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Glossary of Eclipse and Astronomy Terms
by Fred Espenak
annular solar eclipse - A solar eclipse in which the Moon's antumbral shadow traverses Earth (the Moon is too far from Earth to completely cover the Sun). During the maximum phase of an annular eclipse, the Sun appears as a blindingly bright ring surrounding the Moon.
annularity - The maximum phase of an annular eclipse during which the Moon's entire disk is seen silhouetted against the Sun. Annularity is the period between second and third contact during an annular eclipse. It can last from a fraction of a second to a maximum of 12 minutes 29 seconds.
anomalistic month - The time required for the Moon to make one revolution around its orbit with respect to the perigee; the length of the mean anomalistic month as calculated for the year 2000 is 27.55455 days (27d 13h 18m 33s); the actual duration can vary by several days due to the gravitational perturbations of the Sun on the Moon's eccentric orbit.
antumbra - The antumbra is that part of the Moon's shadow that extends beyond the umbra. It is similar to the penumbra in that the Sun is only partially blocked by the Moon. From within the antumbra, the Sun appears larger than the Moon which is seen in complete silhouette. An annular eclipse is seen when an observer passes through the antumbra.
aphelion - The point along a planetary orbit that is farthest from the Sun; Earth's mean distance at aphelion is 152,097,701 km; Earth's true distance at aphelion varies from 152,083,140 km to 152,104,533 km because of gravitational perturbations of the Sun, Moon and planets; See: Earth at Perihelion and Aphelion: 2001 to 2100.
apogee - The point along the Moon's orbit that is farthest from Earth; the Moon's mean distance at apogee is 405,504 km; the Moon's true distance at apogee varies from 404,042 to 406,725 km because of gravitational perturbations of the Sun and Earth; See: Moon at Perigee and Apogee: 2001 to 2100.
Besselian elements - The Besselian elements are a series of time dependent variables used to calculate various aspects of a solar eclipse. They describe the movement of the Moon's shadow with respect to the fundamental plane. This plane passes through the center of Earth and is oriented perpendicular to the Moon's shadow axis. Next, the shadow cone is projected onto Earth's surface including the effects of Earth's rotation, the flattening of Earth and the latitude, longitude and elevation of the observer. The local circumstances at the observer's position can then be calculated including the eclipse contact times, eclipse magnitude and the duration of totality (or annularity).
Brown Lunation Number - the number given to each lunation beginning at the first new moon of 1923, the year when Ernest W. Brown's lunar theory was introduced in the major national astronomical almanacs.
center of figure - The center of figure of a celestial body (e.g., planet, moon) is the apparent center of the object with respect to its surface and takes into account irregularities in its shape. If the distribution of mass is not uniform, then the center of mass does not coincide with the center of figure. In the case of the Moon, the offset between the center of mass and center of figure is ~0.5 kilometers.
center of mass - In orbital mechanics, the equations of motion of celestial bodies (stars, planets, moons, etc.) are formulated as point masses located at the centers of mass. In other words, the motion of a celestial body can be predicted assuming the object's entire mass is concentrated into one single point called the center of mass.
central eclipse - A solar eclipse in which the central axis of the Moon's shadow cone traverses Earth thereby producing a central line in the eclipse track. The umbra or antumbra falls entirely upon Earth so the ground track has both a northern and southern limit. Central solar eclipses can be either total, annular or hybrid.
central eclipse (one limit) - A solar eclipse in which the central axis of the Moon's shadow cone traverses Earth. However, a portion of the umbra or antumbra misses Earth throughout the eclipse and the resulting ground track has just one limit. Central solar eclipses with one limit can be either total, annular or hybrid.
central line - The central line is the locus of points of intersection of the axis of the Moon's shadow with the surface of Earth. It is sometimes called the "center line" or "centerline".
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) - The primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time; UTC is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT); for most common purposes, UTC is synonymous with GMT, although GMT is no longer precisely defined by the scientific community; while Universal Time (UT1) is based on the rotation of Earth in relation to distant celestial objects (stars and quasars), UTC is based on International Atomic Time and is adjusted to remain within 1 second of Universal Time (UT1) through the occasional addition of a leap second.
declination - The latitude of a point on the celestial sphere using the equatorial coordinate system; declination divides the sky into 180 degrees (90 degrees north (+) and south (-) of the celestial equator)
ΔT (Delta T) - ΔT (Delta T) is the time difference obtained by subtracting Universal Time (UT1) from Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD). It is a measure of how much Earth's rotation period has changed. See Delta T for more information.
draconic month - The average interval between two successive passes of the moon through the ascending node of its orbit and is equal to 27.212220 days (27 d 5 h 5 min 35.8 s); the moon's orbit slowly rotates westward on its axis and precesses over 360 ° in a period of 18.6 years.
eclipse magnitude - Eclipse magnitude is the fraction of the Sun's diameter occulted by the Moon. It is strictly a ratio of diameters and should not be confused with eclipse obscuration, which is a measure of the Sun's surface area occulted by the Moon. Eclipse magnitude may be expressed as either a percentage or a decimal fraction (e.g., 50% or 0.50). By convention, its value is given at the instant of greatest eclipse.
eclipse obscuration - Eclipse obscuration is the fraction of the Sun's area occulted by the Moon. It should not be confused with eclipse magnitude, which is the fraction of the Sun's diameter occulted by the Moon. Eclipse obscuration may be expressed as either a percentage or a decimal fraction (e.g., 50% or 0.50).
eclipse season - An eclipse season is a period during which the Sun appears close enough to one of the Moon's nodes to permit an eclipse to occur. Each season lasts approximately 34 days and repeats at about 173-day intervals. Thus there are always two full eclipse seasons each year. The 173-day interval is the time it takes the Sun to travel from one lunar node to the next. Because the Moon's synodic period is shorter than an eclipse season, there is a least one solar and one lunar eclipse during every eclipse season. (see Wikipedia)
ecliptic - The apparent path of the Sun on the celestial sphere as seen from Earth; the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun as seen projected onto the sky from Earth; the Moon and planets all appear within several degrees of the ecliptic.
