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Can anyone tell me the differences between Manitoba, UNB, or Windsor (for the JD/LLB)? I am trying to figure out which one to go to, and can't really tell them apart after looking at their websites and info. Any insight would be great.
With the exception of UBC, Toronto, and McGill, which carry more prestige than the other schools.
Quote from: MaraudingJ on October 23, 2006, 11:42:42 PMWith the exception of UBC, Toronto, and McGill, which carry more prestige than the other schools.why ubc? Their lawschool is good but I don't think I would put it in the same tier as UofT/mcgill at all. I don't see what makes it better than most of the other ontario schools and from what I've seen it certainly doesn't have more prestige.
I am by no means an expert, but I think the prestige is in the region too (I know not 100%). The best advice I have been given, and am doing, is try to go where you want to practice. I do not think the "prestige" will make up for your ability to succeed at the school, cost, all those other personal factors. Also, there may be some value in networking in the community, and of course this would be best if that community is the one you want to work in. For me, there is no chance in hell of me wanting to work out east or in BC, so Alberta is my hope.
Regionality. Take your East Coast blinders off. UBC does far better than any other Canadian school in the west. Even if it doesn't rank with UT and McGill in pure "prestige" (whatever the @#!* that might be), it certainly ranks ahead of the other Canadian schools. Which was exactly my point.


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5 Fab Greeting Card Wreaths
You've probably gathered up quite a stash of Christmas cards by this time in the holiday season. If you're tiring of setting them up on the mantel or hanging them in a doorway (as we always did at home when I was growing up), consider a Christmas card wreath!
A wreath is a convenient way to display the holiday greetings you've received — it keeps all of the cards in a compact area, making it a great way to display cards in a small home. Plus, most of these are so easy that you can still whip one together and enjoy those cards for a couple more weeks!
Some holiday card wreath ideas, as pictured above:
1. A tutorial involving clothespins at Katydid and Kid.
2. This product from Amazon is made for displaying cards in a wreath-like fashion.
3. Funky Junk Interiors nestles cards amidst green boughs.
4. Here's another clothespin version from Craftiness Is Not Optional, but with the pins a bit denser. We love seeing it full of cards.
5. A way to use up those cards and recycle them for next year from Good Housekeeping.
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3DMark 11 Performance Review
3DMark 11 is the next installment for Futuremark in the 3DMark series, with Vantage as its predecessor. The name implies that this benchmark is for Microsoft DirectX 11, and with an unintended coincidence, the name matches the upcoming date in number (which was the naming scheme to some prior versions of 3DMark nonetheless). 3DMark 11 is designed solely for DirectX 11, so Windows Vista or 7 are required along with a DirectX 11 graphics card in order to run this test. The Basic Edition has unlimited free tests on performance mode, whereas Vantage only allowed for a single test run. The Advanced Edition costs $19.95 and unlocks nearly all the features of the benchmark, while the Professional Edition costs $995.00 and is mainly suited for corporate use. The new benchmark contains six tests, four of which are aimed only at graphical testing, one to test for physics handling, and one to combine graphics and physics testing together. The open source Bullet Physics library is used for physics simulations and, although not as mainstream as Havok or PhysX, it still seems to be a popular choice.
With the new benchmark comes two new demos that can be watched, both based on the tests, but unlike the tests, these contain basic audio. The first demo is titled "Deep Sea" — a few vessels exploring what looks similar to a sunken U-Boat. The second demo is titled "High Temple" and is similar to South American tribal ruins with statues and the occasional vehicle around. The demos are simple in that they have no story — they are really just a demonstration of what the testing will be like. The vehicles have the logos of the sponsors MSI and Antec on their sides, the sponsorships of which helped make the Basic Edition free. The four graphics tests are slight variants of the demos.
The first two tests are based on the "Deep Sea" demo. Each test is fairly short, so not much is shown. The first test has lots of lighting, shadows, and post processing, but no tessellation. The second test reduces the amount of lighting while introducing additional effects, such as tessellation.
The next two tests are based on the "High Temple" demo, with one during the day and one during the night. Vehicles appear in both, as do many of the advanced features of DirectX 11.
The last two tests are based upon physics powered by the open source Bullet Physics library. The look of each test is similar to the prior "High Temple" tests, this time around with wobbling pillars and exploding roofs. The combined test applies physics to a normal graphics test to see how well the system handles the two together. Some flags are added for soft physics generally handled by the graphics card.
