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Notorious drinking usually results in notorious hangovers. You know – the type of hangover that makes you feel like a mammoth has climbed on top of your head, your temples are about to explode any minute and you've thrown up just about anything but your guts. And when pharmaceuticals can't miraculously erase such consequences of binge drinking, Slavs are left to their own devices to cope with what feels like the worst hangover in the history of mankind with… food. That's correct – as nauseating as it may seem after a promiscuous drinking spree, Slavic people turn to food on the morning after.
Ask any Russian about a homemade hangover remedy and they'll tell you that their go-to choice is solyanka. This briny soup has a plethora of variations, but it's the salty, sour and highly nutritious contents of the soup that provide relief from the dizziness, headache and faintness while boosting energy levels. Meet, potatoes, mushrooms and other ingredients can be added as long as the base remains the same – a savory brine with pickled cucumbers and/ or cabbage, with the latter one being more efficient when swapped for its sauerkraut counterpart.
Pickled juice
Sour and salty foods or beverages are like kryptonite to hangover, so it should come to no surprise that pickled juice works like magic in most cases of hungover Slavs. There's nothing wrong with eating the pickled cucumbers straight out of the jar, but if you think your stomach can't handle them, simply go for the juice. Regardless of whichever spirit you chose last night, it deprived your body of its much needed electrolytes and the sodium-packed pickled juice will help restore it.
Shkembe chorba
Bulgarians are infamous for their tripe soup called shkembe chorba, which can be found all over the country in lowkey taverns and cheap diners. A noteworthy downside to this hangover cure is the fact that your drunken breath will stink even worse than before due to the highly concentrated amount of vinegar and garlic cloves in the soup.
Burek/ börek
Extremely high in carbs, the börek's heavy dough and natural fat from oils and cheeses help the stomach process the alcohol faster while providing a short-lasting, yet effective energy boost from the carbohydrates. A piece of börek won't fix the dehydration issue that comes after serious drinking, but it will absorb some of the toxins in your organism and will aid your weakened body's metabolism.
Beloved by Ukrainians, Russians, Belarussians and other Slavs, borscht is a traditional soup that unsurprisingly enough has strong antioxidant properties. It detoxifies the body, replenishes its vitamin and mineral levels, balances the sodium intake and provides a healthy dosage of liquids served in the form of a colorful veggie-packed soup with an unforgettable taste. Should you feel any hunger while being hungover, borscht is without a doubt the most palatable and easily processed meal for the task.
This popular drink originated in the Middle East and now serves as a hangover cure for many Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula. It's a cold and savory dairy beverage, which is basically yogurt diluted with water and seasoned with lots of salt, quite similar to its widespread cousin kefir. A glass or two of ayran in the morning after a boozy party can ease your post-drinking agonies.
It may sound foolish at first, but have you heard the maxima fight fire with fire? A popular hangover battling formula for some Slavs is to keep drinking once they've become hungover in order to chase the nasty aftermath of the previous night away. There is indeed some truth to it since sooner or later you'll once again become so drunk that you'll forget about any vomit-related impulses. It won't help with your coordination or with your vision, but you'll kick that headache straight to the curb… up until you start sobering up again.


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The Nexus 5 has nothing really left to give in terms of specs, looks and even camera samples, the only thing left is availability which according to a pre-order page on Canadian carrier Wind Mobile, could be coming very soon.
The Canadian carrier, obviously not content to wait for Google to announce the phone, added a pre-order mini-site to their Facebook page, where it was subsequently removed, but not before being sighted by a number of Android fans. The pre-order page included a list of the specs, which marries up with what we already knew of the upcoming device :
We assume that the Wi-Fi 'nc' is merely a typo with the much more well known – and real – Wi-Fi standard 'AC' expected to be included on the phones spec sheet when Google officially unveil the device. The other strange – although not unwelcome – addition, perhaps a design decision by Google is the incorporation of ceramic power and volume buttons.
Also from Canada this morning there were pictures supposedly from an LG Canada employee which shows pallets of Nexus 5 stocks sitting in a non-descript store-room in a Canadian warehouse. The employee has also shown off the retail packaging again, which is similar to that of the Nexus 7(2013) packaging.
With stock ready to go – in Canada at least – the announcement of the Nexus 5 and Android 4.4, has to be close surely? We only have to wait for an invite to be sent out to media and we just hope that will be soon. Are you an LG employee in Australia? Have you got stockpiles in a warehouse somewhere here? Let us know.


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Chad Gaudin signed a minor-league deal with the Phillies three weeks ago, but he failed the physical exam and was released today.
Gaudin would have earned $750,000 if he made the Opening Day roster out of spring training after throwing 97 innings with a 3.06 ERA for the Giants at age 30. However, he missed time with carpal tunnel syndrome that required surgery, which is presumably the cause of the failed physical now.
At the time of the signing Gaudin was linked to a handful of teams, so it's possible he'll be able to land a similar contract elsewhere.