ephemeris - A table of values that gives the positions of astronomical objects in the sky over a range of times; the positions of celestial objects (Sun, Moon, planets, etc.) are given in right ascension (celestial longitude) and declination (celestial latitude); the plural is ephemerides.
equinox - The moment in time at which the vernal point, celestial equator, and other elements are used in the definition of a celestial coordinate system; Equinox J2000 is the current standard equinox taken at 2000 January 1 at 12:00:00 Terrestrial Time (TT).
eye safety - The only time that the Sun can be viewed safely with the naked eye is during a total eclipse, when the Moon completely covers the disk of the Sun. It is never safe to look at a partial or annular eclipse, or the partial phases of a total solar eclipse, without the proper equipment and techniques. Even when 99% of the Sun's surface (the photosphere) is obscured during the partial phases of a solar eclipse, the remaining crescent Sun is still intense enough to cause permanent retinal damage, especially when viewed through binoculars or other optical aids.
first contact - The instant when the partial phase of an eclipse begins.
fourth contact - The instant when the partial phase of an eclipse ends.
gamma - Gamma is the distance of the Moon's shadow axis from Earth's center in units of equatorial Earth radii. It is defined at the instant of greatest eclipse when its absolute value is at a minimum.
geocentric - As seen from the center of Earth; the geocentric coordinates of a planet is the position of the planet as seen from Earth's center.
greatest duration - Greatest duration (for total eclipses) is defined as the instant when the duration of totality reaches a maximum along the path of a total eclipse. The calculation of greatest duration requires an accurate lunar limb profile to account for the effects of mountains and valleys around the circumference of the Moon on the duration of totality. The length of totality calculated at greatest duration may differ by 1-2 seconds compared with greatest eclipse, and the geographic location may differ by a hundred kilometers or more.
greatest eclipse - Greatest eclipse is defined as the instant when the axis of the Moon's shadow cone passes closest to Earth's center. The computation of the duration of totality at this point is typically done using a smooth edge for the Moon that ignores the effects of mountains and valleys along the lunar limb. For total eclipses, the instant of greatest eclipse offers a good approximation (1-2 seconds) to the maximum duration of totality along the entire eclipse path. Far more rigorous calculations using the Moon's limb profile are required to predict the instant of greatest duration (of totality) and a more accurate value for the maximum length of totality. For annular eclipses, the instant of greatest duration may occur either near the time of greatest eclipse or near the sunrise and sunset points of the eclipse path.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - A time system originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory (Greenwich, London), which later became adopted as a global time standard; it is essentially the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) which is a standard astronomical time system (astronomers no longer use the term "Greenwich Mean Time"); for more information, see: Greenwich Mean Time (Wikipedia).
Gregorian Calendar - The civil calendar based on 12 months of 365 days, and a leap year of 366 days every 4 years; the Gregorian is a modification of the Julian Calendar - normally, all years divisible by 4 are leap years, but years divisible by 100 are NOT leap years, while years divisible by 400 ARE leap years; the Gregorian Calendar first came into use in 1582 with the Gregorian Calendar Reform (Wikipedia), and currently the internationally accepted civil calendar; for more information, see: Gregorian Calendar (Wikipedia).
horizontal parallax - The apparent shift in the Moon's position when viewer by two observers who see the Moon directly in the zenith and on the horizon, respectively; it can also be defined as the angle subtended at the distance of the Moon by the radius of the Earth; also referred to as lunar parallax or lunar horizontal parallax for more information, see: lunar parallax (Wikipedia).
hybrid solar eclipse - A solar eclipse in which the Moon's umbral and antumbral shadows traverse Earth (the eclipse appears annular and total along different sections of its path). Hybrid eclipses are also known as annular-total eclipses. In most cases, hybrid eclipses begin as annular, transform into total, and then revert back to annular before the end of their track. In rare instances, a hybrid eclipse may begin annular and end total, or vice versa.
Julian Calendar - The civil calendar based on 12 months of 365 days, and a leap year of 366 days every 4 years; the Julian Calendar was used from 46 BCE until the Gregorian Calendar reform in 1582; for more information, see: Julian Calendar (Wikipedia).
Julian Date - The number of days and fractions elapsed since noon Universal Time on January 1, 4713 BCE; the Julian date is a convenient way of calculating dates in astronomical predictions; the Calendar Date Converter can be used to convert between Gregorian Calendar date, Julian Calendar date and Julian Date.
Julian year - A unit of time defined as exactly 365.25 days.
leap second - A one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to Universal Time (UT1) or mean solar time; for more information, see: leap second (Wikipedia).
libration - While Moon generally keeps one hemisphere facing Earth as it orbits, the Moon also undergoes a small rocking motion, permitting an observer on Earth to see up to 58% of the Moon's surface. This motion is called libration and it has three components:
- Libration in longitude results from the eccentricity of the Moon's orbit around Earth; the Moon's rotation sometimes leads and sometimes lags its orbital position.
- Libration in latitude results from a slight inclination between the Moon's axis of rotation and the normal to the plane of its orbit around Earth.
- Diurnal libration is a small daily oscillation due to Earth's rotation, which carries an observer from one side to the other of the straight line joining the centers of Earth and the Moon. This allows the observer to view at the Moon from slightly different directions and see around the edges of the Moon.
The apparient orientation of the Moon's disk as seen from Earth is described by three angles:
- l - libration in longitude.
- b - libration in latitude.
