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    Fargo, ND, PR's 5k - 17:58 / 10k - 37:51 / Half Mary - 1:26:21 / Marathon - 3:06:37 / 50k - 4:58:30 Goals - 17:30 - 5K / 37:15 10k / 1:25 Half / <3hr marathon / run 50mi

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Invoking the Power of the Divine

"Grace is the breath of God--an invisible essence beyond intellect that moves swiftly amongst us," teaches Caroline Myss.
Is it possible to become a living conduit of this powerful force? "Not only is it possible," suggests this bestselling author, "but grace is immediately accessible to you and everyone around you--through humility, devotion, and the courage to follow divine guidance." With Channeling Grace you are invited to ascend to what Myss calls the "altitude of the mystics" and invoke this expansive energy in your life.

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Diane E. Gianos, an expert in labor and employment law, has joined Faegre Baker Daniels LLP as a partner in the firm¿s Chicago office. Gianos brings more than 20 years of experience serving as counsel to management for employers of all sizes, including Fortune 100 companies, closely held businesses, nonprofit organizations and partnerships. Her national practice includes litigation in federal and state courts, as well as representation of employers before governmental agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and state human rights commissions. Before joining Faegre Baker Daniels, Gianos was a partner in Ice Miller¿s Chicago office. She also is a former partner at Foley & Lardner and worked as a tax analyst at R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. throughout law school. She has degrees from the Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology and DePaul University.
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IVANPAH VALLEY, Calif. — The day begins early at the Ivanpah solar power plant.

IVANPAH VALLEY, Calif. — The day begins early at the Ivanpah solar power plant.

Long before the sun rises, computers aim five square miles of mirrors to reflect the first rays of dawn onto one of three 40-story towers rising above the desert floor.

The 356,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door, focus so much light on the towers that they pulsate with a blinding white light.

At the top of each tower is an enormous boiler where the sun's energy heats water to more than 1,000 degrees, creating steam that spins electricity-generating turbines.

Ivanpah is the largest facility of its kind in the world. Unlike conventional solar plants, whose panels collect sunlight and convert it into energy through photovoltaic cells, the mirrors here follow the sun as it arcs across the sky, reflecting energy rather than absorbing it.

The effect is stunning to the eye.

Outlined against the backdrop of the Clark Mountains, the Ivanpah power plant shimmers like a mirage, in full view of motorists on Interstate 15 heading to Las Vegas.

After nearly four years of construction that killed desert tortoises, burned the feathers off passing birds and mowed down thousands of acres of native flora, Ivanpah officially opened last month with a gala that included a rock band and a horde of dignitaries — Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz among them.

Despite the gaiety, the event was tinged with the recognition that Ivanpah could be the last of its kind in the U.S. The plummeting price of photovoltaic solar panels, cheaper natural gas and evaporating federal assistance have made it financially shaky to embark on such large-scale projects.

Officials from New Jersey-based NRG Energy Inc., which co-owns the plant, stated flat-out that if not for a federal loan guarantee, the $2.2 billion project would not have been built.

The last of those government breaks, an investment tax credit, expires in 2016. NRG and BrightSource Energy, which designed the plant, have slashed their once-ambitious slate of projects in the U.S. and say that they are taking their business to more favorable markets in China, Africa and the Middle East.

NRG Energy's chief executive, David Crane, remarked at an energy summit in New York last spring that the trend to larger solar plants was "idiotic."

Ivanpah began producing power to the grid in January, albeit intermittently.

According to the state's Independent System Operator, the plant provided no power on some days and 20 percent to 40 percent of capacity on others.

Officials with NRG said the reduced power output was just a matter of "growing pains," adding that they were pleased with Ivanpah's performance during commissioning.

In winter months, they said, the plant will be expected to operate at 20 percent of its capacity; during peak months, it will deliver about 45 percent of its 370-megawatt maximum, in line with industry norms.

It was never certain that Ivanpah would ever get up and running. Detractors harped that such a large concentrated solar power plant had never been built.

Oakland, Calif.-based BrightSource Energy Inc. had emerged from the bankruptcy of its parent company and required a $1.6 billion federally guaranteed loan to finance construction. Like other renewable energy projects, the company negotiated power purchase agreements with major utilities at rates double that of conventional energy plants.

Some conservation groups questioned the choice of the site, pointing out a suite of threatened and endangered species in the region and asking the federal government to rescind its lease on 3,500 acres.

BrightSource prevailed, but spent more than $50 million to install specialized desert tortoise fencing.

Some native plants were inventoried, removed and placed in an on-site nursery. Workers took note of precisely how each plant sat in the landscape and replanted them with the same orientation to the sun.

A major concern for federal biologists was how the mirrors and three massive towers might affect birds. It remained an unanswered question until the facility began operations.

According to documents filed with the California Energy Commission, nearly four dozen bird carcasses were found at the site with burned feathers and wings during the three-month commissioning process, which ended in December. Among them were a peregrine falcon, two hawks, nighthawks, a grebe and warblers and sparrows.

Biologists are in the process of a two-year study examining the plant's role in avian mortality.

Producing electricity at Ivanpah is a delicate ballet of sun and mirrors.

The mirrors, mounted on frames known as heliostats, wake in the morning from their stowed position and focus the sun on the towers under the guidance of a central computer. The computer positions each mirror, taking into account the time of year, where the sun is on the horizon and the expected time of sunrise.

Each mirror has an assigned focus area based on a mathematical model. If the mirror is not on target, it is repositioned by an electronic motor that emits an audible chirp with each adjustment, a digital pulse that telegraphs its position to the computer.

Because of the Earth's movement through the day, corrections need to be made every 10 minutes.

An infrared camera trained on each of the plant's three boilers determines how much energy each section of the receiver is generating and, if needed, the computer will change the heliostat alignment to ensure the proper temperature.

At Ivanpah, the quality of steam is an important issue. Massive evaporators remove water droplets from saturated steam because, to protect the spinning turbine blades and for peak efficiency, the vapor must be nearly devoid of moisture.

Dave Beaudoin, project manager for NRG, bragged that the plant's steam is "more pure than angel tears."

Depending on the conditions, not all the mirrors are aimed at the boiler. These spare mirrors are ordered to focus on a single point in the air near the boiler. It is this concentrated light that sometimes creates a misty gauze around the towers.

