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Simotion programmering (SIM/SIN120)
- Description
- Dates and Registration
- You will learn how to configure and start up the SIMOTION Motion Control system with the associated drives and visualization devices. The course also includes the programming of movement sequences with the help of Motion Control Chart and ladder diagram/function block diagram.
- The technologies positioning, synchronous operation, probe, and cam plates are explained and reinforced by means of practice-oriented examples. The course enables you to use SIMOTION optimally in the automation of production machinery.
- System overview of SIMOTION
- Components of SIMOTION
- SCOUT engineering system and option packages
- Hardware platforms
- Motion control technology packages
- Creating a project with SCOUT
- Starting up and optimizing axes
- Programming user programs with MCC (Motion Control Chart) and LAD/FBD
- Runtime system (task system) configuring
- Learning to use tools for fault diagnostics
- Performing practical exercises on training devices
- Knowledge corresponding to the training course Simatic S7 programming 1 and knowledge about drive systems.
- The training is in Swedish language with english course material.
- Simotion and Sinamics S120 are used for practical exercises.
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Hi everyone
I'm back from the Annual Romance Writers of Australia conference held in Brisbane. What a great conference it was. So warm, so inspiring and so lovely to be back amongst talented writers who don't think you are mad.
After a rough start - flight cancelled at last minute - and redirected flight hours later, I finally made it to Brisbane airport. I sat next to the most lovely lady from South Africa which made the trip fly (pardon the pun). We talked about all the important subjects - family and books.
Then at the airport I had to wait for the shuttle bus and finally, finally made it to the hotel. Had argument with desk clerk about cash bond (I've never had to do that before - usually they just take an impression) and it was already 7pm by then and cocktail party (Arabian Nights) was already on. Luckily two wonderful women from my writing group took me up to my room and dressed me in quick time. Arrived at party dressed as harem girl. Met Mary Jo Putney first in the door. She was the most gracious lady. Plenty of belly dancers, a Jafar from Aladdin, and even a Saddam and a snake charmer. Don't forget the sheiks. Wonderful night.
Conference time started for me on the Saturday. Workshops and inspirational chats all topped by an all out Awards dinner. I had two special people to clap for this year and I was so proud of both of them for their outstanding efforts. You girls rock!
Sunday more workshops, the pink luncheon - we raised something like $10 thousand dollars which is so amazing. The other thing that I had to do on the Sunday was pitch myself and my current manuscript to a literary Agent. I was nervous and for some reason I seem to always get pitch appointments late on a Sunday when the editor or agent is tired of hearing pitches. Lucky me! Well, it was lucky for me as Melissa was just fabulous and I have a request to send her some of my work. Yayeee! Now, to make sure it shines so bright she needs sunnies to read it. LOL.
All in all a very successful conference.
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|This is a warm loaf of poison to me.
So anyway, the week began with some stomach upset—not a usual symptom for me, actually, so I assumed I had a little bug or something had just disagreed with me. Then the mouth sores appeared—quite painful, as they are with a bad glutening, and they'll stick around for a couple of weeks. Then the exhaustion, the kind of fatigue that sent me to bed two afternoons, trying to keep an ear on my three-year-old because I had no other choice but to lie down. It was like early pregnancy exhaustion; I couldn't fight it in the least. Then the depression and irritability. I can't explain how an invisible protein can affect my mood and stability and brain like it does, but I know I'm not the only one.
Even as one part of my brain was saying, You know this is just the gluten, it wasn't making much headway against the part that felt—well, depressed. No need to go into details there. And although I can apologize to my kids for my Friday afternoon meltdown and tell them it was the gluten talking, that's no excuse, no excuse at all. "Irritability" doesn't even cover it. It makes me feel like a cross between a porcupine and a pit viper; it's like there is no connection between my head and my tongue, for starters. I knew the best thing to do was hole up by myself until I felt better, but there's no way to do that in my life, and my kids got the brunt of my gluten-altered mood.
The worst of it—besides the guilt for being a terrible mother for an afternoon—is worrying about what unknown damage this latest gluten poisoning has wrought. Celiac is an auto-immune disease; that means that my body attacks itself in response to gluten. The initial bloodwork tested my body's antibody response to gluten and its antibody response to itself. All three numbers were sky high—double to triple the normal level. When the tests were run 15 months after I stopped eating gluten, the anti-self antibodies were still very high—heading downwards, but still high. I have three kids. The idea that my body is attacking itself scares me more than I can say, and every time I accidentally poison myself, I'm making it worse.
This happens periodically, no matter how careful I am. It all makes me a bit crazy. Invisible stuff that transfers easily and makes me sick, eating food that ought to be fine and getting sick anyway—of course it makes me crazy. I have (more or less) cheerfully altered my diet to keep myself healthy and whole, and it's so frustrating to stumble this way.
I debated about posting this here. I've set the parameters--this is a craft-focused blog, a happy and (hopefully) fun place--and this topic doesn't fit. But I decided to go ahead and do it anyway because it sounds so crazy, that eating the wrong thing could not only affect me physically but mentally and emotionally too. It's hard to maintain happy and fun when my brain starts misfiring, and I don't think there's much (any?) awareness in general of how this disease can affect mood and stability, nor of how wide-ranging the symptoms can be. So here's my little interlude; happy, fun, crafty posting as usual will return with the next post.


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Have you checked out Pet360's Summer of Pets posts? Here's a little bit about what is going on over there, we're sure you're going to want to participate just as much as we do! As Pet360.com kicks off week two of the #SummerOfPets they celebrate with "All… read more
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Natural Pet Food Movement: The Whys And Whats
Post by Blog Manager, Robbi Hess "Going green." "Natural hair and make-up." "Environmentally friendly" products. "Healthy, all natural pet foods and pet products." These phrases and lifestyles are being embraced by many pet parents so it only makes sense that food and pet product manufacturers would begin… read more
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Pigment ink sketch. A4. 210mm x 297mm.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Islands in the Lake
Posted by Chuang Shyue Chou at 12:25 PM
Labels: Drawings
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Haven't been here for awhile and I just enjoy your kind of trees. Is this a recent one?ReplyDelete
I haven't posted anything new for a while too. This was done about two months ago. Yes, fairly recent.ReplyDelete
I need to get back to my roots. Urban sketching, portrait drawing and figure drawing have distracted me from my usual trees, armours, tanks, powered suits and aircraft!
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Mollie Openshaw of Polka Dots and Daisies is a design genius. Her attention to detail and keen design eye are just some of the reasons she is top in the business. This girl doesn't disappoint and I am lucky to call her a friend and design partner!
Check out these adorable whimsy invites. Aren't the wood grained envelopes to DIE for?
So unique!
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Mollie dreamed up these little cuties. Custom wooden favor tags.
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We keep the favors very close to our theme of the natural woods feel. What you may ask....? Jars of potting soil and wildflower seeds to grow your own terrarium.
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More of the wooden tags for our hot apple cider jars. I am SO in love!
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There is a particularly vile hashtag trending on social media today that speaks about hating and/or punishing muslims. Sadly, many well-intentioned people are helping it to trend by quoting it when they decry it.
It illustrates a very real and present challenge - hashtags can be very powerful, and can be a great vehicle for awareness raising, such as the #metoo a few months ago.
There are alternative hashtags being used today such as #LoveaMuslim and #LoveaMuslimday but even these are not totally problem free - why only one day to care about the treatment of muslims? Why, as some of other world faiths who experience hatred have asked, choose one faith over any other (well given the context...)
As Baptists we are supposed to uphold freedom of religion for all people. To defend the right to choose any faith or none, or to create your own, and to be free from harrasment or interference. This isn't easy either because it means honouring the freedom of people who choose words and ways that we may find offensive. The challenge is not a mealy-mouthed 'love the sinner, hate the sin' that somehow frees us of responsibility, but the tricky path of prophetic witness that says, 'what you are saying/doing is wrong, yet I will choose love over hate, forgiveness over vengeance, engagement over estrangement'.
I'm nowhere near as good at any of that as I'd like to be. But I am learning to be more careful with hashtags.


