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"Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers" is Donna Quesada's debut book. On the verge of total burnout, Donna Quesada began her twelfth year of teaching with little patience and even less enthusiasm for her career. This work follows her journey as she overcomes apathy and rediscovers the wonderment of teaching through Zen guidance that is destined to inspire every reader. Filled with humorous stories and fun anecdotes, you can now be a student in Quesada's undeniably insightful classroom! Thanks to Mystic Journey Bookstore for sharing this book release with us.
Donna (http://www.donnaquesada.com/) kindly shared with us an excerpt (Chapter 6: The Math Major—Touchiness) of her book Buddha in the Classroom; Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers:
Listen with your eyes, and see with your ears, Zen says.
It sounds like topsy-turvy Zen talk, until you consider how complex human beings are, and how important it is to listen—to really listen. Listen with your whole being. We are not the same as when we were children; our ten million life-experiences have sketched themselves onto our beings, leaving their traces as habits and tendencies, sculpting us into who we are, even as we continue to transform. We often don't understand why we do certain things, so it is less likely still that others, even those close to us, will be able to fathom our behavior.
But, perhaps, if we could be more generous in our willingness to perceive, if we could see with our ears and listen with our eyes, it would reduce the misunderstandings that wedge us apart in a fog of suspicion and resentment.
When we feel criticized, our defense mechanisms spring into action. But it is the small mind, better known as the ego, that worries about approval. When this fearful little self starts to shout, compassion is impossible, since compassion requires a big-enough mind with which to see, and a big-enough heart with which to receive. Without this spirit of openness, there is no communication. There is only attachment to one's perspective.
The great Indian yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, once spoke about the problem of touchiness. It is the corollary of an untamed ego, resulting in an inferiority complex. It rightly mirrors the Buddhist teachings on the problem of the ego, as Buddha himself was a Raja yogi, steeped in the same timeless Indian wisdom that Paramahansa Yogananda, Gandhi's spiritual teacher, brought to the West less than a century ago.
Touchiness is the tendency to be oversensitive and to feel easily offended. The wise yogi referred to it as a nervous habit that can only destroy peace, as we rise to defend ourselves in various ways each time we feel hurt. Some people brood silently, while others bite back with harsh words and counterattacks. This is the root of most arguments and misunderstandings between people, no matter what kind of relationship they share. Buddha was concerned with the problem of human suffering, and touchiness creates abundant suffering within oneself and in others. The touchy person, feeling wronged, suffers inner torment while making the supposed offender suffer in return.
She also shared an excerpt of Chapter 7: Grading Papers—There Is No Beginning and No End
We're rushing to our deaths, Zen says.
We go through life forever trying to get to ten. We look to the clock with great expectations, forever asking, even as grown-ups, if we're there yet. We humor the children when they ask, but we ask too, in our own rushed ways, in all the days of our lives, and in everything we do, forever rushing to the end. The end of what? If this continues throughout every activity, throughout the rest of our lives, the only end in sight is death.
As an experiment, catch yourself the next time you find yourself thinking in terms of quantity. It might be the day's errands, or the pile of bills, or, like me, the talking stack of papers on your desk. Simply notice the feeling of urgency and the tendency to rush through them. Notice, also, the inclination to shrink back. Although they seem like opposite tendencies, both come from the same feeling of aversion, and serve only to keep us out of touch with the actual task. We're taken aback by the enormity of what we've created in our minds, so we say, I'm just going to plow through it and get it done, or, It's too overwhelming and I don't know where to start. See them both as nothing more than habits that come from our skewed way of envisioning time.
Both responses pull us out of the freshness of direct experience. They both bind us to the fantasy of a task rather than the reality of it, warping our sense of what is really required. Wasting energy on head trips is exhausting, and we do it to ourselves. A task is done in steps, because reality is made up of steps, infinitely divided flashes of time that are too small to measure. We come to life and our energy soars when we join that moment, rather than standing separate from it—when we rise to the occasion rather than sink into the pit of resistance. When we join the moment, we join time. We are time.
Ultra distance runner Pam Reed understands this. When running superhuman distances that require her to continue on for three days straight, with no sleep or breaks of any kind, she tells herself she only has to get to the next pole, to the next marker, right there. She keeps herself from getting vacuumed up into the enormity of the distance and ends up at the final mark by employing these little tricks—which are less like tricks than they are reminders of reality itself.
Time is an abstraction that stops and stares right back at us as soon as we separate ourselves from it. To be separated from time is to watch it. It's a shy child that can't play naturally, and acts awkwardly when we watch, but as soon as we look away and rejoin our conversations, she continues to play naturally. Time flows when we stop watching it. Staring at the clock is to resist reality. I don't like this situation—can't this clock move any faster! Like Pam Reed, we need only put one foot in front of the other, and take a step, right here and now.
"But," you may ask, "does this mean that Zen, with all its talk of the now, scoffs at imagination?" We have all been taught as kids to be imaginative; artists have been taught to be imaginative. It's not for nothing that we celebrate the gift and splendor of imagination. But like all good tools, it has its place. After all, the creative process itself unfolds in real time.
Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into unknown territory together, creating something new each time by remaining in a state of undivided presence. They let go of their ideas and preconceptions of how it should be, how they thought it was going to be, and how other musicians have done it in the past. They let go of their agendas and simply move together in the flow, with the faith that comes from experience, trusting in their own abilities as artists, and in each other.
It may help the sports star, too, to envision his plays in advance, but if he doesn't remain in a state of absolute presence when the time comes to execute the play, he'll miss the ball. He plays the real game in real time.
Imagination, like intellectualization, is put away when it has done its job. The imaginative vision provides a palette of possibilities, which are then actualized in a state of presence, and ironically, with the willingness to let go of the expectations of the vision. To paraphrase my Zen teacher, there's nothing wrong with imagination, so long as it hasn't got you by the nose.


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How to post a bail bond at the O'Fallon Police Department
As a licensed bail agent in Missouri we can post non-cash bail bonds called surety bonds, or secured bonds. Your first step to get a bail bond posted at the O'Fallon Jail is to call our 24 hour help line at (636) 272-4477 so that we can get your loved one out of police custody as soon as possible.
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From I-70: Exit 217, Highway K. Right onto Main Street (Highway M) for approximately one mile. After crossing railroad tracks, turn right into O'Fallon Municipal Centre parking lot.
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All photos by Eugene Peres and Vivian Calle.
Early Monday morning, 26 August, Israeli military forces killed three young men inside the Qalandiya refugee camp, in the West Bank near the border with Israel. Witnesses reported that undercover Israeli forces entered the camp at around 5 AM to carry out an arrest. Residents in the camp were quickly alerted to the presences of the military and a large crowd gathered to confront the intruders. The squad of plainclothes Israeli police commandos had entered the refugee camp in order to arrest Yousef al-Khatib, a recently released prisoner. The crowd reportedly trapped the undercover force inside the camp, and a confrontation quickly ensued as youth threw stones and firebombs at the Israelis and their vehicles, who then retaliated with live gunfire.
The live ammunition killed Robin al-Abed, age 32 ,and Younis Jihad Abu al-Sheikh Jahjouh, age 22, both of whom were shot in the chest. Jihad Asslan, age 20, was killed as well. At least 15 others were injured by gunfire and sped to the Ramallah Medical Center for immediate treatment. Five of which remain in critical at the time of writing. Robin al-Abed, a local UNRWA employee, was not participating in the clashes and was on his way to work at the local UNRWA office when he was shot and killed, confirmed UNRWA later in the day.
Luba Samri, an Israeli police spokeswoman, in comments made to the AFP, said, "In the early hours of the morning a border police team went into Qalandiya camp to arrest a hostile terrorist activist. After his arrest a mob of about 1,500 residents began a disturbance, throwing petrol bombs and stones, endangering the lives of force members, who responded with riot dispersal means," she said, but did not confirm any fatalities or the use of live fire.