On the ground, the mirror field encircles the tower but not in concentric rings. Instead, the pylons have been laid out in a random pattern to avoid casting shadows on other mirrors.

As the sun sets each night, the field of mirrors goes into a slow-motion shutdown.

After spending the day in pursuit of the sun, the mirrors fold up for the night like a field of drooping flowers, placed in mechanical sleep until another dawn.


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‘Lucifer Descending’ at Stone Cottage Theater tonight

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The devil never sleeps
Mark-Brian Sonna takes us to Hell again with his latest production, Lucifer Descending. Lucifer is pissed at God so he goes and creates the underworld. Then he sets his sights on abducting Seth, one of the sons of Adam and Eve. Clearly, Lucifer just doesn’t know when to stop.

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Sources on Molten Salt Reactors

This page replaces the page that was previously called ‘MSR’s in the news’.

I changed the title, because it seems more important to point out all sorts of sources on molten salt reactors, sources that provide you with adequate information.
News stories on MSR’s, although you see them more and more, are often unfortunately inaccurate.

In many cases this is caused by a lack of understanding by the journalist. The subject is simply too unfamiliar. While the experts in the field often add to the confusion by using or presenting slightly or even completely different numbers, concepts, timelines, opinions etc.

At the present time, there is lack of a clear ‘shared story’ on MSR’s, and before this ‘shared story’ has taken shape, the only way forward is through understanding enough of what’s going on.

So here sources will be presented, accompanied by a few notes on the reliability of the source or the article.

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                                               Paul's Dress Code was Not the Lord's

 Sorry All, you have two choices, either believe the Lord or believe Paul. For many times Paul's words in mere letters to the
babe churches are just his unspiritual opinions and NOT the Lord's Words at ALL. Paul's words many times contradict and
oppose what the Lord has taught through His Prophets. So you have to choose what you are going to believe and know when
Paul is speaking and writing in the Spirit and when he is just giving his opinion.

 For Paul gave himself permission to give his opinion many times 1Corinthians 7:6 But I (Paul) speak this by permission,
and not of commandment. (Because Paul had not heard from the Lord when he wrote these things down but went from his
poor experiences with women, and from his law and holiness background)

 So let's take the example of how Paul demanded that Christian women should dress .... 1Timothy 2:9 In like manner also,
that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or
costly array; But this absolutely going against how the Lord says He is going to dress His Bride and His women.

Ezekiel 16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy
blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Eze 16:7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the
field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine
hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. Eze 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time
[was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a
covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.Eze 16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly
washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. Eze 16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod
thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. Eze 16:11 I decked thee also with
ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. Eze 16:12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and
earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.Eze 16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy
raiment [was of] fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast
exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.Eze 16:14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy
beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

 Beauty is of the Lord, the Lord wants us to be beautiful and dress beautifully and sensually (if we choose).(SEE
What is
beauty)  Our women don't have to dress like Quakers, and cover themsleves up and hide the beauty and glory of what the Lord
Himself created. Let your light shine before men (and women) so that they may see His good works and glorify the Lord.
(Mathew 5:16) Let him that glorieth, glory in the Lord and His wonderful works of creation. (1 Cor 1: 31)And the truth shall
make us free not bound, and always concerned about what the unbelievers might think. To hell with them, we are to obey the
Lord, and show the beauty that the Lord hath made. In everything give thanks, and be not bound by men, but FREE.

 We don't have to obey Paul and his holiness doctrines. We can obey the Lord and follow the freedom that He has given us.
We can choose what to wear and when it is appropriate and what not to wear if we choose to do so. We are old enough in the
Spirit and mature enough to be able to choose without being bound by some outdated unscriptural law of holiness.

 I mean if you want to hear anti-woman, anti-equality male Patriarchy speaking, jsut continue reading what Paul went on to
say further in .. 1Tim 2:10-14 But which becometh women professing godliness with good works. Let the woman learn in
silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For
Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

  Are you nuts Paul ?  They both were party to the sin and so the Lord cursed both of them and not just Eve. Have you never
read your Bible at all Paul ? How dare you blame just the woman as if the men are innocent and not guilty of any
transgression. if that were so, the Lord wouldn;t have cursed Adam for what he did. And how dare you Paul say that a woman
can;t lead a man, and if they do that would be usurping herself from her supposed lowly status as his mere slave and obedient
follower. That's again against the principles of the Lord, concerning the equality of men and women. Patriarchy is not of the
Lord. Mature spirituality from the heart determines leadership and not mere gender, Paul ? Look at all the problems you have
caused because of what you wrote as it has given all the holiness people such ammunition to keep down Christian women and
to try and keep them in subjection to unspritual men.

 This meaning that we have to choose between paul's words and the Lords words when their is a contradiction between the two,
because Paul was not always in the Spirit when he wrote his letters to the babe churches. He was just giving his opinion, and
many times his opinion was in absolute contradiction to what the Lord said.

 So women (and men) if you feel like dressing up, or not dressing at all, that is your freedom and liberation in the Lord, so
that all you have to do is just give the Lord credit for your health and beauty, (or manliness) and let others know it is He that
gave you these gifts.

 In My Opinion according to what the LORD's WORD says.


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Hanging with Goats - Part II

Mountain_goat_5Mountain_goat_5Stock photo of a mountain goat standing at attention on a mound of grass with a snowy background on Mount Evans in Colorado. After my previous post last month about hiking up Quandary Peak to photograph mountain goats in the winter, I had quite a few questions and requests about the goats, including requests to see more photographs. So here are a few more thoughts about how to capture stunning photos of mountain goats.

When I photograph an animal that lives in a unique destination, like high above treeline in the alpine tundra of the Rocky Mountains, I focus on taking three types of photos: portraits, interactions and environmental.

For mountain goats, I do this with just one camera body and one lens. The hike is long and rises into high elevations. Carrying a lot of heavy gear just weighs you down and slows you down (or I may need to work on getting in better shape or hiring a sherpa).