- c - position angle of Moon's north axis with respect to celestial north.
lunation - the time elapsed from one New Moon to the next). In the year 2000, the average length of a lunation was 29.530588 days (or 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 3 seconds). However, the length of any one synodic month can vary from 29.26 to 29.80 days due to the perturbing effects of the Sun's gravity on the Moon's eccentric orbit.
node - The Moon's orbit is tipped about 5.1° to Earth's orbit around the Sun. The two points where the Moon's orbit crosses Earth's orbit are called the nodes. The ascending node is where the Moon crosses to the north of Earth's orbit. The descending node is where it crosses to the south.
non-central eclipse (one limit) - A solar eclipse in which the central axis of the Moon's shadow cone misses Earth. However, one edge of the umbra or antumbra grazes Earth thereby producing a ground track with one limit and no central line. Non-central solar eclipses can be either total, annular or hybrid. (Partial eclipses can also be considered non-central eclipses in which only the penumbral shadow traverses Earth's surface)
partial eclipse -
A solar eclipse in which the Moon's penumbral shadow traverses Earth (umbral and antumbral shadows completely miss Earth).
During a partial eclipse, the Moon appears to block part (but not all) of the Sun's disk.
From the prospective of an individual observer, a partial eclipse is one in which the observer is within the penumbral shadow but outside the path of the umbral or antumbral shadows.
perihelion - The point along a planetary orbit that is closest to the Sun; Earth's mean distance at perihelion is 147,098,074 km; Earth's true distance at perihelion varies from 147,091,358 km to 147,112,452 km because of gravitational perturbations of the Sun, Moon and planets; See: Earth at Perihelion and Aphelion: 2001 to 2100.
perigee - The point along the Moon's orbit that is closest to Earth; the Moon's mean distance at perigee is 363,396 km; the Moon's true distance at perigee varies from 356,355 to 370,399 km because of gravitational perturbations of the Sun and Earth; See: Moon at Perigee and Apogee: 2001 to 2100.
penumbra - The penumbra is the weak or pale part of the Moon's shadow. From within the penumbra, the Sun is only partially blocked by the Moon as in the case of a partial eclipse. This contrasts with the umbra, where the Sun is completely blocked resulting in a total eclipse.
right ascension - The longitude of a point on the celestial sphere using the equatorial coordinate system; right ascension divides the sky into 24 sections called hours (1 hour = 15 degrees).
saros -
The periodicity and recurrence of solar (and lunar) eclipses is governed by the Saros cycle, a period of approximately 6,585.3d (18yr 11d 8h).
When two eclipses are separated by a period of one Saros, they share a very similar geometry.
The eclipses occur at the same node with the Moon at nearly the same distance from Earth and at the same time of year.
Thus, the Saros is a useful tool for organizing eclipses into families or series.
Each series typically lasts 12 or 13 centuries and contains 70 or more eclipses.
For more information, see Eclipses and the Saros. The Saros Catalog of Solar Eclipses: Saros 0 - 180 provides complete details for all current Saros cycles.
second contact - The instant when the total or annular phase of an eclipse begins.
sidereal time - A time scale that is based on Earth's rotation measured relative to the fixed stars; the sidereal time at a geographic location is equal to the right ascension crossing the local meridian at any given instant.
synodic month - The orbital period of the Moon with respect to the Sun; the period of the Moon's phases has a mean duration of 29.530589 days (29 d 12 h 44 min 2.9 s); due to gravitational perturbations in the Moon's orbit, the synodic month varies by +/- 6 hours from one month to the next; see: Phases of the Moon Photo Gallery.
Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD) - The modern astronomical time standard defined by the International Astronomical Union, used for time-measurements of astronomical observations made from the surface of Earth; Terrestrial Dynamical Time is a uniform time scale free of the irregularities of mean solar time; also known as Terrestrial Time (TT), the "Astronomical Almanac" uses TT for its tables of positions (ephemerides) of the Sun, Moon and planets as seen from Earth; for more information, see: Terrestrial Time (Wikipedia).
Terrestrial Time (TT) - The modern astronomical time standard defined by the International Astronomical Union, used for time-measurements of astronomical observations made from the surface of Earth; Terrestrial Time is a uniform time scale free of the irregularities of mean solar time; also known as Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD), the "Astronomical Almanac" uses TT for its tables of positions (ephemerides) of the Sun, Moon and planets as seen from Earth; for more information, see: Terrestrial Time (Wikipedia).
third contact - The instant when the total or annular phase of an eclipse ends.
total solar eclipse - A solar eclipse in which the Moon's umbral shadow traverses Earth (Moon is close enough to Earth to completely cover the Sun). During the maximum phase of a total eclipse, the Sun's disk is completely blocked Moon. The Sun's faint corona is then safely revealed to the naked eye.
totality - The maximum phase of a total eclipse during which the Moon's disk completely covers the Sun. Totality is the period between second and third contact during a total eclipse. It can last from a fraction of a second to a maximum of 7 minutes 32 seconds.
umbra - The umbra is the darkest part of the Moon's shadow. From within the umbra, the Sun is completely blocked by the Moon as in the case of a total eclipse. This contrasts with the penumbra, where the Sun is only partially blocked resulting in a partial eclipse.
Universal Time (UT1) - A time scale based on the rotation of Earth in relation to distant celestial objects (stars and quasars); UT1 is a non-uniform time scale because Earth's rotational period is slowly increasing due to tidal interaction with the Moon; the modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), i.e., the mean solar time on the Prime Meridian at Greenwich; for the casual user, UT1 (sometimes referred to simply as UT) is essentially the same as GMT and is often used interchangeably; there are several versions of UT including Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); for more information, see: Universal Time (Wikipedia).