Now, knowing what to expect during testing, it is time to examine the benchmark launcher and get to testing some video cards to get a baseline for performance!


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Molecules for making nanomachines snare chemistry Nobel
Tiny motors have potential uses in medicine, computing
L-R: ISIS, Northwestern University, University of Groningen
Motors too small to see with the eye may soon have the power to drive innovations in chemistry, biology and computing. Three creators of such nanoscopic machines were honored October 5 with the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Sharing the prize of 8 million Swedish kronor (about $930,000) equally are Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa. "If you had to choose three people at the top of the field, that's it. These are the men," says James Tour, a nanomachines chemist at Rice University in Houston. "It is a well-warranted prize."
Recognition of the burgeoning field of molecular motors will draw more money and inspire children to become scientists, says Donna Nelson, an organic chemist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and the president of the American Chemical Society. "It will benefit not only these three chemists, it will benefit the entire field of chemistry."
Chain reaction
In 1983, Sauvage described how to forge a molecular chain by creating a new type of mechanical bond. The technique relies on copper ions to glue together two halves of crescent-shaped molecules so that they interlock with rings. This work set the stage for chemists to create more intricate molecular structures, including knots and motors.
Chemists and physicists have envisioned molecular machines since at least the 1960s, but were never able to reliably produce complex structures. Then in 1983, Sauvage, of the University of Strasbourg in France, devised a method for making interlocking molecular rings, or catenanes. Sauvage's molecular chain set the stage for the rest of the field (SN: 9/8/90, p. 149).
Stoddart, of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., improved the efficiency so that he could produce large quantities of molecular machines, starting in 1991 with rings clipped around a central axle. That structure is known as a rotaxane. He and colleagues learned to control the slide of the rings along the axle, making a simple molecular switch. Such switches could be used to create molecular computers or drug delivery systems. Stoddart showed in 2000 that it was possible to make molecular "muscles" using interlocking rings and axles. Stoddart and colleagues have since devised molecular elevators and pumps based on the same molecules.
Mini molecules
Stoddart and colleagues devised molecular muscles composed of two interlocked molecular machines in a daisy chain. In 2000, Stoddart's group demonstrated that the machines could expand and contract.
Feringa, of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, ramped things up another notch in 1999 by building the first molecular motor. Things move so differently at the molecular scale that many researchers weren't sure anyone could precisely control the motion of molecular motors, says R. Dean Astumian of the University of Maine in Orono. Feringa's innovation was to devise asymmetric molecules that would spin in one direction when hit with a pulse of light.
Up to 50,000 of the motors could span the width of a human hair, says Tour. Alone, one of the spinning motors doesn't pack much punch (SN: 2/7/04, p. 94), but harnessed together in large numbers the little motors can do big work, he says. Groups of the whirring motors powered by light can rotate a glass rod thousands of times their size and do other work on a macroscopic scale. Feringa also harnessed his motors into a four-wheel-drive "nanocar" (SN: 12/17/11, p. 8).
The process of making molecular machines has improved drastically over recent decades, thanks in large part to the work of the three newly christened laureates, says Rigoberto Advincula, a chemist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Scientists have a better understanding of how to construct molecules that more reliably bend, loop and connect to form shapes. "You don't have tweezers to put them together," he says. "You template the reaction so that the thread to goes through the ring. That then makes it easier for the two thread ends to meet each other." New techniques have also allowed the production of more intricate shapes. Further development will bring these processes to even bigger scales, allowing for the design of molecular machines for everything from energy harvesting to building protein complexes, Advincula says.
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Feringa and colleagues bolted four molecular motors that all spin in the same direction to a tiny chassis, creating a "nanocar" that could bump along a surface.
Such applications are still on the horizon and no one really knows what sorts of machines chemists can make from molecules yet. When people question Feringa about what his molecular motors can be used for, he "feels a bit like the Wright brothers" when people asked them after their first flight why they needed a flying machine, he said during a telephone call during the announcement of the prize. There are "endless opportunities," including nanomachines that can seek and destroy tumor cells or deliver drugs to just the cells that need them, Feringa speculated.
Stoddart, who was born in Edinburgh and moved to the United States in 1997, applauded the Nobel committee for recognizing "a piece of chemistry that is extremely fundamental in its making and being." Sauvage, in particular, created a new type of molecular bond in order to forge his chain, Stoddart said during a news conference. "New chemical compounds are probably several thousand a day worldwide," he said. "New chemical reactions, well, maybe a dozen or two a month. Maybe I go over the top there. But new bonds, they are few and far between. They are really the blue moons. So I think that's what's being recognized, more than anything."
