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About Dressers + Chests
Dressers and chests are more than a place to store your clothes. In fact, dressers and chests can be beautiful, focal pieces of furniture in your bedroom, the place you get ready to greet the day each morning, or the key item that ties a room together. And sometimes, chests and dressers can be all of the above.
Generally, dressers come in a couple different styles. Most often, they're horizontal pieces, not slender ones like a curio cabinet or nightstand might be. Some of our dressers come with vanity mirrors on top, though if you like a particular dresser that doesn't have a mirror, you can mount one on the wall above or set it on top of the dresser you decide on.
Our chests are predominantly wood, though they've been stained in a wide variety of shades, so they'll match your other bedroom furniture wonderfully. Whether it's recessed handles or decorative trimming, each chest has light, stylish touches that set it apart from other chests.
These designs are for mens dressers, womens dressers and gender-neutral dressers. Choose one you love and get styling today!
Placing a Dresser or Chest
The most common place for a dresser is the bedroom, as dressers and chests are designed with spacious storage drawers for clothes. However, living rooms are not off-limits; a small unit against a living room wall can serve as functional storage for books, games, media and other living room essentials. Along the same lines: a dresser for a home office makes storing papers, files and supplies a breeze thanks to drawers that are built larger than the standard desk's or filing cabinet's.
Dresser Sizes and Types
Dressers come in all shapes and sizes. Here are a few of the most common types to look out for:
- 4 Drawer Dressers. 4 drawer dressers offer a good amount of drawer space – not too much and not too little, for the person who tends to keep only an "in-between" amount of clothes.
- 3 Drawer Dressers. 3 drawer dressers provide an even smaller amount of storage space than the 4 drawer – a good thing if you want a smaller design that takes up less space but a bad thing if you have more items than the drawers can handle.
- 6 Drawer Chests. 6 drawer dressers create a storage unit for even the largest of clothing collections; designed to compartmentalize by every category (think shirts, pants, jackets, underwear, socks and swimwear – or whatever/however you choose to categorize), this drawer design makes keeping organized a breeze.
- 9 Drawer Chests. 9 drawer chests push the storage capacity to the limit. Often taller than the standard dresser, these guys will store clothes and then some. Most 9-drawer drawers don't come in all the same size (i.e., the drawers at the top are often smaller than the ones at the bottom); different sizing means targeted storage for small accessories and large pieces of clothing.
- Dressers With Pulls. The way a dresser drawer is pulled out can determine the style of the piece; pulls, which are dangly-like metal loops that hinge loosely, add an industrial element.
- Dressers With Knobs. Another method of pulling out a drawer from a dresser is with a knob; knobs are stationary balls that come in all materials and colors – and can be found in modern, rustic, contemporary and vintage styles.
- Dressers With Legs. Dressers with legs add height to a room. They also make accessing bottom drawers a tad easier. Choose this type if you want sleek, statement style (the higher the legs, the higher the style!).
What to Store in a Dresser or Chest
The most common item to store in a dresser or chest is clothing, as these pieces of furniture are most commonly used in bedrooms. In kids rooms, toys, games, stuffed animals and coloring books can be stored in these drawers. Home offices also make nice rooms for dressers, especially when the dressers store sheets of paper, notebooks, staplers, rulers, binders, files and writing instruments! Finally, in a living room, dressers make the best storage spaces for throw blankets, media chargers, remotes, reading glasses, magazines and extra pillow shams.
Setting Up a Dresser
Most dressers do not come assembled, because it would be too heavy to move a dresser with all of its drawers. If your dresser comes with the drawers outside of it, do not rush into setting it up; pay attention to the instructions, as a misaligned drawer can lead to a dangerous toppling over of the piece.
Dressers and Chests: A Summary
Dressers and chests are great ways to add storage to a bedroom, living room, office, den, playroom, children's bedroom or hallway space. They can be used for clothing, tech, toy and office storage.
In setting up a dresser, always pay attention to the manual it comes with. Any misstep can lead to a void on any warranty and injury.
One way dresser designs vary is by the shape of the "pull" mechanism for the drawers. One of the most common types of pull mechanism is called, uncoincidentally, a drawer pull; this is a loose hinged loop that can be tugged on to pull out the drawer. Another type of pull mechanism is the knob, which is a stationary ball shape.
Dressers also vary by number of drawers. Four- or five-drawer dressers are the most common, as they provide just enough storage for tops, bottoms, outerwear and underwear in a bedroom. Nine-drawer dressers are also available and usually come with differently sized drawers to suit a variety of storage needs. Six-drawer dressers offer an in-between size – but still enough storage space for a variety of clothes and bedroom items. Three drawer dressers are the smallest option and perfect for a smaller room.
(If you want to add a splash of style, opt for a dresser with legs; the higher the legs, the higher the style!)
A new dresser or chest can be just the item you need to create a more organized bedroom (or living room or office or den!) space.


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The Doctor of Education (EdD) in Organizational Leadership degree program at Argosy University, Dallas is designed to meet the special requirements of working professionals who wish to develop their knowledge and skills to handle the changing needs of modern organizations. The program is designed to enable working professionals to pursue their personal and professional goals through the completion of a graduate program.
Based on the belief that success for an organization is directly and substantially linked to leaders within the organization, Argosy University, Dallas offers the EdD in Organizational Leadership degree program, which is designed to provide practicing professionals with opportunities for personal and professional development. Argosy University, Dallas is committed to providing students with a learning environment that informs, enhances, challenges, and supports the development of organizational leaders ready to face the complex issues present in an ever-changing world.
The program focuses on the qualities of transformational leadership, not just managerial attributes. This approach is designed to prepare students to lead complex organizations faced with an abundance of strategic challenges, such as increasing globalization, changing economies, societal shifts, and individual organizational relationships. Argosy University, Dallas believes that leaders prepared in this manner can be visionaries and innovators, and can lead organizations to meet the challenges of the future. Some assignments will require applying principles in "live" situations. Students should be aware that they will at times need access to an organization — whether their employer or any other organization — to maximize the opportunity to develop their competencies.
Program Learning Outcomes
Program Outcome One: Leadership in Teams
Given an organizational situation, identify strategies to develop, maintain, motivate, and sustain self-managed teams using concepts, theories, and techniques of team leadership.
Program Outcome Two: Collaboration in Teams
Given a case study or leadership situation, collect, assimilate, disseminate, and maximize the views of team stakeholders in order to reach defensible goals with minimal conflict.
Program Outcome Three: Conflict
Given an organizational situation that requires interpersonal or interdepartmental action, identify situations of conflict, diagnose the impact of both overt and covert behavior, and develop a plan for conflict resolution using evidence-based methods.
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Given an organizational setting, identify ethical and dilemma-resolution practices, and make evidence-based decisions that integrate personal, social, and corporate responsibility.
Program Outcome Five: Communication
Communicate orally and in writing to individuals and groups in a concise, clear, organized, and well-supported manner using formats and technology relevant to the organizational context.
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Given a leadership situation, identify workplace commitment theories to incorporate influences and power as a leader to motivate organizational stakeholders.
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Given an organizational need to evaluate and defend its actions or potential actions, select, analyze, and apply the assessment techniques, research methods, and/or statistical analyses needed to evaluate and defend those actions based on evidence.
Program Outcome Eight: Knowledge and Understanding of the Field
Demonstrate competency in identifying and integrating the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, historical trends, and key figures in the field of organizational leadership.
Program Outcome Nine: Change
Evaluate the impact of change on organizations, organizational members, and other stakeholders and apply appropriate change models and theories to facilitate successful change.
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Analyze and evaluate the involvement of diversity in leadership issues, with special attention to the implications of diversity for individuals, organizations, and societies.
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Achieve personal development and demonstrate positive relationship skills via effective communication, respect for others, and awareness of their impact on others.
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We understand that not every decor can accommodate a big flat screen TV mounted to the wall. But the TV Tank, which hides your flatscreen behind a giant aquarium, is like trying to conceal an Austin Mini behind a Lamborghini. It's still going to draw attention.