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(Editor's Note: This piece appears on The Bowery Presents The House List. Check it out here)
On Tuesday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Wet Hot American Summer celebrated its tenth anniversary. The movie, a comedy about the last day at a fictional Jewish summer camp in 1981, initially received mixed reactions. At the time of its release, critics panned the satire, harshly judging both the plot and director David Wain. But, flash forward to 2011 and the cast and creators have the last laugh.
Every aspect of the event drew on the movie's community and shared nostalgia. Fans willingly dressed in character, playing on the theme of striped knee-high athletic socks and ¾-sleeve baseball shirts. Event staff ran arts and crafts (or arts and farts) and handed out pieces of gum. No doubt, this sealed Wet Hot American Summer's reputation as a cult classic.
The show itself consisted of Stella comedy-group members Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and David Wain serving as emcees while a parade of cast members returned for skits. Showalter recounted a fabricated romance with Marguerite Moreau, who played the promiscuous Katie and stayed true to character, sharing kisses with Wain and Black. Additionally, Janeane Garofalo, A.D. Miles, Ken Marino and characters referred to as Cape Boy and Aaron made appearances. All the while, Joe McGinty and the Loser's Lounge provided background music, playing selections from the soundtrack. But in the end, Stella remained onstage, thanking those in the crowd, who were equally responsible for the event and the movie's continued success.


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This is how you'll make requests:
- Sign in to LibraryLinkopens a new window with your YPRL card and PIN (also select Yarra Plenty from the drop down) from the link in the lefthand menu or the very top right.
- Enter your search terms and click Search.
- Locate the correct version of the item (ie Title, Author, format etc).
- Click Get It!
- Check the information is correct, select your Pickup Location and click Request.
LibraryLink Victoria's webpage allows you to track your request's status in MY REQUESTS.
For more information on making requests, check out the Resource Sharing Guidelinesopens a new window document.


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I've got a router outside about 200 feet from my iMac with a clear line of sight through a window. I'm running 802.11 at 2.4GHz over the distance. It works surprisingly well. I'm in a quiet rural area. The signal strength isn't great and the speed isn't what I'd like. The Tomato firmware I use lets me override the transmit power in the router, numbers from 0-250. Default is 17 or 42, folk wisdom is that up to 70 is "safe" although other folks say any setting is safe. Those settings may be throttled too, depending on what country you've configured the router to be in. Also apparently too high and you start getting distortion. Or not. Wireless is spooky.
Here's some readings on signal courtesy of the WiFi Signal Mac program. Routers are running Tomato and/or Shibby and are using stock antennae. Readings taken under light to no load. All readings are approximate / variable and sloppy enough to not be very good. It's not clear what these settings really mean; people call them "milliwatts" but it's not clear that's true.
All this stuff is using channel 11. 20MHz wide, AFAICT, even though I configured for 40. Measured noise is -79 to -82 dBM. I wish I understood how noise worked better. I've been able to use this link even when reported noise was higher than signal. Is that a thing WiFi can do?!
iMac 2011 tests:
Linksys WRT54GL 802.11g, 200 feet away
- 12: -72 dBm
- 42 (default): -75 dBm
- 70: -72 dBm
- 200: -67 dBm
ASUS RT-N16 802.11n, 200 feet away
- 80: -68dBm
- 200?: -68dBm. (May be limited by US country setting.)
a different ASUS RT-N16 802.11n, 10 feet away
- 17 (default): -50 dBm
Macbook Air 2011 tests
ASUS RT-N16 802.11n, 2 feet away
- 80: -32 dBm
ASUS RT-N16 802.11n, 200 feet away.
- 80: -69 dBm
No real conclusions from all this. Boosting power might or might not make a significant difference; measurably it does with the WRT54GL, not so much with the RT-N16. The RT-N16's signal strength also seems a little better, which is sort of expected since it's 5+ years newer hardware with fancier antennas, etc.
One thing I didn't record systematically is the improvement 802.11n brings. With the 802.11g links my actual link speed seemed to be 2Mbit/s as measured by Ookla Speed Test. I can get the full 12Mbit/s with the 802.11n. The reported theoretical Mbps of the wireless link is also significantly faster, as expected. The way I understand this is that 802.11n makes better use of available signal than 802.11g.
See also this discussion which shows improvements from -73 RSSI to -60 RSSI as power went from 1 to 55. Another graph shows improvements from -80 to -72 RSSI as power goes from 0 to 80. This article is interesting as well.
Update: antenna arrangement
Woah! I rearranged my antennas and picked up 5-6 dBm, which when I only had 6 dBm over noise basically doubles the SNR.
All the tests above are with the 2 or 3 antennas on the router all pointing straight up. Turns out that's dumb, you want them perpendicular. I arranged the 3 antennas on the RT-N16 into a W shape (45 degree angles) instead of all 3 straight up. Went approximately form -68dBm to -63dBm. Who knew?
Update 2: hot rod antennas
I tried some third party antennas, advertised as 9dBm gain (compared to 3dBm stock). Not impressed. Measured signal strength at my iMac was the same, about -63dBM with both sets of antennae. The new antennae are over 2x as long, which I guess is probably good? But the connector isn't stiff enough and it doesn't hold its own weight at the 45° angle I figured out was better. I think I won't be using these.
Update 3: symmetric readings
I forgot that my RT-N16 wifi router 200 feet away has a report of RSSI too, so I can see the signal from the other side. These readings are all +/- 3dBm fluctuations.
- iMac hears -65. N16 hears -58
- WRT54GL hears -61. N16 hears -52
- MacBook Air hears -73. N16 hears -71
These devices all report noise measurements too but its' radically different, like -75 dBm on the iMac and -92dbM on the WRT54GL. No idea what that means.
Update 4: San Francisco tinkering
I tried to apply what I learned about improving wifi strength in San Francisco. Different environment: I've got 10+ networks in view of me (mostly 2.4GHz?) and the walls of the house generate a lot more interference, I think because of metal lath in the plaster. Anyway, what I learned:
- Changing xmit power from 42mW to 100mW didn't help at all
- Repositioning the antennas to a spread out W made things a little worse, if it had any change at all.
- 2.4GHz and 5GHz work equally well downstairs, about 32dB SNR. Upstairs (away from router), 2.4GHz has a significantly stronger signal. like 10-20dB SNR vs 5-10dB.
- Fancy ASUS routers have an "interference mitigation" setting that seems designed for dense urban areas. Turning it on didn't help signal strength at all, may even have harmed SNR by 2dB or so. Nevertheless I've left it on with some theory it will help.
I wish there were some easy way to measure reliability. I don't care about max throughtput nearly as much as I do reliable packet delivery at whatever speed.