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One day in early November 1862, Susan B. Anthony and her father Daniel were reading and discussing antislavery newspapers when he suddenly began suffering acute pain in Continue reading
One day in early November 1862, Susan B. Anthony and her father Daniel were reading and discussing antislavery newspapers when he suddenly began suffering acute pain in Continue reading
Why was D.R. Anthony so fiercely abolitionist? Events such as the following would have fueled his anger. Today's post gives us a typical example of how proslavery forces treated John Brown, an antislavery man whom Anthony revered and probably knew. (D.R.'s brother Merritt had fought with Brown several years earlier in southern Kansas.)
Living only 25 miles away from the following tense encounter between a proslavery posse and Brown, Anthony might have stood with the guards who protected the famous hero. Even if Anthony didn't, he certainly would have followed the news with as much anxiety as did New Hampshire emigrant Julia Louisa Lovejoy, whose letter back east gives us this riveting account.
For the death of John Brown, the Missouri governor and others offered $5,500. Lured by this "bait," Lovejoy reported, a pro-slavery posse headed by Marshal J.P. Wood tracked "our champion" (Brown) to a cabin where the abolitionist holed up with a dozen African-Americans.
This cabin he had strongly barricaded, and told his pursuers "he would never yield, neither would he be taken alive." The Marshal and his force surrounded the cabin and ordered Brown to "surrender!" Brown replied, "Come and take me." The officer dared not undertake the job, and one hundred more like him could not capture those indomitable spirits that well knew what would follow if they were taken prisoners.1
A stand-off occurred. Brown's group, armed with Sharpes rifles, was guarded by a company of twenty-five antislavery supporters. Giving voice to the bodyguard, Lovejoy wrote, "Take care, sir, if one gray hair on that venerable head is singed, your whole party will be riddled with balls!"
The Marshal's posse sent for reinforcements to Atchison (about four miles away) and rumored that two cannons would soon arrive to explode the cabin. In an oddly turned phrase, Lovejoy wrote that United States Army troops who engaged in "pretended pursuit" seem to have sufficiently distracted the posse, during which time:
Brown sallied forth and took three of the Atchison men prisoners (one of them, it is affirmed, he recognized as the miscreant who shot his own son, F. Brown, at the "Ossawottamie battle.") He also took four of their horses that they had secreted in the timber, and then with his freed slaves and party pulled for Iowa, taking prisoners and horses along with him!
Thus Brown escaped from Kansas in February 1859, just eight months before his fateful raid on the arsenal in Harper's Ferry, WV. In a summary of this western event, Lovejoy correctly predicted the manner of Brown's death, saying, "We fear now that Brown and his party will be intercepted by an overwhelming force, but he cannot be captured alive." "
Photo courtesy of Kansas Historical Society
I have blogged extensively about the Anthony family in Kansas and Martha's Vineyard because those two areas were the focus of my first book in "The Dauntless Series." In the process, I've slighted one of the most obvious places anyone should mention when discussing the Anthony family: Rochester, NY, where all of Susan's nuclear family lived at various times between 1848 and 1907.
So here's my commitment: I will include the Rochester connection on a regular basis from now on. Not only am I currently researching Rochester sites and people that the Anthonys knew, but I have also created a program entitled "All for Suffrage: the Kin of Susan B. Anthony" where I will share my findings in person with a Powerpoint program. Several libraries have already booked this presentation, in addition to costumed appearances, to celebrate New York State's centennial of woman suffrage.
If you want to share some Rochester historical tidbits or old photos, please scroll down to the bottom of this page and use the comment box.
I am excited that tomorrow I will be getting a private tour of the Talman Building on Rochester's Main Street. It was the home of Frederick Douglass's newspaper The North Star and also a site on the Underground Railroad. Watch for upcoming entries and photos from that visit!
About the photo on today's post: I never stop puzzling over it. It was taken on the Anthony farm near Rochester, and none of the people in it are identified. Do you find their poses as curious as I do? I like to think that the man on the extreme right is Daniel Read, but have no way of knowing other than that he seems to be copping an attitude!
This is the home where both Daniels–Susan's father and brother–lived, as well as Merritt. None of the men in the family ever lived on Madison Street, where the famous Susan B. Anthony House stands today. Two chapters of my book take place in this farm home.
Thousands experienced the beauty and peace of Mt. Hope Cemetery yesterday when they gathered at the grave of Susan B. Anthony in a fitting tribute to one of America's greatest women. Rochester officials estimate the crowd at 10,000 visitors. Continue reading
John Brown's fiasco at Harper's Ferry galvanized the nation.
Merritt Anthony, like his brother Daniel Read Anthony (D.R.), put aside the pacifism that is often associated with Quakerism and took up arms to free the slaves. In doing so, he joined one of America's most radical and controversial opponents of slavery.
John Brown went to Kansas in 1855 and immediately stirred things up. He not only freed many African-Americans and sent them along the Underground Railroad, but he also, at one point, stated that he had "liberated 150 cattle from slavery" in Missouri. He soon became a target of southern sympathizers, and the attacks went back and forth. His massacre of proslavery men at Potawatomie Creek in 1856 and his brave stand against southern sympathizers at Osawatomie went a long way to earning his adopted state the moniker "Bleeding Kansas." Daniel Read Anthony also pitched into that fray, but more on that later.
Merritt Anthony first took up residence in Osawatomie, about fifty miles south of Leavenworth, where D.R. settled. In between the two cities lies the city of Lawrence, an abolitionist-built enclave which D.R. helped to found in 1854. John Brown inadvertently caused much suffering to a friend of D.R. named John Doy.
Doy was a doctor from Rochester, NY. With D.R., he was among the first easterners to arrive in Kansas with the Emigrant Aid Company. Unlike D.R., he settled in Lawrence permanently. In 1859, the citizens of Lawrence decided that it was dangerous for ex-slaves to remain in the area and began escorting them to safer places. Brown agreed to lead one group and Doy another, sharing the men who went along as bodyguards. Unfortunately, Brown decided that his group was in greater danger than Doy's, and departed first, taking all the guards with him.
Despite the shortage of guards, John Doy and his twenty-five year-old son Charles set off with their refugees and were beset by border ruffians from Missouri. The African-Americans were sent to the slave market and the Doys were taken to stand trial after spending months in subhuman conditions in jail. Charles was freed but John was sentenced for sixty-five years and moved to a more secure prison. In a daring escape, Charles and nine other northerners from Lawrence tricked the jailer and freed Doy. These valiant rescuers became known as the "Immortal Ten."
Unfortunately, Charles' encounter with mortality came even sooner than his father's. About a year after the Immortal Ten became famous for their exploits, Charles Doy died at the hands of proslavery sympathizers. Soon after that John Brown, who put this father and son at so much risk, was hanged as an abolitionist martyr.
These principled, daring men were the associates, and probably heroes, of Merritt and D.R. Anthony.
In 1845, when several of the Anthony family moved to Rochester, NY, this section of the Erie Canal probably looked much as it does today. Continue reading
Quakerism was at the center of the Anthony family. It was a bee in the bonnet of Susan's antislavery activities that began in New York State, and a spur atop the saddle for Merritt and Daniel as they rode with the Kansas cavalry in the Civil War.
Hearing about Susan's westward-bound brothers, I began to wonder about their similarity to their famous sister. Who among their parents' dinner guests inspired Susan, Daniel and Merritt to become such active proponents of reform? Continue reading
Anthony's family members were the movers and shakers of the 19th century; thus, the header photo above appropriately portrays people on the move. Susan (SBA) has been my passion since 1993, when I first became a docent at her home in Rochester, NY. Continue reading


