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The Andorian Incident
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Brannon Braga
Fred Dekker
Rick Berman
Season Ep :
x 06
Main Cast :
Anthony Montgomery
Travis Mayweather
Connor Trinneer
Charles Tucker III
Dominic Keating
Malcolm Reed
John Billingsley
Jolene Blalock
Linda Park
Hoshi Sato
Scott Bakula
Jonathan Archer
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Jamie McShane
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Jeff Ricketts
Jeffrey Combs
Richard Tanner
as Vulcan
Steven Dennis
Why did Archer take a beating from the Andorians in order to throw the little statue through the mask? It seemed like the idea was to see if it really led to the passage Trip found, but if so then why not just climb up from below and look through the holes?
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It's nice to see that everybody is still scared of the transporter. And it was nice to see the crew thinking of all the things that should be standard procedure to avoid situations like this.
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The pride of a few Vulcan monks, a few Andorians get stunned, one Enterprise crewman is wounded, and Archer gets beaten up repeatedly.
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The boss Andorian was played by Jeffrey Combs, best known as Weyoun on DS9. Although no log date is given, T'Pol claims that she has been on Enterprise for nine weeks and four days. Adding this to the date given in Broken Bow would put this episode on 27th June 2151.
Discussing their next destination, Archer notes that they are near to a remote Vulcan outpost and suggests that they pay a visit. T'Pol notes that the outpost is in fact a P'Jem, Vulcan monastery, a spiritual retreat for peaceful meditation. She thinks the monks may object to the Enterprise dropping by, but Archer overrules her and orders the ship to the planet.
later, T'Pol admits to Phlox that it will be awkward for other Vulcans to see her serving alongside Humans. Phlox points out that the Vulcans are supposed to be big supporters of "infinite diversity in infinite combinations", which should make them support her assignment.
As the ship arrives, T'Pol fills everyone in on the required protocols for viisting. She, Tucker and Archer head down in a shuttle. The visit seems to go well enough, though there are some strange signs - the door looks damaged, and there are signs of disarray inside - slight, but standing out to T'Pol since precise arrangement of ornaments and such is an important aspect of life on P'Jem. The monks also seem to want them to leave as soon as possible, arousing their suspicions - suspicions confirmed when Archer spots a blue-skinned alien hiding behind a wooden frame.
Trip and Archer grab the alien, but he is not alone - P'Jem has been occupied by a small contingent of Andorians. The landing party are quickly captured as well. The captors are Andorians, led by Commander Shran. Shran is deeply suspicious of Vulcans, as his people have a long and unfriendly history with them. Shran believes that P'Jem is more than it seems to be, and claims that the arrival of the Humans proves that something is going on. The Vulcan monks claim that they are wholly innocent - the Andorians are a suspicious and illogical people, and although there is peace between the two powers some Andorians do everything they can to keep tensions high. Shran claims that P'Jem is simply a cover for a long range sensor array used to spy on the Andorians, an idea the Vulcans deny.
Meanwhile Enterprise has noticed the Andorian ship on the surface, prompting some worry. Their inability to contact the landing party is more of a concern, though Hoshi and Mayweather suggest that their people might just be taking a tour or involved in some ritual that is preventing them from responding. Lieutenant Reed notes that even simple precautions like scanning the surface before sending a landing party down or arranging a schedule for regular check ins could have avoided all the uncertainty, and vows to make such things standard practice in future.
On the surface, Shran interrogates Archer. He refuses to believe that the Captain knows nothing about the alleged sensor array, and beats him for not answering. Shran uses Archer's communicator to call the ship and inform them that he has their people prisoner and will kill them if the ship attempts to intervene. Afterward he destroys all of the communicators.
Sent back to sit with the others, Archer learns that there is an emergency communicator in the catacombs beneath P'Jem. The captives sneak down there to find it and bring it back up. Although it's not working, Trip is sure he can jury rid something given a little time.
When he does get it working they notify the ship about what has happened, but order them to hold off on taking any direct action against the Andorians for now. Reed and two of his security personnel use the transporter to beam down, a procedure which makes them all nervous but which works successfully. The Andorians detect the energy surge and come looking, but find nothing amiss. Reed plants charges on the wall of the sanctuary and as one of the Andorians makes advances on T'Pol, he blows his way in and attack. However two of the Andorians get away and a firefight ensues. The Vulcan elder is distressed that Archer has turned the sanctuary into a "war zone", but there is nothing else to do now but shoot it out.
Down beneath the sanctuary, Archer locates a mysterious doorway and opens it - only to reveal a huge high tech facility manned by Vulcans beneath P'Jem. Shran's suspicions were correct, the monastery is indeed just a cover for a secret surveillance outpost. Archer has T'Pol make detailed scans of the installation, which he hands over to the Andorians. With the crisis resolved, the Andorians head off to their ship and Archer and his people go back to Enterprise.
Before leaving, Shran notes that he is in Archer's debt.
A good episode for the most part, this. The Andorians are brash and arrogant sorts, but not really "evil for the sake of being evil" bad guys - they have a little depth to them, helped by our finding out that they are actually right in what they are accusing the Vulcans of. It's also nice to see Reed lamenting how even basic commonsense measures would have helped enormously here - this is the kind of mistake we do expect from the NX-01 crew, mistakes resulting from being too confident rather than too cautious.
The big failure here is how the Vulcans are made out to be bad guys for what they are doing. There seems to be an unconscious assumption in the episode that spying is inherently bad and immoral, and so anybody who engages in it is acting badly and should be exposed regardless of the consequences.