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Martin Schulz Re-elected as European Parliament President
The European Parliament has re-elected Martin Schulz for a second presidential term, with 409 votes from the 751 MEPs.
Besides the Socialist S&D bloc, the European People's Party (EPP) also backed Schulz in Tuesday's vote at the first plenary session in Strasbourg. In return, the Socialists backed EPP's Jean-Claude Juncker for the top post in the European Commission.
The other contenders, British Conservative Sajjad Karim came second with 101 votes, while Spain's leftist Pablo Iglesias and Austria's Green MEP Ulrike Lunacek both received 51 votes.
"I would like to thank you for the trust that you have invested in me. It's an extraordinary honour. I do have a particular duty and I take it very seriously", Schulz said upon his re-election.
Schulz's S&D has 191 deputies in the new European Parliament, while the EPP has 221. The 58-year old German, who was also running for EC President, will begin a new 2.5 year term in the Parliament.
- » Phantom Voters in Bulgaria 'Surpass 1.2 M'
- » Bulgarian Electoral Commission Starts Registration for Early Elections
- » Jean-Claude Juncker Elected President of EU Commission
- » Jean-Claude Juncker To Be Approved As Head of European Commission
- » Bulgaria ex-Environment Mininster 'Might Head EP Committee'
- » New European Parliament to Hold Opening Session
Well done Mr. Schulz, now it would be great if you appointed Sergey Stanishev as your deputy.
This german marxist traitor of all of the european peoples!!!
This man is a traitor, hes one of them whos flooding our countries with killer muslims, and schulz needs to be
Arrested, detained and then hanged for high treason!
Who elected this nazi marxist criminal??
European peoples did not elect this man!
He is unelected!
The EU is finnished,
Find out the truth about the EU, and its eurabia project!
They have open the borders and are allowing our coutries to be overun and taken over by
Muslim islamo nazis!!!
Read vladimir bukovsky: EUSSR
Schulz is a nazi criminal, he must be removed, all the self elected eu beauracrats are left wing nazi marxist
Death to islam
Burn the koran


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The GiardinaAWARD is presented to those exhibitors at Giardina whose presentations stand out from amongst the wide range of displays and convince onlookers through the quality of their workmanship and the overall impression they make. The GiardinaAWARD is the most important prize in Switzerland's green industry.
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Its winter here so I thought I would create some lovely blue skies so that I can dream of the warmth to come in our Australian summer. I am submitting my card in the #TGIFC117 challenge which is themed Summertime Blues
I blended the following colours in a wash onto some shimmery white cardstock. Started at the top - water washed Pacific Point then Tempting Turquoise then Marina Mist and finally Old Olive.
I also washed the blues onto a separate piece of shimmery white and cut out a rose. I also cut a rose out of Night of Navy. Stuck the outline of the Night of Navy rose down and filled it in with the lighter blue pieces.
Stamped the Happy Birthday in Archival Basic Black ink. The stamp is from the Rose Wonder stampset which can be found on page 162 of the Stampin' Up! catalogue.
Don't forget to hop over and see all the amazing cards at TGIF Challenges
Thank you for stopping by
Until next time
happy stamping
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Stamps and Dies: Rose Wonder stampset
Cardstock & DSP: Shimmery White cardstock, Basic Black cardstock, Night of Navy cardstock
Ink: Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Marina Mist, Old Olive, Archival Basic Black Ink
Other odds and ends required: Stampin' Trimmer, Clear Blocks, Stampin' Pierce Mat, Snail Adhesive,Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Rose Garden Thinlits


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JournChat Fun!
JournChat has to be one of the most fun and rewarding things I did his semester!
I really liked because there was a constant conversation from all people around the world and you just talk about journalism and issues going on that world. I spoke to some really smart people, received insight and saw things from a different angle. It was a bit hard to follow at first. The newsfeed was going out of control, but it got better as I learned how to set up my Tweetdeck to work for me. It is such a way to network. I started following two people and they followed me back. One was a freelancer and one was PR. They direct messaged me and gave me some useful advice for finding a job and being successful in life.
At first, I thought because I'm a young 19 year old junior at Michigan State University, no one would value what I had to say. Or people would just blow me off because of how young I am and I don't have much experience in the field. But people were so receptive and nice. I felt like "one of the guys". It was friendly debate and I had a great time
JournChat is something that I plan on being a part of in the future.


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I want to send out a HUGE Thank You to Carolyn and Aaron for the beautiful flowers they gave me. I have them sitting on mantel above my fire place so that I can enjoy them all day long.
Thank you so much.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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new in: embellish.7:06:00 AM
My latest arrival is this gorgeous embellished top from ASOS. I first spotted it on Ellie Goulding on the homepage but couldn't find it online, yet after a few days persistently checking the new in section there it was. I love the contrast of the leather sleeves and delicate embellishment which makes it easy to dress up or down. I'm looking forward to pairing it with a white skirt and sandals for day, or disco pants a leather jacket and killer heels for night x


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Sunday, 21 June 2015
Two Forces for Civilisation
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The Hopkins Manuscript is one of the most atmospheric and enjoyable novels I've ever read. I absolutely love it. I had been drawn to it because I had just read another book by RC Sherriff, A Fortnight In September, which again would have to be on my list of "desert island books" (and which again is published by the astonishing and wonderful Persephone Books).ReplyDelete
A Fortnight In September is all about a family holiday at the English seaside, and it just so happened that - as I read it - we were on a family holiday at the English seaside too, and this just seemed to make this book all the more powerful.
It's one of those subtle, understated, quiet little stories that stay with you long after you have read them.
It's rather sad without being tragic, but it's also witty and life-enhancing, with much to say about the passage of time (or even about being passengers in time, Tone), and about the changing dynamics of family life as children grow up and parents grow older.
Incidentally, although this novel was written in 1931, one of the things that struck me as I read it on the beach, was actually how little the culture of the English seaside has changed. References to picture postcards displayed in wire carousels outside shops, for instance.
This lovely story - about an ordinary family on holiday at Bognor Regis - holds a real power for me. It is the drama of the undramatic.
And it also provides for us a little bridge between 1931 and the present day, demonstrating that really nothing very much has changed for we ordinary human beings going about our ordinary business, seeking contentment and hoping for the best.
Just beautiful!
Phil, Thanks for your lovely comment. I'll have to read 'A Fortnight in September' sometime. I like what you say about "we ordinary human beings going about our ordinary business, seeking contentment and hoping for the best..." Could almost be a description of your novel 'Shrewsbury Station Just After Six'. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shrewsbury-Station-Just-After-Six/dp/1484933397ReplyDelete
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- Tony Gillam
- Tony Gillam is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Wolverhampton, a freelance writer, trainer and musician. He is the author of 'Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing' (2002) and 'Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice' (2018).


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Hurting people, and guilt, is generally a really important theme when discussing empathy, however empathy is defined. When is it worth doing something that will hurt someone else is an interesting question for people to discuss frequently, to determine how much pain is too much and where values lie.
Or, on the other hand, the guilt of doing that, of hurting them, how does it affect you? Disproportional responses occur, in both directions, people who feel guilt too much, and those who feel guilt too little. They're interesting for people to discuss, stories that are talked about.
But me, I don't know what to do. I don't want to hurt people. I don't know how to not. I feel guilty, because I didn't know and didn't make that decision. It is too strong of a response, because its unpredictable. I didn't know it would happen.
Because I cannot understand what hurts others and what doesn't, I cannot understand if an action I would do might hurt someone else. I cannot know if something like saying 'I don't like that gift' will be something that will hurt someone badly. And because I don't know, I won't do it. If I knew it wouldn't, then I'd be fine, but I don't know. (I mean I can say now that in most cases it'd probably be fine, but saying it now and being able to understand it in real time are not the same; understanding in real time is far more difficult). So, I'll always take the not understanding in the way that's least risky, in terms of hurting others. It's the safest move for me.
Because they can say "you won't hurt people", but I do and I don't know why or how. People do react like I've hurt them, and they do it unpredictably, and they act like what I've done is terrible. And I don't know what I've done wrong. And when I don't know if its them or me, and I don't know what to do and what not to do, when all I know is that there are things that hurt people, and that some of the things that make people uncomfortable I can't help but do sometimes, and if I don't do always you're spending a huge amount of your energy just on that...
Then, what would you do? I always have a gamble, every action is a gamble. Will this one be one that bothers people or not? Because I don't actually know. Because I don't actually know those rules of what hurts and what doesn't. There seem to be unspoken rules, that people know, that mean certain things are allowed in certain situations and not in others, and certain things are never allowed, and I don't know them. All I know is that I don't want to hurt people.
So instead I take those least risky moves. Because if I need to gamble, I'll play it safe. Because even that's a gamble, and even that fails sometimes.
And doing that, that's not not acting not true to myself. That's not knowing what to do. It's not saying "I'd rather do A, but I'll do B instead". It's simply not knowing. And wanting to not hurt, because I hurt when I hurt someone else. I feel guilty, and I hurt because they hurt, and I don't know what will happen.
So I do what I can for me when I can. And when I don't know, then I do what I can to not hurt others.
Even if sometimes that means that I don't know what I'm doing at all.
Because what I'm doing here is living without knowledge when others have it. But the gambling game when they are playing a different sort seems to be working out well enough so far.