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James Franco appeared on Howard Stern this morning and addressed his appearance on Lindsay Lohan's secret sex list. Maybe they kissed a decade ago (WITH TONGUE), he admitted, but "I will swear on my mother's life that I never had sex with her."
"All right, we maybe kissed… it was lame. I can't believe she put me on that private list, she's so delusional!"
"When we made out it was so long ago … I was like a nice guy; It was also like, 'What the hell am I doing?' She was young," he said.
"I don't know what to say other than we were at this hotel during a very dark period of her history and I think she liked — it seemed pretty damn clear — that she liked me," Franco said.
Blergh. "She was young." [Radar]
Zac Efron opened up about his "never-ending struggle" with addiction, and what happened in that weird fight he got into on Skid Row.
"I had a friend come pick me up late at night — we were looking for a place downtown to get a bite and catch up," he says, without identifying the friend. "We were having trouble finding somewhere — a lot of places were closed — and the car ran out of gas off the 110. It was ridiculous. We had to pull over, and I called Uber."
While waiting, "A homeless guy, or vagrant, tapped on the driver's-side window. Before I knew it, he [the friend] was out of the car, and they started fighting. I saw that [the homeless man] was carrying some sort of a knife, or shank, and I got out of the car to disarm him. At some point, he dropped the knife, and I got hit pretty hard in the face — and almost instantly the police were there to break up the fight." After that, the two friends went home. Efron calls it "the most terrifying moment in my life."
There seem to be some significant omissions in that story, but whatever. He doesn't owe us info. [THR]
- Hailee Steinfeld has been cast in Pitch Perfect 2. [Variety]
- Here's Kate Upton on the cover of Vogue in a swimsuit that she's going to immediately mail to me, RIGHT, KATE!?!?!? [Vogue]
- The two leads in A Fault in Our Stars are on the cover of EW looking "like one of those composites of the perfect human face," says one Jezebel staffer. [EW]
- Would you listen to a Kanye West spoken word album? [TheGrio]
- Dolce AND Gabbana got sentenced to prison for tax evasion. [Style]
- OMG, Diane Keaton is selling a bunch of her stuff and you can look at it. [TheCut]
- Terry Richardson shot Mariah Carey. Gross. [TheLifeFiles]
- Miley Cyrus had to cancel her Amsteram show because she's still sick. [E!]
- Beyonce sent 90 white roses to the family of a teenage superfan who died of cancer. [People]
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What Is a King Clip Fish?
King clip fish are long, slender fish found in the waters of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Members of the cusk-eel family, king clips are also known as kingklips, Chilean lings and pink lings. The king clip has a fish-like head and a body like an eel.
King clips live in rocky areas near the bottom of the seabed at depths of between 125 feet and over 3,200 feet. Juveniles are typically found in the shallowest water. King clips are usually orange, pink and brown on top and have white bellies, but they may also be red, golden and black. They grow to up to 6 feet long and weigh up to 50 pounds.
King clips have long gills, and their pelvic fins are located below their eyes, in the chin area. Even though they have an eel-like appearance, king clips are not close relatives of more traditional eel species. They are in fact close relatives of codfish.
King clips have firm, dense flesh that comes off in loose flakes. Their flavor is described as sweet, delicate and mild. They are a main ingredient in spicy Chilean bouillabaisse and are a popular menu item in South Africa. King clips themselves feed on squid, hake, mantis shrimp, dragonets and other fish.


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These Simple Makeup Mistakes Are Aging You And You Don't Even Realize It
Though you probably never intentionally tried to master makeup mistakes that age you, they happen. There are so many makeup techniques that make you look older, and not in a high school kid trying to get into the club kind of way. The most common makeup mistakes can accidentally bring out your fine lines, highlight your wrinkles, and bring an unflattering focus to everything else that properly used makeup is supposed to hide.
Is your makeup aging you? Don't worry – even if you've accidentally made one of these mistakes, there are simple fixes. Whether you've occasionally overly lined your lips or mismatched your foundation, these tricks and tips will help you avoid those missteps in the future. In the end, a simple change in approach may be just the thing to give you a younger, more vibrant appearance.
Stretching Out Your Outer Eye CornersPhoto: https://www.pexels.com / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain
The Mistake: Tugging or stretching out your eyes in the attempt to get your wings even while applying eyeliner can actually have the opposite effect. That motion stresses and crinkles your skin, resulting in uneven, jagged lines.
The Fix: Try looking down instead or closing your eyes one at a time. Apply your liner in gentle swipes as you move across the lid, which will give you the chance to fill in any gaps and give you a smoother line all the way across.
Overly Lining Your Lower LidPhoto: Viacheslav Nikolaenko / Shutterstock.com
The Mistake: Overly heavy lining on your lower lids might've made you look like a rock star in high school. But as you get older, that dash of pigment gives your eyes a smaller, heavier look and can even give the impression of dragging your face down.
The Fix: If you're going to line your bottom eyelid, keep it light. Rather than using eyeliner around your whole eye, try applying it only on the top lid and instead using a thin line of brown eyeshadow on the lower one.
Going Overboard With Glittery EyeshadowPhoto: jane doe / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.0
The Mistake: Though you might assume iridescent eyeshadow looks youthful, the opposite may actually be true. Many light-reflecting shadows end up highlighting eye creases.
The Fix: If you do want to rock a bit of glitter, first cover your lids in a matte shadow and then add a little bit of shimmer to the inner corners.
Applying Heavy LipstickPhoto: Marcell Mizik / Shutterstock.com
The Mistake: Using heavy lipstick that's either too bright or dark may not do you any favors when it comes to accentuating laugh lines.
The Fix: If you're looking for a more youthful look, go for a soft lip liner that's close to your natural shade and then follow it up with a soft colored gloss. It should give you a more youthful appearance, with the added bonus of keeping your lips moisturized.


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This field of genetically-modified soy might look nice, but the Roundup
Ready system has turned out to be a Darwinian experiment on steroids.
When a cousin of mine planted his first field of Roundup Ready soybeans in southwest Iowa back in the 1990s, he told me, in a somewhat resigned way, "Well, it will take about five years for weeds to become resistant to this."
He was exaggerating, but not by much. These days, the farm press is full of reports from across the country, and indeed the world, of herbicide-resistant superweeds popping up in farmers' fields at an unprecedented rate. My cousin knew enough about evolutionary biology to figure out that if you use enough of one single chemical to kill weeds, it's inevitable that some of those weeds will survive, reproducing offspring that resist being killed by subsequent sprayings.
And the Roundup Ready system has turned out to be a Darwinian experiment on steroids. Soon after Monsanto started marketing seeds that produced crops genetically engineered to tolerate the herbicide glyphosate (marketed under the brand name Roundup), farmers adapted the technology in droves. The advantages for farmers were evident early on: they could plant their crop and then spray it once it had started growing, reducing the expensive, and erosive, mechanical weed control methods of the past. And since they were spraying the crop rather than saturating the soil at planting, less of it was required. Finally, glyphosate is known as a less toxic chemical than older herbicides, and supposedly does not hang around as long in the environment to cause problems.
Today herbicide tolerant crops account for 93 percent of the soybeans and 85 percent of the corn grown in the U.S., according to the USDA. This technology is ubiquitous in Farm Country, and it's made many, many fortunes for its manufacturer, Monsanto.
But time is running out for this cash cow. Acreage with weeds that resist being killed by glyphosate almost doubled from 32.6 million in 2010 to 61.2 million 2012, according to a 31-state survey conducted by Stratus Agri-Marketing. Nearly half of all U.S. farmers Stratus surveyed said they had glyphosate resistant weeds on their farm in 2012, up from 34 percent of farmers in 2011.
And now another high-flying genetically engineered agricultural product—corn plants modified to resist being killed by insects—is succumbing to the cold hard facts of basic biology.
In late August there were reports out of Illinois that corn rootworm, a devastating pest, was showing serious signs of being resistant to "Bt corn"—corn genetically engineered to fend off these insects (76 percent of corn is of the Bt variety). More reports emerged over the summer from across the Midwest, prompting Environmental Protection Agency officials to visit problem fields themselves.
"Instead of making things easier, we've just made corn rootworm management harder and a heck of a lot more expensive," said University of Minnesota pest management specialist Bruce Potter on Minnesota Public Radio.
By mid-September farmers were reporting that the stalks of genetically engineered corn were being pushed over by winds — a sign that ravenous rootworms were taking their toll in areas they weren't supposed to. To make things worse, the insect damages the plant's ability to absorb water — a particularly thorny problem as parts of the Corn Belt suffer through a second year of major drought.
Bugs and weeds that are finding ways to fool Bt and Roundup technology are bad news for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that it means farmers are being forced to return to using the same nasty chemicals GMOs were supposed to make irrelevant. The irony is that one way Monsanto, the USDA and other backers of GMOs sold the public on the safety of this technology in the early days was to argue that it would mean fewer pesticides would be used, and the ones that were used would be less of an environmental and human health threat.
There are now entire field days dedicated to how to deal with superweeds. Agronomists, many of whom work for seed and chemical companies, are recommending "diversifying" the chemical toolbox by returning to some old favorites like atrazine.
In a 2009 analysis of USDA statistics, researcher Charles Benbrook found that genetically modified crops have actually increased pesticide use by 318 million pounds since 1996, compared to what would have probably been used in the absence of GMO varieties. Herbicide use on crops genetically engineered to resist weed killers rose over 31 percent from 2007 to 2008 alone. That makes the overall chemical footprint of GMO crops "decidedly negative," concluded Benbrook.
In an extensive 2010 report on GMO crop technology, the National Research Council warned that although products like Roundup Ready seeds provide some benefits to farmers, superpests threaten to make such advantages moot.
One positive development has emerged from all this talk of superweeds and superbugs: university crop experts are getting desperate enough to recommend that farmers utilize diverse crop rotations and cover crops to disrupt pest cycles. Such sustainable methods are not only good for the environment, but Monsanto hasn't figured out how to patent them yet.
Brian DeVore works for the Land Stewardship Project, a nonprofit organization fostering sustainable agriculture since 1982. DeVore writes for and edits the group's publication, The Land Stewardship Letter.
Image: "Sky Over Roundup Ready Soybean Field" by Daniel X. O'Neil, licensed under Creative Commons.


