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With the influx of sandwich shops, you'd think this city's moniker might go from Beantown to Subtown. Starting in 2012, we've seen a torrent of national chains onto the local market: numerous locations of both Potbelly Sandwich Shop and Firehouse Subs. Earl of Sandwich made its debut last year in a formerly vacant restroom building on Boston Common.
Despite the recent surge of national chains, we've got plenty of homegrown places. Clover Food Lab, which started as a single food truck in 2008, now has a small army of trucks throughout the city, and brick-and-mortar restaurants in Harvard Square and East Cambridge (with more on the way). Customers cue up for their vegetarian pita sandwiches and, during the lunch rush, very willingly endure a long wait for their order.
Cutty's sandwich shop in Brookline, open since 2010, has a devout following and offers a wide variety of sandwiches, including the Spuckie: salami, capicola, and mortadella on ciabatta. They've also been holding a monthly "super cluckin' Sunday" event, where they serve fried chicken sandwiches starting at 10 a.m. one Sunday a month, staying open only until they run out.
Also in Brookline is Dorado Tacos & Cemitas, opened in 2010, which has purposely bucked the burrito trend in favor of cemitas, a sandwich specialty of Mexico's Puebla region. It's one of the only places in the area that serves them.
A new arrival on the scene is Sa Pa, which opened in late February. Riding on the coattails of the nationwide banh mi trend, this spot on the outskirts of Chinatown offers traditional Vietnamese sandwiches with pork or chicken, but also a version with cured salmon.
Casa Razdora and the new A4 food truck (from Area Four) both offer piadina sandwiches. Piadina, a rarely seen Italian flatbread, is typically stuffed with cured meats and vegetables, but the sky's the limit. Chicken katsu sandwiches are starting to pop up. Wichit on Newbury Street serves a fine version of this Japanese-inspired sandwich featuring a tempura-crusted chicken cutlet and a housemade tonkatsu sauce. In the Financial District, Asian sandwich bar Foumami serves a version on shaobing, a flaky Chinese flatbread.
When a park bench calls to you and you have but a brief time for lunch, here are some of the newer options you may not know about — but should.
Casa Razdora
115 Water St., Boston, 617-338-6700,
This Financial District spot opened two years ago and has become a favorite. Here the homemade bread comes rolled in a cylinder and can be filled with a variety of cured meats, cheese, and vegetables, just as it would be in Italy. "[Piadina] started in Italy on the Adriatic coast," says co-owner Denise Santini, who runs Casa Razdora with her husband, Giancarlo Baldini, and cousin Robert Santini. "It's a seaside sandwich to eat on the go from stands making them with fresh ingredients." The aim is to create an authentic Italian lunch experience — so much so that Baldini, a native of Bologna, studied in Italy to learn the proper method of preparing piadina. Sandwiches cost $6.50-
$9. Bresaola (cured aged beef), with capers, roasted peppers, and lemon sauce is a pleasing explosion of salt and tanginess. On Mondays only, Santini braises pork tenderloin in beer, wine, and onions that's available as a piadina and a stand-alone entree.
Dorado Tacos & Cemitas
401 Harvard St., Brookline, 617-566-2100,
Chef and owner Douglas Organ opened Dorado Tacos & Cemitas in 2010. In addition to tacos, he features cemita, a sandwich that originates in the Mexican state Puebla. This is one of the only places in the Boston area that serves cemita, which differs from the torta — a better-known Mexican sandwich — in a variety of ways. "The bun is what sets it apart, and the ingredients inside it," says Organ. The cemita bun is basically a challah roll with sesame seeds. According to Organ, it's what they use in Puebla. Because of the similarity to challah, Organ gets his rolls from a kosher caterer across the street. "We approached them and asked to replicate a roll for us using their challah. All we asked them to do was put sesame seeds on it," says the chef.
Inside the cemita are a variety of fillings; choices include pork cutlet, grilled steak, homemade chorizo, and several vegetarian options. Then each sandwich gets black beans, homemade chipotle en adobo, Oaxaca cheese (like Mexican mozzarella), and a heaping mound of fresh cilantro. Prices range from $6.50 to $6.75.
"There's a juxtaposition of a lot of things," says Organ. "The bread and the saltiness and the creaminess, all these things together, it's the sum of its parts. The sandwich needs all these components. If people start taking them away, it's like, no, you need to have this all together. It's designed that way for all the flavors to work off each other in a very playful manner."
Sa Pa
92 Bedford St., Chinatown, Boston, 617-303-7000,
Area takeout shops and food trucks serving banh mi sandwiches, traditionally made with pork, pate, and pickled vegetables, are increasing in popularity. At $6.54, Sa Pa's banh mi are several dollars more than what you'd pay elsewhere, but only here can you get a cured salmon option. Owner Ky Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant who also owns nearby Kingston Station, aims to re-create the tastes of his childhood. "I grew up with Vietnamese flavors," says Nguyen. "With Sa Pa, I wanted to get people to try Vietnamese flavors but make it more approachable." The restaurant is a collaboration with Kingston Station chef Dana Love, who helped develop recipes.
For the cured salmon sandwich, a crusty baguette is slathered with miso or red curry mayo, then topped with mushroom pate, sliced cucumber, and pickled carrots and daikon. The salmon has been cured for 24 hours in sake, star anise, ginger, Sichuan peppercorns, and fennel. The result is a dense, ruby-colored fish, and each bite of the sandwich is salty and peppery, tempered by the substantial baguette. "The magic of banh mi is it's a really balanced sandwich," explains Nguyen. "You get the pickled element, you get the pate, the fresh vegetables, the cilantro. With that combination, any protein can work well."
244 Newbury St., Back Bay, Boston, 857-277-1708,
This sandwich spot relocated from Lawrence in December. "Our goal is to make the best sandwich humanly possible," says chef and co-owner Chris Young, a native Bostonian who operates Wichit with his aunt, Rose Young. A customer favorite is the chicken katsu ($8.99). Shortened from the traditional Japanese ton-katsu, the traditional version begins with a cutlet of meat that is breaded and fried. At Wichit, a chicken cutlet is dipped into tempura batter first, which results in a crisp cutlet akin to Southern fried chicken. Crispy sweet potato fries are tucked inside an egg-washed soft bun.
"When I create the recipes, I look for texture, flavor, and aesthetics all in one," says Young. "Especially deriving it from Japanese cuisine, from a tempura you can get slices of crispy sweet potato. So why not put some crispy sweet potato fries in it?" The cutlet and sweet potato are served with shredded carrot, lettuce, and ton-katsu sauce — a mash-up of East and West with ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire, and soy sauce. To this, Young adds sake, mirin, and Asian pear. The result is equal parts smoky, salty, sweet, and tangy.
485 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington, 781-643-0943,
Kathi roll (sometimes spelled "kati") is street food in northeast India. It consists of meat or vegetables grilled in a tandoor, which are wrapped in a paratha — a dense flatbread cooked on a griddle in oil or ghee — along with a variety of vegetables, chutneys, and seasonings. This is India's version of a burrito. Kathi rolls, dubbed "kathi kebab rollups" on the Punjab menu ($9.50) come with either chicken, lamb, or paneer, a fresh Indian cheese. Diners choose the level of spice. Be cautious if ordering anything hotter than medium, which we found hot enough that our lips were stinging an hour later. Have a mango lassi or a side order of raita to cool you down.
