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One of the more interesting things about programming for the "real world" is that you get to see a lot of practical applications for the math you learned (or didn't) in school. Every few years I find I have to refresh my memory on certain things and, at least so far, it usually comes back pretty quickly.
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It isn't surprising to forget how to do a double integral or a non-homogeneous differential equation. But even something as seemingly innocuous as an average can turn out to be more complicated than you think. Quick. What's the average of 60 and 30?
I'm going to guess you said 45. But a better answer might be to ask what 60 and 30 represent. If they are successive measurements from an A/D converter measuring battery voltage, for example, then 45 is the right answer. That's the arithmetic mean:
double avg=(60.0+30.0)/2.0;
What if I turned it into a word problem: When I go to the beach (it is that time of year) I like to get there in a hurry. So I drive 60 miles per hour. When I go home, I'm tired and I don't want to go home so I drive back at 30 miles per hour. What's my average speed? Raise your hand if you think the answer is 45.
Given that I can't see if you raised your hand, I'm going to pretend that you did. The average of two speeds is not a straight average. The simple reason is that even though the distance is the same, I will spend twice as much time going home as I did driving to the beach.
The formula is simple but it is easier to think about it intuitively. What I really want is miles per hour. So the real question is how many miles did I go in how many hours. Assume that driving to the beach takes me
T hours. Since I go home at half the speed, I will spend
2*T hours going home. The distance, call it
D, is the same in both directions. So:
float D=T*60; // it also equals 2*T*30; float speed=2*D/(3*T); // distance coming and going, and the total time travelled
Of course, that's specific to our example. The general form is to take the regular average of the reciprocal of the numbers, multiply it by the reciprocal of the count, and then take the reciprocal of the result. With a little algebra you wind up with:
unsigned count; // set externally double data[]; // set externally unsigned i; double avg=0.0; for (i=0;i<count;i++) avg+=1.0/data[i]; avg=count/avg;
If you don't feel like compiling that, the answer is 40 miles per hour. That makes sense. I live about 30 minutes away from the Galveston beach, at 60 miles an hour. So that's 30 miles. It takes me a half hour to get there and an hour to get back (at 30 MPH). Therefore, I went 60 miles in an hour and a half. That's 40 MPH average.
By the way, in person last week I told someone this was the geometric mean, but that just shows that I am getting forgetful. It is actually the harmonic mean. The geometric mean is a different formula.
In some cases, it is easier to not even do that much math. For example, if you are picking up three redundant sensors, sometimes it is easier to just sort the numbers and pick the one in the middle. That's called the median. Suppose two sensors agree that you have 100 counts, but the other one shorted to ground and is reading 0. Picking the middle value will give you one of the good values. If the two good ones don't agree, you'll still get one of the values.
If you have a lot of values, you probably would sort (although you can also figure out a way to stop sorting once you find the middle if you have a very large data set). If you have just a few values, some nested
if statements will do the trick.
You might think that exhausts the whole topic of averages, but it really doesn't even scratch the surface! Don't believe me? Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Types and don't ask me what you do with a winsorized mean — I have no idea.
For completeness, here's a general form for the "regular" average:
double avg=0.0; unsigned count,i; // count set externally double data[]; // array of count items for (i=0;i<count;i++) avg+=data[i]; avg/=count;
I'm guessing you haven't forgotten that. Or at least I haven't. Not yet, anyway.


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The recently approved $37.5 million, 128,000-square-foot University of Louisville Student Recreation Center is moving forward with the commission of Cannon Design to design the facility.
Scheduled to open in the fall 2013 semester, the facility will offer exercise and weight equipment; a gymnasium with six courts for basketball, volleyball and other sports; a multi-activity court for indoor soccer, floor hockey and other sports; aerobics and wellness studios; a jogging track; racquetball courts; a fitness lab; classrooms and meeting rooms; locker rooms; food service; a lobby area and a gaming area.
The facility also will include a lighted, outdoor artificial turf field that will be used primarily for student recreation, sports club practices and physical education classes.
The center will be the first university building to be heated and cooled with geothermal energy and is expected to earn gold certification through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
The new facility will help resolve the shortage of recreational space on the campus, Michael Mardis, dean of students, said in a university news release. With overcrowding at the university's main recreation facility, which opened in 1990, and an increase in student enrollment, the expansion was needed to provide for the higher number of students.
"Thousands of students are participating in intramural sports," Mardis said. "The sports club program has grown from eight to 22 active clubs, and enrollment in our group fitness classes has grown by more than 100 percent over the past three years. The SRC will further enhance their student experience as it will provide students with more space for these activities and events."
The university first proposed building the facility as part of its master plan in 2009 while the Student Government Association featured it as a top priority in a 2010 strategic plan. With student support for the initiative reaching almost 89 percent, the development of the new facility was purely a student initiative.
"The students felt that compared to other institutions, our recreation center was not what it should be," Dale Ramsay, director of intramural and recreational sports, tells Club Industry. "This was a collaborative effort that we came up with, and we've given the students unprecedented involvement from the selection of the architect to input to what is going into the center."
Kurtis Frizzell, student government association president, added in a university news release: "The Student Government Association has made sure that the student body was involved and represented in every step taken towards getting this recreational center. In every decision made, the student's voice was right there alongside."
The university is seeking private donations to help fund the building as well as applying a $98 per semester recreation fee to all new students (including graduate, professional and readmitted students) and a per credit hour fee for part-time students.
"The model we used for the fee was applied to all new students who began this year and students who were enrolled in new programs, but it does not apply to returning students," Ramsay says. "This was the students' idea to build the new rec center, but with financial challenges, we felt this was the best way to get the project approved, and the students agreed."
In addition to being available for the student body, membership opportunities will be available for faculty, staff, alumni and their dependents.
"We are using recreational fitness to improve the quality of students' lives, and with our new facility, we can better fulfill that goal," Ramsay says. "This facility is going to increase the vibrancy of our campus life, and not only attract students but improve the quality of life of our students."

