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FRESNO — It was high noon at the Big Fresno Fair and Brad Sherman was sidling up to prospective voters outside the Pronto Pup corn dog stand.
"Hi, I'm running for the State Board of Equalization," declared the balding 36-year-old Granada Hills tax attorney and accountant. "And I'm handing out combs for two reasons: So you'll remember my name and on the theory that you can use one more than I can."
Dean Kourafas, who had been sipping a beer, gladly accepted the blue notion. But the black-haired Fresno food marketer later acknowledged that he was more than slightly befuddled about what Sherman will be doing if he is elected to the five-member board next month.
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Three Physicians Join Staff at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics
Friday, November 10, 2017 10:28 am
Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics, which has four clinics located in the Memphis area, including after hours urgent care clinics in Germantown and Southaven, has added three physicians to its staff. They are:
* Dr. Marcus C. Ford has joined the team of physicians at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics as a total joint replacement specialist. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Ford did his residency at UT-Campbell Clinic and his fellowship in joint preservation, resurfacing and replacement at Washington University.
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* Dr. Benjamin W. Sheffer has joined Campbell Clinic as a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon. He earned his undergraduate degree at Texas A&M University and went on to graduate from medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Dr. Sheffer completed his residency at the John Peter Smith Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and his fellowship at UT-Campbell Clinic.
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Regular ring (in commutative algebra)
A Noetherian ring whose localizations (cf. Localization in a commutative algebra) are all regular (here is a prime ideal in ). A local Noetherian ring (cf. Local ring) with maximal ideal is called regular if is generated by elements, where , that is, if the tangent space (as a vector space over the field of residues) has dimension equal to . This is equivalent to the absence of singularities in the scheme . A regular local ring is always integral and normal, and also factorial (cf. Factorial ring; the Auslander–Buchsbaum theorem), and its depth is equal to (cf. Depth of a module). The associated graded ring
is isomorphic to the polynomial ring . A local Noetherian ring is regular if and only if its completion is regular; in general, if is a flat extension of local rings and is regular, then is also regular. For complete regular local rings, the Cohen structure theorem holds: Such a ring has the form , where is a field or a discrete valuation ring. Any module of finite type over a regular local ring has a finite free resolution (see Hilbert syzygy theorem); the converse also holds (see [2]).
Fields and Dedekind rings are regular rings. If is regular, then the ring of polynomials and the ring of formal power series over are also regular. If is a non-invertible element of a local regular ring, then is regular if and only if .
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|J.-P. Serre, "Algèbre locale. Multiplicités" , Lect. notes in math. , 11 , Springer (1965) MR0201468 Zbl 0142.28603
|A. Grothendieck, J. Dieudonné, "Eléments de géométrie algébrique. I. Le langage des schémas" Publ. Math. IHES , 4 (1964) MR0173675 Zbl 0118.36206
Regular ring (in commutative algebra). Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Regular_ring_(in_commutative_algebra)&oldid=39058


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Do you remember the Cherokee?
Jeep certainly hopes you do, and in a fond way. It's a big reason why this DaimlerChrysler division has added the Patriot to its ever-expanding range of sport-utility vehicles.
It's similar-looking to the Cherokee, intentionally so, but cuts a wider swath, from easy-going boulevard cruiser to rugged, range-rumbling off-roader. It joins the entry-level Compass and completely madeover Wrangler as Jeep's new-for-2007 entries. The Patriot/Compass duo is heavily based on the Dodge Caliber wagon and shares many of the same mechanical components.
For the Patriot, however, it's all about emulating the Cherokee, a squarish model that was created four years before Jeep was acquired from the American Motors in 1987. The Cherokee left in 2001, but legions of devoted fans still long for the old warhorse and its straightforward and boxy styling as well as its on- and off-trail capabilities.


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Genesee is a quiet community nestled in the fertile rolling hills and prairie of Idaho's Palouse country, half way between Moscow and Lewiston. Some of our citizens work in local business, while others are employed in the nearby communities.
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The city is well managed and has a superb school system. Catholic, Lutheran and Community churches are important social as well as spiritual centers. The Senior Citizen Center, located between City Hall and the Library, is home to many functions and includes an active American Legion Post downstairs. The Masonic Lodge and the Genesee Civic Association have both been active for many years.
With universities and colleges in Moscow, Lewiston, Pullman and Clarkston, diverse cultural and educational opportunities abound. For the outdoor enthusiast fantastic hunting and fishing is within a few miles of the city. The Clearwater and Snake River near Lewiston are world famous for steelhead and Salmon fishing and Dworshak Reservoir, about 60 miles to the east, provides access to unlimited outdoor recreation.
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Why not explore a career in the federal government? Most nuclear physicists are well aware of job opportunities in academia and national laboratories. But most do not consider a job in the federal government. Dr. Gillo will share her experiences as a member of the federal workforce, helping to manage the Nation's Nuclear Physics Program. She will describe some of the challenges and excitements of being a federal employee, and describe how federal workers can make a contribution to nuclear physics.


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A Maine judge has rejected the state's desire to keep a nurse in quarantine over Ebola fears.
Instead, Judge Charles LaVerdiere ruled that Kaci Hickox, RN, should continue twice-daily direct active monitoring of her temperature and symptoms and coordinate any travel with state authorities so the monitoring can continue.
The ruling is essentially what the CDC urges for people it considers at "some risk" of Ebola -- those without symptoms but who have treated Ebola patients while wearing protective equipment.
The CDC guidance requires direct active monitoring -- a representative of the local health authority is to take her temperature twice a day and ask about any symptoms -- but travel and contact with the public would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, mainly to ensure that the monitoring takes place.
The state had wanted Hickox -- who had worked for Doctors without Borders caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone -- to stay in her home without any public contact until 21 days after her last contact with a patient.
Hickox refused, saying that restriction was not based on the science, which says Ebola contagion is not possible until a person has symptoms of the disease and even then infection of others requires direct contact with body fluids from the sick patient.
The judge agreed, saying that because she has no symptoms she is not infectious, according to the Associated Press.
But he cautioned her to avoid alarming the community, the New York Times reported from the courtroom.
LaVerdiere said he was aware of "the misconceptions, misinformation, bad science, and bad information being spread from shore to shore in our country with respect to Ebola."
"People are acting out of fear and ... this fear is not entirely rational," the judge said. "However, whether that fear is rational or not, it is present and it is real. [Hickox] should guide herself accordingly."
The ruling comes after a week of controversy that started when Hickox was detained Oct. 24 at Newark's Liberty airport, despite having no symptoms of Ebola. She was eventually held in a tent on the airport grounds for several days, although an Ebola blood test was negative, before being allowed to return to Maine.
But there, Maine state officials also wanted her to stay in her home under a voluntary quarantine, which they said would be made mandatory if she refused. She refused, saying the state's position was neither "scientifically nor constitutionally just."
Meanwhile, the only person with Ebola in the U.S., Craig Spencer, MD, remains in serious but stable condition in New York City's Bellevue Hospital. Spencer, also a volunteer with Doctors without Borders, contracted the illness while working in Guinea.
He was without symptoms when he returned but several days later developed a fever and was quickly isolated, with tests showing he had Ebola.
The immediate fallout from that event was that New York state and New Jersey decided that returning healthcare workers should be quarantined for 21 days -- the incubation period of the virus -- regardless of their symptoms. It was that decision that led to Hickox's internment.
Several other states have since imposed similar restrictions.
Aside from Spencer, the U.S. has had only three cases of Ebola diagnosed in the country -- a Liberian, Thomas Eric Duncan, and two of the nurses who treated him, Amber Vinson, RN, and Nina Pham, RN. Duncan died Oct. 8 in Dallas hospital, but both Pham and Vinson have recovered.
