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Monday, July 15, 2013

Progeny of Liberty

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Today’s post is from Steven Lieberman, an attorney, firearms training expert, and co-owner of Artemis Defense Institute in Lake Forest. (Artemis)

The Progeny of Liberty

One of the more interesting aspects of being a weapons trainer is listening to clients talk about the Second Amendment. Contrary to what many people may think there is not really a flat out consensus on what it means….even among gun owners.

Like religion there are fundamentalists … and others that see nuances and a need for limitations. I suspect most of the deviation in opinion surrounds itself around what exactly the
Second Amendment exists for in the first place.

Some of our clients see it as a means of protecting us from the Government. Others see it as a backfill for the military in case of foreign attack. Some see it as a codification of a right to self-defense. Others as a recognition of our ancestral hunting heritageI tend to see it a little bit more broadly:

To oppose tyranny

The Second Amendment exists to allow us to protect ourselves against tyrannyTyranny comes in many forms. A foreign army forcing themselves upon us. A corrupt federal government that seeks to expand through force unjust laws beyond their chartered responsibilities. Tyrannical local authorities that have violated their responsibilities to their citizens. Criminals, that seek to use force or intimidation to profit from their victims.

Yes…Tyranny is not relegated exclusively to government misbehaviorTyranny is the use of force rather than persuasion to compel an individual to surrender their status as a sovereign being to the will of another.

The robber, rapist, arsonist, abusive spouse, sexual predator….they are all first and foremost tyrants. They may have underlying issues that make them who they are…and that is potentially interesting…but from the immediacy of the victim… largely irrelevant.

Tyrant prophylaxis

Our Framers way back in 1787 recognized this…and they recognized a right, to protect ourselves against tyrants…regardless of where they manifested.

To ensure that that tyrants for the most part remained in the shadows they recognized a right for the people to keep and bear arms. This right…this responsibility…created a deterrent to would be tyrants, and continues to this day.

If all were angels

If all of our brothers and sisters were angels there would be no need for a Second Amendment. Actually…there would be no need for a Constitution at all. But not all of those we encounter are in fact angels. We as a species exist on a continuum of human behavior, and even within our own existence we rise and fall on times and circumstances.

Reliance on the assumption that those that seek to control us…regardless of their motivations … will always result in a benign result is folly. Just as we see the dynamics in our own social encounters we must assume that the same spectrum exists among those that potentially could do us harm.

Our defense against this is the realization among those same individuals that tyranny will be met with fierce resistance. That as a nation of sovereign individuals we WILL fight back against tyranny.
Our Framers recognized this…and gave us the tools to fight tyranny back in the 18th century…and God willing…through the centuries that lie ahead.

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By AhmedSoliman, 12 days ago, In English,

Hello, Codeforces!

I'd like to invite you to Codeforces Round #465 (Div. 2) which takes place on Monday, 19 February 2018 at 19:35 MSK. The round will be rated for division 2 participants. However, as usual division 1 can take part out of competition.

The round is prepared by my friends Kammola, Ahmad_Elsagheer, MostafaAbdullah and me (AhmedSoliman). Besides, many thanks to 300iq, mike_live, Arpa, GreenGrape and neckbosov for testing the round, KAN for coordinating the round and MikeMirzayanov for the great Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them. The scoring distribution will be announced later. Good luck!

UPD1: Scoring is 500 — 750 — 1250 — 1750 — 2250 — 2750

UPD2: Congratulations to the winners!

Division 1 :

  1. Benq
  2. eddy1021
  3. KrK
  4. kmjp
  5. chemthan

Division 2 :

  1. Iiu_runda
  2. FlzzyDavid
  3. Baggins
  4. sorry_teamskiy
  5. InkyFlameMaster

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By GlebsHP, history, 6 days ago, translation, In English,

In case you want to take part in Yandex.Algorithm 2018 but somehow haven't registered yet, you might want to follow this link.