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Coxen Hole, Honduras - Private Tour "Best of Roatan"
What a pity that the stay in this port was very short. But it was also nice to arrive and to leave a port during the daylight.
With paiagirl (Frances and Eddie from cruisecritic.com) and Katie and Charlie and ssCRUISERS (Scott and Sandy) and rolloman (Rolleigh all from cruisecritic.com) we had a private tour with Victor Bodden.
We booked Victor Bodden due to recommendation of BamaGal53 (Kathy from cruisecritic.com) who was in our roll-call for the final sailing of NORWEGIAN DREAM but finally canceled.
On the left side the taxis were waiting for guests.
Francisco was waiting for us with his minibus. It was very convenient on our tour: you could just be quite without being blamed for not being entertaining. I was allowed to decide with whom and in which language I was talking to someone. There was no need to have just one opinion: Each of us was able to have a different opinion and share it with others and without rated as general opinion.
A victim of the last storm...
It was the "Best of Roatan"-Tour and you can add options to this tour.
Do you remember James Bond's THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN??? There was a little waiter who was called Schnick-Schnack: Hervé Villechaize. He played also in the TV-show FANTASY ISLAND. Some of the outdoor shots should have been made here.
We were taken at first to a observation point. There you can see the cliff where the water broke.
The name of the place was THE VIEW suggested itself.
Francisco was a so-called taxi-guide i. e. he was driving and guiding. The other tours we made we had a tour guide and a different driver. You could feel this in your wallet. But it should be very difficult to find a German speaking tourguide on Roatan. With the help of the tourist office I had contact with a German speaking tour-operator. But they did not want to quote unless I could offer them a busload full of guests.
We drove to a resort.
Looked nice to spend 10 USD for a beach day. But Francisco told us that there were nicer resorts.
For practical reasons: where it was nice there was a resort.
To us it made a good impression.
For a cup of coffee and the use of the restroom there was no need to pay 10 USD because they hoped to acquire new customers who might be interested to invest in a time-sharing-project.
Really pity.
Nicely maintained.
Hope it should work out the next time.
We will keep this resort in our mind.
It was occassionally quite narrow.
Up on an observation point two policemen allow Kate and Charles to have pictures with them. And it was nice: not like Egypt when they opened their hand... A Gracias was just enough.
Over this muddy road we went down the observation point.
Not a very representative quarter.
Less inviting.
We continued to the Monkey Business which costed now 5 USD admission fee. At the time of booking it was 2 USD but Victor kept us informed about the new prices.
In theory credit cards were accepted. But the authorisation network did not run so you could only pay in cash.
Who was expecting the infrastructure of a zoological garden might be disappointed.
You see some animals like you would see in the nature. In a tight atmosphere - but without the need to do a long jungle tour.
If the airlines will restrict more and more the carriage of baggage Scott will have only two alternatives: a small compact camera or a cruise for nudists... A true professional will go on a nudist cruise before he would waive his photo equipement - or???
Somehow sweet.
You could also go into the cages to see it from the view of the animals.
So you had the chance to take pictures without any fence.
Which language he might speak???
This was possible as well.
Here I wanted to get quickly out... As nice as they sit on the bar... as bad it was to get hit by them on a natural way...
The little knew how to open a purse and what to look for...
You had only access with a guide to make sure that nothing will happen.
By the way: my I introduce Victor Bodden himself.
We continued to Roatan's Butterfly Garden. The admission fee was 7 USD. But here the card reader did not work either.
Looked nice but dangerous... he was not a pure vegetarian.
Everybody who thought that I have bats in a belfry (or in German: to have a bird...) were totally right... indeed I had a bird and it is fun. Some of you who all I wrote as well...
Many of the birds were fed until they could be released back to wild life.
The bird took German lessons with Katie...
The parrots were found partly without any feather. Here they can recreate from their trauma. One of the parrots recognized his tantalizer and bited off a piece of his finger.
The fawns will be released to walk around in the park when the park was closed. They were released and came back because they were not anymore accepted by their mother.
We continued to the butterfly hall. There were odd ducks like me.
Did he look as odd???
Finally to the butterflies.
This visit was worth.
We continued to Westend. But as it was raining we did not like to walk around.
There were few nice shops here around.
A stay with sunshine with a short bath in the Caribbean Sea would be very nice.
But it should not be this day.
We continued to another resort which was open for further time-sharing-investors.
Here were beach life - come rain or shine.
The beach bar was very busy.
We did not go to the water... but put our feet into the water... but you see other did their swimming.
A nice waterfall to feed the pool.
And another resort was on the way back to the cruise terminal.
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JOHNSTOWN - North Star 's scholastic golf team extended its winning streak to 10-0 by defeating Conemaugh Valley 207-245 at the Pleasant Valley Golf Course on Tuesday.
North Star's Adam Fitzgerald shot a 38 to capture medalist honors. He was followed by teammates Josh Ryan and Tony Berkebile with a pair of 39s, Trevor Anderson 45 and Robbie Reckner 46.
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NSF's Weather or Not!
Rat relief? NSF-funded molecular ecologist Michael Blum shares some surprising results from his team's tracking of pathogen-carrying rodents after disasters
National Science Foundation
Interviewer: Charlie Heck
Interviewee: Michael Blum
CHARLIE: Rat pack, rodent revolution, vicious vermin -- let's chat about rats.
CHARLIE: Did you know…a rat can fall as far as 50 feet and land perfectly fine…or… that rat's front teeth grow 4½ to 5½ inches each year because they chew on everything! What about this one: A rat can tread water for three days, that's right, three days.
CHARLIE: What about their behavior after a natural disaster? Think that's not important, well you might think again…because new rat research aims to provide urban communities better data on disease carrying dangers and where to look for them after the storm 5, 10, even 20 years in the future.
MICHAEL: Cities and state and federal agencies in a disaster scenario, they go into an area, an affected area, and their aim is to reduce as much risk to public health and human well-being as possible. And so actions are taken, for example, clearing debris, clearing vegetation, putting what we refer to as mosquito fish in standing waters to reduce mosquito larval loads. All these things are intended to reduce risk to humans in areas that have been devastated. And what we're interested in knowing is do some of these decisions, do some of these actions that are taken during disaster recovery have ripple effects five, ten, 20 years later that actually counterintuitively increase risk over time rather than reduce risk over time.
CHARLIE: That's Michael Blum, he's a molecular ecologist at Tulane University. Blum and his team have been studying rats and where they set up their humble abode post natural disasters. His data may pave the way for a mathematical model that could simulate how environmental changes, natural or man-made, affect populations of rodents that carry pathogens hazardous to humans.
CHARLIE: So, I know exactly what you're thinking and will tackle that first -- why rats? Blum says they're sort of a symbol for how communities within an urban area respond to a catastrophe. His team is focusing on the outcomes of Hurricane Katrina. Not necessarily a before and after but more of a cause and effect model that can be applied to other natural disaster recoveries.
MICHAEL: We decided to focus on the interplay with respect to infectious disease because in many respects responses to catastrophes and disasters really trying to diminish risk exposure. And so if you think about what disasters bring about-- flooded landscapes or the built environment being broken-- the idea is that through recovery processes the decisions that are made to change the environment can change an exposure risk. And so that was certainly the case in New Orleans after Katrina.
CHARLIE: That brings us to risk exposure versus risk perception. Blum says there's a big difference between where we -- humans -- perceive rats live and where they actually do in disaster-stricken areas. Spoiler alert, it's not what you think…
MICHAEL: It's very simple, so there are physical risk dimensions. For example, where rats live across the city. And then there's our perceptions of where rats are across the city. And they may very well not be connected to one another. So if you go out into your street or you go out into your backyard and you see something move you may detect or you may think it's a rat, but it may be a raccoon. It may be a possum. It may be nothing at all. It may be a shadow. But there is that perception of risk.
CHARLIE: Blum illustrates the difference between post-disaster rats and urbanite rodents with a good ol' fashioned rat battle – NYC verses the Big Easy.
MICHAEL: Much of what we are seeing about rats in general, what people are thinking, what people are talking about is coming from New York City as you might imagine. I wouldn't say that they pride themselves on being the rattiest city in the world, but there's a certain relationship that they have with rats. So, it tends to attract attention, and there's been some recent efforts to collate all the information that people have about risk perception, about these 311 complaint calls that are archived.
MICHAEL: And so what people have been doing is mapping out the distribution of those calls to get a sense of where rats are concentrated in cities, and it upholds a basic principle, which is rats follow humans. So the more humans there are, the more rats there are. But what we're finding in New Orleans and we think that this probably holds more generally is that if you map risk perception, so these 311 call data against very intensive quantitative estimates of population structure, population demography, we don't see that relationship. So, we in fact see an inverse relationship. So where there are fewer people, there are more rats. And it may be that this is general across cities. It may be that this is only particular to post-disaster landscapes.
MICHAEL: But what we're finding in New Orleans is that the distribution abundance of rats in the city maps onto abandonment. So areas where populations have been reduced because they haven't recovered since Hurricane Katrina, those areas typically have higher levels of vacant lots, areas that are more abandoned. And those are the areas where we're seeing high concentrations of rodents in cities. So this one to one relationship that's been viewed as being sort of principal in other cities, particularly in New York, doesn't hold in New Orleans.
MICHAEL: And what I'd say is that it's hard to say who's right and who's wrong. But our study is the first and only study that has very clearly and carefully mapped these 311 call data to quantitative estimates, those population demography.
CHARLIE: Now that we've dispelled a tale tell amongst our rodent residents inhabiting post-natural disaster urban areas, let's tackle a fact -- they can carry human diseases.
CHARLIE: Blum's team has a part two to their research – pathogen assays. They are testing for diseases that can affect humans and his team has found something – an uptick in a certain tropical disease carrier – leptospira – a bacteria which causes Leptospirosis. He says upwards of 30 percent of the rodents they're screening are carriers and that's something our public health agencies aren't registering.
MICHAEL: So we have a whole suite of pathogens that we're looking at, ranging from viruses to bacteria. And what we're finding is that the pathogen loads in our estimates are much higher than what we would have expected. So if you go back into history and look at what people have looked at in rats in particular, one thing stands out, which is leptospira, which is the basis of Leptospirosis.
MICHAEL: It's a pretty widespread disease, particularly in tropical and subtropical cities. In areas like Salvador and Brazil, it's considered a preeminent health concern. In areas like New York and New Orleans, our public health agencies don't register it anymore, largely because it's thought to have declined since the early 1900s. And what we're finding is that leptospira loads across the city are much, much higher than what everybody would have expected them to be.
MICHAEL: if it goes untreated-- so it's readily treatable. It's a bacterial infection, and it can be treated by a broad spectrum antibiotic. But if it goes untreated, it goes unrecognized it can kill you.
MICHAEL: What's unfortunate is that we don't have the public health infrastructure right now to really get at how much of a concern this is. So in areas of the United States where leptospirosis is recognizably prevalent, in particular in Hawaii, public health agencies take preventative measures. For examples, they have signs all across the archipelago that say you could potentially be at risk for contracting Leptospirosis in these areas of concern. So in places like Louisiana where Leptospirosis certainly is present, there is no infrastructure like that.
MICHAEL: There are no precautionary measures that are being taken. It's also something that isn't registered as being a disease of concern. So if somebody were to walk into a hospital who has a leptospira infection it wouldn't necessarily be diagnosed as such. So it's something that's not necessarily prevalent-- of primary concern in health care, particularly in New Orleans. And a lot of that is just again by culture, by virtue. The concern has declined over the years.
MICHAEL: And so from a healthcare perspective it would certainly benefit folks to again recognize that there is this concern and potentially take precautionary measures.
CHARLIE: So, let's recap…Blum's 311 data suggests New Orleans rats are more at home…away from humans and his pathogen assays show they are carrying a higher than normal rate of leptospira. How can this data and rat facts help us prepare for future disaster relief tools?
MICHAEL: So from a very fundamental science perspective, what we want to know is how do physioecological systems merge over time. How do they operate? How do they behave? But in real practical terms our intent is to aggregate all the information that we have about rats, develop, put it into a fairly sophisticated mathematical model that is spatially explicit, that maps out effectively onto the New Orleans landscape and have it serve as a decision-making tool.
MICHAEL: So, if the city for example wants to understand how to manage its landscape more effectively either to reduce risk or to increase ecosystem services, they can use this tool to decide whether they want to focus their efforts on one block or another block to redistribute risk or to minimize risk most effectively across the landscape.
CHARLIE: While Blum's team is down south studying their rodents, what about us East Coast or West Coast dwellers or other urban cities around the world?
MICHAEL: Yeah, so I think the general themes of the study, whether we're talking about rodents or mosquitoes or we're talking about floods or earthquakes, those are generalizable across the United States and certainly across the world. So, the areas where we're finding sort of points of comparison range from New York to Baltimore to Salvador and Brazil to Nepal. In fact, much of what we've done over the last few years has effectively leveraged our work in New Orleans to draw generalizable principles that are broadly applicable.
MICHAEL: So we've worked with folks again in South America, in Southeast Asia, North America. We feel that New Orleans though has its emblematic themes, particularly with respect to post-Katrina recovery. What we feature in many respects is a prelude or a forefront to what people are experiencing worldwide.
CHARLIE: Blum's research is illustrating how human behaviors affect where rats actually live and the diseases they carry in a post-Katrina New Orleans -- which could provide factual basis for risk perception. His findings may also pave the way for smarter public policies based on data that show where rats are actually living – not on assumptions about where they might be found after a natural disaster has disrupted an urban city.
MICHAEL: So, thankfully, the steps that are taken after disasters happen during the recovery and response phase are pretty effective at reducing outbreak conditions and the likelihood or the possibility of outbreak. So this is something that we're still exploring through meta-analysis, doing some comparisons in the literature and reported cases of outbreaks following disasters. But what it looks like is that, again, we're pretty effective at responding to these concerns.
MICHAEL: But then as that process unfolds or unwinds, there's a concern that some of those initial decisions that are made to reduce the immediate concerns may propagate or delay risk that's only detectable a year or five years, ten years later.
CHARLIE: That was Michael Blum, he's a molecular ecologist at Tulane University. He is studying rats…where they move in and…what they bring with them after a disaster…His team is laying the groundwork for a potentially powerful mathematical model that will aid in disaster relief.
I'm Charlie Heck, co-editor of Science360's News Service and co-host of the Super Science Show, at the National Science Foundation.
If you have any questions about this story or suggestions for interviews about super cool NSF-funded science, drop me a line…I promise not to…RAT… you out on air. Email me at email@example.com.