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Chicago, April 1943. More of those yellow Proviso rails. "General view of one of the departure yards at Chicago & North Western RR's Proviso Yard." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the OWI. View full size.
F.S. Adams - This picture was taken facing west. Yard 4 is east of this vantage point. If you look closely you can see the CRO towers at the west end of this yard 5 so those cars (far background beyond the Wolf road bridge) are ones being pushed to the Hump. The steam locomotive in the foreground is most likely one of the pull down crews that will couple and then pull tracks east into yard 4.
As a side note the only people I ever heard refer to yard 5 as the "bowl" were clueless trainmasters. Any rail spending time in this yard knew that it was downhill all the way from the west end. I can speak with some authority having spent many years working as a skateman being responsible for keeping those freight cars from running out of the east end. No "bowl" grading existed.
The location as stated by Anonymous Tipster is the east, or "pulldown" end of Yard 5 which was the classification bowl. The cars in the background would not have been being pushed to the hump for classification, as they would have already been "humped" or classified into Yard 5. More likely they were being handled by one of the "pulldown" yard engines which would couple up all the cars on the classification track, then pull them into Yard 4 which was one of the departure yards.
This shot was taken from the light tower at the east end of Yard 5 facing west. Mannheim Road bridge is east from this location. Near background is the Wolf Road bridge. The far background shows freight cars being shoved up to the "hump" for classification.
I have passed over that yard many times on Mannheim Road. Is that the bridge in the far background?
I don't see a catwalk on any aerial photos I can find, any clues?
Also, is this view facing west? I think it is from the Wolff Road bridge comments.
I'm kind of a freak for noticing sites and then wanting to know their history. After seeing all the Proviso yard pics here, I thought "that might be the huge rail yard I have driven over many times" and so it seems to be!
Plus, being a WWII buff makes it more interesting.
I grew up in Bellwood in the early fifties and I spent many hours as a brat, chasing around through the East end of Proviso Yard. It was a very short bike ride in those days.
The bridge in the background appears to be the Wolf Road bridge, which was torn down before my time, but the remnants of the south end of the bridge were used for Soap Box Derby races before finally being leveled for an industrial park. Proviso is in the middle of this Google Map.
Great photo. Amazingly, as railroad locations go this location is remarkably similar today -- Proviso Yard is still over 60 tracks wide and busy as all hell. Of course it's now Union Pacific and there's no steam -- though as of a few years ago several coaling towers were still standing along the line toward Chicago.
From Google Earth I believe this was photographed from 41deg 53'49" N, 87deg 53'45" W, and facing west. There is today a catwalk over the tracks there -- if it was there in 1943 it was almost certainly where the shot was taken. The small yellow building in the foreground is gone, and the tracks have been slightly reconfigured.


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Each Tuesday morning I get up early to drop my daughter off at the bus stop. We don't say much to each other as we wait in the dark for the lights to peer around the corner. When I see the lights, I push the button to open the van's sliding door. Luca grabs her backpack and cello. I pat her on the head and tell her I love her before watching, what looks like a large cello with small feet, cross the street to the bus.
I won't be there when she gets home from school so I rely on Kim to share how her day went. The same goes for our three other children. Monday through Friday I'm a part of their lives in short bursts lasting but a few minutes here and there.
I had no idea how I'd take to fatherhood. In all honestly, I didn't know if I'd have children. I recall telling my mother a few years into my first marriage that I didn't need children to be happy. I'm certain my answer was, in many ways, a reflection of how I felt about myself twenty years ago. What I tried to convey to my mother was that I was already happy and having children wouldn't change that.
What I didn't realize twenty years ago was how much joy children would bring into my life.
Last night we piled the kids in the van and drove around town without a destination in mind. Lincoln and Anna were reciting lines from Napoleon Dynamite. Kai tried his best to join in while Luca was telling us about the latest book she read. It was pure chaos. I can't imagine the 20 year old me getting excited about spending a couple hours in a van full of kids driving around Seattle in a rain storm.
Kids have a way of recalibrating my priorities. Balancing my personal hobbies, my career, and my friends occasionally comes at the expense of spending time with my family. I'm blessed to have married a woman who loves being a mom to our children. We've both learned to recognize when the other needs a breather and not take it personally.
Most of my friends around my age are watching their kids go off to college. Our oldest won't head off to middle school till next year. That used to bother me because I was jealous they'd get to travel, purchase smaller cars and do all that fun stuff financial planning commercials tell us empty nesters are doing. Maybe I'll feel the same way after my kids hit their teens and begin dating and driving.
But next Tuesday morning those same friends should be jealous of me.