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This post was written for the 75th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy, "Justice and Independence".
I was fortunate enough to have three grandfathers, and all three served in World War II. My mother's father, Lake Ledford, served in the US Navy. My father's stepfather, Ned Burrell, was in the Army. And my father's father, Thad J. Watson, Sr., served in the Army Air Corps.
Daddy Thad died on August 24, 1944 when his plane, a B-24 Liberator known as "The Little Lulu", was shot down while on a bombing run targeting oil refineries in Czechoslovakia. Of the ten crew members aboard the Little Lulu, only one, Sgt. John F. Damore, was able to exit the plane before it crashed. Both of his legs were broken upon landing; the villagers who lived near where the plane crashed turned him over to the Germans, in part so that he could receive medical care. The rest of the men were buried by the villagers, and later reinterred in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville, KY.
A few years ago, one of the villagers, who was a young man at the time of this event, shared his memories of that fateful day. My grandmother told me that she had written to several of those villagers after the War ended, and that they were grateful to "the Americans" who fought for their freedom.
My father's mother, Stella (whom we called Nanny), corresponded with the surviving family members of the Little Lulu's crew. When I was a teenager, I helped her put together photo albums for her children which included pictures of the crew members, as well as pictures of their families. Each picture was captioned with additional information, such as rank, age, date of birth, and their address during that time period. For the family members, Nanny usually had at least a name and place of residence. I know at some point she must have had letters, and I wonder what happened to them.
For years, I've wanted to follow up on my grandmother's work and find the descendants of these men. A few weeks ago, I had some spare time, so I searched for enlistment and other records for the other nine members of the Little Lulu's crew. Some were easily located, others not so much so. In fact, I couldn't even find enlistment records for all of the men. But what I do have is listed below. If you are related to these men, please contact me or leave a message here.
Lt. John A. James, pilot, Pleasanton, KS, born June 29, 1923; wife may have been Betty Ruth James. Middle initial might have also been "H" or "M". John may have been the son of Milton P. James and Christina M. Brown.
Lt. Edward J. Maloney, co-pilot, 14 Columbia St., Ansonia, CT, born 1923. Edward may have been the son or grandson of John Maloney, who immigrated from the Irish Free State in 1890.
Lt. Edward G. Durham or Erwin Dunham, bombedier, 45 Grace St., Bloomfield, NJ, born April 19, 1924. There is some confusion as to this crew member's exact name. Our photo album has it recorded in the first instance, while the villager (above) has the second instance. Since I was a teenager when I typed this up (my grandmother had rheumatoid arthritis and was unable to manipulate the keys of a typewriter), I'm fairly certain the mistake was mine.
Lt. Walter W. Weaver, Jr., Rt. 2, Clarion, PA, born April 1, 1922.
Sgt. John F. Damore (also D'Amore and D'A'more), gunner, German POW, 50 Calumet St., Roxbury, MA. Our photo album includes a picture of a Katherine (Kay) D'Amore; could she have been John's wife or sister?
Sgt. Edward G. Ivan, gunner, 304 W. 8th Ave., Homestead, PA, born February 27, 1918.
Sgt. Thad J. Watson, Sr., gunner, born April 15, 1924, married to Stella Martin. This is my grandfather.
Sgt. Bruce Gleason, 1107 4th Ave., Warren, PA, born August 22, 1925. Bruce was also known as Felix. My grandmother kept a clipping of his family that appeared in their local newspaper (I assume), naming his mother, Mrs. G. J. Gleason, and siblings Rose, Walter, Theodore, Mary, Nancy, Jane, John, and Frances. You'd think with all this information I'd be able to track his family down, but no, not yet.
Sgt. Ralph Robinson, 78 Thayer St., New York, NY, born December 30, 1924.
Sgt. Eugene A. Jaleniewicz, 90 Mercer St., Jersey City, NJ, born May 22, 1923.
Our photo album also includes pictures and information on one Sgt. Henry Sullivan, Jr., who was killed in action September 13, 1944 on his 20th mission. I'm fairly certain his wife's name was Hazel, that they had a son named Donnie, and that Hazel and Donnie lived in Alexandria, LA, but I'm not certain why these photos were included with the others.
Please, if you are a descendant of or have any information on these men, write to me. I would be very interested in hearing from you.


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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team completed day one of the 2014 NEC Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday in Landover, MD. Five Blue Devil performances were enough to advance to Sunday's finals.
Senior Shelby Tuttle once again broke her CCSU record (8.90) in the 60m hurdles, earning a chance to compete in tomorrow's finals. Tuttle, who finished second in her heat and third overall, crossed the finish line in 8.88 seconds on her way to qualifying for tomorrow's finals.
Also earning a spot in the 60m hurdle finals was freshman Melissa Wolliston. Wolliston finished just two spots behind Tuttle in their heat and claimed seventh overall with a career-best time of 9.14 seconds. In addition to the top two qualifiers, two other Blue Devils also competed in the event. Both sophomore Alyssa Gonzalez and freshman Sarah Hicks notched new career-best times of 9.27 and 9.58, respectively.
Two-time NEC Rookie of the Week Brittany Mendelson placed second overall in the one mile event Saturday and will advance to Sunday's finals. The freshman, who earned one of her NEC weekly accolades for registering the second-fastest time in the NEC to date, crossed the finish line in 5:18.82.
Gonzalez will be competing twice tomorrow as the second-year Blue Devil also registered a qualifying time in the 200m dash prelims. She raced a career-best time of 25.89, grabbing the last qualifying spot in the event.
The fifth Blue Devil performance to earn a spot in Sunday's finals came from junior Chantelle Deer. Deer finished eighth overall in the 400m dash preliminaries with her time of 1:00.24.
Other notable performances for CCSU include juniors Taylor LePage and Shannon McBride who both finished just one spot out of qualifying territory (ninth) in their events. LePage ran the 800m, crossing the line in 2:22.80 while McBride raced the 3,000m in a career-best time of 10:25.25, shattering her previous best time of 10:37.61.
