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AMA, anti-cardiac muscle antibody
This test measures how many antimyocardial antibodies (AMAs) are in your blood. AMAs are a sign of heart damage. Higher levels are linked to several forms of heart disease. They can be found in the blood before you have any symptoms of heart disease.
Having these antibodies can be a sign of swelling of the membrane around your heart (pericarditis). Some people also develop AMAs after heart surgery or a heart attack. After a heart attack, your body may make antibodies against the heart protein troponin. This can slow healing. Research is currently being done on how to prevent this.
You might also have an AMA test done if your healthcare provider thinks you have rheumatic heart disease. This disease can develop as a complication of rheumatic fever.
AMAs have also been found in people with diagnosed heart disease. Healthcare providers don't know how these antibodies affect the disease getting worse.
No other tests are usually done with the AMA test. But AMAs can also be found in people with streptococcal infections, so your provider may also want to do a strep screen. This is done by swabbing your throat.
A result for a lab test may be affected by many things, including the method the lab uses to do the test. Even if your test results are different from the normal value, you may not have a problem. To learn what the results mean for you, talk with your healthcare provider.
A normal test will be negative, meaning you have no or low levels of AMAs.
If your test shows elevated AMA levels, you likely have heart disease or heart damage. You will need more testing.
The test requires a blood sample, which is drawn through a needle from a vein in your arm.
Taking a blood sample with a needle carries risks that include bleeding, infection, bruising, or feeling dizzy. When the needle pricks your arm, you may feel a slight stinging sensation or pain. Afterward, the site may be slightly sore.
No outside factors are known to affect the results of this test.
You don't need to prepare for this test.
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Why are things in space the shape that they are?
You cannot fail to notice it – space is littered with spherical shapes, from our own Earth to the enormous planet Jupiter. Why is Nature obsessed with all things round?
Gravity is the force that keeps us on our planet by drawing us so powerfully towards its centre. It has much the same effect on everything else floating in the cosmos, as long as it is big enough. All objects in the Universe are subject to their own force of gravity. It is one of the fundamental forces of our Universe. For objects larger than approximately one fifth the size of Earth, gravity (rather than electrostatic forces, for example) will be the dominant force determining their shape.
As gravity pulls matter towards other matter, a sphere forms. Why? Only a sphere allows every point on its surface to have the same distance from the centre, so that no part of the object can further 'fall' toward its centre. Gravity just keeps on pulling. Given time, even the highest mountains on Earth will eventually be levelled under its power.
Bending light
The gravity of objects in our Universe, such as Jupiter, does not just attract matter, but also can actually bend light. ESA's Gaia mission, due for launch around 2010, will accurately determine the position of a large number of stars. While doing this, it will look at exactly how star light coming from distant stars is bent, as it approaches a giant body with a large gravitational field.
Gravity bending is everywhere, on scales ranging from planetary bodies to clusters of galaxies. In this case, the bending is larger than you would expect from visible matter, so scientists think that large amounts of 'dark matter' are present. Dark matter is invisible to the telescopes, and you only detect its presence by the gravitational effect it has on light beams passing by.
Smaller objects in space are spared from the overwhelming power of gravity, which is why we see asteroids that look like pieces of rubble. Why do these bodies have the shape that they have? Their shape arises from a simple electrostatic force. When you use your hands to push together millions upon millions of grains of sand to build sandcastles on the beach, it is the same force. The cohesion is strong enough until a stronger force like a big wave comes along and overcomes it.
Every shape imaginable?
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with glorious images of a different shape in space. For example, consider the shapes of nebulae – those swirling clouds of gas and dust in which newly hatched stars begin to shine. In these cases, gravity is competing with the pressure of light. What gives these beautiful clouds their shape is the push and pull of the intense light given out by the stars in their infancy, which compete with each other to draw the gas and dust towards them.
However, if the nebulae are dense enough (as in the disc around a forming star) and some perturbation causes these gas and dust particles to form areas with higher density, gravity starts to play a role again: in a chain effect. The areas can merge, forming larger and larger pieces that eventually grow to the size of planets. If they become large enough, their gravitational field becomes more significant, which encourages the inevitable formation of a familiar shape.
Generally, then, the shape of things to come will therefore always be... spherical!


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Vote for Marissa: Yahoo is cool againNovember 6, 2012: 12:09 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, and Abbott Laboratories, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
On this Election Day, let's play a fun little game. If Yahoo (YHOO) CEOs were U.S. presidents, most of them would be unsuccessful one-term (or less) inhabitants of the Oval Office.
Terry Semel was like Jimmy Carter. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Jerry Yang would be Andrew Johnson. Clearly in over his head and later "impeached" for turning down the Microsoft (MSFT) takeover offer.
Carol Bartz? Meet Herbert Hoover. Little went right during either of their reigns -- although I'm not sure if Hoover cussed as much as Bartz. Interim chiefs Tim Morse and Ross Levinsohn were like Gerald Ford. They both became CEO by default and didn't last long on the job.
And even though Scott Thompson is still among the living, he'd be William Henry Harrison. His four-month tenure as Yahoo CEO barely tops Harrison's one month as commander-in-chief. Or maybe he's Warren Harding, another president who didn't survive long enough for a re-election campaign. (Spoiler alert for Boardwalk Empire fans. Harding should be dying soon, right?)
But with new CEO Marissa Mayer, does Yahoo finally have its Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Franklin Roosevelt or Bill Clinton? I figure it's fitting to name both popular Republican and Democratic presidents since red and blue make Yahoo's trademark color, purple. Plus, I also don't want angry comments about how I'm choosing one party over the other! (I'm a registered Independent.)
Related: Marissa Mayer is ready to rumble at Yahoo
Shares of Yahoo were up slightly Tuesday, hitting a 52-week high in the process. The stock has gained more than 10% since Mayer was hired in mid-July. Much of the gains have taken place since the company reported third-quarter results in October. Yahoo has easily outperformed the Nasdaq as well as Microsoft, Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB). The only major tech company Yahoo has lagged is Mayer's previous employer, Google (GOOG).
