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Notable quotations from Stephen Hawking
Physicist and author Stephen Hawking possessed an uncanny ability to come up with memorable phrases and sayings that summed up his world view. Here is a short selection of his many famous observations:
— "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special."
— "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
— "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
— "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
— "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
— "I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful."
— "Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free."
— "If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."
— "We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet."
— "My disabilities have not been a significant handicap in my field, which is theoretical physics. Indeed, they have helped me in a way by shielding me from lecturing and administrative work that I would otherwise have been involved in. I have managed, however, only because of the large amount of help I have received from my wife, children, colleagues and students. I find that people in general are very ready to help, but you should encourage them to feel that their efforts to aid you are worthwhile by doing as well as you possibly can."
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Warren fends off Oak Park-River Forest
It figured to be a close game, the Warren Township contest with Oak Park-River Forest. And it was as the Blue Devils edged past the Huskies 55-53 in the third game of the 82nd Pontiac Holiday Tournament Thursday afternoon.
The win move Warren into the major bracket quarterfinals opposite second-seed Peoria Manual.
The Blue Devils appeared to be primed for a blowout win after jumping out to a 14-5 lead in the opening period. But the Huskies would have nothing of it.
OPRF rebounded to outscore Warren 11-6 in the second period to trail 20-18 at the half, and then outscored the Blue Devils 18-14 to take a slim 36-34 lead by the start of the fourth frame.
There were 12 lead changes in the game, which was also tied five times.
Adrian Deere had 20 points and 6 rebounds for Warren. Aarias Austin added 14 points.
Erick Locke threw in 23 points for OPRF. Jakari Cammon chipped in 9 points.

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Submitted by Magdalene L. Crowley on May 31, 2018 - 10:45am
1997 CS Distinguished Alumnus Eric Schmidt (M.S. '79, Ph.D. '82), the former executive chairman of Google, has penned an article for the Sacramento Bee titled "You don't need to be the head of Google to know what needs to be done about the UC." In it, he describes how public funding for the University of California has shrunk as student enrollment has surged, and why Californians need to support public education. "Budgets are moral documents – they reveal our true values," he says. "Putting more resources into higher education, sustaining what the state's founders started, is not only an economic no-brainer – it's the right thing to do."


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New Republic: A Lesson From The Great Depression
John B. Judis is a senior editor ofThe New Republic and a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In the 1930s, as the world plunged into depression, there were two political factions that insisted nothing could be done: Marxists, who saw the depression as the death knell of capitalism, and laissez-faire economists, who believed that the only way to revive the economy was to let the depression takes its course like a bad storm at sea. Imagine my surprise in the wake of Thursday's stock market crash to find a similar attitude toward the current downturn among liberals and mainstream economic thinkers.
In a column in The Washington Post, Ezra Klein said the "right question" to ask about the economy was, "Where will the recovery come from?" He responded that "no one has an answer," but also asserted that the recovery "won't come from the United States." Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett said pretty much the same thing on PBS's News Hour. "They're out of ammo," Tett said of the federal government. "I mean, they have already used all the fiscal measures they could in the last two or three years. And they're pretty much back to where they can go, as far as they can go in terms of the monetary policy measures."
I got news for Klein and Tett (which sounds like a law firm). If a real recovery occurs in the next four or five years, it will come about the same way a recovery took place after the 1930s: from a huge infusion of government spending. It won't, one hopes, require the justification of war, but it will have to consist in the fiscal equivalent of war. If we don't do that, we may not escape this slump for the rest of the decade — and neither will Great Britain and other countries that have also convinced themselves that reducing government is the best course of action.
THE ECONOMICS ARE familiar by now, but under attack from the right and insufficiently understood in the center, including at one of our woe-befallen, politically compromised rating agencies. There are two types of recessions: the short-term, cyclical wage-price recessions that prevailed after World War Two and that were manipulated by monetary policy, and the deeper recessions, or depressions, like those that occurred in the 1890s or 1930s. What is happening today is more similar to past depressions. It was brought about by a financial crash, which creates a backlog of private debt, coming on top of a slowdown in industrial production caused by global overcapacity. The result has been a paralyzed private sector.
There are three kinds of measures that are needed to "solve" this kind of recession: first, short-term measures that revive consumer and investment demand; second, measures that will stimulate new domestic outlets for private investment; and third, steps that prevent the demand government creates from being siphoned off primarily in imports. For the first purpose, the best kind of measures are those that create jobs for the unemployed — whether in the public or the private sector — and that eliminate or reduce debt directly, for instance in housing or school loans. Tax cuts are not as effective because, given the level of private debt, consumers are likely to save rather than spend them. With interest rates already near zero, Federal Reserve monetary measures are also not very effective.
There is a copious amount of historical evidence that cutting spending — and cutting government jobs — is more likely to deepen a downturn. Start with the United States, Germany, and Great Britain in the first years of the Great Depression; the United States in 1937; and Japan in 1997. In each of these cases, cutting spending made things worse. To be sure, large deficits can harm an economy; but not when capacity is idle, unemployment is high, interest rates are not rising, inflation is non-existent, and a government's currency and Treasury bills are still widely in demand.
Why, then, do policy-makers and pundits think otherwise? Some economists and conservative politicians have swallowed the laissez-faire Kool-Aid, and simply don't get it. In some quarters, rampant confusion prevails. But with a liberal like Klein, I suspect that despair — what Kierkegaard called "the sickness unto death" — over getting Congress to agree to a dramatic boost in government spending is really behind his thinking there is no economic solution. However, following the lead of my colleague Jon Chait, I would distinguish between what needs to be done economically, and what can be done politically. What needs to be done is fairly clear; what can be done is not. But I think the political effort is worth making.
The first consideration has to do with the sheer gravity of the situation. What is at stake goes beyond an abstract rate of unemployment, or the prospect of a Republican White House in 2012, or even the misery of the long-term unemployed. From the beginning, this recession has been global. Germany has to take leadership in Europe, but the United States is still the world's largest economy, the principal source of consumer and investment demand, and the banking capital of the world. If the United States fails to revive its economy, and to lead in the restructuring of the international economy, then it's unlikely that other economies in the West will pull themselves out of the slump.
And as the experience of the 1930s testified, a prolonged global downturn can have profound political and geopolitical repercussions. In the U.S. and Europe, the downturn has already inspired unsavory, right-wing populist movements. It could also bring about trade wars and intense competition over natural resources, and the eventual breakdown of important institutions like European Union and the World Trade Organization. Even a shooting war is possible. So while the Obama administration would face a severe challenge in trying to win support for a boost in government spending, failing to do so would be far more serious than the ruckus that Tea Party and Republican opposition could create over the next year.
The second consideration has to do with public opinion. In the United States, skepticism about government is the default position. But it coincides with support for specific initiatives and is put aside during crises when it appears that private initiative is insufficient. That happened during the world wars, the mid-1930s, and in the months following the financial crash in September 2008. The Obama administration won support for its stimulus program by convincing the public that the economy was in critical condition, but since then it has backed off and argued instead that a recovery was in place. In August 2010, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner published an infamous op-ed in The New York Timesentitled, "Welcome to the Recovery." Even as it has become clear that a recovery is not taking place, the administration has continued to insist that it is — only more slowly than expected. That's understandable — saying that the recovery has not occurred is tantamount to admitting failure — but it also undercuts any attempt to win over the public to ambitious government initiatives.
Could the public be won over? During the first stage of the debate over raising the debt ceiling, administration officials privately expressed doubt about whether they could ever convince the public that the debt ceiling needed to be raised. Instead, they focused on getting Wall Street to pressure the Republicans. But even without an administration effort to sway the public, support for raising the debt ceiling doubled during July, as the public became aware of the consequences of not raising the limit. Could a noisy administration campaign — led by the president and based on the idea that there is a national and global crisis that requires extraordinary measures — win support for a new stimulus program? Perhaps not, but given the gravity of the situation, it should at least be attempted.
Of course, winning over public opinion does not necessarily lead to winning over Congress. But, again, it is not inconceivable. In the spring of 2010, the administration was able to budge Republican opposition on financial reform by waging a public campaign. And if the administration doesn't finally succeed in winning over an intransigent Republican party to a program designed to create a recovery, it will have drawn the kind of sharp contrast that the public will be able to understand in the event that the Republicans do win, and continue on their current path of cutting spending.