The Nobel Prize in chemistry 2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Bernard L. Feringa. Nobelprize.org, October 5, 2016.
R. Ehrenberg. Tiniest car gets a test drive. Science News. Vol. 180, December 17, 2011, p. 8.
T. Kudernac et al. Electrically driven directional motion of a four-wheeled molecule on a metal surface. Nature. Vol. 479, November 10, 2011, p. 208. doi:10.1038/nature10587.
P. Weiss. Nanobots walk 'n' roll. Science News. Vol. 168, October 29, 2005, p. 285.
A. Goho. Nature's tiniest rotor runs like clockwork. Science News. Vol. 165, February 7, 2004, p. 94.
N. Koumura et al. Light-driven monodirectional molecular rotor. Nature. Vol. 401, September 9, 1999, p. 152. doi: 10.1038/43646.
I. Amato. Chemists learn to knot their molecules. Science News. Vol. 138, September 8, 1990, p. 149.
B. Odell et al. Cyclobis (paraquat-p-phenylene). A Tetracationic multipurpose receptor. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Vol. 27, November 1988, p. 1547. doi: 10.1002/anie.198815471.
C.O Dietrich-Buchecker, J.P. Sauvage and J.P. Kintzinger. Une nouvelle famille de molecules: les metallo-catenanes. Tetrahedron Letters. doi: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)94050-4.


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It isn't often that Kelly Ripa commits a fashion faux pas, but this week on Live! With Kelly, she did just that. And her gaffe didn't just offend her loyal viewers, it downright angered them. They love them some perky blonde goodness, but for the love of God, they don't want to see her nipples.
Here's what happened: Kelly was wearing a form-fitting dress by Stella McCartney called "The Miracle Dress." (You may have seen it on Kate Winslet before.) The purpose of the dress is to give women of all sizes a lovely, hourglass shape, and make you look all around fantastic. Part of the miracle of the dress, though, is the darts which are sewn inside, holding everything in place. AKA, Kelly's nipples.
It was a silly misunderstanding, and I think the people who wrote in outraged ought to find themselves a hobby, but that said -- didn't anyone look at Kelly before the show and say, "Something's not quite right"?
The darts really do look like nipples. They stop right where nipples would be! Not sure if people didn't say anything backstage because they thought they were Kelly's actual nipples, but come on, wasn't there at least a mirror handy? And isn't it, like, the job of the wardrobe department to be on nipple patrol?
As far as fashion faux pas go, I'd say this was a minor one -- and it certainly helped that Kelly was able to address the issue on air (and with a sense of humor -- "Everybody knows I had my nipples removed years ago"). But maybe next time do a once-over in the mirror before rushing off to stage. Think of it as a requisite nipple check.
Check out the video of Kelly in her Miracle Dress:
What do you think of Kelly's dress?
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Near Universal Studios
The Best Western Orlando Gateway Hotel is 2 blocks from Sky Venture / I Fly Orlando. This Universal Studios Partner Hotel provides complimentary scheduled shuttle service to Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, and SeaWorld.
Leisure options
Guests of Best Western Orlando Gateway Hotel can enjoy an outdoor pool, 2 spa tubs, an arcade room, fitness center, and basketball half-court. Transportation to Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, and SeaWorld is provided.
Wireless Internet
Guestrooms at Best Western Orlando Gateway Hotel feature large windows, many with pool views. All provide free WiFi, in-room safes, and LCD TVs with cable and premium channels.
Languages Spoken
- English
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Best Western Orlando Gateway Hotel offers complimentary scheduled transportation to Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, and SeaWorld. For a surcharge, other shuttles connect to Walt Disney World Theme Parks and Disney Springs® Area. During summer months, a seasonal bar serves snacks and tropical drinks adjacent to the hotel's outdoor splash pool. Guests can also enjoy 2 spa tubs and a basketball half-court.
Sharky & Jack's Bar & Grille serves breakfast buffets and American favorites with Caribbean accents for dinner. A takeout deli is also on site.
This Orlando hotel offers a business center, and WiFi access in the lobby and lounge. Coin-operated laundry facilities are on site. Self parking is complimentary.