So is the Mayer hype warranted? Eric Jackson, founder of hedge fund Ironfire Capital, thinks so. Jackson said he's owned Yahoo stock since December 2010 and it's now his biggest long position. Jackson has followed the stock for years: As a shareholder in the mid-Aughts, he actively urged the company to dump Semel, which it wound up doing in 2007. Jackson sold his stake after the Yang-Microsoft debacle in 2008.
Despite the problems under Bartz, Jackson said he bought into Yahoo again because he felt the market was ignoring the potential for the company to do something to unlock the value of its many Asian assets. Now that Yahoo finally has done so, agreeing to sell half its stake in Alibaba in exchange for more than $7 billion (it plans to return $3 billion of that to shareholders ), Jackson said he's more excited than ever to be a Yahoo shareholder ... and that's largely due to Mayer.
"She is head-and-shoulders above anybody Yahoo has ever had as CEO. Mayer has a clear knowledge of the company's strengths and where it needs to improve," Jackson said. "A turnaround is not going to happen overnight, but it's a relief to finally have a CEO talking in a levelheaded way."
Related: Yahoo earnings 'solid' for Mayer's first quarter
Jackson said that with Mayer, the company at long last has an executive who understands content and technology. He is hoping that Mayer will push Yahoo to invest more in advertising technology -- a move she has already taken by purchasing mobile start-up Stamped for its engineering staff -- and enhance its own popular sites, like photo-sharing service Flickr.
"Flickr has been dying on the vine," Jackson said. "It would be silly for Yahoo to not do more and exploit some of its sites with huge traffic."
How high could Yahoo's stock go under Mayer? It may not be a stretch for it to one day return to Microsoft's final offer price of $33 per share in 2008, Jackson thinks. (It originally proposed a bid of $31 per share before sweetening it.) Yahoo is still nearly 50% below that level, but Jackson points to AOL (AOL) as a company that Yahoo could emulate.>
AOL, after being spun out of CNNMoney parent Time Warner (TWX) in late 2009, was a hated stock at first. Its shares have enjoyed an amazing rebound as CEO Tim Armstrong's focus on content, such as The Huffington Post and local news network Patch, is starting to pay off. Shares of AOL surged more than 15% Tuesday after the company reported third-quarter results that topped forecasts.
"Armstrong stabilized the core business and has been able to get AOL growing modestly in online advertising. This could be the playbook for Yahoo. AOL was a hated stock at about $10 a share, and now it's near $40," said Jackson, who does not have a position in AOL.
It's obviously too soon to say if Yahoo under Mayer will enjoy as healthy as a rebound as AOL. But for what it's worth, Armstrong is also a Google alum -- and it looks like investors are more than happy to see ex-Googlers now running some of Google's competitors.
Mayer may not have a Reagan-esque or Clinton-esque impact on Yahoo when all is said and done -- but she's definitely not looking like a Hoover or Carter.


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Friday, February 16, 2007
Good Friday...Auh! The weekend is here!
I've got some exciting news, our Christian Fiction Blog Alliance Amazon.com Store is up and running. The product selection is still small but it will grow in the coming weeks. Stop by and visit!
I love this list of 50 Oxymorons! Enjoy the weekend
Found missing
Resident alien
Advanced BASIC
Genuine imitation
Airline Food
Good grief
Same difference
Almost exactly
Government organization
Sanitary landfill
Alone together
Legally drunk
Silent scream
British fashion
Living dead
Small crowd
Business ethics
Soft rock
Military Intelligence
Software documentation
New York culture
New classic
Sweet sorrow
"Now, then ..."
Synthetic natural gas
Christian Scientists
Passive aggression
Taped live
Clearly misunderstood
Peace force
Extinct Life
Temporary tax increase
Plastic glasses
Terribly pleased
Computer security
Political science
Tight slacks
Definite maybe
Pretty ugly
Twelve-ounce pound cake
Diet ice cream
Rap music
Working vacation
Exact estimate
Friendly Fire
9 Comments:
- Bernita said...8:14 AMYou've just about covered the ground, Bonnie!
- Unknown said...1:00 PMI love that picture.
One of my favorite oxymorons...
Jumbo Shrimp
- Paris David said...3:28 PMOooooo...some of those are just wickedly funny.
Happy weekend,
- Leon said...7:34 AMHehe, Oxymorons keep word lovers in stitches and politicians in office.
I finally got around to your help group question.
- lindley (: said...8:46 AMfound your url through blogger group help. =)
love the oxymorons. xD
- Donnetta said...2:33 PMHi, Bonnie. Found your blog through a comment you left for Bernita. I am enjoying reading...You strike me as a really nice person. And that's a big deal! Donnetta
- Anonymous said...12:58 AMOh So Funny!
God Bless You!
- Anonymous said...12:52 AMI luv anything with moron in it!
There are lots here for those interested.
- Valerie said...6:26 PMGREAT POST!!!!
Made me laugh. Especially the picture. Now can you imagine using all those oxymorons in a piece of fiction. That would be a fun and crazy project. :)
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Buyers eyeing the most "frugal" version of Apple's new iMac will now be able to add a 1TB Fusion Drive as a build-to-order option (hat tip to MacRumors). The drive, which combines a solid-state disk and spinning hard drive into a single volume, was previously available only on the 27-inch iMac and the higher-end 21.5-inch version, with the low-end 21.5-inch iMac being left out of the fun. Less than two months after the 21.5-inch iMac's launch, however, Apple has now added in the Fusion Drive for an extra $250.
Fusion Drive was announced last October during Apple's media event, in which it introduced the iPad mini and the redesigned iMacs. Apple advertises Fusion Drive as faster and more efficient than a spinning drive—it stores slow, common tasks (booting, app loading) on the SSD side while storing less frequently used items on the hard drive. For more in-depth information on Fusion Drive, Ars Technica's Lee Hutchinson has done plenty of analysis on how the tech works and even how to roll your own system.