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Better English could do miracles for Ukraine
English is ubiquitous language in the internet and the language for all things about programming. Communities like StackOverflow, HackerNews or Reddit became global in reach exactly because English is so universally spread.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's obvious!" — you might be thinking. OK, so why don't we apply this in everyday life?
It is crucial to become more open and comprehensible to the outside world and to integrate with global community. Globalisation and technologies continue to make the world smaller by the hour.
My point is that we should force ourselves to use English more often, even when most of us speak Russian or Ukrainian natively.
We can't afford to be on the outskirts of this new global village.
Unlike Russia, Ukraine doesn't have a big local market for IT. At least, not yet. Few Ukrainian companies reached sophistication and maturity to demand and buy top-notch development services at the globally competitive rates.
Being part of the global world is fun and rewarding. There is so much going on everwhere, why narrow yourself artificially?
Take for instance developers.org.ua. There is no English content whatsoever even though there is an audience for this. We can do better.
Same with conferences. It puzzles me to no end why Startup Crash Test is all Russian. Don't you guys want international exposure and coverage?
There are exceptions, for instance AgileEE or PyCon Ukraine and I really wish there will be more events like these.
There are so many bright people here in Ukraine and it's a pity this talent is largely hidden behind a language curtain.
Some politics to conclude
It's maddening Ukrainan society spends so much time arguing about Russian vs Ukrainian. What's the fucking difference? Make English a required exam to get a high school diploma, like Israel does and China does. That would make miracles!
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Where to Eat the Best Sushi in Dublin
In the last few years a lot of Japanese restaurants have emerged in the Irish capital and it's now easy to find sushi almost everywhere, even in supermarkets. But where are the best places to eat sushi in Dublin?' I hear you ask. Here is a selection of spots that never disappoint when you have a sushi craving.
Musashi on Capel Street is always a busy spot, likely down to the simple fact that it's very good. This Japanese restaurant has a wide selection of sushi and sashimi on their menu, they are all freshly made to order and prices are reasonable. The menu also features ramen and noodle dishes as well as Japanese grilled meat specialities. If you are on the Southside, the sister restaurant Zakura on Wexford street is equally good.
Musashi, 15 Capel Street, Dublin 1
Kokoro has two branches in Dublin city centre, one of Liffey Street and its Southside counterpart on South William Street. It's a modern funky spot, which mostly does take-away food. They have many different types of sushi, all sold in pairs. Their bento boxes have to be the best items on the menu, try the omega 3 Salmon superior bento, it is my favourite!
Kokoro, 19 Lower Liffey Street, Dublin 1
J2 Sushi and Tea
J2 Sushi and Tea is a real hidden gem, located in the CHQ building in the IFSC. Probably better known by the office workers of the area, this place looks delightfully Japanese and specialises, as its name suggests, in sushi and tea. The sushi is freshly made in their open kitchen where you can see the chefs at work. They have 16 different sushi combos ranging from €6.50 to €14 but you can also buy nigiri, maki and much more. This branch is not open at the weekends but the sister restaurant J2 Sushi Grill is also well worth a visit.
J2 Sushi and Tea, CHQ Building North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
Yamamori Sushi
Yamamori Sushi on Lower Ormond Quay is great if you are looking to eat sushi with a group. The premises are huge, with four different dining areas including a covered outdoor sitting area. They have many sushi and sashimi selections that are prepared to order, always fresh and delicious. Prices are a little higher than the other places recommended on this list but the restaurant really feels like a place where you can enjoy a sushi dinner with friends.
Yamamori Sushi, 38/39 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1
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pH Determination Lab
In our daily life, we frequently encounter acids and bases. Many foods, such as citrus fruits
and tomatoes contain acids. Many household cleaners, such as ammonia, contain bases. pH
is a measure of the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution. pH can be measured in a
variety of ways. Two common ways of measuring pH are using pH paper and a digital pH
meter. In this lab we will be using pH paper to measure pH.
pH is related to the hydronium ion concentration using the following equation:
pH = -log[H3O+]
The range of pH is 0-14.
pH < 7 is acidic pH > 7 is basic
pH = 7 is neutral
Prepare your notebook. When the lab is complete your lab notebook should include the
1. Include pH Determination Lab in the Table of Contents
2. Write the title of the lab on the top of the page.
3. Date/number the page (if you work on it over a few days, date each time you are
working). Sign in your lab notebook each time you stop working.
4. Record the Purpose of Experiment in your own words. Remember the purpose is the
overall question that will be answered by collecting the data and doing any
requested calculations.
5. Indicate PPE (personal protection equipment) required while performing the lab:
goggles, gloves, lab apron, and closed-toed shoes.
6. Prepare your notebook to record observations by writing tables.
7. Complete the post-lab question.
pH Determination Activity:
In this lab you will measure the pH of several products found in your household using pH
paper. Keep in mind the pH scale and how it is related to the acidity and basicity of a
product. Also consider the limitations of using pH paper instead of a digital pH meter.
Materials/Equipment needed:
pH paper; allow the paper to be exposed to air until it is a yellow color (pH = 7 below)
1 Tbsp each of 3 food items and 3 cleaning items. They should be water soluble and not
highly colored.
Weighing boats
Part 1: Colorimetric determination of pH
1. To complete part 1, you will need a weighing boat, pipette and a strip of pH paper.
Do not place the dropper directly into the containers of the food items or the
cleaning items.
2. To determine the pH of each solution using broad range indicator paper, place a
single drop of the chemical on the paper and compare the color of the paper with
the color chart below. The reading should be done within 2 minutes of applying the
drop because some chemicals will destroy the dyes that create the different colors.
3. Record the item tested and the pH in the data table.
Data Table
Item used pH
Post-Lab Questions
1. What general observation can you make about the pH of food items?
2. What general observations can you make about the pH of cleaning supplies?
3. What problems are associated with colorimetric methods for pH determination?
4. Pick three solutions above and calculate the free hydronium ion concentration,
[H3O+] using [H3O+] = 10-pH.
Works cited: Mullins, N.J., & Milczanowski, S.E. (2020). Lab Manual for Introductory Chemistry
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EDITORIAL BY Caroline Risacher
If one had to pick the most notable Bolivian characteristics it would be their resilience and determination. It is not uncommon to come across marches in La Paz; Bolivians chant and protest with an unbreakable zeal, and you can see that they are not about to give up. Bolivia will probably survive any of the incoming end of the world scenarios that are looming over us. There is a good reason for this.
As the immortal chuños on our cover illustrate, there are things in Bolivia that will survive us all. The chuño, a lyophilized potato, goes through successive freezing and sun-drying cycles in order to become the ultimate survival food. It is the epitome of Bolivian nature and exemplifies an intrinsic Bolivian trait. We never give up.
This month, we are celebrating our 75th issue of Bolivian Express. As we have explored in the previous 74, Bolivia has an undeniable rich history and culture. But it also has an heritage that it struggles to preserve. The crumbling architecture of Sorata can attest to that. And optimum preservation demands maximum toil.
Undoubtedly, Bolivia's past is filled with lessons for the present, such as Sebastiana, who has come back in 2017. The eponymic heroine of the iconic 1953 film, Vuelve Sebastiana, is returning in graphic novel form, breathing new life to her story and to the Chipayas. Different lessons were learnt when we traveled to the disaffected ski resort of Chacaltaya, to watch olympic participant José Manuel ski down the slope in his Calgary 88 ski gear. Still dusting the snowflakes from our pens, we eased into conversation with La crítica y el poeta, whose critical analysis of distant Bolivian poets leaves further food for thought.
While the critics revive the classic, the green areas of La Paz and Bolivia are left to both Bohemia, an initiative that produces biodegradable paper with seeds inside, and Emaverde, who works hard to maintain and replant the trees of La Paz.
Behind these efforts at preservation and regeneration we found people whose work can seem in vain, but whose passion and hope inspired us to produce this issue. Individuals who, against all odds, and in an uncompromising and unfavourable world, fight for a cause: the skiers of Chacaltaya, a city official in Sorata, poets, a film director, a young entrepreneur, green space workers in La Paz and jugglers in Cochabamba.
We invite you in, to read about the past, to understand how it is shaping our present and future. But the future may not be as certain as we would like. Temperatures are rising. And like the glacier on Chacaltaya, the chuños of the Cumbre may become another casualty of global warming. With revival comes conservation - otherwise all these efforts will have been short-lived. We can learn from these lessons, to preserve our present and prepare for the future.
A Country of Poets
23 Aug, 2017 | Rosie Collier
Bolivian poetry is recognised in a new collection – and finds its voice in the streets, bars and cafés.Mónica Velásquez is the general researcher and coordinator of La crítica y el poeta, a collection...
Performing Life Bolivia
23 Aug, 2017 | Hannah Chukwu
Photo: Hannah ChukwuBreathing life into young performersThe streets of the residential neighborhood Montenegro in Cochabamba are dusty, sparse and sprawling. At sunrise, the vast expanse of land is pu...
Chuños and Tuntas
23 Aug, 2017 | Felix Medlock
Photo: Iván RodriguezUnearthing Bolivia's potato traditionsThe chuño and tunta are traditional ingredients in Bolivian cuisine used in a wide range of dishes, notably chairo, a soup consisting of vege...
Sebastiana Returns
23 Aug, 2017 | Raquel Diaz
Photo: Iván RodriguezA classic of Bolivian cinema receives new life as a graphic novel Flipping through the pages of one of the two copies in existence of ¡Vuelve Sebastiana! Los Chipayas, a graphic n...
Bohemia PAPEL
23 Aug, 2017 | Hannah Chukwu
Photo: Hannah ChukwuPlanting seeds of hope for Bolivia's sustainable futureWalking into the Bohemia Papel workshop feels a little like walking into Wonderland. Every surface is covered in a miscellany...
A Greener La Paz
23 Aug, 2017 | Daniel Johnson
Photo: Courtesy of EMAVERDEEmaverde's mission to protect and create parks in the cityLa Paz, which spreads across 472 km², is fairly big by Bolivian standards. While its little sister, El Alto, gives...
Mauricio López
24 Aug, 2017 | Nick Ferris
Photo: Iván RodriguezThe young face of a new Bolivian cuisine From the most succulent pork terrine and delectably crispy lamb mains, to a starter of alligator escabeche or pudding of milk whey sorbet,...
La Paz Aims to Be a Super Host
24 Aug, 2017 | Michael Protheroe
Photo: Iván RodriguezThe changing face of tourism in La PazIn 2014, after a successful Internet campaign, La Paz was included on the New7Wonders Cities list. As a result of this, the municipal agency...
The Slopes of Bolivian Skiing
23 Aug, 2017 | Felix Medlock
Text: Editorial BoardPhotos: Carlos IbañezIs There a Future?Chacaltaya, an hour and a half north of La Paz, was the highest-altitude ski resort in the world until 2009, when it closed due to lack of s...
Seeking the Past in Modern Bolivia
24 Aug, 2017 | Nick Ferris
Photos: Nick FerrisA journey to Sorata, to experience life in colonial timesWalking around central La Paz, amidst the exhaust fumes and market stalls, it's hard to know what things were like at the ti...
The Dos and Don'ts of El Alto Market
23 Aug, 2017 | Rossie Collier
Photos: Esteban TerrazasHere at Bolivian Express we're giving you a 'Dos and Don'ts' guide of the best second-hand clothes on offer at El Alto market. Forget the alpaca jumpers and 'gringo' trousers a...