If the day is sunny, and expected to stay nice, I bring my Nikon D800 with the Nikon 70-300mm lens. This body allows me to get large files to produce large prints because of its 36 mp resolution. The camera is also quite a bit lighter (2 lb 3 oz) than my other camera bodies. I do not feel, however, that this camera is good in low light. Its amazing resolution provides wonderful detail in the photos but processing is slow to save all those pixels. This makes it a great camera for slower moving animals, like mountain goats that mostly just stand and eat and sleep. Mountain_goat_32Mountain_goat_32A mountain goat nanny (Oreamnos americanus) gives her lamb a little nudge on the nose on top of Quandary Peak near Breckenridge, Colorado

If the weather will get cloudy or start snowing, I will revert to my more typical wildlife camera bodies - the Nikon D4s and D3s, which have faster frames per second rates and better high ISO capabilities for lower light but are a bit heavier.

For hiking the 70-300mm lens is ideal. It is compact, durable and light weight at only 26.3 oz. Although I do not encourage moving in too close to the mountain goats - those horns look way too sharp for me to test the theory that they would hurt - mountain goats don't move very fast nor do they go very far. If anything, the goats may move towards you if you are quiet and still. This lens gives you an ideal range for an animal that tends to not venture too far from you.

Mountain_goat_24Mountain_goat_24An adult mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) looks at the camera while standing in a meadow on Mount Evans, Colorado. 1. Portraits: These are the intimate, close-up shots of the animals. The photo should capture a mood, an emotion or the beauty of the animal, just like a portrait would of a person. The best settings are wide open apertures (f4-f7.1 range) to really soften the distant background and provide enough depth in the face to get detail in the eye, nose and mouth. Using your light meter, adjust the shutter speed to allow enough light into the camera for the current conditions. Aperture priority or manual mode works in this situation. And don't forget to check the histogram to make sure you don't blow out the detail in that white coat.

2. Interactions: Mountain goats are beautiful animals with big, furry, white coats, but when it comes to interactions they don't do a whole lot. The winter and spring are probably their two most mellow seasons when they are purely surviving the seasons of cold and snow. This means they will move around to find food, paw at the ground to release lichens and minerals from below the snow, and create shallow depressions in the snow and dirt to use as beds for naps. On occassion you may see a bossy and possessive goat tell another through a little false charge that the feeding area is taken. In the summer, the best interactions come from mother and lamb and between lambs. The lambs, born between mid-May and mid-June, are adorable little balls of white fluffy fur. They make the cutest little cries when Mountain_Goat_13Mountain_Goat_13Stock photo of a mother mountain goat with her yearlying kid high on the top of Mount Evans with a few clouds in the sky behind them on a sunny day in Colorado. seeking out mom and play pretty hard for short periods of time with other lambs. Fall can also be a good season for interaction during the rut season, which lasts November through December. Although not as obvious as the elk bugle or the bighorn ram head butting, the male goats will still make efforts to fend off other male goats that could lead to some interesting interaction shots. A fast shutter speed is priority in this situation to stop the action, so shooting in manual mode or shutter priority would be important. My preference is manual mode to keep the aperture open (f4 to f8) to get nice depth of field while obtaining a fast shutter speed to stop the action. Adjusting the ISO levels can help attain these two settings.

3. Environmental: Lately these have been my favorite photos to capture. This style of photo is a combination of landscape and wildlife, and I think one of the hardest photos to effectively capture. Although it may seem like an easy opportunity to compose the shot with the animal as your focual point and then a scenic background, it really is much more involved. The best environmental shots can almost be a landscape photo on its own; the wildlife in the photo brings life to the scene. And the rules guidelines for photographing wildlife still apply - avoid butt shots, tack sharp eyes, looking at the camera, etc. Since I love the feeling when I stand on top of a peak and seeing the vast sea of peaks surrounding me, adding a mountain goat to that scene completely evokes the majestic scenery of the Rocky Mountains. Add in some beautiful skies at sunset and you have a pretty sweet shot. Since this is primarily a landscape shot, you will want a large depth of field so stop down the aperture to f11 to f16 to get the detail in the background. I completely shoot in manual mode in this situation because I typically am working on evoking a particular sense of the light and scene. I also play around with the settings and see which I like later in post-processing. Shooting with the 70-300mm lens at 300mm will compress the scene a bit and bring those distant mountains in a little closer. Shooting that shot at f7.1 or f8 may soften those distant backgrounds to give a sense of place while keeping it vague to bring focus to your animal. Mountain_Goat_37Mountain_Goat_37A mountain goat (Oreamnous americanus) stands on a snowy ridge and looks down the valley on Quandary Peak in White River National Forest near Breckenridge, Colorado

As we head into spring and summer, the roads to the high country in Colorado will be opening up access to the alpine tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park, Mt Evans and Pikes Peak. As I always do this time of year, I am counting down the days to when I can spend ALL my days in the high country with the wildlife in the high alpine tundra surrounded by mountain peaks and colorful wildflowers.

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Excavating the Great Depression in England

Photo of the Jarrow unemployment march. Image from www.workerspower.co.uk

Photo of the Jarrow unemployment march. Image from www.workerspower.co.uk

Since 2013, Dr. David Petts (Department of Archaeology, Durham University) and I have been building a project to study the landscapes and material remains of the Great Depression in the Northeast of England. One of the defining historical events of the 20th century, the Great Depression is often associated in the US with the stock market crash of 1929, bread lines, shanty towns, and eventually, the New Deal and creation of the modern social welfare state. In the UK, the situation was slightly different. For one thing, parts of England had been in poor economic straits since a slump that followed World War I. Likewise, the Great Depression in the UK was highly regionalized in its effects, with areas like the Northeast seeing extremely high unemployment, while other areas saw only modest drops in unemployment. And responses to the depression were likewise regionalized–there were almost no national policy initiatives on the order of the New Deal in the US.

But there were responses at regional and local levels, and most importantly for our purposes, many of these responses involved changes to the landscape. They involved the construction of work camps, new settlements to house the unemployed, works projects that improved infrastructure, and much more. The Great Depression was a material event, and a record of it is recoverable archaeologically. This has certainly been the case in other parts of the wold, where a growing literature exists from archaeologists who have tackled the Great Depression through sites created in its wake. Much of this literature likewise shows that responses to the Great Depression were neither altruistic nor completely embraced by participants. For example, my colleagues LouAnn Wurst and Christine Ridarsky (2014) have evaluated attempts at farm resettlement in western New York state to improve the lives of “poor” farmers during the 1930s and found that the farmers were not actually that poor to begin with, and that the plan was largely about regional land grabbing. Barker and Lamb (2009) used data from an unemployment camp in Queensland, Australia to complicate the concept of the “undeserving” and “deserving” poor. And St. Denis (2002) showed how, despite the best efforts of the administrators of the Prince Albert logging camp in Saskatchewan, excavations show that workers drank and smoked when they could get away with it, perhaps offsetting anxieties about the larger economy with sociality and revelry.

