdrivers
- Punches or nail sets or drifts — Tracing punches
- Punching pliers — Hole punching pliers
- Round nose pliers
- Rulers — Precision rulers
- Stamping dies or punches — Stamping dies
- Straight edges — Straightedges
- Tongs — Crucible tongs; Draw tongs; Flask tongs
- Tumblers or polishers — Rotary tumblers; Vibratory tumblers
- Tweezers — Diamond tweezers; Head and shank tweezers; Locking tweezers; Soldering tweezers
- Wire cutters
- Wire gauge — Bur gauges; Wire gauges
- Wire mills — Rolling mills
- Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
- Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
Work Activities
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment — Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Detailed Work Activities
- Cut industrial materials in preparation for fabrication or processing.
- Smooth metal surfaces or edges.
- Solder parts or workpieces.
- Fill cracks, imperfections, or holes in products or workpieces.
- Heat material or workpieces to prepare for or complete production.
- Polish materials, workpieces, or finished products.
- Drill holes in parts, equipment, or materials.
- Align parts or workpieces to ensure proper assembly.
- Examine physical characteristics of gemstones or precious metals.
- Adjust position of molds during processing.
- Measure ingredients or substances to be used in production processes.
- Mix substances to create chemical solutions.
- Place materials into molds.
- Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas.
- Skim impurities from molten metal.
- Build production molds.
- Reshape small metal components for precision assembly.
- Assemble machine tools, parts, or fixtures.
- Design tools, fixtures, or other devices for production equipment.
- Shape metal workpieces with hammers or other small hand tools.
- Draw guide lines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references.
- Record operational or production data.
- Weigh finished products.
- Design jewelry or decorative objects.
- Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
- Confer with customers or designers to determine order specifications.
- Operate woodworking equipment.
- Trim excess material from workpieces.
- Engrave designs, text, or other markings onto materials, workpieces, or products.
- Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
- Apply parting agents or other solutions to molds.
- Assemble metal or plastic parts or products.
- Remove workpieces from molds.
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Work Context
- Exposed to Contaminants — 83% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 71% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 51% responded "Extremely important."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 71% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 60% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 57% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Time Pressure — 69% responded "Every day."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 57% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 46% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings — 34% responded "Every day."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 49% responded "Every day."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 55% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Sitting — 36% responded "More than half the time."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 39% responded "Very important."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 31% responded "Extremely important."
- Contact With Others — 38% responded "Contact with others most of the time."
- Physical Proximity — 55% responded "Moderately close (at arm's length)."
- Telephone — 38% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Hazardous Conditions — 35% responded "Every day."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 35% responded "High responsibility."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 32% responded "Moderate results."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 50% responded "40 hours."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 43% responded "Every day."
- Consequence of Error — 35% responded "Very serious."
- Deal With External Customers — 28% responded "Extremely important."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
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|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, travel guides, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters, and medical assistants.
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- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Artistic — Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Work Values
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
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Wages & Employment Trends
Median wage data for Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers.
Employment data for Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers.
Industry data for Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers.
|Median wages (2019)
|$19.65 hourly, $40,870 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|38,100 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Decline (-2% or lower)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
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When Today was first reissued in 1997, nine years after it was recorded, Byron Coley's illuminating sleeve notes compared Galaxie 500's astonishing and all but unprecedented land-grab of the margins of late 80s mainstream rock culture to the post-Nirvana landscape, where previously alternative combos were suddenly hobnobbing with Hollywood stars and hogging the headlines. And it must be difficult for the cultural consumers of today, hardwired into a worldwide web of culture from their bedroom laptops, to imagine how shocking Galaxie 500's unexpected debut album sounded when the band first hovered over the horizon, and how comforting it was to have found them -- how we all felt just a little bit less alone. But there's more to the magic of the short-lived Boston trio than the fact that their velvety pop-drones somehow snuck into the fringes of a world that appeared to have no need for them. There's that all but indefinable extra ingredient, that can somehow make yet another combination of bass, guitar, drums and vox timeless and precious.