Both were reportedly wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) when they tended to Duncan, and it is not clear how they became infected. But the cases stoked a controversy about what equipment should be used and how well it was being used.
In a guidance released today, the World Health Organization argued that the "paramount" issue with PPE is mandatory training in putting it on, taking it off, and decontaminating it safely.
Experts consulted for the guidance said it's vital to have PPE that protects the mouth, nose, and eyes from contaminated droplets and fluids, including either a face shield or goggles. The gear that protects the mucosae should ideally be the last thing taken off, the agency said.
Masks, the WHO said, should be resistant to fluids and shaped so that they don't collapse against the mouth. If caregivers are conducting procedures that could give rise to aerosolized body fluids, they should wear fluid-resistant particulate respirators instead.
Hand hygiene is "essential," the agency said, because hands are known to transmit pathogens to other parts of the body, as well as to other individuals. The guidance recommends double-gloving, with the outside glove having a long cuff reaching to at least the mid-forearm.
Taping gloves on was not recommended because it might make taking the gear off more difficult, with possible tearing and subsequent contamination.
In general, gloves should be changed between patients but since that might not be possible in some settings, the agency's experts did not reach a consensus on the issue.
The WHO recommended nitrile gloves, rather than latex, because they are more resistant to chemicals, including some used for disinfection, and more environmentally friendly.
The agency also urged full-body covering over regular on-duty clothing, but said either a disposable, fluid-resistant gown or a coverall could be used with a disposable waterproof apron.
The guidance also said healthcare workers should wear waterproof boots, as well as a head covering that is separate from gown or coverall, so it can be removed separately.
The CDC has also posted a video showing the correct way to put on and take off PPE.
The WHO cautioned that PPE is only "the most visible control used to prevent transmission."
"It is effective only if applied together with other controls including facilities for barrier nursing and work organization, water and sanitation, hand hygiene, and waste management," according to Marie-Paule Kieny, PhD, the agency's assistant director general for health systems and innovation.
In many places in West Africa, such other controls are often improvised or nonexistent.
In its end-of-week situation report, the WHO said the three countries where transmission remains intense -- Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone -- the toll continues to rise, despite some optimism that facilities are increasing and the rate of new cases might be stabilizing.
All told, the world has seen 13,567 reported Ebola cases in eight affected countries since the outbreak began in December 2013, with 4,951 deaths. All but a handful of those have been in the three African countries, where the cumulative total of confirmed, probable, and suspected cases is 13,540, with 4,941 deaths.
In nearby Mali, where a 2-year-old girl became the country's first case and first death from Ebola, officials have ruled out three people suspected of having caught the virus from her and another 85 contacts are being monitored.
So far, no new cases have been observed, the WHO said.
In Spain, all of the contacts of nurse Teresa Romero, who caught Ebola from a patient and later recovered, have passed the 21-day monitoring period. The WHO will declare Spain free of the virus if there are no new cases within 42 days of Romero's last negative Ebola test.
And in basic science news, researchers led by Michael Katze, PhD, of the University of Washington in Seattle, have developed a mouse model of Ebola -- filling a key gap in treatment and prevention research.
Conventional lab mice infected with a murine version of Zaire ebolavirus -- the strain afflicting West Africa -- die but don't develop the characteristic features of hemorrhagic fever, Katze and colleagues noted online in Science.
That means that vaccines and therapeutics are usually tested in nonhuman primates, which is costly and slow.
Katze and colleagues looked at mice crossbred from eight strains -- three wild-type and five lab strains -- and found that their reactions to the virus mimicked the range of responses seen in the human population.
The animals lost weight in the first few days after infection, but 19% not only survived, but regained their lost weight within 2 weeks with no gross pathological evidence of disease and normal livers. As well, 11% were partly resistant to the virus; less than half died.
On the other hand, 70% of the animals had a mortality rate of greater than 50%; of those, 19% had liver inflammation without classic symptoms of Ebola, and 34% had slow-clotting blood, a hallmark of fatal Ebola hemorrhagic fever in humans, as well as internal bleeding, swollen spleens, and changes in liver color and texture.
UPDATE: This article, originally published Oct. 31, 2014, at 2:03 p.m., was updated with new material Oct. 31, 2014, at 6:45 p.m.).
The Science study had support from the NIH. The authors did not disclose any relevant relationships with industry.
The WHO guidance was supported by the agency. No relevant relationships with indsutry were disclosed.
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What happens when you google Supreme Court Justices? Today, enter a search for "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg" and the results may bug you.
Instead of being associated with women's rights or fighting for female equality, quite literally, Justice Ginsburg is now associated with bugs, the Ilomantis ginsburgae, to be exact. The scientific discovery of this species is notable as Sydney Brannoch, a Case Western Reserve University Ph.D. candidate, recently used the genitals of female praying mantises to distinguish it from other species.
Like other praying mantis's, female Ilomantis ginsburgae take their male counterparts and rip off their heads. Now, the feminist insects share headlines with one of the most renowned courtroom warriors.
But, it may be Justice Ginsburg with the last laugh. What happens when Supreme Court Justices google you?
It turns out that Supreme Court Justices have been supplementing legal briefs with their own online research for years.
A former clerk to retired Justice David Souter recently studied 15 years worth of Supreme Court decisions. Allison Orr Larsen, who is a professor at William & Mary Law School, found more than 100 examples of asserted facts from authorities that were never mentioned in briefs attached to the same case.
Additionally, in 120 high-profile, newsworthy cases from 2000 to 2010, Larsen found nearly 60 percent contained facts researched in-house.
"Virtually all of the justices do it regardless of whether they are traditionally labeled liberal or conservative," explains Larsen, via the article "Should Supreme Court justices Google?" by Robert Barnes for the Washington Post, "and they cite authorities they find themselves on a wide range of subject matter (from biology to history to golf)."
Is this due diligence or simply judicial curiosity?
The fact is, information is exceedingly accessible today. It's impossible to ignore it.
"Now the justices (and their clerks and their librarians) are flooded with information literally at their fingertips. Social science studies, raw statistics, and other data are all just a Google search away," writes Larsen.
"If the justices want more empirical support for a factual dimension of their argument, they can find it easily and without the help of anyone outside of the Supreme Court building."
Many lawyers are starting to question the validity of this practice.
For example, in 2011, the court found a California law forbidding the sale of violent video games to minors violated the First Amendment. Justice Stephen G. Breyer in a dissent offered 13 pages of studies on the topic of psychological harm from playing violent video games. Justice Clarence Thomas cited 59 sources to support his view that the Founding Fathers believed that parents had absolute control over their children's development—an overwhelming 57 of them were not in the briefs submitted in the case.
Fair or not, do you know what Justices will find when they google you or your client? More importantly, do professionals at your firm possess the technological skills to do the same due diligence?
So, before your brief gets beheaded by the prying eyes of praying judges, find out what's online and how it could affect your case—before it's too late.


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Notting Hill. The address is One of a Kind, a paradise for fans of vintage.
Here you can find Chanel bags, brightly coloured, leopard print fur, gorgeous
little hats, printed dresses and sunglasses and necklaces in every possible
variety. You'll be spoiled for choice. It's a true gem: Tom Ford, Stella
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'Kate, Naomi and Sienna all shop here for vintage finds that they can be sure they won't see anyone else wearing. For such A-list guests there's a secret room, which holds their more exclusive pieces; ask owner Jeff Ihenacho sweetly and he'll give you a sneak peak inside (by appointment only). Photographs of celebrity clients hang in the busy shop giving the small space the kind of street cred that money can't buy. Tom Ford, Jean Paul Gaultier, Stella McCartney and Karl Lagerfeld are not just labels stocked here; all have visited the store for inspiration. Far from second best hand-me-downs, all clothes are kept in pristine condition and show no signs of their advancing years. Accordingly, they are sold at high-end designer label prices. Jeff tirelessly scours auctions, markets and jumble sales, but only the most fashionable clothes make it to the tightly packed rails'
Based in the historic market place of Portobello Road, One of a Kind is a capsule of beauty and elegance throughout the ages. Providing unique and rare pieces to a worldwide clientele who appreciate the highest quality in fashion. Founded by Jeff Ihenacho, One of a Kind has more than nineteen years of experience in selling designer vintage clothing, shoes and accessories.