This Glossary of Eclipse and Astronomy Terms is copyright 2015 by Fred Espenak and is part of the EclipsesWise.com web site. No portion of this glossary may be reproduced without the written permission of Fred Espenak along with a link to this page and the following acknowledgment:
"Glossary of Eclipse and Astronomy Terms by Fred Espenak, www.EclipseWise.com"
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How are the prices set? That's a funny one. I can understand part of it--the spying. At the end of each month our store is regularly visited by fellows with blank spreadsheets. On the left side is a list of model numbers, and across the top are the names of stores, and they go up and down the aisles filling in as many of the blanks as they can. Easy to tell them from real customers who are just being careful shoppers--real customers don't know the model numbers yet, and their spreadsheets usually include some space for key specs. I think one of the reason so many prices are not clearly posted in Akihabara is to inconvenience the spies, though of course the good spies have their little ways of finding out. The other spies just ask.
Anyway, all this spying leads to the second price, the spy convention price. The first price was the manufacturer's suggested list price, of course, but that was just some kind of fantasy that marketing suggested before the engineer started on the first design. Spy prices are pretty widely known and usually clearly posted. I think Sofmap tries unusually hard to be a price leader, but I'd need to do some spying of my own to be sure. I think the best way to find the real price leaders in Akihabara would be to do a census on the spies--the store with the most visits by spies is probably the cheapest one.
Though I'm not really at liberty to say, I was pretty shocked to learn how low the spy prices are relative to cost. Margins on large hardware are quite low in Akihabara. Unfortunately, most of this seems to be offset by the premiums that have to be paid for the newest components. For example, in a few months when the machine moves to 'mainstream' status, the same CPU will almost surely be significantly less expensive. Excuse me while I wave my rubber chicken in the direction of Intel. (The margin on software is probably twice as high, but there's a nasty spoilage problem there...) If you want more sordid details, you'll probably need to catch me when I've been drinking to excess-- pretty rare these days.
Now we get to the third price, the 'Ask a staff member' price. In Sofmap, they usually don't even bother with that explanation, but just draw a line through the posted (spy) price. There seem to be several reasons for these prices. I used to wonder if it was just to give the customers a reason to strike up a conversation with a salesman... These third-level prices often seem to reflect special promotional deals with the makers. At Sofmap sometimes they are linked to special small lots, often of slightly older machines and the kind of stuff that other big stores route to their outlet stores. Sometimes these prices are also linked to high-volume merchandise, but in those cases the third-level price will pretty quickly become a posted second-level (spy) price.
Price number four? Probably the "set prices", where extra stuff is added in to make a special set with a special price. However, apart from printer sets, those sets are most often attempts to offset basic problems with the maker's configuration. While they are sometimes quite attractive, they are fundamentally remedial, so you need to be careful there--maybe there are other problems, too.
Is that all? I'm afraid not. Maybe Sofmap has an unusually complicated pricing structure, but there are still a couple more wrinkles in there before we even get to the fluctuating inventory problems and latest special promotions... My personal goal is simple--help the customer get the best computer and software for their real needs for the lowest price. But much easier said than done. If'n you want to ask other questions or maybe even offer suggestions for what I should write next time, the best way to reach me is via firstname.lastname@example.com is my main public one. Or you might even catch me at Sofmap. Chicago, 4th floor, Wednesdays and weekends for now.
[To wrap up the story, I left Sofmap in September 1998, though the International Section had actually been de facto defunct since January, shortly after the founding manager resigned. So don't expect to see me there these days--I mostly avoid the place, even when I need computer stuff. My departure was mostly a contract dispute, but also loneliness. Not the foreigner part. I'm used to that by now. It was more that I always felt like a salesman adrift in a sea of clerks.]


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Earballs of the world listen up, because the charming, eccentric and provocative Danish trio WhoMadeWho have finally released a new single called I Don't Know!
Sung in Jeppe Kjellberg's beautiful signature falsetto, with singer/bassist Tomas Høffding (who also performs as Bon Homme solo and as part of the duo Lydmor & Bon Homme) and drummer/producer Tomas Barfod (who is 1/2 of the house duo Filur) playing their voices and instruments, I Don't Know earnestly summons that helpless feeling of being stuck in a situation you have no control over.
I Don't Know, co-produced by Kenton Slash Demon and released in tandem with a music video for it (above) that was shot at NorthSide Festival in Aarhus, Denmark earlier this year, is inspired by an experience Kjellberg had while on tour (read the song's lyrics below for insight).
"I was stuck in transit on my way to Guadalajara," he said. "A situation where I had lost my passport and was refused travel through the United States by Homeland Security. Emotionally, this is the essence of the song."
While we're glad Kjellberg untangled his hellish travel issues, we're ecstatic the beautiful, poignant I Don't Know was created. Now…where's that new album y'all promised us?
I don't know
Got into trouble, that's not what I need
I didn't sign that paper
I went to Memphis and Guadalajara
Just to see you later
I don't know, what I'm waiting for
I'm breathing thin air
Trees are falling slowly here
I don't know, where it all began
Wanna see you later
But I'm not going anywhere
Don't speak in tongues, I don't know what it means
I didn't sign that paper
My luck is turning in Guadalajara
You will not see me later
My life insurance, going back on sale
I didn't sign no paper
I went to Memphis and Guadalajara
Just to see you later


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It's been too long since I last wrote, but I have a long mental check list of what I want to share. It's hard to choose what to write about first, but since I've had some delicious experiences in the Vancouver vegan scene, I chose that one in case you're looking for recommendations over the holidays! Vancouver is quickly becoming a hot spot for restaurants that provide alternative food options, and I'm so glad that I live here to experience all of it!