In the U.K., there has been almost no archaeological study of sites related to the Great Depression, and no systematic accounting of such sites. David and I are hoping to change that with a project that will examine a few case studies where individuals and groups tried to ameliorate the awful conditions of the Depression through changes in the landscape. And when we started looking into the types of sites we could incorporate into our study, we were astounded at their variety and scale. There were proper work camps such as the one at Hamsterley forest, educational settlements and training schemes such as the Spennymoor settlement, resettlement and agricultural schemes such as the Moorhouse Farm settlement in Eaglescliffe (Perley 1985), and much more. Some of these schemes came from national programs and initiatives such as the Special Areas Act of 1934, which designated certain parts of the UK as regions in need of assistance. Others were local, set up by individuals and groups with an interest in curbing the worst excesses of the economic downturn.

We are working on funding a project to examine some of these places, but we have already had some success with an early case study: Heartbreak Hill, near Margrove Park village in the East Cleveland region of North Yorkshire (Chase and Whyman 1991, Chase 2000, Chase 2010). David has written about the history of this site, as have other bloggers. Suffice it to say, this was a combination work camp/allotment scheme for unemployed Ironstone miners, part of a larger scheme of three parcel areas called the Community Cultivation Association. Set up by a local wealthy landlord and his wife (James and Ruth Pennyman of Ormesby Hall), it was run and managed by British naturalist, folk scholar, and arch-conservative Rolf Gardiner. It included amongst its participants the composer Michael Tippett, and it ran for much of the 1930s, possibly longer. Today the land on which the site sits is unimproved hilly pasture, and it had not been significantly utilized prior to the 1930s, so David and I suspected that there might be some pieces of the depression-era landscape still present on the surface or underneath.

Map2Map showing the locations of the CCA parcels, from Petts and Lewis 2013.

We received a small grant from the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University to undertake geophysical survey and compile some background research. Earlier this year, a survey team from Durham’s Archaeological Services used magnetometry to survey part of the site. The results, visible in the map below, are suggestive of several subsurface human-deposited features. According to the geophysical analysis, the anomalies in the southwest corner of Area 1, all of Area 2, and the North-Central part of Area 4 represent likely areas of deposition of some kind of material with a magnetic signaturem, perhaps architectural refuse. Further testing in these areas may allow us to determine the exact nature of these anomalies.

Map3 GeophysMap showing geophysical results at Heartbreak Hill.

However, David and I were also intrigued by many of the standing or visible structures present in the field today. We found numerous brick huts scattered across the site, as well as other scatters of brick and stone that may represent ruined outbuildings from the allotment scheme. The brick structures below are similar in design, but are separated by nearly a half mile, on parcels of land used for completely different purposes today. What they have in common is that they are both in areas that were used during periods of CCA activity.

Brick comparisonPhotos showing similar brick structures on Heartbreak Hill and Dartmoor Parcels, respectively

We also noticed several portable items of material culture that one would not expect to be present on unimproved pasture-land. During a rudimentary surface survey, we noticed white-bodied 19th/early 20th century ceramics, a glass medicine bottle, and fragments of coal. One of the most striking finds was a linear scatter of bricks running over 10 meters in one of the current fields. This scatter, visible in the photo below, was later confirmed by Mark Whyman, one of the authors of a book on Heartbreak Hill (Chase and Whyman 1991), to be in the same location as a brick-lined garden plot setup by the CCA.

David and I are optimistic that there is more work to be done at Heartbreak Hill and perhaps at the other CCA parcels. One thing we would like to do is put together a community-led recording project to carefully document each of the standing structures and ruins at the site. This could be combined with further testing at the site to see if there are more subsurface remains to be found. Depending upon how extensive the archaeological record is, we are also interested in more social and political questions. We are particulary interested in how the miners who worked at the site made it their own–for example, were they able to bring items from home, or to otherwise mark off pieces of this “collective” allotment scheme as theirs? Such questions could also be asked at many of the other sites mentioned earlier, and we hope to have the opportunity to investigate them soon.

Aside from archaeology being a novel way to investigate the Great Depression, we find ourselves more broadly comparing the kinds of responses that were attempted in the 1930s to the current attempts to intervene in the most recent economic downturn, now in its sixth year. These have largely inhabited the arcane world of monetary policy, or have involved the dismantling of government programs, some of which were first initiated during the Great Depression, under the heading of “austerity”. We do not have any strong conclusions to draw in this comparison, but we are struck by the ways in which place-making seemed to be such a strong aspect of 1930s responses–for example, Heartbreak Hill was named for the difficult conditions of its production, while the other parcels were named for local flora. Conversely, many of the contemporary responses have been about de-territorializing–allowing, encouraging, or forcing the free flow of money across borders, out of public institutions, and out of the hands of individuals and communities in the name of laissez faire capitalism, regardless of historical or spatial circumstances. In any case, we believe that an archaeology of the Great Depression can locate the contingent, complex, and contradictory landscapes that emerged in its wake, and allow us to understand the Great Depression at a more human scale.

This article originally appeared on my blog on the Day of Archaeology 2014.

Barker, Bryce, and Lara Lamb (2009) The Archaeology of Poverty and Human Dignity: Charity and the Work Ethic in a 1930s Depression Era Itinerant’s Camp on the Toowoomba Range Escarpment, Queensland. Archaeologies: The Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 5(2): 263–279.

Chase, Malcom (2000) Heartbreak Hill: Environment, Unemployment and “Back to the Land” in Inter-war Cleveland. Oral History 28(1): 33–42.

Chase, Malcom (2010) Unemployment without protest: the ironstone mining communities of East Cleveland in the inter-war period. In Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention, edited by M Reiss and M Perry, pp. 265–282. Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford, U.K.