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Natalizumab Solution
COMMON BRAND(S): Tysabri
GENERIC NAME(S): Natalizumab
Natalizumab increases your risk of getting a rare but very serious (sometimes fatal) brain infection (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy-PML). This risk may be higher the longer you use natalizumab and if you recently used or are currently using other medications that weaken the immune system/increase your risk of infection (such as immunosuppressants, cancer chemotherapy) or other medications that affect the immune system (immunomodulators). Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information. See also Side Effects and Drug Interactions sections. The risk of PML may also be higher if you have been infected with the virus that causes this infection (JC virus). Your doctor may order a test to see if you have been infected with this virus. Because this medication increases the risk of PML, it is usually used alone and only when other treatments have not worked or you are unable to use them.
In the US, natalizumab is only available to patients enrolled in the TOUCH Prescribing Program. In Canada, a similar program is called the Tysabri Care Program. There are two different TOUCH prescribing programs: MS TOUCH for patients with multiple sclerosis, and CD TOUCH for patients with Crohn's disease. Only doctors, infusion centers, and pharmacies enrolled in these programs may prescribe, inject, or provide this medication to patients. Talk with your doctor about the risks and benefits of this medication and other treatment choices. If you and your doctor decide that this is the best treatment for you, your doctor can help you enroll in the TOUCH program. Your doctor will monitor you very closely while you are using this medication, usually at least 3 times during the first year and every 6 months from then on.
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This medication is used to treat multiple sclerosis-MS. It is not a cure for MS, but it is thought to help by preventing your immune system from attacking the nerves in your brain and spinal cord. It helps decrease the number of episodes of worsening and may prevent or delay disability.
Natalizumab is also used to treat a bowel condition called Crohn's disease (CD) when it is moderate to severe and/or keeps coming back. It is not a cure for CD, but it is thought to work by preventing your immune system from causing inflammation/swelling within your bowels.
Natalizumab is a protein called a monoclonal antibody.
How to use Natalizumab Solution
Read the Medication Guide provided by your pharmacist before you start using natalizumab and each time you receive another dose. If you have any questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
This medication is given by a health care professional in an infusion center, usually every 4 weeks or as directed by your doctor. This medication is mixed in a solution and injected slowly into a vein, usually over 1 hour. It should not be given as a rapid injection. You will be monitored for 1 hour after your treatment is finished to make sure you do not have a serious reaction to the medication. (See also Side Effects section.)
It is important to use this medication regularly to get the most benefit from it. Do not miss any doses without your doctor's approval.
Tell your doctor if your condition worsens. When using this medication for Crohn's disease, if your condition does not improve after 12 weeks of treatment, your doctor will need to switch your treatment plan.
Side Effects
Headache, joint pain, redness/irritation at the injection site, swelling hands/feet/ankles, or changes in menstrual cycle may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
Tell your doctor right away if you have any side effects while this drug is being given or shortly after your treatment is finished. Examples of these side effects (infusion reaction) may include chills, fever, flushing, nausea, dizziness, tiredness, and chest pain.
Tell your doctor right away if you have any serious side effects, including: severe/persistent headache, stiff/painful neck, fast/pounding heartbeat, easy bruising/bleeding, signs of infection (such as fever, persistent sore throat, breathing problems, unusual vaginal discharge, painful/frequent urination), mood changes (such as depression, suicidal thoughts), severe stomach/abdominal pain.
This drug increases the risk of a rare, possibly fatal, brain infection (see Warning section for more details). This condition may occur during treatment or, in some cases, after treatment has stopped. In MS patients, the symptoms of PML can seem like an attack of worsening MS. Therefore, whether you are using this drug or have stopped using it within the last 6 months, tell your doctor right away of any new or worsening symptoms that have lasted for several days such as: clumsiness, sudden change in your thinking (such as confusion, difficulty concentrating), difficulty moving muscles, seizure, problems with speech, vision changes.
This drug may rarely cause serious liver problems. If you notice any of the following rare but very serious side effects, tell your doctor right away: persistent nausea/vomiting, dark urine, yellowing eyes/skin, feeling tired/weak.
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, seek immediate medical attention if you notice any of the following symptoms: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
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Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
This medication should not be used if you have ever had a certain medical condition. Before using this medicine, consult your doctor or pharmacist if you have ever had: a certain virus infection (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy-PML).
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: weakened immune system (such as leukemia, lymphoma, HIV infection, organ transplant), current infections, history of certain virus infections that keep coming back (such as herpes, shingles), mental/mood disorders (such as depression).
During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
It is not known if this drug passes into breast milk. Because of the possible risk to the infant, breast-feeding is not recommended while using this drug. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.
Some products that may interact with this drug include: past or current use of other drugs that weaken the immune system/increase the risk of infection (such as azathioprine, cyclosporine, 6-mercaptopurine, methotrexate, fingolimod, TNF blockers such as adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab), long-term use of corticosteroids (such as dexamethasone, prednisone).
If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call 911. Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center.
Laboratory and/or medical tests (such as MRI, liver function, anti-JCV antibody test) may be performed before you start treatment and repeated periodically to monitor your progress or check for side effects. Consult your doctor for more details.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about lifestyle changes that might benefit you. Examples of lifestyle changes include stress reduction programs and maintaining a healthy diet. A doctor-approved exercise program may also help MS patients maintain strength, balance, and muscle tone. Consult your doctor or pharmacist for more details.
Missed Dose
It is important to get each dose of this medication as scheduled. If you miss a dose, ask your doctor or pharmacist right away for a new dosing schedule.
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As in 2014, the 2015 outlook for the French ICT industry looks reasonably favourable with sales growth expected to increase by 2 %.