Qualification round has started at 00:00 Moscow time, February 17th. Round is a virtual competition 100 minutes long. You can start it at any moment of time till 23:59 on Sunday, February 18th (Moscow time).

We recall that in order to be able to participate in elimination stage one needs to accept at least one problem at qualification round. However, everyone who managed to accept at least one problem during warm-up has already qualified to the next stage.

Judges ask all the participant to withdraw from any problem discussion and do not publish any solutions till 01:40, February 19th.

Good luck, we hope that you will enjoy the problems!

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By KAN, 7 days ago, translation, In English,

The Codeforces Round #464 (Div. 2) is going to be held on Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 10:05 UTC for participants from division 2.

The round is based on XIV Nizhny Novgorod Olympiad in Informatics named after V. D. Lelyukh for high school students, which will take place on Saturday in Nizhny Novgorod. However, the problems for the Olympiad and for the round are not completely identical.

The problems were prepared by KAP, ashmelev, ZhNV, kuzmichev_dima, demon1999, SYury, mmatrosov and me. Thanks to mike_live and vepifanov for testing the problems, and gritukan and MikeMirzayanov for helping us to host the round on Codeforces!

As usual, participants from division 1 can take part out of competition.

Good luck and have fun!

UPD: There will be 6 problems with the following scores: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500-2750.

You will be able to view submissions and tests after the end of the olympiad in Nizhny Novgorod around 13:30 UTC.

Congratulations to winners!

Div. 2:

  1. LitiIsPretty
  2. newbiedmy
  3. lijian666
  4. S.H.I.E.L.D

Div. 1:

  1. dotorya
  2. eddy1021
  3. DmitryGrigorev
  4. uwi
  5. georgerapeanu

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By PikMike, history, 8 days ago, translation, In English,

Hello Codeforces!

On February 16, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 38 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

This round will be rated for Div. 2. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Ivan BledDest Androsov, Sahand Sahaand Alitanloo and me.

Thanks Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great system Polygon!

Good luck to all participants!

UPD: Since there will be another Div. 2 contest soon, the hacking phase will be shorter (only 12 hours). Before CF Round 464 we will actualize the registrations in such a way that Div. 2 will be officially registered, and Div. 1 participants — unofficially.

UPD2: We also have a message from our partners Harbour.Space:

We are excited to announce that some of the world’s strongest teams will come to our Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp: MIPT and all top India’s Universities that qualified to the World Finals!

As always, the boot camp isn’t only about the training — we’re in the process of getting renowned keynote speakers from all over the globe to come and speak about life and all the opportunities at your fingertips after ACM-ICPC.

We look forward to seeing you all there this spring! For those of you who haven't registered, there's still time.

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By aropan, 8 days ago, translation, In English,

The 8th BSUIR Open Programming Championship will be held from February 16 till April 13, 2018 (Minsk, Belarus).

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By praran26, 9 days ago, In English,

Hello, Codeforces!

I would like to invite you all to the International Coding Marathon 2018, under the banner of Technex'18, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. It will take place on Thursday 15th February 2018, 20:05 IST. The contest will be held as a combined Div.1+Div.2 round which will be rated for participants from both divisions.

The problemset has been prepared by me (praran26), dark_n8, hitman623, dhirajfx3, karansiwach360 and enigma27. We would like to express our heartiest thanks to gritukan and KAN for their constant help in preparing the contest and MikeMirzayanov for the amazing Codeforces and Polygon platforms. We also thank AlexFetisov and winger for their invaluable help in testing the problems.

  • Overall 1st place: INR 35,000
  • Overall 2nd place: INR 25,000
  • Overall 3rd place: INR 15,000
  • 1st place in India: INR 10,000
  • 2nd place in India: INR 8,000
  • 3rd place in India: INR 6,000
  • 1st place among IIT (BHU) Varanasi freshmen: INR 1,000

Participants will have 2 hours to solve 7 problems. The scoring distribution will be announced soon.