Starting at just over a mere $11,000, the TV Tank includes everything you need to sustain a thriving school of fish and lift a TV into the air once your underwater pets get boring. It doesn't, however, include a TV; you'll need to add that, and probably water and fish, yourself. Also, we would have maybe even preferred the option of being able to watch TV through the fish without raising the set above the tank. There's a countless number of sitcoms that would be vastly improved with a goldfish or two added to the cast.
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Last weekend we headed down to Bloomington, where Laurent has some veggies planted. Don't ask why we couldn't plant them right here in Chicago. It has proven to be harder to get down to Bloomington than we thought it was going to. You know, life just gets in the way. In my mind it is already Halloween, with all the weekends planned up the fall. So much for spontaneity! Needless to say, the two other couples Laurent planted the garden with hadn't made it down much either.
We were greeted with weeds as tall as the tomato plants and entire zucchini plants decimated by these evil looking white armored beetle bugs. Jerks! That's ok, I don't like zucchini anyways! The ones that did survive could easily yield a half dozen loaves of zucchini bread (with chocolate chips of course). We were too overwhelmed to pull weeds; they grow back anyways, what's the point? So we surveyed the rest of the plots. The banana peppers were looking good. They always remind me of my grandma. She used to pickle them and then eat them straight out of the jar, even the spicy ones. The Brussels sprouts were just starting to get little nubs on them. I remember studying a Brussels sprout plant in my grandma's garden for a science project in 7th grade; noting the activity of the insects whose entire world was this plant. Gardens always remind me of my grandma. I remember picking lettuce straight out of her garden, washing it and eating it with just a little white vinegar, oil, salt and pepper. She used to make whistles out of the scallion greens by just snipping them and blowing into them. I don't know if I ever mastered that skill. My sister and I would spend endless hours shelling beans in the back yard, amazed by the kaleidoscope of colors the inside beans presented to us. The speckled purple ones were my favorites. Yup, that was the first tangent of this post! Back to this garden. Pickles were larger than the garlicky monsters in a Jewish deli. We couldn't find the beets anywhere. There were enough tomato plants to put Ragu out of business! I better find a good tomato sauce recipe fast. Actually one more little tangent about my grandma. Tangents about grandmas are totally acceptable. You wouldn't want to cut me off now, would you? My grandma actually makes the best spaghetti sauce in the world and she's not even Italian. She's Serbian. She walked me through it recently. Two of her secrets are bacon fat, for flavor, and shredded zucchini for texture and nutrition. Maybe I should have brought one of those monsters home! Hope I remember her instructions when we are up to our ears in tomatoes.
The veggies I was most excited about were the chard, kale and shiso. The rainbow chard was untouched by those evil beetles, so we brought it home and sautéed it up with some garlic, shallots and mushrooms. Easy tasty healthy dinner. That's all I really need.
I love exotic flavors. You can keep your oregano and sage, give me shiso. Shiso is also known as Perilla and is sometimes called Japanese basil. It is a member of the mint family and its flavor is lemony, grassy and fresh. Although it is very distinct, I think it is subtle at the same time. (Just like me! Ha!) When you go to a Vietnamese restaurant and order any of the dishes that allow you to "roll your own" spring rolls, they will bring a platter of sprouts and herbs and noodles. Shiso is usually one of those herbs. My favorite dish to do this with is #13 Bo Nuong Cuon Banh Trang at Hai Yen on Argyle Street. You can also order "Beef Seven Ways" there. Do it!
Ok, back to shiso. We harvested a bunch of this lovely fragrant herb and on the way home I was trying to figure out what to do with it. I had used some before to make a lemongrass shiso syrup for my start up syrup company. I am hoping to have Paul at the Whistler try it in cocktails. But what else could I do with it. We couldn't eat that many spring rolls in one sitting. It is called Japanese basil so I decided to make pesto with it. I wanted to make it Asiany, but thought it would be good in a more traditional version. I decided to make two versions, one with almonds and shallots and one with ginger, scallions and sesame oil. I think both would be excellent on pasta, either angel hair or buckwheat depending which version you were using. It would also give a fresh spin on fish, choosing your sides to reflect either an Asian influence like bok choy and shitake or a more Italian flair like eggplant and spinach. You can buy shiso at the Asian grocery store on Argyle. For the pesto, just throw everything in the Cuisinart and blend until smooth-ish. Unless you soak the almonds, or use sliced almonds, the pesto will be a little chunky, but I love texture.
Shiso Pesto Version 1
1 ½ cups shiso leaves
½ shallot
3 Tbl almonds
½ cup olive oil
¼ tsp kosher salt
Few shakes of white pepper
Shiso Pesto Version 2
1 ½ cups shiso leaves
2 scallions, rough chopped
3 tsp ginger, rough chopped
2 Tbl almonds
1/3 cup sesame oil
¼ cup olive oil
¼ tsp kosher salt
Few shakes of white pepper
Ok, We're not done cooking here yet. I haven't even got to the kale. I love kale. If I hadn't named this blog "that's not lettuce", I would have named it "kale is your friend". I discovered kale later in life, although I do remember wearing a kale garnish as a brooch once in a younger drunken state! Now I can't get enough of it. Like I said, those evil beetles hadn't touched my beloved kale, so we harvested away. Laurent's idea of harvesting, though, was pulling the entire plant out of the ground and taking it with us! Ok, that worked. It seems like Ozzie, one of our cats loved the kale as much as I do. He wouldn't stop trying to eat it.
Another entity or should I say entities that loved the kale as much as me and Ozzie were about two dozen caterpillars, which we found as we plucked the leaves from the stalks and triple washed them. First I thought they were inch worms, but when they didn't get all slinky like on me, I figured it out. I don't think these were "good guys" and got kind of freaked out seeing two dozen of them crawling around in my sink. If anything, it proved the kale was organic.
Now we had a gigantic bowl of kale. What were we going to do with it? I remember both Richard and Nicole, who I work with, singing the praises of kale chips. So that is what we did. It was super easy and now we have a big Ziploc of a super healthy addictive snack. I'm surprised it actually even accumulated, as we ate at least one whole cookie sheet as soon as it cooled down. Who needs potato chips? (Unless they are Tyrrells sea salt and black pepper, which I ate an entire bag of the other day. Shhhhh. Let's hope Laurent skips reading this post!) All you do is toss the kale with a little olive oil and sea salt, lay it on a cookie sheet and bake it in an oven preheated to 350° for about 10 minutes. Don't crowd it. It will steam instead of bake if you do. Be careful, it will burn, but you also don't want to pull it out too early, or it will be too chewy. I had a blast trying different spices and salts on it. My favorite was a little bit of smoked paprika. Coming in a close second was a Japanese smoked salt. I love smoky flavors, as much as I love kale.
So, that was our little mini Bloomington harvest. We did pick squash blossoms also, but I don't think I did them justice. I'll have to get some pointers for the next attempt. I'll leave you with a picture of them, as they were prettier than they tasted.


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Oh, you guys. you guys, you guys. Joel from Goat Farmer Records has recorded an audio version of "All the Same Old Haunts" and, as a Halloween treat, he's graciously sharing it with us. Put it on repeat over your outdoor speakers to spook all your trick-or-treaters!
Listen to it in the dark. Or with one lone candle.
Thanks, Joel. This is amazing.


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Paul Johnson Triple Option Strategy Lesson #5
From the Nike Clinic
According to Coach Johnson: When the Playside Tackle is able to Veer inside to the Mike Linebacker (vs. 1/2i/2 technique), the Tackle can oversplit.
This means that the Playside Tackle can continue to widen his split until two defenders jump into the B-gap.
Coach Johnson says that even when the defense puts one of the two defenders in the B-gap, one of the two defenders in the B-gap must take the B-Back or the defense is going to have real problems.
Two State Semifinalists, A State Finalist, and a State Champion in Texas have Come out of Dr. Cella's Triple Option Football System Over the Last Four Years
Triple Option Football Academy Owner, Dr. Lou Cella, is a Sports Performance Specialist, and a 20-year coaching veteran of the college and high school level.