Today, which I took a punt on when its blurred foliage sleeve loomed out from the racks of Avalanche records in Edinburgh's West Nicholson Street in August 1989, was an amazing record. The opening track, 'Flowers,' deceptively defeats expectations and leaves the listener bewildered and susceptible. The jangly strummed guitar seems predictable enough, but the drums are playing jazzy off-beats, the bass is charting its own wayward path, and then, minutes in, there's a guitar solo so audacious and unwarranted that it's immediately clear all bets are off. Then a harmony vocal joins in, echoing with toilet cubicle mysticism, and the start of the second solo is fumbled, drums clattering through uncertain clusters of notes. 'Pictures' stumbles into being, audibly finding its feet for the first minute. 'Parking Lot' begins at a gallop it can barely sustain. And 'Instrumental' is the sound of a band racing excitedly ahead of itself towards an unknown future.
Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang were New York high school friends, transplanted to Harvard, who decided to form a band after graduation and started recording the following year. Today had precedents, sure, hip signature sounds drawn from the canon of cool: the minimal melodies of the Velvet Underground's relentlessly strummed riffs, expanded by way of the Dream Syndicate's extended workouts. Damon's fluttering and pounding percussion suggests Mo Tucker shuffling into Kind Of Blue's narcoleptic haze; Dean's heretically overlong guitar solos, like Television's, combine visionary psychedelic stretches with sloppy punk mess; Naomi's yearning, aching bass, carries the melodies high up the frets, like Kendra Smith's collaborations with David Roback; and those reedy indie-boy vocals, already a default setting for floppy fringed C86 shamblers this side of the Atlantic, were dignified and made distant and holy by the band's genius producer Kramer, as he shifted them to the extreme corners of the mix, and kept the mistakes in.
I was instantly smitten, in time to make Galaxie 500's introductory Institute Of Contemporary Arts appearance in London in September 1989. I had a new life in a shared flat way out west, and a walkman primed with a tape of Today soundtracked a year of snowy winters, data input jobs in offices on industrial estates, and cigarettes smoked on night bus journeys back from unpaid open-mike stand-up gigs in far flung corners of the city. I saw Galaxie 500 three times in 1990, every gig a transcendental experience, and I clocked the back of my own head bobbing on live TV footage of a show in Ladbroke Grove. Soon, previously hardcore strummers the world over had taken note, slowed down and blissed out, but Codeine, Low, Bedhead, Bay, and the rest of the slowcore scene never packed the punch implicit in the fuzzy felt-wrapped fist of Galaxie 500. And maybe it's only now, decades on, that it's possible to hazard a guess as to why the whole of Today seemed so much greater than the sum of its parts.
Since their split not quite three years later, the two factions of Galaxie 500 have pursued subtly different paths. With Luna, Dean Wareham scrubbed and polished those Lou Reed-style licks until they shone, searching for a holy grail of indie-pop perfection, with chiming solos and gently chugging riffs. But on Today's cover of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste' you can hear the younger man playing at the edge of his wits, as the gap between his hopes and his abilities fills with imperfect synaptic cascades of notes, redolent of late period Coltrane or the Byrds' attempts to ape free-jazz solos with fuzzed guitars on 'Eight Miles High.' And this flawed ambition is utterly irresistible. Meanwhile, Damon & Naomi's post-Galaxie career has seen them foster their own, hushed and wondrous, global avant-folk sound as a low-key duo; explore the absolute limits of psychedelic hard rock jamming as the rhythm section of Magic Hour; and set up a Surrealist publishing company, Exact Change. In Galaxie 500, even as Dean Wareham pulled towards pure shimmering pop, Damon & Naomi couldn't help but complicate the results.
And perhaps it's this sheer incompatibility that makes Today a once-in-a- lifetime, never-to-be-repeated classic. Lucky for us, Kramer, an uncommonly sensitive producer, had the sense to capture Galaxie 500 for posterity, like insects in amber, as they really were, rather than how they might have imagined themselves to be. In the twenty years since the album's release, various alternative rock trends have withered on the vine, shrivelled and become meaningless. Trip-hop makes me think of dinner parties hosted by young professionals, chilled to fuck on half an e. Nickleback's wholesale robbery of grunge tropes, for example, means no one can ever listen to the sound of Seattle ever again without vomiting into a hat. And the Britpop era, it is now clear, was just 1967 with bigger amps, worse tunes and nastier drugs. But Today, …. well Today still sounds like it was recorded today. Those crazy kids! What were they thinking?