Chase, Malcom, and Mark Whyman (1991) Heartbreak Hill: A Response to Unemployment in East Cleveland in the 1930s. Cleveland County Council.

Perley, Doris (1985) The Moorhouse Farm Estate, Eaglescliffe. Unpublished Dissertation in Local History. Teesside Polytechnic.

Petts, David and Quentin Lewis (2013) “Heartbreak Hill: Towards an Archaeology of the Great Depression” Paper presented at the Contemporary and Historical Archaeological Theory Conference, University College London, London, UK.

St. Denis, Michael (2002) Camp #9: An Historical and Archaeological Investigation of a Depresion Era Relief Camp in Prince Albert National Park. Unpublished MA, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Wurst, LouAnn and Christine L. Ridarsky (2014) “The Second Time as Farce: Archaeological Reflections on the New New Deal.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 18:3, pp. 224-241.
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Discussion in 'DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion' started by dobok, Jul 2, 2013.

  1. Jul 2, 2013 #1 of 25

    dobok Mentor

    Feb 7, 2010
    Just wondering out loud ---What is the next (NEW) Dvr that D is working on or is starting to work on. Just wondering!!! Whats next for US !!!!
  2. Jul 2, 2013 #2 of 25

    jimmie57 Hall Of Fame

    Jun 26, 2010
    Texas City, TX
    This is strictly a guess.
    In the game of one upmanship that businesses play I would think that the next one would have 8 tuners.
    Why, well, the fact that the SWM LNB handles 8 tuners, why wouldn't the receiver ?
    Along with that, possibly wireless transmission to the sets connected to it.
  3. Jul 2, 2013 #3 of 25

    CCarncross Hall Of Fame

    Jul 19, 2005
    Is the HR44 not enough for the next few months? Its just becoming available nationally, so it is brand spankin new for most.
  4. Jul 2, 2013 #4 of 25

    rmmccann AllStar

    Apr 16, 2012
    ND, USA
    An 8 tuner DVR sounds nice, but the thing that would shy me away from it would be the single point of failure for my TV services. Assuming you have an 8 tuner DVR and all "clients" you'd be DOA if the main box failed.
  5. Jul 2, 2013 #5 of 25

    Laxguy Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense.

    Dec 2, 2010
    Probably some new software that'll allow existing STBs to do more, hopefully faster. And possibly even smaller STB's, wireless, though that is to me a marketing gimmick, necessary to offset others touting their stuff.

    If you're holding off committing due to the "next great thing" as so many do with computers, don't wait. This is a good time to get a Genie!
  6. Jul 2, 2013 #6 of 25

    TomCat Broadcast Engineer

    Aug 31, 2002
    Who can disagree with that?

    Distributed failure potential is the hallmark of good security. This is why I see the whole house DVR as a sham; it trades the false front of potential convenience for unneeded added complexity and added problems as well as a single potential point of failure.

    And if you think DBS companies are bringing us this because it is what customers want and is somehow better, think again, sheeple. They are doing it for the exact same reason they went to SWM (another questionable technology we didn't need) which is to decrease the infrastructure and to save them money, as they simultaneously raise our rates with the other hand. It always will come down to cash when dealing with conglomerate overlords, and never the altruism of providing us with whiz-bang new toys out of the goodness of their hearts. Wake-y, wake-y.

    If you asked me if I would rather have an 8 TB array connected to a 8-tuner server that has to distribute video over a home network or would I rather have four 2 TB DVRs I don't have to think twice about the answer. As a matter of fact that is exactly what I have. I can accept the inconvenience of double-recording everything that is important to me and not having an integrated playlist very easily over the horrors I see reported on these forums. It also means I have four separate independent microprocessors working on recording, indexing, and playing back my content, rather than one.

    I've lost 4 media HDDs and/or DVRs in about 4 years, which is probably (unfortunately for me) well over the average, yet I've never lost or missed a program. There is a term for that: a proven system that works.
  7. Jul 2, 2013 #7 of 25

    peds48 Genius. DBSTalk Club

    Jan 10, 2008
    And I always thought they changed to SWM to make our jobs (installers) easier :rotfl:
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    dpeters11 Hall Of Fame

    May 30, 2007
    And customers likely wouldn't want to have 5 coax inputs on a Genie.
  9. Jul 3, 2013 #9 of 25

    mrdobolina AllStar

    Aug 28, 2006
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    I'm thinking that DirecTV will develop a solution to the "single point of failure" prior to releasing an 8 tuner DVR. SSD? Some sort of Cloud backup/storage? Swappable EHD tied to account? Now, I don't think even DTV's definition of "soon" applies here, but perhaps this is the next "service/feature" that will be released prior to a next gen DVR.
  10. Bill Broderick

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    Aug 25, 2006
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    I think that the big advantage of SWM for DirecTV was that it opened their market to people who's homes were already pre-wired for cable, with a single coax to each TV location. These people already had DVR's from the cable company (using he single coax). They weren't about to convert to DirecTV and lose the two tuner DVR capability that they already had.
  11. unixguru

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    Jul 9, 2007
    They need to slow down hardware releases further. I can see an HR24 replacement that will have an external power supply (since disk and power supply are primary failure modes). Then what? What major hardware improvements are really needed (before, ugh, 4K!)? A two-disk RAID1 external disk enclosure would be nice - although unnecessary if they just made software able to mirror series and recordings across multiple DVRs.

    In my opinion, they should put less money into hardware going forward and more money into software. There are so many things that they could do better - to greatly improve the hardware we already have.
  12. jdspencer

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    Nov 7, 2003
    I couldn't agree more! I have two HR2x units connected to a legacy 5LNB and also to my network using ethernet.
    I have had no problems with this setup and don't expect to change anything until I'm forced to.
    What would be nice is to have the capability to schedule programs from either HR to the other one.
  13. Rich

    Rich DBSTalk Club DBSTalk Club

    Feb 22, 2007
    Piscataway, NJ
    And yet, you've called my system "clunky". Change your mind? You seem to be agreeing with me now. Aside from that, a very good, realistic post.