This is the second raid by Israeli forces into a refugee camp that has lead to Palestinian deaths in the last two weeks. Last week, the Israeli military killed Majd Mohammad Anis Lahlouh, 22, while conducting a similar arrest-operation in the Jenin refugee camp, located in the northern West Bank.
A crowd of over 1000 attended the funerals for the three men. Masked gunmen from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, fired gunshots into the air during the funeral procession that snaked it's way through the refugee camp. Inside the mourning tent, erected in the basketball court of a school in the camp, men lined up to give their condolences to family members of the three who were killed.
Later in the day, crowds of Shabab (or youth) gathered near the Qalandiya checkpoint, lit fires and threw stones at Israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. Ahmed Nasser, a firefighter with the PA who was at the Checkpoint, said of the Israelis who had used deadly force in the camp, "They were scared, for sure, they go to a refugee camp especially like Qalandiya, they have orders to kill and they start to shoot live ammunition directly to [sic] people. Most of the injuries are from live ammunition to the head and neck."
Later in the day, large groups of young men roamed around downtown Ramallah, forcing stores to close in solidarity with the morning families. By 4 PM, Ramallah was a ghost town.
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Expert tells Newtown panel there's no link between autism, violence
HARTFORD >> An expert told a commission looking into the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre in Connecticut on Friday that there is no data linking autism with increased violent criminal behavior.
"Having autism, having an autism spectrum disorder, having Asperger's syndrome does not mean you are likely to commit a violent crime," said Matthew Lerner, a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University.
Lerner was among a group of experts who testified Friday about the autism spectrum and programs currently available to help autistic people function better in society. The commission is considering whether the state's mental health programs, particularly in the schools, are adequate, among other things.
On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 first graders and six educators. Lanza, who had killed his mother earlier in the day, later committed suicide.
Documents recently released by the state police show a Yale professor had diagnosed Lanza in 2006 with profound autism spectrum disorder, "with rigidity, isolation, and a lack of comprehension of ordinary social interaction and communications," while also displaying symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Lerner said there are traits associated with autism that often explain behavior when those on the spectrum come into contact with the legal system. Those include impulsive and compulsive behavior and the inability to understand social motives and emotional situations.
A person with autism may, for example, take a neighbor at their word when told to drop by or call "any time". So when they call at 3 a.m., 3:30 a.m. and again at 4 a.m., they don't understand they are doing something wrong, he said.
"There is certainly no association between any of the features that we know about autism and the kind of planful mass murder as discussed here, that precipitated this commission," Lerner said.
Adam Lanza's father, Peter, told police that his son had Asperger's syndrome, a milder form of autism. He has indicated a willingness to share his son's school and medical records.
"We're going back and forth now trying to come up with some of the parameters about what his involvement might entail," Scott Jackson, the chairman of the commission, said Friday. "I know the commission really doesn't have any interest in having him come here and present to us. That's not what we're looking for. What we are looking for are the documents that start to tell the more complete story of Adam Lanza and his life."
He told the committee he would have an initial meeting with Peter Lanza on Wednesday.
Jackson said that autism is a very personal for him. He grew up with a severely autistic brother, and that experience shaped his decision to go into public service, he said.
"This is my lived experience," he said. "There was concern within the advocacy community about tying developmental disabilities to this great tragedy. I want to say very clearly that is not the intention. This is an issue that needs to be discussed. It deserves to be discussed in public."
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Install Multiple 'Bleeding Edge' Firefox Versions in Linux
Firefox 3.6.2
March 23rd, the German government project Bürger-CERT warned against using Firefox versions before 3.6.2. Though I was not sure if this vulnerability also applies to Linux versions of Firefox, I decided to update as quickly as possible. For Windows users, it's easy: Firefox tells them there's a new version, Mozilla did the Quality & Assurance testing of the new version, so they can click on 'Update available' and they're up to date and less prone to exploits.
For Linux users however things are not so easy. They have to rely on their distribution for the Q&A, and they will have to wait for the package maintainers to include the newest version of the browser. I use Gentoo, and there's no company behind it. Though it has a pretty big community, it is not nearly as big as the Debian community. As a result of this Gentoo isn't normally the first distribution to ship the newest versions of software. As a result, 3.6.2 was not yet available for Gentoo, though it was recommended by Mozilla.
If you want to install the newest pre-compiled version anyway there are roughly speaking three manners to do it: The good, the bad and the ugly.. Let's start with 'the good' way. That's waiting for the newest version to appear in your software repository. If not, your distribution will have guidelines how to ask for it. For Gentoo, this means filing a bug report and kindly asking if someone can make a 'recipe' (in Gentoo terms: ebuild) for the newest package. For other distributions, this means someone will have to compile and 'package' the result and submit it. However, Gentoo package maintainers are volunteers who have a life beyond Gentoo, and one thing they don't like is being bugged about a new version several times every three seconds after a new minor version is out. Normally, the package maintainers will know a new version is out before most users do anyway.
So let's progress to the bad way: About the same as the Windows way, but worse. Mozilla provides pre-built binaries on their website. Someone might download these, unzip and run them. Probably, you're probably going to be OK if you do this. However, this means 'bypassing' your package manager and this may lead to unexpected results: Dependencies might not be met, or the binary Mozilla provided may not be aware of quirks specific to the distribution you're using. Also, un-installing might be a problem.
Therefore I decided to use the ugly way: That's providing your own recipe or package. In Gentoo chances are big this is really easy, probably much easier than for any other distro as I will show. What you're basically doing is, take an 'old' recipe and just change version numbers in the file name. That's all it takes to make a new ebuild! After that Gentoo's package manager 'portage' is ready to install it. Of course there's no guarantee this will work, and you're on your own for supporting this dirty hack. Nonetheless, it worked flawlessly in this case. Here's how you do it:
This is where the recipes for 'pre-compiled Firefox' live. Note the recipes of 'compile it yourself' Firefox are in www-client/mozilla-firefox. For the following steps, be sure you're root, or use sudo for the following steps. Now copy:
Note for future reference: firefox-bin-3.6-r1.ebuild is the existing recipe, and 3.6.2 the one that didn't exist yet. When 'ebuilding' portage, it will look at the file name to decide which version number it should download. However it also does file fingerprint checking: it checks the files to download against given hashes. But it doesn't know about the 3.6.2 files yet so it doesn't have the right fingerprints. The following is at your own risk, as you're going to create your own fingerprints and _you_ are the one going to say the downloaded files are trustworthy:
This will download all files, assume whatever is downloaded is the right thing and add fingerprints to the fingerprint-file, the one called 'Manifest'. Now we're ready to install! As time of this writing, the existing 3.6-r1 is still not deemed stable. That's to say, the package maintainers are not sure if it's stable yet. This is comparable to the 'testing' branche other distributions use, and in Gentoo it's called 'keyworded'. By default, portage doesn't install 'keyworded' packages, so we have to inform portage it's ok. One way to do this is:
Now you can proceed with
as usual, and if it suggests to install 3.6.2 as we wanted, you're ready to go and remove the '-p' (pretend) and portage will install 3.6.2. When done, be sure to run Firefox-bin and not just 'firefox', as 'firefox' will refer to the 'compile yourself' www-client/mozilla-firefox and both can be installed at the same time using different versions on Gentoo.