Several Blue Devils are slated to return to the field tomorrow including the four finalists as well as junior Ronea Saunders, three-time 2014 NEC Field Athlete of the Week. Saunders is looking to defend her 2013 high jump title tomorrow.
Fans can follow all the action via LIVE RESULTS and can also follow @NECTrack and @CCSUTrack throughout the competition for live updates.


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That thing Madonna said, about time: that it goes by so slowly. 'Hung Up', that excuse to check out her camel toe. You know the one. Bull. I can't think of anything that passes faster than time: I'm forever losing track of it, wishing I had more of it, wondering why I can't ever make the best of it, et cetera.
So, before we dive into November's best long-play (ish) releases, how's about we have a quick ten from October? So busy were we at DiS – losing time mucking about with redesigns and fabulous new features – that we forgot all about A Month In Records. Whoops.
Some of our favourites from October, then (discounting this thing called In Rainbows on a technicality – no DiS writer actually reviewed it, you lot did):
Robert Wyatt
Comicopera (Domino Records)
Read Alex Denney's 8/10 review here
Black Dice
Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
Read Richard MacFarlane's 9/10 review here
Neil Young
Chrome Dreams II (Reprise Records)
Read Gareth Dobson's 8/10 review here
Wooden Shjips
Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
Read Him Tall's 8/10 review here
Parades (The Leaf Label)
Read Mike Diver's 10/10 review here
(Parades is an album of the year – vote here)
In Return (Rock Action)
Read Mike Diver's 9/10 review here
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Preparations (Warp)
Read Richard MacFarlane's 8/10 review here
(Preparations is an album of the year – vote here)
Jens Lekman
Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
Read Kev Kharas' 8/10 review here
(Night Falls Over Kortedala is an album of the year – vote here)
The Flying Club Cup (4AD)
Read Billy Hamilton's 8/10 review here
(The Flying Club Cup is an album of the year – vote here)
Love Is Simple (Young God Records)
Read Jordan Dowling's 9/10 review here
Johnny Foreigner
Arcs Across The City (Best Before)
Says reviewer Ben Yates: "Seven songs, 21 minutes, and some of the most exciting indie-pop sounds committed to record by a British band in a long while. Arcs Across The City is the domestic debut album release of the year, hands down."
Read the full review here
Sonic Boom Six
Arcade Perfect (Rebel Alliance)
Says reviewer Ben Patashnik: "If you'd heard Manchester's Sonic Boom Six in 2004 you could easily have written them off as some weird hybrid of bubblegum punk, party hip-hop and knees-up ska, and many did. In 2007 though, the fact is that they represent something the Moosik Indusstree has been seeking out for years, a focused blast of melody with a backbone of unimpeachable integrity, and they're utterly vital."
Read the full review here
Untrue (Hyperdub)
Says reviewer Tom King: "It's from the dark that Burial glows brightest. He's never going to attract too far outside his niche, but to the right ears and in the right context this is unbeatable, unspeakably romantic, epoch defining. The strength of this record lies in yourself."
Read the full review here
Six Organs Of Admittance
Shelter From The Ash (Drag City)
Says reviewer Him Tall: "Shelter from the Ash is a record of brooding meditation: if the late lamented Comets On Fire gave Ben Chasny an outlet for his guitar mangling side then Six Organs Of Admittance is his introspective, enigmatic other self."
Read the full review here
The Pine Hill Haints
Ghost Dance (Cargo)
Says reviewer Charles Ubaghs: "This isn't music aimed at the old grey matter. This is music aiming straight for the gut. It lives purely in the moment, rocking and rolling around to its heart's content, caring little for trends, fads and all the other concerns that bog down so much of what we consume as music today. And it does so with an unabashed lust for life."
Read the full review here
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Ire Works (Relapse)
Says reviewer Mike Diver: "DEP's confrontational compositions remain absorbingly chaotic, and the infectious melodies have grown in strength. Plus, the strange and eerie electronic aspects of Ire Works give it an unexpected edge on any tech-metal peers. It's a frighteningly powerful album that will be adored by open-minded newcomers and Miss Machine converts alike."
Read the full review here
The Pyramids
The Pyramids (Domino Records)
Says reviewer Samuel Strang: "After sessions for Derdang Derdang came to a close, Archie Bronson Outfit's The Cardinal (Sam Windett) and Arp (Mark Cleveland) were left with an insatiable desire to spin out, with whetted tongue unsatisfied. In absence of Dorian Hobday from the usual roster, The Pyramids were formed."
Read the full review here
White Hills
Heads On Fire (Rocket Recordings)
Says reviewer Him Tall: "This is White Hills' debut album proper. Heads On Fire throws down grungy distorted layers of sludge that relentlessly churn along. It's neither subtle nor pretty, but god damn it rocks. They take the space rock template and inject it with a battered fucked-up New York punk spirit."
Read the full review here
All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free)
Says reviewer Him Tall: "If we're currently playing out the end game of a static music scene still beholden to fake and fading indie stars from over five years ago and humouring the worst kind of bottom-feeding musical no-marks, then All Hours Cymbals is a well overdue shot in the arm. 2008 is potentially already theirs."
Read the full review here
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Blitzen Trapper
Wild Mountain Nation (Sub Pop)
Says reviewer Gareth Dobson: "Wild Mountain Nation may be founded upon a solid brew of late-Beatles-born, '60s-inflected American indie a la The Lilys or The Dandy Warhols, but Blitzen Trapper will throw anything they care into the soup in order to make it that bit more piquant."
Read the full review here
The DiScover album of the month
Outsides (Hot Dog City)
Says reviewer Jordan Dowling: "There is something misleading about Coyote. It begins with the name of the album, Outsides. It takes a few reads before it's apparent that what you're reading is not what you presumed was in front of you. Similarly with the album: it takes a few listens to discover what it really holds."