Richard King
Bliss through noise and the escape into a psychedelic headspace were both attractive propositions in 1989. On Fire arrived dressed in a beautiful typeface cast in the hues of a hallucinatory dawn. The sleeve, a wash of refracted filters, shows a band looking exactly like they are: three New England students so comfortable in their own skin they can allow themselves a smile. Behind them is the trail of passing clouds. Stare closely, let your eyes dilate and the clouds are now plumes of smoke. The elements aligning into a beguiling, almost menacing, drift.
On Fire inhabits an awesome, distorted reality. The band, ostensibly a trio of guitar, bass and drums, sound more like a sun carriage. Damon Krukowski's cymbals and Dean Wareham's falsetto become lead instruments. Naomi Yang doesn't so much play as paint with her bass. These abstract tones and spots of primary colour are the sound of three people locked somewhere in a beautiful space, the midpoint between telepathy and propulsion. From the languorous opening bars of 'Blue Thunder' to the euphoric closing refrain of "What a pity, what a pity" the record moves back and forward allowing waves of electricity to swell and break across its ten tracks. Few songs have been more appropriately titled than 'Snowstorm' and few bands have been in such graceful control of a maelstrom. Has anyone played a wah-wah with such equine grace as Dean Wareham? Each note in the solo crystallizing the reverie of a snowflake hitting the ground.
Lyrically, On Fire is disorientating. If this is a psychedelic record it is un-pastoral. Its characters wander round the city trying to make sense of their surroundings. A 'Plastic Bird' has its legs broken, its nose smashed and gets discarded on First Avenue. In 'Snowstorm' the TV is going wild. Put your clothes on and 'Leave the Planet.' The record is full of unanswered and unanswerable questions: "Why does everybody look so funny? Why does everybody look so strange? When will you come home?" rhetorical and almost numb. The only response is the emotional pull of such beautiful music. The searing despair of 'Strange,' the distortion at the end of 'When Will You Come Home' and in the detached confirmation in Yang and Wareham's voices, "That every day is not the same."
On Fire moves at an almost erotic pace, aglow in its strange and visionary world. A perfect, liquid equilibrium. Listen, and lose yourself, in the heat of this alchemical masterpiece.
Chris Roberts
As Oscar Wilde once said, among many lovably smart-ass things he said, "He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best." Galaxie 500 purred at a time when others were shouting. Things were different then. "Indie" or "alternative" music really was a minority taste, and a different colour and texture to the music flooding the mainstream. This was their music. "Slowcore," "dream pop," call it what you will, it was sleepy yet somehow buzzing. Cool, yet somehow trembling with anticipation. Laid-back, yet brimming with the minute emotions and implosions of the everyday inner life.
So they stole the title, from a 1960 Ornette Coleman masterpiece. A successful heist is all about the attitude. Galaxie 500, named after a car, never raced. They let the world, or the more discerning components, come to them. They met in New York, improved at Harvard University, and became known as a Boston band. It was to be, as nobody had predicted, a golden age for Boston bands. With Kramer producing alchemically, they made Today and On Fire, drowned in rave reviews (at least in the UK), found themselves compared to the Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman and New Order. This Is Our Music, the third album, came in 1991, after Dean Wareham had moved back to New York. After much touring, he left the trio, whose last European show was released as a swansong live album, Copenhagen. See if you can guess in which Danish city that took place.
The members of Galaxie 500 went on to do further stirring and lovely things in music afterwards, but their legacy had already begun. The influence of these sounds spans far and wide to this day. It's about restraint, delay, poise. Galaxie 500 records are as rough as sandpaper yet as elegant as jewellery. There's a happy, maybe lucky blend between Dean's so-wrong-yet-so-right voice and his deceptively brilliant guitar, between Damon's minimal yet mesmerising rhythms and Naomi's loping, groping bass. They're gentle yet diamond-hard, sweet yet capable of savagery.