Just a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of trying the fine dining vegetarian restaurant Acorn for the first time. My parents were in town, and we happened to be in the Main Street area right when 5pm struck and our long-digested brunch was no longer fuelling us. Lucky we were early, because they opened their doors just as I got there, and we got the second to last table. I had heard they didn't take reservations and there was always a line up out the door, and they meant it! The food was exceptional, very creative – one of those places you take someone who isn't a vegan and thinks you only eating lettuce and carrots, because they will leave with a great appreciation of the delicious concoctions you can create without animals. A great example of their creativity: olive cake dessert. I don't know about you, but I'm impressed. They cater to vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and raw. Wow. I'd recommend the kale/tempeh salad, the king oyster mushroom salad, and the mushroom pate. I had trouble deciding what to get – it all sounded so good (a welcome 'problem' to my usual experience of picking the one veggie item on the menu and ordering it without cheese). Try it!
I have to give credit to the Naam – knowing I can have vegan chocolate cake with tofulati at any time of the day makes me very happy! This 24/7 vegetarian restaurant is a Vancouver classic and has been around for ages – for good reason. It's good home-cooked comfort food, and that miso sauce is to die for – YUM. If they delivered, I'd be in heaven.
Main Street is also home to a great little restaurant called Grub. This isn't a strictly veg restaurant, but they always have daily specials that include one vegetarian entree and one vegan entree AND vegan dessert (dessert may be my most important criteria haha). It's has a quaint but hip environment with mobiles hanging from the ceiling, and definitely a place to check out, particularly if you're looking for a spot to eat with non-veg friends.
Two raw food places that I get nutritious and delicious power smoothies from when I'm on a lunch break downtown are Gorilla Foods and Organic Lives (SO happy the latter opened a location downtown, which only used to be on Quebec/2nd!). The Superexpialidelicous and Body Builder are my favourites from Organic Lives. If you have to pick one item other than smoothie, get the lemon macaroons from Organic Lives – trust me, you'll eat that little package of three in no time. These are also great places to kick that chocolate craving while downtown, and still eat healthy. Why would you not!?
I could go on, but I will stop there with my current favourites. Check back for more as I try out other vegan friendly places, or let me know if you've found a gem!


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In the run-up to the Gujarat Assembly elections, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had visited about 25 temples in the state in a bid to dispel the impression of his party being inimical to Hindu interests. With the Congress improving its tally in the state, Rahul appears set to repeat the strategy in Karnataka. According to a report in The Indian Express, he is slated to visit a Hindu temple, two religious centres of the Lingayat community and a dargah in the next week.
Clearly, with the election in Karnataka expected to be held in May, Rahul wants to be seen in the public eye as worshipping at prominent religious places.
According to a Financial Express report, Rahul will start off by visiting the Huligamma temple in Koppal district. Subsequently, he is slated to visit the Gavisiddeshwara Mutt, which is an important place of worship for the Lingayats. He is also expected to pay a visit to the Khwaja Bande Nawaz Dargah in the district of Gulbarga.
The managing trustee of a prominent temple in the state, the Agnidurga Gopalakrishna Temple near Mangaluru, said that arrangements would be made for his visit and even a special puja can also be organised if he decides to go there, as per a report in Business Standard.
The Congress chief's proposed stopover at a Lingayat temple assumes particular significance as the community has largely supported the BJP. Further, the saffron party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa is a Lingayat. Rahul's visit to the Gavisiddeshwara Mutt is thus an indication that he is taking the fight to the rival camp.
While the Congress president had not visited any Muslim places of religious significance during the Gujarat campaign, he plans to do so in Karnataka. The latter state has a Muslim population of about 12.92 percent.
The local party leadership has sought to downplay the issue of Rahul's temple visits, saying that there is nothing new in visits by the Gandhi family to temples in Karnataka. In a recent statement to the media, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president G Parameshwara said, "Indiraji (Indira Gandhi) and Rajivji (Rajiv Gandhi) used to visit Sringeri swami.. Indiraji also visited many temples in Karnataka... There is no change in our and Rahulji's strategy."
Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor has also recently backed Rahul's visits to temples, contending that they come in a context where the BJP is saying that they are the "good Hindus" and everybody else is bad. "Why should we cede this narrative to them? To my mind, we may as well show publicly what we have been doing privately."
However, much like the recent Gujarat Assembly election, religious symbolism is likely to be a recurring theme in the political campaign in the southern state. The ruling Congress has already been under attack over allegations of appeasing the minority community. The Bharatiya Janata Party has slammed it for a circular which seeks the opinion of police authorities on dropping cases of communal violence against members of minority communities. Following the criticism, the government modified the circular, replacing the words 'all innocent minorities' with 'innocent people' and claimed that the former phrase was brought in by oversight.
Last month, Uttar Pradesh chief minister and BJP leader Yogi Adityanath questioned why his Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah "endorses eating beef" despite claiming to be a Hindu. Siddaramaiah, on his part, had said, "I am also a Hindu, but I'm a Hindu with humanity, they (BJP) are Hindus without humanity."
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One of the most important concerns for any parent is providing their kids with the best education possible. Sometimes, however, it may happen that the best education is a bit expensive. It is to help parent in these situations that the student credit cards have been created. What they do is to provide credit cards that are issued in association with various educational institutes to provide cardholders with attractive discounts on school fees along with all the other features of a credit card.
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Student credit cards offer cardholders, who are parents, the chance to get more out of their credit cards when it comes to paying the school fee for their kids. These facilities could range from attractive discounts on school fees to cash back offers when cards are used to pay for the fee. Some of the top cards offering this service are:
ADCB Excellency Visa Infinite Credit Card
The Excellency Visa Infinite offered by the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank allows you to pay your child's school fee without having to leave your house. The convenience doesn't just end there, once the school fee has been paid using this card, the payment can then be turned into instalments which can be paid back in 3, 6 or 12 months. There is a processing fee of 1% to 3% charged for this service.