Also available is a "naanwich" ($7.50-
$9.50), similar to a kathi roll but served in traditional grilled flatbread that's less dense than paratha. Fillings include tandoori chicken tikka, lamb sheesh kebab, and grilled vegetables. All are wrapped with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and a curried yogurt dressing.
Grilled lamb naanwich is mildly spicy, loosely rolled and loaded with fillings, so though it's technically street food, eat it sitting down. It couldn't hurt to wash it down with a bottle of Kingfisher beer.
Other spots that offer kathi rolls include Chutney's, 36 JFK St., The Garage, Harvard Square, Cambridge, 617-491-2545; and 350 Longwood Ave., Longwood Galleria, Cambridge, 617-264-2100, www.chutneysma.com; and Dosa Factory, 571 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, Cambridge, 617-868-3672.Matt Barber can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Born December 15, 1909, Bautzen, Germany
Former Optical Society of America member and noted physicist Dr. Max R. Nagel died peacefully, pen and writing pad in hand, on May 23, 2007 at the venerable age of 97. Dr. Nagel was considered one of the world's leading scientists in advancing the measurement of natural "background" infrared radiation (i.e., radiation from the ground and sky), which was essential in the development of systems to detect and monitor space and military objects, including camouflaged and "stealth" satellites, missiles and aircraft. During his career Dr. Nagel wrote or co-authored six books and over 100 professional publications, including several that have been published through the Optical Society of America.
Upon earning his doctorate in 1939 from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and his post-graduate "habilitatus" in 1942 from the Technical University of Berlin, Dr. Nagel joined the Institute for Aerial Photography at the German Aeronautical Research Facility in Berlin. Recognizing his assiduous avoidance of the Nazi regime, after the war the Allied authorities immediately cleared Dr. Nagel to continue his scientific endeavors.
Based on publications attributed to him and his work, in 1949 Dr. Nagel was appointed as a technical consultant to, and ultimately development engineer in the Sensitometry Section of the Photographic Reconnaissance Laboratory of the Wright Air Development Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. In 1954 Dr. Nagel transferred to the Infrared Section of the Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory of the Wright Air Development Center. While there he planned, initiated, and directed a major scientific study that was conducted on and around Pikes Peak, Colorado involving nearly 200 scientific and support personnel from all three branches of the armed services. This project, designated the Infrared Radiation Measurement Program 1956 (IRMP 1956), led to IRMP 1958 and IRMP 1959/60.
The success of the IRMP projects drew the attention of, among many others, the scientific advisor to President Dwight Eisenhower. At his recommendation Dr. Nagel was honored with the government's Sustained Superior Performance Award. His work was also recognized through promotions to the position of Chief, Thermal Radiation Laboratory of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories in Bedford, Massachusetts, Scientific Advisor with the NATO-SHAPE Air Defense Technical Center in The Hague, Netherlands, and Acting Chief of the Space Optics Laboratory, Electronics Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
With the closure of the Electronics Research Center by President Richard Nixon following the United States' successful moon landing in 1969, Dr. Nagel accepted a position as senior scientist with the German equivalent of NASA, a position he retained until his retirement in 1977. He remained in Germany following retirement, living first near Munich, Bavaria from 1970 to 2004 and then in a retirement and assisted living facility in Bonn to the day of his death.
Dr. Nagel's professional interest in the detection of light and optical phenomena was merely an extension of his love of nature. A hiker and mountaineer, during his youth he completed several first ascents of challenging rock faces in his native Germany and Austria. He was also an accomplished cinematographer and photographer. Before having met her personally, Dr. Nagel captured his wife, Angelika von Braun, on film during her traverse of the high alpine peaks of Austria in the summer of 1939. She and second wife Siglinde Jobst shared his love of photography, mountains and the wonders of the natural environment.
Predeceased in 1979 by Angelika von Braun, he is survived by his second wife, Siglinde Jobst. Survivors also include sons Michael of London, England with spouse Adriana, Stefan of Winchester, Massachusetts with spouse Nancy, grandchild Kirsten, and numerous relatives. Dr. Nagel will be missed by his family, his surviving friends, and his former colleagues.

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"I started doing this to feed the need, not for myself. It chokes me up to see all these people come and volunteer their time for this. I could not do it if it weren't for them. So, it just isn't me. It is all of us."
Diane Clements, director of kitchen ministries at First Christian Church in Plain Township, about the 600 volunteers from her church and three other churches who prepared, served and delivered Thanksgiving dinner to more than 9,600 people.
"Whoever comes here better understand the importance of renewable fuels, or they are going to have hell to pay in rural Iowa."
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, warning presidential candidates to remember the value to his state's economy of ethanol, which is becoming less and less prized as a fuel.
"Folks are now, I think in talking to members, more cautious with regard to dealing with the president."
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, about his fellow Democrats in Congress who are distancing themselves from President Obama after the disastrous rollout of the health care website.
"Stop deportations!"
A heckler, shouting during a speech by President Obama in which he urged Congress to overhaul immigration laws.
"If you're serious about making that happen, then I'm willing to work with you. The easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws. What I'm proposing is the harder path (trying to get the law changed)."
President Obama, responding to the heckler.
"I think writing is more of a calling than a choice. I don't know any writers who could stop if they wanted to."
Julie Anne Lindsey, a published novelist and member of the Greater Canton Writers' Guild, which was established 50 years ago next year.
"It was thrown in my face and rubbed in my nose."
Canton Street Superintendent Kevin Monroe, about the reaction of City Council members last year to the price the city paid for road salt. This year, Canton
expects to save nearly $350,000 by using a different source.
"Please don't be foolish like me. Get yourself checked. And USE
Actor Hugh Jackman, in an Instagram post about
removal of a basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer, from his nose.
"If it keeps snowing, we'll keep working."
Greg Umpleby, Ohio Department of Transportation manager for Stark County, about the snowstorm that hit the county last week.
"These lies, baseless allegations, it's been tough. My retirement's got nothing to do with their investigation whatsoever."
David Zink, former Jackson Township police chief, who has been on paid
administrative leave since April. The state Bureau of Criminal Investigation is looking into allegations of improper behavior by Zink toward women.
"I'm not retiring. I want to make that clear. The show is retiring. I figured the 25th was a good one to go out on."
John Trapani, whose John Trapani Big Band will play its last Christmas concert Friday.
"You can climb under the sink, grab the BB gun from behind the desk and put the Lifebuoy soap in your mouth. You can touch and feel everything."
Angela Dickerson, chief of operations for A Christmas Story House and Museum in Cleveland, where visitors can slip into Ralphie Parker's world in the classic holiday movie "A Christmas Story."
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Okay, I've seen enough now to confirm my instincts. I know you can't trust Harper, believe me, but watching the body language, the tone, the way the government is now caving, this isn't a man who's feeling particularly cocky. Maybe the GG warned him, "get it right, or get the coalition", maybe he's read the polls that show his popularity plummeting, maybe he's own people are nervous about his leadership, whatever, Harper has seen a ghost.
I put the above picture up, because it's indicative of Harper's posture during the entire interview. Small, meek, the same way he's been in all interviews since this parliamentary crisis appeared. Even more amazing, in this interview, Harper talks openly about himself in the PAST tense:
"Make sure I can walk away from this, saying I did the best for the Canadian economy."
"I love this job, and the day I leave it I always be thankful to have had it. I'm not going to be a guy, who sits around and writes all kinds of memoirs about how everybody did him wrong"
"Enjoy it as much as I can. It's going to be a tough year, and do the best job we can. And, always be thankful for having had the opportunity. The day I'm through with it, and the day my party is through with me, I'll find a way of serving people in another capacity."
