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Sunday, January 5, 2014

Exactly forty-five years ago today, up along the Connecticut shore, the tidal reaches of the Mianus River were freezing over.  I don’t remember it happening, exactly, but the river froze every January back then, and 1969 wasn’t an exception.

The freeze ended my smelt fishing season, which began when the first fish showed up in October.  Most smelt were caught at night, and those nights could get so numbingly cold that you might slip a thin wire hook right through the bait and into your finger, and not ever realize what had happened.  Even so, anglers lined up shoulder-to-shoulder on the docks, a fraternity of wool-clad working men whose blazing Coleman lanterns flared across the black water.

I was a kid back then, longing to join my elders on the dock, where the night and the cold made smelt fishing a rite of passage.  Through most of my youngest years, my father refused to take me along, allowing me to fish only for whatever smelt might deign to bite on clement autumn afternoons.  But at the age of ten, I was finally allowed to embark on my first nocturnal excursion; as my father predicted, the cold made it a pretty short outing.

But by the time I was in junior high, I had toughened up enough to spend more time in the cold and the dark.  When school permitted, though, I’d still fish during the day.  More than four decades later, I can still recall one of those days, the Friday after Thanksgiving, 1968, when the sun was as bright and warm as a November sun can be, and the air was surprisingly still.  I spent an entire tide on the dock, and when my father stopped by after work to give me a ride home, I toted a pail filled with fish to his car.  It was my best day of the season and, all things considered, the best of my smelt fishing career.

I didn’t know—I couldn’t have known at the time—that when ice put an end to that season, I would never fish for smelt again.

They just never came back after that.  We didn’t know why.  No one tried to explain it and, as far as I know, no one ever tried to restore the runs.  It was the first fishery that ever died before my eyes.

Unfortunately, it was far from the last.

It’s dismaying to look back and realize just how much we’ve lost since then.  Winter flounder, which once seemed to carpet the bottom of every cove and bay, have grown so scarce that inbreeding threatens local stocks.  The once ubiquitous American eel is now being considered for an Endangered Species listing; that decision is expected next year.  And tautog, a once obscure and abundant denizen of rocks and wrecks, has become the victim of a destructive—and often illegal—commercial fishery that supples urban live-fish markets.

In the spring, silver hordes of river herring once clogged Atlantic coast waterways as they made their spawning run.  Today, some of those runs have been lost completely, and many more are hanging on by tenuous threads; only a handful retain some semblance of their former health.  When I was a boy, mackerel invaded Long Island Sound and remained for the entire month of May; today, that run is gone.  In the ocean south of Long Island, a spring run that once lasted for more than a month now endures—in exceptionally good years—for a couple of days.

As late as the 1970s, packed party boats from Montauk, Connecticut and Rhode Island converged over Cox’s Ledge in the summer, where they loaded up on cod that sometimes weighed more than 50 pounds; today, fishing is limited to the winter, when the biggest fish rarely break 20.  The once spectacular spring pollock run at Block Island died in the mid-1980s, about the same time that the winter whiting fishery collapsed in the New York Bight.

I could go on, but why?  The point is already made.  Many of our fisheries have been badly depleted.  Others face real and immediate threats.  The future of many seems dim.

Yet, it’s not all bad news.  After the striped bass stock collapsed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, strict limits on harvest, including complete moratoriums in many states, brought the stock back to health by 1995.  In the mid-Atlantic, populations of three important bottom fish—summer flounder, scup and black sea bass—bottomed out around 1990, but have since been fully restored.  No stock managed by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council is overfished, and none are experiencing overfishing.

It is clear that things can be turned around.

If you’re willing to keep your mind open and your mouth shut long enough to let the facts speak for themselves, it quickly becomes obvious that, when it comes to restoring and conserving fish stocks, some approaches usually work and some are dead ends.

The approaches that work aren’t rocket science.  Boiled down to their simplest terms, they just require more fish to be left alive in the water, and allow fewer fish to be killed.  They require fisheries managers to treat fishermen—commercial and recreational alike—as adults, who understand the concept of making a short-term sacrifice in order to reap a long-term gain.  They impose some temporary social and economic pain.

But since pain is unpopular, you don’t see such approaches praised much these days.

Instead, you see erstwhile conservation advocates turn into born-again preachers for the “anglers’ rights” movement, sounding like diet food salesmen on late-night TV.  But instead of “Eat what you want and STILL LOSE POUNDS!” you hear “Get rid of federal laws that rebuild stocks and restrict our harvest, turn  management over to the states so we can kill more fish, and WATCH FISHING GET BETTER!”  It doesn’t make a lot of sense when you stop to think about it, but these folks don’t want you to think at all; they want you to hear the main message with your gut, not your brain:  They want you to believe that they can rebuild our fisheries without pain, without responsibility, without cost.

And they want you to be—hope that you are—gullible enough to buy their snake oil.

But we anglers, who have spent years on and around the water, enjoying its pleasures and its gifts, have seen too many fisheries that we loved and knew well sicken and wither away.  If there is any sense of honor or duty in our souls, we know that we have an obligation to generations yet unborn to leave behind an ocean that is as vital and abundant as the one we have known.  And if it hurts a little to leave that legacy, it is a pain that we should feel proud and honor-bound to bear.