Over the last five years, Dr. Cella assisted in the turnaround of numerous high school football programs through his triple option-based camp system. Just months after Dr. Cella served as camp director, Cashmere (WA) and Timmonsville (SC) went to the state semifinals, Bayfield (CO) went to the state championship game, and Falls City (TX) won their first regional and first state championship in school history.
In addition, Hereford (MD), Johnson (NJ), Lakewood (SC), Petaluma (CA), Piedra Vista (NM), Poland (ME), Riverwood (GA), San Benito (CA), Seminole County (GA), and Temple City (CA) posted drastic turnarounds just months after Dr. Cella served as their camp director.
Dr. Cella possesses four degrees with an A.S. in Education, a B.S. in English, a M.Ed in Information Technology, and a Psy.D in Psychology, Sport Performance Psychology. Both the American Football Sports Science-Mental Conditioning Academy and the Triple Option Football Academy are governed by AFSSMCA, LLC. At the heart of the American Football Sports Science-Mental Conditioning Academy (AFSSMCA) and the Triple Option Football Academy is the mission to lead the high-performance football environment through sports science and mental conditioning coaching practices.


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Mach 1 Mustang
30 years ago Ford introduced a car that would become a legend in the Ford ranks
In 1969, it was the everyman answer to performance with style--big-inch engines and aggressive styling that was a universal departure from the more button-down, tweedy look of the '68 GT. Where the GT was about sophisticated power, the Mach 1 exuded brawn and machismo--and in base form, at least, a decent price tag. On the greenback scale, the Mach 1 was priced for the working man and the Boss and Shelby tended to be slightly higher.
As collectors and admirers of Ford Mustangs, we all seem to have at least a passing weakness for performance cars. Shelbys, Bosses, GTs, and of course, Mach 1s. On any given show field there will be at least three Machs crouched on Styled Steel wheels and seemingly ready for a Camaro lunch. Usually, the Machs are the '69 428 Cobra Jets; arguably one of Ford's most prolific and best straight-line performers. Values are high in the market--though nowhere near the helicon days of the late '80s.
So what is it about these cars that makes us want to restore them to their former glory? Obviously, it has to be a number of reasons, not the least of which is style. Of course, that can't be the only and deciding factor; there are cars populating the salvage yards that had plenty of style. Our guess is the combination of style and power. Brute force applied in a straight line wrapped in the swoopiest body of that time. When optioned with the 428 or the '71 429 SCJ, the Mach became more than a peppy daily commuter. It became a car the Bow Tie and Pentastar boys would fear.
Powerful to Powerless
In 1969, the 428 Cobra Jet Mach 1 was stunning in its power delivery--when you could get it to hook up. It delivered the same loud thwack to the backsides of many Bow Tie bruisers as its GT predecessor. But instead of being sedate, it screamed at the opponent. The power wasn't hidden, it was advertised.
Of course, if you wanted the 390 4V, it was still there too, hanging on by the barest thread. At year's end, the 390 4V would be history--not enough power and stuck between the rock (428) and the hard place (351). In fact, the thread was so bare, that, to our knowledge, none of the magazines of the day bothered to test the 390 4V.
What about the 351? Very little is said about its performance potential when compared to the 428. However, the 351 was the meat-and-potatoes engine that bore the brunt of the commuter responsibility. When the new-for-'69 351 Windsor came out, it was a welcome "upgrade" from the 302 4V of the '68 GT. It also was largely in response to the 350 that was available with the Camaro. With a 1-inch-taller deck height, it was something more than the 302 it replaced, but shared many commonalities.
A year later, the Windsor took a back seat to the new '70 351 Cleveland. The canted valve engine was a departure from the small-block design that had debuted in 1962 as a 221-cid 2V. It boasted more power than the 351 Windsor and developed a well-deserved reputation for performance.
Nineteen seventy-one was the beginning of the end of big-inch power out of the Mach 1. It also was the year that Ford debuted the 385-series engines in the Mustang. The 385 was the replacement for the now corporately tired FE engines. The resemblance to the Cleveland is more than passing--as is its resemblance to the Chevy big-block.
Nineteen seventy-two and 1973 saw the 351 4V become the top option on the Mach 1. New SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) ratings, lower compression, insurance, and the coming of higher gas prices all conspired to whittle away at the image. Of course, there was one performance bright spot in 1972: the 351 H.O. This engine was nothing but a detuned 351 Boss that was standard in all the Mustang models.
But if the buyer thought 1972 and 1973 were bad, they only had to look to 1974 to know it was going to get worse. Ford struck the V-8 from the ponycar lineup for the first time. In place of the thundering 428 was a whopping 2.8L V-6--dark days indeed. By 1975, Ford realized the gaff and scrambled to reinstall the 302 2V V-8. This engine remained an option until the Mach's demise in 1978.
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Lately anything that can be made in five minutes or with one hand is what I'm making for breakfast, lunch or dinner. These smoothies fit the bill - with a bonus that I only need one hand to drink it too. Things involving forks and knives haven't been happening too often lately.
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
8-10 large frozen strawberries
1 banana
1/2 cup milk (I use skim)
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
Put all ingredients in a blender and blend on high for about two minutes until smooth. Pour and serve. This makes 2-4 smoothies depending on the serving, for breakfast I usually split this between my husband and I, as a snack, it would serve four.


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Look very closely at your reflection in a wolf mirror at the height of the Dyan moon and you might see something strange – especially if you are a Dyan Werewolf.
To a Dyan Werewolf, the wolf mirror always tells the lupine truth. While your face may appear normal, just an average human, the mirror never lies. When a Dyan Werewolf looks into a wolf mirror, the image staring back will undoubtably be all or part werewolf. Sometimes it's just the eyes or the ears of the teeth or the whiskers but at the height of the Dyan Moon, it will always be your full werewolf face staring back at you.
That's why the wolf mirror was originally invented and why many cultures who fear werewolves like us still hang a wolf mirror in the entrance of their homes. Wolf mirrors are made of many different fragments of silver mirror glass, usually in the shape of a moon. They may be different colors but all of them are backed by a special silver that reveals the inner wolf.
You might think that Dyan Werewolves would hate and fear wolf mirrors, avoiding them at all cost lest they accidentally reveal their true identities, but they don't.
No, Dyan Werewolves like you learn to use the wolf mirror to control your transformations in unique and powerful ways.
When you, as a Dyan Werewolf, look in a wolf mirror and speak the secret words, your inside wolf can come out, in several unique ways.
Sometimes the werewolf image just reflects back on your human face, triggering your transformation from human to werewolf. That's why many experienced Dyan Werewolves wear a wolf mirror on their person at all times, and use it to transform in a fight.
But sometimes on the full moon, if the mirror breaks, the werewolf looking back at you can escape the wolf mirror and enter the world, flesh and blood like you. It's a paradox but this werewolf is separate from you, but still part of you. The wolf part of you.
This other werewolf self will never leave you, but may not always behave in the ways that you want. So while hanging out with your mirror wolf in the real world can be strange and fun, for most Dyan Werewolves it can sometimes create challenges. Your mirror wolf may get you into a lot of trouble! And putting your mirror wolf back can be very challenging after the mirror is broken. You will need another wolf mirror, along with the ability to get your wolf self to cooperate and look into the glass with you long enough to say the secret words in reverse. This is sometimes called re-mirroring the wolf.
If you are a highly trained Dyan Werewolf of many moons, you may also know a different spell. A spell that you can only use if your life depends on it. Because with this spell and the right wolf mirror, at the height of the full moon, you may be able to break your wolf self into three separate werewolves. Each of these werewolves will be different from you but still part of you. But if you use this spell, you should know that your chances of ever re-mirroring your three wolf selves are slim to none. Maybe one or two of them, but almost never three. It seems there is always one mirror wolf who will do anything to remain free, even if it means destroying you.
These escaped mirror werewolves have no human form at all, ever. And they are not always happy about this. Which explains why the Dyan Werewolves alone have a super-elite, internal remirroring agency, whose agents will hunt down your escaped mirror werewolves.