Good luck everyone! Hope to see you on the leaderboard.

Update: Scoring is 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2500 — 2500 — 3000

Update 2: Thanks to all participants and congratulations to all the winners. The winners, who are eligible for prizes, will soon be contacted regarding the same.

Overall top 10

  1. Radewoosh
  2. fateice
  3. Um_nik
  4. laofudasuan
  5. dotorya
  6. 300iq
  7. LHiC
  8. ksun48
  9. wxh010910
  10. chemthan

Indian top 5

  1. PrashantM
  2. rajat1603
  3. Baba
  4. jtnydv25
  5. adkroxx

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The editorial has been posted here. This was first contest set by most of us, so please help us do better next time by filling this form.

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By mplaza, 9 days ago, In English,

Hello, Codeforces!

I would like to invite you to take part in the 10th jubilee edition of the international programming marathon Deadline24. During the contest, the teams of three tackle algorithmic problems.

Registration will last until February 22 and it is possible through the form available on the website: www.deadline24.pl/register

The qualifying round will take place on Sunday, February 25. During it the registered teams will struggle to solve tasks for 5 hours and this will be verified by server. This part of the competition is carried out remotely. In the last year a record number of competitors registered for the first phase — 1950.

For the final — which lasts for 24 hours — 30 teams with the best scores obtained during the elimination will be invited. The final will take place on 7- 8 of April in Poland. This year the best teams will win: Oculus Rift, iPad and Kindle Oasis 2.

Don't forget that the registration ends on February 22! Good luck in the qualifying round :)

If you are interested in the previous years' tasks, you can find them here.

Special thanks to Mike Mirzayanov for his help in promoting the competition on CF.

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By Tommyr7, history, 11 days ago, In English,

Hi, Codeforces! Happy Valentine's Day. And happy Lunar New Year!

I'm quite honored to invite you to Codeforces Round #462 which will take place at 15:05 MSK on 14 Feb and last for two hours.

The authors are quailty, skywalkert, visitWorld and me. This is our second round here.

The round couldn't have been realized without efforts of KAN and our testers: cyand1317, demon1999. Thanks for your help to the contest. Also, thank MikeMirzayanov for the fantastic Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

The contest will consist of five problems and it is rated for both division contestants.

The background of problems will be about Lunar New Year. (Yes... Not Valentine's Day...)

Hope to see you in the contest! Good luck and have fun, wish you a high rating!

We suggest that those who already have Valentine's Day plans should not participate... You can always upsolve a contest, but there is only one Valentine's Day ;)

The scoring distribution will be announced later.

See you in the contest!

UPD: The scoring distribution is:

div1: 500 — 750 — 1500 — 2250 — 2500

div2: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2500

UPD2: Congratulations to the winners!

Division 1 :

  1. Um_nik (solved all problems!)
  2. Golovanov399
  3. geniucos
  4. fateice
  5. kriii

Division 2 :

  1. aabdelzaher
  2. WNG
  3. ZYF1023
  4. Kita_The_Dragon
  5. _Kuroni_

UPD3: The editorial is available now!

Thank you everyone!

Happy Valentine's Day and happy Lunar New Year!

See you next time!

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By Igorjan94, history, 10 days ago, In English,

C++17 is now available on codeforces, community wants new edition of C++ tricks by Swift, so, let's start!
Disclaimer: I have done only few examples of new features, which in my opinion are related to competitive programming. Feel free to comment and provide more real-world examples or ask to elaborate some features with more examples or explanations.

