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Conspiracy Theory theory
Proper grammar for dummies prior to 101.
Whoever coined the term 'conspiracy theory' obviously had no knowledge of English grammar.
This applies to those who use it indiscriminately.
I am not talking of US 'english', I am talking of U.K./British or whatever, English.
The word 'conspiracy' is a noun. A noun is a 'naming' word. A noun, therefore is a 'name' for something.
The word 'theory' is also a noun.
The expression 'conspiracy theory' is using the word 'conspiracy' as an adjective. Therefore it is not a properly constructed phrase/expression.
A noun, does not and cannot (according to English grammar) describe a noun.
A word that describes a noun, is an adjective.
Therefore the expression 'conspiracy theory' is redundant or a nonsense.
The expression should be thus: A theory of a conspiracy.
Thus it can be scientifically (observation or experimentation) tested.
The fact that the expression 'conspiracy theory' has apparently entered the language as a noun-noun phrase means this it can be used as a weapon (label) against those who may or may not agree with a certain situation of contention, whereby this relegates an individual or individuals as anathema to a project that is clearly anathema to human survival. In other words, dissension to an 'official' view may be (to be kind) regarded as a criminal act based upon the laws of the 'overlords', whomsoever they may be or to whom they serve for whatever reason.
Further, no-one can be described as a 'conspiracy theorist' since such a person cannot be found…
To engage in dissent of a controlling mechanism is not a heresy. Peter K. Sharpen
Here endeth the English lesson…
The War Words of Medicine
It strikes me as humourous that the use of 'war' words is so prevalant when talking of 'disease'.
Does this say something about our heritage?
Let's take a look.
We have:
'bad' germs (bacteria and not proven viruses)/cholesterol etc.
'battles' with 'cancer'
'stabbing' pains
'robbing' us of our health
'beating' a cold
'fighting' infection
'war' on 'disease'
'invasive enemies'
'negative' results
'barrage' of drugs
'aggressive' 'disease'
armoury/arsenal of drugs
'attack' on the (bogus) 'immune system'
magic 'bullet' (pill)
'campaigns' against 'diseases'
'casualty' of 'disease'
'combat' 'disease'
'defence' against…
'defences' (the bogus 'immune' system)
'destroy' (kill, maim…especially non-existent 'germs' and 'viruses')
'encounter' (usually something inexplicable)
front line (as in: 'We are in the front line of medical research'.)
outbreak (as in a pandemonium, sorry pandemic)
'quest' for a 'cure' (meaning it is as harder to find a 'cure' than the Holy Grail)
'regime' for a 'diet' or 'management' of a 'disease' (meaning, it looks good)
'resistance' to 'infection'
scare (as in: any diagnosis usually created from thin air)
strategy (as in: 'We don't know what to do'.)
suffering (the effect of toxic injections/pills, slash and burn)
suppression (usually of the body's self-healing processes)
'surrender' (meaning die)
'survivor' (meaning they got away with it)
'suspect(ed)' (meaning probably not)
thwart the onset (meaning: trying everything to stop something they don't understand)
uniform (meaning global unhealth programmes)
vulnerability (meaning ignorance (lack of data) being treated by the more ignorant (wrong data))
weapon (meaning anything prescribed is a potential killing machine)
It makes you think…
One has to ask oneself why we eat.
Why do we eat?
We eat because our bodies need nutrition. The body requires certain 'elements' to aid survival.
Of course, nutrition also relies upon the 'energy' of the sun to transform what we eat into what the body needs to survive.
Whatever we call 'vitamins', 'minerals' and so forth are only elements that the body requires (whether flora or fauna) and are ongoing processes which aid any survival.
How we ingest our 'food' is vital to our survival.
Nature (or the universe-at-large) provides all that is necessary in small doses so long as we accept the notion.
Healthy people do not get sick.
We may assume (by the fact that we are in the here and now) that anyone less ancient than ourselves, were able to survive otherwise we would not be here, now, without their survival mechanisms.
As far as we can know, our ancestors, when they created 'fire', discovered that some heated food, rather than 'raw' was more adaptable to their intestines that direct raw food. We would otherwise be 'cannibals' or directly responsible for consuming fresh-killed animals.
So-called 'human-kind' adapted from these proto-beings and adapted to 'cooking' or 'heating' their food through the adaptation of creating 'fire', over which they 'cooked' their food.
Cooking and heating are not the same.
One might easily, I suppose, contest the issue of 'heating' and 'cooking'.
They are not the same.
Cooking is 'heating' (if you will) from the outside (via our beloved ancestors) of food.
This method was/is an obvious and 'natural' method of preparing food for digestive processes. We have also adapted to this process. It obviously must have 'worked' because a great deal of us are still 'here' to contemplate the notion.
The invention of the 'micro-wave' oven has led to the current levels of 'obesity'.
Obesity is the inability of the human organism to adapt to the heating of food from the 'inside'.
'Heating' and 'cooking' are not the same thing.
'Cooking' is the transference of what we call 'heat' into something the body perceives as nutritional and can be thus processed by that body to provide the nutrients required for its survival.
'Heating' is to impart a further 'value' of that nutrition' (or at least part of it) to that end. The 'value' is necessarily negative because the original 'value' may or will be lost in the 're-heating'.
'Heating' food, for example by microwaves, in the first instance, is not to provide nutritional 'food' but to merely 'make it perceived as 'hot' or 'warm' (depending on individual perspectives or physical acuities).
Misnamed micro-wave 'ovens' are therefore 'heaters'.
They 'heat' from the inside of a product. They heat by manipulating the original ingredients into potential (to be kind) substances which an organism is ill-adapted to consume and therefore leads to the present situation whereby the consumers of the products of microwave irradiation succumb to the effects.
One of which is obesity.
In a word, microwave 'cooking' produces toxicity to a body (flora or fauna).
Obesity is 'caused' (if you will) by the inability of a body to adapt to non-nutritional foods irradiated by heaters of their supposed sustenance from which they are to derive their longevity or survival.
Jesus Lives!
Warning! This transcript is not for the closed-minded but is non-denominational satire. Your beliefs are your own.
Daily Grail correspondent Angela Arch-Gabriel managed to track down the elusive Saviour who is now living Everywhere in a secret location in a 'born-yet-again' fashion and close to a Hub of Religious Fanaticism (H.O.R.F.) apparently pervading Western so-called 'culture'.
We are pleased to give you a complete transcript interview with this enigmatic myth in the true style of modern media.
You can also view the video on YourTube*, in the Tube* and on the tube*, depending on your requirements and the availabilty of the services and the technological devices you own or can view over an unsuspecting shoulder. There are also pod-casts and worm-casts; i-pods, pea pods and seed pods. There are also i-pads, knee pads, sanitary………. for any senses you may have left after medication of any sort.
*Please note that CGI (Computer-generated imagery) is now mandatory for most 'modern' video so your vision of Jesus may not be the same as others.
You can also follow Jesus on Twittering to hear about His latest miracles and be a friend of Jesus on Facelessbook and other anti-social networking sites. Follow, like or dislike. You know it makes sense.
Any errors of typography in the following transcript will be due to the fact that Angela's word-processor failed or she had to change the ribbon on her 1960 Olivetti typewriter as she can only type at ten words per minute (w.p.m.) using full or proper words and not indecipherable acronyms.
Transcript begins:
Angela: Hello, Jesus.
Jesus: Hello, Angela.
Angela: You have apparently been 'born again'; could you please explain that?
Jesus: Well, Angela, that is the nature of my 'being'. Without constant resurrection, I would be dead in the ground, as it were, is and always will be.
Angela: Your last visit was over two thousand years ago. Where have you been since then?
Jesus: Not quiet, let me assure you. I have a cross to bear, may I remind you. I have been very busy putting up posters proclaiming that I am still alive in nearly every church I have 'come' upon (if you will excuse the vernacular). Not all churches are the same, they don't always recognise me as The Saviour of humankind, despite the fact that my namesakes have the same attributes…
Angela: What do you mean?
Jesus: Well, there are other religions who do not accept my presence or presents. Monotheism is a difficult concept for a lot of people. It even excludes (may I say it) the Truth of my Dad.
Angela: 'Dad' being God?
Jesus: Of course!