Firefox 3.7-alpha4Then, we proceed with Firefox 3.7-alpha4. Please don't run this version before you have read the following paragraph about "Multiple versions"! Otherwise you might screw your existing Firefox profile, so you're warned! It's a good idea to back up your ~/.mozilla directory before proceeding. I proceed using the 'bad' way. Installing this one is pretty easy: Download your zipped archive from Mozilla. I chose firefox-3.7a4pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2. Move it to some dir where it can't cause harm, in my case it's ~/sys. unzip it:
You can delete the archive file if you want, and rename the resulting directory to Firefox-3.7 if you like claritiy. Then, you can simply cd to Firefox-3.7, and there's your binary! Please note, it's probably not in your $PATH (it shouldn't be!), the directories where your system looks if you want to start some command. So, to run this version, you have to manually cd to the directory where you unzipped 3.7 and manually run ./firefox. Note this 'tree' isn't "installed" on your system - which makes this solution only 'halve bad' - it can be considered a portable version of Firefox. That's why it's easy to remove. Say I wanted to remove this Firefox 3.7, all I would have to do is:
Now, let's run our new version, but not before we give it its own profile!
Multiple versions
Now, besides 3.6.2 installed in the first paragraph, we're going to run 3.7a4, the newest alpha at times of this writing. To do this, we need multiple profiles to make sure a 3.6 profile won't crash 3.7 and the other way around. Also, as 3.7 is considered 'Alpha' it shouldn't touch our 'production' profile for 3.6. Here's how to proceed: In a console, run (as your normal user):
Now a window will open listing your available profiles. In my case the default profile is named "71vcz8af.default". I rename that one to "3.6". Then I say: Create profile, and a wizard will make a new profile for me. You can give your new profile a name, in my case I call the new one: "3.7". However, I don't want it to be populated by FF 3.6, so instead of "Start Firefox" I choose "Exit". We now have our profiles in place, and it's time to consider the -no-remote option. When you or some other application (many do!) run 'firefox URL' from the command line, firefox would normally look to see if there's already an open window of Firefox. But we don't want 3.6 and 3.7a to interact, so whenever we start one of the two, we run 'firefox-bin -no-remote'.
If you start Firefox with this option, it will start a new instance of Firefox instead of adding a tab to the current open Firefox window. Now, we have to make sure 3.6 starts with the old profile. I use WindowMaker as my desktop environment, so I map my Firefox shortcut key / start menu entry to "/usr/bin/firefox-bin -P 3.6 -no-remote'. The /usr/bin part is the part which makes sure my 'global' system Firefox is started (the one that's installed), and the "-P 3.6" part is the part which makes sure the 3.6 profile is used. Now if I simultaneously wanted to run 3.7, here's how to do it:
Here the ./ part is what makes sure I'm running the executable in this directory, and not from $PATH, which would normally default to /usr/bin/firefox - and that might be another version. The "-P 3.7" part, as you might have guessed, makes sure it's run with the new 3.7 profile.
Installing Flash 10.1 betaOne of the big annoyances I have with Firefox is that it always becomes unstable and hangs after watching a few Youtube vids. This also goes for Opera. This is caused by the shitty Flash plugin provided by Adobe, most Linux users will probably have 10.0.45. However, Adobe bettered its life with 10.1 beta it seems, but it's not in most software repositories as far as I can tell. Therefore we're going to use the 'ugly' method again to install this one. It's rather easy: In the url-bar of Firefox I type 'flash beta linux' and I hit enter. In the green square on the right, I choose: Get the Flash Player 10.1 pre-release.
In the next screen, I click "Download plug-in for Linux (TAR.GZ). I unzip it and move 'libflashplayer.so' to ~/.firefox/plugins, and I'm done! To be sure, I uninstalled www-plugin/adobe-flash from my system. Restart Firefox, 3.6 or 3.7 doesn't matter, go to about:plugins, and with a bit of luck it will tell you it's running Shockwave Flash 10.1d 51 (or higher!). What I noted using this 'pre-release' is that, even though it's not that well tested yet, it's not as cripple as 10.0.45 and I can watch multiple Youtube vids consecutively without Firefox hanging.
As a last part of my journey into 'bleeding edge' Firefox I wanted to install the 'highly experimental' JaegerMonkey (JM) javascript (js) engine, slated to replace SpiderMonkey in the near future. The story is a bit complex, so here's my short version of it: Firefox comes with a js interpreter called SpiderMonkey - which is slow, and a highly optimizing engine called 'TraceMonkey' which is 'super awesome fast'. However, when something cannot be optimized by 'tracing' by TraceMonkey, Firefox falls back to interpreting using SpiderMonkey, and that's why javascript in Firefox is pretty slow sometimes. The people behind JM hope to solve this by means of 'replacing' the SpiderMonkey interpreter by using Apple Webkits 'Nitro' JIT (Just In Time compiler) instead of interpreting. So, when it makes sense, be 'super awesome fast' by means of tracing, and if not, fall back to 'still really fast' using Nitro.
For what it's worth: I downloaded Google's V8 benchmark suite (easy to 'wget') and ran version 5 of it using the JM command line interpreter. With the -m switch, it uses the new method-jit, and without the switch it doesn't. With the switch and the JIT enabled, I reached a 38% higher score than without it, but I'm not really sure of this results given I'm not a developer and it was the first time I ever compiled a js-engine and ran benchmarks using the command line version of said js-engine. But anyway, if you're an end user and you're not sure of what you're doing and you're using something aimed at developers only, chances are you finally reached the bleeding edge!
ConclusionSo what did we learn? Windows users are lucky, being served with well tested upgrades which are easy to install. Linux users are lucky having multiple ways to install new versions. It's pretty easy installing and using some new Alpha version of Firefox in Linux. Installing and running multiple versions of Firefox on Linux is not that hard, as long as you know what you're doing and keep them apart. WebGL is really cool, and it will change the cloud: It's theoretically possible CAD and games will be web-based running on fat power hungry x86 servers and available from power efficient ARM-netbooks and smart phones acting as clients, where rendering is done with hardware acceleration of the ARM portable devices!
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Crisis communications relates to both emergencies and controversial issues. Emergencies include but are not limited to: fires, bomb threats, terrorist acts, earthquakes and other natural and man-made disasters. Controversial issues include: alleged improper, unethical or illegal conduct by members of the University community, police and other agency investigations, internal hearings or litigation involving the University or members of the University community, student protests, and other situations that reflect upon the institution's reputation.
The Crisis Communications outline is designed to provide information on how to respond to inquiries in situations and in connection with controversial issues. When there is an indication of a potential crisis or controversy involving Suffolk University, whether before or after exposure to the media, preparation for a timely, accurate response to the situation is primarily the responsibility of the Office of Public Affairs. The Vice President of Communications will be responsible for interpreting information for dissemination to the University and the media. If the Office of Public Affairs cannot provide all of the needed information, it will contact the appropriate individual to gather the necessary information, or will coordinate with the appropriate person to speak with the media.
Assess the situation:
The Incident Commander/Incident Support Team should determine whether it is actually a crisis and, if so, gather complete and accurate information from the appropriate sources as quickly as possible. This information should be communicated immediately to the Office of Public Affairs.
The Incident Support Team will convene at the Emergency Operations Center.
The Vice President of Communications may consult with the President, the Senior Vice President for External Affairs, and University Counsel to determine whether an immediate response (internal and external) is necessary or advisable.
The Incident Support Team will determine how/when to contact appropriate internal and external constituencies. If the crisis is of major proportions the Vice President of Communications may consult with the President, the Senior Vice President for External Affairs, and University Counsel before taking further action.
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The eagle has landed. I repeat, the eagle has landed. Er, I mean iPhone 2.0.1. The update is showing up in iTunes for those of us with iPhones (3G or otherwise), and Apple is cruelly predictable when it comes to the description:
Bug fixes.
Of course, we will update this post as soon as we know more about the update, but until then, get to furiously updating already.