- IT segment growth driven by larger business investments
- No increase in payment delays expected
- Many companies have tiny margins and low equity ratios
According to French research institute Xerfi, sales in the French IT segment increased 5% in 2014, mainly due to French companies boosting their IT expenditures - especially in new servers and analytic equipment for big data. Software, consulting and services activities amounted to EUR 49.5 billion (up 1%). SMACs (Social, Mobile and Analytics in the Cloud) and SaaS (Software as a Service) technologies recorded sales increases of 22% and 30% respectively.
The cannibalisation of PC sales by tablets continued in 2014, with the latter being the main growth driver in the hardware sector. However, the sales of tablets also slowed down in Q4 of 2014 (down 16% year-on-year) and sales prices decreased (one third of tablets sold at a price less than 100 euros). Smartphone sales increased 15.2% in volume to 18.2 million units in 2014.
As in 2014, the 2015 outlook for the French ICT industry looks reasonably favourable with sales growth expected to increase by 2%. IT expenditures are expected to increase further due to the expansion of cloud computing, big data democratisation, and the need for higher mobility – now a must-have for many French businesses, driving servers and IT consulting demand up. The software segment is expected to grow 3.4%. Computing hardware should grow to support the upgrade of infrastructure linked to the development of SMACs (expected to grow 18%) and SaaS projects (forecast up 25%).
That said, it is expected that the sales slowdown in the tablet segment in terms of volume and value will continue (average prices decreased by more than 60% between 2010 and 2014). According to GfK, tablet sales will reach 5.5 million of units in 2015, a year-on-year decrease of 11.3% (after increasing 70% in 2013 and 2% in 2014).
Despite overall growth, many French IT and consumer electronics companies suffer from structurally tiny margins, with equity ratios often not higher than 15%. IT service providers operate with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margins of only 7%, compared to 14% for software editors. Hardware wholesale margins rarely exceed 10%. IT service providers are competing on low added-value activities, while programmers and software editors have more market power and can generate higher prices. Margins will remain tight and working capital requirements will be a key issue for many ICT businesses again in 2015. Some ICT wholesalers are expected to suffer from the euro devaluation as most purchases are done outside Europe and billed in USD.
We expect payment delays to remain generally stable in the coming months, as the cash reserves of many electronics/ICT businesses are satisfactory. In addition, credit facilities will be reassessed by banks, based on positive 2014 balance sheets. However, there is almost no doubt that banks will continue to be restrictive in granting loans to businesses that are performing rather weakly.
The modest decrease in the level of bankruptcies at the end of 2014 should confirm a satisfying credit insurance claims trend in the ICT sector, that is still considered low, stable and acceptable in volume. Our underwriting position on smaller limits has been softened to maximize customer satisfaction, however excluding some wholesaling activities on which we decided at the end of 2014 to maintain a more conservative approach (level of claims frequency higher than total French average). We have to take into account that the risks for many electronics/ICT businesses are still high, especially for very small businesses with limited equity bases, as they will struggle to absorb any further decline in margins. For companies with more than 20 employees, the challenge remains to absorb protracted payments from their key customers.


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I would appreciate your thoughts on whether Christians should celebrate the Seder and certain other Jewish festivals that are being increasingly celebrated in Christian churches these days.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ordinarily, Christians should not celebrate the Seder or other Jewish festivals. The Seder celebrates the Exodus that God provided. By the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, this same God tells us His people will celebrate something greater than the Passover and Exodus.
Isaiah 43:18-19 tell us that God regards the Exodus and the feast that celebrates it as a thing not to be remembered when the new and greater act of redemption is accomplished:
Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. (Ruth 1:17, ESV)
Jeremiah 3:16-17 is to the same effect, saying that in the Messianic age the ark is not to be remembered when God brings the Gentiles into the Covenant of Grace:
And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no more say, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart. (Jer. 3:15-17, ESV)
The difference between the Old Testament and its feasts and the New Testament and its sacraments is that the Old was a prophecy of the Messianic age and its redemption, while the New Testament teaches and leads us to celebrate only the greater, the messianic fulfillment. Circumcision and the Passover said the Messiah has not come yet. That was true of Old Testament times, but in the New Testament circumcision and the Passover are replaced by baptism and the Lord's Supper, which testify that Jesus Christ has come to accomplish salvation:
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. (Heb. 1:1-2, ESV)
Those are the opening words of the Epistle to the Hebrews, the entirety of which makes clear that the old has passed away and the new has come.
Jesus said, "make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," Matthew 28:18-20, ESV. He also said of the Lord's Supper, "Do this in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19, ESV). He did not say "Forget me and go back to the rituals that say, 'The Messiah did not come yet.'"
The Apostle Paul picks up these points of the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah in Galatians 5:1-7. There, and in other texts, he calls the Christians to forsake circumcision and those that command that you cut the flesh to circumcise.
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
The Bible teaches the regulative precept of worship. That is, the Bible says do not add and do not take away from God's commands regulating what is to be done in worship. Do not look to others' practices, but follow the Apostles of Christ (2 Thess. 3:6, 14-15). In 1 Corinthians 10:21 it is said that you cannot eat at the table of the Lord and then go and eat at the table of those who deny Jesus is the Christ.
May the Lord enable you to answer with heavenly wisdom, the wisdom that comes down from above, when you are invited to attend re-enactments of Jewish festivals.
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Apparently you were not told of the true problem with lead in the soil [February 10: "Orchard fall-out: Fears of arsenic and old lead surface"]. Although there is a remote chance of getting cancer from lead poisoning, there are more immediate consequences far worse than cancer.
First, you have to understand that lead is absorbed by the body and only slowly excreted. Thus even small amounts of lead absorbed each day can build up to toxic levels over time.
Second, lead poisoning has been documented to lower intelligence by five to fifteen I.Q. points in children, with most of the damage done at low-level exposures below what is considered toxic under federal law. Lead poisoning has also been linked through experiments with rats and monkeys to learning disabilities and impulsivity that results in misbehavior and violence.
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High levels of lead in the blood can be immediately fatal, and the federal guidelines serve primarily to reflect the physiological toxicity of lead. However, one nationally recognized expert noted that low-level lead poisoning doesn't kill children, it just kills their brain. Indeed, there is evidence of continuing mental deterioration long after exposure.