Other administrations have sharply pivoted when their policies haven't succeeded: Franklin Roosevelt changed course in 1938 after his budget cutting created a double-dip recession; Richard Nixon became a born-again Keynesian in 1971. But I fear that, under its veneer of optimism, this administration, like some of its supporters in the commentariat, has given up on trying to change public opinion, and, by extension, on pulling America and the world out of the Great Recession. It's not a matter of theory with them — they haven't become radical Marxists or followers of Friedrich Hayek — but of political despair.
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Dubai to build Taj Mahal replica
DUBAI (AFP) – A replica of India's world-famous Taj Mahal, four times the size of the original, is to be built in Dubai as what is to be billed as the world's grandest wedding venue, one of its developers said.
It took the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan 22 years to build the marble mausoleum for his queen 360 years ago, but the copy, to be known as Taj Arabia, is expected to take only two years.
The billion-dollar project will be set in the heart of the 41-million-square-foot Falcon City of Wonders on Emirates Road, said Arun Mehra, chairman of sub-developers Link Global Group, at the annual Cityscape Global real estate exposition in Dubai.
"Marriage is a celebration. It needs to be announced and glorified. Currently Dubai is not regarded as a wedding destination. People go to Bali and other exotic places to marry. Now they will come to Taj Arabia," Mehra told Gulf News.
Surrounded by lush green landscaping, including the famous Mughal Gardens, the "New City of Love" will have several architecturally themed residential and commercial buildings.
Taj Arabia will be a five-star hotel property with 300 rooms. It will be flanked by seven mixed-use buildings, two of which will have 200 serviced apartments.
"Traditionally in the UAE and the sub-continent, marriage is not just a union of two people but also their families. The serviced apartments beside Taj Arabia will be ideal for wedding guests as they will have 10 large bedrooms and a hall," said Mehra.
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The photo of a badly burned Apple iPhone that circulated after the phone caught fire during a Regional Express flight has raised important questions about lithium-ion battery safety among a wide aviation audience. The incident occurred after the Regional Express Saab 340B landed in Sydney, Australia, on Nov. 25, 2011, according to the airline, "when a passenger's mobile phone started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow." Although the airline didn't identify the specific procedures the flight attendant used to contain the smoking battery, the crew "carried out recovery actions immediately and the red glow was extinguished successfully."
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) provided more information, noting that the flight attendant used a fire extinguisher to cool the phone. But interestingly, this appears to be the only case in Australian aviation of a lithium-ion-powered device spontaneously combusting. According to the ATSB, "There is no previous record in the ATSB's databases of spontaneous self-ignition involving smartphones or other portable electronic devices on an aircraft in Australia. However, the ATSB is keen to fully understand the nature of this event given the increasing and widespread carriage and use of such technology on passenger-transport vehicles."
Lithium-ion batteries power nearly every portable electronic device that pilots and passengers carry on aircraft. "The fact that batteries can fail on rare occasions in an uncontrolled manner has brought an increased public awareness for battery safety, in particular as a result of some large product recalls of portable notebook computer and cellphone batteries," according to a July 2011 study conducted by Exponent (Failure Analysis Associates) for the Fire Protection Research Foundation (FPRF).
Dangers of Thermal Runaway
With an energy density as high as six times that of a lead-acid battery, lithium-ion batteries are somewhat sensitive to design and manufacturing flaws. Failures are categorized as non-energetic (meaning loss of capacity, activation of a disabling mechanism, electrolyte leakage) or energetic, which is the kind that can cause smoke and/or fire. It is the energetic-type failure–thermal runaway–that most concerns flight crews.
A thermal runaway means that the battery cell releases stored energy rapidly, and lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density can release a lot more energy more quickly than other battery types. Lithium-ion batteries contain a highly flammable electrolyte, so they store both electrical energy from the normal battery chemistry and chemical energy from the lithium-based electrolyte.
Thermal runaway can occur when the battery self-heats, which can happen when electrolyte reaches temperatures as low as 158 to 194 degrees F (70 to 90 degrees C), according to the FPRF report. Runaway accelerates quickly at higher temperatures, and the greater the charge in the battery, the faster runaway happens. Temperatures during a runaway can reach 1,110 degrees F (600 degrees C). The battery cells will also experience increased pressure, venting or popping of the cell, possible ignition of cell gases, possible ejection of cell contents and propagation to adjacent cells.
According to the FPRF report, "Venting of isolated small cells (cellphone cells and smaller) seldom results in flame ignition. This is likely due to the limited volumes of vent gases released from these cells–that is, the gases become diluted before ignition can occur. In comparison, ignition of vent gases from 18650 and larger cells [used in some laptops] is fairly common: these cells contain more electrolyte (more fuel), and are usually used in multi-cell battery packs. If the flow of vent gases is 'restricted' due to the configuration of a vent port (typical in hard case cells), flames emanating from the cell will be highly directional (flames from 18650 cells are often described as 'torch-like').
"Propagation of cell thermal runaway has significant implications for fire suppression and fire protection. A fire suppressant or low-oxygen environment may extinguish flames from a battery pack, but the thermal runaway reaction will propagate if heat is not sufficiently removed from the adjacent cells. Responders to fires involving lithium-ion battery packs have often described a series of re-ignition events. Typically, responders report they used a fire extinguisher on a battery pack fire, thought they had extinguished the fire, and then observed the fire re-ignite as an additional cell vented."
The ways that lithium-ion batteries can fail are numerous, but the report noted, "It has been observed that the vast majority of thermal runaway reactions that occur in the field occur during or shortly after cell charging." One way of lowering risk may be to avoid charging of lithium-ion devices while in flight. It should be noted, however, that reports of spontaneously combusting lithium-ion devices that burned their owners included devices that were not being charged.
Anyone flying with lithium-ion-powered devices might want to know of these hazards and take steps to minimize the risk of a thermal runaway from an onboard device, especially now that many pilots have adopted tablet computers for chart and document viewing.
Fire-Containment Options
The FAA highlighted lithium-ion problems and strategies for dealing with lithium battery fires in a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO 09013). The FAA recommends: "Utilize a Halon, Halon replacement or water fire extinguisher to prevent the spread of the fire to adjacent battery cells and materials. Pour water, or other non-alcoholic liquid, from any available source over the cells immediately after knockdown or extinguishment of the fire." The idea is to cool the battery to prevent re-ignition and propagation to other cells. While water reacts with lithium, the amount in the electrolyte is sufficiently small that it is worth the cooling effect of the water when trying to stop the runaway, according to the FAA.
Lithium-ion batteries are often encased in hard plastic shells, however, and this hampers efforts to drown a lithium fire with water, according to Tom Connolly, president of Industrial Fire Products, Mount Joy, Pa. Connolly's company manufactures the Fire-Fighter Hot-Stop L fire-containment bag that Ship-it AOG distributes. The problem with water, he told AIN, is that it can't penetrate the plastic case around a battery and won't put out the fire until the case fails fully, by which time the thermal runaway has proceeded nearly to conclusion, generating high temperatures. Placing the burning device in the Hot-Stop bag contains the thermal runaway safely as the fire burns itself out. The bag does not snuff out the fire, he pointed out. "From the flight crew standpoint, is it better to package a passenger's device [into the containment bag] that is running hot or smoking or to begin pouring water on it that cannot penetrate the battery casing yet? The feedback we receive is that they want the item in question contained now, guesswork eliminated and the 'event' contained."
The Hot-Stop bag, available in two different sizes, is made of materials with a melting point of 3,200 degrees F (1,760 degrees C). It includes a set of heavy-duty firefighter gloves to protect the crew dealing with the burning device. The large Fire-Fighter bag sells for $1,075 and the smaller Fire-Fighter II bag sells for $950. Both are available from Ship it AOG.
Aircare Access Assistance offers a fire-containment bag, the FireSock, which sells for $339, including gloves. Aircare recommends stopping the thermal runaway first using Halon or water, then putting the device into the FireSock. If no water or Halon is available, Aircare suggest putting a burning device in the FireSock.
Another company, FCB 1200, developed a fire-containment bag three years ago, and president Randy Steenholdt worries that the FAA is not considering the many laptops with magnesium frames flying on long overwater or remote routes without any protection other than Halon and water. "If magnesium catches fire, it will keep burning," he warned. Steenholdt recommends keeping laptops carried in cabins in containment bags as a precaution, especially on Etops trips. An in-flight fire stemming from lithium laptop batteries is inevitable, he believes, and when a tragedy happens, "the FAA will finally react."