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Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Things to do with (Estonian) black pudding aka verikäkk
Just brought back home from Estonia some Verikäkk and still wondering what to do exactly with it :D Aitäh also from Spain for your blog ;)
I thought I'll help Enlil out and share some of the recipe ideas and photos with him :)
Verikäkk is basically a dense black pudding (also known as blood pudding or blood dumpling). It's a mixture of (usually pig's) blood, flour (rye, barley or wheat), fried onions, lard/bacon and seasonings. Here in Estonia it's sold widely, and it comes in large dumplings, weighing about 450 grams. Traditionally it was made in late Autumn/for Christmas, but is now available throughout the year. I personally don't think of verikäkk as a Christmas product at all (as opposed to verivorst or black sausages), and happily buy it all year round.
Here are some of the ways of consuming black pudding.
Fried black pudding with sour cream:
1 black pudding
lard, butter or oil for frying
250 g sour cream
Cut into thick (about 1 cm) slices, fry in butter until browned and crisp on both sides. Pour the sour cream on top at the end and heat gently. Serve at once.
Pickled pumpkin salad and lingonberry or cranberry jam/sauce work well as condiments.
Fried black pudding:
1 black pudding
lard, butter or oil for frying
Cut into thick (about 1 cm) slices, fry in butter until browned and crisp on both sides. Serve with a dollop of sour cream and/or lingonberry jam. (If you forgot to buy that in Estonia, then head to your nearest IKEA food isle).
Fried black pudding crisps:
I've already blogged about this, see recipe here.
Ülle tore ood verikäkile
UMA MEKK video verikäki tegemisest
9 comments:
Lingonberry jam has never been served with black pudding in our house but pickled pumpkin is a must :)
- 3:38 pm, November 09, 2011
- enlil said...
Suur aitäh Pille, I will try with jam tonight! ;D
One friend also told me with cowberry jam or kõrvitsasalat but the problem is that in Spain we dont have these things or they are very difficult to find :S ...but now I got some new ideas ;)
- 6:27 pm, November 09, 2011
- Nisrine said...
Totally new to me and I am loving it. The jam on the side must go reaaly well with the sausage.
- 11:08 pm, November 09, 2011
- Andrew said...
I'm a great fan of black pudding; never considered serving with sour cream before though. Next time...
- 12:45 pm, November 13, 2011
- Jeff @ Cheese-Burger.net said...
All of these looks delicious. I can't wait to try them out.
- 2:24 pm, November 14, 2011
My mother used to fry slices of it, then poured milk in the pan and let it soak for a minute or so.
Verikäkk with milk definitely brings back childhood memories :)
- 1:50 am, November 15, 2011
- Pille said...
Mann - never had pickled pumpkin, and cannot imagine not having black pudding :D
Diego - so glad I managed to provide some ideas :) You could get lingonberry/cowberry jam at IKEA and make pickled pumpkin :)
Nisrine - it does indeed!
Andrew - nice to see you here :) I just hope that black pudding/sour cream combo isn't too weird to a British palate :D
Birdlandcindy - I'm pleased to have brought back good memories ;)
- 10:32 am, December 04, 2011
Enlil, you might be able to find dried barberries in Spain. They come from Morocco and are usually sold in Arabian delicatessens. They are the same as lingonberries and you can make your own relish/jam.
- 3:41 pm, December 30, 2011
- Pille said...
Rubine, lingonberries and barberries are definitely NOT the same thing!!! Lingonberries are also known as cowberries, and if not found, you could try a cranberry jam (or any other sour) jam instead.
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Around September 1999, I was diagnosed with a debilitating and permanent illness of fibromyalgia. My Doctor gave all necessary medical reports of this as well as UNUM approving my disability. I received long term disability from my Company, TRW in Redondo Beach, CA. Then around 6 months, UNUM stopped my long term disability for no reason. My doctor submitted all medical records again, diagnosing my illness again and my physical health had not approved. Further more, Social Security had approved me for disability benefits based on my doctors records and in their own medical examination required by Social Security, in being approved for benefits. Still UNUM denied my benefits for no reason. This was back in 2002 I believe and everyone was either being denied and or stopped long term disability insurance after they had already approved people. So, I got a attorney from Santa Ana, CA and he immediately took my case, representing me and I was completely content with the attorney I chose. Then, unknown to me and without my request, I was told my case was being given to Gruber and Kantor but Glen Kantor would be handling my case. Being extremely niave I went along with it because it was already decided. The law firm was far away from my home and this was a problem. Glen Kantor had me sign a power of attorney over to him and having no knowledge of the law except that a attorney would act on your best intentions. A Mediation was scheduled and I went to his office but was put in a room and told I would be called to mediation when it was time. I sat in the room by myself waiting to be called but never was. Mr. Kantor walked into the room a few hours later and said it was all over and I'd had better take what they offered or else I would get nothing. Glen Kantor showed me a paper that he said, this is what UNUM is going to take away from you in monies. I was shocked to see all that was being taken away from myself as well as my daughter. Unknown to me, this paper, I later found out was what Glen Kantor had submitted to UNUM on my behalf. I Took what was offered on Glen Kantors advice. Then it seems that very soon after this mediation took place, it was big news that UNUM was found guilty of denying g benefits for no good reason and all those having lawsuits against UNUM won their benefits back or were approved. Except me. I never saw or spoke with Glen Kantor after the mediation was held. Held without me included in any part of mediation except to sit in a room by myself. I have a witness to this as well. My cousin, Monica Yates was present when Glen Kantor advised me to take it or get nothing. She felt Glen Kantors offer for my case was extremely unfair. I never saw or spoke to Glen Kantor again. Never saw the check issued to me, went to the bank or signed any check from UNUM. Eventually after sometime passed and I had to call his office to ask about my settlement, his assistant gave me the impression they were waiting for me to agree to the settlement, which was already decided by Glen Kantor on the mediation day. Eventually, I received my check and when I went to Wells Fargo to deposit it, I was asked by the bank manager if this check was for services I rendered to Glen Kantor firm for entertainment. Embarrassed by the question as other patrons looked me over. I replied it was for disability but there was a problem with the check and I can't recall exactly what occurred but I had to get another check. What was to come years later, in regards to this issue, has put a great mental strain on me and my health. I don't have dates on hand right now but paperwork is available for verification and dates. One day my father came into my room and informed me there was a IRS Officier at the door and he believed she was there to arrest me. The IRS Officier informed me that I owed taxes on 180,000 paid to me by Glen Kantor for services I rendered to his company for entertainment. I was shocked and quickly informed her it was $110,000 and it was for disability. She had her records and said no, it wasn't and was recorded I was paid as an employee for entertainment. She realized I had no idea what was recorded and showed her paperwork from Unum and it was for disability. She then proceeded to tell me then, that Glen Kantor stole money from me. She also said the IRS can't help me get these funds that were taken from me by my attorney but he did in fact steal money from me. I spoke with other IRS agents and the same was said, exactly as the IRS Officier who came to my house, gun on her person and made easily for me to see, that he stole money from me. I found many lawyers that wanted to help but the minute I mentioned his name, they backed off. For about 5 years I tried to find a lawyer but, no attorney will take after hearing Glen Kantor or IRS. I made an appointment with Mr Kantor, took two friends with me and he gave false statements with no paperwork to backup his statements. I had all proof of what occurred and he could only say he had since in storage and some on his computer There is more info and statements of other things that occurred, but this is the main and most important issues. I was afraid to write about this for fear of what can happen to me and my livelihood. Because Mr. Kantor did nothing to getting my LTD benefits back from UNUM, I was terminated from TRW in 2003, based on UNUM stopping my LTD Benifits. One attorney told me that I was included in a class action suit against UNUM, but I was never told this by Mr. Kantor or shown paperwork on this in what I was shown by a attorney in Orange, CA. He was going to handle my case then a few days later refused to represent but charged me $250.00 when it was going to be on contingency. So, it is easy for me to say, no Iam not and was never satisfied with Glen Kantor and what he didn't do for me. He should have left me with the attorney I got in the beginning. And why did he seek me out. I know I did not seek him out. Everything I have stated is the true facts and I will attest to all that zi have said in a court of law. I had no knowledge of the law back then but today, Iam a little more knowledable. Bettina Trider
Michelle Roberts is one of the most passionate, compassionate, caring attorneys I have ever encountered. When the disablty insurance company whose premiums I paid without fail every single months for many years denied my claim, Michelle advocated on my behalf respectfully and relentlessly. She has my enduring respect and unquestionable endorsement. Michelle and her firm are beyond reproach and deserving of any potential client's trust. Michelle and her firm turned an extraordinary painful chapter of my life into an equitable path to move forward. My gratitude for her superior work is deeply appreciated.