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"Yes they are OEM JBLs. In the early days (through the 60s actually), JBL made speakers under various OEM arrangements. They made them for Ampex, DuKane, Heath, and probably others. These drivers are identical to stock JBLs with different paint schemes and labels. "
--Zilche's recent post about the oddball Boliviar JBL imitations got me thinking about compiling a list of companys that JBL has made drivers for in the past.
Such a list might be useful for someone searching Ebay or other auction sites for drivers that are JBL in every aspect except paint and a foilcal.
Below is what I've picked up from this forum and Ebay recently:
Perhaps some of you senior, ex-JBL employees can add to the list:
DukDuKane (5A350 driver or JBL Pro 2410)
Heathkit (D123 woofer)
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Jim Lansing by Ampex (Model 150-4 32 Ohm Woofers: RARE MINT PAIR: Consecutive Serial Numbers)
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Working at a pharmacy is a rewarding, but stressful experience. A pharmacist does more work than just counting the pills and filling the bottle. He has to manage the pressure from both the doctors and patients and provide them with an appropriate drug.
Though there are many options for pharmacist jobs opportunity, one must acquire the required skills to crack the interview. Check below the list of skills one must possess to work in a pharmaceutical industry.
- Communication Skills: A pharmacist must have excellent communication skills to professionally deal with the doctors and to make the patients understand in layman terms. He must communicate on both the ends effectively irrespective of other factors of diversity. The pharmacist must not even have language barriers to communicate with the patients.
- Good Memory: This is must for any pharmacist as he or she must recall hundreds of drugs, their side effects and their interactions. Whenever a doctor prescribes a medicine to a patient, it is the pharmacist who explains about the drug to the patient. If the pharmacist is unaware of the drug information, he cannot explain it to the patient who might even cause serious issues in the long run.
- Analytical Skills: Analytical skills help the pharmacist to arrive at conclusions quickly based on the information provided by the patients and the doctor. Also, it helps them to come up with great alternative solutions at times.
- Counselling Skills: At times, the pharmacist has to explain to the patients about the drugs prescribed by the doctor, how it interacts and at what time to take the prescribed medicines. They act as educators for the patient and make them understand how this medication helps to cure their disease.
- Computer Skills: A good pharmacist has to possess good computer skills. These computer skills help him to take new orders, analyse the new drug information, and make sure the billing process is going on in the right manner and many other tasks.
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There's something wonderful about a plain cookie bar - although these taste anything but "plain" - with unfussy ingredients and the simplest of preparations. Butter, sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla, salt, candy... pressed into a pan and baked. Chewy edges and soft, gooey cookie bar goodness in the middle. Salty and sweet crunchy bites of Butterfinger and creamy bits of white chocolate chips...
These are pure, decadent cookie bar bliss.
I made these for last Saturday night - Jamie was having a few guys over to watch the boxing fight - and remembering how much his friends loved the S'mores cookies I made a while back for their Fantasy Football draft, I suspected they would love these, too. It snowed that night, and the turnout at our place was small, so even I couldn't expect 5 guys to polish off a whole pan of cookie bars. So there were a few leftover which Jamie took to work on Monday, and he said his coworkers were mad - in a good way - because they could not stop eating them.
I adapted this recipe from Cookies & Cups' Butterfinger Blondies, but for my version I added cinnamon and white chocolate chips and eliminated the frosting, instead drizzling the top of the bars with a little melted chocolate and sprinkling chopped Butterfingers all over. I really didn't think they needed frosting as they are incredibly rich, sweet and buttery as they are.
As kids, I don't think we got candy bars very often - candy was usually for Easter and other holidays or special days - so on the rare occasion that we were allowed to pick out a candy bar at the grocery store check out lane, I was likely to choose Butterfinger for myself. Just chocolate and those crunchy sweet and salty orange layers inside of whatever they're made of were the perfect simple sweet treat. I'd eat it slowly, nibbling away at it little by little, trying to make it last as long as possible.
Butterfingers make me think of a scene in the completely unrealistic but loveable movie, Only You, with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr, where the two women are looking through the hotel trashcan for clues about the man Marisa thinks she's destined to fall in love with. Her friend starts pulling out Butterfinger wrappers - "Butterfinger, Butterfinger... Three Butterfingers?!" - and after watching that I believed that anyone who could sit and eat three Butterfingers in one sitting was probably someone of questionable character, and Marisa couldn't possibly end up with someone with so little self control. :)
Well, I wouldn't blame you if your self control flies right out the window after you make these and take the first bite. Because they're just that good.
Butterfinger Cookie Bars
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 bag (12.5 ounces) fun-size Butterfinger bars, roughly chopped
- ½ cup, plus 2 tablespoons, white chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 350. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with non-stick spray.
In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and both sugars until fluffy, 4-5 minutes. Add the vanilla and eggs and beat well. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; add by spoonfuls to the mixing bowl, mixing just until combined. Stir in the chopped butterfingers (reserving ½ cup for later) and the ½ cup chocolate chips.
Spread the batter into the pan (it's very thick, so it's easiest to use your hands). Bake for 25 minutes; the cookies should be golden brown, but still a little gooey in the middle. Set on a wire rack and cool completely.
Melt the 2 tablespoons white chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips (separately); scrape into a plastic zip-lock bag, snip off a tiny piece of the corner, and drizzle lightly over the top of the cookie bars. Sprinkle with the remaining ½ cup chopped butterfingers.
Cut into bars and store any leftovers in an airtight container.
Yields 24-30 servings.
Recipe adapted from Cookies and Cups


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Penguin settles in e-book price fixing case
Penguin has settled with the Department of Justice in the e-book price-fixing case brought against Apple and five publishers this year. Three of the other publishers involved &38212; Hachette, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins — have already agreed to settle.
Penguin and Macmillan were holdouts, insisting that the case had no grounds. "We did not collude," said Macmillan CEO John Sargent in April, when the DOJ brought its case.