Angela: Let me ask you another question. You were crucified upon a cross. You were lain in a cave, of sorts. You were resurrected after three days. How come you are still here?
Jesus: My dear Angela. I had several 'doubles'. Don't you think that Dad, after all his mistakes didn't think of that one? I had a lot of followers (there are no leaders, by the way). Some of them would have given their life for me. One did. He was stapled to a wooden cross and died pretty well, as far as I know for those who 'get off' on pain and anguish. It did rather well for the artistic fraternity, as well, I believe.
Angela: How did you escape the persecution?
Jesus: Well, after the Last Supper, which was actually my first, (since I had always been very poor), I managed to slip out by the bucket they used as a toilet (no-one was very flushed), and made it outside. There, a miracle happened and I was whisked away by my mother. She was the first Virgin Airlines.
Angela: What happened then?
Jesus: I must admit that I had a bit of a rest, even though Dad was working 24/7/365, I was still quite young. I know I was born when I was thirty but a year's ministrations with total strangers was enough for me, anything longer would have created havoc with the astrological calendar. For me prophet was profit. Miracles were no cure for my ego. Raising the dead with plain flour instead of self-raising and inventing stories of Good Samaritans, took their toll.
Angela: You mentioned miracles. What sort of miracles did you do?
Jesus: That's pretty complicated. Turning water into wine is one thing. Trying to walk on water, especially in these sandals, is very difficult. Trying to find food for thousands (I believe five) is another. What the impinging of a male sexual organ into the female counterpart could I do, saviour or not? Dad created the place in six bloomin' days! What could I do? By Saturday, He was knackered! It seems I was left to do the deal with the Universe on my own!
Angela: To move on. How did you come by the name 'Christ'?
Jesus: Well 'Christ' is actually a monicker for a position, that of a sort of 'king'. So really, I should be referred to a Jesus the Christ. The word should not be taken as a surname.
Angela: You mentioned you were born when you were thirty years old. What did you mean by that?
Jesus: Well the early records of my birth were a travesty of misinformation being scratched on bits of stone by the illiterati with other bits of stone. Nazareth was actually little more than a watering hole, if it was there at all. There is no archaeological evidence for its existence. Even so, water was even more difficult to find than a stable. So I decided to make my birthday thirty years later and leave it enigmatically at that. I didn't begin my ministry until then and that was only for a year. It was a sort of sabbatical from woodwork.
Angela: So where were you born?
Jesus: In the minds of men from previous stories they had heard. People used to tell stories around camp fires. It got pretty cold in the desert at night and anything for a laugh even if you were philosophical. You know; camp stories, camp food and drink, camp blokes…
Angela: What happened during the forty days and forty nights in the desert?
Jesus: A bit of a mistake, that. I actually got lost. I almost lost my marbles as well as my way. It was a difficult time watching all those carrion crows flying about and not knowing which direction to go. However, it did add to my mystique and that was a blessing, as it were.
Angela: There has been talk that you got married. How true is that?
Jesus: Well, I didn't really have much time for women, it being a man's world and I had all these disciples following me around like a bad smell and chucking unfortunates in the river for a wash as they were well past their smell-by-date. There were twelve of them, you know. As for marriage, well I won't dwell on that, I'll leave that for the speculators.
Angela: Are you still carrying on with your Good Works?
Jesus: As far as I know but the World is not good. Even Dad has to accept that his first efforts with this planet were a bit of a failure. I really haven't been much of a help and I suppose I have been relying on all the old stuff holding up for too long.
Angela: Do you have any projects lined up for the future?
Jesus: Not really. It's a full-time job keeping up with the past. After two thousand years, it may be time for my retirement, I suppose. Another couple of thousand years or so, perhaps forever; who knows. I would still carry on the P.R. work, of course.
Angela: Well, we appreciate your timeless.
Transcript ends.
Author: Peter K. Sharpen (C) 2013


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Yesterday it snowed just enough to make things look wintry.
|Our Wood Shop
Today the sun is shining and the temperature is predicted to be 44°F.
This small bit of snow will disappear quickly.
I wish the terrible cold I have this week would melt away with the snow.
On the side of the wood shop is our 'quilt shop sign collection.'
'Splinters & Threads' is the sign my dear hubby sandblasted into wood
when we opened our quilt shop many years ago.
The other sign was on a friend's quilt shop - she gave us the sign
when she closed her business a few years ago.
Two of anything is a collection . . .
This is Abbie.
She is our 11-month-old lab/golden retriever puppy.
She is also part of a collection of two dogs.
Abbie does not like two things:
1) Snow on her feet; and
2) When her peeps sneeze!
I am looking forward to spending some quality time in my studio today
with my cough drops and tissue box close at hand
while we wait for the snow to melt.
Quilt making is the best medicine I know.
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We recently had the wonderful privilege of hosting Dick and Becky Manley-Pippert in the North East region of UCCF.
On the 10th of March, in Durham, Becky led a group of CU students through one of her Saltshaker training days (aptly named after her excellent book "Out of the Saltshaker" published by IVP).
It was great to hear stories of great boldness and wisdom from her vast experience but also very honest stories of God working in and through her weakness.
She is a gifted speaker and excellent evangelist.
It was also very encouraging and challenging to hear that Dick; seeing her gifting from the Lord as an evangelist, but also her ability to train others in evangelism, sold his business and used the money to enable them to travel around the world and train people.
God has been, and I'm sure will continue, to use them both to further the Kingdom and ignite a passion for Jesus in people's lives.
Here are a few quotes from Becky from the day. I hope they will be encouraging to you.
"It's not about new techniques or methonds, it's about knowing the message better....theology effects methodology"
"Humans are the only ones who resent their form. Why? Because it reminds us we are not God, that we are weak and dependent"
"Your inadequacy is your first qualification in evangelism"
"When you're on fire, people love to come and watch you burn" Wesley via RMP.
"Because God is love, evangelism is then about love....imaging God....God sends us, not tracts"
"Being relevant is important, but to be relevant all the time you have to say things which are eternal" I think this was Pascal via RMP.


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Since we live in a rural area this is my rendition of a mail box. I've made several prior to this but this one stands out a little.
I started out by laminating Beetle kill Pine, Walnut, Aromatic Cedar, Quater-sawn Oak, Walnut again and Beetle Kill Pine. The back is made of 1/8" Quarter sawn Oak and Walnut and the bottom is 3/8" Yellow Pine.
I wanted to leave the size as deep as I could so instead of removing the back as a normal band saw box I opted to just cut the drawer out and somewhat shape the outer shell to match the drawer.
Then came the sanding and finishing – sanding and finishing, did I mention the sanding and finishing ? 6 coats of water based polyeurathane while doing the same to the back and bottom, keeping a void area where the glue would be applied. After the 6 coats of finish the bottom and back were glued and set aside for 3 – 4 hours to get a good set. Then finish sanding to erase protrusions and then 6 coats of polyeurathene to the extreior except the back. The drawer was then assembled because it had already received it's 6 coats of polyeurathane on the interior.
After glueing the front and back to the drawer, I cut a walnut drawer pull and glued it to the front. It was then sanded and received it's 6 coats of finish.
In all, there was 4 days involved with other projects being tended to while the glue and finished dried. One of several reasons I'm hung up on the water base polyeurathane is that it will dry to a white powder dust within 30 minutes of brushing it on the product, thereby allowing 6 or more coats in an easy days time.
Almost forgot – the size is 4 3/8" deep x 5 1/8" high x 4 1/2" wide
Comments, critical or not are welcome – I'm all about learning
-- Dick, Malvern Ohio - my biggest fear is that when I die, my wife sells my toys for what I told her I paid for them
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#1 posted 09-22-2015 01:09 AM
I like it Dick, looks like a mailbox to me. Maybe one of those lever flags would add something to it? Just a thought, as it surely doesn't need anything – it's a beauty. That finish really stands out on it.
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#2 posted 09-22-2015 05:53 PM
Cool shape! Wood colours are great.
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#3 posted 09-24-2015 01:51 PM
Looks gr8 Dick. I like your wood combos.