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Hull manager Steve Bruce could face FA disciplinary action for his dismissal during his side's 3-1 defeat at Leicester on Sunday.
The Tigers boss was quick to apologise to referee Eddie Ilderton and his assistants for his conduct after being sent to the stands for disputing a decision eight minutes from time.
But Bruce must now wait for the referee's match report to the FA to learn whether he faces further punishment.
"I've been in to see the referee and sometimes you do stupid things," Bruce said after seeing his side slip to their first defeat in five matches.
"I've apologised. I contested a decision which went against us, but I still shouldn't go on like some lunatic in the way I did. The ball wasn't out, but that shouldn't excuse me going on like an idiot."


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Various federal transportation departments face automatic budget cuts March 1 unless Congress changes or delays its self-imposed deadline known as "sequestration." The spending cuts could trickle down into various aspects of trucking, including Department of Defense, cross-border and air freight.
The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a memo this month to employees about the possibility of cuts that could include employee furloughs.
Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security are among those on the list that could affect trucking businesses.
"Truckers who haul for the DOD will have already seen some impact, and that's because that agency has already taken steps to reduce spending," said Ryan Bowley, director of legislative affairs for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
"Cross-border trucking could see longer lines, and folks who pick up at airports for air freight may likely see delays as well," he said.
Third-party logistics provider C.H. Robinson issued a report about the effect of federal budget cuts on freight.
"Any furloughs or staff reductions at Customs, USDA port inspectors, and other agencies that inspect and clear cargo at sea and airports may slow down the release of goods being imported," C.H. Robinson Government Affairs Manager Jason Craig stated.
Infrastructure, including highways and bridges, will not see cuts, at least over the short term, because Highway Trust Fund programs are exempt from the sequester.
"We're not going to see highway projects stop immediately because of the sequester," Bowley said, "but it could speed up the shortfall that the Highway Trust Fund is going to experience later on because of a reduction in the transfer amount to the Trust Fund from the General Fund."
For the time being, the Highway Trust Fund is stocked through the end of fiscal year 2014. Bowley says beyond that, the sequester could take down the Trust Fund balance quicker than anticipated.
Also exempt from the sequester is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is funded by the Highway Trust Fund.


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Why Block Ads?
You may think, "pop up ads don't pester me. I simply overlook them and close them."
However, appear Pop Up advertisements are more than only an inconvenience. Here are different reasons you need to counteract pop up promotions:
– Make your Android smartphone or tablet surf all the more rapidly
– Save cash on information overage expenses
– Avoid irritating advertisements
– Reduce your danger of being presented to malware
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There are two fundamental approaches to square appear promotions on Android, including:
– Download an outsider promotion piece program or application
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How to Block Annoying Ads in your Browser Using your Browser Settings
Step by step instructions to Block Ads in your Browser Using your Browser Settings
Step #1 : Open Chrome and tap the three dabs menu in the top righthand corner
Step #2 : Scroll down to Settings and tap it
Step #3 : Scroll down to and tap nearby settings and after that Pop-ups. Tap that alternative. As a matter of course, pop-ups are hindered on Chrome for Android. Notwithstanding, some of the time you may have changed settings accidentally or an outsider application may have altered your settings. In the event that it says pop-ups are permitted, move the slider to change this alternative to Pop-ups Block.
Adblock Browser, for instance, is especially well known. It's not entirely an advertisement blocker. It's a whole program with inherent advertisement blocking. You'll never see another pop-up advertisement again.
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For ads blocking, here we are suggesting you Adblock Plus APK to control the over all pop-up ads and one important thing is that if your android phone is already rooted then this Adblock Plus app will ask your to grant OR permission for Superuser permission.
Adblock Plus have amazing option to allow ads option like EasyList, Acceptable Ads OR "inappropriate". With this you can Annoying lots of things that include video ads and those with sounds etc.
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Just do the following steps to block advertisements in android devices. Tap to go and click in your phone Settings and select Wi-Fi connection and pick the Modify Network mode. Here you will get a more Advanced options and press the the proxy settings to manual. All this process runs on Adblock Plus application so you need to add Adblock Plus number that it had told you and then you can easily change anything in the Proxy Hostname to localhost afield and the proxy port. I choosed 2525.
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I keep typing something then deleting all the while my dip pen and half done project await in another room. I'm getting nowhere. You know that slaughter is wrong and revenge is evil and pointless so please click and sign (in the virtual sense) the petition.
Killing is wrong. A killing B because B or some of B's kind have killed A and A's kind first is wrong - perhaps a greater wrong because A knows the pain such killing causes and has chosen to perpetuate it. The proverbial vicious cycle. A kills B because B kills A. Maybe if A stops killing B then B will stop killing A. If A stops killing B and B doesn't stop killing A or vice versa then at least everyone will know the lie and perhaps support for their killing will dwindle instead of being endlessly fed by the angry bereaved vengeful. I know it's easy to say when thousands of miles away from bombs and bullets but that doesn't make it any less important or true. Anyway, that's it. I want to make art and jokes and friends and love and funny stories my daughter can chuckle or blush at, not half baked angry points about too much slaughter. Thank you if you read this far, and especially if you clicked and signed.


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The Problem of Pain or Privilege?
So this will be a little different from any other post I've done. I'm just going to ask a series of questions and leave it at that. I don't really have any answers. Why are the people who suffer most in our world the most religious? I know, obviously that's a gross generality. But […]Read more "The Problem of Pain or Privilege?"


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Preparation time- 2-3 min
Whole process - 8-10 min
Serves - 2 kids
Orange - 1 big
Fruits (any)- chopped in small pieces - 2-3 tbsp
Honey - 1 Tbsp (to drizzle)
- You can also carve the orange to make the basket more attractive, i didn't do it because my hands were freeze because of so much cold heheheh. will try next time.
- You can use any of your favorite fruit to fill the basket. just keep in mind they should be chopped fine.
- Drizzling honey is optional but it will be a nice dressing and good for cough and cold also.