Is that really the case, though? One can certainly say that some forms of spying are pretty shady... but all the Vulcans are doing here is running a sensor outpost. They're not blackmailing Andorians into giving up secrets, they're not running James Bond style missions where they assassinate people to steal secrets. They're just running sensors, from systems located within their own space at that. It's about the "cleanest" form of intelligence gathering there is, morally speaking.
But even if we take it as read that spying like this is something that is a bit of a no-no, is Archer really in a position to out them to the Andorians this way? Let's bear in mind that at this point Earth is more or less helpless against any significant interstellar power. They are almost wholly dependent on the Vulcans for protection - and here Captain Archer just arbitrarily decides to issue a massive F-U to our closest allies and protectors, purely because he thinks it's the right thing to do? Could he really not just pass on the information to his own command back on Earth and let them decide what to do about it? After all, if he was able to drive the Andorians away from P'Jem whilst concealing the existence of the sensor array, it would be the first time that the Vulcans had gained a real piece of genuine payback from their relationship with Earth. Wouldn't you think that would be worth something for us?
And really, I'm not even saying that this is the right thing to do. The complaint is more that nobody ever even suggests that this is an option. Archer blindly assumes that what he does is the one and only course of action that anybody would want to engage on and it's never once so much as questioned, even by T'Pol.
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Lily doesn't like to sleep alone.
So, when the beagle stays overnight at Cheryl's Doggie Daycare on the Far West Side, an attendant lies down with her on a futon.
"We try to do what the customers ask," said Cheryl McCool, who owns the business."They (the dogs) are like children to some of them."
With the busy summer-vacation season under way, kennel owners are fielding a fair number of unusual requests from pet owners seeking to board animals.
Kennel owners have been asked to cuddle dogs at bedtime; feed them on china; and, on an Ohio State game day, dress them in Buckeye gear.
"You try to meet every customer's request as often as possible," said Adam Schellhammer, whose family owns Camp Bow Wow on the Far West Side - a franchise of a national dog-boarding business.
Kennels have a good reason to keep customers happy: In 2012, pet owners spent an estimated $4.16 billion on pet grooming and boarding, according to the American Pet Products Association.
In a recent survey for which Camp Bow Wow franchisees were questioned about the most memorable requests they'd received from pet owners, one reported that it had been asked to sing You Are My Sunshine to a mastiff at bedtime. (The franchisee complied.)
Another was asked to serve red wine to a Great Dane at mealtime - and not a cheap variety. (The business said it doesn't serve alcohol to dogs, and the caller wasn't heard from again.)
Although kennel owners in central Ohio couldn't recall requests quite so peculiar, they hear their share of appeals for special treatment - many of them involving food.
"We've actually had to feed a dog on a washcloth. That's the only way the dog would eat," Schellhammer said. "We had one owner who . . . (said that for) every meal we had to make a chicken potpie."
The Pet Palace Pet Boarding resorts in Columbus, Hilliard and southern Delaware County order steak or chicken dinners from restaurants for dogs whose owners request them.
"The workers like it because they get to eat the side dishes," said Pet Palace owner Brian Hudock.
Cliff Boyden, owner of Puptown Lounge in Upper Arlington, hosted one dog that would eat only off a plate. (The owners sent their own china.)
"We had another person who wanted us to give the dog a treat when the Jeopardy! theme song came on." (The staff complied.)
At Acme Canine in Lewis Center, Laura Pakis has a regular customer - Moose, a 175-pound mastiff - who expects a warmed hot dog and liquid from the hot-dog package placed atop his dry food.
She gives them to him.
"He doesn't like when we're gone, so he doesn't eat very well," explained Stacy Gotti, owner of Moose. "They have found, if they put hot-dog juice on his food, he likes that, and he'll eat. You'd never think that a 175-pound dog would be that picky."
Few requests from dog owners are surprising, Pakis said.
One thought his scent would comfort his dog in his absence, so he went into the kennel bathroom and took off his T-shirt so the dog could sleep with it.
Another specified that the dog get a nightly bowl of vanilla ice cream.
"Wintertime, they'll bring in whole outfits," Pakis said. "On a game day, they'll ask that the dog wear a sweater with Ohio State on it."
The OSU sweater might seem a bit of a stretch, but some owners have good reason to ask for special treatment.
Lily, the beagle who likes human sleep mates, was adopted from the Franklin County Dog Shelter and has separation anxiety so intense that she has hurt herself trying to escape a crate, said her owner, Katie Dean.
She takes the dog to Cheryl's precisely because of its willingness to accommodate Lily.
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Yet not all dogs are as needy as their owners imagine, kennel operators say.
Worn-out after a day of playing with other dogs, most boarders usually go to sleep quickly - whether in their pajamas (yes, someone requested them) or not, said Boyden of Puptown Lounge.
And they're often too hungry to need their mealtime rituals.
An owner who requested that Boyden's staff say a chant in a foreign language before mealtime was probably just asking for what he thought the dog needed.
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Story update time! Lots of good stuff today, hit it all up after the break.
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Description: When Apple Bloom falls ill with a mysterious disease, it's up to Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash to try and find her a cure! Can they find it in time, or will this be it for the little filly?White Demure
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Description: Following the zombie apocalypse, a young stallion decides to record the events surrounding his settlement's survival, with hopes that someone will find it and learn from it, be it from their mistakes or triumphs.Flash's Journal
Labels: Author: Ryden, Author: Xephfyre, Celestia, comedy, Everypony, Fluttershy, Incomplete, Normal, Star-5, Story, Twilight Sparkle
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Description: An injured stranger comes to Ponyville. He carries with him the darkest of secrets. He is condemned to a fate worse than death, but is there yet hope of salvation, before the end? Only the Elements of Harmony can decide.The Vagabond
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[Grimdark][Adventure] The Seven Samurai? I'm proud of you, ponies.