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- Conference space size (meters) - 232
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
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Languages Spoken
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Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
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Sharky & Jack's Bar & Grille - Casual lobby restaurant serving American favorites with Caribbean accents. Dinner selections include shrimp, burgers, salads, and sandwiches. Full bar. Breakfast and dinner served; bar open from early evening to late evening.
Shades Deli - Sandwiches, salads, pizza, boxed lunches, snacks, coffee, pastries, and grocery items. Open from early morning to late evening.
Poolside Cabana Bar - Snacks, beer, soft drinks, and frozen cocktails by the pool. Open seasonally from late morning to early evening.
Nearby Things to Do
A spacious sundeck houses an outdoor splash pool and two spa tubs. Basketball half-court is also on site, and complimentary equipment is available. A game arcade is located off the lobby.
Three miles away, Shingle Creek Golf Club features a par 72 course designed by David Harman. The scenic course lies along Shingle Creek, headwaters to the Florida Everglades. The Pirate's Cove miniature golf course is within two miles of the hotel. Water skiing and wakeboarding are available at the Orlando Watersports Complex, seven miles away.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
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If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-in time starts at 4 PM
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Prerequisite for BIO 426 is BIO 425. Two terms required. Prerequisite: CHE 118 or CHE 121, or departmental approval NOTE: BIO 425 and BIO 426 do not meet the science requirements in the liberal arts curriculum.
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Noor Zia Atmar, one of the first female members of parliament in Afghanistan and an outspoken leader for women's rights in the country, has requested asylum after fleeing from her abusive husband.
Atmar was in office from 2005 to 2010 and championed reforms to benefit Afghan women and girls. However, after fleeing from an abusive husband and being disowned by her family, Atmar has lived in a shelter for the past two years. Now she has requested asylum, citing that she is no longer welcome in her home country.
"Women are in a worse condition now. Every day they are being killed, having their ears, noses cut. It is not just women in villages - it is also people like me," Atmar told the Sunday Telegraph. She elaborated to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, "I was the victim of abuse. I had a very bitter life while I was with that man. He was getting drunk and hitting me every day. That was his routine. It reached the point where he threw a knife and other sharp objects at me. [That's why] I'm currently in a women's shelter."
Atmar also fears what will happen to women like her if shelters are closed. Recently, the Parliament failed to pass the End Violence Against Women act (EVAW) when the decision was tabled. If EVAW had come to a vote and been rejected, it could have forced women's shelters across the country to close their doors. "I'm worried that if these shelters close, my sisters [Afghan women] and I who have suffered from domestic violence won't have anywhere to go. This is our worry," she told reporters. "If a woman has had her arm or leg broken or has had her nose or ears cut off, should we throw them on the street? In the current situation in Afghanistan the shelters are the only places of refuge for women."
The British embassy has refused to grant Atmar asylum, citing that they do not give asylum for domestic violence alone.
Media Resources: Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Liberty 8/13/2013; Daily Mail 8/11/2013; Telegraph 8/11/2013; Feminist Newswire 5/20/2013
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Jason Bell
In his dual role as Regional Director Southern Africa and of the Elephant Programme, Jason is responsible for developing, monitoring and evaluating IFAW's campaigns and programmes within his region and providing leadership for IFAW's global elephant conservation activities.
Since joining IFAW, Jason has worked on a range of animal welfare issues including ending the ivory trade, unethical "canned" hunting, boat-based whale watching, lobbying against wildlife trade at CITES, ending commercial whaling, wildlife habitat expansion, and government relations.
IFAW Southern Africa also supports the efforts of SANCCOB to save South Africa's endangered penguins and operates the Community-Led Animal Welfare (CLAW) project in the townships around Johannesburg and Cape Town veterinarian clinics, programmes that save dogs, cats, and other companion animals from cruelty and neglect.
Under Jason's leadership, the elephant programme team has worked to secure habitat for elephants in South Africa, India, China and Kenya and has been involved in several translocation projects, in one case moving an entire herd of 83 elephants from an area in the Phirilongwe region where they were in constant violent conflict with local villages. Where translocation is not feasible, Jason leads the team in developing practical, humane solutions to human-elephant conflict situations.
IFAW's collaboration with the University of Pretoria on research regarding the dynamics of elephant populations helped convince the government of South Africa to set aside millions of dollars to pursue an ethical and science-based approach to managing elephant populations rather than accept culling proposals which are based on politics instead of science.