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Automation Could Boost Federal Productivity—And Save $41B a Year
Federal employees could focus their attention complex tasks instead of email.
Automating simple tasks such as opening emails, collecting social media statistics and conducting repetitive calculations could save the federal government billions of dollars annually, a report shows.
The federal government stands to save a minimum of $3.3 billion and 96.7 federal work hours by creating bots that can free up human workers to do more complex tasks, according to a Deloitte study. Deloitte advises federal customers on how to incorporate bots into organizations.
At the higher end of Deloitte's estimate is that the federal government could save up to 1.2 billion hours and $41.1 billion. Though "large government job losses are unlikely," automated technology—which might include more advanced forms of artificial intelligence—could leave up to 25 percent of current workers available for other tasks, the report said.
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Some agencies are already starting to take advantage of automation. For instance, the Homeland Security Department's Customs and Immigration Services uses a natural-language processing virtual assistant named EMMA that processes about 500,000 typed questions a month. DHS incorporates user feedback about how helpful EMMA was to improve the chatbot.
Other agencies might begin by automating tasks involving speech recognition and simple decisions based on the "if/then" framework, the report said. Document searches might be another easily automated task. Deloitte concluded electronic document discovery could identify about 95 percent of relevant documents in a specific case, compared to just 50 percent for human searchers.
Consumers appear to be on board. About 63 percent of consumers and business decision-makers think artificial intelligence could help society, and 59 percent said it might help people live "more fulfilling lives," according to a recent PwC report surveying 2,500 people. On the venture capital side, there have been about 605 venture investments over the last two years, totaling about $5 billion over 605 deals.
About 46 percent think AI would take away jobs, and 23 percent thought automation could have "serious, negative implications."
In fact, the majority of consumers thought it would be more important to access better services than to preserve those jobs. For instance, about 80 percent of respondents thought it was worth getting better legal advice, even from a bot, than to keep lawyers around. About 66 percent thought the same for transportation professionals and customer service representatives.