For I have seen the smelt fishery die.  Each winter I remember fishing in the night with my father, and fishing in the cold daylight alone, and I recall that of all the generations that followed mine, and all who will be born and grow old after I am gone, none will have the opportunity to be tested, shaped, strengthened and delighted by the night, the cold and the company of decent, good-hearted men, all brought together by a fish scarcely longer than their middle finger.  That rite of passage is gone forever, and the sorrow of remembering what has been lost brings another sort of pain every time I remember.  And that pain is worse, my friends.

Believe me, that pain is truly worse.

  1. Well said. The writing is on the wall that the conservation protections placed in the Magnuson-Stevens Act since 1996 are in jeopardy. All concerned with preserving America's marine fisheries must make it clear to their congressmen, congresswomen, and senators that to gut that statute would be a national disaster.

  2. Those of us that have been fishing for awhile and have witnessed fish species vaporize before our eyes have an advantage. We can see it coming before it happens. The trick now is how the hell do we pass this along?


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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Empowered by the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act, which was largely responsible for rebuilding the collapsed striped bass stock after it collapsed in the late 1970s, the National Marine Fisheries Service adopted regulations prohibiting all striped bass fishing in federal waters.

Since then, there have been sporadic efforts to reopen the fishery in what is formally known as the Exclusive Economic Zone, or “EEZ”, that lies between 3 and 200 miles off the East Coast.

The first try, in the late 1990s, was largely spurred by fishermen in Massachusetts who wanted to fish productive rips off southern Cape Cod, which lay in federal waters.  It never got real legs, and failed without reaching the rulemaking stage.

A more serious effort occurred around 2005, after the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Amendment 6 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass suggested that NMFS consider reopening the federal fishery.  That proposal went to formal rulemaking, with hearings held up and down the coast, before overwhelming opposition from recreational fishermen convinced the agency to take no action.

More recently, there has been a steady effort, led by the Montauk Boatmen’s and Captains’ Association, which represents the operators of for-hire vessels, to obtain a legislative solution.  Representatives from New York’s 1st Congressional District have repeatedly proposed legislation that would permit anglers to fish for striped bass in the federal waters that lie between Montauk Point and Block Island, RI.  The most recent example of such legislation is H.R. 3070, a very poorly drafted bill introduced by Rep. Lee Zeldin.

Traditional recreational opposition to opening the EEZ to striped bass fishing often centered on the damage such legislation could do to the so-called “gamefish” laws that prohibit commercial striped bass fishing in a number of states.  Should an EEZ fishery be created, the argument goes, vessels legally harvesting striped bass in the EEZ would be allowed to land such fish even in “gamefish” states, creating an opportunity for poachers who fished illegally within state waters, but claimed to have caught their striped bass in the EEZ.

That argument was pretty much put to bed in 2007, when then-President George H. W. Bush issued an executive order that prohibited commercial striped bass fishing in federal waters, but left the door open, should NMFS agree, to recreational harvest.

There has also been generalized recreational concern about the higher overall landings that would result should the EEZ be opened.  Much of that concern focused on the recreational fishery off Virginia and North Carolina; opening the EEZ would allow anglers to target the large, female striped bass that spend most of the winter in federal waters off those two states before moving into Chesapeake Bay to spawn.

But what anglers have largely been unable to articulate is why it would do any more harm to catch such big fish in the EEZ off Virginia, rather than, say, when they were sucking down bunker inside state waters as they migrated along the coast.

The answer lies in how striped bass are managed.

Unlike federal fisheries managers, who are required to establish an annual catch limit for all managed species, ASMFC does not impose hard poundage quotas on the recreational sector, but only on commercial fishermen.  Instead, the recreational fishery is constrained only on a “soft” cap, expressed as a fishing mortality rate.  Such an approach makes it extremely difficult to regulate landings and prevent overfishing.

Under the federal management system, biologists begin by establishing an Overfishing Limit, generally based on maximum sustainable yield, which sets an absolute poundage cap on landings.  The Science and Statistics Committee of the relevant regional fishery management council then revises the Overfishing Limit downward, to allow for inevitable scientific uncertainty, to arrive at the Acceptable Biological Catch.

The ABC then goes to the council itself, which often reduces it a bit more—usually by 20 or 25 percent—to account for management uncertainty (read the court decision in Guindon v. Pritzger to learn what can happen when such a reduction does not take place), to ultimately establish an Annual Catch Limit, denoted in pounds.

At that point, regulations are crafted to constrain harvest to the Annual Catch Limit; if landings exceed such Annual Catch Limit in any year, regulations are revised to prevent such overfishing from occurring; if the Overfishing Limit is breached, Accountability Measures will be imposed to avoid further damage to the stock.

A new Annual Catch Limit is usually calculated each year to respond to changes in the size of the fish population.

ASMFC works very differently.  The target fishing mortality rate, and the regulations calculated to achieve it, are hard-wired into Addendum IV to Amendment 6 to the Atlantic Striped Bass Interstate Fishery Management Plan

Regulations don’t automatically change to keep pace with changes in harvest levels or the size of the stock.  They persist until the fishery management plan itself is changed, a process that can take years.

For example, after a 2011 stock assessment update warned that striped bass stock might become overfished in the not-too-distant future, ASMFC’s Striped Bass Management Board decided wait until a new benchmark stock assessment was completed before taking action.   That benchmark assessment ultimately revealed that the stock had been subject to overfishing for six out of the previous ten years, and that harvest reductions were needed.  Even so, such reductions weren’t adopted until late 2014, after a year of rancorous debate and fully three years after the Management Board was aware of the stock’s decline.
Had the stock assessment not taken place, ASMFC may never have reduced harvest at all.