In considering the hazards of lithium batteries, one message comes through loud and clear: you'll be much happier when you carry some kind of bag to isolate and contain a lithium-battery-powered device that spontaneously overheats or bursts into flame. While spontaneous combustion of lithium battery-powered devices doesn't seem to happen that often, a fire-containment bag will help keep the fire from spreading into an all-out disaster.
Jim Bynum (not verified)
February 7, 2012 - 3:34pm
In looking for an common denominator in the Li-Ion battery problems:
Is there information available that would reveal if the batteries presenting problems are cheap replacements or if the OEM batteries were past a certian age or if they had been damaged in any way or charged improperly?
OccupyArea51 (not verified)
April 9, 2012 - 1:28am
Having had a >1 year old phone pack "vent with flame" when overcharged then triggered internal short, I can appreciate this issue.
Especially dangerous are recalled packs that have not yet been dealt with, or ones where the cell(s) have been overdischarged then recharged badly as happens with cheap MP3/DVD players.
Should there be a list of known recalled packs, with serial numbers at the gate?
Would reduce the risk of an in flight fire somewhat, however the main problem is that in a lot of cases the pack can be dangerously unstable due to ageing yet still work "well enough" i.e. 75% capacity.
Seems that copper shunt formation is also a big problem in old packs, as many R/C enthusiasts know to their cost.
For once, a "warranty timer" might be a safety critical feature even though it would annoy a lot of people it could save lives.
Phillip W. Cushman (not verified)
February 8, 2013 - 2:23pm
My partner got an Apple iPhone 5 some time back and gave me the Richard Solo Power Skin battery pak he had previously used with his iPhone 4. Now I have been using it with my iPhone for some months. On February 7, 2013 I was having lunch at my local Deli hangout and thought I felt my phone buzz indicating an incoming call. I put my hand into my pants pocket to retrieve the phone but noticed the pocket was hot and smoke was pouring through the fabric and out of the pocket. I started to run to the bathroom to remove my pants and retrieve the phone but others in the restaurant feared I didn't have time and began pouring water on me and even a pitcher of iced tea into the smoking pocket. When I finally reached the bathroom the Richard Solo device had burned through my pocket and through my underwear and into my thigh. The device was melted and deformed. The iPhone fell to the floor as I tried to get rid of the fire hazzard and the corner of the glass face broke but otherwise it was not physically changed by the fire although I assume the water used to put out the fire is what has destroyed its function. I notified Richard Solo company about the incident and injury and provided all numbers and other identification from the device but their response was that they could offer me no help despite my burns, my burned pants and underwear, my lost battery pak and my lost iPhone 4S unless I provided them with the order number for the device which my partner no longer has. So until a personal injury attorney obtains other relief all I can do is post this notice that spontaneous combustion of the Richard Solo Power Skin is certainly possible and the resulting burn is certainly painful.
Matt (not verified)
February 10, 2013 - 11:56pm
Thank you, Phillip, for a real example of what appears to be a thermal runaway. If you have any photos or other details, can you email me at email@example.com.


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Long atop the NY Times nonfiction best-seller list has been Todd Burpo's Heaven Is For Real. Burpo is an evangelical pastor whose book tells of his four-year-old son emerging from unconsciousness during surgery with a tale of visiting Heaven, meeting deceased relatives, and seeing angels, Jesus and God, etc. (This is "nonfiction"?!)
Now Newsweek — yes, Newsweek! — similarly headlines "Heaven Is Real," with no question mark, and the subtitle, "A Doctor's Experience of the Afterlife." Dr. Eben Alexander is a neurosurgeon, who spent a week in a coma, during which he says he too visited Heaven. He saw "transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky," trailing streamers, with whom he communicated by a method transcending language. They told him, "You are loved and cherished, you have nothing to fear," and suchlike treacle. Then he traveled to an infinite dark void, infinitely comforting, which he believes is the home of God. All this he labels a glimpse of a "reality" which left him a different person. (This is "news"?!)
Of course, religious faith means belief regardless of evidence, yet believers eat up any seeming scrap of supportive "evidence," especially for that all-important fantasy of life after death. And, like Burpo's publisher, Newsweek shamelessly panders to that, to boost sales.
As my wife put it, these people had near-death, not post-death experiences. It was not an "afterlife." Reports from many who survived similar episodes are pretty consistent about how the brain hallucinates in a particular way when deprived of oxygen and in the throes of what it construes as demise. Often there is some sort of tunnel, and bright light.
We know how the mind can play tricks even during normal consciousness. It's hardly news that it happens when the brain is undergoing the extreme trauma of the death process. There must be something in the brain's wiring that, in such circumstances, defaults to hallucinations of the general type so often reported. And of course prior religious belief might cause one to fill in details consonant with that religion.
Thus, in the Burpo case, even if you charitably accept it's really the kid's story (unembellished by Dad), with a father like that he'd have been powerfully pre-programmed to imagine just what he imagined. Dr. Alexander says that before his coma, he was a Christian, but not "deeply religious." Whatever – but it's neither coincidental nor surprising that his dream or hallucination conformed generally to notions pumped into his brain all his life in church. What would be surprising is if he came back with, for example, a Hindu-like story.
If he wants to believe, like the four-year-old, that his Heavenly tour was reality and not a mere dream or coma-induced hallucination, fine, but the only thing it proves is that even a self-described "man of science" can be deluded. This is no indictment of science. The population of scientists is very large, they are human, and inevitably a few eccentric beliefs will occur. But grown-ups should not treat silly stories like Burpo's and Alexander's as though they merit serious attention, let alone Newsweek covers. We all experience wacky dreams, but most of us have the sense not to confuse them with reality.
POSTSCRIPT: I've just learned that Newsweek's print edition will cease publication, going to web-only. They insist this is not the magazine's demise. Apparently Newsweek really does believe in an afterlife!
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Many people ignore restaurant foods labeled "low-calorie" because they think they'll be unsatisfying, a new study shows. "People have come to expect low-calorie food to taste bad or not fill them up," wrote Jeffrey Parker, of Georgia State University, and Donald Lehmann, of Columbia University. The findings suggest a need to present calorie information in menus in a different way to encourage diners to select less fattening items, according to the study, scheduled for publication in the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.Ordering at restaurants often requires a "narrowing down" decision-making process, the study authors said. When all low-cal options are grouped together, restaurants make it easier for people to dismiss that category early in the decision process, they suggested. In online experiments, participants were asked to order food from menus similar to those in popular chain restaurants. Some of the volunteers were shown additional menus that organized selections in food-type categories and provided no calorie information. Another group received the same menus, but with calorie information provided for each selection, while a third group received calorie-labeled menus with low-calorie choices in one section under a low-calorie heading. People with the traditional menus without any calorie information and those with menus that grouped low-calorie foods together ordered meals with similar amounts of calories. Those with menus that provided calorie information for each item but did not group low-calorie items together ordered meals with fewer calories. "When a menu is calorie posted but not calorie organized, it is less likely that the caloric-content of the dishes will be used as an initial filter for eliminating large portions of the menu," the study authors wrote in a journal news release. "For the consumer, this means you are more likely to consider ordering a low-calorie dish and also more likely to eat it too," they concluded. More information: The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers tips for dining out. © 2014 HealthDay © 2014 The New York Times Photo Source: Thinkstock
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After previously hosting her offerings on an eBay store, Glenda got her foot in the e-commerce door by using iPage's Design Services team to help build the basics of her website. Her current site features a robust shopping cart tool, designed for quick and efficient management of her extensive and unique inventory. Anyone who has used such a tool knows how much sensitive information is handled on a daily basis, but one look at sassy2stitch.com shows that Glenda understands the importance of keeping customer data safe and secure. Any visitor can clearly see the numerous safeguards that she has in place, including SSL certification from GeoTrust, along with PayPal's "Verified Merchant" seal from Authorize.net.
Glenda also uses a variety of methods to enhance her site's visibility to help her business to succeed online. In addition to her primary domain, sassy2stitch.com, she currently has several other domains redirecting visitors to her site. These multiple domains serve as multiple methods for accessing her site, which in turn, increases her online exposure. Glenda has also recently been utilizing our various Marketing Services to help drive more traffic to her store. Her current campaign includes using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services, which optimizes her site based on specific keywords to help increase her rank on search engine results. She also utilizes various Pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, which place advertisements relevant to her site across the web.