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The application of heat as an anti-cancer primary or adjuvant treatment continues to prove itself as a clinically viable and successful modality. The number of positive clinical trial outcomes has steadily accumulated since the early 1990s. There is also a growing list of improved technology for thermal ablative procedures. With increasing uses of various heating devices and strategies comes an increasing gap in our knowledge pertaining to the biology and physiology of thermal therapy-associated temperature gradients. A further gap in knowledge exists in our limited abilities to intelligently use radiation therapy or other adjuvants such as anti- vascular compounds to maximize the anti-tumor effects of various thermal therapies. We have identified this missing knowledge as a largely unmet opportunity to advance the field of thermal therapy and significantly enhance cancer treatment options. It is our conviction that detailed biological and physiological investigations related to the application of heat against various malignancies will empower clinical multi-modality therapy by supplying scientifically validated rationale. Because of the complex and multi-disciplinary nature of this work, the principal investigator has assembled a new team of experts in tumor radiation biology, physiology, engineering and physics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Murine and human cancer cell lines will be grown in mice. Using these tumor models we aim to identify reoxygenation patterns induced by conventional hyperthermia and the mechanisms as well as potential benefits of inducing vascular thermotolerance in tumor tissue. The injury patterns and reoxygenation of tumor tissue after severe heating with and without the addition of the novel anti-vascular agents arsenic trioxide (ATO) and gold-nanoparticle-bound tumor necrosis factor-1 (Pt-cAu-TNF) will also be characterized. Subsequently, we will design precise sequences of combined heat, anti-vascular agents and radiation therapy to obtain optimal anti-tumor effects. The central hypothesis of this work is two-fold: (1) exposure of tumor tissue to mild hyperthermia improves tumor oxygenation and (2) severe heating is cytotoxic to varying portions of the tumor, especially with anti-vascular treatment, yet it increases oxygenation in sub-lethally treated areas thereby enhancing radiation therapy. We will use well established methods in cell biology and physiological measurement techniques as well as cutting-edge non-invasive imaging and heat application with advanced optical and radiographic imagers and ultrasound. Intravital microscopy will be used to study tumors grown in window chambers to longitudinally investigate mechanisms of treatment effects in vivo. Tumors grown and treated in other locations will be studied with detailed immunochemical analysis to elucidate effects on the tumor vasculature stability and composition. The data obtained will be both scientifically valuable and clinically practical, helping to refine the possibilities for effective translational research in the field of thermal and radiation therapy. The main focus of this work is to define the rationale for combining thermal therapy with radiation therapy and explain in detail the response of tumor and normal tissue to traditional hyperthermia temperatures or thermal ablation. A recurring theme of the work is that while the cumulative equivalent minutes at 430C (CEM430C) are usually quite low in traditional hyperthermia applications, the CEM 430C can be several orders of magnitude greater at the tip of a 600C thermal ablation probe yet we observe common biological changes in the tumor in both cases, depending on the exact location in the tissue that is being studied. Tumor blood flow and oxygenation is significantly increased in certain areas of the tumor. Our primary focus is to define where this happens, why this happens and how it may influence patient response to other applied therapies.
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|Song, Chang W; Lee, Yoon-Jin; Griffin, Robert J et al. (2015) Indirect Tumor Cell Death After High-Dose Hypofractionated Irradiation: Implications for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and Stereotactic Radiation Surgery. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 93:166-72
|Koonce, Nathan A; Quick, Charles M; Hardee, Matthew E et al. (2015) Combination of Gold Nanoparticle-Conjugated Tumor Necrosis Factor-? and Radiation Therapy Results in a Synergistic Antitumor Response in Murine Carcinoma Models. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 93:588-96
|Koonce, Nathan A; Levy, Joseph; Hardee, Matthew E et al. (2015) Targeting Artificial Tumor Stromal Targets for Molecular Imaging of Tumor Vascular Hypoxia. PLoS One 10:e0135607
|Przybyla, Beata D; Shafirstein, Gal; Vishal, Sagar J et al. (2014) Molecular changes in bone marrow, tumor and serum after conductive ablation of murine 4T1 breast carcinoma. Int J Oncol 44:600-8
|Shao, Jingwei; Griffin, Robert J; Galanzha, Ekaterina I et al. (2013) Photothermal nanodrugs: potential of TNF-gold nanospheres for cancer theranostics. Sci Rep 3:1293
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- Slice and Re-arrange loops: Nerve allows for a single pad to contain up to 16 slices of a loop, with adjustable slice points, which will automatically get read from REX/RX2 files. For traditional WAV/AIF loops, three different user-selectable time-stretching options are available (slice+fill, granular stretch, resample) to get your loop to match your host sequencer BPM.
- Let your Rhythms Groove + Gel: Nerve allows you to extract the timing + level information from a REX/RX2 loops, and have this apply to all of the rhythms with a single mouse gesture. You can store swing presets for future use.
- Performance-Oriented features: Nerve features a unique Repeater control which allows you to re-trigger one or more pads on-the-fly to create fills and variations on-the-fly. Trigger / Re-trigger patterns with the mouse or MIDI notes. Re-triggered portions can be automatically 'sent' to a different output pair for additional external processing on those specific moments. Unlike audio-based buffer-repeating effects, Nerve's Repeater will follow swing/groove feel on a global level, maintaining your groove. Furthermore, re-triggered steps will also generate new MIDI-out notes, if using Nerve for controlling external samplers, etc.
- Realtime Sculpting Control: Each pad contains a unique 'fat' 2x-oversampled State Variable Filter. Flexible LFOs allowing you to make parts vary over time (pan/level/cutoff/reso/sample start), allowing for parts to sound more fluid. MultiStage Envelopes with tension curves allow for dynamic sculpting with high precision. A unique GATE parameter allows the envelope length to rescale, sequenced per-step and/or controlled/automated externally.
- Internal Sidechain-input Compressor: Get your beats to pump without all of the in-host bussing hassle.
- Pad Independence: Each pad can optionally run its own pattern chain, length, and randomize, making it very easy to create polyrhythms / polymetric beats giving your music productions interesting, unique flair.
- Multiple Output capability: (8 stereo pairs) allow you to separate various parts of the beat for external mixing/processing.
- MIDI support (both input and output): control Nerve from a MIDI controller using assignable MIDI notes. Control Nerve parameters from MIDI CC messages. MIDI Out control allows you to use Nerve as a "sequence engine" to generate notes/CC's in unique ways / control or layer other synths and samplers.
Reviewed By moonchunk
March 14, 2018
I'm still giving Xfer Nerve 5 stars - even at the $200 price point, but technically its probably only a little above 4.8.
Particularly the customer support is not to be beaten. (I own every plugin by Xfer Records except Serum, which hopefully will change soon.)
It has great sounds (Although Chris Cowie's pack on Loopmaster is great as well - really gives the polish in terms of matching sample and pad levels, EQ and dynamics.)
I spent this past week digging back into the drum-machine-related vsts I own, or those that I have demos of. Nerve is near the top of the heap in terms of dance music. I recently picked up Spark 2, and I also compared Nerve to Fxpansion Geist 2, and Izotope Breaktweaker. Regarding Spark 2, I'm waiting to hear back from Arturia on why so many of the sounds seem stuck in 2-state velocity (64 or 127)... Regarding Breaktweaker, I watched the interesting Plugin Guru video on it that shows how one can achieve Swing (strange that a swing knob functionality isn't included in Breaktweaker).
Nerve has not only a late graph (use the SHIFT key along with your left mouse button to drag on it, or you will be forced into a 16 division resolution.)
Nerve has extremely good sounds.
Nerve has quite, quite a bit more in its arsenal of EDM-modding of playback and filter properties than does Spark 2. Its slicer function is better as well.
Nerve sounds fantastic and its sound exports sound great.
While dragging individual pads and full mixes is a breeze and works flawlessly, I would rather have a GUI location where the full mix is dragged from (as programs like Spark 2 allow) - because pressing CTRL ALT SHIFT at the same time one is dragging is tricky.
Nerve has a per pad side chain compression - This is the main reason I decided to give it 5 starts. This is such a cool feature. actually you can take the side chain "detection" signal from multiple pads and apply different amounts of side chaining compression, simultaneously, from that pad or pads to other pads. This means that from right within Nerve you can hear a mix-ready rhythm track (after all you can load any wave file you want into the pads, bass, guitar, whatever). This is a tremendous and brilliant feature and more percussion plugins should implement things this way, because things like perc and hats in electronic music really need to be reduced at critical down beats - its just the way things are now for the modern musician and its so helpful that Steve understood this.