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May 21, 2010
Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
3 comments:
- Ilse said...
ENFP "Journalist". These people love novelty and surprises. They are big on emotions and expression. Life is an exciting drama. They are good at sales, advertising, politics, and acting. 5% of the total population.
I don't know about that....
yours is very fitting, though!
cool entry.
- Sunday, May 23, 2010
- Bridget Boland said...
ESFJ- The social status of successful people can be quite alluring to ESFJs and many marry prosperous mates and encourage them to accumulate the material signs of prosperity. Other ESFJs seem to fit in with the poor and the needy. In either case their dependability, dedication, and commitment to providing for the needs of others is, at times, overlooked. This can lead to the ESFJ feeling unappreciated and neglected. They can harbor uncomfortable feelings, which they then feel guilty and shameful about, and then they find themselves suffering from emotional denial.
- Wednesday, May 26, 2010
- Kristin said...
Bridget - your description is OUT OF HAND. I mean some things yes, but others...kind of hostile sounding. I am going to look up more about ESFJs :)
Ils - yours sounds good in many ways - I love the part about emotions and expressions, you are so good at that :)
- Wednesday, May 26, 2010


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A symbolic moment earlier, I updated my Linked-in profile. From September 1st I am Communications and Collaboration Architect at the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team.
Excited doesn't really cover it – even if there are some "new school" nerves too. I've spent the last three years working with people I thought the world of, so I'm sad to say goodbye to them; but this is a role I'd accept at almost any company – but at a company where I'd take just about any role – I've joked with that if they had offered me a job as senior floor sweeper I'd have asked "how senior ?" People I've told have said "Pretty much your dream job then ?". Yes, in a nutshell.
F1 is a discipline where you can lose a competitive advantage by careless talk: anything to do with the car or comings and goings at the factory are obviously off limits. Pat Simmons of Williams said in a recent interview that the intellectual property (IP) in racing "is not the design of our front wing endplate, you can take a photo of that. The IP is the way we think, the way we operate, the way we do things." The first lesson of induction at Microsoft was 'Never compromise the IP' (and I learnt that IP wasn't just the software, but included the processes used in Redmond). So although it's been part of my past jobs to talk about what the company was doing, at Mercedes it won't be. I find F1 exciting – more so this season than the last few – and it's not really possible to be excited but not have opinions about the sport, although things I've said in the past don't all match my current opinion: the James Hunt/ Niki Lauda battle of 1976 is almost my first F1 memory, if I still thought of Lauda as the enemy I wouldn't work for a company which had him as chairman. In fact one of the initial attractions of the team for me was the degree I found myself agreeing with what their management said in public. Commenting on the F1 issues of the day from inside a team looks like something which needs to take a lot of different sensitivities into account and it's something I'm more than happy to leave to those who have it in their job description.
If I have interesting things to blog about things which don't relate to motor sport or the job or about software which anyone working with same produces could find out for themselves (i.e. not specific to one company), then hopefully the blog posts will continue.


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I noted the general enthusiasm surrounding Scott Kazmir when I was at Indians camp last week. Now a guy who is at Indians camp every day notes that this enthusiasm has grown to the point where, in his view, the fifth starter's spot on the Tribe is Kazmir's to lose. Sheldon Ocker of the Akron Beacon-Journal:
Francona has offered few hints as to which way he is leaning, if he's leaning at all. The only clue that he might favor one pitcher over another is his continuous glowing praise for Kazmir, virtually from the first time he threw a ball in camp. And Kazmir certainly seems like the front-runner, even if one disregards Francona's tributes.
One just needs to look at the numbers. Kazmir has pitched three times in exhibition games and one B-game against minor leaguers. He hasn't allowed any runs and his peripherals look solid. Granted it hasn't all been against top opposition, but his velocity and control looks good.
Kazmir could flame out again and, if he does, the Indians haven't really lost a thing. But if he's even an average starter in 2013 it's a huge boon to them. And to him too.


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WASHINGTON U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday rebutted Republican lawmakers pushing a bill that would give Congress the ability to review monetary policy decisions, saying it could compromise central bank independence.
Bernanke said it would be a "nightmare scenario" if politicians decided to second-guess monetary policy.
"That is very concerning because there's a lot of evidence that an independent central bank that makes decisions based strictly on economic considerations and not based on political pressure will deliver lower inflation and better economic results in the longer term," Bernanke told the U.S. House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee.
The hearing was the likely last chance for retiring Texas Representative Ron Paul, known for proposing the Fed should be abolished, to grill the central bank chairman.
"Trillions and trillions of dollars (are) being printed out of thin air," said Paul.
The Republican-controlled House is on track to take up Paul's Fed audit legislation next week. The bill, which has been co-sponsored by more than half of all House members, looks set to clear that chamber, but not the Senate.
In response to a deep financial crisis and the worst recession in generations, the Fed brought official borrowing costs to effectively zero and bought some $2.3 trillion in Treasury and mortgage bonds in an effort to spur economic growth.
The results have thus far been mixed, with economic growth braking sharply this year after a strong finish to 2011 and the unemployment rate stuck at a still-high 8.2 percent.
The Fed has opened many of its operations, including details of emergency lending, to public scrutiny, although in some instances it did so only as a result of legislation or court order.
Paul's bill would direct the Government Accountability Office, an independent, nonpartisan congressional agency, to conduct a Fed review, and it would remove an exemption monetary policy has enjoyed.
Bernanke said the very notion of a monetary policy audit was misleading.
"The term 'audit the Fed' is deceptive. The public thinks that auditing means checking the books, looking at the financial statements, making sure that you're not doing special deals, and that kind of thing. All of those things are (already) completely open," he said.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion, Leo Tolstoy
I was driving the other day when Michael Buble's version of Feeling Good came on the radio. It only took a few notes for me to flashback to my first out-of-the-divorce-box relationship.
I would guess that most of you have collected a playbook of songs that are associated with a particular romance in your life. A song may have been playing on the radio at the time you were involved, or the lyrics captured the essence of your relationship, or perhaps you were stuck on that song during your love fest and it became forever associated with that time in your life.
Whatever the reason for the association, when that song is played, you time- travel back to that relationship and to your love interest. The length of time you need to travel and the quality of both the romance and the break-up will determine whether the song triggers feelings of melancholy, sadness, anger, or fondness.
Sit with me, have some grilled flatbread with mushrooms, ricotta, and herbs, and let's run through my playbook.
Feeling Good is a classic starting over song. Just sample the lyrics:
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good.
No wonder this song was a perfect fit for my first post-divorce relationship with Mr. K, a widower. I even sent him a link to the YouTube video. Unfortunately, Mr. K wasn't quite ready for a new day so the song reminds me of the dangers of getting involved with someone who has not moved on.
Love, starting over, marriage, eternity….all the classic themes for a relationship with Mr. M – or so I thought:
Come to me my sweetest friend
Can you feel my heart again
I'll take you back where you belong
And this will be our favorite song
Come to me with secrets bare
I'll love you more so don't be scared
And when we're old and near the end
We'll go home and start again
Unfortunately, Mr. M and I weren't compatible on an emotional or physical level. We both wanted a sweetest friend but not with each other.
Ghostbusters theme, Ray Parker Jr.
This one is a cheat because my relationship with Mr. D didn't have a song. But since he ghosted me and was possibly a cheat, I'm adding it to my playbook.
If there's something weird
and it don't look good
Who ya gonna call?
The Man Who Can't be Moved, The Script
I discovered this song when I first met Mr. L and sent it to him soon after we met…just because I loved the melody and, as a hopeful romantic, I'm a sucker for stories of yearning and lost love.
Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag I'm not gonna move,
Got some words on cardboard got your picture in my hand,
Saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am,
Some try to hand me money they don't understand,
I'm not broke I'm just a broken hearted man,
I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do,
How can I move on when I'm still in love with you
Mr. L was not ready for undying love – still separated; he had more wild oats to sow before he gave his heart to someone.
Our House, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
This song goes way back to my marriage. It was a song of the times – post Woodstock, still hippie, still sometimes high, organic, long hair, vegetarian, young and relatively free.
I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today.
Staring at the fire for hours an hours while I listen to you
Play your love songs all night long for me, only for me.
This classic song endures but, as you know, the marriage did not.
Now, for something sarcastic and fun, here are some songs for a few of the one-date wonders in my life over the past few years.
For the seldom available narcissist:
For the guy who can't stop talking about money
For the liar (profile, photo, etc.):
For the handsome one you know is trouble:
Four songs for all the single ladies:
What songs are in your playbook?
Until next week, happy dating or not dating.