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With this blog I try to look and see new details each day anew. So I need to confess I've neglected barge names. The barge below–moving paper to the recycling plant–is called Stars & Stripes. I thought that strange until it occurred to me that recycling reflects good citizenship, which is akin to patriotism.
Sea Horse seems apt, although it makes me wonder if there's ever been a Sea Mule.
I might have overlooked this body of water; I don't know of it.
And I wonder what the story behind Peter R. Hearne is, given that most of its sister barges bear simply numbers.
Cleopatra had a barge. check out this Cleo figurehead here!! I wonder what name Cleo actually gave to her barge.
And while I'm on barges, can anyone describe the difference between a barge and a scow?
All images by Will Van Dorp.


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Today's News: Our Take - Diablo Cody and Oprah Winfrey Developing HBO Comedy
Diablo Cody and Oprah Winfrey are teaming up for an HBO comedy, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
The untitled project is based on Dr. Julie Holland's upcoming book Moody Bitches, which explores the effects of drugs people are being offered and suggests effective natural therapies. The HBO comedy will focus on "the truth about the drugs you're taking, the sex you're not having, the sleep you're missing and what's really making you crazy," which is conveniently also the subtitle of Holland's book.
Doctor Who: Where are they now?
Cody, who will be credited as creator, will write the pilot and executive-produce alongside Winfrey. Holland will co-executive produce.
The Junoscreenwriter also has a teen drama, Prodigy, in the works with Josh Schwartz and a TBS talk show pilot, Me Time with Diablo Cody.
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There's so much I want to say, I don't know where to start. I want to tell you about how good it felt to spend a week away with my family. How we tumbled along together as we always do. How my relationship with Noah just gets deeper and deeper, and how I soaked in every cuddle with him, every spontaneous kiss, every sneaky bottom squeeze. How I now know all the words to Frozen's Let It Go. How much Noah loved Meggie the dog. How we caught ants in the garden and let them run up our arms. How I fell over in the bluebell wood, and how Noah wanted to save me. I want to tell you about how we met a man in the street with four owls on his arms and how I ended up with two of them on my head. Stroking an owl is exactly as magical as you imagine it will be. Unsurprisingly, we drew quite a crowd
And even though the days were full, I want to tell you how I still went to bed pondering my work in this world, how I'm feeling pulled in new directions and how books and teachers are finding me. I want to tell you about how I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of this, despite the excitement and enthusiasm, despite knowing it's the right path. I want to tell you how I'm meditating every morning, and how much this new practice is supporting me, and how amazed I am by how naturally it's unfolded. How my heart has opened wider and wider, and I'm learning the real meaning of surrender and compassion. And how none of it is easy and yet it's all so very timely. And I really want to tell you how awful and amazing it is to be back home and how much I want to break out of my comfortable grooves and find more owls to stand on my head.


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An intelligent vehicle that can detect pedestrians at nighttime
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new pedestrian detection system for cars which works in low visibility conditions; the system is made up of infrared cameras which capture body heat.
The new driving-aid system uses images captured by far infrared with two thermal cameras to identify the presence of individuals in their field of vision. The objective is to alert the driver to the presence of pedestrians in the path of the vehicle, and even, in the case of cars with automated systems, actually stop the vehicle. "With the model being used in our research, pedestrians up to 40 meters away can be detected, although this distance could be extended if we substitute the lens with one that has greater focus range," explained one of its designers, Daniel Olmeda, from the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (LSI) at UC3M.
The use of this type of sensors provides the driver with information that goes beyond what he himself might perceive, something particularly useful in low visibility conditions such as nighttime driving. "In this situation, the sensitive cameras in the visible spectrum, which are already incorporated into some vehicles, can only be utilized in regions illuminated by the car's headlights. But our system does not require any type of external lighting," the engineer asserted. The infrared range in which it operates corresponds to the emission of heat which allows it to obtain images in conditions of total darkness.
The functioning of the system, explained in a recent scientific article published in the journal Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, is based on new techniques of image pattern recognition. "The algorithm developed detects pedestrian presence according to certain silhouette features, because we have confirmed that the contour of objects in infrared images have congruent phase features that do not vary with temperature and contrasting," noted professor Olmeda, who is focusing his doctoral thesis on this technology.
Commercial viability
This type of device could be easily installed in a commercial vehicle. In fact, car models already exist that incorporate cameras in the visible spectrum and "integration of a system based on far infrared would not be very different," according to the researchers. The system has been developed and tested on an IVVI 2.0 (Intelligent Vehicle based on Visual Information) at UC3M. Specifically, they use a type of infrared sensor, the non-refrigerated microbolometer, which has gotten the same results as other more costly refrigerated sensors. "Generalized implementation of this type of sensors is viable and its mass production would lower production costs," Olmeda pointed out.
The IVVI 2.0, an actual car that has become a platform for research and experimentation for University faculty and students, also incorporates other artificial vision systems that allow it detect other vehicles and highway lines, read traffic signals, alert the driver with a sound if he starts to fall asleep, and warn of any driving danger. Notwithstanding, the interface for this type of systems still presents a challenge, according to the LSI coordinator, Arturo de la Escalera, professor at the Automated Systems Engineering Department. "It is important to study how to get this information to the driver," because we need to avoid the distractions that an alarm or a screen could present while at the wheel. "We are working to join external perceptions with internal ones so that the system knows if the driver has not seen something, and we only warn him about this obstacle," he elaborated.
This new generation of detectors can also have applications in the field of robotics, according to the scientists. This study is funded by the projects FEDORA from the Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT)(Interministerial Science and Technology Research Commission) and by the SEGVAUTO program of the Consejería de Educación, Juventud y Deporte (Council of Youth Sports and New Technologies) of the Autonomous Region of Madrid, which includes researchers from five Spanish university and representatives from the main automobile production factories in operation in Spain.
More information: "Pedestrian detection in far infrared images." Authors: Daniel Olmeda, Cristiano Premebida, Urbano Nunes, José María Armingol and Arturo de la Escalera. Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering. Volume: 20. Number: 4. Pages: 347-360. Date of publication: 2013. DOI: 10.3233/ICA-130441
"Pedestrian detection in far infrared images." Thesis of Daniel Olmeda Reino. Directed by José María Armingol Moreno and Arturo de la Escalera Hueso. Automated Systems Engineering UC3M. Defended 17-01-2014. Further information in e-Archives at UC3M: e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/18665
Provided by Carlos III University of Madrid


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Microchipping - permanent identification
Microchipping is a permanent form of identification for your pet. Inserting a microchip is like a vaccination, it only takes a few seconds. The procedure is very safe and your pet will feel little pain. Once done, your pet's details, and your contact address and phone numbers are entered on a national database.
Why do we recommend microchips?
Collars can fall off or be removed details on pet tags can fade or become outdated. Inserting a microchip means your pet can be easily identified by a ranger, animal shelter or veterinarian regardless of the situation. Once identified, you can be contacted immediately and informed of the location of your pet.
If your pet has been stolen and then later recovered, ownership of your pet can be challenged. Microchipping is the only way you can prove ownership of your pet (and yes this does happen).
What happens if your pet strays?
If your pet is ever lost, a ranger, animal shelter or veterinarian anywhere in New Zealand can scan your pet for a microchip and access your contact details.
The only way that you may not become reunited with your lost pet is if you don't contact the register when you have changed your address or contact phone numbers.
Who to contact if you change address or phone number
If you change address or telephone number, it is your responsibility to contact a national registry and update your contact details.
If your pet is on the National Registry, you can update your information online at www.animalregister.co.nz
If you are unsure if your pets' microchip is on the National Registry, you can contact the NZCAR on 0508 LOSTPET (567 873) or visit their website at www.animalregister.co.nz
How do you have your pet microchipped?
We can insert a Microchip during a normal veterinary consultation. Please contact us for an appointment or for more information.


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ME PoV Summer 2015 issue
Manage yourself
The Summer 2015 issue tackles several hot topics: from compliance and cyber risks organizations are facing, to investing in Sub-Saharan Africa and initial public offering (IPO) challenges in family businesses, to the rise of the Eurosukuk market and the construction industry across the GCC, among many more.
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- About this issue
- Managing compliance risk
- The beat goes on
- Investing in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Rise of the Eurosukuk market
About this issue
I am the first to confess that I am a control freak. And like any self-professed control freak–unable to trust or to delegate–would tell you, time is of the essence. Time management is your friend.