Jason's Elephant team also works closely with park rangers, supporting and training anti-poaching teams in elephant range states. As a campaigner, Jason has been a regular attendee at CITES Conventions of the Parties, with a particular focus on ending the ivory trade.
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i can't believe you've seen this figure on 6 different occasions... i won't see this at retail till after christmas most likely, if at all. my area seems to be the worst when it comes to finding new stuff...
Still have not seen the corrected Elan Sleezbago figure yet or the Red ARC trooper. But I am sure they will be here soon.
Anyway, refresh my memory if you could please David. I have the one with human ears and antennae; this is the incorrect version is it not? Is the other version simply missing the antennae?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Aug 2012 14:00 UTC
For the first time in eons, Microsoft has changed its logo. "The logo has two components: the logotype and the symbol. For the logotype, we are using the Segoe font which is the same font we use in our products as well as our marketing communications. The symbol is important in a world of digital motion. The symbol's squares of color are intended to express the company's diverse portfolio of products." Nice logo, clean, concise. With Windows Phone 8, Office 2013 and Windows 8 on the way, the company could use a fresh coat of paint. Confusing that they're using what would've been a better Windows logo than the Windows 8 logo, but alas.
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new logo? really?
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hmmm, not much ....
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Pattern that Packs a Punch: Inspiration for Crazy, Colorful Parquet Flooring
This week at my day job, we're installing a greyed oak parquet floor in a beautiful London flat. Though I'm sure it will be lovely once complete, I can't help but wonder what the space would look like if we put in one of these wild, outrageously vibrant parquet patterns instead.
Colored parquet has been trending for awhile now, and steadily growing. It's still mainly seen in restaurant and retail spaces, but I think a (possibly quieter, more toned down) version of this look could work for residential spaces, as well.
1. As seen on Designboom, these floors are part of a color-coded concept house by Swedish architects Ham & Videgard Hansson.
2. This yellow floor, from Design Milk, was created inside London's Selfridges department store by McKay Flooring.
3. Established & Sons' cozy armchair looks great on an incredible floor in an ad for their furniture seen on Plastolux.
4. This space was created by designers Maria Cordero and Malena Perkins as part of a design fair in Argentina. Via Portuguese Glamour.
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:03 pm
Post subject: Sauerkraut/Pickled vegetables in general
Sauerkraut and NY-style pickles are delicious, and can be made easily. (Also lots of Asian kinds of pickled stuff, such as kim chee.) If anyone wants any recipes please respond to this and I will post some.
Broadly speaking, there are 2 kinds of "pickling". There is pickling (i.e., preserving) using vinegar, and pickling that ferments vegetables using the sugars in them.
I just tasted 2 batches of sauerkraut that I've made, and they are delicious. I've been making fermented NY deli-style pickles (no vinegar!!) for a long time, and they're even easier to make.
I have not yet had the success I seek with kim chee, but I'm making progress.
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 6:36 pm
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Bring it on, Analyticman! Successful and reproducible pickling procedures would be greatly appreciated.
Especially interested in cukes and kraut salt fermentation.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:24 pm
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A pro micro organism site with an excellent description for making sauerkraut.
I'd like to try it, but my wife won't let me ferment anything indoors.
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I also got "Wild Fermentation" because of a craving for good sauerkraut. I have it brewing (and stinking up the kitchen) I'm only three days into it, so don't know what the result will be. At the same time, I also put up a batch of "Sauerruben" which is turnips treated the same way, in salt with the brine expressed from the turnip. Though I've had sauerkraut plenty of times, the only time I've had pickled turnips was from a lebanese restaurant, and they were great! Crunchy and a bit sweet. I am hoping that is what I'll get here. Have you tried using turnip with any sucess?
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Neat. This is the time of year to do it. I'm hoping to do some in the next 2 weeks as our local fall cabbages start to come in. I've looked at a few places that say"make your own kraut", and the methods vary greatly. I've got some jars and plastic barrels ready, but waiting on cabbages and also the final decision on procedure.
What was your method?
Jars/crock/plastic barrel?
What kind of cabbages/turnips?
Percent of salt?
Cover: fermentation lock? Bag? Rock? Cloth?
Temperature of area for fermentation?
How do you plan to store the results? Can? Keep raw in fridge? Freeze?
How many pounds did you make?