I am very fortunate to have Michelle Roberts as my lawyer. She has done a great job resolving my case and fighting on my behalf. Michelle is very knowledgeable and always available when needed. I would recommend Michelle to anyone with any ERISA dispute.
After getting cancer, I lost my 27 yr career due to lasting side effects from chemo. In the middle of dealing with all of that, the insurance company stated they reviewed my records and I was no longer disabled and stopped my benefits. I am so very thankful to have been referred to Michelle. One of her colleges told that she was one of the very best, and they were right. She's incredibly intelligent , compassionate, and has been called to help those who truly need her the most. I will be forever indebted to her, and forever grateful for the work she did on my behalf. She knows her stuff, and calls it like she sees it. She is a class act. Thank you for making a real difference in my life Michelle.
my special gratitude to Ms Roberts for being amazingly supportive and willing to help potential clients like me without any expectation She is very knowledgeable about ERISA law She has helped me with all my questions and guided me throughout my LTD process while we were not bounded to any contract or so I highly recommend retaining her if you need a responsive and trustable ERISA attorney. I assure you, you'll be in good hand She promptly replied to my inquiries over the weekend. She is amazing .
When the insurance company unfairly denied my claim for long term disability, I hired Michelle to handle my appeal. She and her staff were so easy to work with and made me feel comfortable (and less stressed) through the entire process. She did a truly exceptional job and succeeded in getting the insurer to reverse its denial and pay my full benefits.
Approximately 7 years ago, Michelle Roberts successfully resolved my case. Her approach to the situation was professional...Highly effective and very caring. Even after all this time since my case was resolved she still answers any questions I might have and does so promptly. I highly recommend Michelle Roberts to handle your short or long term disability concerns.
Michelle Roberts of Kantor & Kantor LLP is an amazing ERISA disability benefit attorney. She fiercely advocates for her clients and knows the ins and outs of winning a disability claim. Because this area of law is pretty specialized, it is hard finding an attorney who knows about ERISA. Michelle and her team are warm, friendly, and compassionate, but also feared by insurance companies! These are the lawyers you want on your side if you are fighting a disability claim denial. I give Kantor & Kantor LLP five stars all the way!
Michelle Roberts has been my wife's disability attorney for more than two years and has been a source of honest, responsive, and very effective legal strength to her in a continuing battle to keep her permanent disability benefits intact. My wife suffers from a disease that is little understood and in fact is totally misunderstood by the medical-insurance complex. As a consequence, her disability insurance carrier spends many thousands of dollars and hours trying to cancel her insurance – insurance she paid for while employed and which she deserves to have without continuous pressure to remove it. The damage this does to her emotionally and physically is tremendous, but as long as her benefits remain intact, she can pay for the many physicians and specialists she sees to try to get better and to keep from having to pay for her expensive treatment out of her savings. Michelle's legal advice has always been spot on. When the insurer springs short deadlines that require my wife to gather all her previous medical records and answer lengthy questionnaires that ask the same questions over and over, Michelle responds almost immediately and assists by answering my wife's questions and by reviewing the documents my wife prepares to submit to the carrier. Michelle knows very well how disability insurers operate and can anticipate their antics and unreasonable demands. My wife is also subjected to so-called "Independent Medical Evaluations," by an ethically compromised "physician" at least twice a year. These IME sessions are exhausting. They require a full-day of answering the same questions both orally and in writing in an effort to tire her out and trip her up legally. Physicians who conduct these phony tests are paid by the requesting insurance company – a glaring conflict of interest – and recently, one declared my wife capable of working. Michelle was there with recommendations for truly objective evaluators that provide objective opinions that stand up against legal that Michelle is familiar with and expects for her clients. I could go on, but suffice to say that we have never seen a lawyer like Michelle. Her passion for helping vulnerable clients who are outgunned, outnumbered and easily outspent by corporations and insurance companies is rare, even among plaintiff attorneys. I cannot recommend her strongly enough. No string of adjectives could describe what relief and peace of mind she has brought to my wife and to me. It's really good that she's in the world because she makes it a more compassionate place.
You are just the bomb . . . . period. Thanks so much again!! I don't know what to say other than great job, you're really making rights out of wrongs. I'm so happy about all of this.
I do not believe there is an attorney who could have represented me in any better fashion in this disability dispute than you. You have been keenly professional, not leaving one relevant detail to chance….I have complete confidence, faith and belief in your experience, talent, and ability….Thank you Michelle and for all you have done for me. You are truly an outstanding lawyer and you are always prepared. I want to thank you for the tremendous effort, and outstanding work you have done on my behalf.
Thanks so very much for the work you did. I'm very grateful for it, and am glad you took on my case. You did an excellent job, and I'm very very thankful for it. That money has been incredibly useful to me, and, well, I cannot keep on gushing about what a good job you did. Well, I can, but that will make for a particularly long and probably repetitive email. I only know *so* many adjectives.
I hope you know you've really helped me get my life back on track and healthy again. The wheels were falling off when I initiated contact with you. Your services have given me and my family a second life. Thank you.
After religiously paying my premiums for over 20 years, I needed to make a claim for my Long Term Disability coverage. Confident I could do this on my own, I was met with a barrage of rejections to my claim. Through a referral, I contacted Michelle Roberts who agreed to take my case. Within 3 months, my disability checks started to arrive. I have also referred family friends to Michelle who has been instrumental in their successful claims. 5 stars all around.
This is a public thank you to Michelle Roberts for her support of my wife who suffers from a debilitating disease. Michelle was instrumental in helping my wife secure essential and rightful disability benefits she paid premiums for and was entitled to. I've been around a lot of lawyers in my life, some of whom have been shockingly unhelpful and expensive. Michelle is, without doubt the best. Besides her knowledge, she does what she says she will do and is trustworthy -- qualities that are priceless and in my experience, pretty rare.
I was at my wit's end and felt very defeated. In addition to being in chronic pain and physically disabled, I simply did not have the energy to take on the large insurance corporation that was denying me my rightful benefits, although I desperately needed the money. I was in the middle of my worker compensation lawsuit,waiting for the case to go to trial, and I was also waiting to hear the results of my Social Security benefits appeal. Needless to say, cash flow was at an all-time low point and so was my morale. Emotionally, I was shaken to my very core, felt immobilized from depression, and really needed someone to listen and to help me. Michelle Roberts is absolutely amazing in being a great and compassionate listener, as well as a skilled legal expert and negotiator. She set right to work in obtaining the retroactive funds that were owed to me and in getting payments started. Michelle was also brilliant in working out a settlement that allowed me to keep the money when the insurance company tried to retrieve it once my Social Security claim settled and I began to receive my Social Security benefits. . . .I settled my long term disability claim by 2012 but I still feel that Michelle is a telephone call or an email away, readily available for me whenever I need legal assistance. . . .What surprises me is, in spite of how busy I know that she is, Michelle is there to personally take your telephone call most of the time and she remembers who you are. It makes me feel really well cared for as a former client.