The plethora of books and resources that exist to help you manage everything from spatial to emotional intelligence points to one thing: you manage, you win.
This issue of Middle East Point of View is all about management, from social media to cyber risk via compliance risk and initial public offerings (IPOs).
The first of our series of articles is managing compliance risk. Mandy Green, in her article Managing compliance risk: where are you now?, surmises that although "managing compliance risk remains a high priority for organizations across the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region[…]the existence of Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) policies continues to lag behind for organizations in the region," although this lag "is expected to be addressed in the short-term as Middle East economies continue to integrate with the wider global community through inward and outward investment."
Click the link on the left to access the Summer 2015 issue. Alternatively, you can read each article separately by clicking below.
Managing compliance risk
It is often said that the only constant is change; and when reflecting on the current Middle East regulatory landscape, this certainly holds true. With the tide of regulatory change expected to remain in the medium-term, can compliance officers in the region be confident that they are keeping up with the wave of change?
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The beat goes on
Despite lower oil prices, the forecast for construction projects awarded in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in 2015 is the highest on record. With construction generally considered as an economic barometer for the GCC, what does this tell us about the economic backdrop in the region?
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Investing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Investors from the Middle East region are increasingly recognizing the significant opportunities that Africa offers for investors. In this article we explore the key investment themes and opportunities that are driving this and some of the challenges to be considered.
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Rise of the Eurosukuk market
A new debt capital market instrument has emerged, the so-called "corporate sukuk" which has seen steady growth in several parts of the world including the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States. The key differentiating factor of this asset class is a different risk and return profile investment that may also possibly have uncorrelated features to conventional financial market yields or risks. Just in time it seems, as David Sproul, UK Chief Executive of Deloitte, said "the low growth environment of the past five years, coupled with levels of consumer and government debt, mean the big business has to take a lead in driving a new era of wealth creation in the UK."
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We're going on an IPO!
Becoming a publicly listed company is a milestone in the life of any organization. The rewards for achieving such a development are undoubtedly very compelling, but the journey is also fraught with challenges that require a substantial commitment of time and resources on the part of the business, not only to aid in the transformation process but also to fulfill the expectations of external stakeholders once the company is listed. This article highlights certain Initial Public Offering (IPO) challenges to family businesses and how to mitigate them.
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The time is now
The world has transformed into a global village with people just one click away. Social media has become the essential factor in reshaping the globe–empowering youth, women, governments and entrepreneurs–while, most importantly, encouraging freedom of speech in our part of the world. But what of the risks associated with this exponential rise in the use of social media?
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Are you safe?
Your business growth strategies are at the heart of the cyber risks your organization faces. Most reports on cyber security revolve around a common theme: despite heightened attention the number of cyber incidents–and their associated costs–continues to rise. They typically point to the growing sophistication of hackers and other adversaries as a particularly intractable problem, and some deliberate over whether being secure is even possible in today's rapidly evolving landscape of cyber-attacks.
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Distinguishing fact from fact
A fact is a fact, they say. Or is it? Learning to differentiate between data, information and knowledge, says this author, is key to understanding Knowledge Management, which spurs organizations to achieve competitive advantage.
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Spread the risk
The Middle East is experiencing an ever more unstable geo-political climate that is challenging bank management to calculate the risks of long-term business service offerings, thus challenging the banking sector to enhance its performance management competencies through better management experience, stronger and efficient credit controls through a unified information technology system/platform and processes to better collate credit data, portfolio management and performance.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013.
Today would have been my dad's 90th birthday, he died eleven years ago. I guarantee you it will not be an easy day or night for any of us. I'm trying to use this day to remind me of what a wonderful father he was, how he loved birthdays and presents and food and more food and little presents that cost less than a few dollars which we called "shmonsas."
I miss him, those feelings stab at my heart and reopen wounds I thought had healed. Apparently, there is no complete healing from death and pain. Since we have talked about my dad lately I feel the pain, as if it was fresh, wounds ripped open, knives sharpened and stabbing pain. Tears are spilling down my eyes, in the catch of my voice.
Of all times, the day before his birthday I found myself making his favorite, home-made pea soup. I hadn't even realized that his birthday was coming up because I was focusing only on 11/11 my favorite day and time. That meant today was 11/12 and I realized my husband and I are having dinner with my mom on Wednesday, not even conscious that Wednesday, 11/13 was my dad's birthday. The world works in strange ways, I still believe there is a reason for everything.
Every Saturday morning when I was a child, my dad and I would watch Shirley Temple movies together, just the two of us. He would take his finger and wipe his eyes quickly and I once asked him if he was crying. He told me he had allergies but soon enough I learned the truth. Every week, another Shirley Temple movie, The Little Princess, Curly Top etc. was on. Saturday mornings were very special for me and my dad.
When I was older we would get bagels which was not technically stealing since the store was not open and once he and I got off the tram in Austria to buy bratwurst thick with golden brown mustard and rolls and left my mother and sister on the tram-car (not realizing they had no idea where they were and that we were gone.) As sorry as we were, he and I still held unto our sides remembering my mother's fuming face, nostrils flaring. Luckily, he was the one who got in trouble, not me.
We would all go to Pathmark grocery shopping while I still lived at home and we would put ridiculous sized items in the cart while the other person wasn't looking, 5 gallons of pickles, 10 gallons of ketchup, we thought we were hilarious. Sometimes someone had opened up a bag of cookies (No, it was not us) but we would help ourselves to samples. Once when my mother was away ( working) we went to a Spanish restaurant and got a little tipsy on Sangria, toasting wall paper hangers that did not show up. My kids will be shocked to hear this! Another time, I was driving home from my married life in Boston, pregnant with my first child and he had come down as a surprise to direct traffic wearing an orange helmet with a bright orange sign with my name and arrows so that I wouldn't get lost. If I had one sentence to describe him, it would be that one. When there were mice crawling over my bed and feet in my apartment he would pick me up and bring me "home." Nothing was too much.
My mom, my husband and I will eat dinner at a restaurant and try to celebrate his life instead of mourning it. I thought I might want to put a candle on my dessert for him but I can't kid myself, I'd burst into tears before it even came. I think I'll just say my own few words, privately. He was a wonderful father to both my sister and me: nurturing, warm, supportive. I still miss his warm hugs the most, a true loss. Prone to educational talks that were a bit too lengthy what would I do now to hear one again. I could count on to him to at least understand my side even if we didn't agree, it's been so long, eleven years, that I can't even remember what that feels like anymore. We were so similar, he and I, my mother and my sister, exactly alike.
He has sent me messages from the other side except for a brief interruption which was partially my fault but now those messages will be back. I am sure of it. In fact, I just found an angel that I completely forgot about and now she is hanging happily from my crisp, new bulletin board. There are no more words, except to say, Daddy, I love you, I miss you, I'll always miss the dad that you were to me. I miss your bear hugs where I knew I felt so loved and safe. I miss you being in my corner supporting me. I will never stop missing that. Happy Birthday, Daddy. Love, from "The Little One.(8)"


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Brodi Style Mothers Bracelet-187930
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Brodi Style Mothers Bracelet. Made with sterling silver and 14KTGF accents.
It's easy! Choose the number of strands and your birthstone.
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(hint: The answer is always no)
- you take your kid to the playground and let them play while you sit on the bench and do your thing?
- you take your kid to the playground and play with them?
- you sign up your kids for tons of activities and lessons?
- you don't sign up your kids for any extracurriculars?
- you skip baby food? or buy it in little containers at the store?
- you make baby food lovingly by hand?
- you send your kid to a good preschool?
- you skip preschool?
- you start potty training before Brazelton's signs of readiness?
- you wait on potty training until Brazelton's signs of readiness?
Just a little comment from blog posts I've read recently where someone makes a side note confirming the conventional wisdom or takes the conventional wisdom and says that no, only the opposite is what people should be doing. Seriously, there is no "right," just trade-offs. If you play with your kid on the playground, ze doesn't get solo time or just kids time. If you do, the kid is getting more adult/parent interaction. These are both good things. Activities and lessons provide new and interesting ways to grow, but they also take time away from other activities and family time. Which is better? Neither, they're just different.
What are some dichotomies you have encountered?