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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
2 Recipe #204: Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)
Green papaya salad, or som tam (ส้มตำ) in Thai, is a very popular spicy-sweet salad eaten throughout Thailand, which originated in north-eastern Thailand (in Laotian-speaking Issan). Som tam literally means "sour pounded" in Thai, which is appropriate considering how the dish is made. :) Also known as tam bak hung (ตำบักหุ่ง), som tam (sometimes also written som tum or som dum) is traditionally made with a large clay mortar & a wooden pestle.
I know it probably sounds tremendously old-fashioned to make this recipe with a mortar & pestle when one has their pick of modern kitchen equipment, but it's really the best way to make this dish, as you want its many different flavors to be literally pounded into the papaya. For the preparation of this particular salad, nothing else but a mortar & pestle will do. The object isn't to completely pulverize (or rather, obliterate!) the food, as one would in a blender or food processor, but rather to mash the heck out of the initially-added ingredients while being gentle with all others that follow, all in the same bowl. ;) So, it's obviously essential to follow the recipe steps exactly as they are written so that the ingredients are mashed together in the correct order. Believe me, the extra effort, (which isn't really even that much effort, to be honest), is worth it!
The flavors are incredibly vibrant, & it's easy to see why this sensational salad is a favorite dish amongst the Thai people as well as others living around the world. Those who taste som tam for the first time often go back for seconds & thirds. Better watch out: One bite & you'll be hooked! :)
No worries about getting addicted to the stuff; It's also tremendously healthy for you -- lowfat, low-calorie, high-fiber, & very nutritious! :)
This dish is truly delicious & full of flavor. It embodies the five main tastes of Thai cuisine: salty (the salt & fish sauce), umami (the dried shrimp & again, the fish sauce!), sour (lime juice, tamarind, & tomatoes), sweet (palm sugar) & hot (Thai chilies). Green papaya has a very mild, almost bland, flavor to it, so it's perfect for picking up the other flavors in this dish.
It's a great dish to serve to round out a meal, and goes well with seafood, chicken, beef, or tofu. Try serving it the traditional Thai way -- on a bed of cabbage (or just a single, bowl-shaped cabbage leaf), accompanied by kai yang (barbecued chicken marinated in Thai seasonings) & either rice noodles or a side of sticky rice steamed in a banana leaf. Som tam also goes well with Thai-style marinated beef, coconut chicken curry, or grilled fish.
Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)
1 Tbsp. whole garlic, peeled (about 2 large cloves)
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. dried baby shrimp (or shrimp paste)*
1/2 Tbsp. red Thai (Bird's Eye) chilies, stemmed, sliced lengthwise, then seeded & sliced crosswise into small pieces (about 2 medium-sized red chilies)
1/2 Tbsp. green Thai (Bird's Eye) chilies, stemmed, sliced lengthwise, then seeded & sliced crosswise into small pieces (about 2 medium-sized green chilies)*
1 Tbsp. (coconut) palm sugar*
1 Tbsp. tamarind paste*
6 c. fresh & very firm green (unripened) papaya, skin peeled & then peeled into long, thin, ribbon-like strips (using a special Thai peeler with a zig-zag blade) (about 1 medium-sized whole papaya, 2 - 2 1/2 lbs.)*
1/2 c. carrots, peeled & shredded
1/3 c. unsalted, dry-roasted peanuts
2-3 Tbsp. freshly squeezed lime juice (juice of about 1 large lime)
1 1/2 c. cherry tomatoes, halved (or 2 medium-sized vine-ripened tomatoes, drained)
1/4 c. scallions, sliced crosswise into 1/4" rounds
1/2 c. fresh cilantro, roughly chopped & tightly packed
1/2 c. Thai basil, roughly chopped (optional)*
Directions: In an extra large clay or ceramic mortar, add the garlic, salt, dried shrimp, & chilies, & pound vigorously with the pestle until pulverized. Next, add the palm sugar & tamarind paste, & pound a few times more until the mixture forms a thick paste. Add a few cups of papaya & the carrots to the mortar (i.e., as much as you can fit without crowding the bowl, while still leaving room for additional ingredients!) & gently bruise the papaya just a little bit with the pestle, but not so hard that it disintegrates or becomes soggy; the papaya should still be crunchy. Toss the papaya in the mortar with a spoon in one hand as you pound the ingredients with the other to ensure that the papaya is thoroughly coated with the other ingredients & thus, picks up all of their flavors. Next, gently crush the peanuts, pounding only long enough to break them up a bit; or add them in whole at the end (as a garnish) if you prefer. Pour the lime juice & fish sauce (called nam pla in Thai) all over the papaya, & toss again so that everything's well mixed. Follow with the green beans, pound a bit, & then stir in the cherry tomatoes & the remainder of the papaya, continuing to gently pound a few times to infuse the flavors into the papaya. Add scallions, cilantro, & basil, & toss. Mix well. Taste the salad & adjust ingredients accordingly to the desired ratio of hot, sour, sweet, salty, & umami flavors. Ideally, the overriding notes of the salad should be hot & sour flavors with just a hint of sweetness.Transfer to plates & serve immediately. Enjoy with Thai barbecued chicken & sticky rice.
Yield: 8-10 servings.
Chef's Notes: Special kitchen tools: It's recommended that you use a ceramic or clay mortar & pestle instead of a stone one, which is too heavy & will typically lead to an over-pounded & soggy salad. :)
If you don't have a traditional, and very large (!), Thai mortar & pestle, you'll probably need to make the salad in 2 or 3 batches, depending on the size of your mortar.
Obtaining the special Thai peeler with a zig-zag blade is really no big deal. Like most of the above ingredients, you can find this tool at your local Asian market, or just buy it online. It's really inexpensive -- a minor but very practical investment -- that's only a few bucks at most, but it'll certainly come in handy in future. And, even when you're not using it to make green papaya salad, it can be repurposed for many other uses as well: Use it to make zucchini "spaghetti," or peel off the skin of any type of fruit or vegetable. I've also used mine to shred cheese & potatoes. You could probably also use it to shave chocolate, i.e., for hot cocoa or as a topping for tiramisù or some other dessert, etc. There are so many potential uses....
Since unripened, green papaya tends to be very firm & thus hard to slice open, I strongly recommend peeling off the skin first & then peeling it into long strips. It's a lot easier to shred a papaya this way, (i.e., keeping it whole as you shred it), versus cutting it in half first & then shredding it. First, green papaya's hard as rock, which can make slicing it very difficult, not to mention a bit dangerous. ;) And second, halving the papaya first generally makes it much more challenging to grip the papaya as you peel/shred it. That is, unless you place the papaya seed-side down onto a cutting board, peeling with one hand while applying pressure to the opposite side with the other, making sure to keep the stabilizing hand as far way as possible from the peeler. However, this method can still be dangerous, so unless you are an expert, extra-careful shredder, I'd recommend peeling the papaya while it's still whole. Regardless, please be careful & pay full attention as you are peeling. Please, for the love of your digits, do NOT try any mid-air peeling or slicing maneuvers. ;) This is VERY dangerous.
As you peel, you may have to reposition your hands a few times to get the maximum number of shreds from the papaya. When you start getting closer to its hollow core, you'll want to be extra careful as you peel it. The papaya only needs to be seeded if you'll be using up the whole thing for the recipe. It's best not to shred the whole thing if you're not going to use it all that day, as the papaya will generally tend to keep better for the next few days' use if you keep its seeds intact.
Advance kitchen prep: If you wish to make this dish in advance, combine all of the ingredients except for the peanuts, lime juice, fish sauce, & tomatoes. This way, it'll keep longer in the fridge, i.e., for several hours (or overnight). Then, just add these reserved ingredients just before serving & toss well.
A few words about the ingredients: If you can't find the tamarind paste (i.e., concentrated tamarind) & can only get the kind that comes in a brick (with the seeds), then you'll need to process it before adding it to the mortar. To do this, boil a kettle of water, place a chunk of the tamarind pulp (about 1-2 Tbsp.) into a small bowl, pour in about a 1/3 - 1/2 cup water, & let it dissolve for several minutes. Then break the tamarind apart with a fork (or wait until the water cools a bit, put on a pair of rubber/latex gloves, & use your hands). Strain through a sieve to extract the homemade, concentrated paste.