In announcing its settlement, Penguin concurred. "Penguin has always maintained, and continues to maintain, that it has done nothing wrong and has no case to answer," its statement read.
What has changed for Penguin is its recent betrothal to Random House. In October, the two publishers announced a merger; if approved by European Union regulators, they will become Penguin Random House. (Not, sadly, the more whimsical Random Penguin.)
Random House, the world's largest publishing company, was not involved in the DOJ case. That's because Random House was not part of the launch of Apple's iBookstore, which debuted a pricing rubric for e-books much like Apple uses for music, known as the "agency model." Agency pricing meant publishers, who had formerly sold their books wholesale, could set the retail end price and take a percentage, instead of a fixed price. The e-book retailer, the sales agent, took a percentage as well.
Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster had signed on and used this new model to set prices for their e-books. The move to agency pricing spurred the DOJ suit, which centered on the fact that publishers and Apple forced other e-booksellers, notably Amazon, to adopt a similar pricing model.
With a merger between Random House and Penguin on the horizon, Penguin's involvement in the DOJ case stood to present some problems. "It is also in everyone's interests that the proposed Penguin Random House company should begin life with a clean sheet of paper," the company added.
As Penguin and Random House walk down the aisle, the lawsuit behind them, Macmillan and Apple are left to fight the DOJ's case.


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It's not enough to have an online presence anymore. It is great that you have a Facebook Page, Twitter Account, and YouTube channel, but are you maintaining them? In 2011 we saw many businesses leap online, eager to try out social media and leverage the communication and business power of these tools. Now, a year later, the scary fact is that most of these websites and social accounts have been abandoned or are not being used effectively (or even correctly in some situations). You may have had the right intentions by setting these accounts up, especially if you were doing it to secure your IP and registered business names to protect your corporation. If you set up accounts in order to have access to the platform, to monitor or listen to feedback, criticism, and comments, that is also a great reason to be on social media, but only if you are engaging back. OK, so now you are thinking to yourself: "So what? We have a presence on social media platforms as our bosses told us we had to do."
What if I told you that these abandoned, neglected, and incomplete accounts are actually hurting your business, and that they were actually costing you money to your bottom line, in spite of the fact that it was free to set up accounts on most of these platforms. If you are neglecting, abandoning, and failing to complete and monitor these accounts, you are losing customers, for the following reasons:
- The perception that your company is "Out of Date", "Out of Touch", and downright "Incompetent" in engaging your audience on social media – Many customers that encounter your business on the web, will check out these accounts just to see what is happening. If, for instance, your Twitter account hasn't been updated in the last 90 days, you are perceived as being "out of touch" and therefore a company that is seemed as approachable and eager to listen to a customer. Incomplete profiles, pages without headshots or branding, or important information missing, such as contact info, gives off the impression that you are incompetent, especially to the under 35 crowd that is pretty much living their lives on the internet and mobile devices.
- The perception that your company isn't listening – 98% of all internet users expect you to not only have a presence on these social media platforms, but they want you to engage with them as well on these platforms. Especially when a customer has a question or complaint. Today's internet users in this text driven society, demand and expect to have a response from your company quickly on the social media platform where they made the comment or complaint. 24 hours is an eternity and will not gain you any favors. You need someone to actively manage these accounts and respond.
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class Passer { void toUpperCase(String[] text) { for (int i = 0; i < text.length; i++) { text[i] = text[i].toUpperCase(); } } public static void main(String[] arguments) { Passer passer = new Passer(); passer.toUpperCase(arguments); for (int i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) { System.out.print(arguments[i] + " "); } System.out.println(); } }
Can someone explain this code to me? I'm not quite sure I understand. This is what I'm thinknig...
From what I can understand here the toUpperCase method takes a string of text, and converts it into an array. It then loops through the entire array, turning each letter into an uppercase using this. text[i] = text[i].toUpperCase();
In the second method, called main, a string from the command-line arguments is taken and put into an array. an object called passer is created that references the upperCase method. and then from here I'm not exactly quite sure what is going on.
I see that the for loop in the main method is looping through the length of the argument string, turning each into an uppercase, but I'm not exactly sure why it works.
The void in the first method is confusing me. doesn't void mean that nothing gets returned? If nothing is getting returned, how is the main method able to get the capitalized letters from the toUpperCase method?


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Not many things besides coffee and staring at Ian Somerhalder's smoldering gaze can perk up our morning. We're cranky and we're not afraid to show it. But stumbling across this website put a little pepper in our a.m. routine, and we are so grateful.
"The Office" Time Machine, created by a man named Joe Sabia, is a website solely dedicated to every culture (pop and otherwise) reference from NBC's beloved comedy "The Office." All you have to do is enter a year in the box at the top of the website and bam! A whole YouTube compilation of any Office reference from that year will start to play. It's brilliant!
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For example, if you enter "1989", you'll get Dwight (Rainn Wilson) singing his "We Didn't Start the Fire" parody to Ryan (B.J. Novak), a song which was released in 1989. And if you select "1955", you'll see Michael Scott (Steve Carell) telling Jim (John Krasinski) that Gumby, who made his TV debut in 1955, has a better body than he does.
But as entertaining and addicting as this site is, Joe created it for a bigger purpose than just showcasing "Office" clips.
"I created this project to advocate for copyright reform and highlight the importance of fair use in protecting creators and their art," he writes on his website. "To prove culture is not only everywhere, but that certain references to films, songs, and works of art are critical for our collective understanding of comedy and to the importance of relating to content, I found every cultural, real-life reference from every episode of "The Office." This Time Machine is intended to show how much we rely on culture. So let artists bang it out without fear of being sued. (...that's what she said)."
READ: 100 reasons we will always love "The Office"
He even included references from the B.C. era and a funny little montage pops up if you type in a date from the future. Plus, Joe sees this as a collaborative project, and he not only urges people to point out any mistakes, but there is a video at the bottom of the page with references that Joe still needs help with.
Here are some montages we pulled from the site, but spend some time clicking around on "The Office" Time Machine. But be warned, you will be there much longer than a couple of minutes. Guaranteed.