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A few thoughts, in no special order, on a lousy ballgame from the other night:
1.) The history of baseball is essentially one of aficionados complaining that some new development has deprived the game of its meaning, and then coming, before long, to regard it as having always been part of a fixed, eternal order. So I'm wary of reading too much into my own irrational disdain for baseball's new play-in system, which allows a full third of major league teams entrance to the game's annual postseason tournament; if I'd been born in another time and place I'd have regarded the move to a four-team playoff as a cynical and rigid fix and a break with history, and that would have been stupid and unyielding.
2.) Sunday, I went to a ballgame at Sox Park, a few miles from where I live on Chicago's South Side. It was never going to be well-attended; the Bears were playing the Vikings up at Soldier Field, the White Sox already had 90 losses on the books with two weeks left in the season, and the forecast threatened what was delivered, an afternoon and evening of damp mist and drizzling and occasionally driving rain, the kind that ends up chilling you hard even when you're wearing wool and drinking coffee, because it's Chicago. Still, Chris Sale was starting the game, and he'd probably been, to that point, the best pitcher in the American League, and the visiting Cleveland Indians were, at the start of the day, a game and a half out of a play-in spot, which is to say that this was a significant game, one that could perhaps determine whether or not Cleveland would have a chance to win its first World Series since 1948.
That there were perhaps 2,000 spectators in the park in time for the scheduled first pitch, and that perhaps a quarter of them remained when the first pitch was actually thrown four and a half hours later, was an embarrassment, not just for Chicago, which (ludicrously) imagines itself to be a baseball town, but also for central baseball, which has managed to dilute the races to the point where even a meaningful September game becomes essentially meaningless.
3.) This is in line with baseball's successful policy of making its own live audience irrelevant. Of course, the figures don't back the idea that this is happening: The poorly supported Tampa Bay Rays' attendance would have been the third best in the American League in 1969, the year the four-team playoff was introduced. Retrograde/nostalgic/revanchist tendencies set aside, though, it's doubtful that anyone who's been going to games for 30 years or more hasn't noticed a real diminishment in the quality of the attention live audiences pay to what's going on in front of them. (Imagine an involved complaint about the decline of scorekeeping here.) I went to a hardcore show once when I was in high school where the stupid singer stupidly sneered at the stupid audience and said, "We're not your television set tonight," and there are times when I wish a ballplayer would do same. The great change in baseball this generation is that it's finally become a fully mediated game, and Commissioner Selig's having brought the sport early and well into the digital era may turn out to have saved it, but I don't know that anything would even change that much if they just played the games in empty parks, provided rich people bought tickets and then didn't use them.
4.) Related to that, the devaluation of the game experience leads to great bargains. I scored a seat 20 rows behind home plate for $17, and because I waited out the rain delay—during which they played the Bears game on the center-field scoreboard and interviewed heroes of the Sox's division-winning 1983 campaign and shut down the beer stalls an hour and a half before the game even started—I was able to move to the first row behind the visitor's dugout. (Try getting down to floor seats at a meaningless Brooklyn Nets game in April!)
5.) One of the many winning things about the White Sox is the way they mythologize their own unimpressive history. In part it's an expression of who they are, the team of the South Side and the parts of the suburbs that stretch down into Indiana, the more insecure and inferiority-complex-ridden part of the most insecure and inferiority-complex-ridden city in the country (one so neurotic its citizens can only describe it in outlandish superlatives). In part it's an expression of the personality of team owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who whatever his many flaws is intensely loyal, so that seemingly any player or team employee who wants to may stay on his payroll forever. (Half the people in the park who actually work for a living seem to have had their jobs for decades, and the coaching and front-office staffs similarly count lots of Reinsdorf loyalists and former Sox.) This lends a certain continuity to team operations, and supports a certain kind of pride. The Sox may be a historically not so great team whose park abuts rail tracks and a stretch of highway that stands as a monument to white people's ability and eagerness to wall themselves off from black people, but they're also the kind of team that builds statues of Billy Pierce and Harold Baines. Maybe you support a team that's had better players than Billy Pierce and Harold Baines and has snobbishly declined to build statues of them; great, who cares.
Anyway, the point is that Vance Law and Rich Dotson—heroes of the not so great 1983 division winners, and, of course, coaches in the team's minor league system, because once a Sox always a Sox—were interviewed on the center-field scoreboard during the four-and-a-half-hour rain delay, treated as conquering lords, and it was great. Law sang the national anthem, and it was even better, as he turned out to be a trained singer, a tenor in lovely voice and with a fine sense of phrasing. I'd like to think he appreciated the vigorous applause of the 500 or so in attendance as being genuine and well meant.
6.) There was a ballgame. This goddamn game. The thing about Chris Sale (aside from him being pretty scuzzy looking and having his own name tattooed on his back) is that he's a physical impossibility, six and a half feet tall and maybe 170 pounds and all of it coming from all sorts of unusual/improbable angles, and all of that affects the spectator as much as the batter. You know you're watching maybe the best pitcher in the league against a team that could (who knows?) win the World Series and so you want to appreciate it, especially if you're sitting in the first row behind the visitor's dugout, but the man makes it impossible even to follow what he's doing, because his arm actually disappears in his motion. He draws himself up and comes in somewhere between a sidearm and a three-quarters angle, and then his arm vanishes and then the ball appears from nowhere. It's really impressive, much more so than it looks on the broadcast or from the higher-up seats in the park, and while he has good speed the whole physical-trickery bit is what leaves hitters looking so stupid off his best pitches. Watch a hitter flail for the strikeout against a Sale change or slider, with his bat ending up two feet in front of the plate, from pretty much right there on the field and any arguments you may have been constructing about the superiority of any other sport will temporarily abate.
7.) The problem with this game, at least from the perspective of the Sox supporter, was that the Sox were playing. Sale, first, was not crisp. From the second inning on there was a dullness to the crack of his ball in the catcher's mitt when contrasted to the sound that Cleveland's hard-throwing non-entity's ball made, and he gave up some solidly squared hits in the second that suggested later misfortunes. Worse, though, were his teammates. The issue was less that they're bad—forgivable, for various reasons—than their inability to play baseball as if they were aware of the year.
This is a strange time in baseball. Scoring is a bit below historically normal levels, which, after the long crack high of the '90s and most of the aughts, comes off as a return to the days of Old Hoss Radbourn. It's also a high-strikeout game in a way batters and managers haven't quite come to terms with tactically. And the changes have happened quickly. So you have a few geniuses operating who intuitively understand the implications of and/or are perfectly suited for the altered run environment—players like Mike Trout, with a perfect line-drive swing and a speed-based game that would have done well in any era but is uniquely suited to the one in which he's playing—and a lot of lousy hitters who think that it's still 1999 and that gripping the bat at the knob and ripping is a viable way for a banjo-hitting middle infielder to pop 20 home runs.
The White Sox have a lot of these guys, like Gordon Beckham and Alexei Ramirez and Jordan Danks. Their approach fits the game they came up watching, but not the one they're playing, and it's just painful to watch them alternate between huge, sweeping strokes and emptily throwing the bat at the ball as it nears the plate. Through five innings, Cleveland's hard-throwing non-entity had given up one hit, and that guy got caught trying to steal second as soon as he got on.
8.) The really pernicious thing about latter-day sabermetrics is the way it encourages a kind of crass, meritocratic thinking about the game—the sort of moralistic framework that the numbers crowd was fighting against in the first place. The idea that there's an enlightened or correct way to play and, especially, to run a team suggests that those who follow it and succeed are deserving winners, and consequently that those who don't and fail are deserving losers. It's not exactly the same thing as the vulgar libertarianism that suggests that a man without a dollar is a man who never deserved to have one, but it's related.
This comes up because the sad, frustrating, and endearing thing about the White Sox is that they generally do things the right way, and yet things never quite come out right for them. They're loyal but not sentimental, prudent but willing to take a calculated risk, and really they spend more than they should, when you consider that the Cubs draw from the better off parts of town and the wealthy suburbs, leaving the Sox a market that looks a lot more like some dying locus of Rust Belt ruin porn than a fantastically rich center of global commodity trading and such. They make good moves on the free-agent market, like signing Adam Dunn; they draft polished players, like Gordon Beckham; and they import talented internationals, like Alexei Ramirez—and all being sound bets, they all end up fucking up. This is a team that's had a few chances and just flat missed, and not really because of anything anyone running the club did wrong. Sometimes players don't do what you think they'll do.