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Description: Extraordinary circumstances thrust Twilight Sparkle into a world far beyond the reaches of Equestria, into crumbling lands plagued with ruthless warfare and social unrest. Tasked with defending a peasant village from marauding bandits, she must fight not only to save the village, but to also retain her soundness of mind in the torrent of violence. However, she is not alone. Six companions and a telepathic crown will prove their worth in the trials ahead, as a battle for the ages brews in the southern reaches of the oriental nation of Umala.Seven Ponies
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Story: My Sweetie (Update Part 2 + 3!)
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Labels: Author: Big Mackintosh, Complete, Derpy Hooves, Other, Sad, Star-5, Story
Story: Shadows of the Sun (Update Part 11!)
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Description: A long drought has created food shortages across all of Equestria. In an effort to restore the country to its former glory, Princess Celestia sends Twilight Sparkle to the northern country of Prance to seek aid. But when something goes wrong, it starts a tragic chain of events that seems to have no end. With a sinister plot for power developing in the shadows of the sun, the entire world will be changed forever.Shadows of the Sun
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Story: Kindred Spirits (Update Part 4!)
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Labels: Author: Cottonmouth, Gilda, Incomplete, Shipping, Spike, Star-4, Story
Story: The Elements of Gaming (Update Part 7+8!)
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Author: Ryden and Xephfyre
Description: On behalf of the Canterlot University of Electrical Engineering, Princess Celestia sends her star pupil a mysterious contraption she wants her to test out. Can the mane six overcome this new challenge, even if it costs them their sanity?The Elements of Gaming
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NEW YORK — Over the winter I moved from New York City to Portland, Ore. The reasons for my move were purely logical. New York was expensive and stressful. Portland, I reasoned, would offer me the space and time to do my work.
Upon arriving, I rented a house and happily went out in search of "my people." I went to parks, bookstores, bars, on dates. I even tried golfing. It wasn't that I didn't meet people. I did. I just felt no connection to any of them.
Once social and upbeat, I became morose and mildly paranoid. I knew I needed to connect to people to feel better, but I felt as though I physically could not handle any more empty interactions. I woke up in the night panicked. In the afternoon, loneliness came in waves like a fever. I had no idea how to fix it.
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Social isolation impairs immune function and boosts inflammation, which can lead to arthritis, type II diabetes and heart disease. Loneliness is breaking our hearts, but as a culture we rarely talk about it.
Loneliness has doubled: 40 percent of adults in two recent surveys said they were lonely, up from 20 percent in the 1980s.
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In a society that judges you based on how expansive your social networks appear, loneliness is difficult to fess up to. It feels shameful.
About a decade ago, my mom was going through a divorce from my step-father. Lonely and desperate for connection, she called a cousin she hadn't talked to in several years. On the phone, her cousin was derisive: "Don't you have any friends?"
While dealing with my own loneliness in Portland, I often found myself thinking, "If I were a better person I wouldn't be lonely."
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One of the reasons we avoid discussing loneliness is that fixing it obviously isn't a simple endeavor.
Even though the Internet has possibly contributed to our isolation, it might hold a key to fixing it. Cacioppo is excited by online dating statistics showing that couples who found each other online and stayed together shared more of a connection and were less likely to divorce than couples who met offline. If these statistics hold up, it would stand to reason friendships could also be found in this way, easing those whose instincts tell them to stay on the periphery back into the world with common bonds forged over the Internet.
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When we first looked at the report of the bigfoot genome, it was an odd mixture of things: standard methods and reasonable looking data thrown in with unusual approaches and data that should have raised warning flags for any biologist. We just couldn't figure out the logic of why certain things were done or the reasoning behind some of the conclusions the authors reached. So, we spent some time working with the reported genome sequences themselves and talked with the woman who helped put the analysis together, Dr. Melba Ketchum. While it didn't answer all of our questions, it gave us a clearer picture of how the work came to be.
The biggest clarification made was what the team behind the results considered their scientific reasoning, which makes sense of how they ran past warning signs that they were badly off track. It provided an indication of what motivated them to push the results into a publication that they knew would cause them grief.
Melba Ketchum and the bigfoot genome
The public face of the bigfoot genome has been Melba Ketchum, a Texas-based forensic scientist. It was Ketchum who first announced that a genome was in the works, and she was the lead author of the paper that eventually described it. That paper became the one and only publication of the online journal De Novo; it's still the only one to appear there.
The paper itself is an odd mix of things. There's a variety of fairly standard molecular techniques mixed in with a bit of folklore and a link to a YouTube video that reportedly shows a sleeping Sasquatch. In some ways, the conclusions of the paper are even odder than the video. They suggest that bigfeet aren't actually an unidentified species of ape as you might have assumed. Instead, the paper claims that bigfeet are hybrids, the product of humans interbreeding with a still unknown species of hominin.
As evidence, it presents two genomes that purportedly came from bigfoot samples. The mitochondrial genome, a small loop of DNA that's inherited exclusively from mothers, is human. The nuclear genome, which they've only sequenced a small portion of, is a mix of human and other sequences. Some are closely related, others quite distant.
But my initial analysis suggested that the "genome sequence" was an artifact, the product of a combination of contamination, degradation, and poor assembly methods. And every other biologist I showed it to reached the same conclusion. Ketchum couldn't disagree more. "We've done everything in our power to make sure the paper was absolutely above-board and well done," she told Ars. "I don't know what else we could have done short of spending another few years working on the genome. But all we wanted to do was prove they existed, and I think we did that."