That’s the biggest problem with “soft” harvest caps.  They are difficult to monitor and easy to ignore.

Part of the reason is that managers can’t really know what the fishing mortality rate is, and thus whether the target was exceeded, unless they perform a stock assessment of some sort, and that’s not done every year.

If the EEZ were opened to striped bass harvest, striped bass would be targeted on their summer feeding grounds in federal waters off Massachusetts.  Charter, party and private boats would catch them in the EEZ off Montauk and Block Island.  And all throughout the winter, the big female bass that stage off Virginia and North Carolina ahead of the spring spawning run would be hammered by anglers.

Landings could only increase substantially.

Around February 15, managers receive an estimate of recreational landings for the previous year but, unless ASMFC chose to update its stock assessment, it would be impossible for mangers to use that information to figure out whether the fishing mortality cap had been exceeded.

ASMFC only conducts benchmark striped bass assessments every five years, although a couple of updates are normally performed in between.  And unlike harvest estimates, which are available less than two months after the close of the year, assessment updates take far longer to compile, and are normally not available until October or November.  Full benchmark assessments take even longer.

Opening the EEZ to striped bass harvest would probably subject the stock to at least three years of overfishing (if the fish were overfished in Year 1, the assessment update wouldn’t be completed until the end of Year 2, and it would take the Management Board until the end of Year 3 to finalize any change to the regulations).

Of course, that assumes that ASMFC performed an assessment update in the year after the EEZ was opened.  If no such update occurred, the overfishing could drag out for a couple more years.

Thus, the biggest obstacle to opening the EEZ to striped bass harvest is ASMFC’s unwieldy and unresponsive management system, which is slow to detect overfishing and even slower to end it—which, in fact, isn’t legally bound to do at all.

So long as that system is in place, it would be extremely foolish to allow striped bass fishing in federal waters, for doing so would open a Pandora’s Box full of problems that ASMFC might not choose to resolve.

That would be a bad thing, because as Pandora herself would explain, opening a box is easy.

But keeping the various evils contained is a hard thing to do.

  1. Not to mention excluding current Ct. commercial fisherman from a Federal Area they currently fish. Just saying.

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Finished knits, now with finished babies!

We were overjoyed to welcome our twins, "Luke" and "Leia" (names changed to protect the innocent) on Saturday, October 11, 2008. Leia is the older of the two by one minute and weighed in at an impressive 7 pounds, 4 ounces. Her little brother weighed in at 6 pounds, 3 ounces. Things are crazy around our house as we adjust to being new parents, but the twins are absolutely delightful and we are enjoying every minute (except maybe the sleep deprivation). Blogging and blog reading will be a little spotty for a while, as will knitting unfortunately, but I think it's all worth it. :)

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

A couple of hats, and a scarf problem.

So, the babies have decided to stay in and bake a little longer, much to my discomfort. Not wanting to start anything new or difficult, I turned to an old favorite - the one-skein hat pattern from Simply Noro:

Pattern: Hareton by Jane Ellison [Ravelry link]
Yarn, etc.: Noro Kureyon, colorway 134 (top photo) / Noro Silk Garden, colorway 201 (bottom photo); Addi Turbo needles, size US 8 / 5.0 mm
Mods: Cast on an additional four stitches for the Silk Garden hat, knit to seven inches instead of six and a half before starting crown shaping; no mods on Kureyon hat

I think that this must be at least the tenth or eleventh time that I've knit this pattern, and I always find it to be quick and satisfying knit. Also, for whatever reason, just watching the colors change as I knit with Noro never fails to amuse me.

After I finished the hats, I dug out an old UFO:

That's My So Called Scarf, in a particularly gorgeous colorway of Manos. After I took this photo, I ripped it. I just was not happy with how sloppy the edges were looking, so I restarted it, increasing the stitch count and slipping the first stitch of every row. Unfortunately, it still looks sloppy, with big, loose loops on the edges. I love this yarn, but the pattern is driving me crazy. Anyone out there have any ideas on how to neaten up the edges?


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On Motherhood & Sanity

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

My submission to the Lensculture Portrait awards did not win (again) but at least I got this

"We do have good news for you! Your submission was among the top-rated entries in the Portrait Awards 2016 competition. This is an impressive accomplishment given the record number of submissions we received."

Monday, April 18, 2016

paper towns, February self portrait

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Hide. Cover up the outside
Odd eyes are prying, trying
To understand the inside.
Fingering questions probing
The paper layer resisting
But giving you just enough to spy
Glimpses, snatched kodachromes stained with pride
Soaked in emotions, milking
Refracted hypotheses. Lies
Nothing but lies in thinking
You can see through my acting,
That thin paper disguise.

The family self portrait  project started in January 2011.
I take one portrait of the whole family, myself included, once a month.
In late 2013 a "ghost" writer joined the initiative and now each photo is accompanied by a poem.
In 2015 the kids started collaborating and introducing their own ideas
...the project has a life of its own

Every family should do this. It's an amazing record of the little things that matter

To see previous months click on the links below:


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Tag Archives: VptA

qPCR – V.tubiashii primers test (Vpt A and Vt IGS)

Utilized to sets of primers obtained from the Friedman Lab: VptA (referred to as “Hasegawa”, even though the reference article calls the primers Vtp A) and Vt IGS (referred to as “Lee” primers, presumably from a published article). For template, used “RE22 DNA” that was given to me by Elene. Tube is dated 9/10/09 and has no indication of concentration. Performed qPCR on a set of 10-fold dilutions. Plate layout/qPCR set up is here, along with dilution series used.