If you are really looking for a special piece and want a private dress up experience then book an appointment in our archive, known to many as 'Aladdin's Cave'. Here is where we keep out most inspirational and unique pieces. Cram packed with everything from Azzedine Alaia, Biba, Chanel, Christian Dior, Hermes, Thea Porter, Zandra Rhodes and many more. Just name a particular style, era or designer and our stylist will hand pick pieces they believe will suit.
One of a Kind has just launched online, allowing you to shop from the comfort of your home. Browse through our luxurious collection of designer vintage, fashion editorials and iconic Polaroid collection. Our interactive Instagram is constantly updated without latest products, clients and magazine features.


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Journey Into the Art of J.D. Tippey
Picking up a pen at age six, a video camera at eleven, Josh Tippey set out on a life's pursuit of storytelling in all its forms. From the pages of The Waking Dream to the imagery of L'ange Dans Le Marbre, explore what journeys await.


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Hey you!
Yes, you. No, not the stranger on the corner. No, not the dude with the bible. No man, not the woman with the blonde hair in the cute hat with ears. I'm talking to YOU.
Do you know who you are? You're the guy that fucked over my mind. You're the guy who mocked me in school. You're the asshole who's responsible for my view of all your kind. And you know what? I'm not okay with that.
You think I want an apology? I wouldn't accept it, even if I thought you were sincere.
You think I want blood? I'd just end up as another crazy serial killer, or the subject of some TV real-life drama.
You think I want to destroy you utterly, because I'm jealous that you made it, and I didn't? How did you make it? How's that millionaire thing comin' along, sport? Oh right, YOU'RE NOT A MILLIONAIRE. You're just as much of a screw-up as I am. Maybe more of one. I'm not jealous because you grew up and I didn't. I'm not jealous because you're waist-deep in the varying grotesqueries of this world, and I'm not. I'm not even jealous that your job brings you money. After all the bills, I'm surprised you have any left!
So what do I want? Why am I writing you, this anonymous gestalt of all my secondary-school tormentors, an open letter on the internet? Because it's been 20 years. 20 years ago, my first term of secondary school was just about up. And I learned the harsh lesson that I know to this day. People suck. And you taught me that. You taught me that the vast majority of this planet isn't fit to lick the dirt from my shoes, though they think precisely the opposite.
You taught me that there is no intrinsic value in trying to gain friendships, because I'll always be betrayed.
You taught me, that knowing words, and having feelings, and being who I am, is a waste of time. You taught me that the gays are reprehensible, and football is king, and that cars are all there is.
You taught me that my voice is stupid, and that my mannerisms are comical
You taught me that all my coping mechanisms were fodder for your amusement.
I'd say Fuck you, but that Isn't strong enough. Hell, I'd TAKE the blood, but it'd never be enough. And when you, my gestalt secondary-school adversary, were gone, what would stop me from going after the trolls of the internet that taught me that I can't escape dickishness? And from there, anyone who'd ever shouted at me in the street? Anyone who looked at me strangely? Anyone who WASN'T ME? No, If I start down that road, I'll never stop.
So take a look. I have a heapin' helpin' of forgiveness on this table right here. But this is as close as you're ever going to get to it. Because I'm paying it forward. Instead of wasting my forgiveness on you, who'd do it all over again in a heartbeat, I'm giving my forgiveness to teenagers who ended up outside school.
So enjoy your life: Screaming kids, demanding boss, nagging wife. I wish you a long and prosperous working career. I got off lightly. You're gonna suffer way more than I ever did.
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
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Definition of gruel
n. - A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge. 2
The word "gruel" uses 5 letters: E G L R U.
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Four identically-dressed gunmen lay siege to a New York subway train and demand that a ransom of one million dollars be delivered within the hour. Transport cop Lt. Gerber (Walter Matthau) negotiates with the hijackers, trying to keep their leader (Robert Shaw) engaged in a continuous radio conversation while he looks for a way to defuse the situation and puzzles over the hijackers' intended escape plans. How exactly do they hope to make their getaway from an enclosed tunnel surrounded by police?


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|you know you've made it when your face is on a barrier
The premise of the show is a bit like 'The Great British Bake-Off', but with artists doing portraits, instead of making cakes. Earlier in the year, someone passed me some information about the competition. All you needed to do was fill in a simple form and send in a self-portrait. The winner of the competition won a £10,000 commission to create a portrait of author Hilary Mantel. Luckily I had recently done a linocut self-portrait (just for fun), so I applied, and then forgot all about it...
|my self-portrait
As well as the Cardiff heat, there were heats in London, Glasgow and Dublin, and one person from each would go forward to the final to compete for the Mantel commission, which will be displayed in the National Portrait Gallery.
So the time came...My kind friends in Cardiff, Charlotte and John, put me up for a couple of nights, and looked after me so generously. I got a taxi to Cardiff City Hall, the location for the filming, bleary eyed, after a rather restless nights sleep. I found a gaggle of other nervous artists, clutching their equipment, and equally wondering how they got themselves into this. Eventually all the artists were gathered together, given mic packs and a lanyard with a number on. Mine was number 1 (not necessarily a good omen!).
|lanyard no.1
We were then taken outside to be filmed entering the building, and then shown to our workspaces. As I was the only printmaker in the competition, I wasn't sure what to expect really. I saw a lot of easels, but thankfully they had provided me with a table to work on! We then met the presenters of the show Frank Skinner and Joan Bakewell, and the competition judges, Kathleen Soriano, Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Kate Bryan, Head of Contemporary at the Fine Art Society and portrait artist Tai-Shan Schierenberg. They were a friendly bunch, especially Frank, who seemed rather taken by linocut! We also got to look at all of the other self-portraits, in the flesh, which was pretty daunting. Some amazing work, and I felt very much out of my depth!
|some of the self-portraits (look how tiny mine is!)
|more self-portraits
|Frank and Joan getting ready to start the competition
I eventually got started on the portrait. I tried to follow my process, and block out everything else that was happening (lots of artists were wearing headphones, good thinking) and whittled away at my lino. It seemed to be going ok, but I wasn't totally sure, as you never really know how it looks until you do a test-print. There were a lot of interruptions too, with the hosts/judges wanting to chat and film extra bits for the show. We had a proper break for lunch, and all the artists got to have a bit of a chat and a look at how each other were getting on. however, I was a bit concerned about time, so bolted my lunch and got back to the lino! At the point of doing a test-print, I really had reservations. I really wan't sure that I'd got a likeness. To my relief, it looked ok, and like Mr Weston! So I carried on, making sure I didn't over-do it, and even added a second plate, for Simon's shirt. I pretty much finished an hour before the time was up, so spent the rest of my time trying different prints, and adjusting the colour combinations. I think a few of the more photo-realist painters struggled a bit with the time, as they were used to spending months on paintings, not 5 hours. I'm glad I'm not a painter.
|my view of Mr Weston
Time was called, in a rather dramatic fashion, and us artists shuffled out for more on-camera chats about how the day had gone, and more tea and cakes. Its a hard life! We now had to leave the judges to decide on their favourite three portraits. There was a definite sense of relief and camaraderie among the artists there. It was very odd trying to be creative under such constraints, and it made the achievements of the artists even more great.