I'm reading the usual bluster from Conservative partisans, arguing that Harper will run over the opposition like a "freight train", a majority in his grasp, he holds all the cards. I believe this mindset is utter delusion of the highest order, as I mentioned earlier, people make a critical error using opinion of the coalition to comfort themselves. Stephen Harper is less popular NOW, than at any other time during his reign. The Conservative Party has no identity, it all revolves around their leader, Harper has made himself the central thesis. This strategy was a good one, because "leadership" was the Conservatives trump card, when faced with Dion, but that has largely evaporated now. The fate of the Conservative Party will largely be a question on Harper, and I suspect Harper's braintrust is now well aware that this is a risky proposition.
Every move we've seen to date, suggests Harper doesn't share the confidence of his minions, he looks and acts like a man trying to cobble together a solution to save his skin. Again, I have no trust in Harper, as soon as he sees his next opening, he will revert to his more genuine self, but that clearly isn't the case now. I honestly believe Harper wants to avoid an election, despite the nefarious results of some findings, he knows that he's damaged himself and needs time to regroup. Let's keep it real, Harper will never steam roll through Ontario, he would lose seats in Quebec, which means another election would bring at best the same mandate, but more probable a lesser one, maybe even defeat. Anything less than the same, and Harper is effectively done, his party will turn on him. So, why head to the polls now, when you chances are iffy at best. I would argue, Harper's moves to date, tell us he agrees with the above, this is a man trying to avoid a confrontation, not find one, because he's on the cusp of ultimate control.
Others may have a different perspective, but from what I've see, Harper is oozing insecurity and lessened stature. His own actions betray an objective truth, and it's why I can understand why Liberal MP's were "quite optimistic" today after meeting with Flaherty. A temporary circumstance, but one I won't be surprised to see hold true until after the budget delivery.


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The Mets have had more than their fair share of gut-wrenching defeats this season.
There was the balk-off loss at Atlanta. The back-to-back games where they tied it in the ninth only to lose. But, yesterday's meltdown to Milwaukee stung like vinegar on a cut.
Down six to tie, then lose. It doesn't get any more frustrating. When the first two runners reached against Jason Isringhausen you had to know bad things were coming.
You can't blame this on youth, because the late-inning damage was done against a veteran. Even so, as in most losses there were things that stood out, such as all the walks from Chris Capuano and the inability to hit in the clutch.
There's only so many times you can talk about heart and grit, and the Mets have those qualities. Unfortunately, over the course of a long season, talent carries more weight.
After a surge that carried them over the .500 mark and even brought wild-card fantasies, the Mets find themselves five games under this afternoon with the R.A. Dickey called upon to stop the bleeding. Last season's surprise, Dickey has a respectable ERA, but a lack of support has him at 5-11 and a loser in three of his last four decisions.
Today's lineup will feature:
Angel Pagan, CF
Justin Turner, 2B
David Wright, 3B
Lucas Duda, 1B
Jason Bay, LF
Josh Thole, C
Jason Pridie, RF
Ruben Tejada, SS
R.A. Dickey, RP
After today, the Mets have back-to-back series against Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Meanwhile, Jose Reyes continues to rehab his tender left hamstring. Reyes ran to first this morning without difficulty and said he'll run the bases with more intensity this week and play in a rehab game, perhaps at Buffalo.


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The smallest Audi was already a pretty polished performer. Now Ingolstadt gives the A1 a further spritzing. Jonathan Crouch reports.
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The Audi A1 has been given a modest working over, with a facelift, some different trims for the interior and more equipment. There's additional focus on boosting fuel economy and lowering emissions, while the smartest supermini on the block also ditches the old entry-level 1.2-litre petrol engine in favour of a more efficient 1.0-litre three-cylinder unit. It's still the go-to choice if you want small but don't like cheap.
Audi's A1 was one of those rare cars that just felt instantly right when it launched in 2010. There weren't too many surprises with it, buyers knowing that here was a car that ran on much the same chassis as a Volkswagen Polo but features that reassuringly burnished Audi build integrity. Realising that just because buyers wanted small cars didn't mean they couldn't afford larger ones, the A1 wasn't cheap but the counterpoint to this was that it never felt like Audi were selling out and chasing a market they didn't have any right to be in. But that was 2010 and time moves very quickly in this corner of the market. In that period, BMW's MINI has completely reinvented its range and come at the A1 with some serious products. Audi's response has been measured. More of the same, with fine tuning across the board and the introduction of some typically intriguing engineering.
Driving Experience
It's not like Audi to be a follower but they've jumped on the one-litre three-cylinder petrol engine bandwagon, their triple developing a punchy 95PS, which replaces the unexciting 89PS 1.2-litre TFSI that used to prop up the range. Otherwise, you get to choose from two versions of the turbocharged 1.4-litre TFSI - the 'standard' unit with power up from 122PS to 125PS and the 'Cylinder-on-Demand' alternative now offering 150PS. Diesel customers are served by a 1.6-litre TDI. Depending on version, all engines will be linked to either a five-speed or six-speed manual transmission as standard, and for the first time all, including the 1.6 TDI, will also be available with the option of a seven-speed S tronic twin-clutch automatic transmission. Audi has upgraded the steering in the latest A1, the electromechanical system delivering a more faithful level of speed-sensitive assistance. Both the steering and the optional suspension with adjustable damping are controllable via the Audi drive select adaptive dynamics system, which is now a standard feature for A1 Sport models upwards. It allows the driver to vary the weighting or the damping characteristics across three modes - auto, dynamic and efficiency - and it can also adjust the operating parameters of the engine and the S tronic transmission, where this is fitted. There's also a new suspension option including adjustable dampers available for Sport models and above. At the top of the range sits the ballistic 231PS S1 quattro, which will dust off the sprint to 62mph in just 5.8 seconds.
Design and Build
The A1's styling hasn't changed markedly, but you might well spot the flatter and wider singleframe grille, revised bumpers, different standard alloy wheel designs and an updated colour palette. Otherwise, it's still a familiar shape with the arcing roofline that looks so good in contrast colours. The cabin adheres to typical contemporary Audi design language. If you've driven an A3 or an A4, you'll feel very much at home here, as indeed Audi has intended in order to attract customers looking to downsize. Unlike some rivals, the interior is quiet and maturely finished with no speedometers the size of dinner plates or garish graphics. Audi contend that if you're downsizing from a bigger car, you expect big car sophistication and the A1 serves that up in spades. Everything is soft touch, silicon damped and consistent in feel and design. There's now additional chrome and high gloss black detailing, new upholstery choices including an Alcantara and leather blend and new upholstery colours, such as Laser blue for Sport models and Rotor grey for S line models, which until now have had an exclusively black finish. The A1 body can only afford so much interior space in a package 3954mm long, but the 267-litre boot extends to a respectable 920-litres if you drop the back seats. It's a little bigger than most city cars but is aced for space by a lot of superminis.