And what happens if one of your mirror werewolves dies, killed by a member of the Internal Remirroring Agent? Is it something you really want to find out? If you are using a wolf mirror this Dyan Moon, think about that before you free the wolf in the mirror.


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Thanksgiving Skies
November 21, 2007: Thanksgiving is the biggest travel holiday of the year in the United States. Millions of people board airplanes and fly long hours to visit friends and family.
Dreading the trip? Think of it as a sky watching opportunity. There are some things you can see only through the window of an airplane. Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley lists a few of his favorites:
"Look toward the antisolar point, the place in the clouds directly opposite the sun," he instructs. "There, if the aircraft is low enough, you will find the shadow of the plane. Surrounding the shadow is the glory--a bright white glow surrounded by one or more shimmering rings of color."
Right: A glory, photographed by air traveler Philip Laven. Copyright 2000, all rights reserved. [More]
"These rings are formed when light is scattered backwards by individual water droplets in the cloud. The more uniform the size of the droplets, the more rings you will see. They swell and contract as you travel over clouds with smaller or larger droplets."
No clouds beneath you?
Turning to the sunward side of the aircraft...
"That is the realm of ice halos," says Cowley. Ice halos are rings and arcs of light caused by ice crystals in high clouds. "They are often rainbow-colored," he notes, "but they are not rainbows."
From the ground you look up to see these halos. From an airplane you look down.
"You might be able to see subhorizon halos invisible from low ground," says Cowley. "The brightest, sometimes blindingly bright, is the subsun. This is a direct reflection of the sun from millions of flat plate-shaped ice crystals floating in the clouds beneath you and acting together as a giant mirror. As the aircraft moves the subsun drifts along the clouds, sometimes growing, sometimes contracting, sometimes wobbling as crystals with different tilts are sampled. Sometimes a column of light will extend upward from the subsun toward the real sun--this is a lower sun pillar."
Above: Subhorizon halos photographed by Don Davis. Copyright 2005, all rights reserved.
"Sunrise and sunset from high altitudes are special," Cowley adds. "The speed of the aircraft can make them faster or slower than usual. Furthermore, the sun is extra-flattened because its light is refracted almost twice the normal amount by its passage into the dense lower atmosphere and then out again to you. On a night flight, you might catch the moonrise; its distortions and flattening are greater for the same reason."
"And if none of these things are visible on your particular flight, ignore fellow passengers and crane your head to see some of the sky above you. It is dark and a deep violet blue--darker than you will ever see on the ground. A large part of Earth's atmosphere is beneath and there are far fewer molecules to scatter the sun's light and turn the sky blue. You are not far from space."
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Bruce Dern talks about 'Nebraska,' his storied career
In an acting career that's already stretched beyond the half-century mark, Bruce Dern has played a wild array of parts on stage, TV, and the big screen. Dern broke in at The Actors Studio in New York, working with director Elia Kazan in a production of "Sweet Bird of Youth," then went west to find guest parts in every TV show from "Route 66" and "Sea Hunt" to "Bonanza" and "Land of the Giants." Movie roles allowed him to shoot John Wayne in the back in "The Cowboys," nab an Oscar nomination for "Coming Home" and be directed by longtime pal Jack Nicholson in "Drive, He Said." Tom Hanks ("Cast Away"), Sandra Bullock ("Gravity") and Robert Redford ("All Is Lost") have nothing over Dern as far as handling a movie all alone. Dern worked opposite only two small robots in "Silent Running" back in 1972. Now, in Alexander Payne's new film "Nebraska," he plays Woody, a slightly addled fellow who believes he's won a million dollars in a sweepstakes contest, and is determined to claim it. With this starring role, there's not much doubt that he's on the very short list for another Oscar nomination, and maybe even the gold. Dern, 77, recently spoke in Los Angeles about getting started in the business and about "Nebraska."
There's a story going around that Elia Kazan predicted you wouldn't be well known as an actor till you had been around for a long time.
My first film was "Wild River." Mr. Kazan directed it, and I only had a small, meaningless part. When I went to see the movie, at the end of it there was no credit for Brucie. I was heartbroken. I complained to Gadge (Kazan), who I was under contract to, and it pissed him off. He said, "Your performance is your billing." I said, "Well, I'm not that good in the movie." He said, "It's not a question of how good you are; it's a question of who you are, and what you lend to the film. Your name doesn't mean anything yet. And as far as your career, you won't really ever have a leading man kind of career because you're not a conventional leading man. You become the characters that you play, which is your gift. That's what we're trying to develop with your work. So you may be in your late-60s before anyone really knows what you can do."
All these years later you're working for another great director, Alexander Payne. But didn't he offer you the part of Woody 10 years ago?
Not offered. He sent me the script before he sent it to any other actor. He had met me back when my daughter Laura was starring for him in "Citizen Ruth," and I think he wanted me to see the material and see what my response would be. Well, my response immediately was that I had to do this role. But he didn't offer it to me then. Instead, he went off and did "Sideways," and then he went off and did "The Descendants." After that, he went off and sent the script to Gene Hackman. But Gene was retired, and didn't want to do it anymore. Once Hackman was out, the movie fell apart. Then I heard on the grapevine that Alexander was seeing everybody who's 65 or 70, and that I was in the mix. But then he asked me to do a little scene on tape for him. When I finished, he asked me to sit on the couch – he was on one end and I was on the other. He had smiled and laughed a couple of times when I was doing the scene. Then he said, "I'm gonna give myself a compliment. When I first saw this material, you were the first person that came to mind." Then he turned to me and said, "I want you to do my movie."
Alexander Payne seems to be the guy everyone wants to be directed by these days.
You do anything you can do to get in an Alexander Payne movie. When I began, you did anything you could to get in a Kazan movie. Well, they're not unsimilar in that way. For "Nebraska," it was a bunch of people coming together at the right time in their careers and in their lives, with a guy we didn't know, who presented us with a rule of thumb that there are folks out there that are like this and are worth a story.
Laura starred in "Citizen Ruth" for him, and your buddy Jack Nicholson starred in "About Schmidt" for him. Did you get any advice from them?
When I got the role, I called Laura. I said, "What am I getting with Alexander?" She said, "Trust him, follow him, believe him." Then I called Jack, and he said (he puts on a perfect Nicholson imitation), "Dernser, here's what you're gonna get. You're gonna get the best partner you've ever had in your whole career. And you're gonna get a guy that goes diva on ya one day a week." Well, Alexander is a bit academic, and at times he looked professorial to me. But I never really saw the diva part in him.
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Two new movies entered the marketplace in wide release and two more movies fell far behind the biggest movie of the late summer as Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (Warner Bros.) remained on top for the third weekend in a row with roughly $36 million. Despite a big 60% drop in its second weekend, it held out better in its third weekend, being down just 41%, and so far it's grossed $354 million domestically, making it the third-highest grossing movie of the year. $5.7 million of this weekend was made in IMAX theaters bringing its domestic IMAX total to $48 million. Worldwide, The Dark Knight Rises has now earned $733 million.
The movie expected to give The Dark Knight Rises some sort of competition was director Len (Underworld) Wiseman's sci-fi action-thriller remake Total Recall (Sony), starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale and Bryan Cranston, but after an opening day of $9.1 million, it ended up opening in second place with an estimated $26 million in 3,601 theaters. According to Sony, the audience for the movie was 58% male and 53% over 30, although the C+ CinemaScore it received does not bode well for legs domestically. The movie reportedly cost $150 million to make.
Total Recall fared slightly better overseas where it opened in 12 Asian markets including India, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Singapore, all where it took the top spot, bringing in $6.2 million in those countries. (Of interest is that the original name of one of the impoverished and overcrowded section of earth called "New Asia" was changed to "The Colony" possibly to not offend Sony's Asian markets.)
The third installment in 20th Century Fox's popular family franchise Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days failed to deliver with its summer opening, amassing just $14.7 million over the weekend in 3,391 theaters. That's far less than the $20 million plus opening of the previous two installments, released in 2008 and 2010.