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We've been taken with this film ever since it showed off Santa's sick new UFO ride. This film appears to be all about the science behind Santa, and we like that. Here's a summary:
Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns
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IRVINE, Calif. – As it turned out, Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler's tussle with Rick Hawn was about as lopsided as his one with a fleeing suspect back in November.
On Thursday, at Bellator's first event on Spike TV, Chandler (11-0 MMA, 8-0 BFC) successfully defended his title with a second-round submission victory over Hawn (14-2 MMA, 6-2 BFC). The bout headlined Bellator 85, which took place at Bren Events Center in Irvine, Calif.
Back in November, the Alliance MMA fighter was in San Diego preparing for the fight, which marked the first successful defense of his title. Chandler said he went to grab some dinner at a local restaurant, "either Subway or Quiznos or something," when he heard a skirmish and saw a man running from police.
"I turned around and saw this guy running," he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) after Thursday's event. "I chased after him, tripped him, grabbed him, picked him up, and put him on the ground. I put one of his arms behind his back. The cops then came and grabbed him."
Chandler's next thought? "Now what?"
The police had secured the suspect, and Chandler said he didn't get so much as a thank you. No one paid him much mind, and the arrest went on without him.
So he left.
"I think the guy had punched a cop or something," Chandler said. "A police report never came out or whatnot, so who knows exactly what he did. I walked away. I was like, man, I don't even want to be a part of this. I walked away, and they just let me walk away."
No local news reports came out on the incident, and Chandler was unlikely to even appear in the police report. Chandler, in fact, didn't even want to discuss the situation in November when it first happened, and he instead said to ask him about it after Thursday's fight because he didn't want it to be a distraction.
So we did.
Laughing at the absurdity of the situation, Chandler said he ultimately walked back to the scene to assure officers didn't need anything from him. He said they didn't, and they really didn't have anything to say to him. But when the arrested man realized Chandler wasn't a cop, he did.
"Oh, he said a lot of stuff," Chandler said with a laugh. "I can't really repeat it, though. I think he thought I was a cop, but when he realized when I wasn't, yeah, he had a lot to say."
So, it wasn't exactly a Jon Jones-like apprehension. Just hours before winning the UFC light-heavyweight title in March 2011, Jones headed to a New Jersey park for some last-minute meditation. But when he saw an elderly couple yelling and pointing to a man who had broken into their car and stolen their GPS unit, Jones and his coaches chased after him and pinned him to the ground until the police arrived.
A picture of the arrest soon hit social media, news reports discussed it in detail, and Jones answered questions about it for an hour at the UFC 128 post-event press conference.
Chandler, meanwhile, got in his car and went home, and his moonlighting as a crime-fighter came with much less fanfare.
"I was wearing my Batman suit that night, so I guess they didn't know I was," he joked. "Yeah, I was the caped crusader. That's what they call him, right?
"Yeah, it was just me roaming the streets of San Diego and making sure they were safe."
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Tunde Anthony Awopegba
Develop App, Teach the Web, Advocate the web
Next generation App developer.
I love what i do, and I always do my best to make my world a better place.
I am a passionate and enthusiastic person who is always looking for a new way of doing things in a perfect way.
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I've worked with Tunde on organizing a series of weekend events on coding and privacy at his local community. He is a passionate Mozillian that wants to help more people learn about the open web.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 8 seconds Hi, and welcome back. In this lecture, I will show you you can use the dotted chart to explore event logs. The dotted chart is in process mining analysis techniques. And in the evaluation of the results, you get insights on how to process your data further. So what is a dotted chart? Well, it's mainly dots. And each dot represents a single event. For instance, an event that happened for transportation card 1337 on January 1. The position of this dot is determined by, usually, the card or the trace for which it happened and at what time it happened. So the y-axis is the trace, so every line is a trace. And the x-axis is the time.
Skip to 0 minutes and 55 seconds And for since this is card 1337, on January 1, the position is determined like this. And of course, other cards and other times are also represented on the axis. So for instance, if you would have a card 2000, for which an event was recorded on January 2, it would be positioned here. A dotted chart therefore, consists of many dots. One dot each representing one event. And the position is determined, usually, by the trace and the time for which it happened. And this gives you an insight on all the events in the event log in a helicopter view. So now let's switch to the ProM Lite tool, and I'll show you how it works on real data.
Skip to 1 minute and 41 seconds So with ProM Lite open, let's import the artificial loan example process to explain the basic concepts of the dotted chart. So let's execute the dotted chart plugin and see what it gives.
Skip to 1 minute and 56 seconds Here you see the initial visualization of the dotted chart. And it's always recommended to set the color attribute to the concept name. And now you see already, nice color patterns appearing. And for instance, you can zoom in by pressing the left mouse button, drawing a rectangle, and when you release it, you zoom in, and you see a nice sequence of events for a particular trace. On the top right, you can expand the legend. And you can see for instance, that dark blue is register of application. And every case starts with this one. And you can inspect the cases further. When you left click and draw a rectangle to the upper left, you zoom out to the standard view again.
Skip to 2 minutes and 41 seconds And you can make several observations for instance, about the arrival rate, which is a diagonal line, so relatively constant. And also that cases are of relatively short duration. However, you can also look at this from another perspective. For instance, the x-axis you can change to not show the real time, but the time since the case was started. Then you can investigate case duration times. Well, another thing you need to do is sort the trace by the duration of the trace. And then you get the short cases on top and the longer cases at the bottom. And this is your usual shape that you get. So now that I've explained quickly to basics of a dotted chart.
Skip to 3 minutes and 28 seconds Let's look at a real data set. So let's look at the BPI 2012 challenge event log and what the dotted chart gives for that data. So let's again start the dotted chart plugin.