Standard Chartered Titanium Credit Card
The Titanium Credit Card offered by Standard Chartered offers parents the option of 10% cashback when this card is used to make payments for their children's school fee. The best part about this plan is that even if the school refuses to accept payments via credit card, the company will arrange for you to pay the school fee in instalments of 6 months or 12 months. This can even be done in case you have made the payment using the card and now want to convert that payment into an instalment plan. The 10% cash back offer will stand even if you go in for the instalment payment scheme.
ADCB Lulu Credit Card
The Lulu credit card allows you to pay your child's school fee using the Lulu credit card. Once the fee is paid, the amount paid can be repaid in instalments at an interest rate of 0% if it's paid back in 3 months. The card offers 3 instalment options of 3, 6 and 12 months with processing fees ranging from 1% to 3%. Even if the card has been used to pay school fee, the payment is still eligible to earn Lulu reward points which can be redeemed at a later date.
GEMS Titanium Credit Card
The GEMS Titanium card is a card launched as a result of a partnership between the National Bank of Abu Dhabi and GEMS Schools. Among the many facilities that if offers cardholders is the facility to use this card to pay school fees. Using this card to pay your child's school fee at a GEMS School entitles you to a discount of 7% per annum on the reducing amount of the school fee.


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I call our foster children our Littles here on my blog. They will be named and listed in order of arrival.
Little1 - 18months, loves books, puzzles, being outside, and balls. Laid back and easy. Loves to wear hats and changes shoes as many times as I'll let him. We picked him up August 17 and he went home Oct 2.
Ms Sassy - 16months, is full of life and fun, loves playing with her sister and us, always laughing. We picked her and her twin sister up early February and they returned home two weeks later.
Ms Cuddles - 16months, loves to cuddle and play with dolls and quite toys, she is very motherly with her twin sister and is sweet natured.
Ms Sassy & Ms Cuddles - 2.5yrs, almost a year to the day we got another call for the twins. They were older but their personalities the same. :) They stayed for two weeks again.


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The general awareness of road safety among the masses, exceptional upkeep of the roads and the stupendous traffic conditions make every trip to the neighbouring grocery store a death defying feat. The recklessness of the fellow drivers on the streets of India make every small trip an adventure, but our list of the five most dangerous roads will put these local Schumachers in their right place.
#1 Sasser la
Sasser Pass is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 5,411 m (17,753 ft) above the sea level, located in the Karakoram Range, in India.
The pass starts at the infamous Saser Brangsca, the road which leads to the pass is the narrow Murgo road, which is nothing more than a mud tract. A major distributary of the Shyok River flows on the side of the road. Any misstep, and one would fall down into the chilling water of the distributary. If the impact of the fall wouldn't kill a person then the frigid waters will. The road is never dry and is prone to landslides.
If all this isn't enough to send one for a long visit to the lord's kingdom the extremely low level of oxygen makes driving a lot more difficult to be modest.
But all this put aside, the beauty of the solitude offered by the tract makes it all worth it. And if you return from this ride, you will have one hell of a story to tell, and a close view of what afterlife looks like.
#2 Marsimik la pass
Marsimik La is a staggering high mountain pass at an elevation of 5,777 m (18,953 ft) above the sea level, located in the Chang-Chemno Range in northern India. It's the highest motorable pass in the world, a mistake on this road WILL make an easy passage to paradise, even a small damage to the vehicle or the smallest injury would result in immobility.
Deadly would be an understatement to describe the road, with a notorious lack of oxygen and a high degree of steepness, it tests the nerve of both the ride and the rider. If either are under prepared it would lead to a certain death. Even seasoned riders and crazy adventure fanatics do not go to this road in the off season due to the avalanches and heavy snow falls. The steep loose-gravel dirt track offers no traction and is wide enough to let two cars pass abreast where it is the widest, the low levels of oxygen makes breathing a herculean task to accomplish. And if all that wasn't enough, you would have to get off your ride and push it up the steep tract if it gets stuck, people have reported fainting on the road, and if all hell breaks loose, surviving solo on the pass will make one hell of an episode for man vs wild, as the cold desert has barely any civilisation.
After reaching the top be sure to leave in good time, because you will have to descend while the day light is still there.
#3 Zoji la pass
There is little room for error on this road. It's normal for your palms to sweat looking at those photos. It's incredibly disorienting to look over the edge, or even just to see the valleys a couple thousand feet below you. It's a mind numbing vertical drop of hundreds of meters so you might want to give it a miss on a windy day. At certain places it is barely enough for a truck to pass. This results in infuriatingly long jams and one has to move according to the speed of the vehicles in front of it, which is not anywhere near to present.
The Zozila (also know as Zojila or Zoji La) is one of the important mountain passes in India. At an elevation of 11,575 ft (3,528 meters) above the sea level, the pass lies Amid Leh in the Western Himalayan Mountain Ranges and Srinagar.
Falling down the sludge covered road is EXTREMELY easy, and the narrow roads test the gall of whoever challenges them thoroughly, and in many cases the road wins.
#4 Rohtang Pass
Rohtang pass (or Rohtam Pass) is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 3,979 m (13,054 ft) above the sea level, located on the eastern Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas. The pass is traversed by the Leh-Manali Highway. It is closed half of the year due to the terrible weather conditions and the lack of maintenance in such inhumane terrain, during season the road is found using GPS and is dug out, the pass wakes up from its slumber to claim the lives it did not take while sleeping, hence the name Rohtang which translates to ground of corpses.
The pass has become infamous for long traffic snarls with jams at times ending up after 12 long hours. The road remains jam-packed and delays are inevitable. Traffic jams are common as military vehicles, trucks, and goods carriers try to navigate the tight roads and rough terrain, compounded by snow and ice at certain points and the large number of tourists' vehicles. Long que of tourist vehicles has become a daily scene on this stretch. The road is cut into a mountain, and screws up to the pass, at places it is marginally narrower than a truck, a misstep and a certain death falling into the valley. While crossing the road you can also see all the trucks which were not so lucky and fell down into the valley. Plus the road is in dreadful condition and requires strong nerves to negotiate it.