Fox has had far more success with the animated Ice Age: Continental Drift (20th Century Fox), which brought in $8.4 million in its fourth weekend to take its first month total to $131.8 million. That's still $40 million below the $172 million made by its predecessor "Dawn of the Dinosaurs" in the summer of 2009, although the movie has done enough business internationally to make up for it.
In its second weekend, Fox's R-rated comedy The Watch, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill, took a major tumble, dropping to fifth place with $6.4 million, down 50% from its opening week. It has grossed $25.4 million to date, which is roughly half of its reported $68 million production budget.
Seth McFarlane's comedy Ted, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, crossed the $200 million mark this weekend, making it the 8th film of the year to cross that mark and Universal's second movie of the year to cross it. It also makes the movie the highest-grossing non-animated comedy of the year. It grossed roughly $5.5 million this weekend for 6th place with a total of $203 million in six weeks.
Step Up Revolution (Summit Entertainment) dropped 55% in its second weekend to bring in $5.3 million for seventh place with $23.1 million grossed in ten days.
The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony) earned $4.3 million for eighth place, bringing its total domestic gross to $250.6 million. It's faring better overseas this weekend, bringing in $6.1 million to make its international total $427.1 million and its global total $678 million.
DisneyPixar's Brave dropped to ninth place with $2.9 million and a domestic gross of $223 million while tenth place went to Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike (Warner Bros.), starring Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey, with $1.4 million and $110 million grossed to date.
The Top 10 took in roughly $111.3 million this weekend down 28% from the August opening weekend last year when 20th Century Fox debuted Rise of the Planet of the Apes to the tune of $54 million for first place. The R-rated comedy The Change-Up (Universal), pairing Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds, didn't do as well with just $13.5 million.
As far as limited releases, the Rashida Jones-Andy Samberg relationship comedy Celeste and Jesse Forever (Sony Pictures Classics) opened in four theaters in New York and L.A. where it scored $112 thousand or $28 thousand per site.
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OS X 10.9.2 was just released last week, but Apple has already begun testing for version 10.9.3, and the update will apparently come with some goodies for users of 4K displays. According to a report by 9to5Mac, the new update enables HiDPI "Retina" scaling on 4K displays that didn't offer the option in previous OS X versions. It's possible to enable HiDPI display modes on any monitor in OS X with some tweaking, but Apple is apparently interested in supporting Retina-style output on high-resolution monitors by default.Apple made a big 4K push with its new Mac Pro, which can support up to three 4K displays at once, thanks to its twin GPUs and six Thunderbolt 2.0 ports. However, the company doesn't yet make its own 4K Thunderbolt Display—current Mac Pro buyers can add $3,600 32-inch Sharp 4K displays to their orders, or they can bring their own monitors. 9to5Mac's testing was conducted with what appears to be a 39-inch Seiki Digital display, which as of this writing can be had on Amazon for $500 (though it doesn't support a 60Hz refresh rate at 4K).
According to others who have installed the new beta, 10.9.3 also apparently enables 60Hz 4K output on the 2013 Retina MacBook Pros. The Intel and Nvidia GPUs that power these MacBooks were previously capable of 60Hz 4K output when running Windows, but were limited to lower refresh rates in OS X. Higher refresh rates make for a smoother, more pleasant viewing experience and are especially useful when editing movies, playing games, or in any other activities where response time is important. Those with older Macs likely won't see 60Hz 4K support even after installing the update—the 2013 Retina MacBook Pros and 2013 Mac Pro are the only systems that support the requisite DisplayPort 1.2 spec. iMacs, MacBook Airs, and the Mac Mini will need to wait for a Thunderbolt 2 upgrade before they can drive high-resolution displays at the higher refresh rate.
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Josh McCown is next Rich Gannon; should stay Bears QB over Jay Cutler
I now have more questions about Jay Cutler than Josh McCown. In the past, I wanted too see McCown play more so I'd know whether Cutler was worth keeping. McCown has shown me enough. Now Cutler needs to show more. But this isn't about the future; at 7-6, the Bears need to win now, and that means they should stick with Josh McCown.
McCown leads the NFL in Total Quarterback Rating at 85.7, two points ahead of Peyton Manning and 13 points ahead of anybody else. His passer rating of 109.8 ranks third behind Nick Foles and Manning. This for a team that has had exactly one year with a team passer rating above 81 in the last 50 years.
(And, yes, Jay Cutler was having a fine season too. Cutler ranks 10th in the NFL in QBR and 12th in passer rating, but his 88.4 passer rating is 21.5 points behind McCown.)
If I was worried most about trying to decide whether to slap the $16.2-million one-year franchise tag on Jay Cutler for next year, I would play Cutler these last three weeks to see if he was worth it.
But that's not what the Bears should be worried about.
By the way, Jay Cutler, who is a far, far, far better teammate than he is given credit for, has said he would be willing to play for the franchise tag. It's Bears' GB Phil Emery who said he doesn't want to do it. And Emery is right; that would save the Bears from doing a long-term deal, but if they do decide to keep Cutler long term, a one-year delay will just drive his price up that much further.
Anyway, the playoffs are still in sight. And if Lance Briggs and Peanut Tillman can return for the playoffs and help the defense get healthy, these new Bears, a team that can open the game by scoring touchdowns on its first seven possessions against the Cowboys on Monday night, could make some playoff noise.
That's why they should stick with Josh McCown. Because he makes the Chicago Bears better NOW.
I used to be a Vikings fan (trading Randy Moss and making me swear off the Vikings forever was the best thing that messed-up franchise ever did for me as a fan) and all of this talk about how we know who Josh McCown is because we have seen him for 10 years reminds me of what the Vikings said when they let Rich Gannon go.
And what the Chiefs said when they did the same, even though Gannon easily outplayed their young, drafted quarterback Elvis Grbac.
Well, Rich Gannon at age 34 -- the same age as Josh McCown -- moved on to the Raiders and immediately went to four straight Pro Bowls, won an MVP award and carried the Raiders to a Super Bowl. And, if not for the infamous "Tuck Rule" game in the New England snow, he might have made it two Super Bowls for the Raiders.
By the way, the Raiders hired a new offensive coordinator the year that Gannon exploded to pass for 4,689 yards. His name should be familiar to Chicago Bears fans. Yes, Marc Trestman was Gannon's offensive coordinator the year Gannon was MVP.
And now Marc Trestman is Josh McCown's coach. Gannon and McCown are similar quarterbacks. Both have decent arms, but not rifle arms. Both excel most at being accurate; look how perfectly thrown all those passes are to Alshon Jeffery. Both are about the same exact size (McCown 6-4, 212; Gannon 6-3, 210). Both are very mobile in the pocket, but don't run unless they have to.
The Bears simply have a better chance to win their final three games with Josh McCown than they would with Jay Cutler.
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"We are very enthusiastic about [Munroe's] being part of our global oral care team," said Brian Buck, vice president and general manager for the company. "It's especially fortuitous as we look to leverage our acknowledged strength in aroma chemicals. That strong capability is exemplified in l-menthol and sensates in flavor compounds for oral care products," added Buck.
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Monday was supposed to be a big celebration that no one in Carmen Acabbo's family wanted to miss. It was her first marathon, and she had spent the past year training for the challenge.
Her sister, Celeste Corcoran, a constant supporter, wanted to be there cheering for Carmen with her 18-year-old daughter Sydney and their other friends and family. The mother and daughter were eagerly waiting at the Boston Marathon finish line when Carmen was less than a ½ mile away.
Carmen's husband, Rich, snapped photos of his wife along the route and followed her as she progressed through the course. He was watching for her at the end with their three young children. The four were across the street from Rich's sister-in-law and niece when a flash and loud blast went off. What happened after, changed their lives forever.
"It was surreal how loud the noise was," said Rich. Carmen was only the length of the street away from where the fist bomb went off. "I can still hear it, it was deafening. My young son started to cry."
Celeste and Sydney were standing close to the explosion, leaving them critically wounded. Graphic photos taken immediately after the incident show the women being cared for as they lay on the ground in pools of blood.