Skip to 3 minutes and 51 seconds And the first thing we do is again, to set the color attribute to the concept name. And then we see many real nice patterns. For instance, you see wide gaps in between the colors. When we zoom in, we can see it in a bit more detail. You see real bursts of activity, purple and yellow in this case. But on particular days, there's no activity recorded. So let me zoom out again. How can we investigate this further? Well, we could also change the x-axis to the time since the week was started. And now, what you see are days in the week. Here you see a day where mainly the blue activities were recorded.
Skip to 4 minutes and 35 seconds But the other six days, you also see yellow, green, and purple activities. The leftmost day– so this, where you only see blue events, is actually a Sunday. So you see that new applications are registered to the automated website, but the real treatment of the requests is done Monday through Saturday, with slightly less activity on the Saturday. So let's go back to the initial settings and investigate this data further. So what else do we see? We can see that the arrival rate is rather constant. How do we see that? Because there's a straight diagonal line from the left top to the bottom right. There's slight deviations but not much. So the arrival rate is rather constant.
Skip to 5 minutes and 25 seconds What we can also see is that the closing of cases is also rather constant. So there's another line with the greenish dots that follows the arrival process. And as I have shown on the artificial data, you can also look at the case durations. So we set the x-axis again, to the time since case start, and sort the cases on duration of the case. And then we see this.
Skip to 5 minutes and 56 seconds What we see is a very large set of cases, almost half, that take very short time. So if we zoom in, for instance, at this top, then we see that these cases take only a couple of hours. Then, when we zoom out again, we see that there's a bulk of cases that take a couple of days. So this is the 12th day marker. And here is the 27 and the 30 day marker. And you see a particular case type here around the 30 day marker. But you also see a long tail towards the end of cases that can take over 130 days. And this is the usual pattern that you see.
Skip to 6 minutes and 37 seconds Some cases take extremely short, then there's the bulk of the average, and then there's a long tail of cases that take longer. So I hope that I've shown you that there are many configurations for the x and the y-axis and also the coloring that allow you to investigate the data at hand and gets initial insights and initial filtering items.
Skip to 7 minutes and 3 seconds So now, I hope you have good insights in how the dotted chart can be used to gain further understanding on the data that's contained in the event log. And as such, it can help you to further process and filter the event log for further analysis. So I hope to see you again in the next lecture, where we explain for instance, how you can filter event logs.
Exploring event logs with the dotted chart
In this lecture we discuss the dotted chart, a powerful visual tool to quickly get an understanding of the whole event log. We show several settings that can be used, and patterns that can be discovered.
- Instead of starting the dotted chart as shown in the video, you can also press the 'eye'-icon, and select the "Dotted chart (logProjection)" visualizer in the visualizer drop-down on the top right.
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When you're about to drop a black market kidney payment on a graphics card, you may go for flat-out speed – which makes sense. But another option might be more than enough speed and support for six displays.
The upcoming ASUS 5870 Eyefinity, price and ship date TBA, is a PCI Express 2.1 card that combines an overclocked 850MHz Radeon HD 5870 GPU with 2GB of GDDR5 RAM. Thanks to Eyefinity tech, it can drive six (2560×1600) displays through miniDisplay ports – plus it can be paired with another card through CrossFire support (which would, in essence, give you a dual-GPU Radeon 5970).
So do you go with the less connected dragster that is the Sapphire Radeon 5970 or the sports car with cupholders that is the ASUS 5870 Eyefinity? If you're like me, you'll just look at these cards and be happy know that they'll go for $US50, eventually. [SlashGear]


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I recently received an email from an advisor who took issue with much of the premise behind my November 2011 Investment Advisor column: "Not Your Father's Commodity Investments." It seems he disagrees with my notions that we seem to be in a dramatically new market compared with the one we've grown used to over the past 25 years, and that the old market continued on through the dot-com crash to end in July 2007. While it's true that following markets is often like reading tea leaves, it sure seems to me that we're in the middle of some dramatic economic changes that have long-range implications for the way independent advisors manage client portfolios—and possibly for the independent advisory industry itself.
First, here's his side of the story: "You say 'the use of short selling … allows fund managers to generate positive returns regardless of which direction commodities markets are trending.' I would think that also means that they can generate negative returns even if commodities generate positive returns. Also, I'm confused by '…during the 25-year bull market, there hasn't been much need for alternatives. […] Now the ride up seems to have come to an end.' We are in a 13-year sideways market, so unless your November 2011 article was actually written 12 years ago, alternatives have been a great place to be over the past decade. My clients have benefited. But to say that now the ride up seems to have come to an end is ridiculous: For the last three years we have seen fear and panic, but stocks are up nearly 100% during that time. In general, stocks look extremely attractive now with rising dividends, strong earnings, clean balance sheets, etc. Why is the ride over? I would be a contrarian here and say that those who thought they found a better mouse trap with things like managed futures a few years ago have been sorely disappointed and that in a choppy market, trend-following will be a lousy strategy."
Here's the funny thing about markets: If stocks fall, say, 80% during a given period and then go back up "100%," you're still out 60% of your original value. In more realistic terms, from its all-time high in July 2007 to the mortgage meltdown bottom in January 2009, the S&P 500 fell from 1,527 to 798, down 729 points or 47.7%. Then, from that 2009 bottom to Jan. 20, 2012, the S&P did indeed claw its way back to 1,315, up an amazing 517%. Unfortunately, that means buy-and-hold investors are still down 13.9% from the 2007 market top, some four years later, an annual loss of 3.6%—tough to build a retirement portfolio on numbers like that.
What's more, by strategically picking peak to trough, many so called "bull markets" can be made to appear flat. For instance, from July 2002 to the market high in July 2007, the S&P grew from 815 to 1,527, an increase of 87.4% in five years. But from the pre-dot-com crash high of 1,499 in January 2000 to the 2007 high, the market only grew 28 points or 1.9% over seven years. When it comes to the stock market, truly, much is in the eye of the beholder, so it's helpful to look at longer trends for a bigger picture of what's really going on.