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While I usually don't advertise non libre software for obvious reasons (that's a stupid way to think about computing), I admit, though, that the Steam platform goes toward what I'd like to see since many years. Proprietary software platform indeed – but the business is not made out of selling overly expensive DVD-Rom once in a while but cheap soft (downloadable) copies of games (often) maintained over years. They also seem about to base a future gaming console on some sort of GNU/Linux flavor, that's not philanthropy, that's just the only clever way to do a cool gaming based business without getting totally dependant on another software supplier that also brand his own gaming console. Latest South Park was about the fight beetween latest Xbox and Playstation. This issue only exists when you decide to make console non compatible with usual workstation, a shortcut with so many shortcomings. Making a GNU/Linux based console, because it is good business, is obviously going in the right direction.
So I'll allow myself a little reminder here on how not to waste your bandwidth on a local network where you have several computers having copies of the same steam game. It's merely a simplified version of the well thought Caching Steam Downloads @ LAN's article. Obviously, to do this, you need to have your own home server. For instance, it should work out of the box with a setup like this (this is the setup mentioned before from now on in this article).
A) HTTP setup
We first create a directory to store steam depot. It will be served with http so you need to create something like (working with the setup mentioned before):
mkdir /srv/www/depot chown www-data:www-data /srv/www/depot
Next, you want to setup nginx, to be able to serve as a steam content provider. Everything is based on http -no proprietary non-standard crap- so it can only go smoothly.
If you have the setup mentioned before, then /etc/nginx/sites-available/default contains a server { } statement for general intranet. Add a new file called /etc/nginx/sites-available/steam with the following (watch out for the listen and allow statements, change it depending on your server intranet IP!):
# steam spoof/proxy server { # you want this line to be set to your server intranet IP listen 10.0.0.1; listen 127.0.0.1; server_name *.steampowered.com; access_log /var/log/nginx/steam.access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/steam.error.log; root /srv/www/; resolver 127.0.0.1; ## use this resolver instead if your local interface got domain names spoofed ##resolver 184.108.40.206; # restrict to local wired network allow 10.0.0.0/24;https://github.com/yeupou/stalag13/blob/master/etc/cron.daily/cache-steam allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; location /depot/ { try_files $uri @mirror; } location / { proxy_next_upstream error timeout http_404; proxy_pass http://$host$request_uri; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded_For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; add_header X-Mirror-Upstream-Status $upstream_status; add_header X-Mirror-Upstream-Response-Time $upstream_response_time; add_header X-Mirror-Status $upstream_cache_status; } location @mirror { access_log /var/log/nginx/steam.remote.log; proxy_store on; proxy_store_access user:rw group:rw all:r; proxy_next_upstream error timeout http_404; proxy_pass http://$host$request_uri; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded_For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; add_header X-Mirror-Upstream-Status $upstream_status; add_header X-Mirror-Upstream-Response-Time $upstream_response_time; add_header X-Mirror-Status $upstream_cache_status; } }
Make it live:
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled && ln -s ../sites-available/steam . invoke-rc.d nginx restart
Now nginx is able to fetch and serve steam depot files.
B) DNS setup
Now, you need your server to actually handle requests to steam content server, spoofing these servers IPs. It could be done by messing with the DNS cache server already up on the setup mentioned before but I actually find much more convenient to use dnsspoof from dsniff package with a two-line configuration than wasting time creating say bind9 unnecessarily complex db files.
So we first instead dnsspoof:
apt-get install dsniff
Here come's the two line configuration, set in /etc/dnsspoof.conf. Obviously, here too you have to set the IP to be your server's intranet one.
10.0.0.1 *.cs.steampowered.com 10.0.0.1 content*.steampowered.com
Then you want an init.d script. You can create an ugly /etc/init.d/dnspoof with the following (obviously, you want you ethernet ethX device to be properly set!):
/#! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: dnsspoof # Required-Start: bind9 # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start dnsspoof over bind9 # Description: Start dnsspoof over bind9 ### END INIT INFO # shitty version for testing purpose /usr/sbin/dnsspoof -i eth1 -f /etc/dnsspoof.conf 2> /dev/null > /dev/null & # EOF
Or, 5th December UPDATE, you can download my init script doing as follows:
cd /etc/init.d && wget https://github.com/yeupou/stalag13/raw/master/etc/init.d/dnsspoof && chmod +x dnsspoof && update-rc.d dnsspoof defaults cd /etc/default && wget https://github.com/yeupou/stalag13/raw/master/etc/default/dnsspoof
(dont forget to edit /etc/default/dnsspoof to suit your setup, especially regarding the ethernet ethX device to be used)
Once ready, just start the spoofer:
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/dnsspoof invoke-rc.d dnsspoof start
Now you can restart steam on your clients computers. It should work properly. You can check whether new directories appear in /srv/www/depot and monitor /var/log/nginx/steam* logs.
I'll soon add a small script to get more meaningful info about the depots available on your server, so you can know which are what in a jiffy and remove the no longer useful willy-nilly.
December 10th update: soon is now. Get the script doing the following, if you run the setup mentioned before, it should work out of the box:
cd /etc/cron.daily && wget https://github.com/yeupou/stalag13/raw/master/etc/cron.daily/cache-steam && chmod +x cache-steam ./cache-steam
This should update a daily depots.html file in your /srv/www/depot/.


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Chaplain's Corner
Do you notice that in describing the actions or behaviors of others, people usually tack on a label describing the person themselves. This is especially common when we observe someone making a mistake. As an example, we may say: "That is not the way to do it, you are wrong: You are an idiot." In actuality some of the labels we use in describing others are quite more 'colorful' than the word: "idiot".
The problem is label-words are abstract, ambiguous and carry surplus meaning. Such words then, can be misunderstood, frequently prompt harsh feelings and escalate into unfriendly exchanges. This was not unnoticed by the author of the Book of Proverbs who noted: "When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent." (Pv 10:19).