Market and Model
Prices haven't marched north by anything too significant, which means that you can pick up a 1.0-litre car from around the £14,500 mark, with the 1.6-litre diesel tacking another grand onto that. Trim levels run through SE, Sport and S line, and even the entry-level car gets alloy wheels, remote central locking, air conditioning, electric front windows and mirrors and a six-speaker single CD audio system with auxiliary iPod connection linked to a 6.5-inch retractable display. A secondary collision brake assist system also now joins this list for the latest range, which can initiate automatic braking to reduce the risks of skidding and additional collisions during an accident. The Sport models now include 'Audi drive select', as well as the Audi Music Interface and preparation for SD card-based navigation. These variants already featured upgrades such as larger 16-inch wheels, sports suspension, sports seats, Bluetooth mobile phone preparation and a Driver's Information System. Go for the S line and you can add xenon headlamps with LED daytime running lights and LED rear lights, further enhancing an additional specification which already included 17-inch alloy wheels, exclusive S line exterior styling and interior detailing, S line sports suspension and leather and cloth combination upholstery. There are also Tech and Comfort packs available if you're not already spent out.
Cost of Ownership
There's been a concerted drive to efficiency in this latest A1, and nowhere is that more clearly demonstrated than in the replacement of the 1.2 TFSI with the 1.0 TFSI engine. The newer three-pot engine is capable of returning at least 60mpg with CO2 emissions of 99g/km, which easily betters the old powerplant's 118g/km and 55mpg showing. The 1.4-litre TFSI petrol engines don't do too badly either, with the standard 125PS unit emitting 115g/km and that clever Cylinder-on-Demand technology shaving that number down to 112g/km, despite packing 150PS. The 1.6 TDI retains its place as the efficiency trailblazer in the range, with CO2 output in this latest version reduced from 99g/km to 92g/km and economy potential increased from 74.3mpg to up to 80.7mpg. The evolutionary styling of this mildly facelifted model isn't going to send residuals of older A1s swirling down the gurgler, which will come as some relief if you're an existing owner, and should help protect the value of your trade in if you fancied chopping it in against a new version.
When we first drove the A1, we were a little underwhelmed. Perhaps we took the Audi build quality for granted, but there was little new ground broken. We wondered how it would fare but it seems we needn't have worried. Those people looking for the Audi of superminis found exactly what they were looking for in the pert shape of the A1 and over 500,000 have been sold. The script isn't going to change too dramatically moving forward. This A1 is a bit better looking, a bit nicer inside and a bit more efficient. Marginal gains, you might say, but they all serve to reinforce its position as something a little way removed from the supermini standard. Its commitment to efficiency and its class-leading residual values make it a smarter selection than many realise. View the Audi A1 as a Volkswagen Polo with tinsel and you've pretty much missed the point.
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by Arnie Fenner
Art by Martin Ansin
You know about
, right? No, not
That's Ming's domain in the classic
Flash Gordon
newspaper strip or the name of Alex Karas' character in
Blazing Saddles
. Mondo.
Mondo is a boutique gallery & studio in Austin, TX that creates limited edition silkscreen prints of alternative movie posters by a a host of artists, as well as vinyl movie soundtracks and apparel. Closely associated with the Alamo Drafthouse Theaters (for whom they often create posters for special events), their work is high-concept, stunningly designed, and ultimately...pretty damn nice. They have a particular fondness for classic movie monsters, but they've done equally noteworthy posters for
The Warriors
, and others. Currently Mondo is hosting a show going on through February 23rd entitled "In Progress: A Collection of Original Poster Art" featuring the sketches, layouts, and line art that led to the finished prints.
I'll include several samples here, but definitely check out their site and blog for all kinds of great pieces. (And, hint: Muddy Colors' own Paolo Rivera has an extremely nice
Lord of the Rings
currently available.)
Art by Laurent Durieux
Art by Jay Shaw
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There appears to be a outpouring of new theoryCS textbooks. I had mentioned the Mitzenmacher/Upfal book on probability and randomized algorithms some time ago. Recently, Jon Kleinberg and Éva Tardos published Algorithm Design, the book with THE MOST elaborate real-world exercises I have seen. Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos Papadimitriou and Umesh Vazirani have another algorithms text coming out as well.
The not-so-latest addition to this list is a new book on complexity theory by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak. For a long time now, Papadimitriou's book has been the definitive text in this area, but it has begun showing its age, especially with all the new developments in complexity theory. The Arora/Barak book is not yet published, but has been placed online for comments.
The magic of Papadimitriou's book was in making complexity classes spring to life as the denizens of the Zoo that they really are. Complexity theory can be a dry topic if not imbued with a sense of direction and purpose, helping us understand the WHY of how these classes came to be. If my cursory scanning of the Arora/Barak book indicates anything, it is that this new book is a worthy successor.
The two books cover similar material in the foundational sections; where I think the new book takes off is in its coverage of the more "modern" aspects of complexity theory: the profound results on pseudorandomness, hardness and cryptograpy, interactive proofs and approximations, natural proofs, communication complexity and lower bound methods, and even quantum computing.


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South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier wasn't happy with his team's offensive showing on Saturday. Then again, it's usually difficult to move the ball against Jadeveon Clowney.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier wasn't happy with his team's offensive showing on Saturday. Then again, it's usually difficult to move the ball against Gameoccks All-American Jadeveon Clowney.
The South Carolina junior defensive end had two sacks — at least two other potential sacks were credited as incompletions — in the two-hour workout at Williams-Brice Stadium, a week after sitting out a scrimmage with a bruised shoulder. He also came in virtually untouched on several other plays to pressure quarterbacks Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson.
"We act like we didn't even try to block Clowney today," Spurrier said. "Maybe we're afraid to block him, I don't know. Hopefully, he's that good but I've seen other people block him. He doesn't get to the quarterback every play like he did today just about."
And that was just in two, short series before the 6-foot-6, 274-pound Clowney watched the rest of the sessions from the sidelines.
Earlier Saturday, the Gamecocks were picked sixth in the AP preseason Top 25, their highest ranking in history to start the season.
"That's flattering," Spurrier said. "I don't know if we can live up to it or not, but we'll try, though."
The Gamecocks will have to get their offense going if they hope to build on the first back-to-back 11-2 seasons in school history.
Shaw, the senior starter, finished just 2 of 6 passing for 25 yards and an interception. He walked off the field shaking his right, throwing hand after the pick by freshman cornerback Jamari Smith. Shaw went to the locker room to get it looked at, then returned with ice on his right hand.
Spurrier said it was a bruised thumb and did not think it was anything serious. Shaw is coming off foot surgery last January that kept him out of spring workouts.
Thompson, a former Boiling Springs standout and Shaw's backup, was 3 for 8 for 47 yards. The offense's only passing touchdown came with freshman Brendan Nosovitch under center on a 10-yard pass to receiver Pharoh Cooper. That came after Nosovitch and Cooper hooked up on a 35-yard pass play.
Sophomore Mike Davis led the rushers with 53 yards on four carries. Freshman David Williams had the only other touchdown in 12 series with a 1-yard run.
South Carolina's five quarterbacks combined to go 16 of 37 for 180 yards with two interceptions and the one TD. The group, though, continued to compete without two of the team's top receivers from last year in Bruce Ellington and tight end Rory Anderson, both with hamstring problems.
Spurrier was encouraged by his offense a week ago. But that was with Clowney on the sidelines nursing a bruised shoulder. Clowney missed Monday's practice, too, drawing some pointed comments from Spurrier about how if the injury didn't come around soon, he might keep his star lineman and reigning Southeastern Conference defensive player of the year on the sidelines when the Gamecocks open against North Carolina on Aug. 29.
Clowney returned to the field Tuesday and looked his disruptive self at the scrimmage.
"Hopefully, he's going to make it tough for everybody," South Carolina defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward said. "Jadeveon is a special athlete. We talk about him all the time, but he deserves all the praise he gets because he's a really good football player."