The VptA primer set generated a nice looking set of dilutions with appropriate spacing (~3.2 Ct/10-fold dilution). HOWEVER, the raw fluorescence signal is very low (only 0.4 units; good signal is usually 3-5-fold higher) AND the melting curve doesn’t look that great. The melting curve could look poor due to the low signal, since it doesn’t come up much higher than background levels.

It should be noted that the low fluorescence levels generated could simply be due to the amplicon size generated by these primers. The amplicon size is only 63bp. An amplicon of this size might not be able to incorporate significant amounts of dye to generate a “normal” level of fluorescence (1.25 – 2 units).

The Vt IGS primers failed to generate any product.


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The Silk Road, China

Monday, 5 February 2007

A number of people have asked this, but I think the route speaks for itself...

This trip is an extraordinary opportunity. Somehow I appear to have temporarily extracted myself from my job without terminally damaging my career (I hope), allowing me to put on hold my life in London and embark on the kind of travel that isn't possible while in full time work.

Why the Silk Road? My decision was the product of a collision of factors. Most recently and significantly, I must credit James (Carty), a friend of mine who recently decided to walk from London to Jerusalem (see www.walkingtojerusalem.org). I joined him for the last hundred miles into Jerusalem and it reminded me of a kind of travelling I haven't done for some time. He also made me realise that the kind of adventure travel my father did in his youth, including driving across the Sahara, was still possible.

Of course times have changed; my reaction to to my father's advice to "take some morphine with you... just in case" is a case in point. But some of the places I will pass through on the Silk Road have only recently been opened to all but the most seasoned travellers. Other parts are changing so rapidly that they will be unrecognisable in as little as ten years. So it's a fascinating time to go.

So it is then, that a thirst for adventure, a fascinating (if brief) introduction to the Middle East last year and a lifelong passion for the mountains made The Silk Road the obvious candidate for what I expect to be one of the most exciting six months of my life.

In addition, I'm unbelievable lucky that Chris - a friend and fully signed up member of the increasingly ambitious (mostly financially, it seems) annual ski trips - is up for the Middle East and Central Asia. He's been out in Whistler since January and I'll be heading out there to join in the vital 'preparation' for the Silk Road!

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Fred said...

Now JR is on the launch pad, I do want to make it clear that it is important to follow local customs.
I understand that it socially acceptable to use a saddle as a wind break when when sleeping in the steppes and the temperature goes down to minus 15C.
No doubt you find out how to behave as you go along.In the Sahara you qualified as diplomat when you could flick a sheep's eye out through the door of a tent without being seen by you host. I gather they are crispy and not like a peeled grape as you would expect and sheep meat is the primary diet on the steppes.
You will need your Norse blood on this "Viking" trip.


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Monday, May 7, 2012

Simply: chilled lemon delicious pudding

Going through some recent cooking magazines, I was struck by how inconveniently specific some of the recipe ingredients have become. From micro herbs, to jamon, to fresh burrata and Kashmiri chilli and ‘organic nasturtium petals’ (yes, really), they often offer no substitute ingredient, so if you can’t get your hands on some organic nasturtium petals – or even know what a substitute would be – then you’ve probably stuffed up the recipe already.

Apart from ‘special occasion’ dishes for parties and the like, I much prefer ordinary, just-find-it-in-a-shop ingredients in my everyday meals. It makes things so much easier when you feel like a rice pilaf and you can make it with items you already have in the pantry, instead of having to traipse across town to the specialist spice place that stocks Kashmiri chilli.

Of course, my definition of ‘simple’ may be different to yours; in fact, it probably is, because if it involves anything remotely complicated (like food that's hellishly deep-fried), then I’m a lost cause. I’ve also found that the simple dishes are usually the old-fashioned ones that originated in about 1950, that were made by a post-war frugal generation – well, at least anything that doesn’t involve dripping or lard is okay.

Here’s an old-fashioned favourite, Lemon Delicious Pudding, but chilled for make-ahead convenience.

Chilled Lemon Delicious Pudding
serves 6

40g (1½ oz) unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup caster sugar
3 eggs, separated
60g (2oz) self-raising flour, sifted
350ml (12oz) milk
Finely grated zest of 2 lemons, plus 1/3 cup lemon juice
Icing sugar, to serve

1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F. Grease a 1.2l (5-cup) capacity ovenproof dish with a little of the butter.
2. Beat butter and caster sugar with an electric mixer until thick and pale, about 10 minutes. Add egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each yolk is added.
3. Add a third of the flour, beat well, then add a third of the milk, beating again. Repeat until all the flour and milk has been added.
4. Add lemon zest and juice and mix until a smooth batter forms.
5. In a separate bowl, beat the eggwhites until soft peaks form. Gradually fold the eggwhites into the batter until just combined.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared dish, then place the dish into deep roasting pan and fill with enough hot water to come halfway up the side of the dish. Cover with foil and bake for 15 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for a further 30 minutes or until the pudding is golden.
7. Turn off the oven and allow the pudding to cool in the oven for 30 minutes (to stop it collapsing). Transfer pudding to the refrigerator to cool completely.
8. Serve with icing sugar dusted over.

recipe adapted from delicious (Nov 2011)

Various stages of preparation, including whipping the eggwhites before folding into the egg yolk, butter and sugar mixture.
The pudding is then covered and placed in a water bath before baking.