  14. Drucifer

    Drucifer Well-Known Member

    Feb 12, 2009
    NY Hudson...
    The weak link in current HRs are their HDDs. So look for another storage method.
  15. Rich

    Rich DBSTalk Club DBSTalk Club

    Feb 22, 2007
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    True, in a box using only the internal drive. Add an external HDD and the device holding the external HDD becomes the weak link.

  16. HoTat2

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    Nov 16, 2005
    Agree with most of TomCat's post here as well;

    Except for his criticism of SWiM technology which I really feel worked out way better for both DIRECTV and customers over legacy.

    No way do I miss having to run two lines to each DVR with BBCs on their ends, not to mention making the development of DECA (MoCA) impossible and have to rely on hit, miss, or so-so performance of home ethernet networking for MRV service.
  17. ticmxman

    ticmxman Legend

    Aug 27, 2007
    Yep TomCat is 100% correct, there is no way I would have only one dvr such as the genie and clients. Genie fails and your viewing and recordings are gone.
  18. Rich

    Rich DBSTalk Club DBSTalk Club

    Feb 22, 2007
    Piscataway, NJ
    I had ten HRs on Ethernet before the DECA was available and I couldn't hold that many for very long. DECA didn't completely solve that problem, I still have issues, but it's simply much better than Ethernet. One of these days I have to have some techs out to parallel my DECA system, right now it is cascaded. I'm having a new roof installed the end of July and that would be a good time to have the system paralleled.

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    Sep 27, 2007
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    Nov 16, 2005

    Perhaps I should somewhat reword my earlier statement of what i was trying to say as ....

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Aliens Vs Predator £12.99 @ The Game Collection [XBox 360 Games]

The Game Collection are currently selling the not-too-old Aliens vs. Predator for a pretty bargainous price of £12.99 for the XBox 360 and £9.95 for PCs (unfortunately the PS3 version is currently unavailable). For both versions, this undercuts the next best price by about £2. Elsewhere, you're looking to pay at least £11.97 (from Amazon) for the PC version and £14.85 (from Simply Games) for the 360.

Click here to buy the XBox 360 version of Aliens Vs. Predator for £12.99 from The Game Collection now
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Aliens Versus Predator is almost like three games in one as it is made up of three separate campaigns, each comprised of five missions, giving you the opportunity to jump into the shoes of each of the factions: Colonial Marines, Predator and Aliens. You get an individual story for each campaign but they also fit together to form an overall narrative. As a predator you must travel through the jungles of your home world as you take on the rites of passage that allow you to change from "young blood" status to "Elite" before you join a group of your pals to investigate the Case of the Missing Young Bloods from a neighbouring planet. As an alien your task is to escape the laboratory that you have been trapped in by its resident horrid scientists before making your way to the marine's colony to have destructive fun with your face-hugging pals.

The Alien and Predator segments offer some unique(ish) gameplay: as an Alien you can wiggle and scurry your way up walls and across ceilings while Predators can fling themselves around, pinging off surfaces in their bloodlust fury.  Sadly the awkward control system means that the novelty of zooming around in Alien or Predator form quickly wears off and the game can become rather tiresome. Meanwhile, the marines' campaign evokes a decent tense atmosphere with some genuinely creepy moments but, for the most part, it is just a fairly standard first person shooter.

Aliens Vs Predator is certainly a lot more fun than I was expecting, and with the three separate campaigns to tackle, offers good value for money (especially at this price) but don't go expecting anything mind blowing.

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Rugged Oregon Coast

One thing I've heard a lot of from friends who've been to Oregon is that the coast is breathtaking. Having lived in California for most of my life, I wasn't sure what to expect. How different would it be from the California coast? From my LA beaches? In my head, despite having seen photos, I didn't think I would be that impressed.

I was so, completely wrong.

When I last wrote about my trip to Oregon, I explored the University of Oregon on Thanksgiving. I mentioned then that the campus was a like stepping inside a little slice of some storybook. If that was a slice, then the coast is like wrapping yourself up in a chapter.

At our first stop, we intended to go down and see the seal caves that this spot was advertising. Excited, we rushed inside the shop with coats tightly wrapped around our bodies. After discovering that the seals were at that moment not on the rocks and instead in the water, and that it would be $12 per person, we opted out and peeked at the view outside.

$12 is kind of a lot for not being guaranteed sight of some seals flapping around. The stop wasn't bad though, as you can see above. We called it the Light of God. You can't really tell in the photo, but it was a beam of sunshine bursting through the clouds and the rain. Brilliant, no?

Anyway, we were quickly off for our next venture. We were planning on going to get some oysters, and had to hurry to get there before they closed.

But...when we saw this sight, we had to stop. And this, my friends, was the highlight of my entire trip. This is forever what I will remember when thinking about the Oregon Coast.

From up top, you get a great view of the water and a natural geyser that spews when the waves come crashing in.

On the way down, you catch sight of a little waterfall beneath the bridge. It looks so magical to me. I kept thinking to myself, is this place real? Am I really here?

That feeling only intensifies once you get to the bottom and are free to roam this little beach. Nothing beats the feeling of ocean spray and the smell of the sea enveloping you in its nautical embrace. Something about it makes you realize that there are forces bigger than you, and in this world, you are but a blip. An important, unique blip, but still a dot on the plane.

The day we went was seriously windy, so there was sea foam flying everywhere. I don't really see sea foam like this in California, so it was quite a sight for me. Especially while it was attacking my face when a particularly wild breeze swept through.

I also may have cried, "Ariel!" when I saw the foam. Too much? Maybe.

While I was taking photos of the waves, my sister snapped a few shots on her phone. It's probably best that I didn't know she took these, otherwise I'd tense up and look something like Quasimodo.

Make sure you have rain boots/wellies before you go! As you can see, you will get wet. Even if you're going in the warmer months, there are tons of rocks, so it'll be a good idea to have some sort of shoe that will either let all the water out, or keep it all from getting in.

Mine are a Fendi pair that I bought years ago.

This is that little geyser that shoots up with the coming of waves. I completely forgot to jot down notes as to where this is or what this place was called, so I'm sorry! But it's somewhere just south of Newport if that helps.

Ah, and here are the oysters that we had. If you're ever in the area, please, please go check out Oregon Oyster Farms. I'm not the biggest fan of oysters, but these are so good. The people at the shop were also really kind and left a box for us as we were a little late and were set to arrive after they closed.