Spurrier did not make Clowney available to media afterward, although the good-natured player shouted to teammates given extra running, "Hey, I love to see that. All you fat boys" working out.
Clowney has been one of college football's most talked-about athletes since his last game at the Outback Bowl, when he popped the helmet off Michigan runner Vincent Smith in South Carolina's 33-28 New Year's Day victory. The hit won an ESPY for year's best play and the hype hasn't slowed down as the season draws closer.
Spurrier says much of Clowney's success Saturday was due to the Gamecocks' "soft" offensive line. Davis, the Gamecocks tailback, thinks the sacks given up today will help the linemen when the games start.
"Clowney is a freak of nature," Davis said. "So going against him and the defensive line we have is only make those guys better."


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – King University baseball player Tyler Gaby turned in a great performance in last weekend's three-game series at Francis Marion University. He drove in five runs, including a three-run home run, en route to being named Conference Carolinas Player of the Week.
Gaby had a stellar week at the plate, going 6-for-13 at the plate for a .462 batting average in a three-game series at Peach Belt Conference opponent Francis Marion University. In a 7-4 Saturday victory in the series opener, King's first win of the season, Gaby went 2-for-4 at the plate, hitting an RBI triple and coming around to score as part of a seven-run second inning.
In the second game of the series, Gaby laced a two-out single with the bases clear in the first inning, then stole second and came around to score on an RBI single. He laced an RBI double to left field in his next at-bat, and then launched a 385-foot home run off the scoreboard as part of a six-run fourth inning. He finished his weekend with a single in Sunday's rubber game. He slugged .923 for the week and had five runs batted in.
King is in action again on Wednesday when they host Lincoln Memorial University at 2:00 p.m. The Tornado then host cross-town rival Virginia Intermont College on Thursday at 2:00 p.m.


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I would like to say Happy Fathers Day to all the DADS out there.
Fathers are very important and all children need their Fathers. I salute all Fathers who are involved in their children's lives.In today's world with a lot of families having divorced parents it is not always an easy task for either mothers or fathers to put their differences aside and put their children first.
I have personal experience with this and even though I have my differences with my ex-husband I am so grateful for him being in my daughters' life – because they love him.
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We realize that �life happens,� as the saying goes, and sometimes you may have overdue library books.
We realize that �life happens,� as the saying goes, and sometimes you may have overdue library books.
Through Dec. 31, the library will offer a �food for fines� amnesty.
The library will forgive $1, in fines up to $20, for every can or box of donated food. We�ll donate all collected food to Crestview�s Sharing and Caring program. Verify that all food donations do not have expired dates.
Now is a great time to check all family members� library cards for late books or unpaid fines. You may go online to check your account for overdue items and bills owed. See www.cityofcrestview.org/library.php, and click on the �Check your account, renew items, or place holds� link. Type in your 14-digit library barcode number (with no spaces) and your PIN (which may be CHANGEME if you have never set one yourself). Log in and go to �Review My Account.�
Call us at 682-4432 if you have questions.
2013 art exhibit space available
Have you noticed the varied and talented art exhibits displayed in the library?
Paintings hang on the north exhibit wall and three-dimensional works and collections appear in the lobby display cases. This month, the cases feature works on local railroading including the Yellow River Railroad.
If you are a north Okaloosa county artist who would like to be considered for our 2013 schedule, please contact me at 682-4432 for a time to bring in portfolio samples.
End of the Year Tax-deductible Donations
Please consider a tax-deductible donation to the Friends of the Crestview Library before the New Year.
Write �book fund donation� on the check�s memo line, and it will be used exclusively for new library books.
Bring your check to the library any time or mail it to the Friends at P.O. Box 1972, Crestview, FL 32536.
�Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,� by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Katherine Boo, has garnered much award attention this year, including Library Journal�s Top Ten.
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality become human.
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a one-legged woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternative route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter � Annawadi�s "most-everything girl" � will soon beco
me its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a 15-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe they�re inching closer to the good lives and good times they call "the full enjoy."
Then Abdul is falsely accused of driving his neighbor to suicide in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal.
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, these characters are impossible to forget.
Sandra Dreaden is the Crestview Public Library�s reference librarian.


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Presiding Judge: P. Kevin Castel
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Performances/On Stage
The iconic folk rockers in concert, Thursday, Sept. 14, 8 p.m. $95, $75, $65. The Space, 250 Post Ave. Westbury. (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.thespaceatwestbury.com.
Barry Manilow
The pop legend in concert, Thursday, Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m. Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke., Uniondale, (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.nassaucoliseum.com.
The classic musical set backstage on the 1920s-30s burlesque circuit, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 14-15, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 16, 3 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 17, 2 p.m. $76 and $71. John W. Engeman Theater, 250 Main St., Northport. (631) 261-2900 or www.engemantheater.com.
Steve Earle and the Dukes
The country rockers in concert, with Los Lobos, Thursday, Sept. 14, 8 p.m. $69.50, $49.50, $39.50, $2.50 . The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or
Into the Woods
Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical retelling of fairy tales, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 15-16, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 17, 3 p.m. $22, $20 students and seniors Friday and Sunday. Merrick Theatre & Center for the Arts, 2222 Hewlett Ave., Merrick. 868-6400 or www.merrick-theatre.com.
Radio Hits with The Fabulous Accords
The oldies group in concert, Friday, Sept. 15, 12:30 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theater, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
Bijan Mortzavi
The Iranian violinist in concert, Saturday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m. $200, $100, $85, $65, $60, $55, The Space, 250 Post Ave. Westbury. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.thespaceatwestbury.com.
Bob Hope Tribute
A musical comedy salute to the entertainment icon, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2:30 p.m. Lynbrook Public Library, 56 Eldert St., Lynbrook. 599-8630.
Food and Music Festival
Outdoor free event with food trucks and entertainment by Long Island Fringe Festival performers, culminating in a Battle of the Bands Saturday, Sept. 16, 3-8 p.m. Six bands compete in front of a panel of judges. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU Post, Rte. 25A, Brookville. (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.tillescenter.org.
Sugar and Spice
The band in concert, with '70s hits, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theater, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
A concert version of the acclaimed musical, featuring a cast of Broadway performers, Saturday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 17, 2 p.m. $50-$100; VIP tickets include premium seating and Saturday post-show reception with the cast. Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Ave., Garden City. 877-4000 or aupac.adelphi.edu.
The Hambones
The band performs a mix of classic country/rockabilly and blues, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2 p.m. Tickets required. Merrick Library, 2279 Merrick Rd., Merrick. 377-6112.
Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)
Madcap comedy with three actors performing 37 of the Bard's plays in a 90-minute romp, Sunday, Sept. 17, 7 p.m. $15. Arena Players, Vanderbilt Mansion Courtyard, Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Rd., Centerport. 293-0674 or www.arenaplayers.org.
John Waite
The singer-songwriter in concert, with contemporary folk-pop singer-songwriter Ellis Paul, Sunday, Sept. 17, 7 p.m. $35-$45. Madison Theatre, Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. 323-4444 or www.madisontheatreny.org.
Dick Fox's Doo Wop Extravganza
Classic doo wop groups in concert, Sunday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m. Lineup includes Lou Christie, The Skyliners, The Tymes, Shirley Alston Reeves, Eddie Holman, The Del Satins and The Knockouts. $99.50, $69.50, $49.50. NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury. (800) 745-3000 or www.livenation.com.