Michelle Roberts is an outstanding attorney. Her skills are impressive, she is extremely knowledgeable about ERISA, and she is an excellent advocate. She is passionate about her clients' rights. I do not hesitate to recommend her highly.
Michelle is an impressive attorney. I call on her frequently for tips and advice on handling my own cases, and I do not hesitate to refer clients to her. Her mastery of ERISA, her passion for her work and her clients, and her indefatigable willingness to volunteer to help her community and her colleagues have swiftly made Michelle a leader within the plaintiffs ERISA bar. It is with great respect and admiration that I am privileged to call her a peer. I recommend her without reservation. ERISA Watch email is literally my favorite email every week. It's a tremendous time-saver and resource that helps me keep abreast of nationwide trends in ERISA jurisprudence. Long live ERISA watch!
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NORWOOD, Mass.Just a few years after rising from the ashes of a pharma company "restructuring," Boston Biomedical Inc. (BBI), a private biotechnology company with a clinical-stage product pipeline targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs), has been acquired by top Japanese pharma Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. Ltd. (DSP) for as much as $2.63 billion.
As announced on March 1, DSP will pay $200 million up front, $540 million in development milestone payments and up to $1.89 billion in sales milestone payments to acquire BBI, which was founded in November 2006 by Dr. Chiang J. Li to provide employment for approximately 30 R&D scientists facing layoffs from Woburn, Mass.-based biotech ArQule. The transaction is expected to be finalized sometime this month.
The acquisition gives DSP a solid foothold in the oncology spacea new focus for the company, which has until now concentrated its research efforts in the area of central nervous system (CNS) diseaseswith a unique pipeline of drug candidates that target CSCs.
"DSP made a decision to focus on the cancer area," says Roger Matthews, a spokesman for DSP. "However, there are many companies with oncology businesses, and we considered that to enter this area we would need a novel approach. BBI's pipeline targets cancer stem cells, so this acquisition fits into our strategy."
That pipeline includes BBI608, a first-in- class cancer stemness inhibitor currently in the preparatory stage for Phase III trials for colorectal cancer in North America, as well as Phase Ib trials and Phase II trials for multiple solid tumors. BBI608 is actually what brought DSP and BBI together, as in March 2011, DSP signed an exclusive product option license agreement with BBI on the rights of development and commercialization of BBI608 in Japan for all indications of cancer.
"After execution of the option agreement with BBI, DSP recognized BBI's innovative development pipeline and its excellent ability of drug discovery and development, which led to DSP's decision to acquire BBI," says Matthews.
Also in the hopper is BBI503, a first-in-class cancer stemness kinase inhibitor currently in multicenter Phase I clinical trials in North America for advanced solid tumors. BBI's work on "cancer stemness" was particularly attractive to DSP, as it has received a number of recognitions and awards in the United States, including the Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Drug Discovery Technology Innovation of the Year Award and a 2011 Biotech Pioneer Award at the Alexandria Oncology Summit.
"We see these as an expected growth driver from 2015 onward," Matthews says of BBI's programs.
The acquisition also gives DSP an opportunity to establish R&D operations in the United States, Matthews adds.
"Our current footprint in the U.S. is centered around our wholly owned subsidiary, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., with expertise in treatment for CNS and respiratory diseases. Acquiring BBI, we obtain R&D personnel with high expertise and an excellent drug discovery platform. Using this as a base, we plan to establish a global R&D organization in oncology for the DSP Group, starting in the U.S.," he says.
For BBI, the acquisition is a happy ending to a tremulous start and a tumultuous few years. In 2006, when ArQule prepared to lay off 28 employees, Li decided to form a new company to house the affected workers. He did so in the form of a unique $5 million contract with ArQule that outsourced early research work to BBI for a period of eight monthsproviding nearly three dozen employees with jobs and saving ArQule significant costs in the process.
"As a biotech executive, I understand the harsh realities of running a business, but I wanted to think more creatively about how to create a situation that would be good for both the company and the employee. I had a deep conviction that we could do this, and in the process, save jobs for the employee and avoid any negative impact on the company. It truly was a win-win situation. "
Because ArQule did not take an equity stake in BBI or transfer any intellectual property, BBI is not considered a spinoff of ArQule, but is instead a completely separate entity. After completing its contract with ArQule, BBI was further challenged first by the economy's subsequent nosedive, then by government restrictions on stem cell research.
"By the time we finished the ArQule contract, the great recession of 2008 hit. It was a hard time for an entrepreneurs," Li reflects. "But we managed to create an innovative company, and in the process, not a single person lost a job."
Once the acquisition is complete, Boston Biomedical will become a fully owned subsidiary of DSP. Operations will continue in the Boston area. BBI's employees will remain with the company, and DSP's significant investment will enable the company to increase its R&D manpower.
CSCs represent an emerging approach for designing the next generation of oncology therapeutics, Li says, because they are considered to be fundamentally responsible for malignant growth, metastasis and recurrence. These cells are a subpopulation of cancer cells that have self-renewing abilities and can differentiate into the heterogeneous cancer cells that comprise the bulk of the tumor mass. CSCs have been isolated from almost every major type of cancer, and have been found to be intrinsically resistant to current cancer therapies. Targeting CSCs, therefore, holds great promise for fundamentally advancing cancer treatment, says Li.
"The ability to inhibit cancer stem cells is a very differentiating feature," he notes. "DSP was not looking for something they already have. With our two programs, I hope that before too long, we can see these programs start to benefit patients."
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In upcoming sci-fi flick Source Code, an Iraq War veteran uses "time reassignment" technology to crack open alternate realities in an effort to stop a terrorist from blowing up Chicago. While the premise sounds outlandish, it's actually based on principles of quantum physics, according to Source Code scribe Ben Ripley.
[eventbug]"More and more, modern physics is becoming comfortable with the possibility of parallel universes," Ripley said in an e-mail interview with Wired.com. "Source Code imagines a practical application for them."
The ancient notion of parallel universes, rooted in fables and mythic fantasy tales, continues to play a key role in modern movies and TV shows like Fringe and J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot. But in Source Code, director Duncan Jones (Moon) takes the alt-world conceit in a new direction, with actor Jake Gyllenhaal portraying slipstreaming soldier Colter Stevens.
Screenwriter Ripley said he took pains to avoid sci-fi's typical time-travel paradoxes in the movie, which screens next month at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. In Source Code, he said, "What's done is done and cannot be undone."
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"'Time reassignment' respects this boundary by creating a parallel world whose past we may visit and freely disturb, since those actions have no causal impact on our own reality," Ripley said. "Whatever Colter does in the Source Code changes absolutely nothing that has already happened in the primary reality."
Colter's assignment finds him revisiting an eight-minute time loop animated by the brain activity of victims killed during an earlier train attack. While on his Groundhog Day–style mission, Colter searches for clues that might lead to the identity of the terrorist behind the bombings.
While the mechanism sounds utterly fantastic, astrophysicist Michio Kaku said it's not that far from current thinking.
"What you see in Source Code is highly improbable, but in principle, it's possible," Kaku told Wired.com.
Citing the "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics proposed by Hugh Everett in 1957, Physics of the Impossible author Kaku said the existence of parallel universes is widely accepted.
The tricky part is crossing over.
"It requires coherence, meaning every single atom in one world must resonate in phase with its counterpart in the other universe," said Kaku, who teaches string theory at the City College of New York and hosts Science Channel's March 6 show, The Science Behind Firefly.
Kaku's students calculate that it would take 65 million years to rematerialize yourself on the other side of a brick wall. That would make the odds against catching a terrorist on a train during eight minutes of alternate-universe sleuthing astronomical.