From the opening intro drone of the exquisite 'Fourth Of July,' This Is Our Music asserts its sparkle and self-sufficiency. There are ebbs and flows within every Galaxie 500 track and the magic is that you can never quite pin down the moments when a surge begins, when a retreat occurs. We're hearing shards and trills of Verlaine-esque guitars, a pace stately yet seductive. We're writing "a poem on a dog biscuit," evidently, and even if the dog refuses to look at it, we're hooked on a mystery. We're getting drunk and looking at the Empire State Building, which is "no bigger than a nickel." It's evocative, a fresh twist on classic Manhattan lore, and for we Brits that makes for a head-full of Warhol imagery, from Edie to Lou, from grids to rooftops. There's a lazy, languid air of almost accidental romance. "Maybe I should just change my style/But I feel all right when you smile..." Their music is both relaxed and relentless.
There are echoes, psalms, clinches. On the centrepiece, 'Summertime,' they are "just delicious." How this track builds and falls and builds again. It's a sea, a shapeshifter. There's a kind of brittle faith and hope in Naomi's vocal on Yoko Ono's 'Listen, The Snow Is Falling.' On 'Melt Away' we warm our hands on a glow. 'King Of Spain, Part Two' brings us around and tells us all good things are timeless.
This Is Our Music was out of time and in its zone and so now sounds as timeless as birth and death and beauty. It's just three people with guitars and bass and drums, going "doo doo doo wah." This is deferred gratification.


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The American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries on Monday launched the "Save My 401k" campaign to "defend the more than 60 million American workers' 401(k)s from congressional budget cuts."
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Town of Lebanon puts road use law in neutral, pending more info
LEBANON- Town officials heard public testimony in response to proposed road use laws for the town of Lebanon.
The public hearing took center stage at the town meeting on January, 14. Community members gathered in the town building to hear the proposed law that would give Highway Superintendent Alex Hodge power to limit industrial traffic on town roads based on weight limits and traffic.
Any vehicle weighing over 20 tons and making 10 trips per day at least three days per week or any truck that weighs 30 tons would require a permit issued by the Highway Superintendent. The person holding those permits would have to set up bonds to pay for any damages to those roads. The bond will be renewed as needed and released after activity in the area is completed and the Highway Superintendent has checked to make sure that the industrial sites are completely cleared.
Steve Bartlett of Lebanon voiced concerns about an impact on agricultural vehicles.
"If you look at the requirements for level activity, there are no regular vendors or activities that currently meet those requirements," said Town Supervisor Jim Goldstein. "This is tailored to not impact current local business."
Bartlett is concerned that the farmers may be affected, and that the township might come into issues with agriculture and market laws that are already in place.
Gary Will of Lebanon explained that many large scale local farmers use mostly county roads and because of that fact would be outside of the local road use law, which will only impact town roads.
"We need a standardization of notice, to discuss and inspect as needed," said Goldstein. He went on to explain that the law will strengthen Hodge's control over what routes trucks will be allowed to utilize and shut down any operations that are found in violation of the road use laws.John Gale and a couple of other residents brought up concern that some seasonal roadways have weight limits during the spring. Fears were quenched when Goldstein and Town Attorney Steven Jones explained that Highway Superintendent Hodge would have authority to only allow traffic at certain times of the day, week and year. The law would also give him the ability to bring in law enforcement to punish anyone who encroaches and violates the permit decisions.
In addition, Gale and other residents voiced concern over the bonds which were explained by Goldstein as escrow accounts. This type of bond protects the town if companies go bankrupt before roads are repaired. In the past, Lebanon has had issues of this nature. Goldstein and Jones assured residents that this type of bond wouldn't allow companies to get away without paying again.
The town decided to not officially pass the road use law at the Jan. 14 meeting, due to the current road use coalition they are part of with other Madison County towns. King felt that the coalition's possible contracts with Delta should be considered before the town moves forward with the law, and Goldstein agreed and stated the Delta's team of engineers would give expert input and data that would help them win any disputes over road repair should they occur in the future.
The meeting also detailed monthly reports from town officials and the following:
- 2013 Budget
- The official paper of the town of Lebanon was named the Mid-York Weekly.
- The official banks were named, including NBT, Oneida Savings and Alliance.