8a.) If anyone's done anything wrong it's the coaching staff, which through the system and up into the majors is filled with former Sox, veterans of teams that weren't really all that good, run according to philosophies that probably aren't worth passing on. To clear them out and bring in new exponents of modern ideas, however, would be so fundamentally opposed to the principles of self-mythologizing and loyalty that make the Sox what they are that it's not only unclear whether they could do it, it's unclear that it would be a good thing for them to do. Let some other team embrace meritocracy and the market as an instrument of morality.
8b.) A Premier League side run this way would be taken to by lots of Americans mistaking willfulness for authenticity.
9.) This goddamn game. Chris Sale looked so good at times, and so inattentive at others. You can't blame him, after a four-and-a-half-hour rain delay; Cleveland's hard-throwing non-entity had a play-in to think about, and Sale had the admiration of hundreds of Sox fans and the fairly small number of baseball fans willing to credit the idea that, losing record or no, he's the best pitcher in the league. Still, he just broke. Going into the sixth, he'd given up two runs, and you were thinking, "That's what makes a great pitcher—he's getting hit hard, doesn't have his best stuff, and maybe doesn't care that much about this game, but he keeps his team in it." Then he gave up a leadoff home run to Nick Swisher, and later a three-run home run to the damn shortstop, and it was 6-0. (Sale's earned run average against Cleveland this year: 8.61. Against not-Cleveland: 2.37.) A good thing there weren't more than 500 people in the park who had to watch that.
10.) Ozzie Guillen has a story about Nick Swisher's brief time in Chicago that ends with him kicking a reporter in the ass in Kansas City and chasing him out of the clubhouse, yelling, "Fuck Nick Swisher!" By which, he'll clarify, he means nothing against Nick Swisher, just, fuck you for asking some question about Nick Swisher and why he didn't fit in in Chicago, because who gives a fuck about Nick Swisher? Nick Swisher says "bro" a lot, looks like he's on the verge of a psychotic break when he comes off the field having struck out with the bases loaded, has his shirsey selling for $10 in the Sox's team store, talks to runners to the point where you suspect they steal just to get away from him, promises kids he'll toss them balls and then forgets, and has played a lot of playoff baseball since leaving Chicago, despite all of which fuck Nick Swisher, even if/especially because his team won and ended up a half game out of their play-in game.
11.) I'm not sure what's becoming of baseball: whether the play-in represents the point at which October ceases to matter, if the people in the park have been reduced and have reduced themselves to the studio audience of a television show, how the game expresses (or doesn't) our culture or what have you, but damn if an entirely meaningless (and yet, meaningful, because expanded playoffs!) September game can't fill you with dread and wonder and make you worry over the fast approach of winter, and that's with a good six weeks of games left on the books. Better things are happening to lesser sports, and it doesn't seem very important at all.
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I have to say, I am seriously intrigued by this one.
Go to it..
I have to say, I am seriously intrigued by this one.
Go to it..
Me too…can't wait to start baking these!
The dough is just like the turnovers… texture, etc. (just not as sweet!). It pats out quite nicely – I have mine in the fridge, but haven't rolled yet. Can't wait to see how they bake up!
How do you go to the recipes on this site? I want to try some of them but I can't find the link…can somebody help, please?!
The recipes are in Dorie's cookbook. See the rules for more info.
The finished product tastes good, but when you are preparing the dough, especially if you are in a warm area, you need to chill, chill, chill – it is very soft and sticky dough. Also, any re-rolls do not look anywhere near as the first round.
Cakelaw, you are so right about the soft and sticky dough. I tried the method Dorie suggests for the Coconut Butter Thins (page 145) for rolling out the dough. It worked great. Makes it easy to return the rolled out dough to the fridge (or freezer) to chill. Also, have a bowl of water handy to keep your fingers and spatula moist. With this method, I used no extra flour.
If you want to see pictures of the roll-out process, check out my post on Pink Shortbread Cookies where I used the same method. Dorie, you are a genius!
P.S. If you try this method, 1/2 of the recipe will fit in a one gallon ziplock bag. So if you make the whole recipe, use two bags.
This was the stickiest dough ever! Not sure if i've made them properly because they didn't puff up at all. This is one recipe that could've really used a photo!
When I first read the title I was thinking these would be some kind of roll, maybe a dinner roll. Then I read the recipe and see that they are cookies! I have some homemade black raspberry jam just waiting to be used. Can't wait to try this one.
If you are on the fence on making these, like I was, please MAKE THEM! I do not like cottage cheese. I hate cottage cheese. The texture and the taste both make me shudder. But I perservered and tried them anyways. OMG! They are so so so good. They definitely take a lot of chilling. I rolled them out, then chilled them, cut the squares, then chilled them, filled some squares, chilled the rest. I'm going to bake the rest tomorrow because other wise the entire batch will be eaten and the kids won't get to try them.
I am looking forward to baking these, so interesting.
What type of cottage cheese did everyone use? Small curd? Can you use low fat or no fat?
I used large curd full fat. This was quite a moist, milky cottage cheese. The dough was not just soft, it was incredibly sticky. I ended up dusting it really well with flour, wrapping, and refrigerating. We'll see how it works…
If your cottage cheese is fairly "wet" or runny you might have the same problem. I have a feeling this recipe would work better with a not-too-wet cottage cheese.
Romaine of http://www.salad-in-a-jar.com Thanks so much for the suggestion! I'm really hoping to make these, is so, I'll definitely try this trick!
After reading about keeping the dough chilled, I may have to pass on these at this time. The weather is still quite warm and humid where I live – it may just be too frustrating. I will wait until it is cooler. The Q&A helps so much. Thanks.
We're supposed to get a multi-day heatwave this weekend. I'll have to hop to the store and try and get these made tonight! Thanks for all the tips regarding the dough. They sure are helpful!
Trying to get back on the baking wagon…
I'm not quite sure what Cottage cheese is. Is it like Hüttenkäse or Ricotta or something totally different?? Can you help me?
Yes, it seems to be the same as Hüttenkäse. I often sub Ricotta.
I just finished fighting with my pufflets. That has got to be the stickiest dough that I've ever dealt with, and it gets warm SO QUICKLY…as many of you have guessed. This is NOT a recipe that you can rush.
I wonder if chilling a cutting board will help with this so when rolled out it doesn't get warm as fast?
These came out the way I wanted my tartlets to. So there you go. The dough was extremely sticky, and I rolled it out between sheets of waxed paper, and even then had to do some scraping. It resembled a thick cake batter more than a soft pastry dough. The line is so thin. I took them to work and they were getting a good response when someone spotted the chocolate crunched tart I had also brought and then after tasting it said that it made the turnovers taste like dirt. I'm sure that was figurative. Used gooseberry jam.
I made 1/8 recipe, so here's the math in case anyone else is similarly inclined:
1 oz butter, 4g/1tsp sugar, bit o salt, 1 oz cottage cheese, 1/8 tsp vanilla, 25g 7/8oz or scant 4T flour. I tried the mini-prep and my stick blender, but neither worked.
This small a qty needed to be mixed by hand. On a tip from Sarah (blueridgebaker) I drained my cottage cheese before measuring it. Mine is definitely a dough, albeit a soft one. It's on its chill now, so we'll see how it handles.
I drained my cottage cheese, too, and didn't have problems with the dough being sticky. I did chill in between rolling and cutting, and again before filling them.
Unfortunately, mine turned out a little burned on the bottom at ten minutes, so I recommend watching the baking time.
So funny about different ovens. I baked mine more than 15 minutes, and I think they could have used more time.
I rolled mine in a zipper sandwich bag, then chilled, then cut in squares, then chilled, then filled/folded. They still looked pretty raggedy.
Thanks for the measurements Nancy. :>
Who in their right mind would think of such a recipe? :)
I've spent the last 2 hours trying to get a sheet full of little tart-like creations ready to bake! They stick to the wax paper like crazy. I resorted to freezing them to get them off (I left it rolled on the paper and then used a 2″ cutter). Maybe plastic would have been better. These had better be good. I've yet to fill and "turn" them. (insert smiley face here).
What's everyone using besides leftover jam? I though of a tiny, tiny apples/cinnamon/sugar mixture, but it's bedtime and I'm getting tired of these already…
Hi Mike. Thank you for the tips about freezing the dough. I am thinking about putting some chopped dark chocolate in half of the batch and for the other half a cream cheese and raspberry jam mixture. This all depends on if I can roll out the dough.