How do you get one group of people who looks at the evidence and sees contamination, while another decides "The data conclusively prove that the Sasquatch exists"? To find out, we went through the paper's data carefully, then talked to Ketchum to understand the reasoning behind the work.
Why they think it was genuine
Fundamentally, the scientific problems with the work seem to go back to the fact that some of the key steps—sample processing and preparation—were done by forensic scientists. As the name itself implies, forensic science is, like more general sciences, heavily focused on evidence, reproducibility, and other aspects shared with less applied sciences. But unlike genetics for example, forensic science is very goal-oriented. That seems to be what caused the problems here.
Over the decades that DNA has been used as forensic evidence, people in the field have come up with a variety of procedures that have been validated repeatedly. By following those procedures, they know the evidence they generate is likely to hold up in court. And, to an extent, it seems like the people behind the bigfoot genome wanted it to hold up in court.
"It's non-human hair—it's clearly non-human hair—it was washed and prepared forensically, and it gave a human mitochondrial DNA result. That just doesn't happen."
Many of the samples they had were clumps of hair of various sizes. Hair is a common item in forensic analysis, where people have to identify whether the hair is human, whether it is a possible match for a suspect's, etc. In this case, the team was able to determine that the hair was not human. So far, so good.
In cases where the hair comes attached to its follicle, it's possible to extract DNA from its cells. And that is exactly what the bigfoot team did, using a standard forensic procedure that was meant to remove any other DNA that the hair had picked up in the interim. If everything worked as expected, the only DNA present should be from whatever organism the fur originated from.
And, in Ketchum's view, that's exactly what happened. They worked according to procedure, isolating DNA from the hair follicles and taking precautions to rule out contamination by DNA from anyone that was involved in the work. Because of this, Ketchum is confident that any DNA that came from the samples once belonged to whatever creature deposited the fur in the woods—no matter how confusing the results it produced were. "The mito [mitochondrial DNA results] should have done it," she argued. "It's non-human hair—it's clearly non-human hair—it was washed and prepared forensically, and it gave a human mitochondrial DNA result. That just doesn't happen."
Ketchum was completely adamant that contamination wasn't a possibility. "We had two different forensics labs extract these samples, and they all turned out non-contaminated, because forensics scientists are experts in contamination. We see it regularly, we know how to deal with mixtures, whether it's a mixture or a contaminated sample, and we certainly know how to find it. And these samples were clean."
But note the key phrase two paragraphs up: "if everything worked as expected." Anyone who's done much biology (or presumably, much science in general) knows that everything typically does not work as expected. In fact, things go badly wrong for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it's obvious they went wrong, sometimes results look pretty reasonable but fall apart on careful examination.
In this case, there was no need for careful examination; the results the team got from the DNA was a mix of warning signs that things weren't right (internally inconsistent information) and things that simply didn't make any sense. But Ketchum believed so strongly in the rigor of the forensic procedures that she went with the results regardless of the problems. In fact, it seemed as if almost everything unusual about the samples was interpreted as a sign that there was something special about them.


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Just in case the other two device leaks weren't enough for you, how about some details about the BlackBerry Torch 2? Well, alright then. The BlackBerry Torch which was released not all that long ago now looks to have a successor already in the works. Realistically, the updated specs look more along the lines of what the first BlackBerry Torch should have been considering many folks took issue with how little of an advancement the original BlackBerry Torch was. Have a look at whats been detailed for the BlackBerry Torch 2:
- 1.2GHz processor
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- Tri-band HSPA 14.4Mbps
- 3.2-inch VGA 640 x 480 capacitive display
- 8GB built-in memory
- Bluetooth 2.1
- 5MP camera with flash
- Magnetometer
- 1300 mAh battery
- BlackBerry OS 6.1
- OpenGL ES
- 14.6mm thin
So if you're unhappy with your current Torch maybe the BlackBerry Torch 2 is more fitting for you? These are the specs we have been wanting. Sure, there is no dual core listed there but 1.2GHz is nothing to shake a stick at. While specs and all that are great to look at the real question remains with the OS though. Does OS 6.1 make use of the new specs and hardware? Sticking a 1.2GHz processor in there doesn't really mean much if the OS is not optimized to make use of it. We'll find out soon, as noted in the source link Research In Motion is tracking Q3 for the release of the Blackberry Torch 2.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
This Pan-Fried Butter Beans Recipe Only Sounds Unhealthy!
These big, creamy legumes are just perfect for pan-frying. The thick skins get all crackly, and crusty, and will soak up whatever you decide to flavor them with. Here they get a very traditional treatment of salt, pepper, garlic, and herbs. A little vinegar at the end to balance things out, and you have a beautiful summer side dish.
I'm posting this while waiting for my flight back from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, so we'll keep things nice and brief. Actually, now that I think about it, there's really not much more to say. So, I'll just finish with a little end-of-recipe advice.
This version is "dry," which is how I like these butter beans served, but if you want something a little moister, towards the end you can add freshly diced tomato, some broth, or even more oil olive and vinegar. Don't worry, you can't break this recipe…it's beans! Enjoy.
Ingredients for 2-4 servings:
1 can butter beans
3 tablespoons olive oil
garlic cloves as needed
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
red pepper flakes to taste
couple sprigs of fresh herbs
1 tablespoon white wine or sherry vinegar
34 comments:
- Marian Parkes said...
Can't wait to try this! It'll go great with my Southern fried corn and fried apples. Add some fried okra and I'll be in heaven.
- June 21, 2010 at 8:16 PM
cool. looks like a jose andres recipe especially with that garlic technique.
- June 21, 2010 at 9:46 PM
would that be good with some chopped bacon?
- June 21, 2010 at 11:05 PM
- Chef John said...