On the negative side, the screen size of NERVE is fixed and relatively small by today's standards (although I like the optional horizontal mode). Its also hard to see the name of your loaded preset and drum kits, at least for me in Reaper and FL studio it is...I need to mouse over the place where these would normally be - where the current folder is listed instead of the preset name... I get why the current folder is important to know. But I would like to also see the name of the preset and the name of the currently loaded drum kit! For me occasionally looking up to see a kit name like that always helps to jog my memory into remembering a source of good sounds in the future... While auditioning, you'll be changing among several kits every few minutes if you're like me, and after hearing some "reasonably good sounds" and moving on, you'll realize maybe those were actually very good. Now what were they called? It just makes it more likely that you'll remember the names if there's a name written on the GUI. Same idea with the preset, it helps to see its name.
Also on the down side, I feel that although the pattern methodology is interesting and useful, relative to Geist 2's Scene and Song modes it leaves a little to be desired (even though it has an interesting plus which I'll get to. Geist 2 lets you organize a complete sequence that can play back for you automatically. It lets you record a complete song as well. So I think Nerve could really use a refined song mode on a separate page. One good thing in Nerve is the global mode off switch. When you turn the global mode off, your chains of patterns play back independently based on the pad row length, which can be independently adjusted. (Playing patterns in Geist 2, Breaktweaker, and Nerve can all be done with independent pad row lengths. However, Nerve pushes the envelope by literally allowing their to be an independent chain of sequences for each pad.. Wow.
One thing I need to recommend, is to be sure to get the latest manual if you purchase Nerve. I had trouble finding it and Steve pointed it out where it was. Some of the hotkeys in the 2010 manual included in my installation were not up to date and this left me wondering about certain of the features. For example, the SHIFT key.
Lastly, (and this is complicated - unless, especially, you are a Geist user and have become familiar with this..) NERVE allows triplets but they are accessible in an unusual way that takes a little getting used to. Basically its Alt right click while dragging horizontally over the "late" graph. This creates triplet timing. If you have 16 hi hats you'll think you've lost your mind, because this will turn them into 12 triplet sixteenths. Steve explained to me that the pads are not polyphonic, so even though the late graph for the last sixteenth of a quarter note position (one in each set of 4) is pushing the beat over onto the next quarter note, because this creates two quarter notes at an identical "tick" only one can play. Geist 2 has a similarly tricky method of handling triplets - well 2 methods actually. You can use engines and set one as the triplets engine, and play patterns from both engines simultaneously. A little strange, but it works. A second method available in Geist 2 allows the triplets to reside in the same pattern. It was difficult to find this:
Convert timing
This function, available by right-clicking on a pattern memory key, allows the 'resolution' of a
pattern to be changed without altering the position of events in the pattern. It can be useful if
triplet steps are required rather than 16ths, for example.
Well, personally I think Nerve's method is basically about as good.
Summary: For techno, EDM, and all its variations, NERVE is way up there with Geist 2 (which I haven't reviewed but which I would give at least 4.5 stars as well). Nerve has a great audio engine, does pre-calculated effects (which Geist 2 does not do to my knowledge - and this is an important advantage for Nerve) and Nerve comes with sounds arguably more suited specifically for the EDM style of music - add Chris Cowie's pack for about $30 and you'll have more EDM styles as well as some exceptional Hip Hop, Drum and Bass, and Dubstep to name a few.
Another advantage of Nerve over Geist 2, is that drawing in the note patterns in Geist 2, if they have changing velocity, is typically a 2 step process for each event. You click the note into place, and then drag up or down to set its velocity. In NERVE you are presented with two options, 1 lane and 16 lanes. Since Nerve defaults to the 1 lane view, when you click on the graph you've created the note at the velocity you want all at the same time. You would think you could do the same in Geist 2, by accessing the velocity graph. But you can't. Geist 2 forces you to click twice, once in the note lane, and once to drag the velocity (whether in the graphs view or in the full lane view you still click to enter the note and then drag to adjust velocity). On the plus for Geist 2, it has scene and Song modes that NERVE, lacks. Spark 2 does have a Song Mode, but its not better than the version in Nerve. Geist 2 has the edge on these modes by far. Another thing that Geist 2 does well is let you record loops on the fly, and even record a whole series of them, moving to the next pad, and the next, and so on, and the sample quality is superb. Lastly, Geist 2 has 64 pads in 8 engines, whereas Nerve loads one kit at the time, but has quite a number of pattern chains, which can be configured to loop from 1 to up to 8 patterns according to your choice.
There really isn't a single "greatest" tool for these kinds of sounds. I'm glad I own Geist, and Nerve is exceptional as well. I don't use breaktweaker as much, but its probably something that needs, ironically, tweaking. (I think the "edge" sound its good for is partly due to the unique glitch modes, and also possibly the added synthesis in the drums - which I could adjust if I spent the time - but these are unique and worthwhile nonetheless).
I also Hope that Spark 2, Geist 2, Breaktweaker, and also Nerve will get more significant updates (Geist 2 needs some bug fixing primarily). Beat Anthology 2 by UVI is another tool, that I have yet to use - which allows mixing synthesis with samples. I haven't yet used Revolution or Evolution. Revolution has samples of 14 old school drum machines (not as many as Spark 2). But the sound of Evolution concerns me, because the synthesis seems a little over-simplified - it could be better than what's in Spark 2, but I don't know and won't know until I spend the $. Fxpansion Tremor is not geared exactly to the kind of ambient music I make, and I haven't gotten around to trying Rob Papen's Punch.
There are some other dance/techno/hip hop tools I have missed. (I'm not including BFD3, Superior Drummer 3, and the other acoustic drum vsts..)
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Reviewed By tommyzai
February 22, 2013
* I'm giving Nerve a 10, because there is no 9.5 and 9 would be an insult.
Nerve by Xfer Records is beyond user friendly — it's user inspiring. It took me a little time to download the 2gig+ library (wave-file kits, grooves, etc.), but immediately upon launching I noticed a neat, clean, sharp-looking interface. It appears different than others, not based on Roland or Akai hardware. It reminds me a little of the Sugar Bytes Thesys, which is a good thing. Everything you need seems to fit on a small laptop screen.
Its uniqueness doesn't translate into a big learning curve. I was too excited to read through a manual, and quickly realized I didn't have to. In no time, I was clicking and dragging neon blue waveform lines all over the place, making real-time adjustments to the sounds. I later found helpful video tutorials on the Xfer Records website, YouTube, and via forums.
I went deeper and discovered more than twenty Pre-Calc DSP editing slider tools that change the samples in real-time and allow for major or minor re-synthesis. This is the feature got me excited. Check out the demo and see what I mean. You'll probably get hooked like I did. Nerve makes sample sculpting and mangling fun. To borrow a quote from The Plugin Guru, "The world of programming drums and stuff has just been simplified!"
I had no trouble dragging Nerve's blue bars up and down and swiping sideways to create a groove. This step sequencer won't wear out my track-pad or lead to carpal tunnel syndrome. .. just smiles. I quickly created many kinds of beats and variations. It was easy to lock things into 4/4 or swing it a little. I was happy to discover that individual patterns could be un-linked to allow each pad to run as wild and free.
Wow! By itself, the Nerve library (sounds, kits, presets, patterns) makes this a worthwhile investment. Anyone, like myself, who has his/her own sample library, will find this even more attractive as it easily loads AIFF, WAV, REX, RX2, SND, etc. I finally have a use for those REX files that other programs won't load.
Do these guys sleep? They provide a lightning fast response and very helpful by email, website contact, Xfer Records Forum, or via KRV and other forums.
The market is filled with audio plugins. If I had the money I would buy all the good ones, but I have very little money so I must spend wisely. There are many obvious reasons to buy Nerve, but I later discovered hidden reasons. For one thing, there are top-secret beta releases found in a sticky thread atop the Nerve forum — ONLY visible to registered users. The betas have features not found in the advertised commercial release.