Celeste, a hairdresser who works on her feet, had to have both of her legs amputated. Sydney had her second round of surgery this morning. Like so many others waiting on the sidelines to congratulate friends and family, they are now struggling to recover from the terrorist attack.
Watch Gary Tuchman's report to learn more about their family. If you'd like to help, donations can be made on this site: http://www.gofundme.com/celesteandsydney
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For those interested in their progress, Sydney has gone home. Both she and her mother are doing well and I think everyone could learn from their positivity. Kudos to members of All Time Low and Mayday Parade for visiting this remarkable family since Sydney couldn't attent their concert.
Hey Peter, Obama is anymore responsible for this than Bush was for 9-11. Neither one knew this was going to happen. The United States has always paid attention to other countries' problem. It just didn't begin with Obama
It's a shame that something like this has to happen in order for Obama to concentrate on our countries problems instead of paying attention to every other countries problems. Too bad his attention towards this will be short lived.
The reason he's focused on other countries is to stop people like the bombers from being trained out of country so they can bring terrorism to the United States. Of course, that's just a bullet point on an agenda of tons of diplomacy between countries that has to be completed before the end of the year. Plus maybe you've forgot all the issues at home that his cabinet is trying to solve gun control, getting the economy on track, public safety, and the list goes on. Being the leader of any nation isn't so cut and dry, don't act like you could do better because most of us would crumble under the constant pressure that our presidents and leaders take.
About the search for the Boston marathon bomber(s), why don't the authorities poste a picture online, in newspapers, on T.V. etc. of the videos that they have in their possession of the bomber placing the bombs. Even if he is in disguise someone might recognize him, whether it might be a hat, clothes, the way he walks. They can get a lot of good tips that might find him faster. And why aren't the profilers sharing his profile with the public as well? Whether he is a home grown or an international terrorist, he could be caught much faster this way if all of this info is released and shared.
Anderson Cooper goes beyond the headlines to tell stories from many points of view, so you can make up your own mind about the news. Tune in weeknights at 8 and 10 ET on CNN.
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For wood-fired, kinda soggy-in-the-middle, true Neapolitan pizzas, a high-moisture, freshly made mozzarella (preferably from water buffalo milk!) is key. But for the vast majority of pizza styles in the U.S.—our beloved New York style, crispy Greek style, bar pies, New Haven apizza, even Chicago deep dish casseroles—low-moisture aged mozzarella is the cheese of choice.
So what's the difference anyhow? All mozzarella starts with fresh cheese curds made by adding rennet to lightly fermented cow or water buffalo milk. The curds are then allowed to rest and sour a bit more until a desirable flavor is achieved, whereupon they're placed in hot water until the firm protein structure begins to loosen up a bit. What follows is a slow, gentle kneading process that you'd like to imagine is performed by practiced and seductive Italian hands, but in reality, the vast majority of the stuff you get here is probably kneaded in a decidedly un-sexy manner by a cold, calculating, lifeless machine. No matter. Either way, this stretching action works much in the same way that kneading bread dough does: it causes proteins to link together, creating the long, stretchy strands that mozzarella is known for.
Stretched cheeses like this, which include Provolone, Cacciocavallo, and Scamorza among others, are collectively known as pasta filata, which translates literally to "pulled paste" or "spun paste." I prefer the Italian nomenclature.
To make low-moisture mozzarella, the fresh mozzarella is then allowed to further sour, then carefully dried in a controlled environment. There are a few reasons why most pizzerias choose low-moisture mozz: First off, it's got a much longer shelf life. Fresh mozzarella is best the day it's made, and rapidly deteriorates, developing off-flavors within the first few days. Low-moisture mozzarella can last for weeks under refrigeration, meaning easy transportation and the ability to buy in bigger bulk—an all around cheaper option. According to the FDA, low moisture mozzarella must have a moisture content in the 45 to 52% range, while regular mozzarella can be as much as 60% water—sometimes even higher if you buy it from a specialty shop that still spins by hand.
As for flavor, low-moisture mozzarella is saltier and denser. Depending on how long it's aged and at the temperature it's held at, various bacteria can help it to acquire some of the tangy characteristics of aged cheeses like a provolone or cheddar. For pure meltability, nothing beats low-moisture mozzarella. While fresh mozz exudes water as it melts and becomes more soupy than melty, The best low-moisture mozzarella should stretch and stretch, yet still remain dry enough that the pizza crust remains intact.
There's a pretty staggering array of mozzarellas available in most supermarkets. Our question is, which brand is best? And if we can't recommend a specific brand, are there any general suggestions that will help lead you towards a better, meltier, tastier choice?
The Contenders
For our tasting, we gathered 11 of the most commonly available brands across the country (in alphabetical order):
- Boar's Head
- Calabro
- Capiello
- Horizon Organic
- Kraft
- Organic Valley
- Polly-O
- Sargento
- Sorrento
- Trader Joe's
- Whole Foods 365
When available, we chose whole milk blocks of cheese, though some brands were only available in part-skim or preshredded form. In order to evaluate the cheeses, we tasted all of them both in raw form, and melted onto french bread pizza (a childhood throwback flavor greatly appreciated by even the most snobbish of NY and Neapolitan pizza snobs (of which there are none in this office, I swear)).
By and large, we were unimpressed by the unmelted stuff, which has very little flavor asides from a mild milkiness. The most noticeable difference between the raw cheeses was between the pre-shredded and the block cheese. Pre-shredded mozzarella comes coated with a desiccating powder (either cellulose, potato, or corn starch), designed to prevent the individual shreds from clumping together. This works, except it gives the cheese an unpleasantly gritty mouthfeel when eaten raw. That said, the only people who eat raw mozzarella are crazies and wackos, so who cares?
The other major thing we noticed in our raw tasting was that a couple brands—notably Kraft and Whole Foods 365—didn't taste like mozzarella They were perfectly fine as a Provolone or even a Cheddar, but they were distinctly nutty and tangy, and not at all mozz-y.
With mozzarella, meltability is priority numero uno. We want our cheese to spread out in a rich, gooey blanket over out pizza. Premature crust formation is a major fault. When you cut a pie into individual slices, the mozzarella should ooze cleanly around the knife. If the knife is able to pull it away in sheets or the mozzarella separates from the pie underneath, that's a major detractor. We want every bite of pizza to have melty cheese that stretches away from the remaining slice in thin strands. Biting into the cheese and having the whole thing come away like a giant scab is, well, gross.
Meltability is what mozzarella is all about—if it don't got the stretch, then tasters will kvetch. If it's nice and elastic, then it's all fantastic. If it ain't gooey, then I say phooey. If it don't extend, then we can't recommend. If you can't draw it out, it's not... Ok, sick of this game. You get the picture.
The overriding factor in how well the cheeses melted was their fat content. Whole milk mozzarella, like the one pictured on the right, spread into an even layer that stayed moist and stretchy even when slightly browned. Skim or part skim mozzarella, on the other hand, formed the unattractive sheets that you see on the left when even lightly browned. In fact, fat content showed the highest correlation between well-ranked cheese and poor. Every single part skim mozzarella scored below every other full-fat mozzarella.
Also important was pre-shredded versus block. Because of the added starch, preshredded mozzarella tended to both brown faster, and form the unattractive crust you see in the pie above. That said, there were a couple of whole block cheeses that ended up ranking below the shredded versions.
What was most surprising of all was that asides from the very bottom ranking cheeses—the Whole Food's 365 brand for skim, and surprisingly, the Calabro for whole milk (their ricotta is the best major commercial brand you can get)—to a large degree, the brand made very little difference. Amongst the whole milk cheeses, we'd happily take any of the options we tasted. Similarly, amongst the skims, there were no real superstars or low-liers.
The real question we had was that given that whole milk mozzarella really only has a gram or two of extra fat per serving versus part-skim mozzarella, why would anyone ever choose the latter?