"For all intents and purposes, it's not going to happen," Kaku said. "In our lifetime, or for that matter in our universe's lifetime."
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Aside from Source Code's multiple-reality paradigm, the movie hinges on the notion that Gyllenhaal's Colter can retrace events by accessing mental impressions formed in the brain during the victims' final eight minutes of life.
Ripley frames the scenario in metaphorical terms: "[Consider] the idea of the afterimage. It exists visually: that brief silhouette of a lit window that lingers on the back of your eyes after you close them. It exists aurally: your ears ringing after a rock concert. It exists emotionally: the reverberation of a terrible argument you have with someone for hours afterward. Taken together — the permanence of our stored memories and the echoing afterimage — we arrive at the eight-minute loop."
University of Southern California cognitive neuroscience professor Irving Biederman isn't buying it.
"The premise is highly implausible, and that's an understatement," he told Wired.com by phone. "The notion that we could recover [activity generated by] those billions of neurons after a person has died is inconceivable. We can't even do that in a monkey or rat that's alive. It's inconceivable that you could trace brain activity back eight minutes after death."
Capturing extensive memories from a dead brain may be a scientific non-starter, but there is, strangely enough, precedent for recovering posthumous visual impressions. As researchers Russell and Karen De Valois reported in their Spatial Vision study, a monkey injected with radioactive tracers was shown a grid pattern just before its death. They could then detect a crude impression of the grid embedded in the dead animal's brain tissue.
"The grid pattern that the monkey saw in the last seconds of its life was located in the first cortical visual area of the brain," Biederman said, "so you're essentially getting a map of the activity that the monkey experienced when it was looking out at the world."
Stranger still: Scientists could conceivably identify a terrorist by studying the unique synaptic patterns firing in the hippocampus region of a witness' brain. In research conducted by University of California at San Diego scientist Susumu Tonegawa, test subjects presented with an image of Jennifer Aniston generated a distinctive array of synaptic spikes pegged specifically to the actress' face.
Source Code's dramatic speculations may rip a sizable hole in the fabric of the space-time-believability continuum, but Ripley says his tale is ultimately driven by character, not science.
"In 2005, I was looking for a science fiction device to tell a nonlinear story like Rashomon," he said. "The narrative took twists and turns from there and a lot of the development was about stripping away complexities and frankly removing much of the scientific explanation. Source Code is a character mystery and the thriller plot is simply the engine."
Still, Ripley's not giving up on the "I see dead people's brains" story hook.
"We don't yet know enough about the brain to verify the existence of such a loop — nor determine its duration — but it may well exist," he said. "In any event, it makes a hell of a narrative device."
Source Code debuts March 11 at the South by Southwest film festival and opens wide April 1.


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Several of the questions on SO that ask, "Which of these is faster?" or "Why is this faster than the alternative?" have one or more answers which explain the downsides of premature optimization and suggest that the user profile their code to identify bottlenecks first.
I am (personally) disappointed seeing "Premature optimization is bad!" answers get up-voted on questions that are:
- Generally reasonable.
- Interesting! Performance comparisons are fun to read about, even if they're not often useful. This is the internet. (Pictures of cats are not particularly useful ;-)
Maybe we could have the first person inclined to mention premature optimization in their answer reference the Is premature optimization really the root of all evil? question in a separate community-wiki-mode answer? We'd be centralizing our information a bit (DRY) and people could vote it up or down as they feel it's applicable. Other than that, I'd prefer to read the (often interesting) meat of the discussion without seeing the same meta-discussion again and again.
It's a somewhat different story when the OP clearly doesn't understand that what they're doing is an attempt to optimize, but when the question is along the lines of "Which is faster?" they at least have some idea what they're talking about. It's also different if you have specific information as to why this would be premature optimization, but just reciting the Knuth quotes seems silly, redundant, and not worthy of reputation.
Maybe other users don't feel the same way that I do - I just figured I'd throw it out there. I've seen it happen a few times now.


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what the what! i've posted about elsa mora before, but i hadn't seen her new venture, as it were, until now.
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miniature artists books! go have a look at them, they are un-flippen-believable.


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The Best Twitter Comic on the Planet?: An Interview with Rob Delaney
He looks like a regular dad. What you don't know about him, however, is how he is one of the funniest (and dirtiest) comedians alive, and owner of one of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time. Rob Delaney talks about the roots of his comedy, his pending lawsuit against Kim Kardashian, and more.
Comedy audiences these days seem to be more bored than ever. The cyclical impulses of voyeurism and exhibitionism that have accompanied the advent of the digital age have desensitized live audiences to an art form already known for excess, prompting entertainment that just keeps getting bigger. The dirty jokes have gotten dirtier, absurd comedy pushes into the surreal, and there seems to be few boundaries concerning what should and shouldn't be talked about. And yet, as always, the brightest lights in the comedy scene still distinguish themselves by knowing when to temper their boundary-pushing with a certain degree of humanity.
Hilarious stand-up comic and Twitter star Rob Delaney epitomizes this dynamic of tempering extremes with a human touch. Delaney's subject matter is often extremely filthy, and yet he has a genuinely open style, as approachable as it is raunchy. He has risen to the top of the comedy food chain by being dirtier and more shocking than much of his cohorts, but as well by exuding an unmistakable charm. He takes the lengths of what he'll say and the depths of what he'll reveal that much further by hedging this impulse with a manner that can only described as ... niceness. There's no getting around it, for a comedian who's known to opine freely about sexual positions and pubic hair, Delaney still comes across as the kind of guy you wouldn't mind introducing to your grandmother. His juxtaposition of niceness and ridiculous oversharing is a winning combination, one side of the formula always sharpening the other.
PopMatters talked with Rob Delaney about his unique style, his nice guy good looks and a lot more, from ongoing legal battles with Kim Kardashian to which books from classic American literature make for the best jokes.
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I'd like to talk a little about your style of comedy. I've always thought one of the reasons your comedy works so well is that you represent the idea of a really nice, handsome guy saying really abrasive things. I see a lot of similarities between you and Sarah Silverman in that way. Do you think this is true? Or do you even see yourself as a nice guy?
I generally think I am a nice guy, yes, in real life and on stage. And thanks for including me in the same paragraph as Sarah Silverman. I understand what you're saying. I look like a weatherman or "Guy Smiley", and then the things that come out of my mouth are crazy and dark and bizarre. I am told that is the case and, yes, I agree with it.
Is this conscious on your part?
I'm aware of it, but I hope that after a few minutes that people get past the fact that it's surprising to hear someone that looks like a New Hampshire cop say the things I do, and then go on a ride for the content of what I'm talking about. Like, a guy who looks one way and says things another way, and that's it, that would be a gimmick and ultimately not interesting. You'd see him once and maybe not go to another show of his.
Well, it's not meant to indicate gimmick-iness. I think all comics deal in reversals.
Oh, certainly. Surprise and coming in from an unexpected angle are tools in a good comic's arsenal.
Like one great example is Louis C.K. He seems all bluster and anger, and yet he is also incredibly articulate. It's like he's sort of reinvents anger so that it actually produces reasoned, well thought out arguments.
Yes, Louis C.K. certainly does this, absolutely. And I aspire to that. I may draw people in on-stage with my "Father Knows Best" looks, then peel back the layers and get into the good stuff, the messy stuff.
You also talk some about addiction, and are very open about having a drinking problem earlier in your life. But obviously your perspective is one well into recovery, which isn't always the case with some comics who talk about addiction. I tend to think your jokes about addiction might not work if you weren't in recovery. Do you think this is true?