- Donald Forth was appointed Code Enforcement Officer for the town.
- Officially banned the use of gas well brine on town roads.


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Mo pivotal in game made famous by Maier's catch
After fan grabbed Jeter's homer, Rivera shut down Orioles in Game 1 of '96 ALCS
As Mariano Rivera prepares to retire, the closer's farewell tour has become a central subplot to the season. Major League Baseball's all-time saves leader has been greeted warmly in each of his road stops, and the Yankees are planning a ceremony of their own to honor Rivera's illustrious career in September.
Rivera will be the last active player to regularly wear uniform No. 42, with the number having been retired throughout MLB in 1997 to honor the achievements of barrier-breaking great Jackie Robinson. During his 19-year big league career, Rivera has also chiseled his own mark on the number's legacy. In honor of Rivera and his contributions, MLB.com is commemorating 42 notable moments from Rivera's career -- the 42 Days of Mo.
It's rare when Mariano Rivera pitches in the postseason and doesn't play a starring role in the story. Yankees fans have become accustomed to watching the future Hall of Fame closer record saves in the playoffs, or at least be the pitcher on the mound when the Yankees win crucial games.
On Oct. 9, 1996, Rivera was the pitcher of record when the Yankees defeated the Orioles, 5-4, in the 11th inning of Game 1 of the 1996 American League Championship Series. But Rivera was just a footnote in a game whose star went by another name: Jeffrey Maier.
The 12-year-old fan put his name into Yankees lore that Wednesday evening, reaching over the wall in right field at Yankee Stadium and catching shortstop Derek Jeter's deep fly ball over Orioles outfielder Tony Tarasco's outstretched arms, turning a potential second out of the eighth inning into a game-tying home run.
"I was just trying to catch the ball," Maier told reporters after the game. "I feel bad for Baltimore fans. But as a Yankees fan, if I helped the team win, I feel pretty good. I think I had a right to catch it because I thought it was going out."
Jeter's blast -- and Maier's catch in the stands -- tied the game, 4-4, entering the ninth inning. Neither team plated a run in the ninth despite three combined baserunners, sending the game to extra innings.
Yankees manager Joe Torre called on Rivera to start the 10th inning and, like he's done countless times throughout his career, the right-hander kept the game right where it was.
In the 10th, Rivera worked around singles from Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro and designated hitter Eddie Murray to retire the side without allowing a run. The right-hander came out for the 11th inning, too, striking out two batters while allowing just one hit.
And just three pitches after Rivera struck out second baseman Roberto Alomar to end the 11th, Bernie Williams gave him the win. The Yankees center fielder took a 1-1 pitch from reliever Randy Myers and blasted it into the left-field seats, giving the Yankees a controversial 5-4 victory.
"That didn't win the game," Jeter told reporters about Maier's catch. "Bernie won the game."
Rivera pitched two scoreless innings in that game, allowing three hits while striking out three to become the winning pitcher in the infamous Jeffrey Maier game.


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Let's make it easy on ourselves. I haven't yet established why -- other than liking the particular operation -- we're removing this nice person's colon. So since our patient has agreed to remain exposed and to do so for all to see, I declare s/he has diverticulitis. (I'm planning a post about that entity in the near future, so for now I'll ignore the details.) (Were it cancer, the operation would be largely the same, taking a bit more out.) Most likely there have been a few prior episodes of infection which resolved with antibiotics, but we've agreed the time has come to do a little preventative work. There's unlikely to be even the slightest adverse consequence of losing this portion of the colon; and it should ensure that the attacks will end. So let's backtrack a few steps.
Because of the prior infections, it's likely that there are some adhesions with which to deal: that means that a few loops of small intestine are stuck to the sigmoid colon; and the colon might be plastered to the bladder or to the pelvic sidewall. So the reality is that, before that beautiful packing job I described, I needed to address those areas; unstick the bowel so I can pack it away, not to mention freeing the colon to work on it. Early in my training, I concluded that adhesions were the bane of the surgeon's existence. Dividing them can be arduous, time-consuming, even dangerous. Turns out I was sort of wrong: given that adhesions are pretty commonly encountered, either you learn to love (too strong. Accept. Find ways to enjoy.) them or you'll hate your job. There's pleasure to be gained from working through adhesions artfully and without creating havoc. In part, it's about timing. Which is about judgment. About which I've previously written.