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For the past half-century, chemical rockets have propelled most spacecraft, because this is the simplest and best-understood way to do it, and it is also the fastest way, with current technology, to reach one's destination (particularly important if one is a human being). But chemical rockets require a huge amount of propellant, and so some engineers have long envisioned a future powered by other means, such as ion propulsion.
It's coming. Boeing recently announced the first communications satellite to use no chemical propulsion at all. This will allow much more of the satellite mass to be devoted to transponders and solar panels, rather than propellant, propellant tanks, and engines. And each transponder generates revenue—the more Boeing can fit onto a satellite, the more money it makes.
Why Ions?
Chemical rockets provide a lot of power, allowing for rapid acceleration, but at the cost of a lot of propellant. This is because the lower the exhaust velocity, the more propellant you must expel to achieve a given velocity change, and chemical combustion doesn't produce high exhaust velocities. For instance, one of the best chemical combinations—liquid oxygen and hydrogen—provides an exhaust velocity of about 14,000 feet per second. That sounds pretty fast but is actually a slouch compared to other possible methods. The rocket equation is exponential, so if engineers could use a propellant with twice that velocity, they could cut the amount of propellant needed by much more than half.
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That's why ion propulsion has always excited many spacecraft designers. In ion propulsion, electrons are stripped from or added to a noble gas such as xenon to give it a net electrical charge. The ion engine then accelerates them with an electric or magnetic field and blasts them out the back of a thruster. This can provide exhaust velocities greater than chemical propulsion by 10 times or more, meaning a mission would need only a small fraction of the propellant a chemically powered vehicle must carry.
So what's the catch? Ion systems are very low-thrust. While chemical systems provide their own energy in the propellants, which can result in very high power when they're mixed and burned rapidly, an electrical system's propellant supply has no energy of its own. It has to be provided externally, so its thrust is limited by the power available.
One could solve this problem with a nuclear reactor, as was planned for the now-cancelled Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. But no space-rated reactor exists, and the cost and politics of getting one are currently prohibitive. So, for now, electric propulsion is limited to what's available from solar cells, which means that the thrust levels are orders of magnitude below that of chemical thrusters. That in turn means that the trip times for vehicles using them can be very long. For this reason, their primary application has been for station-keeping communications satellites in geostationary orbit—gently shoving them to keep them in place against slight gravity variations, so that fixed dishes on the ground, such as the one for your satellite television, can find them.
Boeing Goes Ahead
Now, Boeing has taken the next step. Not only will it use ion thrusters to keep itself in the right spot, but it will also use them to move itself to geostationary orbit (GEO) from low Earth orbit (LEO), a task most satellites accomplish by burning chemical thrusters.
It won't be easy. First of all, using ion thrusters means it'll be a slow trip. Rather than hours, it will take the Boeing satellite months to actually spiral out to its operating altitude. That reduces (or at least delays) the return on investment, so the satellite's owners and financiers will need to be more patient. Second, it means a long traverse through the radioactive Van Allen belts a few hundred miles above LEO, so the electronics may have to have additional shielding to survive the trip. But apparently it's worth it, because Boeing has already signed up two customers, in Asia and Mexico, with prospects for more.
And, most importantly, the fact that Boeing is willing to stake a commercial venture on ion-propulsion signals that this long-researched technology could finally be ready for a major step forward. Pushing a satellite into a higher orbit is a far cry from deep-space exploration, like some have dreamed for ion propulsion. But there are some new applications on the horizon for ion propulsion that will dramatically reduce the cost of not just satellite communications, but perhaps human space exploration.
Consider the dream of propellant depots in space. The Saturn vehicles of the Apollo era had to be enormous to carry enough propellant to take astronauts on a lunar round trip. If there had been a refueling station near the moon, the flight there would have required much less than half as much propellant and the launch vehicle could have been much smaller, while allowing the delivery of more payload to the surface. But the propellant has to get to that depot somehow, and if we used chemical propellants to move it there, we wouldn't be saving ourselves much.
But with electric propulsion, one could imagine routine, relatively low-cost back-and-forth trips to the moon. Imagine a propellant depot in low Earth orbit that would fuel up a spacecraft for a trip to the moon, and another in low lunar orbit, or in a stable point such as the L-1 or L-2 Lagrange point, supplying the fuel for the return trip. We could move propellant between the two points on slow trips by using ion thrusters like the ones Boeing has on its new satellites (but probably more and bigger ones). Some of the electric power would be devoted to propulsion, and the rest to ship-board systems and cooling of the propellant to avoid boil-off (assuming the propellants are cryogenic and not the less efficient but more easily storable types). There might be several such tankers continuously in transit at various stages of the journey, just as there is an oil tanker about every 10 miles between Japan and the Persian Gulf. It would be a propellant pipeline to the moon.
Ultimately (and not too far in the future) the same concept could reduce the cost of trips beyond the moon. Slow electric tankers could go ahead of human missions to Mars or asteroids, dramatically reducing the amount of propellant needed to launch crews to those destinations. Eventually, propellants could be manufactured on-site (for example, manufacturing methane and liquid oxygen from the Martian atmosphere). But early propellant caches could create an "interplanetary highway system," similar to the gas stations that allow the terrestrial interstate system to function—and hasten the day that travel throughout the inner and outer solar system becomes routine.


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This past week, 507 members of the United States Congress passed the toughest Iran sanctions legislation in history, with only eight members opposing. The bill, which President Obama is expected to sign this week is likely to create serious heartburn for Iranian leaders.
The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions Accountability and Divestment Act, which has now cleared both houses of Congress, lives up to its name. It is an exhaustive sanctions bill that targets the Iranian energy and financial sectors. Most of the legislation's provisions were telegraphed in advance when the core of the bill, then known as the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, initially passed the House and Senate in December and January. Representatives added more provisions during the conference committee, including sanctions on Iranian officials involved in serious human rights abuses, and tough measures against international financial institutions that do business with designated Iranian banks and front companies run by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
While the original bills focused only on choking off Iran's access to refined petroleum, two tweaks that occurred in committee have the potential to inflict even greater pain on the regime's entire energy business — beyond gasoline.


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It's been quite a while since we last saw a Mercedes-Benz down on Alameda's streets, and that's partly because I've set a cutoff year of 1970 for these cars to make the DOTS grade. See, back in the days before M-B's quality control department
went straight to hell recognized economic reality, you could count on your Benz to keep going for interstellar numbers of miles. This means that you still see plenty of 1970s examples on the road, so they just don't seem all that special. But maybe I'm wrong; take the poll below and let me know where you stand on this vital issue.
First of all, this might not be a '66; damn if I can spot the minuscule differences between model years on these things. Experts, let us know if you can tell us the exact year, and what the clues are.
That vertical speedometer is a thing of beauty. Even in its decayed state, this car's interior looks stolidly luxurious.
There was no doubting what type of car you were looking at with this grille. Too bad the hood ornament has been ripped off, as on so many of these cars.
Given this car's weight and low-power 60s diesel engine, it probably doesn't burn up the roads. But how many miles do you suppose that engine is good for between rebuilds?
This windshield damage is pretty scary- it looks like heat as well as impact was involved. Meteorite?
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The state Supreme Court has ordered the Sex Offender Registry Board to reconsider whether a woman convicted on federal charges of sex trafficking of a child should be classified as a sex offender.
The Patriot Ledger reports that the woman, a former prostitute whose name was not released, ran an escort service from 2000 to 2002. Three years after she closed down the service, she was arrested on sex charges.
The woman testified that she started the business after serious physical assaults by pimps. She employed four minors, one of them a 14-year-old with an ID showing that she was 19. After she saw the girl's photo on a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children poster and learned her actual age, she had another employee inform the center where to find the girl.
She pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the 14-year-old and served 17 months in jail.
After her release, she was classified as a level 1 offender, the lowest of three categories. The hearing examiner who made that decision acknowledged the low danger posed by the woman and the low probability that she would commit further offenses.
She appealed on the grounds that the board refused to pay for an expert witness to testify about the lower rate of recidivism among woman and for refusing to consider evidence she offered.