Gosh... lots of questions. Hope that you can share your experience.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:33 am
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Here's what I did:
I got 2 big old fashioned clear glass cookie jars (so I could see what happens)
All the recipe calls for is the vegitable and salt! I got a cheap mandoline, which is a hand operated slicer. It worked well with the turnip (a rutabega from the farm stand) but it was useless for the cabbage.
I used sea salt without any additives, like iodine.
You finely chop the cabbage as for cole slaw, and toss it in a bowl with salt in layers. I didn't measure, just chucked in a big pinch at each layer. Then I packed it into the cookie jar, pressing it down with my fist and with a potato masher. I only used one head of cabbage. One cabbage filled the jar to the top. The recipe claimed that the juice of the cabbage would cover the sliced veggie. I was doubtful, but I covered the cabbage with a water-filled jar for a weight, and kept squishing it down every fifteen minutes or so. Low and behold, the cabbage did express enough liquid to cover. I had some (britta filtered, you don't want floride or chlorine) salt water on hand in case it didn't. I also covered the whole thing with a cloth to keep out bugs and stuff.
The procedure was the same for the turnip. I used the mandolin to slice it into popsicle stick sized slices, tossed it with salt and pressed it into the other (smaller, I'd say pint and a half) jar. The turnip released a lot more juice a lot easier.
That was now four days ago. I just did a taste test in your honor. Both brews still taste pretty much like fresh, there is a slight sauery taste. The brine is quite salty, I probably should have measured. (Recipe calls for 3 tablespoons per 5 pounds of cabbage)
What am I going to do with all that stuff? I DON"T KNOW!
I will definately store it in the fridge once it has done it's thing (about 2 weeks)
Eating raw fermented foods is supposed to be really good for you, so I will probably avoid cooking it.
One really great way to use fresh sauerkraut, and similarly fermented barsht (beets) is like this:
Mix the two together with a bit of olive oil. Shred some proscutto. Pile the veggies on some sourdough bread, top with the proscutto, and then top with mozzarella cheese. Very yummy, and also pretty with the red cabbage and beets topped with the pink proscutto and the white mozzarella.
I will also probably make cabbage soup using fresh cabbage and then put the 'kraut in at the last minute before serving to keep its culture alive.
Beware: the kitchen does have a distinctly cabbagy odour. I wouldn't do this if I were expecting guests.
My biggest hurdle was actually finding something to weigh the stuff down with that fit into the jars.
Give it a try and let me know how it goes!
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Thanks. The rutabagas sound really neat.
Cabbage odor is like a KitchenAid ad: it says "here lives a cook."
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Vascular brain injury appears to play a role in the development of mild cognitive impairment, while deposition of a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease does not appear to do so, researchers reported.
In a small cross-sectional study, the presence of infarcts was associated with lower cognitive performance, while deposition of beta-amyloid was not, according to Natalie Marchant, PhD, of the University of California Berkeley, and colleagues.
And there was no evidence that the two processes -- both associated with cognitive decline in aging – interacted, Marchant and colleagues reported online in JAMA Neurology.
One implication, the researchers concluded, is that reducing cerebrovascular disease may be important in preventing mild cognitive impairment.
Vascular brain injury and the deposition of beta-amyloid frequently occur together and are associated with cognitive decline, Marchant and colleagues noted, but it has not been clear if they are directly related.
To help clarify the issue, the researchers studied 61 participants recruited from the Aging Brain project, a research program looking at people with vascular disease risk factors.
The 61 participants included 30 who were clinically normal, 24 who were cognitively impaired and 7 with a diagnosis of dementia, with average ages of 77.1, 78, and 79.8, respectively.
Marchant and colleagues used magnetic resonance imaging to detect the presence of infarcts, and positron emission tomographic imaging -- using the Pittsburgh Compound B tracer -- to detect beta-amyloid.
To establish a benchmark for beta-amyloid deposition, they used the same method on 11 young adults. Older participants with levels more than 2 standard deviations higher than the average among the younger volunteers were defined as PiB-positive and regarded as having excess beta-amyloid.
Marchant and colleagues reported that 34 of the 61 participants had an infarct found by MRI, and 29 were classified as PiB-positive; that included 14 participants who had both.
Those who were PiB-positive were more likely to be male and to carry the APOE ε4 allele, (P=0.046 and P=0.02, respectively). In addition, there was a significant positive relationship (at P=0.04) between PiB-positivity and increasing age.