Sure! What isn't?
- June 21, 2010 at 11:11 PM
- Patrick said...
I remember asking you about this a while back with your cornish hen recipe and now you made a video! So awesome. Thanks for this one. Is Summer Savory something you can get at a garden store or a nursery to grow on your own? I've never found it (dry) in our markets around here (Tulsa) nor have I seen it live in the garden centers...
Great work and thanks for the videos.
- June 22, 2010 at 1:59 AM
- Chef John said...
I found at nursery, but you can get seeds online. Thanks!
- June 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM
- MoarPewPewPlz said...
Hey Chef John! Thanks for this recipe. I'm gonna try it as a side dish for my fam. Tink it'd go great with a little onion? Also, I don't know where to ask this...but I'm going for Culinary Arts, especially the Baking & Pastry part...do you know of any schools here in California who received good reviews and is a little cheap? I live around the central valley. Having a bit of a future crisis! I originally wanted to go to Vancouver, Canada and study there, but my family is forcing me to study here and only here. So I don't know what school is good and what isn't. I hear CCA is a bad school now and Institute of Technology is bad as well. I hope I'm not asking too much...decided to ask a real chef (which is you!) Thanks for understanding Chef John! You're the greatest. Please keep making more vids :]
- June 22, 2010 at 5:18 AM
- Krista said...
Chef john, I just wanted to say THANK YOU for your blog and Videos! I had my french toast *nearly* perfect until I watched your video on You tube. AWESOME!!!!! You are going to help me a a huge better cook! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
- June 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Laura T. said...
What a lovely dish. I could see myself just eating this along with some crusty, grilled bread for a hearty meal.
- June 22, 2010 at 10:45 AM
- Chef John said...
Thanks everyone!!
Moar, I don't like to give kind of advice, but check out SF City College program. Very well respected, affordable, and you get a real degree unlike the CCA (Currently not a fan of their program).
- June 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Ian :) said...
This is something i will b trying tomorrow, looks nice and i have tins of butter beans in the cupboard just waiting for a recipe!
- June 22, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- Chase Saunders said...
Butter beans? I had never heard of these. Wikipedia told me they are the same as lima beans. Oh.
- June 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM
- Chef John said...
similar, but not the same. Butter beans are larger and tan. Lima beans are light green.
- June 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- MoarPewPewPlz said...
Oh, I'm sorry Chef John. But I still appreciate you answering the question for me! Thanks again sir.
- June 22, 2010 at 3:39 PM
- Ed Charbeneau said...
What is your opinion on using some fresh lemon in place of vinegar. I'm not terribly fond of vinegar.
- June 23, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- Chef John said...
lemon is perfect
- June 23, 2010 at 11:11 AM
I usually try to avoid canned beans (or canned anything, except, maybe tomatoes) because the product usually has a load of salt in it.
Are there any reasonable alternatives to canned beans? I'm not on a low sodium diet but I try to avoid going overboard.
Any suggestions?
- June 23, 2010 at 9:54 PM
- Chef John said...
not sure, prob any canned bean can be found dried, but never tried. relax and buy a can, you be fine! ;-)
- June 24, 2010 at 12:08 AM
- Cook of the Line said...
There is a Middle East variation of this recipe, we enrich it with herbs, onion, tomato puree, etc.
Restaurants over here love it, because it is cheaply made, fast, and the baked beans can be kept in the fridge.
- June 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM
For those asking what they should do with dried lima beans
1) Soak them in a large quantity of water overnight
2) Rinse and drain them
3) Put them in a large pot with lots of water (1 cup of beans for 3 to 4 cup s of water)
4) Boil for approximately 30 to 40 mn making sure you don't end up with saggy beans. Remember, you'll still pan fry them so it's ok if they're still a little firm.
I really love this recipe. Instead of thyme and rosemary, I also used cilantro and mint and it worked beautifully!
- July 1, 2010 at 5:53 PM
- Human Orchestra said...
I'm going to do this tonight since I'm running out of side dish ideas. I don't have fresh herbs or vinegar so I'll use lemon juice instead.
Leaving the garlic whole is interesting but I'll probably just use the garlic press and add it in in the last 2 minutes, then some dried herbs. I just hope the herbs don't blacken real fast but it shouldn't be a problem at medium low, probably even remove it from the heat and let it stand with them.
Should go great with that broiled salmon mustard rice vinegar glaze. I usually pan fry my salmon or en papillote, so I love new things.
You the best chef tony. Do you think any bean would work well with this recipe?
- July 2, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Chef John said...
thanks! but who is chef tony?
- July 2, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Human Orchestra said...
Wow, I must be pretty tired to mess that up, I feel like an ass now lol. I'm sorry John. Now, do you think this recipe would work well with most beans? I have pantry full but no butterbeans.
- July 2, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- Chef John said...
no prob!! any firm beans will work, but bigger, better
- July 2, 2010 at 1:16 PM
- Kahlan Nightwing said...
This tasted really good. They came out mushy, but I don't think I dried them enough. They still tasted wonderful! The vinegar really adds a kick. I omitted the red pepper cause I didn't have any.
- September 1, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Qrystal said...
I'm quite impressed with this recipe, for its ease and deliciousness. I'll definitely be seeking out butter beans again!
A few things I'll change next time: I'll drizzle the vinegar a little more carefully; I'll add a bit more oil, sooner, before too much of the skin crumbles away; and I'll know in advance that garlic is important and have some handy. (Garlic was missing from the ingredient list, though it was mentioned in the text above... but still, when it came up in the video, I was slightly unprepared. Fortunately, there was some I could snag from nearby.)
Thanks for sharing this preparation method! :)
- November 5, 2011 at 9:14 PM
- Sarahfax said...