So all 21 of us shuffled back to the main room to hear the decision. We all had to stand in a big group in front of the camera while they read out the three names. It did feel a bit like we were on X-Factor for a moment....and I think everyone was pretty darn nervous/excited.
|my prints and test-prints
And the first name they called out was.....mine (deliberate annoying hesitation noted)! I really did think they had made a mistake, so hesitated a little before walking to my spot, but they carried on and called out the other two artists (amazing painters Nick and Gavin). We were all a little gobsmacked, and were led out for more interviews and thoughts. I'm not really sure I was making much sense by this point. If you have seen the show, you'll notice my interviews are mercifully brief! Now was time for another break, while the judges discussed who the winner was going to be from us three. All the other artists were really lovely and gracious, not at all miffed at not being shortlisted. I felt a bit guilty nonetheless. Finally the three of us were led out to stand in front of our portraits and talk to the judges about them. I've no idea what I said. I think I might have just smiled and nodded.
|my 'Simon Weston' 2-colour linocut
Then Frank read out the winner, and it was...Nick. A deserved winner. His portrait of Gavin Henson was brilliant, and a very different approach to painting that I'd seen before. He was a nice chap too, very modest. I wasn't disappointed at all. I was very flattered indeed to get in the top 3.
|the top 3 just before the result. that is Nick, far right
Phew, what a day. I was ready for a beer (and thanks to Charlotte and John, I got one). Before I could leave, we had further interviews and all that, and Frank Skinner came up to me to ask if he could possibly have my 'self-portrait' that was on display, as he really really liked it! How could I refuse?
So a weird and stressful day, but a brilliant experience, and one I'd definitely recommend to any artists.
I've seen the episode now, and it is equally odd watching yourself on tv, not to mention cringe worthy. It is a fascinating show, and I've really got drawn in to what has happened in the other episodes too. The final is on next Tuesday (10th December) on Sky Arts and I'm rooting for Nick Lord to win.. C'mon boy!


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Following yesterday's announcement that the studio will be donating portions of the proceeds from sales of next week's home entertainment release of Fast & Furious 6, Universal Pictures has brought online a special video tribute to Paul Walker and his franchise role of Brian O'Conner. You can watch it in the player below.
Fast & Furious 6 will be available in North America on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On Demand on December 10, 2013.
Paul Walker's family has requested that in lieu of flowers or other gifts, donations be made to support Paul's charity. To learn more about the efforts of Reach Out WorldWide or make a direct donation, please visit www.roww.org.


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Mountain Top Golf Course
- 3635 State Highway 80, Sherburne, NY 13460
- (607) 674-4005
9 total holes at facility
Green fees - $17 to $33 (estimate)
Designed by Jim Kitchen
Built in 1965
Driving Range: Yes
Public golf course
Mountain Top Golf Course is a 9-hole regulation length golf course in Sherburne, New York. This short layout has 3 sets of teeboxes for a fun, but challenging golfing experience. Online tee times may be available at Mountain Top Golf Course or at nearby golf courses, usually offered at a discount from the normal rate.
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Lunch Hour Lecture: Social physics in the big city
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Art of Butchery – Pig
November 2, 2014 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm$150
Back by popular demand, The Art of Butchery will leave you with a ton of knowledge on butchering an animal. Your guide, Jamie Waldron, has dedicated 15 years of his life to mastering the art and skills of butchery. Through working, learning, researching and teaching, he seeks to revive an age-old craft that has fallen out of step in current methods of purchasing and preparing food.
The most recent workshop was featured on CBC's The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright.
This class will be hands-on and you'll be taking home 20 lbs of fresh pork meat, wrapped for storage. Jamie will be teaching us how to break the hog into 'primals', which are the first cuts that represent the largest portions of the animal. This is followed by the 'retail cuts' which, for instance, are the shoulder (boston and picnic), loin (chops and loin roasts), belly (bacon, pancetta), leg (ham, proccuttio) and finally the head (headcheese, guanciale). As always, this class is hands-on.
You want to take this class because:
- You're a rural or urban homesteader who wants to learn how to butcher your own livestock or that of a local farmers
- You're a home chef and want to become more familiar with the anatomy of a pig and proper processing techniques
- You're a doer and are curious about the butchery process and yearning to learn a valuable, hands-on skills.
The pig comes from a local and sustainable farm called Keystone Farm. We believe that this farm represents the best possible life for a pig.
You will want to attend this workshop if:
- You're a doer who's curious about butchery and want to learn a valuable skill.
- You're a home chef who wants to become more familiar with the anatomy of a pig and proper processing techniques.
- You're a rural or urban homesteader who wants to learn how to butcher your own livestock or that of local farmers.
Jamie Waldron
Born inSouth Detroit (Windsor, Ontario) and raised in the small rural town of Harrow, Jamie got his start at the butcher block in a small country butcher shop as a teenager. Since then, Jamie has dedicated over 15 years to learning the art of butchery: working, researching, and practising an age old craft. He's worked at some of the top butcher shops in Canada. Jamie's partnered with fine restaurants in Ontario, hosting informative and delicious butcher block dinner series, where he educates diners on the meat they're consuming. Through his partnerships with ethical farms, he continues to offer direct to order meats through his website.
When: Sunday, November 2nd, 10am-2pm
Where: Artisanale French Country Cooking, 214 Woolwich Street, Guelph, ON
Cost: $150 including 20 lbs of local and sustainable meat, all materials, and lunch. There will be a maximum of 8 participants and we will be working on a whole pig.
To Bring: A sharp boning knife and your favourite apron. You will have the option of purchasing Jamie's newest book Home Butchering Handbook for $20.
Workshop Features:
#1- Access to a professional teacher with extensive experience in butchery. Jamie has been butchering for over 15 years and is an author of a book on home butchery. He is also an amazing facilitator.
#2- Local and sustainable pig. We choose to support farmers who honour and respect the 'piginess of the pig'.
#3- Small class sizes and a whole pig . There will only be 8 people maximum in this class.
#4 – Taking home pork meat!
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I have nearly finished the project, but need to burn the hex code to a Atemega 328P chip. I have tried the following way:
Insert a new chip on an Arduino Uno.
Connect a USBTiny to the Arduino and connect the wire.
Run following command: avrdude -c usbtiny -p m328p -U flash:w:Platino_soldering_station.hex:i -U efuse:w:0xff:m -U hfuse:w:0xd9:m -U lfuse:w:0xe2:m
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Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.01s
avrdude: verifying ...
avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000
0xff != 0x07
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch
avrdude: safemode: efuse changed! Was ff, and is now 7
Would you like this fuse to be changed back? [y/n]
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix this?
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I am using this opportunity to thank you once again for an excellent job that you did for the promotion of Audi plume, new Audi A8.
The event itself was of extreme significance for Audi BiH, as a result of pressure that was placed upon us from Audi AG relating to the execution of a such high level promotion for such a vehicle.
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The androgynous look isn't just for grown up women as the Armani Junior FW14 ad campaign shows. Quvenzhané Wallis, star of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and the youngest Oscar nominee of all time, is clad in a sleek and satiny suit that is well beyond her years. Of course, she has a career that many middle-aged actors could only dream of having.
Set to appear in theaters for the latest remake of 'Annie,' the young American actress is completely in her element in the Armani Junior FW14 ad campaign. Unsuccessfully hiding an equally adorable puppy in her jacket, Quvenzhané Wallis poses with a genuine smile that won the hearts of many two years ago.