But there was no difference between PiB-positive and -negative participants on the mini-mental state examination, depression score, or the clinical dementia rating, Marchant and colleagues reported.
Participants with and without infarcts did not differ in age, sex, educational level, APOE allele status, mini-mental state exam score, or depression score.
But, the researchers found, there was a trend toward worse cognitive status in infarct-positive participants, which reached significance among the 11 with a cortical infarct. Of those, only two had a clinical dementia ratio of 0, while the remainder had ratings of at least 0.5 (P=0.02).
Overall, the presence of infarcts -- especially in cortical and subcortical gray matter -- was associated with lower performance in verbal memory, nonverbal memory, and executive function, while PiB- positivity was neither a significant predictor of cognition nor interacted with vascular brain injury, Marchant and colleagues found.
"If there is an association between vascular risk and beta-amyloid, it does not appear to be mediated by vascular brain injury," the authors concluded. "This does not exclude the possibility that more subtle types of vascular disease, such as microvascular damage or blood-brain barrier dysfunction, contribute to beta-amyloid deposition."
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Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital, with financial support from the Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital Foundation, will be holding the annual FREE flu vaccination clinics again this year. 1,500 doses of vaccine (1,200 injectable doses and 300 intranasal doses) will be made available to anyone age 3 and above on a first-come, first-served basis at tow separate clinics - one in El Dorado and the other in Augusta.
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One thing you'd enjoy---the convertible top is a brilliant design. A 5 year old child could easily raise it and fasten it.0
That was easy on our 63 Fiat 1200 Spider, but with a factory steel top, it still leaked onto the passenger side floor. Fun little thing if performance wasn't expected.0
The 124 Spider puts out decent performance, a very nice ride, comfy seats, plenty of cockpit room. What makes it nicer than an MGB is the comfort level. The B has a very low windshield and if you are anywhere near "tall", the wind blows your baseball cap off every time. Also the MGB suspension is about as advanced as a Roman chariot. Nonetheless, the MGB handles quite well on even roads.
Most hassles with both Fiats and MGs regarding electrics are the bad grounds. Just cleaning battery cables, or replacing old ones, and buffing up fuse box terminals, improves reliability considerably.
Downside on the Fiat is accessibility in the engine bay---it's tight in there. The MGB you could fix with plumber's tools from Home Depot. Few cars on the road today are as simple to repair as an MG. This presumes a modicum of knowledge, basic tools and a workshop manual.
I would definitely consider buying a Fiat 124, simply for the comfort level over other 60s or 70s open style sports cars---but never EVER buy a rat.0
Teh one I looked at yesterday wasn't really a rat but it was rougher than it should have been. It had been stored outside under a tarp. This is never a good thing especially where it rains a lot.
I sat in it and I didn't realize hoe cushy the seats were compared to an MG. This interior was nice with no rips or dash cracks.
The paint and rust was enough to keep me away.0
Yeah all that and the fact that those electrics were exposed to weather, as was the braking system, various cables, nuts and bolts, etc. You can see where I'm going with this.
If you start with this $1800 Fiat, and calculate what it would take to make it look like a really NICE 124, you simply can't get there from here.
Here's the 124 you want---I bet with cash in hand you could get 'er for $5K or $5500. Looks like it's fuel injected, too. All the better.
Compared to THIS, the one you're looking at for $1800 seems crazy to me. I know you aren't seriously interested, but on that particular car, I see no upside or happy ending.
Here's another, even CHEAPER that looks very decent and has had a good home:
THIS is what old Fiats with "needs' are really worth:
If the Palo Alto Fiat were up here, I'd offer our 77 SeaRay 17' 302 I/O in trade. His four kids should learn to water ski.0
A couple of nice cars!
No, I'm well aware of what a decent paint job alone costs these days. It's staggering.
Thank you for your insights on Fiats. I've never driven one and until yesterday I never even sat in one.
I do remember when I was in the tool business, the shops either refused to work on them or they hated them and called them junk.
There was a shop in my hometown that had Pat's Fiat. He was the only guy in town that I know of that worked on them. His lot was always PACKED with cars.
You paid his price and waited weeks.0
People tend to have contempt for what they do not understand. I have been guilty of this myself, but often, once I come to know a car, I change my mind---not ALWAYS, however. Sometimes I was right the first time.