Like a typical lemon delicious pudding, a lemony sauce sinks to the base of the pudding, ready to be scooped out with the spongey top.

Make sure you get some sauce with the cake.

 A warm lemon delicious recipe is here.
Actually, I found that the cooling of the pudding made the sponge cake a bit dense, so I prefer the warm version. You can't beat the taste of either method, though. Very lemony and certainly delicious.

  1. This looks absoutely delightful! I love any tpe of pudding.. mmm nyum!

  2. I totally agree with you! I wouldn't even serve crazy weird dishes like that at dinner parties either because who even knows what organic nasturtiums taste like? Probably not so delicious.

    Lemony desserts though...I love. This looks majorly delicious. And dinner party worthy.

  3. I LOOOOOOOVE lemon delicious. Hot or cold...

  4. I like the sounds of make-ahead convenience! Love this.

  5. oh mannn yum! i just happen to have a whole lotta lemons lying around so this recipe sounds awesome to use them up!

  6. This is one of my favourite desserts! I love the convenience of this cold version but like you, I think I prefer the hot one.

  7. I like how simple recipes usually turn out tasting a lot less 'simple' than they'd seem.... This looks delicious! :)

  8. I have made this lemon delicious for a while...yours look so pretty and perfect...great pictures as always Bel :)
    Hope you have a wonderful week ahead!

  9. This looks so amazing I have made them many times nice pics :) wonder why I haven't posted lemon pudding as yet

  10. This looks absolutely gorgeous! I can't believe how good this looks. I've never tried anything like this. For now... I'm going out to buy some lemons :)

  11. A lovely looking pudding with oozy sauce! Brings back great memories.

  12. I agree, some recipes are so fancy now it intimidates me to even try and cook them. I have a lemon tree in the backyard so will definitely make this soon.

  13. Agree! My day-to-day cooking is actually quite boring and usually involves pan-frying some sort of meat with any combination of veg, rice or pasta on the side, or Chinese stir-fries. Anything else just seems way to much of an effort!

  14. Perfectly cooked. So light and gorgeous :)

  15. Oh, my. Now this is perfection. Just my idea of dessert.

  16. Lemon licious has to be up there as one of my alltime favourite desserts, yum!

  17. It looks so spongy, light and delicious. A real sweet and tangy treat for any lemon desserts lovers.

  18. I LOVE lemon desserts and this looks so good! Just found your blog and I will definitely be following you!

  19. I love dessert that can be made ahead. Give me more time to prepare the rest of the dishes before the guests arrive. Absolutely pretty dessert to serve.

  20. Now there's a blast from the past. Home economics, to be precise. Something about it being cold just doesn't sit right with me so I reckon I'd be nuking it in the microwave for a minute! And no organic nasturtium as garnish? Actually my neighbour has an abundance of it so it's always there for the picking. Not that they know I pillaged from them once already ;)

  21. I Loove this! (my guests too!)
    Publiced it on my blog! (reference to yours!)

  22. Good recipe although the castor sugar is omitted from the printed version.

  23. There is nothing wrong with either lard or dripping. They are just as wholesome as butter and definitely better than most oils. But the pudding looks delicious, except I'd use ordinary flour instead of self-raising, which has a nasty after-taste.


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Advanced Analytics: Fraud detection Example using Benford's Law

In this post we will talk about an R based example which performs Fraud detection using Benford's law on Oracle DV Desktop.This example also highlights Oracle DV's capability to consume multiple and distinct tabular results, visual charts returned from a single invocation of R-Script. This example can be downloaded from Oracle BI Public store.

What does this script do: This script takes financial data (or any other data that satisfies characteristics of Benford's law. More about these characteristics are described below) which includes financial amounts along with 1 or 2 identifiers and applies Benford law and returns suspicious transactions.

It also returns some metrics and plots which depict the expected distribution of data according to Benford's law vis a vis actual observed distribution. These plots are displayed in DV Desktop using R Viz(base64Image) plugin which can be downloaded from Oracle BI Public Store

Metrics contain information on the expected probability, actual probability, distribution frequency and difference details along with data summation details. For more details on these metrics please go through the documentation of benford.analysis packageThis example uses benford.analysis R package, which can be downloaded from CRAN repository

Here is how your DV Desktop will look like after deploying this example:

What is Benford's Law?

Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading significant digit is likely to be small. For example, in sets which obey the law, the number 1 appears as the most significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the most significant digit less than 5% of the time. By contrast, if the digits were distributed uniformly, they would each occur about 11.1% of the time. Benford's law also makes (different) predictions about the distribution of second digits, third digits, digit combinations, and so on.Benford's law usually hold for data with following characteristics:
  • Data with values that are formed through a mathematical combination of numbers from several distributions.
  • Data that has a wide variety in the number of figures e.g. data with plenty of values in the hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands etc.
  • The data set is fairly large.
  • Non symmetric distribution of data around Mean/Median, with large right skew
  • No predefined Maximum/Minimum except for 0 as minimum
Benford's law is applicable irrespective of the scale of data. More information and experiments on the applicability of Benford's law across multiple scales can be found in Datagenetics blog.