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coconut milk
protein & the vegan elephant in the room / soba noodle veggie bowl in coconut ginger broth
"How do you get your protein?" says everyone I've spoken to about veganism, ever. Yes, it's repetitive and sometimes I have to find my happy place (translation: sparkly cave with unicorns) before I can calmly reply without cursing the popular media, western doctors and nutritionists across the globe that have brainwashed our culture into equating veganism with kwashiorkor syndrome. "Wait, what is that?" asks those same people. Oh, never heard of it? I respond coyly. Hmm, maybe that's because it's the name for severe protein deficiency and it's never been documented in this country. Hooray! If you're vegan or vegetarian you will survive after all! I don't mean to sound cynical, and at one time I asked the same question to my sister when she first went vegan. Unfortunately, It's the result of repeated whisperings that blow into our innocent ears from social media, parents, doctors, pretend doctors, and friends that over time harden into an accepted truth without personal investigation. It's the same reason you think that milk is good for your bones, that cane sugar is better than high fructose corn syrup, that meat is the richest protein & B12 source on the planet, and that all soy is bad for you and will cause breast cancer. In a nutshell, you can thank the meat & dairy industries for brainwashing you, little by little, through clever advertising that we don't even realize is affecting our opinions. So instead of marketing propaganda, let's turn to plain old common sense.
Take a look at our fellow plant-based animal friends: elephants, giraffes, gorillas, bison, and hippos. These are some of the largest and strongest mammals on the planet, but they don't look like they're having any problems with protein intake do they?
And it just so happens that vegetables and grains are chock full of protein: spinach, broccoli, nuts, seeds, tofu, tempeh, lentils, oatmeal, whole grain breads, cacao, quinoa, seitan, beans, and artichokes to name a few! In fact, nearly all vegetables, grains, beans, seeds and nuts contain protein in them. Fruits, alcohol and sugars on the other hand, are low in protein so if you plan on being an alcoholic fruitarian, then yeah, you'll risk becoming deficient in protein (and friends), but if you eat lots of vegetables and whole grains, nuts, beans, and seeds you'll be a veggie-powered superhuman! So next time someone asks you where you get your protein, gently point out the literal vegan elephant in the room…
Now that you're armed with confidence and gorilla strength about your protein intake, why not rub it in a little more and make a cozy, protein-filled soba noodle bowl in a coconut peanut broth! Peanut butter, chickpeas, broccoli and whole grain soba noodles are great sources of protein. This dish is perfect on a day like today – a freshly snowed, gray skied wintry heaven.
Veggie Soba Noodle Bowl with Coconut-Peanut Sauce
1 package soba noodles (I recommend Eden)
1 T refined coconut oil
1 small yellow onion or 4 scallions, thinly sliced
1 inch knob of ginger root, peeled
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 large carrot, peeled and thinly sliced
1 red pepper, thinly sliced
1 head of broccoli, chopped
1 T mirin
1 T tamari or shoyu
2 tsp brown rice vinegar
1 T maple syrup
1 can coconut milk
1/4 cup creamy unsweetened peanut butter or almond butter
1 aseptic package or can of garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
Pinch of chili powder or cayenne pepper
Handful of fresh cilantro, chopped
Top with sriracha or favorite hot sauce (optional)
Cook soba noodles according to package directions in a large pot of salted, gently boiling water. Drain and rinse with cold water and set aside. In a deep saute pan, heat coconut oil on medium to high heat, and add onions or scallions. Cook for a few minutes, then add garlic and use a microplane grater to add ginger knob. Toss in broccoli, peppers, and carrot and continue to saute until veggies are bright and beginning to soften. Deglaze with mirin and use a wooden spoon to scrap up any pieces of food stuck to the bottom of the pan. Pour the coconut milk in and bring to a lively simmer, then reduce heat to low and add brown rice vinegar, tamari, maple syrup, peanut butter, chickpeas and chili powder. Simmer and stir occasionally until ingredients are well mixed and peanut butter has melted into the coconut broth. Remove from flame and toss mixture with soba noodles and cilantro. Drizzle with sriracha or hot sauce. Makes enough for 4 unicorns with shiny, flowing manes and rippling muscles from their protein fabulous vegan diets.
thanksgiving / mashed cinnamon ginger sweet potatoes
When I think of Thanksgiving, I envision pilgrims with buckle shoes and ridiculous hats gathering around wooden tables with a bunch of natives with headdresses, celebrating their most genuine "friendship" by feasting on a giant dead bird (with cranberry sauce and grandma's pumpkin pie, obviously). However, because I'm highly educated, I know that this is a gross misconception of a holiday that has nothing to do with a dead turkey and everything to do with William Bradford (the badass governor of the 1620 American colony) proclaiming that all his puritan buddies should gather together and thank God for helping them thrive in America.
But let's be honest, this is not interesting at all…
Turkey day (as I like to call it) is a time for families to come together and eat and drink as much as humanly possible, fall into a trytophan-induced coma, then wake up the next day and act like raving lunatics as they shop from 5am onwards to get the best deals on crap they don't need.
When I was in fourth grade, we dressed up like pilgrims and sang songs with the "native americans" (fifth graders) about peace and corn and turkeys…then we cut out a giant paper turkey and offered it to the natives (fifth graders), which they happily accepted with "thanks". This was followed by a feast in the auditorium with our teachers, but all I kept thinking (between mouthfuls of mashed potatoes) was how much I wanted to be a native (because they had cooler outfits and got to make their own walking sticks). A plump pilgrim nudged me in the ribs and said, "why did the turkey sit on the tomahawk?" I said I didn't know. "To hatchet." A blank stare. "Get it? Hatch-it?" Oh, right, I mumbled. Needless to say, it wasn't until high school that I realized the sweet old puritans weren't so "pure" after all…
"Wait, so they were escaping persecution from King James I and came to America so they could be socialists and practice their own religion?"
"Yea, apparently," I said. "But then all the indians died from disease and-"
"Dude, you can't say indians!?!"
"Oh, forgive me. We butchered the Native Americans, then became a capitalist society and thrived. God bless America…"
"I know, right? He's caused us more problems…"
So, what do I celebrate during Thanksgiving? Being with my family…because there's nothing better. Nothing.
Well, except perhaps mashed ginger cinnamon sweet potatoes! This is a simple recipe that's a perfect addition to your Thanksgiving spread.
Mashed Ginger Cinnamon Sweet Potatoes
2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
1 large yellow onion, peeled and chopped
2 carrots, peeled and chopped
1/3 cup coconut milk
2 T ginger pulp (= peeled and grated ginger root)
1 cinnamon stick
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper to taste
In a large pot, add potatoes, carrots, bay leaf, cinnamon stick, and onion and fill with enough water to just cover the vegetables. Bring to a boil and cover, then reduce heat and simmer until veggies are tender, about 20 minutes. Strain water out and remove bay leaf, then season with salt and add ginger pulp and coconut milk. Use an immersion blender or food processor to puree until creamy and smooth. Serves 6 unicorns disguised as pilgrims.


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- Demo: Acceptance Testing with Robot Framework
- Tutorial: Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) with Robot Framework
We are also highly interested to discuss any Robot related topics with the users of the framework and anyone who is interested. If you are coming and want to chat let us know beforehand or just find as wondering around the conference area. If there's more interest, perhaps we can organize an ad-hoc Robot session around a jar of sangria.


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by Mike Masnick
Tue, Apr 29th 2008 10:10am
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copyright, documentaries
A few years back, we wrote about a documentary that couldn't be shown due to copyright problems. It appears this problem is only getting worse. jprlk writes in to let us know about growing concerns from documentary filmmakers that issues concerning copyright make it increasingly difficult to actually make documentary films. Having reached this age where so many people are claiming "ownership" of content and demanding huge fees for any usage, documentary filmmakers run the risk of either getting charged repeatedly with copyright infringement or going through the long, difficult and expensive process of securing the rights. As the article quotes one documentary film maker saying, "Half of my budget is rights clearances, if you can get them." Given that the whole point of documentaries is to document things that are actually happening, it seems rather silly to realize that they can't document many things without first paying for the permission to do so.