A longer view shows a very different picture. For the 12 and a half years from January 1995 to the July 2007 market top, the S&P grew from 501 to 1,527, or 205%. That means a well-allocated buy-and-hold client made an average annual return in the 9.75% range on the equity portion of his portfolio, despite the dot-com crash and the devastating 9/11 attacks. What's more, for a really long view, from April 1982 to the all-time S&P 500 high in 2007, the market went from 109.6 to 1,527, up 1,417 points or 1,288%. That's an average annual gain of 11.1%, year in and year out, through ups and downs and including market corrections in '87, '91, the dot-com crash and 9/11. These are the returns that the modern independent advisory industry was built on.
In my view, since 1982, the U.S. markets have shown a remarkable resilience. Many economists attribute this to the fiscal responsibility initiated under Reagan and Volker in the form of low interest rates, low taxes and relatively controlled government spending and government intervention. Unfortunately, the erosion of these bull market underpinnings began under George W. Bush and has been greatly accelerated under the current administration, to the point where high government spending and intervention, combined with the threat of much higher taxes and resulting higher inflation and interest rates, have prevented our economy and the markets from making a robust recovery for the first time in 30 years. The market gains over the past three years have come with unprecedented volatility for a recovery, including two mini-bear markets (between January 2010 and April 2010, the S&P fell 12.1%, and from January to July last year, it fell 14.7%), at trading volumes that are above 4 billion trades per day—a level never seen before 2008.
Consequently, again in my view, it's very likely that the 25-year bull market (from April 1982 to July 2007) that has been the driving factor behind the meteoric rise of independent financial advice, based on buy-and-hold, equity-centered portfolio management, has come to an end, for at least some years to come and possibly a lot longer than that. (Remember, in the late '60s, '70s, and early '80s, we had almost 20 years of a flat stock market.) To my mind, this also suggests an end to financial advisors' ability to simply build static portfolios and occasionally rebalance them into financial success for their clients. In a trading-range market, everyone's not a winner. Of course, many advisors have come to this conclusion as well, which has led to the most interest in non-correlating "alternative investments" that I've seen since the early '80s.
Which brings us to commodities. Again, back in the early '80s when I started covering financial advisors, a "well-allocated" portfolio held real estate, oil and gas, and gold. Why? Because the equity markets had been flat for most of two decades (From October 1968 to April 1982, the S&P 500 rose from 103.9 to 109.6, up 5.7 points or 5.5% in 13 years, an average annual increase of 0.4%.), while inflation was in double digits. However, as we also saw in the mid '80s, commodities are not a buy-and-hold investment to be simply plugged into risk-adjusted static portfolios. Neither are many of the other alternative investments and strategies that today's advisors are considering. That means to generate real returns for clients in our new economic reality, advisors are going to have to know a lot more than how to identify "hot" mutual fund managers. They'll have to monitor both economic and market factors, in markets beyond stocks and bonds.
Or they can utilize the skills developed over many years for identifying good investment managers and broaden their scope to include managers of alternative investment vehicles such as commodities funds. This, of course, means adding some risk to portfolios: the risk of market positions in addition to simply the securities selected. And, as the above advisor pointed out, this will mean you can lose money in up markets as well as make money in down markets. But it also means adding an inflation hedge, which appears to be necessary for the first time since 1984.
Are commodity funds or any other alternative investment or strategy worth the additional portfolio risk? Seems to me the better question is what's the alternative (no pun intended)? With many baby-boom clients needing to make substantial portfolio returns to meet their retirement goals, a flat or very volatile stock market plus inflation-dampened bond returns aren't going to cut it. It's a difficult adjustment for advisors who have to come to rely on buy-and-hold, equity-and-bond, style-box-centered, static portfolios. But if the economic game has really changed, as I fear it has, it will require dramatically new—and old—strategies.


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Dropping a dress out the window brought couple together
HAD Shirley not dropped a dress out of her shop window onto the roof, her last name might never have been Monaghan.
It was this chance incident that led her and George, her husband of 55 years, to meet for the first time.
"I was working on a building across the street and she was on the other side in a dressmakers shop," George said.
"I saw her drop a dress out the window and it landed on the roof.
"I went over with a ladder to pick it up for her.
"That was when we first met," he said.
George, who was born and raised in Warwick, was living with his sister at the Gold Coast.
After their chance meeting George asked Shirley out.
"Back then there were still drive-in theatres," he said.
"That was a good way to spend a night."
The pair married in Southport on December 28, 1957.
While they were living at the Gold Coast they had four children, two boys and two girls.
In 1969 they moved to the Sunshine Coast, where they stayed put for 24 years.
The couple then moved back to George's home town, Warwick, where they have spent the past 21 years.
During this time the Monaghans have become well known for their Gibson St Christmas lights display, wining the Best Neighbours category a fortnight ago.
"We have been putting up Christmas lights for the last 54 years.
"When we first started we used 20-30 watt party globes.
"We still have them at home," Shirley said.
The Monaghans did not hold a big celebration for their wedding anniversary at the end of the last month.
"We didn't even go out," Shirley said.
"My daughter surprised us with some prawns.
"They were so yummy.
"We hadn't had them for a long time."


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The ownership of the four projects, which are all in development, was previously split 50/50 between the two companies.
The projects are:
- Flyers Creek, New South Wales – 120MW
- Bodangora, New Sales Wales – 70-100MW
- Cherry Tree, Victoria – 35-50MW
- Woakwine, South Australia – 450-540MW
As part of the deal, NPP will acquire Infigen's interest in the 54MW Glen Innes project in New South Wales and 100MW of other projects that the two companies were developing jointly.
Infigen and NPP will continue to hold a 32% interest each in the Walkaway 2 and 3 wind farm development projects in Western Australia which total 394MW.


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Fairy Tales don't always tell the truth. Sometimes the villain is actually the hero.
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|Scooped by Robin Good
Curate and scoop it- this one shows you how to curate effectively
Here's a valuable resource on content curation, "distilled" by the students of the DCurate MOOC lead Martin Couzins and Sam Burrough which organizes over 60 different articles, guides and tools on the topic.