It's been at least six weeks -- ideally considerably longer -- since our patient's last attack of diverticulitis. Operating in the midst of such an attack means things will be densely stuck, and bloody. Dissection planes will be difficult, if not impossible, to delineate. Allowing time for the acute inflammatory process to subside, and for adhesions to mature makes all the difference. Given enough time, areas of adherence will become nearly bloodless; applying a little tension makes a little white fuzz appear between the stuck organs (the fine, avascular scar tissue that remains), and the dissection through it is quick and easy. But not always. Today, the small intestine is looped on itself and tightly stuck to the sigmoid colon, and the colon is thick and woody where the infection has occurred.
"Shit. This'll take a while... Sucker." I'm asking for the suction device. There are several kinds; seems like most people use plastic disposable ones, but I like a particular metal one, because the outer sheath comes off, allowing use of a thinner (five millimeters?) straight tube for the purpose of blunt dissection. Cutting into a densely stuck area means you are making the plane, and you might be wrong. Bluntly probing it allows for the (possible) opening up of natural, if swollen and distorted, ones. Plus, suction keeps the field clean while you are working through it. Here, I'm only using it between the colon and the pelvic wall, because the only possible damage is to the part of the colon that'll be coming out. Where small and large bowel are stuck together, that sort of blunt dissection needs very sparing use.
Grossly, the difference between chronically inflamed tissues and cancer isn't always obvious. Both are knobby-hard; each can stick itself to surrounding areas. Scar tissue can have the same sort of pallor that cancer often does. Hmm, I'm thinking. I'm certain this is diverticulitis, but this stuff is a little hard. "I'm gonna give you something for frozen. ("Frozen section" is a quick way for the pathologist to examine something immediately, while the operation is going on: they freeze it, slice it thin, stain it, and have a look.) Label it 'pelvic sidewall...' Fifteen blade on a long handle." The scrub scrambles to load the blade, since I usually don't use that size in this operation. (When Joanie was scrubbing, she'd have had it ready, just in case.)
The biopsy site bleeds a little, and I touch the area with the suction device I've been using. "Buzz me." My assistant touches the cautery to the metal of the tube and hits the switch. Another reason I like using that metal sucker. A little spark jumps from the tip of the tube to the bleeding area, and it chars in a puff of smoke, which disappears into the tube. Once in a great while, with that move you find out very painfully that somewhere along the line you've gotten a little hole in your glove. It's a shock and a burn and it hurts like hell. Sometimes it'll make your hand twitch, and it always leaves a pinhead-sized bit of charcoal on your finger that stays for a few days. "FUCK!!!" (Startled, my assistant jerks back and drops the cautery pencil.) "Yikes. Sorry... Guess I need a new right glove."


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Hampshire's naked rambler will face charges of "outraging public decency" a court has ruled.
Stephen Gough, 53, from Eastleigh, appeared at Oxford Crown Court in the nude as a judge rejected an application for his case to be dismissed.
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I am a seasoned MythTV user and have experimented with XBox and other frontends.
I have extensive experience with the XBox as a frontend, but would not recommend that the XBox is used for Myth, as the latest versions of Myth have become too big to be responsive given the small memory of the XBox (64Mb).
Here is what I did/found:
- Install Xebian 1.4
- Install MythTV (using the guides on this wiki)
- MythTV was quite slow, and I could hear the hard disk thrashing, indicating memory was tight...
- Upgraded to 128Mb - I bought a dead motherboard, unsoldered the RAM, and resoldered it to another motherboard.
- This worked well, and gave a significant performance improvement - I ran it for a week, before:
- While trying to make the XBox quieter, I messed up cooling - it overheated, and died. Unable to ressurect. Not 100% sure if it was a problem with my memory install or overheating...
- Got fed up with the XBox, and moved my main server into the TV room, so now the frontend and backend are on the same machine
So! I am now running a standard PC as a frontend. My voyage of discovery with this machine was not straightforward either:
- I installed an ATI Rage 128 All in Wonder, hoping to use its TV Out functionality. It worked in text mode, but Xorg wouldn't work, no matter how hard I tried. I ended up breaking Xorg on the Fedora Core 4 install, so installed Fedora Core 5 in its place.