Fiats are fine if you have your mechanic and your parts sources lined up. Sure, the switchgear is cheap and the upholstery is made of cardboard, but you get what you pay for---if you wanted a higher quality interior, you bought an Alfa Romeo.0
So, what do you think of Alfa Spiders?0
I really like Alfa Spiders. Of course, they come in many varieties, and those varieties have quite dissimilar characteristics, but overall, there's not one Alfa Spider I don't like.
If you want the "pure" Alfa experience, I'd have to say 60s Spiders and perhaps the very early fuel injected SPICA cars of the 70s (Spiders and Coupes). I'd tend to skip over mid to late 70s cars, and then jump back in on the more sedate and less thrilling Bosch Motronic Spiders of the 1980s. In terms of styling, I don't like the whale-tail spoilers so much, so I'd tend to go for the last versions of the RWD Spiders, in the early 1990s.
Given proper care, these Alfas can be very reliable and pleasurable cars, with no grievous faults beyond the usual electrical glitches (usually bad grounds).0
hpmctorque Posts: 4,600As long as we're talking Italian brands, what's your general opinion about Lancias? That brand never caught on in the U.S., but they were highly regarded in Italy. I'm referring to before Lancias became upscale and/or rebadged Fiats.
The Appias and Aprilias were well well engineered cars, with numerous innovations, but they go way back. I'm guessing that the Lancias of the '60s and '70s were more finicky and higher maintenance than their Alfa Romeo counterparts. I also think Lancia stressed luxury and comfort while Alfa stressed speed and sport. Your take?0
I think you have it all just about right. Lancia coupes and convertibles of that era (50s and 60s) can be quite valuable, depending on equipment and coachbuilder (Zagato). The little Appias and Aprilia sedans are beautifully built and appointed but not so valuable.
I would love to have an Appia but I don't want to pay the kind of prices people ask (and usually don't get anyway).
We in the USA usually only see the Fiat-era Lancias, which are not worth even talking about IMO.
Probably the last truly credible Lancia was the 73-76 Stratos.
The Lancia Aurelia B24 Spyder America is an interesting car you can google. You can pay more than 1/2 mil for one of those!
Most affordable "collectible" Lancia? The Fulvia coupe1965-1973. Nice little car.0
Having driven both in the same manner, reasonable and prudently, the Fiat was more dependable by far. That Plymouth had a 301 V8 w Torqueflite (5 buttons) & from the get go I thought the noise was the speedo cable, but sadly found out it was the tranny chewing itself up. It was repaired twice before 25,000 when the engine blew. What a POS! :mad:0
OK guys, I need your opinion here.
Still kinda looking for a "fun" car that won't get a lot of use except on nice days.
A couple in our neighborhood has a NICE 1994 BMW 325i. It is near flawless.
All maintenance has been done either by the dealer or by a speciality shop that only works on BMW's. Not a scratch on it and it's always been garage and babied.
It's a 5 speed and everything works as it should.
Asking 3400.00.
The catch? 188,000 miles!!
Any BMW experts out there?0
That's a boatload of money for that car, nice though it may be.
What makes you think it would be "fun" if you don't mind me askin'?
Is it a convertible, or has mods or something?
But ANYWAY, I'd make sure to check out the usual BMW suspects---radiator, water pump, thermostat, control arm bushings, scored rotors, electrical malfunctions, non-working AC.....
if it's just a sedan, I'd save that kind of $$$ for a convertible.0
Oh, I remember my 1989 325i and althought it wasn't a convertable, it was "fun" throwing it around twisty roads.
BMW's can be quirky. I know that especially when it comes to the electricals.
Not a sedan, just a coupe.0
Oh well a coupe might be more fun---depends on how dead the suspension is after all those miles. The car could end up throwing *you* around. Might be worth checking out. Be nice if you could get it for less $$$ though. Them's big miles and the car has zero chance of ever appreciating in value.0
Yep, I agree.
It has new struts and brakes and a bunch of other stuff.
Our son lives nearby so he stopped to see it.
He said it's a "20 footer" but in excellent shape. Sid the front spoiler has been cracked and taped up. The interior is the worst part of it. Leather worn with a six inch slit in the drivers side and a lot of wear on the passenger's side.
Sounds like a 2500.00 car to me on a good day.
Oh, it needs tires too so maybe closer to 2000.00. Don't ya think?0
More like $1500 the way you describe it. We aren't expecting perfection at this price so we can forgive the spoiler, but re-covering the seats and 4 new shoes, that's chunk o' change.0
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