Use of label-words also betray a basic thinking error: circular reasoning. In this example the circular reasoning goes like this: How do you know the person is an idiot? By their mistake. What made the person make the mistake? The person is an idiot? A military minded example would go like this: This is a fast bullet! What makes it fast? Because it is a fast bullet? Clear thinking involves breaking out of using the label word itself as explaining how it works. We know someone is mentally impaired when neuropsychological test results show cognitive impairment. Likewise we can explain bullet speed by scientific analysis of bullet size, weight, powder burn, and bore length of weapon etc. In the words of Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) of the 1950's TV series Dragnet: "Just give me the facts Maam"
In my pastoral and clinical experience I find labeling people to be one of the most flagrant and offensive ways to hurt others short of physical abuse. (Morelli, 2006). The most egregious labels actually are forms of psychological abuse which would be considered a breech of the love and caring we are to show one another as taught by most world religions. Jesus told his disciples: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." (Jn 13:34). Likewise, in the Hebrew Mishna we read: [Love] if it does not depend upon a transient thing (but rests upon a solid basis, like the love of the righteous and the wise) it never ceases. In this sense, all of us are called to love one another and be caretakers of each other. To accomplish this we can eradicate wrong thinking and follow the advice of the great medieval Jewish physician Moses Maimonides: Let it not fail to see what is visible, but do not permit it to arrogate to itself the power to see what cannot be seen, for delicate and indefinite are the bounds of the great art of caring for the lives and health of Thy creatures. Let me never be absent-minded.
We can overcome the labeling trap by applying the wisdom of one of the elders of the Eastern Church (Paisios of the Holy Mountain): "I know from experience people are divided into two categories ... The first resembles the fly. The fly is attracted to dirt...when a fly is found in a garden full of flowers with beautiful fragrances; it will ignore them and will sit on top of some dirt. People belonging to this category always look to bad things in life and refuse the presence of the good. The other category is like the bee whose main characteristic is to always look for something sweet and nice to sit on. The second category of people...sees only the good side of things. They always try to cover up the evil to protect their fellow man" (Ageloglou, 1998).
Ageloglou, Priestmonk Christodoulos. (1998). Elder Paisios of The Holy Mountain. Mt. Athos, Greece: Holy Mountain.
Morelli, G. (2006, September 24). Smart Parenting IV: Cuss Control.http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/MorelliParenting4.php.
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V. Rev. Fr. George Morelli Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist.
Fr. Morelli is the Coordinator of the Chaplaincy and Pastoral Counseling Ministry of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese and Religion Coordinator (and Antiochian Archdiocesan Liaison) of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion.
Fr. Morelli is a Senior Fellow at the Sophia Institute, an independent Orthodox Advanced Research Association and Philanthropic Foundation housed at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York City that serves as a gathering force for contemporary Orthodox scholars, theologians, spiritual teachers, and ethicists.
Fr. Morelli serves on the Executive Board of the San Diego Cognitive Behavior Therapy Consortium (SDCBTC)
Fr. Morelli serves as Assistant Pastor of St. George's Antiochian Orthodox Church, San Diego, California.
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team fell to Monmouth by a score of 69-63 on Monday night in West Long Branch, NJ. The Blue Devils (11-10, 5-5 NEC) were led by 20 points from senior Jaclyn Babe. The Hawks (9-12 6-4 NEC) top scorer was senior Carly Thibault who dropped in 21 points.
The Blue Devils opened the second half with a strong 9-4 run over the first four minutes and 11 seconds. Junior Jessica Babe led the charge with five of CCSU's nine points. Sophomore Kaley Watras and senior Kirsten Daamen also scored during the run. The opening stretch gave the Blue Devils a 38-36 lead.
CCSU's final lead of the game came with 13:06 left in the second half on a free throw by Jessica Babe. Babe hit one of two shots to put her team ahead 39-38, but from there Monmouth opened up a six point run that gave the Hawks a 44-39 advantage.
With Monmouth leading 48-41, Central made another run with a jumper by Daamen, a layup by Jessica Babe and a free throw from freshman Amanda Harrington. The run closed the deficit to two points and from that point the teams began trading baskets.
Watras was able to cut Central's deficit to a single point with a pair of free throws with 3:18 left in the game, but again Monmouth answered and went back ahead with six consecutive free throws.
The second half featured 31 total fouls, with CCSU committing 16 and Monmouth 15. Both teams exceeded the 10 foul limit early in the half.
Monmouth was able to pull away late in the game by connecting on 8-of-10 free throws over the final minute of play.
The Blue Devils featured a balanced offensive attack in the first half. Eight CCSU players scored in the period led by Jaclyn Babe's 10 points. As a team, Central shot 48% from the floor in the period, but Monmouth was able to erase CCSU's lead with four three pointers and six free throws. Monmouth led 32-29 at the half.
With 20 points tonight, Jaclyn Babe is now at 998 for her career. She has scored 807 points with the Blue Devils and 191 during her two seasons at Duquesne.
The Hawks out rebounded the Blue Devils 49-25 in the game and Monmouth pulled down 17 offensive boards.
Jessica Babe and Watras shared a team-high with five rebounds each. Jessica Babe also had seven assists and three steals to go along with eight points. All eight of Babe's points and four of her assists came in the second half.
The Blue Devils committed a season-low nine turnovers in the game and had a 15-9 assist-turnover ratio.
The Blue Devils return to action on Saturday at Detrick Gym against intrastate rival Quinnipiac. That game will tip-off at 12 p.m. and will be followed by the Quinnipiac and Central Connecticut men's game.


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If you missed it, check out Part 1: Pirate City.
As I walked into McKechnie I got word that Pedro Alvarez was in the batting cage.