That is possible. I think comics who drink and use drugs can certainly be funny. I just can't use them because I go way, way overboard and would die. And if I was dead, I couldn't do comedy anymore. Now, I'm a little older and married and a dad, so the "party" lifestyle, which I certainly lived, is less interesting to me. There's less area to mine for jokes. So very, very rarely would a comic talking about partying and excess, in terms of drugs or booze, be as funny as one looking into issues that are more universal. Similarly, older comics are usually funnier than younger ones, because they've experienced more.
I saw Bill Cosby a couple of weeks ago. He's 74. He told jokes only a guy in his 70s could talk about, like watching erectile dysfunction commercials with his wife of 40 years. And he also told jokes about being a tiny kid in Philadelphia. It was amazing.
He is great.
He sure is. I met him and talked to him for quite a while before the show. And one cool thing he said was to make sure I keep my family a higher priority than stand-up. He actually made me repeat that out loud.
He actually made you recite it?
He made me recite it. He also asked if I was doing standup to get acting opportunities. I told him no, I just loved doing standup. He said, "Good! That means you're a lifer." It was the coolest thing ever times 1000.
You've also said that you're funnier since you're sober. Is this just a case of being older and more experienced, too?
Yes, I'm funnier since I've been sober and older. They are both happening at the same time, so I'm not 100% certain which is responsible. I am happier sober, and that's necessary for me to create on any kind of schedule, dependably. I'm older, so more shit has happened that I can sift through for humor.
So for you, it's necessary to be happy in order to be funny? That's surprising, because a lot of comics seem to deal in misery. But you do seem like a happy person.
I want to be happy. I actively seek happiness, yes. Life is awful enough, and the horror will find you no matter what. Your attitude in response to it is what matters.
It always interests me to hear comics' influences, because they never seem to be the comics you'd think. It usually is the case that really funny people are influenced by really funny people, regardless of whether they have the same style or not. One example of this would be Chris Rock's love for Bill Cosby. Who are your influences?
Well, of course, I love Cosby and Chris Rock. Rock is amazing. People often think of him as a big social commentator, which he certainly is. But his family stuff and relationship stuff is so, so amazing. I love Chris Rock very much. And Cosby throughout his career has done so many massively wonderful and important things, from his earliest albums up to his still rigorous touring schedule. Plus those guys are both involved in philanthropy in a big way, which is very cool.
Beyond them, Richard Pryor is of course as good as it possibly gets. So warm, so human, so vulnerable. He's currently my favorite of all time. That "honor" moves around, though. But I've just been drinking up the Pryor lately.
Also, I must say the Upright Citizens Brigade ... I saw them do an ASSSSCAT show 14 years ago in New York, and said, "I WILL DO THIS." The energy of those shows, the fearlessness, the collaboration. It blew my mind, and they made it feel possible for me. Like, "I live in the same city. I speak the same language. I breathe the same air. This is happening on the same planet I live on. Maybe I can do this."
Do you think that comics are more inspired by styles different from their own? Is there a comic you think has inspired your style, specifically?
I suppose it's an amalgamation? Like, I actively want to be like Pryor. I want to exude that warmth, that type of humanity. So I can then get in there and have wacky, dangerous fun with people like the U.C.B. do, then say something totally batshit like Steve Martin, and then address a societal issue with the intelligence and vitriol of a George Carlin.
It's very interesting to hear you attribute these different aspects of your comedy.
I mean, I love them all, and I think about how they do things. And I study them, so it wouldn't be weird if that came through in my onstage activities, I guess. I remain open and malleable, and all that. But I love all the aforementioned and credit them with my fascination with comedy. I try to remove the barriers in my own head and go where I'm afraid to go, in an effort to do entertainting stuff that I find interesting
I just wrote "enterTAINTing" by mistake. [Note: this interview was conducted via Instant Messaging.]
Nice. Even typos can give you material. You're very active on Twitter. Do you find Twitter an attractive medium for your brand of humor, because of the sometimes subversive nature of it? Is it ever hard to go out on stage and perform your jokes?
I like Twitter for a variety of reasons. I can workshop standup jokes or concepts. That's the best thing about it. Also, it serves as a sort of digital writing packet that I can refer to. And I do like that it's a "social media tool," so I can slam a politician or vapid celebrity on a playing field, where if what I write is funny or resonant, people will see and share it.
To answer your other question, my standup is usually pretty different from my Twitter. I am not at all a one-liner comic on stage. I totally stretch out and tell stories and longer things.
Oh, of course. But in terms of content...
Conceptually things might be similar, yes. But also onstage, I'm "me," whereas on Twitter, I will absolutely assume a character or a voice or whatever solely to stir things up. I very, very routinely say things on Twitter I don't believe at all, solely to amuse myself and hopefully others. Like, people use and consume Twitter like drugs. They want a "high" in the form of laughter when they look at their phone or computer. I try to tailor my jokes to that desire. I want to squeeze the maximum laughs out of as many human persons as possible with my allotted 140 characters.


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"We've been in January for a fair bit now and, whilst the post-New Year cheer kept us going for a bit, the usual journalistic cynicism is beginning to set in once more. Previous features we've run have been hopeful lists of what we'll be seeing in 2013, but these promises from various publishers, theorists and developers aren't always completely legitimate."
Agent, wow. Been a while since I heard anything about this game. Is it even still in development?
I think u may be surprised, looking through ShopTo's coming soon section is Agent along with a new box art
Here is the complete list by the way:
a. The Last Guardian
b. Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes
c. Star Wars 1313
d. Final Fantasy versus XIII
e. Tekken X Street Fighter
f. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Patriots
g. Watch Dogs
h. XCOM
i. Destiny
j. Agent
Only one I wouldn't expect in 2013 is Afent and the Last Guardian.
Yeah, even Final Fantasy Versus XIII might be coming in 2013.
That, or it won't be far behind. It's what Final Fantasy XII was for the PS2, it will probably be released at the very beginning of ps4 era, but it's still gonna be exclusive to PS3.
My personal opinion....Square's Lightning Returns & FF-XIV is the only thing being released this year.If there's still a FFvsXIII,I don't think it'll be exclusive to the PS3 anymore,supposedly it's a big game & they supposedly incorporating the luminous engine & that's suppose to be a next gen engine so they're probably going to release FFvsXIII on both next gen systems to make money.We probably won't here any news on FFvsXIII until the end of the year once LR is released because Square knows alot of people don't care about Lightning Returns & they want to make money off this game & if they start dishing out updated news about FFvsXIII it would steal LR thunder.The Last Guardian was having technical issues & maybe they can't really do what they want technical wise on the PS3,so they're probably going to release this on PS4.I think Agent doesn't exist anymore & if so it'll probably be on multi-consoles or next gen consoles.


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Facebook Releases Instagram Clone
Less than two months after announcing its plans to acquire photo app company Instagram for $1 billion, Facebook has released an iOS app that looks and functions almost identically to Instagram's.
Facebook Camera, which is now available in the App Store for free, sincerely improves upon the photo capabilities offered by Facebook's primary app for iPhone and iPod touch devices.
Like Instagram, your friends' latest photos are displayed in a single scrolling feed. You can also now simultaneously upload multiple photos to Facebook; Facebook's main app only allows you to upload photos one at a time. And like Instagram, the app allows you to crop, rotate and apply filters to your photos.
Interestingly, none of the app's 15 filters were developed by the Instagram team, Facebook product manager Dirk Stoop told The New York Times. The app, the Times suggests, has been in development for much longer.
The Camera App is the third mobile app dedicated to one of Facebook's key features. The first, a dedicated messaging app, was released last April. Another, for brand pages, hit the App Store this May. These apps, we feel, are smart ideas: Facebook simply has too many features and tools to bundle into a single mobile app.
It's likely more such apps will be released this year. In an address to 200 investors leading up to Facebook's IPO earlier this month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that mobile is Facebook's number-one priority.