This resources collection is presented in the form of a Pearltrees interactive map, organized into eight sections:
1. Why Do We Need Curators
2. What Is Digital Curation
3. Aggregation vs. Curation
4. It's All About Audience
5. How Do We Find Valuable Content
6. How Do You Decide What To Curate
7. Curation Tools
8. Contributions from participants
If you are new to content curation this is a good resource to bookmark and keep as a reference.
DCurate MOOC sign-up: http://www.curatr3.com/portfolio-item/how-to-be-an-effective-digital-curator/
See also: http://sco.lt/99a09Z
Free to use.
Explore the guidemap: http://bit.ly/digitalcuratorguidemap
See also: https://gibbon.co/RobinGood/content-curation-guide


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The Jesse James memoir, American Outlaw, hits stores on May 3, but the cover has already been revealed. The TV star and chopper enthusiast has, like so many high school kids at Six Flags, posed for a sepia-toned portrait reminiscent of the American West in the late 19th century. James is suited up as a gunslinger, the the .44 Magnum revolver he's gripping a thinly veiled metaphor for his dick. It's a fairly good effort at making him seem cool, like a dangerous outlaw instead of an untouchable revolting pariah and adulterer. Seriously, he is an outlaw, if you consider that to mean someone who operates outside the law, and you consider cheating on your wife illegal. Although he's cemented in our consciousness as a Nazi enthusiast and man who had sex on a couch in the workplace, James says: "My life has been defined by many things and not just the events of the last year." And: "People claim to know everything about me, when they actually know nothing… But once you read this, you will know everything -– the whole story, right here."
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Winter's stormy days demand a hearty stew for supper.
I remember it well. We trudged through a foot of snow to our friends' house. They mentioned stew on the phone, and that got us rolling.
When we walked in, there was nothing on the stove. Did we have the wrong day? No, their stew was simmering in a cast-iron pot hung over glowing coals in their fireplace.
Howling wind and drifting snow get our stomachs growling for stew. This triggers desire for a hearty bowl with a side of warm biscuits lathered with apple butter. It never happens in the summertime.
Many of you are tempted to pop a can of Dinty Moore. It really isn't a bad stew, but if you have ever made your own, you won't go back.
The big stew trick is something a lot of folks miss. Always bread and brown the meat cubes (beef, pork, lamb, venison, chicken). Dump some flour in a food plastic bag. Season with salt and pepper. Add chunks of meat and shake. No big deal.
Then sear them in your stewpot with a couple of tablespoons of olive oil. Don't cook them all the way, just until the flour browns.
Now comes the easy part. Cover your browned meat cubes with stock, beef for beef, chicken for chicken, etc. I like a splash of red wine in there, white if I'm doing chicken. Heat to a boil and scrape up all that wonderfully caramelized stuff on the bottom of the pan.
You'll notice the broth starts to thicken as it dissolves the flour. That gives you a smooth, flavorful gravy, much better than adding raw flour which always lumps.
To avoid mushy vegetables, the bane of great stew, cover and simmer the beef and broth first for an hour. Then add the veggies and simmer for another hour.
Stew is the great consumer of vegetables. You could throw in that last stalk of celery, those final carrots in the bag, that half of green pepper, those sprouting potatoes, that lonely chunk of cabbage.
Frozen veggies work fine, including okra, lima beans and peas. Usually, the only thing I buy in advance is that sweet confection, pearl onions — a must. I use a combination of whatever else I have on hand.
For the hint of smoke, I add a shake of chipotle pepper powder.
Cover tightly and simmer the meat for an hour. Then throw in sliced or cubed veggies, flip them around, cover and simmer for another hour. Stir every 15 minutes and add more liquid if needed. That's it, rib-warming stew.
If you use potatoes, beware if you freeze the leftovers. They get grainy in the freezer. The way around that is to use kohlrabi, an odd German cabbage-type veggie. Kohlrabi freezes perfectly.
Stew flavor meat tenderness increases in storage. I usually make it early in the morning to allow the flavors to meld.
As it simmers, your house fills with an appetite-inspiring aroma. Guard your pot against customers trying to sneak a spoonful.
Kids often don't like dishes where all the ingredients are combined in a gravy. Tell them stew is "cowboy food," because it is. American stew started on the range in heavy pots over a campfire, where the deer and the antelope contributed to it.
I've got some simmering right now. Gotta go. Stew's on.
Your body's crave for carbohydrates increases when the temperature dips below freezing. Still, it's a myth you must consume more calories in winter. Seasons do not change calorie requirements. Stew satisfies your need for carbs. The big plus is the combined nutrients of beef and vegetables in one bowl.
1 pound lean beef, trimmed of fat, cubed
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 cups beef stock or broth
1/4 to 1/2 cup red wine
3 medium carrots, sliced widthwise
2 stalks celery with leaves, chopped
2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed, or kohlrabi
16 pearl onions, fresh or frozen
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup flour
Dash chipotle pepper powder
Flour the beef in a plastic bag, brown in hot oil. Add broth, scraping the pot bottom. Simmer covered for an hour. Stir in remaining ingredients. Simmer covered for another hour, stirring occasionally. If gravy is too loose, cook uncovered. If too thick, add more broth. It's done when the vegetables are tender.
Serve with fresh-made biscuits, or bread, and apple butter.
Serves 4 cowboys.
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons sour cream
Mix flour baking powder, salt and butter until crumbly. Add the buttermilk and sour cream and mix only until the dough holds together. Do not knead.
Turn out on a floured surface and roll the dough to a 3/4-inch thickness. Cut into rounds or squares. Place close together on an oiled cookie sheet and bake in a 450-degree oven 12 to 15 minutes. Serve while warm.
Makes 12-15
Note: For dumplings, drop dollops of dough into the simmering stew. Cook uncovered for 10 minutes, then cover and cook for another 10 minutes or until done.