This is five shots of five different swings I've put together in a gif. Pedro looked to be swinging well and the ball had a good sound coming off of his bat. The coach pitching to him was having him work on staying back. This was bout two hours before news broke that Alvarez has discomfort in his knee and will be held out for a few games. As you can see he's not wearing a brace and I saw no sign of a limp. But as someone who has some knee issues of my own, I can say that certain movements trigger the pain more than others. It may be an issue where he can't run or field as well as he needs to but swinging does no harm.
On to the game. Recap. Box Score. Pictures at the bottom.
Good: Charlie Morton was lights out. 4 IP, 2 H, 2 K. Mostly groundballs. I'll have more on him below. Matt Hague continued to look strong in his bid to make the big league club both at bat (2 run HR) and in the field (nice pick of a throw in the dirt.) Jose Tabata went 3-4.
Up and Down: Casey McGehee booted one easy grounder but made a nice play later on one which was hit harder. No hits fell in for him but he hit the ball square each time. Rod Barajas went 0-3 but had a good throw to catch Georgia Tech alum Tony Plagman stealing.
Nearly Bad: Chris Leroux got Charlie Brown'd during his one inning. A line drive had him duck so fast his hat came off. Luckily he wasn't hit or hurt and finished the inning without incident.
Just Bad: Daniel McCutchen was more unlucky than anything else. Most of the hits he gave up were soft ground balls that just eluded the defense. However, the grand slam was a no-doubter to centerfield.
After the game I was able to briefly speak with Pirates General Manager Neal Huntington. I asked him about Morton not being named to the rotation for the opening week in contrast with his stellar outing today, and if it was just a matter of getting him stretched out. I didn't have a recorder so I'll paraphrase in an attempt not to misquote Mr. Huntington.
- The team is in a fortunate position in that the schedule allows them to "find out where he is" and take the time to make sure Charlie is healthy and ready to go without rushing him.
- In a similar situation last year with James McDonald, James came back too quickly to start the year and ended up not performing well in April.
- Asked if Charlie could be used the first time the 5th starter is needed on April 14, Huntington responded that it was "an option."
Barring any new developments, my gut says to look for Charlie on the 14th. Many thanks to Mr. Huntington for his time and words.
Tomorrow: Last day. Probably go to Pirate City and see if A.J. Burnett will be throwing his simulated game there.
Filed under: baseball, Pirates, Spring Training | Tagged: Andy Van Slyke, baseball, Casey McGehee, Charlie Morton, Chris Leroux, Daniel McCutchen, Jim Leyland, Jose Tabata, Matt Hague, Neal Huntington, Pedro Alvarez, Pirates, Rafael Belliard, Rod Barajas, Spring Training, Tony Plagman, WHYGAVS |


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1 pound ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion (from 1 medium-sized onion)
1/2 cup chopped celery (from 1 stalk)
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Two 14-ounce cans reduced-sodium beef broth
2 medium-sized potatoes, chopped coarsely
One 14 1/2-ounce can diced tomatoes, drained
One 8-ounce package shredded Cheddar and American cheese blend (2 cups)
One 6-ounce can tomato paste
1/4 cup ketchup
1 to 2 tablespoons Dijon-style mustard
1 cup whole milk
6 cocktail buns or brown-and-serve rolls, split
1 tablespoon butter, melted, or olive oil
Assorted condiments, such as pickles, onions, lettuce, mustard, and/or ketchup, for serving (optional)
1) In a large pot, cook beef, onion, celery, and garlic over medium heat until meat is browned and vegetables are tender; drain fat. Sprinkle flour on beef mixture. Cook and stir for 2 minutes. Stir in broth and potatoes. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook, covered, until potatoes are tender, for 10 minutes.
2) Stir in tomatoes, cheese, tomato paste, ketchup, and mustard. Cook and stir until soup comes to a gentle boil. Stir in milk and heat through.
3) Preheat broiler. Place split buns, split sides up, on a broiler pan. Brush with melted butter or olive oil. Broil 4-5 inches from the heat until golden, for about 1 minute. Serve soup with toasted buns and top with condiments. Yield: 4 to6 servings.
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Beet Tzatziki
Tzatziki—that cool, creamy sauce-salad of yogurt and cucumbers—has become synonymous with Greek cuisine. And while the Greeks do their fair share of tzatziki eating, it's worth noting that nearly every country in the eastern Mediterranean region boasts their own take on the yogurt-based dish, ranging from soups and salads to sauces and refreshing beverages. Tzatziki (or talattouri or cacık, depending on who you ask) plays a huge role in Eastern Mediterranean fare.
Silvena Rowe offers up several versions of tzatziki in her Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume including this vibrant Beet Tzatziki. Like any tzatiki worth its salt, this one begins the night before by making a batch of suzme, a thick, rich yogurt made by draining the liquid from a quart of plain yogurt.
Instead of the classic cucumber, Rowe adds roasted shredded beets along with tzatiki staples like lemon juice, garlic, and olive oil. In a nod to her Bulgarian heritage, Rowe finishes this beet and yogurt salad with a handful of chopped walnuts. This version of tzatziki is more of a salad than a sauce and makes a beautiful addition to a mezze spread.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume to give away this week.
Reprinted with permission from Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume by Silvena Rowe, copyright © 2011. Published by Ecco.
- Yield:6
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:20 minutes, plus overnight
- 4 medium beets, roasted and grated
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 1/2 cups Suzme (recipe follows)
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped walnuts
- Suzme
- 1 quart whole milk plain yogurt, not Greek style
- 2 pieces of cheesecloth approximately 12 x 12 inches
To make the Suzme: Place the yogurt in the center of the double layered cheesecloth. Standing over the sink, twist the muslin around the yogurt until you have a tight ball. Tie the top with some string and suspend the ball (I tie it to the tap) overnight. You will end up with a yogurt of a very thick consistency, which is known throughout the Eastern Mediterranean as suzme. You will have about 1 1/2 cups. Cover and refrigerate.
To make the Beet Tzatziki: Combine the beets, garlic, lemon juice and suzme, and season. Serve drizzled with the olive oil, and
sprinkled with the parsley and walnuts.
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