The road also featured on IRT deadliest roads.
#5 Grand trunk road
The Grand Trunk Road is India's oldest road, and one of the longest and oldest roads in asia, spanning across India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The road covers a distance of over 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi). It was built by Sher Shah Suri. During the British rulers of colonial India, the road was renamed as the Grand Trunk Road. The historic relevance of the road might put the historic route 66 to shame.
The peculiar thing about GT is that is considered dangerous not because of its elevation or bad road conditions, but because of the most uncertain traffic. You mustn't be surprised when your car gets into a traffic jam, created by dromedaries using one of the lanes. Trucks, buses, bicycles, pedestrians, and animals have turned parts of this heavily-used road into a major headache. If you're planning to drive here, you'll want to be as alert as possible, accidents as crazy as peacocks flying into the windscreens have been reported. GT road accounts for seventeen percent of read accidents in Delhi (and Delhi does not even have that many peacocks), and in listed in the killer roads list by CSE India Org.
One might negotiate with narrow and the sludgy roads of the high mountain passes, but accidents caused due to animals or humans can be as inevitable as fate.


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San Rafael -- Faced with incriminating DNA evidence, a man whose murder trial was to begin Monday pleaded guilty to the April 1995 killing of 21-year-old Stacy Gates, who had been raped and strangled at her Fairfax apartment.
In exchange for Noah Wright's guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop the special circumstance rape charge that could have sent him to prison for life without the possibility of parole.
Wright, 25, previously told police he had consensual sex with Gates the day before the murder and that he used a condom. Tests revealed that Wright's DNA was linked to blood and semen found at the scene and that he clearly raped Gates, prosecutors said. Wright faces 25 years to life in prison for the first-degree murder charge, which means he must serve at least 21 years before he is eligible for parole. Sentencing is scheduled for September 15.


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The risk of disease is also increased if the time from donation to transplant is more than five days, according to Sohela Hassan, Dr.P.H., of Baylor College of Medicine, and colleagues.
On the other side of the coin, the risk of disease rose with increasing recipient age, Dr. Hassan and colleagues reported in the February issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.
The study doesn't mean that corneas should not be transplanted from deceased cancer patients or those in the hospital, the researchers said.
"Blanket deferral from donation by hospitalized patients or those with cancer would be unreasonable as most corneas from these donors do not result in complications," the researchers said.
But the findings imply that there is an "opportunity for better methods of microbiological assessment and control to reduce infections associated with corneal transplant," they said.
Postsurgical infection is an "uncommon but serious complication of corneal transplant" that can lead to vision loss or blindness Dr. Hassan and colleagues said.
The current findings come from a retrospective analysis of all reported U.S. cases of endophthalmitis that followed corneal transplants from Jan. 1, 1994 through Dec. 31, 2003.
During that time, the researchers said, eye banks distributed 340,174 donor corneas for surgery in the U.S. and another 109,009 internationally.
In the U.S., adverse event surveillance revealed 162 cases of endophthalmitis that followed penetrating keratoplasty. Two controls were matched to the cases by date of surgery.
Multivariate analysis showed that endophthalmitis was associated with:
- Recent hospitalization. The odds ratio was 2.84 with a 95% confidence interval from 1.61 to 4.98, which was significant at P<0.001.
- Fatal cancer. The odds ratio was 2.46 with a 95% confidence interval from 1.53 to 3.97, which was also significant at P<0.001.
- Longer wait times. Infection appeared more likely with tissues transplanted longer than five days after donation. The odds ratio was 1.55 with a 95% confidence interval from 1.02 to 2.35, which was significant at P=0.04.
The same analysis showed that the odds of endophthalmitis rose by 17% for every 10-year increase in recipient age, which was significant at P=0.003.
Pneumococci, other streptococci, staphylococci, and unspeciated gram-positive cocci were the predominant organisms. Of 121 cases of endophthalmitis that had both donor and recipient cultures done, 59 (48.8%) had concordant microbial isolates,
The study was limited because reporting of postsurgical endophthalmitis is voluntary, so that not all cases were necessarily reported, the researchers said, and also because data for cases was retrospective, while that for controls was contemporary.
The study shows "the importance of having a national reporting system with an overview of adverse reactions related to donor tissue," commented Joel Sugar, M.D., of the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Writing in an accompanying editorial, Dr. Sugar said such a system might lead to even safer tissue transplants.
"Certainly," he wrote, "we should not eliminate the use of hospital-derived tissue because this is the most tissue available and the tissue is safe in the overwhelming majority of cases. Also, the number of patients with cancer is second only to the number with cardiac disease, making up 19.2% of donors in 2005."
He pointed out, however, that "use of tissue promptly, avoiding undue delay, appears appropriate. Development of better methods of microbial assessment and prophylactic treatment of donor tissue would be worthwhile."
He noted that the study focuses on only one possible complication of keratoplasty, but others -- such as infectious keratitis and systemic disease transmission -- are also important.
"Nonetheless, worthwhile information is provided," Dr. Sugar said.
|The study was supported by National Eye Institute of the NIH, the Eye Bank Association of America, Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation. The researchers made no financial disclosures.
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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Archives of OphthalmologySource Reference: Hassan SS, et al "Infectious disease risk factors of corneal graft donors" Arch Ophthalmol 2008; 126: 235-239.
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Archives of OphthalmologySource Reference: Sugar J, "Infectious disease risk factors of corneal donors: is there new cause for concern?" Arch Ophthalmol 2008; 126: 262.


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Tiger: I swear to God I was just teaching her the game of golf, but nothing physical happened!
Wife: I need you to answer this one question: Did she handle your driver?