I don't have much to complain about, but if I had to list a couple areas that could be stronger.. .
1. A well-organized independent browser for easier access to big user sample libraries. At present, getting to my .wav files takes too many clicks
2. More Deadmau5 sample packs and 3rd party support (nudge nudge)
3. More frequent "official" updates and releases
4. Groove randomizer to instantly create rhythmic variations
5. Drum synthesis to combine with samples
No complaints!! I'm just greedy and want MORE!
Nerve provides humongous power and tons of inspiration. I'm sure you can dive deep into this thing, but you don't have to! I found myself waking up at the crack of noon to play with it. In short, I highly recommend this plugin to any eMusician, producer, or electronic songwriter using samples to make beats. You will have a blast and get addicted fast. I give Nerve three thumbs up.
Thank you Xfer Records for creating a virtual drum machine that makes me feel like a kid again. Time to play!
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation whatsoever to Xfer Records. If my review sounds like a sales pitch, forgive me. I get that way when I find a diamond in the virtual rough.Read more
Reviewed By digitalbeatsyndrome
April 3, 2011
Sound = It's sample based so alot of the quality is what YOU feed it. The included sample library is top notch. At first I was worried spending $200 USD on Nerve, but consider the samples as a bonus. It's effects are so great. You can use 16 examples of the built in reverb based on the TAL reverb. 1 ringmod per 16 pads so 16 examples of ringmod. Use it on my toms, perc, zips and bips keeps me in electro-tech heaven. Built in sidechain compressor. Sample slice and dice. 16 examples of sample reverse. Fuzz on each pad, bit reduction, sample reduction. LFO for each pad.
Features: My favorite feature which sealed the deal for me to buy this instrument and its not really a big feature but means the world to a person with huge sample libraries is the buttons for sample select on each pad. No menu diving just to load a sample, browse through your sample folder with ease, and its not limited to 127 samples only. ctrl click = randomize sample, ctrl win alt click = randomize all samples. You can pitch the individual samples in the sequencer to create melody or bass lines with toms as an example some drum samplers cant do this. Reminds me alot of Re-drum from Reason with a ton of more features. I highly suggest the demo, I can be here writing all day. Steve Duda the creator has awesome demonstration vids on youtube. There is an amazing template for Korg Padkontrol at no extra charge, consider this a cousin of Maschine when used with Nerve. Control surface versions for monome 256, Lemur, and Ipad as well.
The manual is well written though there have been alot of new stuff thats not in the manual but on the download page of the new versions. In other words its well written but not current, you can find the new features in depth on the nerve forum.
Presets: I rate a 10 - the samples used are top notch. They are a premium xfer library that is free with the purchase of nerve. There are sequences that come with them also. Alot of fun to open the presets and replace with your own samples.
Customer support: top notch. Steve is quick via email or forum. Hands down 10, not a question about it.
Value = pricey but worth it. Its a great tool and worth every penny if you have giant sample libraries. There is no other plug in that touches this one... not even close.
Stability = I give an 8 out of 10. It has crashed but only using beta releases. Duda warns you before you download the new beta if you are working on an important project dont install it.Read more
Reviewed By elipsis1
April 2, 2011
First off, the included samples are very good quality. As you scroll through presets, the kit that is loaded also includes pattern data, so it makes for a great browsing experience.
Another cool feature is that you can change all samples in the kit with one click of a mouse. Holding the ALT key and clicking the load button will shift to the next wav file in that pad's corresponding folder. Very cool. You can also use the alt key to perform global pre calc effects as well.
The pre calc effects are a great feature to have, as they take up 0 cpu time after you are done tweaking the sample. The precalc effects are what give you the sculpting power to really dial in your sound or experiment.
Another awesome feature is that you can unlink the pattern so that each pad can have it's own sequence length, doing so also allows you to enable the random button, which will trigger a random pattern number, so that there is a lot of variation going on.
Also, the kit samples are embeded into the file save, so no managing folders or losing/browsing for samples.
You need to see the LFO in action to really appreciate it, you can assign it to so many parameters. This is a well thought out plugin.
The triggering via midi is also a welcome feature. You can play the kit on a keyboard, or trigger patterns, or trigger the different values on the repeater.
There really is a whole lot more to nerve than what I have posted in this review. This plugin is definately worth giving the demo a whirl, and in my opinion, well worth the purchase price.
Steve has been great at answering questions via email as well as his response in the forum. It sounds like he really is listening and planning to implement changes based on user input.
This is a hassle free serial number copy protection scheme, so no worrying about dongles or anything.
Your creativity will really flow freely with this plugin.Read more
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Robb Mayers and Ryan Beugli cut their building teeth working for Adroit Construction.
They grew up playing sports together in Ashland, were roommates at Oregon State University and worked a decade together at Adroit Construction before taking off in their own direction.
Last August, they opened Outlier Construction Co., on Barnett Road in Medford.
There wasn't a particular reason for the duo to move on, nothing broken in the Adroit system, run for many years by Bob Mayers.
"We just had the entrepreneurial spirit," the younger Mayers said. "I lived my whole life, starting at a young age working there, winter breaks and summers, and so did Ryan. We learned a lot there, and so it was a hard decision. Ultimately, Ryan and I both had a vision of how to do things, and we wanted to do things the way we thought were really going to be best."
"It was always a dream, always something we had talked about," Beugli said.
They joined Adroit within a few weeks of each other just as the national economy was about to dive into the Great Recession. But that provided on-the-job experience as they met with sub-contractors and suppliers.
"During that time, it was so difficult to get a project that we both had many opportunities to chase work," Beugli said. "Every time you are bidding a job or negotiating a project you are engaging so many different people, whether it's subs, design professionals or clients, you get to know a lot of folks during that process. The repetition of trying to get work helped fine-tune our skills."
The hardest part of the exit for Mayers was not being able to consult with his father until after Bob Mayers retired from Adroit at the end of 2017.
"My dad was my biggest supporter from Day 1," Robb Mayers said. "My dad is a really good businessman, he's really smart, he's real respected and known in the valley, but he couldn't help me, and I couldn't go to him for advice."
Outlier's approach is all-encompassing because it both develops and builds. Mayers is a licensed real estate broker with Re/Max Platinum Real Estate, creating easier access to potential job sites and opportunities for clients.
"We can take people through the whole life-cycle," Mayers said. "We are able to buy land, and if you need land, you are most likely going to build a building. If you need a building, you most likely need a remodel. Then, we've got the management aspect of it on the back end."
The company also lines up the mechanical, electrical and plumbing elements, architects, and civil and structural engineers.
"The name Outliers shows we're trying to think out of the box, trying to be different and not do things the same way as everyone else," Mayers said.
Outlier's strategy is to develop partnership groups who will finance commercial space for lease. The first is a 22,000-square-foot, two-story office building in Navigators Landing.
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The newcomer has quickly developed its book. Outlier is building a new Toyota dealership center for Lithia Motors in Klamath Falls; constructing the Southside Center off Garfield Avenue in Medford, a showroom and warehouse for Quality Fence in Grants Pass, interior renovations, apartments, a mixed-used development in Ashland; and renewing efforts to build The Vine on Lithia Way in Ashland.
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Outlier has 11 employees, and the owners were interviewing applicants Friday and Saturday.
"Being in this business as long as we have, we realize that things change, things get delayed, there are hangups," Beugli said. "While it sounds like a lot and we're going to be awful busy, we're going to be somewhat flexible. Things get delayed or stalled, or changed. Some projects just don't come in on budget and you have to re-evaluate the scope, or value-engineer the project, so those things change your schedule."
The economy at large, trade relations and other factors come into play.
"The private market is good, it's where we see this model working," Mayers said. "You can't really do the model we're talking about with the government. If we start to see the economy change, that's typically when private work will dry up, and we will need to switch back into the public market."
During his tenure at Adroit, however, Beugli bid public jobs.
"That's the market we came from, the market we cut our teeth on," Mayers said. "We're creating projects that weren't really out there. While there is competition, we're also trying to create our own market, so we're not getting into a saturated market with three or four guys bidding."
At present, Outlier's footprint stretches to the lower Willamette Valley and Central Oregon.