- Considered building a VGA to TV converter, but was concerned with the risks (possibly breaking my TV if I supplied it with incorrect sync settings, etc.)
- Bought an NVidia GeForce 4000 card with TV out, installed the drivers (yum install ...)
- Set up the TV out parameters in Xorg.conf
- It worked!
Overall, from my experiences, I can give the following set of advantages/disadvantages of the Xbox and standard frontends:
Advantages of the Xbox:
- It's small
- The DVD remote works
- It's got TV out as standard
- It's got digital sound as standard (with the advanced AV cable)
Disadvantages of the Xbox:
- Its memory is too small
- Its processor is not very fast compared with modern PCs (733Mhz)
- The DVD remote has limited functions for a PVR
Advantages of a standard machine:
- It's much easier to upgrade the RAM, and much more RAM can be added
- Remote supplied with the TV tuner is better than the XBox remote (more functions)
Disadvantages of standard machine:
- Getting TV out is harder than XBox
- Digital sound is not standard
The specifications of my frontend/server are:
- Compaq Dual 733Mhz PIII with 640Mb RAM (eBay special)
- 30Gb system drive, 160Gb data drive
- 2 ethernet cards - one for external broadband modem, the other for the LAN
- 2 TV tuners - Hauppauge Nova-T USB, and Hauppauge Nova-T PCI. Remote control is attached to the PCI card.
- NVidia GeForce 4000, with TV out
- Onboard sound (to be replaced shortly)
- Fedora Core 5


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Anyone who isn't immensely rich or a secret psychopath (in the Cabinet there's a lot of overlap between these two groups) is currently mourning the Great Leap Forward in dismantling the NHS. It's one of those political moments when we know that nothing we did worked and the bill we failed to stop will kill people and everything seems hopeless and we wonder how much worse it is going to get and how much more of the country they can sell off and pretty much every morning the news remind us that if they aren't stopped the answer is 'everything'.
In the midst of such doom and gloom the bright rays of sunshine in our midst will want to strike a positive note. 'The Poll Tax was defeated after it became law' say some. 'We can punish them at the next election' say others. And of course as always there are people to remind us that people fighting together can beat abusive rulers.
Well, yes. While not known for being a ray of sunshine myself, I agree with that. I also think we need to think positive – if only to stop everyone involved in fighting this government from killing themselves in a fit of depression. But I want to instead suggest that when things seem bad we should think positive, and negative, and positive, and negative, and then positive.
It could go something like this:
Positive voice: There's got to be a way out of this mess. We have to throw ourselves into the fight again.
Negative voice: But everything we've done has failed. Every demo, every petition, every action was for nothing. It is clear that the government cannot be pressured because we are not their constituency. 'Democracy' appears to mean doing what the rich want.
Positive voice: That's fine. That's the situation we're in. Relax about it. People have been in worse situations.
Negative voice: That's your positivity? That's the best you can do? You're agreeing with me that we're in the shit!
Positive voice: Stop being such a drama queen. The situation is as bad as it is. We should face it. But let's not make it worse by getting all apocalyptic and acting like the world is going to end. Even Tories die – even if takes a stake through the heart – and not only will this particular government come to an end but this entire system of government will come to an end. All of them do. We just have to work to make sure it is a happy end for us all.
Negative voice: And what about all the people who will be made homeless, kill themselves or die for lack of treatment in the meantime?
Positive voice: Listen Mr Negativo, you've had your turns – count them! But since you ask, we'll have to look after each other as best we can with what resources we can chip off the edge of Privatised Britain. Meanwhile we start working out how to dismantle this sinister political and economic apparatus over which we have so little control. To do that we have to accept that the petitions and the demos don't do anything and the politicians couldn't give a toss what we think – and that's what we've got to work with. It's a judicious mix of negative and positive that's going to get us through this. Having accepted the negatives we can say 'worse things happen at sea' (or at least in the British Empire – we really aren't in the worst situation anyone has ever been in) and start organising to win.


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