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Benford's law can be used to analyze financial data and spot possible red flags. If the digit distribution doesn't look anything like the distribution predicted by Benford's law then it may mean that the data is manipulated. Financial data include Accounts receivable, Accounts payable, sales and expenses data.

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Inputs: This script takes payment amount(in dollars) along with one or more idenitfiers/details. In this example we are passing in the Vendor Number(Identifier1), Invoice Number (Identifier2) and the corporate payment amount as inputs to the data. This script can also be used to perform Fraud detection for other statistical data like census and other surveys which have the characteristics we discussed above.

Optional Inputs: num_of_digits: We can send in the number first digits which we would like to analyze
                        TopPercent    : Top N percentage of the Suspicious entries you would like to be returned.

Output: This R-Script returns 3 sets of results/information. They are:
1) Columns Identifier1,Identifier2,Suspicious Amounts return the top N % Suspicious transactions .
2) image* columns return the R plots in base 64 encoded image format. R Viz(base64image) custom Viz plugin parses these base64 encoded image strings and displays the image on DV Desktop canvas.
3) Columns from Digits to Metrics: return metrics like distribution frequency etc for each first digit(s).

Please note that this R-Script returns all the these 3 sets of results/information in a single dataframe. And Oracle DV simultaneously displays these distinct tabular results and image results returned by a single R script.

Steps to deploy this R-Script plugin in your local OracleDV:

1) Install Advanced Analytics feature in Oracle DV by clicking on the below icon. This will install Oracle R deployment. Alternatively you can install Advanced Analytics by running install_advanced_analytics.cmd present in <DV_INSTALL_DIRECTORY>

2) If not installed benford.analysis already, please install it using following instructions
    Open R console(double click Rgui.exe present in <Advanced_Analytics_Install_Dir>\bin\x64) and
    install benford.analysis Package.
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        $ Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://<your_proxy_host>:<port>")
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        $ install.packages("benford.analysis")
3) Download from OracleBI Public Store and unzip it.
4) Copy R.BenfordFraudDetection.xml to <DV_INSTALL_DIRECTORY>\OracleBI1\bifoundation\advanced_analytics\script_repository
5) Download R Viz(Base64Image) custom visualization plugin from Oracle BI Public Store. Instructions to deploy this Custom Viz plugin are described in the Public store.
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In the global debates on English as international lingua franca or as ‘killer language’, the adoption of English as medium of instruction in Higher Education is raising increasing concern. Plurilingualism and multilingualism are embedded in the official policies of the European Union and Council of Europe, and the Bologna Process for harmonizing Higher Education promises ‘proper provision for linguistic diversity’. But even enthusiasts acknowledge the problems of implementing such policies in the face of an inexorable increase in the use of English. This survey draws on the most recent and sometimes disparate sources in an attempt to paint a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the spread of English-medium teaching in Europe's universities. The article sets the changes in the context of accelerating globalization and marketization, and analyses the forces which are driving the adoption of English, and some of the problems which accelerating ‘Englishization’ of European Higher Education might create.

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Commercial Carpentry services from Handyman Connection

Are you remodeling your business facility or adding on to a present structure? You need an experienced carpenter, rather than someone who doesn’t have the experience or equipment. Whatever your business, a well-maintained, reliable building is the key to your success. The Handyman Connection carpenters are highly qualified for many different projects in Ottawa. We offer the following carpentry services:

  • Base trim and crown moulding installation
  • Wainscoting installation
  • Doors, frames and hardware
  • Drywall and insulation
  • Light framing and wall systems
  • Acoustical ceilings
  • Finish carpentry
  • Rough carpentry
  • Millwork
  • Facility improvements
  • Remodeling or enhancements
  • Custom carpentry
  • Repairs

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If you work with Handyman Connection, you will be assigned a carpenter who can complete your specific job. Their goal is to bring together your requirements with up to date carpentry techniques. We provide commercial carpentry services for retail, office, corporate, medical, and industrial and warehouse projects.

Handyman Connection is proud to be your designated company for all types of carpentry jobs. We provide maintenance and repair services to ensure your business operates safely and efficiently throughout the year. Our team will help you prevent issues by managing every aspect of your job. We’ll make sure to incorporate your opinions at all levels of your carpentry project, culminating in your total satisfaction.

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Learn the technique of competitive walking during next week’s free activities at City Hall

This summer, the City of Ottawa is hosting free programs and special events at City Hall for every taste and interest.

Festival of India Luncheon

Friday, August 7

11:30 am to 1 p.m.

Marion Dewar Plaza

Milonga – Tango Soirée
Saturday, August 8

6 to 11 p.m.

Councillors Lounge

Here are the events scheduled for the upcoming week:

Tuesday, August 11

Salsa Babies and picnic

10 a.m. to noon

Jean Pigott Place

Salsa Babies is a great opportunity to workout and socialize, while introducing your child to music and movement. Bring snacks or a lunch and enjoy a picnic after the class. Families with children of any age are welcome.

Hatha Yoga – Rama Lotus Yoga Centre

Noon to 1 p.m.

Marion Dewar Plaza (in the event of rain, the class will be held in Jean Pigott Place)

The instructors from Rama Lotus Yoga Centre will lead the class, which is open to all levels. Some yoga mats will be available, however, bring your own if possible.

Fitness and Competitive Walking

Noon to 1 p.m.