Kevin James
The "Kevin Can Wait" star takes his act back on the road, Sunday, Sept. 17, 8 p.m. $99.50, $79.50, $69.50, $49.50. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.paramountny.com.
Manhattan Lyric Opera
Anne Tormella and Doug Botnick in concert, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2 p.m. Program features hits from classic operas, operettas and Broadway. Elmont Memorial Library Theater, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
For the Kids
Night Hike
Explore the trails at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning and find out what's lurking in the woods, Friday, Sept. 15, 7:30-9 p.m. After the walk, visit the Amazing Animals Exhibit to meet some nocturnal animals when they're awake. $7. Pre-registration required. Center for Science Teaching and Learning, 1 Tanglewood Rd., Rockville Centre. 764-0045 or www.cstl.org.
Varied fun and educational activities, featuring a high-energy performance by the Grammy-winning Tim Kubart & the Space Cadets, Sunday, Sept. 17,12 p.m.-4 p.m.; concert at 2:30 p.m. Old Westbury Gardens, 71 Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. 333-0048 or www.oldwestbury.org.
Museums/ Galleries and more...
Andy Warhol
This original exhibition of works by pop artist Andy Warhol includes a selection of screenprints and photographs from the Hofstra University Museum collections. By juxtaposing his photographs with his screenprints, the exhibit contextualizes and reveals his working methods and artistic process. Through March 11. Hofstra University's David Filderman Gallery, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672 or www.hofstra.edu/museum.
Converging Voices: Gender and Identity
An original exhibition that focuses on issues of gender and identity, reflecting an international scope. Featured artists include Ghada Amer, Mariam Ghani, Martine Gutierrez, Guerrilla Girls, Yee I-Lann, Zanele Muholi, Pinaree Sanpitak, Carrie Mae Weems, and Philemona Williamson. Through Dec. 15. Hofstra University's Emily Lowe Gallery, Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672 or www.hostra.edu/museum.
New York, New York
The exhibition, guest curated by Director Emerita Constance Schwartz, portrays the city's grit and glamour, its excitement and bustle as interpreted through more than 140 artworks. Artists on view include John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, Childe Hassam, Red Grooms, Robert Henri, Fairfield Porter, Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. Through Nov. 5. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. 484-9337 or
Ebb and Flow: Seascape and Shoreline Views
An exhibition of works of artists inspired by the sea. Over four dozen paintings, prints, and photographs from the Heckscher Museum's permanent collection are on view, including works by Reynolds Beal, Eugene Boudin, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Stan Brod sky, Arthur Dove, Edward and Thomas Moran, Roy Nicholson, Jules Olitski, Betty Parsons, Maurice Prendergast, and William Trost Richards, among others. Through Nov. 12. Heckscher Museum of Art, Main St. and Prime Ave., Huntington. (631) 351-3250 or www.heckscher.org.
Afternoon Movie
See "My Cousin Rachel," the gothic romantic thriller based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, Friday, Sept. 15, 2:30 p.m.; also the documentary "Ocean Frontiers III: Leaders in Ocean Stewardship & the New Blue Economy," Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theater, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
At the Movies
See "Everbody Loves Somebody," the bilingual romantic comedy set in Los Angeles and Baja that centers on a successful doctor trying to heal her personal life, Friday, Sept. 15, 2 p.m. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
Film Classic
See "Behold a Pale Horse," 1964 classic that chronicles the story of Manuel Artiguez, an aging Spanish Civil War guerilla, Friday, Sept. 15, 2 p.m. Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. 766-2360.
Friday Flick
See "Going In Style," the heist comedy about three lifelong pals who risk everything by embarking on a daring bid to knock off a bank, Friday, Sept. 15, 1 p.m. Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, 60 Verona Place, Valley Stream. 825-6422


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60% Compost (compost, humate, coconut fiber, coir, earthworm castings, coffee grounds, etc.)
30% Rock (lava sand, natural diatomaceous earth (DE), zeolite, granite, etc.)
10% Sugar (corn meal, dry molasses, wheat meal, etc.)
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老子 Lǎozi (c. 6th – 5th century BC) was a Chinese monist philosopher; also called Lao Zi, Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, or Lao Tze. The Tao Te Ching (道德經, Pinyin: Dào Dé Jīng, or Dao De Jing) represents the sole document generally attributed to Laozi.
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Tao Te Ching[edit]
- The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be defined is not the unchanging name.
Non-existence is called the antecedent of heaven and earth; Existence is the mother of all things.
From eternal non-existence, therefore, we serenely observe the mysterious beginning of the Universe; From eternal existence we clearly see the apparent distinctions.
These two are the same in source and become different when manifested.
This sameness is called profundity. Infinite profundity is the gate whence comes the beginning of all parts of the Universe.
- Ch. 1, as translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao (1904)
- Also as Tao called Tao is not Tao.
- The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
- Ch. 1, Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English (1972)
- The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
- Ch. 1, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- The tao that can be described
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be spoken
is not the eternal Name.
The nameless is the boundary of Heaven and Earth.
The named is the mother of creation.
Freed from desire, you can see the hidden mystery.
By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real.
Yet mystery and reality
emerge from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness born from darkness.
The beginning of all understanding.
- Ch. 1, as translated by J.H.McDonald (1996) [Public domain translation]
- The way you can go
isn't the real way.
The name you can say
isn't the real name.
Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.
So the unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.
Two things, one origin,
but different in name,
whose identity is mystery.
Mystery of all mysteries!
The door to the hidden.
- Ch. 1, as interpreted by Ursula K. LeGuin (1998)
- A way can be a guide but not a fixed path
names can be given but not permanent labels
Nonbeing is called the beginning of heaven and earth
being is called the mother of all things
Always passionless thereby observe the subtle
ever intent thereby observe the apparent
These two come from the same source but differ in name
both are considered mysteries
The mystery of mysteries is the gateway of marvels
- Ch. 1, as translated by Thomas Cleary (2004)
- A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!
- Chapter 3 as translated by Lionel Giles
- The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.
It is hidden but always present.
I don't know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God.
- Ch. 4, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- The Tao is like a bellows:
it is empty yet infinitely capable.
The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
- Ch. 5, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- The Tao is called the Great Mother:
empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.
- Ch. 6, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.
- Ch. 7
- Thirty spokes unite at the single hub;
It is the empty space which makes the wheel useful.
Mold clay to form a bowl;
It is the empty space which makes the bowl useful.
Cut out windows and doors;
It is the empty space which makes the room useful.
- Ch. 11
- A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, "We did this ourselves."
- Ch. 17
- A longer paraphrase of this quotation, with modern embellishments, is often attributed to Laozi: see "Misattributed" below.
- Since before time and space were,
the Tao is.
It is beyond is and is not.
How do I know this is true?
I look inside myself and see.
- Ch. 21, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- Therefore the Sage embraces the One,
And becomes the model of the world.
He does not reveal himself,
And is therefore luminous.
He does not justify himself,
And is therefore far-famed.
He does not boast himself,
And therefore people give him credit.
He does not pride himself,
And is therefore the ruler among men.
It is because he does not contend
That no one in the world can contend against him.
- Ch. 22, as translated by Lin Yutang (1948)
- There is a thing inherent and natural,
Which existed before heaven and earth.
Motionless and fathomless,
It stands alone and never changes;
It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted.
It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe.
I do not know its name. If I am forced to give it a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.
- Ch. 25, as translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao (1904)
- A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself of concepts
and keeps his mind open to what is.