Hello Chef John! I am a big fan of your blog and this pan fried butter bean recipe has quickly become one of my favorites (I like sprinkling them sometimes with the breadcrumbs from the sandy beans recipe!) I have a question - in your photo, the beans look whole and, well, like beans. Mine never seem to come out that way - there are usually a few intact beans and the rest just sort of fall apart. It's still tasty, just... not particularly aesthetically pleasing. I try not to flip them too much, I'm not sure if it's temperature or time or the canned beans I use (Goya) or what. Any tips?
- January 18, 2012 at 8:56 PM
- Chef John said...
probably the beans! try another brand. I don't remember what i used, maybe S&W.
- January 18, 2012 at 9:18 PM
- Ela said...
Hello Chef John, nice one, this is a different recipie then what I normally would do with any beans.. I would also appreciate your tips on using microwave convection ovens especially to bake breads please. tks.
- January 22, 2012 at 9:02 AM
- cookinmom said...
GOTTA try these with my garden beans...mmmm!
- June 27, 2013 at 9:52 AM
- Spyce said...
Super easy and tasty. I used bacon and added a chopped tomato and basil. The possibilities here are tremendous. Thank you!
- July 31, 2013 at 11:01 AM
- Chan said...
I just made this and I recommend to everyone who cooks this to double or triple the recipe, because they are amazing. I chopped the garlic and kept it in and I used Thyme and rosemary instead, but so delicious!!!!
- December 2, 2013 at 10:25 PM
- Unknown said...
Tastes really awesome with Jamaican curry with broccoli on the side and as a side. I didn't add the vinegar or acid and instead Of those herbs I added thyme and instead of the crushed peppers I added a sprinkle of cayenne pepper, and it came out pretty great! Definitely will be making again.
- August 2, 2014 at 7:50 PM
- Unknown said...
The white beans I have are dried and called baby lima beans on the package. I've never cooked them. I am a big fan of pinto beans though. May try this recipe out. Sounds yummy!
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The New Bank Fee Model?
Results from a survey released today by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services found that there is increasing desire on the part of bank customers for a pay-by-transaction model for bank services as opposed to the traditional flat-monthly-fee models that many banks currently utilize.
The survey polled 4,271 U.S. consumers in August and was conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of Deloitte. Forty-eight percent of those polled indicated a preference for paying a set fee of 25 to 75 cents for each transaction, which was more than double the second-place option, a fixed monthly fee set between $15 and $30, according to the survey. Four other potential pricing models drew between 5 and 12 percent of consumers' interest.
Deloitte termed this result "surprising," but I think it's actually to be expected. We live in an age where consumers are used to such a range of pricing options and -- in most industries -- where there are an abundance of companies trying to sell us the same service. The idea of paying à la carte for services is appealing to many consumers; it reminds me of the longstanding complaint people have had about cable companies: Why should I pay a flat rate for x amount of channels -- half of which I don't use -- instead of just paying for the ones I do watch?
According to Deloitte, this model could also help banks win the PR war regarding fee increases. The survey found that 22 percent say that a $5 fee increase would "definitely" cause them to switch banks, and another 36 percent said that such a move would "probably" cause them to do the same. Of those on the fence, even more might switch in response to a $10 fee increase, Deloitte reports.
Those polled also were mostly open to a variety of options when asked to rate the appeal of a range of new pricing and service models in exchange for reduced fees, said Deloitte. For example, 40 percent expressed interest in a digital banking plan that would offer reduced fees while providing a limited level of in-person services, suggesting a significant appetite for primarily electronic account services. There were also some notable differences across age groups -- for example, high balance requirements were relatively more popular among older respondents, and a discount for favorable social media activity was the most popular option among the youngest respondents.
Ultimately, consumers want to feel like their bank is being fair to them. Who knows, maybe many bank customers would pay more each month using the à la carte model. But they might not care as much because they would feel like they are paying for services they are using, as opposed to having a blanket fee imposed on them.
But regardless of which which pricing option people prefer, Deloitte says it is important for banks to know their customer well and tailor products and services to each customer accordingly.
"The more important piece for retail banks is going to be communication and transparency," said Jim Eckenrode, the executive director of the Deloitte Center for Financial Services. "The lack of easy demographic identifiers for pricing preferences means that banks' insight into their customers will be key, and re-working pricing models will require engagement across multiple dimensions. The aim, of course, should be to build loyalty and satisfaction through better-tailored, high-quality services and offerings, the combination of which can help to drive customers' willingness to pay for products and services. After these steps, banks will likely receive 'permission' from their customers to make significant changes to their pricing policy."
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The Dunsmuir Tigers downed the Redding Christian Lions 34-15 in Palo Cedro Friday night to take the Northern Section Division 6 football title. The Tigers only loss of the season came against the Lions in the regular season finale. Last year, Dunsmuir made it to the section title game but lost to Butte Valley. In other NSCIF playoff action from Friday night, in Division 2, Sutter, the top seed, moves on to the section finals by downing No. 4 seed Orland 14-6. Sutter defeated Yreka in the first round of the playoffs last week. In the other Division 2 semifinal game, West Valley, the No. 3 seed, defeated No. 2 seed Central Valley 13-10 to advance to next week's title game.


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From a nightmarish fear factory that supposedly preys on people's deepest, darkest fears, to a lesser nefarious event dubbed the largest public Halloween festival in the U.S, here are a few ways revelers who love a spine-tingling thrill can celebrate the scariest holiday of the year.
They're deliciously wicked, frightful but also festive. Curated by online accommodation site Hotels.com, the list of Halloween-themed attractions and festivities span Canada and the U.S. and appeal to thrill-seekers as well as kinder, gentler – and littler – Halloween revelers.