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We've made it to Saturday, so that once again means it's time for a Review Roundup. A bit lighter this week than usual. I'm sure that's due to Gen Con last weekend. I expect, though, that the next couple weeks will be pretty full of new reviews. I know several reviewers were getting copies of the new CMON games, at least.
Also: We're looking into what's up with the TGN Blogs page. We'll let you know when we find out anything.
Anyway, as for today, we've got: Battle of the Bands, Get Adler, Super Hack Override, Beneath Nexus, Legends of Andor New Heroes Expansion, Warmachine Cephalyx Mind Slaver & Drudges, Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition, Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu, Tyrants of the Underdark, Animals On Board, Farmageddon: Farm Fresh Edition, and Stellar Conflict.
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Battle of the Bands Review
In this video you can find out my thoughts on Battle of the Bands by Original Content London.
Get Adler Review
In this video you can find out my thoughts on Get Adler! by Capper Games.
Super Hack Override Review
In this video you can find out my thoughts on Super Hack Override by Weird Giraffe Games.
Beneath Nexus Review
In this video you can find out my thoughts on Beneath Nexus by Silverclutch Games.
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Legends of Andor New Heroes Expansion Review
The New Heroes expansion adds a few elements to Legends of Andor, new playable characters, game play variants and a higher player count.
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Warmachine Cephalyx Mind Slaver & Drudges Review
This in-depth review has Battle Brush Studios' Sigur taking a closer look at Warmachine figures for the first time.
Drive Thru Review:
Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition
Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu Review
Intro (00:00); game overview (01:28); final thoughts and review (14:30)
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Tyrants of the Underdark Review
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The Animals! They've Arrived! (A Review of Animals On Board)
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Wheat Wars (a preview of Farmageddon: Farm Fresh Edition)
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"As far as power is concerned, the streets are dead capital!" proclaimed the activist art collective Critical Art Ensemble in 1996. With the internet age dawning, the group urged activists to go digital. Civil disobedience on the street, they argued, was symbolic but ineffective. Money and power were no longer bound to city centers–or any physical location.
History of Anonymous
Through Anonymous, the world has finally seen this vision for a new activism materialize, though it was not the activists' creation. To the contrary, Anonymous was created deep inside the internet, in an imageboard forum known as 4chan. On 4chan's /b/ board, reserved for random topics, computer buffs would entertain one another with shocking, politically incorrect creations.
They also coordinated to hijack or disable websites, often through distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Sinister as that may sound, these attacks amount to little more than an intentional traffic jam on a web server, rendering the site temporarily useless. Such acts weren't malicious, but through a variety of coordinated pranks, /b/ users developed the practices that would come to define Anonymous. So when the Church of Scientology attempted to end the mockery of a certain Tom Cruise Scientology video, they retaliated online and in the streets, to expose what they viewed as the Church's history of illegal acts and human rights violations.
Anonymous: Electronic Civil Disobedience
With this, the nascent Anonymous set foot in that place where hacking and activism overlap. They didn't leap in wholeheartedly, nor did they draw back. In 2009, the collective set its sights on defending a file sharing site known as The Pirate Bay. After DDoS attacks on the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the group released a statement reading, "We will continue to attack those who embrace censorship." True to its word, defense of the free exchange of information remained a high priority. When MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal blocked payments to WikiLeaks in 2010, Anonymous targeted those websites. Then, when Tunisian dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali blocked access to WikiLeaks, members of Anonymous planned attacks on Tunisian government and stock exchange websites. They also helped Tunisians find ways to communicate online, working around government restrictions and surveillance. With each operation, more explicitly activist hackers joined the ranks of Anonymous. By the end of OpTunisia in early 2011, the group's reputation as an influential, if loosely organized, hacktivist collective was solidified.
So began a whirlwind of hacking. Members hacked Egyptian government sites and provided a virtual safe haven for Libyan rebels as the Arab Spring gained momentum. They leaked email addresses and passwords of government officials in Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, and Morocco. They hacked and humiliated the security firm HBGary Federal after its chief executive threatened to expose group members. They hacked in retaliation for the arrests of members of Food Not Bombs for feeding homeless people in the park. They helped to organize a gathering at a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station after the transit system cut off cell phone service to prevent peaceful assembly in protest of a police shooting.
Anonymous also helped herald the arrival of Occupy Wall Street, with members participating in both movements simultaneously. Quinn Norton wrote in Wired that Anonymous had become "a self-appointed immune system for the internet, striking back at anyone the hive mind perceived as an enemy of freedom, online or offline." On the street, they have maintained the custom of wearing Guy Fawkes masks, which reinforces the idea of anonymity and pays homage to the group's origins–it was the mask donned by Epic Fail Guy, a character on /b/, way back when. They continued to hack: the U.S. Department of Justice, the CIA, Interpol, Sony, Monsanto.
They hacked through two raids, which brought the arrests of over 100 members worldwide. One Anon, Christopher Doyon, faces 15 years in a penitentiary for his role in a half-hour virtual sit-in. "The greater the intensity of defense and punishment, the greater the power-value," Critical Art Ensemble wrote prophetically in '96. In an interview with Canada's National Post last May, Doyon seemed to answer. "Our entire world is being controlled and operated by tiny invisible 1s and 0s that are flashing through the air and flashing through the wires around us. So if that's what controls our world, ask yourself who controls the 1s and the 0s?"


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Qt3 Movie Podcast: Short Term 12
We finally get around to seeing Short Term 12, which we unfortunately missed last year. If you haven't seen it, you can skip to our 3×3 of movies referenced in other movies that we didn't like. The references, not necessarily the movies. We explain it better at the 52-minute mark.
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