Tiger: Hmm, can you excuse me for a minute? I'll be right back I have to play this next shot into the fire hydrant and then into the biggest tree in the front of our house. If things work out I'll be a four handicap when I am finished
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Spook2 wrote:23/09/16
Innuendoes wrote:Hi Spook. Yes, you're quite right, it is an idiotic way to write the date. I will change it to the British way. Thanks for telling me.
fairydandy wrote:Innuendoes wrote:Hi Spook. Yes, you're quite right, it is an idiotic way to write the date. I will change it to the British way. Thanks for telling me.
Thanks Inny love.
Kes wrote:There's a certain logic to writing it a certain way.
Currency is done with the biggest and most valuable first, cascading down to the smallest $10,540,321, 10 million, 540 thousand, 321. Time - days, hours, minutes, seconds. Other things go from smallest to biggest.
In the case of dates, and how the US like to do it THEIR way. it makes perfect sense to jumble it all up and have the smallest denomination stuck in the middle, doesn't it?
As we're talking about the Japanese here, I wonder how THEY do it? After all, they write from top to bottom, don't they?
Btw. I'm not saying any particular way is correct, only that differences DO cause confusion.
Like Donald Trump confusing Twin Towers day with a convenience store.
https://youtu.be/aj_IsiMA4G4 ...it happens, I guess
Kes wrote:I'm highly unlikely to go to a QAL gig, however the date is written, and wherever it is, so I don't really stand much chance of missing it.
You write it however you want Inny, REALLY.
I was just commenting on conventions, whether they're right or wrong, it's just how we do things, innit?
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I wouldn't go and see Adam Lambert and 'Queen' if they were playing in my back garden. I was rather hoping this would have ended by now and they would have moved on to the next fat Fred-a-like.
Now we've ruined this thread. Carry on....Budokan, whatevs.
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Often times I ask myself why I didn't watch my mom cook more often while I was home! She ran her own restaurant for a little over a year, and yet I still didn't learn from her.
"Why don't you bring your girls in the kitchen?" her friends would ask, baffled at the fact that we were over the age of 15 and still having our mother cook for us.
One of the first things I learned to make was spaghetti sauce. You can't possibly run a Somali household and not make pasta. I thought long and hard trying to remember what ingredients my mom used. Determined to make it without calling her, I experimented until I made it just right.
So, here's my ground beef spaghetti sauce recipe:
You'll need:
- half a pound of ground beef
- 1 jar of Primo's tomato and basil spaghetti sauce (or any spaghetti sauce of your choice)
- one whole onion, chopped
- red and green bell pepper, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 Maggi chicken cube
- a handful of chopped parsley
- 1 lemon
1. Boil the ground beef in 3-4 cups of water on medium heat.
2. When there is very little water left, add your jar of spaghetti sauce, and 1 maggi cube
3. Add 2 cups of water
4. Add your chopped onion, and your bell peppers.
5. Leave on medium heat for 25-30 minutes
6. Now mince your garlic cloves and chop your parsley, add them to the pan. (The aroma this creates is fantastic!)
7. Squeeze 1 lemon and add it to your sauce, then leave on medium-low heat for 20 minutes and let it simmer
This is delicious with lasagna. (recipe coming soon!)
Enjoy :)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
3 comments:
wowo i didn't realize the cooking technique is different. I'm used to sauteing the onions first, like in most published recipes..but this is different.ReplyDelete
now i remember ruqi making samboosa filling the same way..she boiled the ground beef until there was no more water..
Hey, I was going to do something like this. Now,you've freed me from cooking and snapping photos..yipeeReplyDelete
Juli, I have no idea why that is lol! My mom does the same thing when making samboosa and spaghetti sauce... so that's why I do that, mommy did it !ReplyDelete
Mercy, I don't accept that answer! I'm sure your recipe isn't the exact same... so get with it woman, I want a recipe and a photo of your :D
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Domo Arigato
So anyway. Perhaps these high-tech fellas can help me find a revolutionary way to make it into work this afternoon.
They are, of course, robots designed by the inimitable Jess Hutch. They are so lovable and squeezable, despite looking like rather stern malcontents. They're also delightful to knit.
Surprisingly, though, these guys aren't much for technology. Here they stand, confounded by the number of remotes I own.
They confided in me that they'd much rather regard my grandmother's vintage brooches. So pleasant!
Or perhaps catch up on a must-read knitting blog. Will she finish her holiday knitting or won't she?
These two will go to Brennan and Nolan, the boy triplets. Ok, so I'm upholding gender stereotypes. Oh well.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention this weekend's Craftacular. It was jam packed but kinda awesome. Basically, it was a craft fair in giant a bar/meeting hall. Hard to beat that. And, since I'm a total dork, I introduced myself to Debbie Stoller. (My "in" was that I interviewed her once for an article about Martha's poncho.) You can see her in this shot sporting a sweater straight outta Stitch n Bitch.
My friend Kristin and I threw back a cocktail and munched on tasty pierogi. (It as at a spot called "The Warsaw"). The crowds were rough, but I found two little items for me. One was a funky flowered wristband made by Fresh Popcorn Productions. I also picked up a MUCH-needed new wallet crafted by Miss Alison.
I'd wanted to get in a little pre-bed knitting, but I should turn in. Heaven only knows when my bosses will call me to work tomorrow -- or how I'll get there. Eek!


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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
New Year's Eve Celebrations
Melvin is getting ready for New Year's Eve celebrations. He's happy to ring in the start of 2011. Now that Winter Solstice has passed and the days are getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere, he is getting a bit more sleep so he's feeling rested.
Melvin likes watching how excited everyone is by the fireworks displays on New Year's Eve and of course he loves the colors, but sometimes it's a little scary for him too.
Instead of fireworks this year, Heather is going to release a balloon for Melvin on New Year's Eve. I wonder what color it will be?
Melvin Moon
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