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Dennis, 29 Apr 2008 @ 10:31am
Copyright documentaryIt sounds like someone needs to make a documentary about this. Then when the copyright vultures come calling it will be sweet irony, which can be later added to the DVD bonus features.
Sandoz76, 29 Apr 2008 @ 11:02am
AmenThis is interesting to hear. I work for a big media corp. They make their own footage and it is a nightmare for me to get this same footage to put into the education part of the web. Does this make any sense? Its a joke. Hurry up and retire, baby boomers. Ya'll are holding things up.
Apendrag0n, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:14pm
Re: AmenSounds like a company I worked for in Evanston, IL...
Max Christian Hansen, 29 Apr 2008 @ 11:17amMike: thanks for reminding me of this superb micro-documentary I saw on YouTube last year. Sandoz76: mind the broad brush, there. Many of us boomers who are aware of these issues are no more pleased with the status quo than are you gen-?-ers.
Christopher Todesco, 29 Apr 2008 @ 11:24am
Documentarians?Maybe if some wackos weren't making propaganda hit-pieces that target the corporate content owners thinly disguised as documentaries, they wouldn't be so quick to use copyright law to stop such efforts?
Now I'm not saying I agree with copyright law as it stands now, but I'm just suggesting that supposed documentary filmmakers can't push and push and push against people, and then throw up their hands and cry foul when they push back.
Chris C., 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:08pm
Re: Documentarians?Now I'm not saying I agree with copyright law as it stands now, but I'm just suggesting that supposed documentary filmmakers can't push and push and push against people, and then throw up their hands and cry foul when they push back.
Im curious what parallelism you're trying to draw in saying that documentary filmakers "push" and cant handle being "pushed back."
Filmakers are trying to release content, while the target of their focus is trying to hide that content. So the only way they would be affected by being "pushed back" is if they had information they didnt want released... but that isnt the case; so what exactly do you mean???
I assume you mean that they're peeved that they're trying to do something and someone is interfeering, which is the only similarity between both parties, and that's just everyday oridinary life... If someone is trying to hide something, they're going to take every available measure to do so; it's only natural they use copywright law to further conceal it.
In other words you're just stating the obvious, but I'm pretty sure propaganda hit-pieces that are thinly disguised as documentaries made by supposed filmakers is the real issue you're getting at, so next time just say you hate Michael Moore.
comboman, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:17pm
fair use?Wouldn't documentaries count as fair use, either under the educational or news reporting exemptions?
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:20pm
Re: fair use?Learn the first rule of fair use.
Dan Zee (profile), 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:21pm
Michael Moore ruined everythingEver since Michael Moore made $100 million on Fahrenheit 9/11 and Al Gore made $30 million with A Inconvenient Truth, no one wants to give away their film, video or sound clips without being hugely compensated.
But on the other hand, there's a lot of documentary makers who just splice together a bunch of media clips, put a narration track under it (usually bashing Bush) and call it a documentary.
I think documentary makers need to go back to their roots of actually going out, interviewing people, and shooting their own footage. Frederick Wiseman, for example, has never used a clip from somebody else in his entire career.
Reed, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:22pm
The art of documentary"Maybe if some wackos weren't making propaganda hit-pieces that target the corporate content owners thinly disguised as documentaries, they wouldn't be so quick to use copyright law to stop such efforts?"
So then your saying they use copyright laws to prevent public discourse about their actions?
"Now I'm not saying I agree with copyright law as it stands now, but I'm just suggesting that supposed documentary filmmakers can't push and push and push against people, and then throw up their hands and cry foul when they push back."
I am not sure where your are heading with this. Documentary makers don't keep "pushing", they typically make one documentary about a subject then move onto another. Your making it sound like it is a shoving match when it is just someone trying to create their form of art.
The problem that I have always seen is the fact that we let people own the rights to art in the first place. Content owners cry fowl because they can't protect their ill-gotten works in an increasing digital world where their products transaction costs are reduced to zero. The answer is simple, go find a new way to make money!
Capitalism would be a lot easier in this country if we actually forced companies to practice it instead of protecting their failing investments.
That Guy, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:35pm
RE: Michael Moore ruined everythingThere is some truth to that only if you believe that he makes documentaries.
Documentaries as they were originally concepted were about DOCUMENTING real life, as it happened. Take the documentary film Murderball. There were no "staged" scenes or interactions, and no original concept pieces created.
The films that Moore makes are "borderline" documentaries. He creates large amounts of original material ( his cartoon from Bowling for Columbine for example ) and he CREATES elaborate staged scenes such as sending people to Cuba in his last film.
Moore is one of the greatest "communicators" of our era, and he uses the medium of film to its fullest. But at the end of the day his latest films can't really be called documentaries.
So if your making a FILM, for the dual purpose of communicating your ideas and making money, I think media owners should still own rights to their footage.
It's not as those Moore is running a non profit organization, he runs a film production company.
Reed, 29 Apr 2008 @ 3:34pm
Re: RE: Michael Moore ruined everything"So if your making a FILM, for the dual purpose of communicating your ideas and making money, I think media owners should still own rights to their footage."
Discussing whether or not Moore makes documentaries is beside the point. He has NO problem paying any fees associated by copyrights anyways.
We are talking about independent documentary producer who can't make their art because of the profound protectionism culture that has formed around content owners.
Media consolidation has continued to cut out the little guy. Independents have little chance in the current marketplace and instead we find many "pseudo" independents that are just extensions of major production studios.
The end result is we get less diversity and arguably less quality productions. Copyrights are primarily corporate game to extend their profits for generations to come at the cost of our ability to freely develop new art. We cannot continue to stand idly by while corporations commodify our culture and art and reduce it to nothing more than dollars and cents and then restrict how we can use it.
The joke is on us I guess if we continue to allow our culture to be hijacked by people who only care about profit.
R. Eelist, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:59pm
Missing point.The excessive rights demands are hurting honest documentary producers. They can't afford to shoot real-life footage which contains even a tiny bit of someone else's copyrighted material. That's what has to be fixed.
Everyone who is rambling about plagerisers is just muddying the waters.
andy, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:41pm
the topicI agree with #12 I think this discussion should be about the trouble trying to license everything that incidentally made it into a frame or onto the audio. Posters, music in a store, the store its self. I recently edited a documentary about the homeless and we were planning on releasing it on the web and that is going nowhere, the company that owns the footage is dragging its feet, but to get to the point. If the people who worked on this project get the rights back and try to release it, there would be a huge amount of posters, stores (burger king, safeway), and beverage brands that might have to be blurred out. This is a total waste of time and does nothing to protect the consumer from bad inferences about the product in question. if you see a red soda can blurred out, you can be pretty sure it's a coke. This is the kind of thing I think should be protected by fair-use. But I can see that there are places where limits should be set. muddy water indeed.
mike allen, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:55pm
whatI make documentaries sometimes i dont care about copyright i go ahead and make it any IDIOT tries to screw money gets told to stick it where the sun dont shine so does any court judge or STUPID IDIOT WHO TRIES TO STOP ME.stick thst in your ass and drug it IRA sorry they were a terrorist org. RIAA on second thoughts whats the differance.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 4:46pm"I think documentary makers need to go back to their roots of actually going out, interviewing people, and shooting their own footage. Frederick Wiseman, for example, has never used a clip from somebody else in his entire career."
But, at some point, he had to use a name or show a product or logo or some kind of thing that could be used to identify the object of the documentary. Which he could be sued for. Which doesn't make any sense.