Thus the Master is available to all people
and doesn't reject anyone.
He is ready to use all situations
and doesn't waste anything.
This is called embodying the light.
- Ch. 27, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- Variants:
- A good traveller has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving.
- As quoted in In Search of King Solomon's Mines (2003) by Tahir Shah, p. 217
- A true traveller has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving.
- Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- Ch. 33, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- Variant translation by Lin Yutang: "He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise".
- Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, take it and practice it earnestly.
Scholars of the middle class, when they hear of it, take it half earnestly.
Scholars of the lowest class, when they hear of it, laugh at it.
Without the laughter, there would be no Tao.
- Ch. 41
- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
- Ch. 46
- By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.
- Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955)
- To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
- Ch. 48
- Block the passages, shut the doors,
And till the end your strength shall not fail.
Open up the passages, increase your doings,
And till your last day no help shall come to you.
- Ch. 52 as translated by Arthur Waley (1934)
- The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Ch. 57
- Variant translation: The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.
- 千里之行始於足下。
- Qiān lǐ zhī xíng shǐ yú zú xià.
- A journey of a thousand li starts with a single step.
- Ch. 64, line 12
- Variant translations:
- A journey of a thousand [miles] starts with a single step.
- A journey of a thousand miles started with a first step.
- A thousand-mile journey starts from your feet down there.
- As translated by Dr. Hilmar Klaus
- Every journey begins with a single step.
- The mark of a moderate man
is freedom from his own ideas.
Tolerant like the sky,
all-pervading like sunlight,
firm like a mountain,
supple like a tree in the wind,
he has no destination in view
and makes use of anything
life happens to bring his way.
- Ch. 59 as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.
- Ch. 60
- When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.
- Chapter 72, translated by Gia Fu Feng
- Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others, the happier he is.
The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
The Tao nourishes by not forcing.
By not dominating, the Master leads.
- Ch. 81 as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- I am not at all interested in immortality, only in the taste of tea.
- From Lu Tong (also spelled as Lu Tung)
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- This quotation has been misattributed to Laozi; its origin is actually unknown (see "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" on Wiktionary). This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius and Guan Zhong.
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Attributed to Laozi in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
- What I hear, I forget. What I say, I remember. What I do, I understand.
- This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius.
- Tell me and I [will] forget. Show me and I [will] remember. Involve me and I [will] understand.
- 不聞不若聞之,聞之不若見之,見之不若知之,知之不若行之;學至於行之而止矣
- From Xun Zi 荀子
- This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius.
- When the center does not hold, the circle falls apart.
- This is a paraphrase of lines in "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats.
- Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- This quotation's origin is actually unknown, however it is not found in the Dao De Jing.
- 生命是一连串的自发的自然变化。逆流而动只会徒增伤悲。接受现实,万物自然循着规律发展。
- This quotation's origin is actually unknown, however it is not found in the Dao De Jing.
- Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
- Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner"
- Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner"
- Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat, a positive thinking book published in 2013.
- When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
- Attributed to "Jimmy R." in Days of Healing, Days of Joy (1987)[1]
- "Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. With the best leaders when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, "We have done this ourselves."
- Only the final bold section is connected to Laozi (see Ch. 17 of Tao Te Ching above). The origin of the added first section is unclear.
Quotes about Laozi[edit]
- We believe that the Daoist tradition started as a response to the excesses of civilization. That was Lao Tzu's deal anyway. Lots of similar traditions dealt with issues of work and status and anxiety and nature the same way. But they were all, pretty much, taken over by fascists and real reactionaries. Even Taoism was taken over by charlatans and phonies. But the pure undogmatic centre of lots of traditions (Christianity, Vedism, Buddhism etc) is all the same. And that's Daoism.
- According to religious scholar Huston Smith, Taoism has only one basic text, the Tao Te Ching (or, in English, The Way and Its Power), a slim volume that, as Smith says, can be read in half an hour or a lifetime. Legend has it that a Chinaman by the name of Lao Tzu one day said "Enough!" (loosely translated from the Chinese), hopped on a water buffalo (possibly with rust coloration), and started heading a-way out west to Tibet.
On his way out, someone stopped Lao Tzu and asked if he would write down the tenets of his ethos before leaving town. Being a lazy man, Lao Tzu lodged his water buffalo against an abutment long enough to write the Tao Te Ching's 81 short verses. When finished, he kicked his water buffalo into gear and, tossing his ringer to the man, rode off into the misty horizon of legend and myth.
Regardless of whether the legend is true, or whether Lao Tzu even really existed, the Chinaman is not the issue here, Dudes. The issue is that the Tao Te Ching is the perfect expression of Taoism's wu wei of life, or in the parlance of Huston Smith, a life of creative quietude in which "the conscious mind must relax, stop standing in its own light, let go" so that it can flow with the Tao (or Way) of the universe.
- Rev. Dwayne Eutsey, in the Introduction of the Dudeist holy book The Dude De Ching (2010)
- Lao-tse may be regarded as the deepest thinker of Chinese antiquity.
- William Howitt, in The History of the Supernatural (1863), p. 321
- Helpmeat too, contrasta toga, his fiery goosemother, laotsey taotsey, woman who did, he tell princes of the age about. You sound on me, judges! Suppose we brisken up. Kings! Meet the Mem, Avenlith, all viviparous out of couple of lizards. She just as fenny as he is fulgar. How laat soever her latest still her sawlogs come up all standing. Psing a psalm of psexpeans, apocryphul of rhyme! His cheekmole of allaph foriverever her allinall and his Quran never teach it her the be the owner of thyself.
- James Joyce, in Finnegans Wake (1939)
- If there is one book in the whole of Oriental literature which one should read above all the others, it is, in my opinion, Laotse's Book of Tao. If there is one book that can claim to interpret for us the spirit of the Orient, or that is necessary to the understanding of characteristic Chinese behaviour, including literally "the ways that are dark," it is the Book of Tao. For Laotse's book contains the first enunciated philosophy of camouflage in the world; it teaches the wisdom of appearing foolish, the success of appearing to fail, the strength of weakness and the advantage of lying low, the benefit of yielding to your adversary and the futility of contention for power. It accounts in fact for any mellowness that may be seen in Chinese social and individual behaviour. If one reads enough of this Book, one automatically acquires the habit and ways of the Chinese. I would go further and say that if I were asked what antidote could be found in Oriental literature and philosophy to cure this contentious modern world of its inveterate belief in force and struggle for power, I would name this book of "5,000 words" written some 2,400 years ago. For Laotse (born about 570 B.C.) has the knack of making Hitler and other dreamers of world mastery appear foolish and ridiculous. The chaos of the modem world, I believe, is due to the total lack of a philosophy of the rhythm of life such as we find in Laotse and his brilliant disciple Chuangtse, or anything remotely resembling it. And furthermore, if there is one book advising against the multifarious activities and futile busyness of the modern man, I would again say it is Laotse's Book of Tao. It is one of the profoundest books in the world's philosophy.
- Lin Yutang, The Wisdom of China and India (New York: Random House, 1942), "Laotse, the Book of Tao (The Tao Teh Ching)", Introduction, p. 579
- Laotse packs his oracular wisdom into five thousand words of concentrated brilliance. No thinker ever wrote fewer words to embody a whole philosophy and had as much influence upon the thought of a nation.
- Lin Yutang, From Pagan to Christian (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1959), Ch. 4: "The Peak of Mount Tao", pp. 107–108
- Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.