In a ruling issued Wednesday, the court ruled in favor of the woman, citing "compelling scientific evidence that female offenders generally pose a much lower risk of reoffense." The judges said the burden is on the sex offender registry to prove that its classification decisions are sound, which requires reviewing all available evidence.
The court pointed out that Doe had testified that she was a drug abuser when she became a prostitute, and that she encouraged women to leave their pimps and to work for her instead because she offered a safer working environment. She said she stopped using drugs after becoming pregnant in 2002. She went back to school and found work as a waitress, bartender and restaurant manager.


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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN) - President Obama is in the final stages of closing a climate change deal with China and other key nations that is expected to be sealed before the president heads home from the Copenhagen summit late Friday, according to a senior administration official.
A second source, an administration official as well, adds that the president is about to announce a "meaningful agreement."
This official acknowledged that "it's not sufficient to combat the threat of climate change but it's an important first step."
The first official told CNN Obama was going over an "approved text" with Chinese officials that would set a non-binding goal of reducing the Earth's temperature by 2 degrees Celsius over the next decade.
The second official added: "We entered this negotiation at a time when there were significant differences between countries. Developed and developing countries have now agreed to listing their national actions and commitments, a finance mechanism, to set a mitigation target of 2 degrees Celsius and to provide information on the implementation of their actions through national communications, with provisions for international consultations and analysis under clearly defined guidelines."
The second official concluded: "No country is entirely satisfied with each element but this is a meaningful and historic step forward and a foundation from which to make further progress. We thank the emerging economies for their voluntary actions and especially appreciate the work and leadership of the Europeans in this effort."
This was a total waste of time, money, and effort. Nothing was accomplished. THANK GOD. The whole thing was based on a political scam.


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Sammy needs to dust Posey back...don't let him hang over the plate. Get his uniform dirty.... Soto 80's style!
Sammy needs to dust Posey back...don't let him hang over the plate. Get his uniform dirty.... Soto 80's style!
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Dusty's playoff quote is certainly appropriate for tonight's game.
"Our team is a team full of fighters. They never panic. We don't necessarily get all the hits we want all the time, but we find a way to win."
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand
I love that Arroyo and Chapman clip.
What the hell was that commercial?
Oh my god. Latos is up. Dallas is freaking out.
Latos is warming.
Ump has something in his right eye so he's just calling everything on that side a strike.
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This is a rare find at shallow depths-- a juvenile Knobby sea star (Pentaceraster cumingi), usually only found at depths greater that 100'. I spoke with sea star expert Christopher Mah, and he not only feels that ID is probably correct, but told me it's one of the first accounts of a juvenile of this species! Check out Christopher's blog at http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/
If you think all sea stars move slowly, you've never seen a Magnificent sea star. These huge stars (this one was about 30 cm across) glide effortlessly and quickly across the sand, eating primarily other echinoderms. Most Magnificent sea stars (Luidia magnifica) have 10-11 arms and darker coloration...this is a variant sub-species (Luidia aspera) which has reddish markings and only 8 arms--and this specimen has lost one or two and is in the process of regenerating.
Luidia aspera--look at those tube feet!
Luidia aspera--you can see the tip of an arm regenerating in the foreground right.
A tiny sea star--about 6 cm--if the ID on the last orange-red sea star I found was correct, this is another juvenile Knobby sea star (Pentaceraster cumingi), though obviously showing some serious color variation!
This is a somewhat uncommon animal, a Reticulated brittle star (Ophiocoma brevipes)
A fantastic Crown-of-thorns sea star (Acanthaster planci)
A Crown of Thorns sea star (Acanthaster planci)...I'm always quite careful around these stars, those spines are venomous. This one is starting to feed on some finger coral (see next photo)
A. Planci wrapping itself around finger coral...it will soon evert its stomach and digest the coral polyps, leaving a white skeleton behind.
This was really interesting to find! A few weeks ago not far from where this photo was taken, I got a shot of a beautiful Luidia aspera. That species of sea star feeds on echinoderms. I didn't get a photo of L. aspera today...but I DID get this photo of what it leaves behind after devouring its prey....that's a Pebble collector urchin test in the center of the sea star-shaped sand depression...I'm sure you can fill in the details!
A beautifully colored Pincusion star (Culcita novaeguineae)
An enourmous adult Pentaceraster cumingi, nearly a 30 cm across. Note the fantastic pentagram marking at the center, characteristic of the species.
Another look at P. cumingi...
A juvenile Knobby sea star (Pentaceraster cumingi)...as I've mentioned before, these large sea stars are typically found in much deeper water...or so most reference guides say. However, I'm starting to doubt that--I keep encountering juveniles in the shallows, and today I also encountered a full-grown adult (see next photo in gallery).
Crown of Thorns Sea Star
(Acanthaster planci)
Tube feet
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Blind Items Revealed
This former A list tweener "forgot" nipple tape at a show. After her breasts spilled from her outfit twice a designer offered some to the trying her hand at reality host but she said no. The designer isn't inviting her back. You aren't supposed to steal the attention from the show. This designer carries grudges but is actually really nice if you don't screw her or her family over.
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Suicide by carbon monoxide prompts evacuation of Randolph apartments
RANDOLPH - The note on the door said 'Do not enter. Call poison control.'
That was what Keith McGrory saw when he discovered a man had died from what authorities are calling a suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in an apartment in Randolph Thursday morning.
McGrory called police and a hazardous material unit was called in to respond. He then began knocking on residents' doors telling them to evacuate the building.
The 61-year-old maintenance worker at the apartment complex at 45 West St. had been working on cleaning the gutters when he noticed a strong odor coming from the third floor apartment.
The Randolph Fire Department confirmed a body was found but declined to provide further details as they worked on the scene with state fire officials.
State officials said it may have been a "suicide by CO poisoning."
"This morning's case was not a chemical suicide, but rather appears to be suicide by CO poisoning. There were two charcoal hibachis found in the tub," Department of Fire Service spokeswoman Jennifer Mieth.
Officials said no one else in the area or living in the building is currently at risk. The residents will be allowed back in, but there is no timeline yet for their return.
Resident Shawn Davis said he hasn't talked to his next door neighbor in about 4 months. He said they previously talked about the man losing his job.
Other neighbors mentioned a foul odor in the building in recent days.


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The Secret Beyond Matter
Middle East Press Agency (Egypt), 6 September 2008
Adnan Oktar: The commands regarding the People of the Book are set out very clearly in the Qur'an. And the actions and Sunnah of our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) are also very clear. THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK ARE OUR BROTHERS. ARMENIANS, JEWS, THE ORTHODOX, PROTESTANTS, THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, IN OTHER WORDS, ARE ALL OUR BROTHERS. WE BELIEVE IN THE SAME ALLAH. ALLAH IS THE SAME ALLAH IN THE JUDAIC WORLD, THE CHRISTIAN WORLD AND ISLAM. THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME BASIC BELIEFS, FOR WHICH REASON THE EXISTENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK IS A BLESSING. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS A GREAT BLESSING THAT THEY ARE NOT IRRELIGIOUS OR PART OF SOME OTHER HERETICAL MOVEMENT, BUT ARE ACTUALLY THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK. There is nothing to alarm Muslims in this; it is perfectly reasonable. Because, in the Qur'an Allah says that the People of the Book exist. They will do good things and Muslims will do good things.
Kral Karadeniz TV, 30 January 2009
Adnan Oktar: Turkish-Islamic world should constantly stress its good intention, love, compassion and comradeship.Especiallyour Christian and JEWISH BROTHERS; WE SHOULD MAKE THEM FEEL OUR DETERMINATION IN PROTECTING THEM BY BUILDING FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THEM. In other words, we should make make them feel that we cannot think them as separate and they are our most beloved brothers…
Taraf, 28 July 2011
In the United States, the Christian, Muslim and Jewish religious scholars attended a religious ceremony at more than 70 churches on Sunday. They give the world a message of compassion by reading passages from the Holy Books and prayed together.
For the very first time in U.S, the religious scholars of three divine religions came together to pray and gave messages of compassion at more than 70 churches in 32 states.