It should be fair use, just as I can review music, movies, or products on a website and sell ads on the website. People go to see the reviews and see my ads and make me money. That's still Fair Use. Why not a docu? Copyright law needs to stop everything and start the fuck over.
That Guy, 29 Apr 2008 @ 7:53pm
Re: Re: RE: Michael Moore ruined everythingReed,
You and I are saying the same thing. I was just trying to point out to lump Moore in with the documentary crowd wasn't accurate, and if anything did harm to the legitimacy and rights of TRUE documentary makers.


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Last year, I got a friend who was single "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant", a book about cooking for one. This year, she's getting married and I want to get her a cookbook about cooking in love or such. I should add that she's in her 60s, second marriage, and an avid baker.
I have no idea about the quality of this cookbook but here's one: http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Two-Recipes-Special-Nights/dp/0060522593
And there's a whole bunch of "seduction" cookbooks; here's one:
Shauna & Daniel ahern's book "gluten free girl and the chef".
The recipes are savory and sweet and sprinkled with cooking techniques as well as stories from their courtship and marriage. Most of the recipes have a story about their romance or shared experiences in the kitchen and are straightforward and delicious. It is one of the few cookbooks that I actually read coer to cover because it tells a wonderful love story through food. While the recipes a all gluten free, the focus of the book is more about enjoying food & cooking meals together and with friends.
I have given it to my friends who are not gluten free and they love it!
Here's another niche book that just about anyone would enjoy -- The Intimate Vegetarian, delicious practical recipes for singles and couples, by Nancy Mair. It has ingredient lists for 1, and for 2. Recipes span the full range -- soup, sandwich, veg, mains, dessert, beverage...
I cook for 2 and highly recommend http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Editors-Americas-Test-Kitchen/dp/1933615605/ref=sr_1_66?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320599774&sr=1-66 because it offers so many of our favorites - recipe ready!
A second vote for the ATK book. I gave one to my sister shortly after her wedding and she and her husband love it!
The title of the other book I would like to recommend - "Serve Yourself" - doesn't sound couple-friendly, but I find myself turning to it all the time. Most of the recipes are perfect for two.
I have this book I picked up a few months ago.The Everything Cooking For Two Cookbook: 300 creative ideas for making relaxing meals at home.By David Poran - Adams Media (2005) - Paperback - 307 pages - ISBN 1593373708
Creative solutions for preparation, service, and cleanup, as well as hundreds of tasty recipes for appetizers to desserts, are offered in this cookbook that makes cooking for two fun, easy, and cost-effective. Original. 30,000 first printing


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Excuse the face. Just came back from Gym and had no make up on. ;)
Having fun with my bf's new MacBook Pro. Damn I need one of these! Sorry, no picture heavy post for a change, got a few things that I ALWAYS forgot to mention in the last posts so here we go.
First. Everyone of you lovely guys who klicked on the last Facebook link – thanks! You are a star! Now, could you please like this new one? It's basically the same thing only that it is easier for me to access (me thought I had to open a new account for a fan page. Me no good with everything technical.). So now that I can access it easier, I will also be able to update more frequently and make things more interesting! Yehay! You can unlike the old page btw, will put that down.
Oh. And if you didn't like the old one, feel free to like the new one! Thanks! ;)
Second. I am going to Germany on Wednesday again! Suitcase packing again mehew! Also, I will be going to Italy with my best friend, any recommendations?
Third. I want to buy a new lens. I will buy the 50mm f1.8 one day for sure but with regards to the upcoming holidays I might rather invest in a telephoto lens. Thinking about the 55-200mm – Any recommendations?
Four. It's my boy's and my third year anniversary on sunday. Can you believe it?


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Phyllis A. Scarlini, 91, of Howell passed away on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Mrs. Scarlini was born and raised in Brooklyn where she lived until settling in Freehold 50 years ago. A very social woman, she had so many friends and was very involved in her community, Surrey Downs. Phyllis loved to cook, especially her signature dish which was chicken soup. She enjoyed playing cards, and taking trips to Atlantic City where she was a slot machine wizard. Phyllis was nothing short of amazing, and always tried to make life as easy as possible for her family, as she loved them more than anything.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence Scarlini in 1996. She is survived by her son, Richard Scarlini and his wife, Trish of Chicago; daughter, Diane Losquadro and her husband, John of Ocean; and grandchildren, Jonathan Losquadro and his fiancee, Marissa Oakes of Ocean and Alyson Tierney and her husband, Danny of Ocean.
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This new year, it's simply out with the old for Selena Gomez.
The actress and producer cleaned house on social media, unfollowing nearly 300 people on Instagram. The move comes about a month after Gomez, 25, made her Instagram account private following a "hurtful" Billboard magazine profile. She changed it back to public shortly thereafter.
So who got cut from the most-followed person on Instagram's list? Gigi Hadid, Camila Cabello, Gomez's former Wizards of Waverly Place co-stars, and the cast of the Netflix show she produces, 13 Reasons Why. Even Demi Lovato got unfollowed, despite the longtime friends making up earlier this year. It's puzzling considering Gomez commented "FIRE" on Lovato's bikini picture over the weekend.
The 37 people Gomez still follows include BFFs Taylor Swift and Francia Raisa, Amy Schumer, Jessica Alba, and a handful of fan accounts. The "Wolves" singer also changed her profile picture to a photo of her mother, Mandy Teefy.
Gomez's mom has reportedly been having a difficult time adjusting to the fact her daughter is back with on-again boyfriend Justin Bieber. Despite her family's disapproval, the two are still together.
Bieber, 23, and Gomez have been back "on" for a few months and even rang in 2018 as a couple. "Justin and Selena are doing great. They celebrated New Year's Eve together in Cabo," a source told People.
An insider added, "It's, of course, a bit frustrating that Selena's family is still not happy about their relationship. … Hopefully this will change in the new year."
Perhaps Gomez's family will find solace in the fact she's still not following Bieber on Instagram.
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|Norman Rockwell's Vision of Thanksgiving
We've just made it home from our first Thanksgiving as an engaged couple. This meant that we had two mothers to keep happy this year. It was a tall order and did a number on my gas tank, but I think we were successful. Now if only I didn't feel like I'd been stuffed, rather than the turkey!
|The parade and potato peeling just go together in my family.
Later in the day, I help my mom make the green bean casserole and then I get out the potato masher and go to town on the spuds. We finish up just in time for my grandparents and all my aunts and uncles and cousins to roll in to supper, each bringing a different side dish they prepared. In total, we usually have somewhere between fifteen and thirty people gathered around the table depending on whose coming in from out of town and whose going to their in-laws for dinner this year. It may sound weird and overcrowded to some (like my honey, who couldn't understand the merits of eating an uncooked potato slice or enjoy the melee of elbow to elbow dining), but it's what we do.
|My family's Thanksgiving Day reality
But, let's step back a little bit in time because successful multi-family holidays don't just magically put themselves together. For three weeks before Thanksgiving, my mother was asking me (read that as nagging me) to find out what time my honey's family ate their turkey day feast. She doesn't share me easily with his family on holidays and she wanted to make sure that I was going to be available to help her get dinner ready. Plus, she had graciously moved the time of her Easter dinner to accommodate his family's holiday schedule last spring and was hoping they would be the more flexible family for Thanksgiving. Ah, the joys of being the only daughter of a widowed mother!
I pestered my fiance to talk to his parents and find out what time they were eating on turkey day. I don't want to think of it as nagging, as that is something my mother does and something I never want to do, but it was probably pretty close. At any rate, he eventually called his mother and she was waffling about what time to have her dinner. My family may have a lot more people to coordinate food with on thanksgiving, but his family has a lot more in-laws and exes to schedule dinner around. Both his siblings have kids and are in various stages of divorce, so exes and in-laws must be consulted to determine when Nana and Papaw can have the kids for their holiday dinner.