I normally don't put sugar into my recipes, as most of the readers of this blog are already aware, but I wanted to keep this recipe authentic, which is why I used palm sugar instead of honey. Plus, there's only a little bit of palm sugar in this recipe. Regardless, palm sugar's considered to be one of the healthier forms of sweeteners. Made from the sap of a coconut palm tree, it naturally has a very low glycemic index (a GI of 35), lower than that of cane sugar, agave, and even honey. Plus, it's especially high in potassium, magnesium and zinc, as well as vitamins B2, B3, and B6.
Key (see above for references): * = You can get these products at your local Asian market or order them online.
Variations: Other versions of this salad may sometimes also include (unripened) green mango, pineapple, white guava, mung bean sprouts, shredded cucumbers, pickled or salted crab, &/or shredded daikon radish.
This dish can easily be converted into a vegetarian or vegan dish; omit the shrimp & fish sauce, & just use some other umami substitute. Soy sauce makes an OK substitute for fish sauce, but you can also make your own vegetarian, imitation "fish sauce" by combining 1/4 c. Chinese dark soy sauce, 1 tsp. sherry wine, 1 tsp. peeled & crushed garlic (about 1/2 of a large clove), and about 1 Tbsp. miso (strained). Please note, this is just an approximation of a recipe that I just whipped up in my head on the fly, & not a tested recipe, so you'll probably want to taste the recipe first as is & then just adjust the amounts to suit your personal taste preferences.
Also, for the original recipe template, I erred on the side of caution when it came to listing amounts for the more pungent ingredients. So, if you follow the recipe as is, you will be OK. Of course, it's probably better to keep the salt, garlic, & fish sauce to a minimum, & then just tweak it a bit to balance out the flavors. That way, you can adjust them to suit your individual preferences. Easier to add than to subtract. ;)
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2 comments:
- Unknown said...
Is there a history behind this yummy dish (thai green papaya salad)?
- Cyberpenguin said...
Yes, there is. The following articles contain information about som tam's origins & history, "Everything You Need to know About Som Tam -- Including Where to Find It" and "Thai Food and Thai Coooking: History of Som Tam, Pappaya Salad." Hope that helps!
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GIG : Brian WilsonVenue : Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Date : Wednesday 14th September 2011
Cost : £50 (plus extortionate £5.75 booking fee per ticket)
Our Verdict : The Black Country, Brightened
Our third show... and still we were filled with anticipation and excitement. Again, the show kicked off with the 'Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin' album from start to finish. Brian, on introducing it, told the audience "If you don't like it, just tell us and we won't do it anymore"! No danger of that happening.
Tonight, our seats were on the left hand side of the auditorium so we were able to really appreciate the Q Strings and the interaction between the band members on this side of the stage. During the encore Probyn Gregory & Scott Bennett were line dancing and bassist Brett Simons was twirling, and on "Fun, Fun, Fun" Paul Von Mertens and Scott were moving in slow motion which was quite effective! It also gave us the opportunity to appreciate how many instruments Probyn Gregory plays... 12 string, electric guitar, banjo, trumpet, French horn, theramin.....
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Brian was really with it, and appeared to be very comfortable tonight, especially through the Gershwin set. The sound was just brilliant, and highlights were "Summertime", "The Like In I Love You", "I Loves You Porgy" (even Brian said "Oh Man" at the end it was that good) and "They Can't Take That Away From Me" once again got a really rapturous applause. Being able to see the Q Strings we could see just how much they enjoyed playing. The girl at the front playing the cello was really amazing (especially during Heroes & Villains"), and she was even dancing in her seat and singing along to "I Got Rhythm". In fact, she sang her way through the SET!
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This has been the best performance of the Gershwin set so far.....
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The second half of the show started once again with California Girls – this is a real crowd pleaser and sets the tone for the whole of the Greatest Hits set. The set was pretty much the same as the one from Manchester, however "Breakaway" was dropped and "Please Let Me Wonder" was back. During "All Summer Long" Brian was multi-tasking, playing keyboard with one hand the clicking his fingers with the other. He was on fire tonight.
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"Your Imagination" was once again the stand out song for us and we caught Brian smiling to himself, so he must have thought it hit the mark too. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" with Jeff Foskett taking the lead vocal worked very well tonight, and Brian even remarked "Wasn't that a good one"?
"God Only Knows" got the same reaction as last night....... constant applause for minutes after the last chord had been played. This song is a real hit on the tour.
During the encore, Scott spotted a young girl in the audience dancing in the aisle and he jumped off the stage, danced with her in the aisle and then lifted her onto the stage for a boogie with him during "Surfin' USA"! She looked so chuffed.
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"Love & Mercy" was the final song before Brian and the band left the stage for the last time and the house lights came up. This has been the best show so far, soundwise. You could hear every little tinkle, plink, plonk, strum, beat of a drum..you name it. Sound man deserves an award.
Next stop...... London Town for three nights of Fun, Fun, Fun.
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Halt approval process on Otter Creek wind farm, citizens say
"Black Water" in wells in nearby North Kent has residents concerned about water safety and wind turbine construction. The lesson from Walkerton is that the MOECC is responsible for water quality, they say
February 5, 2018
Citizens' group Water Wells First is calling the Ontario government decision to allow temporary water tanks to be removed from North Kent homes without water supply is "cold-blooded."
Last week, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) informed residents that the results of the Ministry's own testing of the water that is so sediment-laden some samples appear black, showed that water quality has "deteriorated" but that there is no association with wind turbine construction and pile driving.
"It's a strong arm tactic," said Water Wells First Kevin Jakubec at a news conference held this afternoon at one local farm that has been without water for months.
Residents in nearby Wallaceburg are extremely concerned as the proposed Otter Creek wind power project will be on the same Kettle Point Black Shale geology as the North Kent project.
"The Ministry response to the damaged well in North Kent is not good enough," says Violet Towell, spokesperson for community group Wallaceburg Area Wind Concerns. "The deterioration of water quality in these wells didn't just happen. As Mr Justice O'Connor confirmed in his 2002 report on the Walkerton water tragedy, the MOECC has responsibility for ensuring a safe water supply in Ontario — they should not stop investigating until they find out what is going on here."
The Wallaceburg group says that the Otter Creek project should not receive a Renewable Energy Approval until the well water situation in North Kent is "thoroughly investigated and resolved," says Towell.
It is a condition of Renewable Energy Approvals that "adverse effects" must be prevented; these are described in the Environmental Prevention Act, Section 1 (1) and include "adverse effect on the health of any person," "impairment of the safety of any person," "rendering any property or plant or animal unfit for human use," and "loss of enjoyment of the normal use of property."
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I'm hoping to make some money off commissions, and I wanted to ask for advice about which alternatives people might enjoy enough to put money into!
I initially hope to solicit $200-400 worth of commissions. The fastest way to do this are sketches at $20/single figure + $10/additional without revisions, but I am also available for;
- inked drawings ($30/figure + $15/additional)
- flat colors ($35/figure + $18/additional)
- cell shaded pictures ($40/figure + $20/additional, will check with commissioner after pencilling for possible revision)
- full shaded pictures ($50/figure + $25/additional, will check with commissioner after both thumbnails and pencilling stages)
- model sheets or sequential pages can be discussed further
Since I am trying to scout an area out and move, I would like to make a little more to cover those expenses beyond commissions. What would people find most appealing?
- straight-up asking for support through GoFundMe?
- creating a Patreon as a big tip jar as well as offering illustrations as rewards? Those rewards would be printable (300 dpi) art of monsters or prehistoric animals.
- creating a Kickstarter for a 20-30 page color illustration book, focused on either monsters in general or prehistoric animals.