Had the same experience, Mike. This dough is wildly sticky. The chill/freeze tips defintiely help. I did roll out on a plastic pastry mat, which I believe also helped. After all this, hope these are worth it! :)
I am making these right now. The dough is so sticky. I keep adding flour just to keep it from sticking to the rolling pin. Wished I had read about ziplock bag sooner. :( I am using blackberry jam, nutella, and chopped toasted hazelnuts. All at the same time. The taste is great, but I am finding the dough so hard to work with I am not sure I would do them again. Hope to get some decent pictures.
Mine are finishing baking right now. I came on to see how everyone else's turned out. Mine are not PUFFlets, they fall flat, and sadly not much to being cookie like since the dough is so thin. More like tiny turnovers. My dough was a little hard to work with too, but a little more dusting of flour and it was ok, it warm up fast so I stuck them ready to bake in the freezer for a few mins. My bake time was more like 13-14 mins. I decided to use apricot preserves. =) They are good, but maybe more work than they are worth?
I had fully intended to make this today but work just wouldn't allow it. I am going to have to pass on this one. Hope everyone enjoys it!
This recipe was an utter failure for me the first time around. I think my tropical island's climate is too hot and humid. I am going to try it again in the morning but will make some modifications.
I planned to make this, but after reading the comments here I decided not to. They sound great, but it has rained here for the past 13 days! I figured 90% humidity would not agree with the dough. I made Dorie's arborio rice pudding since I wasn't a member yet when you all made it last November. I'll give the pufflets a chance once this front moves out.
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I am calling a truce with sticky doughs – these just did not work for me……
I am ready for a tart……..
I made the Pufflets over the weekend for the first time. Delicious. I learned a lot from the experience and from reading what various people did to combat the stickiness. I will try it again in a couple of weeks for an office meeting. I am definitely keeping the recipe. And how neat is it that once you go to all the trouble of making this you can free the "ready to bake" pufflets and pull them out as needed.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- If you see a product and like it enough to invest in the company you can now easily do so with your smartphone in hand.
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TD Ameritrade Mobile with Snapstock is available for download for Android and iPhones.
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CNJ staff photo: Kevin Wilson New Mexico State Police Sgt. Shane Arthur holds a blood-stained throw rug during Wednesday's session of the Stanley Bedford trial in Albuquerque. Arthur said the rug was found in the laundry room of the Newmans, and the blood is from Odis Newman.
By Kevin Wilson: CNJ staff writer
ALBUQUERQUE — The normally pristine home of Odis and Doris Newman of Portales was marked by the blood of Odis Newman and the remnants of an intentional fire, investigators testified Wednesday.
Among the charges Stanley Bedford, 43, of Portales faces in his capital murder case is setting a fire at the Newmans' home at 2120 Roosevelt Road 4 Lane.
The Newmans were found dead on a county road inside the trunk of their burned car in March 2005.
Gilbert Archuleta, a retired deputy with the State Fire Marshal's Office, testified the fire at the Newman home smoldered for some time, in the range of two to six hours.
"This was not a fast fire," Archuleta said, "and it didn't consume all of the combustible material (in the home)."
Archuleta said the fire was arson and most likely started by someone pouring gasoline from the front entrance of the home to the dining room, where firefighters and crime scene investigators discovered a melted gas can with some liquid remaining.
State Police Sgt. Shane Arthur testified investigators found numerous samples of Odis Newman's blood, with nearly all of the samples in the laundry room of the home. Drops of his blood were also found on a county road about five miles from the home.
Arthur said he didn't have enough information to rule Odis Newman was attacked inside his home, but said blood patterns from such an attack would have been covered by blood-stained rugs found in the laundry room.
"Somebody with a bleeding injury … lays down or is laying down with contact to (the laundry room) tile," Arthur said during cross-examination. "There is not a gross quantity of blood."
Other items discussed by Arthur included:
A beige sweatshirt, size XXL. The sweatshirt, Arthur said, had no blood stains
A defect in the front door of the home. Arthur said it's likely the door was damaged by a rounded object. Prosecutors pointed to the pipe believed to be used as a weapon against Odis Newman.
Toothbrushes and hairbrushes Arthur took from the home for the purpose of DNA samples
A shotgun shell, a used paper towel and a soda can on the road alongside the home. Arthur made no connection with these items, but said they were collected during investigation just in case.
Bedford could face the death penalty if convicted.
Others testifying Wednesday in the capital murder trial of Stanley Bedford:
Kevin Massis
Relationship to case: Oversaw all crime scenes relating to the case. Designated as expert on blood work and crime scene investigation.
Cross-examination: In continuation of cross-examination from Tuesday, Massis was asked what body part of Odis Newman's could have left the blood found in his truck. Massis said due to the burning of his body, it was impossible to determine specific wounds. A gas can was found near Odis Newman's truck when it was found abandoned in a Portales alley, but determined by vegetation growing around it that it was there well before the truck arrived.
Redirect: With the aid of prosecutor Michael Cox, who is the same height as Odis Newman (5 feet, 11 inches), he showed jurors how he believed Newman was attacked. He said the attacker was most likely outside of the truck because the interior of the truck didn't provide much room to swing a weapon. It was in contrast to a scene Mitchell set up for jurors Tuesday detailing a person in the passenger seat hitting the driver with a weapon.
He agreed Mitchell's scenario was possible Tuesday, but said Wednesday it was not consistent with damage inside the truck and the lack of damage to the steering wheel or dashboard.
He said all findings agree with Jerry Fuller's admission of burning a 1997 Lincoln Town Car with the Newmans locked in the trunk.
A pipe and energy drink can were found at the scene. The pipe was 43 feet away, while the can was 17 feet away.
He had no way to determine if the items were thrown or dropped at the scene, but the pipe was heavier and would travel farther if both were thrown (like a baseball traveling farther than a whiffleball thrown with similar effort).
Samuel Strain
Relationship to case: The current New Mexico State University student attended Eastern New Mexico in 2005 and shared a bedroom with Bedford at 712 S. Main.
Testimony: Strain moved into the residence in January 2005. Bedford was a daily visitor and moved into the house in February.
He said he was "absolutely confident" shoes taken into evidence had been worn by Bedford.
On March 2, he was in class until 2 p.m. and went to the library before his 3 to 9 p.m. shift at the campus cafeteria. He got home at about 9:15 p.m., and never saw Bedford when he was there to change clothes. He stayed at a friend's place playing video games and drinking until about 4 a.m., and didn't see Bedford at home.
When he left for classes at 7:50 the next morning, Bedford was on the couch.
Cross-examination: A Dodge Neon belonging to roommate Cynthia Peninger was driven by pretty much everybody in the house, but Bedford's main transportation was a bicycle.
He didn't know how the rent was divided among other people, but "my $200 was in there every month."
Mitchell asked if the house had plenty of visitors, and if parties went on there. He responded, "You mean parties like I go to at State?" After laughter died down in the courtroom, Mitchell said he had brothers who attended NMSU and he understood. They agreed upon the term "get-togethers."
The shoes taken into evidence were a brand known as Buffalo Boots, which are commonly sold in urban clothing stores (e.g. Journeys at North Plains Mall in Clovis).
Evidence introduced: Boots
Noreen Purcell
Relationship to case: Supervisor at the New Mexico Department of Public Safety's Northern Forensic Crime Lab in Albuquerque. Designated as expert in DNA analysis.
Testimony: The lab works with more than 100 law enforcement agencies in the state.
Testing for DNA has improved exponentially over the years, and to get a good sample, "you need about 150 cells, and that's not a whole lot."
Toothbrushes taken from the Newman home were tested for DNA. One toothbrush was ruled to be Doris Newman's, based on the chances of between 1 in 22 quadrillion and 1 in 120 quintillion it was DNA from somebody else.
A partial profile came from the other toothbrush, with chances between 1 in 6,000 and 1 in 40,000 it was DNA from somebody other than Odis Newman. Since the toothbrush was found in the Newman home, the prosecution and defense agreed it was a certainty the sample was of Odis Newman.
Cross-examination: Prosecution is still interviewing Purcell.
Evidence introduced: Purcell's resume.
— Compiled by CNJ staff writer Kevin Wilson


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Robots Attack! My new Singularity video on Time.com
February 10th, 2011
I have a new video up on Time.com about the Singularity. If you don't know what it is… find out here. I wrote it. Craig Duff shot and produced it. Jim Fields edited.
The video complements Lev Grossman's new Time Magazine feature story on Ray Kurzweil.