"There is no reason for us to travel if we are as busy as we are right now," Mayers said. "If the economy does turn, I think we'll take a look at getting a California license or expanding our region up."
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Public Verifiability in the Covert Model (Almost) for Free
- Kolesnikov V.
- Malozemoff A.
Abstract. The covert security model (Aumann and Lindell, TCC 2007) offers an extremely important security/efficiency trade-off: a covert player may arbitrarily cheat, but will be caught with a certain fixed probability, called the deterrence factor. This permits much more efficient protocols than the malicious setting while still giving meaningful security guarantees. However, one drawback is that cheating cannot be proven, which prevents the use of covert protocols in many practical settings. In ASI-ACRYPT 2012, Asharov and Orlandi (AO) enhanced the covert model by allowing the honest player to generate a proof of cheating, checkable by any third party. Their model, which we here abbreviate PVC (publicly verifiable covert), offers a very compelling trade-off. Asharov and Orlandi propose a practical protocol in the PVC model, which, however, relies on a specific expensive oblivious transfer (OT) protocol incompatible with OT extension. In this work, we greatly improve the performance of the PVC model by constructing a PVC-compatible OT extension as well as making several important practical improvements to the AO protocol. We work in the random oracle model, which is slightly stronger than what is needed for standard OT extension and free-XOR. Our construction is truly efficient. As compared to the state-of-the-art OT extension-based two-party covert protocol, our PVC protocol adds relatively little: four signatures and an ≈ 67% wider OT extension matrix. This is a significant improvement over the AO protocol, which requires public key-based OTs per input bit. We present detailed estimates showing (up to orders of magnitude) concrete performance improvements over the AO protocol and the best known malicious protocol.View Original Article


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This one has been on my wish list for quite some time, and it's exceedingly rare: only 6000 bottles were ever released, and since they were bottled over 5 years ago, it's now basically unobtainable. Ileach is the Gaelic term for a native of Islay, Scotland, and the name 'Ileach Edition' was a nod to John Campbell being the first Ileach to manage Laphroaig Distillery in its history. John actually became the distillery manager in 2006, and the Cairdeas releases started in 2008, so I'm not sure about the timing of the name, maybe it was the first release that John selected personally? Anyway, let's not over-think this!
The Cairdeas' are the annual special bottlings released to mark the occasion of the week-long Islay festival Feis Ile, which takes place in May of each year. The word 'Cairdeas' (pronounced "car-chiss") is Gaelic for 'Friendship', which is a tribute to the very successful Friends of Laphroaig enthusiast community / loyalty program. The early Cairdeas releases were quite different to the more recent versions, with the exception of the beautiful 2015 200th anniversary bottling, in that there were no cask finishings involved. The first few Cairdeas releases were pre & simple Laphroaigs of various ages, and the releases were considerably smaller in size than they are today, which makes them very hard to track down and of course very expensive on the secondary market. So far the only one of these older releases I've tried was the amazing 12-year old bottling from 2009 which John himself bought with him on his Australian tour, and opened during my interview with him. What a night that was!
The 2011 release I'm reviewing today, thanks to a sample from another generous anonymous benefactor, is an 8-year old Laphroaig aged in first-fill ex-Maker's Mark bourbon casks, matured in traditional dunnage warehouses, and bottled at 50.5%, which is quite low for the age, so I'm not entirely sure if that was cask strength. From 2012 onwards the Cairdeas releases have not been bottled at their natural cask strength, since the ABV's reflect the year of bottling i.e. 51.2% for the 2012, 51.3% for the 2013, 51.4% for the 2014, 51.5% for the 2015, and 51.6% for the 2016. However I believe all Cairdeas releases have been non-chill filtered and naturally coloured, which is good news. Being only 8 years of age, this 2011 'Ileach Edition' is likely to be slightly more peaty than your average Laphroaig, especially considering that 8 year old whisky is what the distillery often adds to some of its NAS bottlings for more peaty power. Let's find out, shall we?
Laphroaig Cairdeas Ileach Edition 2011, NAS, 50.5%. Islay, Scotland.
Dunnage warehouse matured in first-fill ex-bourbon casks from Maker's Mark for around 8 years. Natural colour, likely non-chill filtered.
Colour: Pale gold.
Nose: Well hello there! Surprisingly complex and refined for its age. Herbal and sweet, with soft, dry herbal peat, aniseed, and a dried fruit (raspberry and apricot especially, and maybe some peach) & floral sweetness - almost like a pot-pourri. Some dried sea shells and wet sand, and even a hint of machine oil.
Texture: Light-medium weight, warming. No roughness or spirit-y heat at all.
Taste: Sweet & surprisingly light initially, then a drying, ashy, peaty punch. A burst of white pepper & dry wood spices alongside. A little magic marker & more aniseed.
Finish: Medium-long length, and quite soft with a milder version of that ashy peat the whole way through, more herbal and earthy now as well, and intermingled with that dried fruit & floral sweetness.
Score: 4 out of 5.
Notes: Not at all what I expected from a young Laphroaig at a higher strength - so light, approachable and expressive! Plenty of complexity and refinement as well, particularly on the nose. Just a lovely friendly whisky with that fruity & floral sweetness - the surprising & unexpected lighter side of Laphroaig. Which proves that age is definitely not everything, and also that this is just a bloody fantastic distillery! What a fitting way to round out the year.
So how does it compare to other Cairdeas releases? Like all of them it's totally different to the rest, and it's beautiful in its own right. Personally I'd go for the 2009, 2015 and maybe 2014 releases over this one, just based on my own personal tastes, so that's doesn't take anything away from the Ileach Edition by any means. Now I just need to get my hands on a dram of the 2008 and 2010 Cairdeas' to complete my Cairdeas journey. They're possibly the rarest of the lot, with even fewer bottles released, and even higher collect-ability. Oh and the 2013 Port wood release too, which never made it to Australia at all. I'm sure they'll all be really easy to find... not!


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ZOO City is a chain of shops that specializes in selling everything your pets could ever need. Their "Out of love for pets" tagline captures their effort to provide customers with the best buyer experience whether they own a dog, a cat, a bird, a fish or a reptile. Staying true to their tagline they chose to create a warm and appealing campaign so their fans could cherish unforgettable moments with their pets. They decided to go with Socialpuzzles Photo Contest.
They named this contest "ZOO City animal selfie" and asked their fans to take selfies with their animal companions. The finalists of the best photo selfies won coupons that could be spent in in the ZOO city shops. This campaign really hit the spot and it turned out to be the perfect contest for their target audience.
The results exceeded everyone's expectation – two weeks of Facebook ads and a paid page link ad brought in 5185 visits and more than 700 uploaded photos. Fans were smittened by the great selfies and cast more than 3500 votes.
With this campaign, ZOO City's Facebook page has grown from 33,664 fans to more than 35,500 fans and it still continues to grow. It took only two weeks for the reach of their posts to go from 18000 to an astonishing 263393!
The client was extremely satisfied with the results of the campaign and said that the Socialpuzzle 2.0 only added on the positive experience they already had with the first version. They were delighted by the simplicity and intuitiveness of use and stated that Socialpuzzle 2.0 made it easy to achieve great reach and boost fan engagement.
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Kitchen Knife Skills : Techniques for Carving, Boning, Slicing, Chopping, Dicing, Mincing, Filleting Hardback
by Marianne Lumb
Good knife skills are the most important ingredient in every recipe - knowing the right knife to use for each task, and how to use it, will make your cooking faster, safer, stylish and fun.
Whether you are dicing an onion, filleting a fish, shucking an oyster or slicing melba toast, this book will tell you which knife to use and the correct method of preparation to enable professional results.
Step-by-step photographs and instructions will teach you how to prepare anything in the kitchen, from chopping chives finely and making pineapple rings to a trimmed rack of lamb and shredded duck.
Standard professional techniques used by chefs the world over are shown in detail, allowing you to work quickly, stylishly and tackle anything your kitchen throws at you.
About the author Marianne Lumb is an internationally renowned chef.
In 2009, she reached the finals of BBC's MasterChef The Professionals Series 2, wowing London's trickiest food critics and chefs.
She is a former teacher at Leiths School of Food and Wine (London), a food consultant and a member of the Guild of Food Writers.