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I offer affordable counselling for problems that cause anxiety or depression. Are you suffering from stress? A loss or bereavement? Or an Eating Disorder that is ruling your life?
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I have worked for over thirty five years in various areas of Mental Health, Physical Disability, Palliative Care and Eating Disorders. I now feel privileged to work in the area of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I qualified at the University of Central Lancashire as a Person Centred Counsellor and continued my professional development with The National Centre for Eating Disorders (UK's largest independent eating disorder service) where I trained for the Master Practitioner Programme. I now work using a wide range of evidence based psychological therapies for general Counselling, addressing all stress related issues, addictions,bereavement and Eating Disorders.
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For me, I would describe Counselling as a journey of inner discovery and is worth a lot more than an accumulation of information and facts - because counselling is learning that 'makes a difference' to a persons happiness and well being, that makes a difference to their behaviour and attitudes, and in coping with life more comfortably. Consequently, it is important to find the right therapist whom you can feel safe and can trust with this very unique relationship.
Please feel free to contact me for a confidential assessment either by email, or for eating disorder clients, visit my website - christine-el-fourti.co.uk. Or telephone me if you would like further information regarding my services.
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I work with all types of Eating Disorders including Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating, Failed Dieting and Orthorexia. I acknowledge both the physical and emotional factors of eating distress and work towards gaining a more healthy relationship with food. Working together, the physical effects of your problem will be addressed, leading on to discovering the nature of your problem emotionally. It will address all issues that cause concern surrounding food, weight, and body image. Its aim will be to help you gain control of your problems related to eating, and to experience the freedom from obsessional thoughts and behaviours that causes distress and unhappiness.
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