So please go! And while I wish this was sponsored, this is totally me just telling you that these are the best. Anybody in Oregon will tell you the same.

The best part is that you can eat these right on the water. As you drive by there are mounds of oyster shells right next to this place. It was getting dark and we were cold, so we took ours on ice and raced back to my sister's apartment. But during the warmer months, I can imagine eating these on the water is unbelievably good.

I ended the night with a little bit of doodling. My sister had special markers and some white mugs, so I made three. The middle one is an inside joke with my family, while the first one is a take at the book covers for The Hobbit, and the third mug the silhouettes of the fellowship. Not bad, right?

Though the colors were different once the mugs were baked and set, I still had a lot of fun. Throwback to my pre-college days when my sister and I would hit up those paint your own cups/plates/intricate sculptures places.

Anyway, if you ever have the chance, do go visit the Oregon Coast. It's a completely different and special beast of its own.

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  1. Wow, these photos are gorgeous!! And you look cute in your yellow boots! :)

  2. i love all the pictures!! i want to go to oregon and play!
    how did you get the picture motion?

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  3. Thank you lady!! :) I love them boots, haha.

  4. Thanks Sabrina! The coast is so much fun to go and roam around. Lots of great hiking!
    And it's super easy -- I did mine in Photoshop, but all you have to do is open up the animation tab and make each layer a different frame. I can do a tutorial if you'd like?

  5. Beautiful landscape images!! I can't even express how much I love being out there with the wild nature! Your boots are super cute as well!:)

    Oly / TLV Birdie Blog

  6. Wow! Having just read your Joshua Tree post, this landscape is completely different! Stunning photos again! Hannah xx

  7. Thanks so much Hannah! :D That's super kind of you! And the coast is definitely different, but stunning all the same, right? Sigh, I need to go back.

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Which is the Soul, Exists??

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 16, 2013, 10:47:02 PM
You are right about all that. I'll think more about identity and 3.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 20, 2013, 07:50:08 PM
Let me ask you:  how are chemicals summoned in the brain when not directly imbibing them?

They're produced by various glands/organs; however if you're asking what directs the production/amount of chemicals under various circumstances, as far as I know that's still a murky area for research. Perhaps most notably for depression - (does depression cause the release of certain chemicals, or is it a result of certain chemicals already present in the brain?).

However, this still falls under the realm of chemicals relating to behavior of the brain and doesn't provide any grounds for inserting the notion of a "soul".

Eating magic mushrooms and tripping balls is not an explanation for the normal processes of a brain that is not under the influence!

It is proof that the human consciousness is dependent on chemical interactions.

In fact you explain the exact problem with chemicals/impulses.  If chemicals are deciding everything for me...don't blame me, blame my chemicals.  My chemicals lord over me and I just follow orders.  I was the victim of my chemicals!

False dichotomy: your brain (and it various chemicals/impulses) is what produces your notion of yourself.

Causality between neurochemistry and consciousness has never been proven. The mind is not phenominal therefore, the results of alterations in neurochemistry are entirely subjective. Experimentation on nonempirical "objects" is not science.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 20, 2013, 09:38:57 PM
The most ugly philosophy is that which is secretly religious.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 20, 2013, 10:15:08 PM
I just wonder how exactly organs would secrete chemicals in the brain based on something like the information gathered from one's surroundings.  Your turn the corner and see danger, a chemical is sent to the brain that says *run away,* all fair enough, but that is not exactly like hitting the cue ball with the pool cue that in turn hits the 8 ball.  There is clearly something at play that is not material/physical.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 20, 2013, 11:48:38 PM
Recognizing that science is, at present, unable to fully explain all natural processes in the brain does absolutely nothing to lead to the notion that there is any "non-material" process which conveniently [and unexplainably] interacts with the "material".

This is the "God of the gaps" method of thought in action.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 12:13:28 AM
Again, I say: What Does It Matter?
Mystery rocks!

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 01:01:40 AM
The soul... to me, I am the soul. The soul is the universal of existence. I am a soul which is to say I am an experiencing being, and I have a near body (that which I can move myself) and a far body (which I can observe but not move myself). I think that an electron has a soul too, and so does the universe, and so does an atom or a molecule or a protein or a bacteria or an ant or a mouse or a rock or a star. Soul experiences, body is experienced.

As for chemicals,, I sometimes consider myself a Utilitarian, which to me means, there is existence which is to be favoured over other existences, or perhaps non-existences, and we should pursue this. But then people bring in "happiness", "pleasure", by which they don't mean some supreme metaphysical principle, they just mean... things like dopamine, something we go up and down on all the time and which our body reacts to in a certain way. When we have "pleasure" our body says "go towards", when we have "pain" our body says "move away from". That's all it is, a biological impulse to prefer or disprefer something.

So "emotions" are a biological thing, which is a chemical thing, which is a physical thing. But everything stems from a soul which experiences, and that is metaphysical. Perhaps emotions reflect a cosmic order, but I believe that that is always a particular thing, and that the only universals we know, are universal because of OUR universe, and the true universal is the experience in the first place. Is any of this making sense?

Some may see a connection between what I am saying, and the idea of introvert-subject (which experiences) and extrovert-object (which is experienced). You are right to see this bias in my ideas, as indeed all ideas are a bias of particular nature. However I am trying to get to something deeper than that, perhaps something which goes beyond our universe. It is as though, to me, all experience is essentially the same, perhaps symbolised by a heaven-hell myth, every moment every thing chooses between heaven and hell, whatever these may be.

Perhaps hell is just nothingness. Do we want this?

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 02:02:58 AM
The most ugly philosophy is that which is secretly religious.

And a stout insistence that cosmos is mechanistic is devoid of relugiousity? Bullshit.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 02:33:21 AM
"You can't prove God doesn't exist, therefore you believe on faith he doesn't!"

- Creationist 2013

Replace "God" with "non-material" and it's the same quality argument. Until someone can provide evidence that the "non-material" exists, it shouldn't be taken seriously.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 02:38:21 AM
Until somebody else impresses you, you will not do something? And nobody else should, either?
Sounds a bit iffy, to me.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 02:56:11 AM
Believing x is true simply because it cannot be shown to be false is a terrible way of thinking and nobody should do it - if they want to be intellectually serious. I assume everybody here desires to be serious. If they don't, then obviously the statement does not apply to them.