She lives in London.
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 176 pages, col. Illustrations
- Publisher: Apple Press
- Publication Date: 01/09/2009
- Category: Cooking with specific gadgets
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Remind me how we used to feel,
is this emptiness part of the deal?
Your tears from the hallway,
are breakin' my heart.
I hate to hear your cry.
I wish there was something i could say or do,
to make everything alright.
I know we can find
A way to
put this behind
This is no way to live
I've ready to give you
every broken piece of my heart.
Don't be afraid,
I know it feels like
We're slipping away.
I'm ready to fight,
til we get it right,
i know we ain't got a shot in hell
but there's a chance in heaven.
way back when we fell in love,
we were everything I'd ever dreamed of,
I remember the good times,
but we live in the bad,
where did we go wrong?
There's something in your eyes that gives me hope,
to keep holdin' on.
There's no way,
I'll ever give up.
As long as we got a chance in heaven,
there's a chance for our love
(There's a chance X3)
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Ghana has been number one on my west Africa travel list since university. Many of my professors hailed from this country and thus my knowledge of its traditions, history, and tourism opportunities have been seeded in my brain for years. However, there is something magical about arriving in a place you've read so much about, and studied at end, only to realize that you know absolutely nothing about it in reality.
Ghana is diverse and offers easily the widest range of tourism opportunities in all of west Africa. The country's dusty north offers some great wildlife viewing opportunities at places like Mole National Park while also showing off some impressive Sahel style mosques. The center of the country is the cultural heart as the Ashanti traditions reign supreme. And the south offers the waves of the sea and the bustle of the electric city of Accra.
Moreover, the political system in Ghana is easily the most stable in the region as witnessed in yet another set of free elections in the country. In many ways, Ghana is the perfect travel destination.
Time Needed: 2-4 weeks
Backpacker's Budget: $40-50 USD a Day
Highlights: Mole National Park, Cape Coast, Accra
Ghana Destination Guides
- Accra
- Akwidaa Beach
- Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary
- Bolgatanga
- Cape Coast
- Hohoe
- Kumasi
- Mole National Park
- Tamale
- Wa
- Wechiau
General Ghana Information
- General Ghana Travel Advice
- Budget for Travel in Ghana
- Photos of Ghana
- Recommended Ghana Travel Itineraries
- Getting a Visa for Ghana in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Fair weather this weekend and it was nice of our friends to have us over for a hog roast. Yes, the very same pigs as pictured here and here but not the ACTUAL prize winners!
I thought long and hard about posting the pictures of dinner cooking, but decided you might not appreciate it. But take my word for it, it was great to taste real food with zero food miles (apart from a short trip to the ... well, you know where).
Back to work tomorrow, looks like being an interesting week. I am reminded of this.


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Component of the COP9 signalosome complex (CSN), a complex involved in various cellular and developmental processes. The CSN complex is an essential regulator of the ubiquitin (Ubl) conjugation pathway by mediating the deneddylation of the cullin subunits of SCF-type E3 ligase complexes, leading to decrease the Ubl ligase activity of SCF-type complexes such as SCF, CSA or DDB2. The complex is also involved in phosphorylation of p53/TP53, JUN, I-kappa-B-alpha/NFKBIA, ITPK1 and IRF8/ICSBP, possibly via its association with CK2 and PKD kinases. CSN-dependent phosphorylation of TP53 and JUN promotes and protects degradation by the Ubl system, respectively (By similarity).
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I very much enjoyed my first presentation to the Birmingham Social Media World today. Held as part of the Fazeley Digital Festival, I was asked to present as a relative novice. I have to say I can happily present on many topics to a large audience for as long as you like, but this was daunting. No need, they are lovely people.
Here is some of what I went on about on my first slide share, including successfully embedding it – not quite what I expected, but there it is.:
Oh, no, how exciting, this is what I expected. Well you live and learn…
On reflection a few things struck me:
The idea of live animation/cartoon annotation of the conversations was fantastic. It didn't work as well as it could – but we were all relative novices on that point. Drawnalism were great and a few pens in the hands of the audience would sort that for next time…
Children are way ahead of the game on this one and will take this somewhere mind-blowing in the next 10 years. For that reason alone they are a really important part of these conversations. (Oh and I was very proud of my dort, live blogging on club penguin – I wonder how many buddies she lost during the event!)
It would be great to see Birmingham use these kind of informal, free flowing sessions for something other than social media topics. I am confident that all of the events I've been to have found great digital ways of sharing and recording ideas. I am quite sure we are all passionate about other topics we could put them to good use for?
Of course, I know the standard response – good idea, off you go then and we'll be there. That is certainly true and ordinarily I would. But as I accepted a new job in Southampton the same day as I launched by "relative novice" speaking circuit, I'm afraid I won;t be here to do it ;-(
I set up this blog post way back in 2008 (autumn) and began by contemplating what I found as I rambled round the interwebs. It occurred to me the other day that this had been quite a journey. I have never been scared of IT, or nervous of the internet – I got a Computing O Level in 1979, so I know my stuff! What I hadn't really realised was how much control I could have on the interwebs. So what's happened since I set up this blog?
- Attended a Birmingham bloggers meet (December at the Frankfurt Farmers Market)
- Attended the Birmingham Twestival (12 February in the Arcadian)
- Set up and hosted a B'ham City University Tweetup (January, with about 15 attendees)
- Set up and about to host the next one (19 March, over lunch, Bar 42)
- Was in at the concept and helped deliver #wxwm (the antidote to SwSWi, March Kings Heath)
- defined a hashtag @tagref and @tagalus
- had over 2,640 views on this site since November
- Created a brand new website celebrating great Brummie Women
- Had a couple of impromptu social media lunches in the Fighting Cocks on Moseley Farmers Market Days
- Instigated a late night snow hunt with 6 other people in Cannon Hill Park (url available on request)
- Crowd-sourced ideas for Modern Day Plagues and found 10
- created a tumblr website with my dort – and lost it!
- posted photos on twitpic
- become an iphone addict (thanks to our uni)
- made so many new friends, I've lost count
Some say the social media world in Birmingham is a clique. Well, I have to say it's a very easy clique to break into. I don't know where else a newbie like me would have been allowed to get away with quite so much.
So, one of the categories I've been filing blog posts under is "the ramblings of a novice interwebs adventurer". As we know, my newbie days were not very long ago. But what I also know, is that if I met someone with that list I would not think them a newbie. So I've decided it's time for a new category. I'm thinking "the further adventures of an interwebs adventurer"
So what next, I do want to start embedding this into our work more. Our website is coming along, but we need to be having conversations with our stakeholders through the internet. Meanwhile, thanks for reading my first term report. I look forward to stumblin' over you in the ether sometime soon…
Andy Mabbett quite rightly pointed out that in my earlier blog post "7 things" I was supposed to name 7 more people to similarly do a blog post on 7 "thangs" about themselves. Oops… I pass the gauntlet or indeed baton on to the following fab women:
Happy writing one and all…
Thank you so much to everyone who has put up with me banging on about voting for www.createdinbirmingham.com as best UK blog in the weblog awards. At the close of voting here was the outcome:
In order to ensure fair play and yada yada yada they now check for cheating and announce winners on Thursday morning. I can't begin to imagine what will happen if they take this away from us!
Well done to the highly impressive Chris Unitt, Pete Ashton and Stef Lewandowski who are responsible for all this excellence.
By ickle bro' @podnosh aka Nick Booth very kindly acknowledged the lovely people who are supporting Create in Birmingham's bid to win a coveted weblog award, with links to their posts which help you decide it's a brill cause. So in keeping with his loveliness:
Thanks and a little bit of link love to:
Pete Ashton (also in the race but the bloke who set up CiB)
Podnosh (!)
Nosemonkey is sacrificing their own vote. Thank you: " vote often. To those still voting for me – thanks, you're very sweet, but even I'm not voting for me any more."
Art Stalking "I'm keen for them to win not just because I think their hearts are in the right place, but because it's a way of saying that Birmingham has a strong creative community."
Bostin (through a facebook group)
Joanna Geary "It has changed the way I think about my industry, about the businesses that form it and the organisations that claim to support it."