It took a couple of days to work it out, but eventually it was revealed that his parents' dinner was going to have to be later in the day. This kinda crushed my hope that we could eat at his parents earlier and still make it on-time to my mom's to spend the rest of the evening hanging with my family. I'm woman enough to admit that I had a little "emotional bride" moment over things not going my way. I was NOT a bridezilla, just pouty that my grand plan didn't work out. Once our schedule was nailed down, my honey and I realized we were going to be ping pong balls for the day, travelling back and forth between his mother and my mother.
Here's how it played out:
9 am: Parade and potato peeling in my mother's kitchen
11 am: Brunch at his mom's house so that everyone didn't starve waiting for the grandkids to be released from their other family commitments and dinner could be served. We didn't have a starvation issue, but his mom wanted everyone to be there, so we went.
1 pm: Back to our house for a much needed nap, followed by making two green bean casseroles to take to mom's house.
3 pm: We arrived at mom's house in time to help her finish getting dinner ready before the rest of the family descended upon the house.
5 pm: Dinner is always slated to start at my mom's at 4pm, but I have certain relatives with on-time issues. By five, we were finally sitting down to eat dinner.
7 pm: Back to his mom's house to catch the tail end of their Thanksgiving feast and dessert.
9 pm: Home at last and too stuffed to do anything more than breathe.
Here are some interesting highlights from both houses:
- My brother's dog somehow managing to break a nail above the quick and walked all around my mother's kitchen before laying down at my mashed potato-making feet and bleeding all over my mother's kitchen rug.
|Poor puppy: There is nothing sadder than a dog
wearing a sock over one bandaged paw.
- My nephew, Squirt, announced that he had to sit next to his Nan Naine and booted one of my uncles from the table to get his way. Plus, my soon to be niece, Jan, announced that she was sitting next to her Aunt Lainey and finagled the seating arrangement at his mother's brunch to make it happen. I felt so popular yesterday!
- My honey asked everybody what they wanted for Christmas repeatedly until he got answers other than a gift card. His mother wouldn't let him ask for a gift card, so he wouldn't allow his siblings or nieces and nephews to ask for one.
- We didn't actually eat dinner at his mother's house because they started dinner earlier than planned and, despite leaving my mom's place earlier than she would probably have liked, we arrived as they were finishing dinner. But, my honey got some of his mom's blueberry cobbler, so it was all good. Cobbler for Thanksgiving? So weird!
- I got an extra holiday treat as I got to watch my Washington Redskins defeat the evil and hated Dallas Cowboys in Dallas from both houses. We switched families at half time so I wouldn't miss any of the game.
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Gustavo Esteva, the man who invented 'No Corn, No Country'
Gustava Esteva, one of Mexico's most distinguished economists and senior civil servants during the 1970s, gave it all up to live the simple life of a traditional peasant on three acres of land in the village of San Pablo Etla in Oaxaca, a province of mostly Indigenous peoples in southern Mexico. From this perch on the world, which he calls "Mexico profundo," Esteva became one of the leading prophets of the developing Zapatista movement, later serving as their advisor in negotiations with the Mexican government, which conceded self-government in Chiapas in 2003 following the Zapatista rebellion in 1994.
Now in his 70s, Esteva is recognized internationally as the leading historian and philosopher of the Zapatista "attitude," the force behind successful rebellions in Chiapas and Oaxaca, often called the "first post-modern revolutions," and sometimes understood as the first food-based revolutions.
"They are really just revolutions of the new commons, like this," Esteva told me, waving his hand at the busy patio of La Pallette restaurant overlooking the bustling street scene of Kensington, during one of the few stops provided during a week-long lecture tour of Toronto sponsored by York University's Environment Studies and Political Science departments. Radical attitude counts in the Zapatista view of the "pluriverse" -- one of the many phrases Esteva has coined to describe the diverse "One No, Many Yeses" rebellions taking place around the world. Don't waste time figuring out their formal ideology; they are today's Rebels Without One Cause.
In 1976, disillusioned with the government program he ran, which was designed to overcome hunger with low food prices that undermined the agriculture practiced by over 30 million peasants of Mayan ancestry, Esteva found himself by returning to the land and rediscovering his own Mayan ancestry.
Estava is a "mestizo," of mixed Spanish and Mayan blood. His father, a senior government official sent to Oaxaca from Mexico City, was of Spanish descent, while his mother was Mayan. His mother, hoping her son could pass as Spanish and thereby avoid punishing levels of discrimination, made her own traditionally-dressed mother visit their home by entering through the back door, so people would regard her as a servant, not a family member or friend.
Until 1976, Esteva lived the life of a privileged and gifted Hispanic Mexican. Then he exiled himself to a village a few miles from where his grandmother was born, ten miles from where ancient Mayans invented corn many thousands of years before, making it the foundation of a major civilization. Here Esteva found the heartland of "Mexico profundo," and gave it a food-based project for a positive identity.
Esteva and his wife have since raised about 60 per cent of their own food -- mostly corn, fruit, veggies and chicken -- on their parcel of land on the village commons. At the centre of their and other villagers' production is "milpa," known in English as the "three sisters" of corn, squash and beans that Mayans gave the world -- beans drawing nitrogen down from the air, squash leaves protecting the soil from erosion, and corn providing a stalk for beans to grow up, a model of sustainability where the whole creates more wealth than the parts. Corn, in thousands of varieties, is the centrepiece of this "comida" -- a cuisine linked to a way of life based on diversity, self-reliance and sustainability. Esteva brought corn to the centre stage of a resurgent Mayan identity when he coined the phrase "no corn, no country" (no corn, no people) in 2003, the year of a major corn exhibit in Mexico City. It quickly became a rallying cry of those resisting flooding of Mexican markets with heavily-subsidized and genetically-engineered U.S. corn.
Corn defined one aspect of village life, women the other, since men increasingly were away for long periods working as migrant laborers. "Power was feminized," says Esteva. "This was the foundation for the revolution of the commons, in which we do not dream of a future, but implement it in the present," he told me.
This version of Living in the Now was threatened in 1994 when the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, threatening to invade Mexico with highly subsidized US corn, forcing peasants off the land and into low-wage factories. The Zapatistas of Chiapas led a now-or-never armed revolt to head this off, then quickly declared themselves pacifists. Massive public support -- including demonstrations of four million in 1996 and 40 million in 2001 -- forced Mexican recognition of the reality of Chiapas autonomy in 2003. The Zapatistas refused to take power directly, instead offering it to self-governing municipalities; for the Zapatista, the issue was not who held power, but the centralizing and disempowering impacts of state power itself. The task is to create new worlds, not change old ones, they insisted. The Zapatista unarmed army serves to keep the Mexican army and police at bay, not to support a Zapatista government.
The decision to refuse power makes the Zapatista revolution post- or "beyond modern," Esteva says. Today's challenge is for individuals to claim their own agency, and for people to declare their own initiative, to become local agents of their own destiny and govern themselves accordingly, he says.
This is a perspective he gained from years of friendship with the well-known critic of all established institutions, Ivan Illich, while he lived in Mexico after the 1980s.
Many of these "beyond modern" ideas are associated with the famous Zapatista leader, sub-commandante Marcos (note the sub-, a play on the power language they renounce). Esteva says the ideas come from the peasants; Marcos learned them during 20 years living as a guerrilla in the Chiapas mountains, while Esteva learned them during his years growing food. Over a third of the world's population and two-thirds of the world's food producers live a life akin to that in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Far from the world of nation states and globalized markets, close to the world of food, they may find their many yeses and one no from thinkers such as Gustavo Esteva.
Adapted from NOW Magazine, July 17-23, 2008.
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