- Henry Miller, in My Bike & Other Friends (1977), p. 12
- The oldest known Chinese sage is Lao-Tze, the founder of Taoism. "Lao Tze" is not really a proper name, but means merely "the old philosopher." He was (according to tradition) an older contemporary of Confucius, and his philosophy is to my mind far more interesting. He held that every person, every animal, and every thing has a certain way or manner of behaving which is natural to him, or her, or it, and that we ought to conform to this way ourselves and encourage others to conform to it. "Tao" means "way," but used in a more or less mystical sense, as in the text: "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life." I think he fancied that death was due to departing from the "way," and that if we all lived strictly according to nature we should be immortal, like the heavenly bodies.
- Bertrand Russell, in The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XI - Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- 15 Tao Te Ching English translations @GeekFarm.org
- Translations in more than twenty-one languages: On-line Tao Te King Original Chinese text with translations, including side-by-side comparison of two or four translations. Navigation in English or in German.
- Translations in English (Waley, Lau), French (Julien), German (Wilhelm) and modern Chinese: On-line Daodejing Original Chinese text arrayed with translations.
- Illustrated Translations in English by multiple authors: "TaoTeChingMe.com - translations and interpretations
- Tao Te King as translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao (1904)
- Interpretation by Stephen Mitchell: On-line Tao Te Ching.
- Translation by j.h. mcdonald: Religions and Scriptures: Tao Te Ching.
- An online translation by Charles Muller: Professor Muller's site: Daode jing.
- Translation by Chad Hansen: On-line Tao Te Ching: both English and modern Chinese. Also Zhuangzi.
- An Informal online interpolation by Ron Hogan is available in several formats at Beatrice.com: Tao Te Ching. An iPod formatted version of this translation is available at SwiftlyTilting.com: The Tao Te Ching for your iPod
- Translation by Sonja Elen Kisa: On-line Tao Te Ching (selected poems) going by the name The Flow and the Power of Good
- Translation from the City University of Hong Kong: On-line Tao Te Ching. Classical and Vernacular Chinese, and English.
- 老子 Lǎozĭ 道德經 Dàodéjīng - 拼音 Pīnyīn+王弼 WángBì+馬王堆 Mǎwángduī+郭店 Guōdiàn+大一生水 Tàiyī Shēngshǔi
- Interpolation by Peter Merel: On-line Tao Te Ching.
- Commentary by Swami Nirmalananda Giri: Commentary on the Tao Te Ching.
- Wayne L. Wang The Dynamic Tao and Its Manifestations: Tao and modern scientific thoughts
- Tao De Ching (GNL's Not Lao)
- Sanderson Beck's Interpretation
- Translations and commentary by Nina Correa
- A "plain English" online interpolation of Chapters 1–37 ("Tao") by the Universal Dialectic Institute: Tao: The Way of Nature
- Free mp3 downloads of Tao Te Ching narrated by Michael Scott of ThoughtAudio.com.
- Multiple English translations of Lao Tzu's the Tao Te Ching - Compare translations side-by-side
Chinese versions[edit]
- Comparison Chart Chinese characters with PinYin spellings of the Wang Bi, HeShang Gong, Mawangdui A and B, Guodian texts.
- Bamboo slips of the Guodian text Photographs of the Guodian Bamboo Slips with modern equivalents of the Chinese characters, PinYin and Wade Giles spellings, and English definitions.
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Nanotechnology in Processing and Packaging
Nanotechnologys promises may be fulfilled earlier in the processing and packaging areas than in the ingredient realm, with improved filtration, new structural materials and sensors that detect pathogens.
Even in a world that passes from one technological revolution to another in the blink of an eye, nanotechnology is mind-boggling. From its efficacy to its mere arithmetic, nanotechnology dazzles. It is hard to stretch our minds sufficiently to comprehend the capability of the infinitesimally tiny particles that are beginning to change our industry and our world.
It all begins with what seems a contradiction: Materials work differently on the submicroscopic level than they do in the big world where we live and operate. That is, the physical chemicals and biological properties of materials operating at the nanoscale differ in basic ways from the properties they have on a macroscale.
An Industrial Nanotech technician applies Nansulate Translucent PT for long-term protection of aluminum ceiling panels.
Nanotechnology refers to the manufacture of functional objects between 1 and 100 nanometers in length. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. Or, in a commonly used standard of reference, it is 1/100,000 the diameter of the average human hair.
(Note: The "nano" definition is flexible and has been stretched to accommodate applications of materials up to 200 nanometers. In practice, the differences between technologies using nano- and micron-size materials blur.)
Particles this small operate differently than they do when amassed into the big objects we see and work with each day. This enables some astounding, nearly miraculous effects on foods and technologies to protect human health and safety.
"The nano-scale brings new features, new functions, new properties (of foods and food components) into play," says Qingrong Huang, a Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.) food scientist.
The hope it brings, however, is tempered with caution.
The industry has learned that some technologies can become public relations nightmares regardless of their apparent potential benefits, as evidenced in the public's resistance to irradiation and genetic engineering. Perceived dangers often outweigh perceived benefits no matter what the reality.
Nanotechnology's promise of healthier, safer and tastier products may be fulfilled earlier in the processing and packaging areas than in the ingredient realm. The public will likely welcome low-cost sensors that detect pathogen presence, filters that remove potential undesirable elements before they can reach the food or the consumer and particles that actively seek and destroy harmful bacteria.
Still, industry leaders are probing the awesome potential of the technology. For five years, Kraft Foods, Northfield, Ill., has invested in the NanoteK Consortium, a group of universities, national laboratories and experimental companies exploring nanotech potential. So have companies like Nestle and Unilever.
Perhaps wary of premature probing from watchdog groups, most manufacturers are laying low on the subject. Kraft claims its only commitment at the moment is to learning about and understanding potential applications of nanotechnology in the areas of food safety, nutrition, health and wellness.
"We have sponsored research at various universities and research institutions to help us imagine the food industry in the years ahead," notes Cathy Pernu, Kraft's senior manager of corporate and government affairs. "Currently, we consider nanotech research as appropriate when it could serve as an enabling technology to achieve a strategy. For example, if it could improve packaging by adding sensors to identify spoiled food."
Pernu emphasizes company commitment to "responsible development and application" of nanotechnology in the key areas of environmental, health and safety.
"While we are still exploring potential applications, in the future we could be purchasing ingredients or packaging materials developed with the technology rather than using it in manufacturing processes," she adds.
Nano sensors
The other side of nanotechnology is the creation of new devices or using a nano device to manipulate nano objects on a nano scale.
Food safety is the industry's No. 1 concern, and incorporating minute biosensors at many points in the food chain holds tremendous potential for safety monitoring. Such sensors might detect the presence of dangerous pathogens and give processors an accurate real-time indication of a product's relative quality or safety from the raw material stage to the consumer's kitchen.
For one example, color-coded pathogen indicators employing nanotechnology can test the quality and safety of milk in a container. When the pathogens are present, they bind to the antibodies on the indicator. Different color levels reflect the concentration of the pathogen and the corresponding safety and quality of the milk.
Radio frequency identification technologies employing bio-chips or bio-sensors can enable processors to monitor value-added products at any point in the supply chain. Spoiled seafood, for example, forms the chemical triethylene. Enzymes incorporated into sensors can trigger a response in the presence of triethylene. Personnel can determine product safety or quality issues from almost anywhere via radio frequency signals passing through a central control system. "You can determine when a big load of seafood is bad well before it reaches its destination," Huang explains.
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