Village Halloween Parade, New York
Oct. 31
After being canceled last year due to Hurricane Sandy, this year's parade promises to be bigger than ever. Furthermore, the parade celebrates a milestone this year with its 40th anniversary. What also makes this parade unique is the fact that anyone can participate and walk the route, provided they're in costume. The Village Halloween Parade is billed as the largest Halloween and public participatory event in the U.S.
Nightmares Fear Factory, Niagara Falls, Canada
Open year-round
Billed as one of the oldest haunted house in North America, one of the ways it's been able to attract throngs of visitors and international headlines – it's been featured on 'Live! With Regis and Kelly,' 'Good Morning America' and 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' – is by being cryptic about the attraction and posting photos of horrified visitors as they pass through. Live actors are hired to scream, taunt and torture visitors. The factory is described as an old coffin factory, and more than 100,000 people have had to leave through their 'chicken' line.
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
Select nights Sept. 10 to Nov. 1
This one's for the wee ones in your life. Costumes are cute and cuddly rather than ghoulish or grotesque. In fact, it's advised that costumes not be 'obstructive' or 'offensive.' On select nights throughout the fall, families can don their favorite costumes, go trick-or-treating in the Magic Kingdom and join Disney characters who likewise hit the pavement dressed up.
Halloween Horror Nights, Universal Studios, Hollywood
Fan of horror flicks like' The Walking Dead' and 'Chucky?' Check out Halloween Horror Nights where some of the most chilling movies are brought to life using movie sets as the attraction backdrop. Visitors can wend their way through different haunted mazes, scare zones and experience the 'Terror Tram.'
Select nights Sept. 20 – Nov. 2
The Windy City loves Halloween so much the city throws a month-long celebration that turns city landmarks and institutions like the Adler Planetarium, the Navy Pier and the Garfield Park Conservatory into ghoulish versions of themselves. In addition to haunted houses and pumpkin harvests, residents and visitors can get their groove on and learn the dance steps to MJ's 'Thriller' and learn about Prairie Street's sordid secrets during a walking tour.
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Google-watchers may have already heard about "Project Athena," a Chrome OS-related experiment of Google's that has appeared in the Chromium source code a few times in the past. Today we got our first official look at the new interface via Francois Beaufort, a Chrome enthusiast who was hired by Google last year after leaking several high-profile Chrome features.
The new UI, pictured above, displays a cascading stack of cards, each of which appears to represent an individual browser tab. At the bottom of the screen, an app drawer full of dummy icons and a Search field will allow the user to jump quickly into other applications. The battery indicator and network status are in the upper-right corner of the screen. Putting aside the rough, obviously-a-work-in-progress aesthetic of the interface, it bears a strong resemblance to the new multitasking UI in the Android L release, which shows apps and individual browser tabs as a similar stack of cards.
The current Chrome user interface, codenamed "Aura," hews much closer to Windows 7 than to Android, and it works better with a traditional keyboard and mouse combo than with fingers. The Athena UI looks like a more touch-friendly take on Chrome OS—touchscreens are gradually beginning to show up on Chromebooks like the Pixel and one of Acer's C720 models, but as we pointed out in our Chromebook Pixel review the operating system isn't particularly touch-friendly. It's possible that Google is looking to give touchscreen Chromebooks a boost by developing an interface for them that's easier to use.
There's also that onscreen Chrome OS keyboard that Google has been testing for some time now. Rumor sites and Google enthusiasts seem to think this points to a Chrome OS tablet, though it could just as easily be an accessibility feature; all recent Windows versions have included an onscreen keyboard to aid those who can't or don't want to use the physical keyboard.
The new interface would dovetail nicely with one of the few Chrome OS announcements made at Google I/O, the ability for Chrome OS to run Android applications. We don't know much about what developers will need to do to enable this cross-platform compatibility or when we'll actually see the feature, but given the touch-first nature of Android apps it would make sense for the Chrome OS user interface to become more finger-friendly as well.
Assuming it reaches the stable Chrome OS release, Athena wouldn't be the first major change to the Chrome OS UI. The operating system began life with no user interface aside from a Chrome browser window, and only picked up the Windows 7-inspired Aura theme several versions later. If you'd like to experiment with Athena, you can look at the in-development version by compiling the appropriate Chromium source code.


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How do I lose weight on a gluten-free diet?
Every weekday, a CNNHealth expert doctor answers a viewer question. On Friday, it's Dr. Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist.
Asked by Mike of Colorado
I have celiac disease (gluten intolerance), and I am wondering how to lose weight given my restrictions in my diet.
Hi Mike! This is a great question. It brings up a point that I discussed in a past CNN response: A gluten-free diet is not a weight-loss diet, but rather a way of eating that is essential for people suffering from celiac disease. That's a condition in which the body reacts to a protein called gluten present in wheat and related grains, including barley, rye, spelt, kamut and triticale.
Some people with celiac disease do lose weight on a gluten-free diet since they are unable to eat many foods often associated with weight gain, including refined-wheat products such as pizza, bread, rolls, pasta, crackers, pretzels and baked goods, as well as many highly processed and packaged foods that contain hidden gluten. But the diet was not designed for weight loss.
There's increasing awareness and diagnosis of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity, a condition in which people test negative for celiac disease but still react adversely to the ingestion of gluten. And celebrity endorsement have contributed to the rising popularity of gluten-free diets.
But processed and packaged foods - baked goods, pizza dough, pasta, gluten free snacks and breads - are showing up more and more in the marketplace. So it is important to limit your consumption of these types of foods if you have celiac disease and are trying to lose weight.