Peter Bacon "Strength and influence are both crucial to the vitality of the arts and creative industries, and strength and influence are greatly enhanced by those who link us all together."
Shona. (politer than sometimes) "If you don't, I will scweam and scweam and scweam and scweam. And you wouldn't want to be responsible for a breach of the peace now, would you?"
Sunny at Pickled Politics "You'll be doing humanity a favour."
Anthony Herron "It was started by Pete Ashton, who is also up for the award but who has already asked people to vote for CiB instead. Pete is renowned for his blogging and he puts a massive amount back into the community, along with Chris Unitt, who has been running CiB for the last year now. CiB is about to be taken over by Kate Spragg for the next year or so I guess. Let's not forget the contributors and people who've help CiB start up – Stef Lewandowski, Danny Smith, Frankie Ward, I'm sure there have been a few more."
If I've missed you off please leave a comment – if you blog vote CiB in the next few days let me know and I'll add you to the list.
Oh, and don't forget to vote…
If you want to know what's happening in the Birmingham Creative Industries, then you could do much worse than bookmark this site:
If you are excited about helping a great Birmingham project win an international award – or just content to trust me and a load of other faithful Brummies and committed creative types, then please click here:
Created in Birmingham is currently in a neck and neck race with Melanie Phillips of the Spectator and Daily Mail. She appears to have a good deal of US support, overnight she's stolen a nearly 200 vote lead on our lead yesterday. So we need to keep voting and here are the rules:
- Polls close January 12, 2009.
- You may vote once every 24 hours in each poll.
- After voting in an individual poll you will be locked out from voting again in that poll (on the computer you voted from) for 24 hours.
- Each poll has its own separate 24 hour lockout control. Voting in, for example, Best Blog will not lock you out of voting in other categories.
- Vote totals are not final until certified.
- Vote totals are subject to periodic correction for identified cheating.
- Cheaters will be banned from accessing the site for the duration of the voting.
- We reserve the right to close some or all polls earlier than the posted end date.
- In the event of identified cheating, the decisions of the judges as to the manner of correction is final.
And the site helpfully advises you to not vote simulataneously from computers on the same home or corporate network – so, don't forget to do vote on each of your machines in turn…
Oh and if you find out if you can vote on an iphone – please leave a comment telling me how!
I am quite sure we can reclaim the lead during the course of today and tomorrow. So let's get clicking…
I've been tweeting and blogging for a few months now. As Christmas holidays approach it seems like a good time to reflect on that.
So, some numbers, as of Thursday 18 December [anyone who reads my tweets or knows me at all, will know I'm comfy with numbers].
On Twitter:
- 131 people have decided to follow me on Twitter
- I've posted 1,244 updates since I joined in September 2008.
- most, 272, of these have been on Wednesdays
- I've sent over 300 of my replies directly to only 2 people!
- My most active hour is after 11pm.
On my Blog site:
- I've had 665 Total views
- Thursday, November 27, 2008 was my busiest day, with 83 views
- To date I've have published 18 Blog posts, including this one
- and attracted 27 comments
- 67 views have been referred by http://alphainventions.com/
I've also joined 1 Ning and set up two others. Interestingly none of these particularly feature in my everyday life. Conversely I have been suffering something of a Twitter addiction and do keep on top of my blogging.
From Twitter I have learnt loads and met so many new people. It was only because of a desire to meet new friends made online that I attended the December Birmingham Bloggers meet at our Frankfurt Christmas Market earlier this month.
One of the features I've noticed about this new world is that many things happen just because some folks are interested enough to make it happen and not expect everyone else to do it for them. There is a high sense of achievement. I'm not sure if that is just amongst the people I've decided to follow or twitter-land in general.
Another is that professionals and amateurs rub along together very well. So, many of my followers(ings) make a living from the internet and social media one way or another, whilst the rest are keen amateurs or just like to commune. I'm not sure how the pros put up with some of our amateurish nonsense on some evenings, but we have a great time…
I'm constantly pondering how exactly to use all of this at work. How to really embrace social media to engage our 25,000 members beyond Facebook. I'm looking forward to seeing what Ed Walker does at UCLAN SU as he embeds it more there. I'm also contemplating how we go about using the web to "walk alongside" our members, where in the past we may well have demanded they come inside… Looking forwad to where that will take us, I think it may be an interesting model going forward. I feel it will give us a greater chance of building a positive reputation: one of a students' union who cares enough about what it's members choose to do, that we join in with them rather than necessarily the other way round.
So what does 2009 have in store:
- It's looking likely that I'll host a Birmingham meeting of Twitterers in the not for profit sector.
- More bin blogging [including 1st bins on vacation post planned for Feb 2009]
- More workmen [at least two sites up my sleeve, just need the camera at the right time
- More ramblings
- More Tweets
- …oh, and more time with my family – not sure how they are compatible, but need to find out real soon.
Like now!
Happy New Year
I've been playing a little game with myself.
Regular visitors will have noticed my habit of posting photos often without explanation (ref: bins and workmen categories).
I have a pretty clear reason for putting them up. For me, there is a clear story behind them and a clear reason for posting them. One of the interesting consequences of posting many photos, is that as I post more photos, my story changes. What I also wonder is whether they tell the same story as I set out to tell.
So, the little game I am playing with myself is to see how long I can hold out before I tell the stories.
When I set out to write this post, I thought I'd reached that point where I would write them down. Now I realise, I can stand it a little longer. In fact, this post gives me the chance to ask you what stories you glean from my photo posts – if indeed you hear a story at all… I look forward to your comments.
Meanwhile, here I am still playing that little game with myself…


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Are Chickens Allowed in this location No Max Chickens Allowed Roosters Allowed No Permit Required Yes Coop Restrictions Possible, special permit. Know of one person who paid $250. yearly for special permit. City/Organization Contact name Additional Information Zoning By Laws Article 2 through 2.3 Describes uses of Residential Single family property. Link for more Information http://www.milford.ma.us/zoning-by-laws.pdf Information Last Updated 2010-09-27 15:26:11
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Are you looking to get some great electric bass guitar lessons for yourself or your child? Then you've come to the right place.
When you ask many children what they want to be when they grow up and get older, most of them would answer that they would like to play in a rock band. It's a natural dream for kids.
Who would not want to play music and rock shows for a living? When you ask all kids who want to belong to a rock band as to which instrument they would like to play, many would really choose that they would love to play the guitar.
The guitarist gets all the attention and most of the airtime. However, if you are one of the fewer people who opt to complement the guitarist and be a bassist, then you should really be proud of your part. To learn more about electric bass guitar lessons, read on.
People who would like to play the bass understand the importance of the bassist's part of the band. A band without a solid bassist will produce music that is quite half cooked.
The guitar can be impressive, but the bass completes the sound. So, the first thing that any electric bass guitar lessons will teach you is that the sound of the bass capsulates the overall sound of the band.
The next thing you must learn in these bass lessons is the art of the one finger strum. While guitarists use a pick of their thumbnail for strumming, a bassist must learn to use the index finger as the main point of contact for the bass guitar strings.
Another thing one must learn is the art of sliding your left fingers between chords. A smooth movement from one chord to another is required to produce the crispest and fullest sound.
If one struggles to move smoothly from one chord to another, the abrupt change will be heard loudly.
These are the basic things that will be taught in electric bass guitar lessons. Altogether, they prove that learning to play the bass guitar takes just as much patience and perseverance as learning a lead guitar does.
Most kids will start playing the guitar, but later on in their lives they will develop a new love for the bass. Get started with lessons and watch the talent develop, you never know what it will lead to.


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James McPartland
James McPartland (aka "Mac") is the Principal and Chief Inspiration Officer of The JMac Performance Group, a specialized management consulting firm focused on realizing the importance of the human potential in business. He is an entrepreneur, author, international speaker, TV/Radio Host, and noted authority on leadership, team building, corporate wellness, and transformational change. Mac focuses on helping successful leaders transform into their 'best' by achieving positive lasting change in behavior (and results) for themselves, their people, and their teams. As a consultant and speaker, he has worked with senior executives in organizations from Fortune 500 corporations including; The Dow Chemical Company, IBM, Allergan, Technogym, Les Mills International, Spinning and Total Gym, as well as non-profits such as The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.