If somebody has a reason to believe that x is true due to reasons independent of inserting the belief in a space provided by a lack of knowledge, then that should be shared if the person desires to convince other people.

Asking me to discover on my own the truth of something that I don't believe in to begin with is silly.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 03:15:38 AM
There you have it, said by you, for no other reason than it happens to be your framework of reference:
"...if the person desires to convince other people..."

I run into this all over the internet. People who think in these terms are completely unable to imagine that there are people who have no interest in convincing anybody else of anything.
I - for example - say the things I say, and write the things I write, because my experience has shown me that they are true. And not only true, but of immense value. I communicate them for those others who can see - or are inspired by - their content. I never set out to convince anybody of anything.

I realize only those who can understand that, are going to understand it. But there it is.
Nobody ever convinces me, or proves anything to me, because I don't operate that way. I hear something, from someone, that interests me. I then pursue it, myself, to find the truth of it.

Others seem to want to passively be convinced of important things, by someone else, without ever lifting a finger themselves.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 04:15:10 AM
You're trying to convince me not to be convinced by you.  :P

And what would you say to this: I have been convinced by things you've written previously, especially on Amerika. The distinction between reality vs. social pretense/individual ego has become an important part of my thoughts, and yours/Brett's idea of "Crowdism" is one I've adopted into my own vocabulary.

Is this a bad thing?

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 05:24:37 AM
You tell me.
I've made my position clear. I introduce things, but I'm not in the convincing/persuading business.
I can not recommend to anyone, to do what I myself do not do: that being to blindly accept, without further investigation.
That would never do.

Meanwhile, if Brett and/or I, have done anything positive, in your view, to illuminate your view, then that is distinctly encouraging.
I may sleep better, tonight.

Re: Which is the Soul, Exists??
December 21, 2013, 06:00:50 AM
I'm sure you've long been awaiting validation from me.

In all seriousness, it would be bizarre for anyone to be part of these forums and not have gained something from DMU/Amerika.

And I've managed to derail yet another thread. Oh dear.


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Its move marks a fresh escalation in the French firm’s long-running battle with Shanghai-based distributor Panati Wine over the Ka-Si-Te trademark name in China.

In July this year, the Zhejiang Provincial Superior People’s Court ordered Castel to pay CNY34m (US$5.6m) in damages to Panati Wine for infringement of the “Ka Si Te” trademark.

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  • 1 baby pineapple
  • ½ regular pineapple
  • 1 lime
  • 2 tbsp. jerk seasoning
  • 1 tbsp. olive oil
  • 4 pork loin chops
  • Lime wedges and cilantro sprigs

  1. With sharp knife, cut pineapple lengthwise through crown to stem end in 4 wedges, leaving on leafy crown.
  2. From lime, grate 1/2 teaspoon peel and squeeze 1 tablespoon juice. In small bowl, mix lime peel and juice with jerk seasoning and oil. Rub both sides of pork chops with jerk mixture.
  3. Place pork chops on hot grill rack over medium heat; cook 10 to 12 minutes, turning chops over once, until browned on the outside and still slightly pink on the inside. While chops are cooking, add pineapple wedges, cut sides down, to same grill; cook 5 minutes, turning wedges over once. Transfer chops and pineapple to same platter. Garnish with lime wedges and cilantro sprigs.

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A baked cornmeal and molasses pudding adapted by the early English settlers in New England and later known as "hasty pudding" by the colonists.

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  • .67 c. yellow cornmeal
  • 4 c. milk
  • ½ c. light molasses
  • 4 tbsp. margarine or butter
  • ¼ c. sugar
  • 1 tsp. ground ginger
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
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  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease shallow 1 1/2-quart glass or ceramic baking dish.
  2. In small bowl, combine cornmeal and 1 cup milk. In 4-quart saucepan, heat remaining 3 cups milk to boiling over high heat. Stir in cornmeal mixture; heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring often to avoid lumps, 20 minutes. (Mixture will be very thick.) Remove saucepan from heat; stir in molasses, margarine or butter, sugar, ginger, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg until blended.
  3. Pour batter evenly into baking dish. Place baking dish in roasting pan; place on oven rack. Carefully pour boiling water into roasting pan to come halfway up side of baking dish. Cover with foil and bake pudding 1 hour. Remove foil and bake pudding 1 hour longer or until lightly browned and just set. Carefully remove baking dish from water. Cool pudding in pan on wire rack 30 minutes. Serve pudding warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream if you like.

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Volume 26 - Article 19 | Pages 489-510

Changes in educational differentials in old-age mortality in Finland and Sweden between 1971-1975 and 1996-2000

By Virginia Zarulli, Domantas Jasilionis, Dmitri A. Jdanov

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Date received:15 Aug 2011
Date published:30 May 2012
Word count:4724
Keywords:differential mortality, education, Finland, inequality measures, life span disparity, old age mortality, Sweden

Background: The majority of the studies on developed countries confirm that socioeconomic mortality inequalities have been persisting or even widening. It has also been suggested that inequalities have been becoming increasingly important for old ages.

Objective: In this study we systematically assess the direction and magnitude of changes in mortality differences at old ages in Sweden and Finland over the period 1971 to 2000.

Methods: The vast majority of the findings on mortality differentials rely on life table or aggregated mortality measures. However, conventional mean lifespan (life expectancy) hides important characteristics of the distribution of lifespan. Modal age at death and measures of disparity provide additional important insights on longevity, especially when focusing on mortality and survival at old ages. In this paper we use high quality census-linked data and both conventional life expectancy and distribution of life span measures.

Results: We found that the educational gap in life expectancy at age 65 and the total amount of mortality inequality by education, as reflected by average inter-group difference, increased in both countries. With the exception of Swedish females, the corresponding gap in modal age at death decreased.

Conclusions: Although the results suggest that the life expectancy gap is largely explained by differential mortality due to cardiovascular system diseases, the role of other causes of death (especially cancers) has also increased.

Author's Affiliation

Virginia Zarulli - Syddansk Universitet, Denmark [Email]
Domantas Jasilionis - Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung, Germany [Email]
Dmitri A. Jdanov - Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung, Germany [Email]

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