Marion Dewar Plaza

Stay active, healthy and give purpose to your walking by transforming your normal walk into a technique that maximizes fitness and cardio. Learn about this low-impact activity for all ages and participate in a 1.5 to 2 km walk. Presented by, the Bytown Walkers Club.

Circus Jam

7 to 9 p.m.

Marion Dewar Plaza

Presented by the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group and Ottawa Circus School, Circus Jam is open to all who are interested in the flow arts (bring your poi, hooping, juggling, slack line, partner-acro and fire dancing, to name a few). Children are welcome, but they must be supervised.

Wednesday, August 12

Tai Chi – Taoist Tai Chi®

Noon to 1 p.m.

Marion Dewar Plaza (in the event of rain, the class will be held in Jean Pigott Place)

The regular practice of the Taoist Tai Chi® arts promotes health and relieves stress. Join us for free beginner classes.

Salsa @ City Hall

6 to 11 p.m.

Marion Dewar Plaza (in the event of rain, the lesson may be held in Jean Pigott Place)

This event is sponsored by Azucar! Latin Dance Company and Salsa Force, and is suited for people of all ages. Start the evening off with an hour-long dance lesson before dancing the night away under the stars. All skill levels welcome.

Thursday, August 13

Lunchtime Volleyball

Noon to 1 p.m.

Lisgar Field

Everyone is encouraged to come to City Hall this summer to play recreational pick-up grass volleyball. For more information, contact cws-psm@ottawa.ca.

Lansdowne Park

Lansdowne Park is also presenting free summer activities, including:

  • Full Moon Yoga offers an evening of relaxation on August 29.
  • Momentum Fridays run until September 4 from noon to 1 p.m. and features various workouts, such as dance and yoga.
  • Summer Art Series – Sunday evenings from 5:30 to 7 p.m. throughout July and August for free arts performances in the park. Bring a picnic, buy an ice cream treat from a local vendor, relax and enjoy the talented local performers.

For the full line-up of City Hall and Lansdowne Park summer activities and all of the attractions, festivals and events happening across the city and in your community, visit the Summer in the City listings on ottawa.ca. It’s your guide to family fun.

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OPL Main branch to receive improvements

The Main branch of the Ottawa Public Library will undergo improvements startingWednesday, November 12. As a result, RFID technology will be put in place and there will be a new service point.

The branch will be open while work is being done, however, the circulation desk will be relocated nearby on the first floor.

The book drops will be available during the improvement period.

The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) is the largest bilingual (English/French) public library system in North America, and one of the best public library systems in Canada. The OPL extends public access to information and services through the library’s 34 branches, physical and virtual at www.BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca, as well as two mobile libraries and a vending machine-style lending library service. Serving close to one million Ottawa residents, OPL’s mission is to inspire learning, spark curiosity, and connect people. Follow us on Twitterwww.Twitter.com/OPL_BPO and like us on Facebook www.Facebook.com/OPLBPO. Contact us at 613-580-2940. If it’s out there, it’s in here!

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Streetside Spots will give new identity to parking spaces

The City of Ottawa has launched the Streetside Spots pilot project today by inviting businesses and community groups to redefine parking spaces with different looks, designs and uses.

Streetside spots are small outdoor spaces created by temporarily re-purposing on-street parking spaces.  They contribute to a vibrant and liveable community while sharing the right of way space with pedestrians of all abilities, cyclists and drivers.

The City will grant up to 25 permits to allow on-street parking spaces to be converted to one of three forms:

  • Streetside parklet – a public space that may contain seating, shading, bike parking or a games table.
  • Streetside patio – a private space reserved for patrons of a café or restaurant that does not have an existing patio.
  • Streetside vending stall – an outdoor business space for the sale of merchandise.

For local businesses, Streetside Spots can be an extension of their regular business locations.

The City will grant permits for the spring-to-fall season of 2016. As part of the criteria, an eligible parking space must be:

  • On a street with a speed limit of 50 km/h or less
  • Located in a parking zone that is not subject to time limits
  • In a location that has no existing patio or an opportunity to get an outdoor patio under the Encroachment By-Law

For more information on Streetside Spots, including applications and design criteria, please visit the City’s website, or call 3-1-1. The application deadline is December 7.

Anyone interested in learning more about Streetside Spots can attend an information meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20 in the Richmond Room at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West.

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My 10 Favorite Lesser-Known Martin Luther King Quotes

645647587_oThere are very few historical individuals who I find more inspirational than Martin Luther King. It isn’t just that his words are some of western Christianity’s most spiritually potent, it’s that he was more than a man of words. He was on a powerful and incredibly articulated mission—one he was willing to die for.

When it became unavoidable, his message shifted towards the war in Vietnam. As always, his words were consistent and honest. And because of his criticism of Vietnam, his support in the press and the government began to erode.

As Ferguson, Eric Garner, and the regular use of our military in the middle east reveals, MLK’s words are still so relevant. We still have a long way to go.

My 10 favorite lesser-known MLK quotes:

1. “The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.”

2. “There’s something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that will praise you when you say, ‘Be non-violent toward Jim Clark,’ but will curse and damn you when you say, ‘Be non-violent toward little brown Vietnamese children.’

3.“The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, ‘This way of settling differences is not just.’ This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and article-0-1AC59CAB00000578-329_634x459widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

4. “I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple
evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead-end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism.”