Shauna James Ahern, author of "Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef" and creator of the popular blog of the same name, explains that most gluten-free baked goods are made with white rice flour, potato starch or tapioca flour. These are all refined grains that lack nutrients but are loaded with rapidly digested carbohydrates that can lead to weight gain or prevent weight loss.
In addition, these products often contain loads of sugar to improve the taste. If you don't want to cut baked goods completely from your diet, her website contains recipes for healthier options such as whole-grain muffins and quinoa cookies as well as other delicious and healthy gluten-free meals.
But remember that just because they are gluten-free does not mean that you don't have to watch portion sizes.
In general, to lose weight, build your gluten-free, weight-loss diet around lean protein (including beans), low-fat or fat-free dairy, large amounts of a variety of vegetables, moderate amounts of fruit and gluten-free grains (brown rice, quinoa, buckwheat) and controlled portions of healthy fats.
If you continue to struggle losing weight despite watching your diet and exercising regularly, talk to your doctor about checking your thyroid, as an underactive thyroid can accompany celiac disease in some cases and can make it very challenging to lose weight.
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So, I've hit on something extremely annoying working with Niecza on my MacBook Pro. I upgraded to Mono 2.10.9 a few months back. Since then, Glib# has not worked. Even after I uninstalled Mono 2.10.9. It is incredibly frustrating.
Here's the error I'm getting:
Unhandled exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for GLib.GType ---> System.DllNotFoundException: glibsharpglue-2
Here's the call:
constant $GLIB = "glib-sharp, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f"; constant $G_TYPE_STRING = CLR::("GLib.GType,$GLIB").String;
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glib-sharp, Version=22.214.171.124, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f
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On Friday I'll have another post in my "Backscratching in Our Time" series, which calls attention to authors who praise each other's books. In the meantime, I found an interesting comment on this sort of logrolling on the site for literary agent Nathan Bransford.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted wrote a lively guest post for Bransford about dust-jacket blurbs that dealt in part with the question: Whom should you ask for these? She advised against putting an all-points-bulletin on your Web site* seeking people who might like to compare you to Lord Byron or Joan Didion, then added:
"I've also seen novices offer publicly, 'Hey, if anyone wants to blurb my book, I'll blurb theirs!' Again, please don't do this. It's unprofessional in so many ways. For starters, there's already an unpleasant impression in some circles that blurbing is a corrupt process involving log-rolling and political back-scratching and every other awful name you can think up for it. Don't help perpetuate that negative perception. Further, let's say Ian McEwan or Nora Roberts – or why not both? – are the sort of authors you're going after. No offense, but do you really think it's going to influence their decision, the promise that you'll gladly blurb them in return?"
If you're wondering why it's unprofessional, the simplest answer is: It's a conflict of interest — or the appearance of one — and as such could damage your credibility and that of the other party to the horse-trading.
*I agree with this only under some circumstances, but Baratz-Logsted made a good case for her view.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Nelson Mandela is making 'steady progress' while being treated for a recurring lung infection and he had a full breakfast on Friday, South African authorities said.
The office of President Jacob Zuma released a statement in which it said the former president and anti-apartheid leader was in good spirits after being taken late Wednesday to a hospital in the capital, Pretoria.
'The doctors report that he is making steady progress. He remains under treatment and observation in hospital,' the statement said.
'We would like to repeat our appeal for the media and the public to respect the privacy of Madiba and his family,' it said, using Mandela's clan name, a term of affection.
It is 94-year-old Mandela's third trip to a hospital since December. At that time, he spent three weeks in a hospital in Pretoria, where he was treated for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones. Earlier this month, he was hospitalized overnight for what authorities said was a successful, scheduled medical test.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been particularly vulnerable to respiratory problems since contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment for fighting white racist rule in his country.
President Barack Obama said Thursday he was concerned about Mandela's health, but noted he was as strong physically as he has been in leadership and character. Obama said he was sending his thoughts and prayers to Mandela, and he described him as a hero and an inspiration who gave everything to his people.
Zuma's office said Thursday that doctors were acting with extreme caution because of the advanced age of Mandela, who has become increasingly frail in recent years.
Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president in 1994, is a revered figure in his homeland, which has named buildings and other places after him and uses his image on national bank notes.
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A shiny new version of Android is launching with Google and LG's shiny new Nexus phone, but one of the longstanding benefits of buying Nexus means that you won't need to drop $349 on a new phone if you want the new software. Google's more recent Nexus devices will all be breaking off a piece of KitKat in the "coming weeks," according to Google's introductory blog post.
Android 4.4 is supported on nearly all of the Nexus devices that currently support Android 4.3, including the Nexus 4, the 2012 and 2013 Nexus 7s, and the Nexus 10. However, 2011's Galaxy Nexus won't be receiving the update. The Google Play edition Galaxy S 4 and HTC One should also receive the update at some point soon. Those phones received Android 4.3 just eight days after the Nexus devices started to get it, so the wait shouldn't be too long.
We've spoken at length about how Google is decoupling its core apps and services from Android itself, and Android users may not even be able to tell the difference between a phone running Android 4.3 and one running 4.4 if they're keeping their apps updated. But Google still uses new versions of Android to patch security holes and introduce low-level features like Bluetooth 4.0 and TRIM to the operating system, meaning that new updates are significant even if they aren't tied to more exciting user-facing features.
Google's Android rollouts typically happen in phases, so if your phone or tablet can't see the update right when it hits, you may have to wait for a day or two before it shows up. Alternatively, if you want the update as soon as it's out and don't mind setting your device up from scratch, you can watch Google's factory image page and wait for the KitKat images to begin showing up there.