5. “Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”

6. “If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me. If I have said anything that understates the truth and indicates my having a patience that allows me to settle for anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me.”

martin-luther-king-being-arrested7. “So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary’s hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime—the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

8. The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides -and try to understand why he must do so. If his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history. So I have not said to my people: “Get rid of your discontent.” Rather, I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action. And now this approach is being termed extremist.

9. “Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.”

10. “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

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Who Pays for the Medical Bills After an Accident?

For those of us who are motorist on the road this could be the million-dollar question. After all, when we get behind the wheel of a care we need to not only be aware of how we are driving but other motorists as well. But no matter how safe you maybe there is always that chance of a collision occurring with another car. In some cases this can lead to injury such as whiplash after the fact. So, whose responsibility is it to pay for the medical bills that can pile up during this time?

who pays for the medical bills after an accident

Well, it should be considered a simple thing to determine. Whoever is in the wrong should be the one to pay the medical cost. This individual should also be the one who pays for any repairs to both cars. So, at the time of the accident it is important to get all the person's information. Such as, who is their insurance provider, odds are these are the ones who will cover the cost of repairs and should also cover medical bill cost. But what does an individual do in the case when a person is driving uninsured or their insurance company refuses to pay.

One option open to an individual who is dealing with a person who causes an accident who is uninsured is to call his or her own insurance company. Odds are their insurance will handle the claim and will help pay for the damage to the automobile. Another thing their insurance may do is give them assistance in the form of an MPC. MPC stands for Medical Payments Coverage, with this form of coverage the injured party including driver and any passengers will receive certain help with medical cost. MPC will help cover the cost of deductibles on medical bills covered by health insurance, and will cover the cost of those medical cost that the person's health insurance plan won't cover.

However, if the individual isn't at fault for the accident and uses their own insurance should they allow the person who is responsible completely off the hook? In this case a person would certainly be within their right to take legal action against the responsible party and receive compensation for what they went thorough. So, consulting a good accident and injury attorney would be advisable. In fact, it might be a good idea to consult with an attorney from the very beginning. A good accident an injury attorney will also deal with the insurance companies. To ensure that they not only pay on the claim but that the amount their client receives is fair given the damage and the amount of suffering they have experienced.

Now here are some do's and don'ts when being involved in a car accident. First thing to do is to make sure that your and everyone else involved is alright. The second thing to do is the access the damage to the vehicles. The things not to do is move someone if they are hurt but call for help instead. Second don't apologize for the accident even if you may have actually been at fault/ Also, never reveal how much insurance you actually have to the other person involved in the accident. Another thing is to perhaps contact an attorney right after the accident just to make sure that your interest are well covered. Don't be afraid to do so, even if an accident doesn't seem serious at first down the line there could be issues as a result, so never ignore the accident but cover all legal bases.

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Saturday, March 02, 2013

And another angel goes to heaven

Last month, my grandmother's sister lost her battle with cancer.  She lived a long and wonderful life, but we will miss her dearly.  She left quite a mark in our hearts with her motherly ways and nurturing spirit, and we will always remember her.

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The liquid culture syringes are between 10 and 12cc. Ready to inject to your substrate of choice. Normally this will be sterilized rye berries.

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Misheard lyrics

Warning, I did 2.5 posts tonight for some reason.

Here are some lyrics that I've always misheard. I could look up what they really are, but that seems anticlimactic somehow.

AC/DC "You should me all night long"
Had to cool me down
to take another round
Now I'm back in the rig
to take another swing
Now the walls were shakin'
the earth was quakin'
My mind was achin'
And we were bakin' when you
Shook Me All Night Long

Oh!! So that's what the song is about. A late night baking episode. If they don't wear oven mitts, they might end up with one unplanned bun in the oven.

Al Green "I'm so Tired of Being Alone"
I'm so tired of being alone
I'm so tired of growing my own
Won't you help me girl just as soon as you can

This song is apparently about farming solo and its pitfalls.

Then this is a pair, which, well, it's just rude:

ELO "Don't bring me down"
Don't bring me dooowwwwnn

And Manfred Mann's Earth Band "Blinded by the light"
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a douche
Another runner in the night

WTF?! These people seem to have an odd obsession with feminine hygiene.

But then, wasn't the old Seals and Croft song:
Summer's Eve!
Makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine of my thii-ighs?

Maybe not.

Church Lady said...

Oh, that's very funny! Especially the 'revved up like a douche' one. That's how I always sing that song. Makes no sense.
We should look up the actual lyrics.

Ello said...

I think Paca has a thing for feminine hygiene products. There's a whole lot of douching going on!

My favorite missung words was when my sister used to sing General Public's Tenderness song like this:

Ten dollars where is my ten dollars?

Yeah, she always was a cheapo.

Church Lady said...

Someone just googled me with "naked women deer"

I will not forgive you for this. No many how many songs you find with the word 'douche.'

hahahaha It just occurred to me, people looking for douche stuff will be coming here!!!

pacatrue said...

"Ten dollars, where's my ten dollars" only reminds me of the old John Cusack movie Better Off Dead. "Two dollars! I want my two dollars!"

CL, I am glad to have sent strange people to your blog. It makes me proud. Unfortunately, I know the correct lyric on "revved up like a douche". It's "revved up like a deuce". As in the Beach Boys song, "my little douche coupe". I mean, "My little deuce coupe". I wonder what percentage of people thing that is actually, "My little two scoops". maybe the song is an ode to ice cream.