Fold expressions

  • I think that everybody knows, what reduce or fold means, but a c++11 example:
vector<int> v = {1, 3, 5, 7};
int res = accumulate(v.begin(), v.end(), 0, [](int a, int b) { return a + b; });
cout << res; // 16
  • In C++17 there is also folding support for a template parameters list. It has the following syntax:
(pack op ...)
(... op pack)
(pack op ... op init)
(init op ... op pack)
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‘The Post’ fondly recalls the old days of a respected press, war protests (Movie review)

One of my bosses encouraged us to attend “The Post” (2017) – which recently got a wide theatrical release – to rekindle our passion for newspapering. The film encourages some of that spirit, no doubt, but overall it left me sad. It’s a great movie about the Washington Post’s decision to publish highlights of the Top Secret Pentagon Papers in 1971, very much a welcome addition to the pantheon of journalism movies, but Steven Spielberg’s entry feels curiously out of time more so than, say, 2015’s “Spotlight.”

Of course, this is largely because it took place much longer ago, and the time period is also where a lot of its charm comes from. For newspaper geeks, it’s like pornography seeing close-up shots of pages being typeset (in the old-school sense of the term) and the press running, supplemented by tense music from John Williams underlining newspapers’ vital importance to democracy and tenuous lifespan. Spielberg might be showing off how his team reassembled the old print equipment, but I approve of it.

Additionally, the technological limits of the 1970s (compared to today) meant the public had fewer news options, and it wasn’t as easy for those outlets to report on things on the other side of the globe. The public eventually turned against the Vietnam War because it was televised, but the series of administrations that oversaw the ramping up to war were able to keep secrets. Then and now, it’s hard to report on top-secret government meetings.

But “The Post’s” melancholy disconnect also arises because the issues of 1971 aren’t controversial anymore. Kennedy, part of the chain of presidents who kept the true nature of the Vietnam War under wraps, openly says in a speech: “The world knows America will never start a war.” It’s a laugh line today because of its brazen untruth, but it also reminds us that U.S. presidents – and presidential candidates –no longer have to use anti-war rhetoric because the populace is numb to imperialism. Young voters in particular think war is a normal aspect of life; they’ve never known otherwise. “The Post’s” shots of war protests outside the Washington Post building and citizens’ placards supporting freedom of the press are breathtaking for how they’ve been relegated to the past.

“The Post” – written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer (“The Fifth Estate”) — illuminates history and a bevy of issues, drilling all the way down to the problematic nature of publicly traded media companies. But the film works because it’s a character piece at heart: It zeroes in on Washington Post owner/publisher Kay Graham (Meryl Streep). When she walks out of the Supreme Court building, her paper’s First Amendment rights confirmed by a 6-3 vote (think about that for a second: 6-3, not 9-0), she walks past admiring young women. But she’s not Wonder Woman: Graham stammers and hesitates, and her social awkwardness peeks out beneath her cultivated grace. It’s obviously unfair to conclude that women shouldn’t be newspaper publishers, but one could make a fair assessment early in the film that Graham herself – who inherited the mantle from her late husband — isn’t qualified.

Tom Hanks, meanwhile, chews scenery with gusto as Ben Bradlee, The Post’s gruff editor. He makes me want to watch the Bradlee documentary I have on my DVR. He’s one of those newspapermen who is scary to work for if you’re a newcomer – or even a veteran like key Pentagon Papers reporter Ben Bagdikian (Bob Odenkirk). But at the same time, he’s as brash with Graham as he is with his underlings.

He’ll stand up for his reporters and the First Amendment, although “The Post” suggests he comes to a robust realization of his job’s purpose later than he should have. His wife, Tony (Sarah Paulson), looks at a photo of herself, Ben, JFK and Jackie Kennedy and says it makes her sad. Ben agrees, and it’s a great double-meaning line, as only now does Ben realize politicians are not to be trusted, and maybe aren’t even your friends, even when you think they are.

Most of the major players in Pentagon Papers case are dead now, but what really makes the film seem like a snapshot of the past is this: The good guys win this battle, but from our theater seats in 2018, we know the bad guys go on to win the war, and the bond between media and consumer is decidedly frazzled today, when journalists are ranked as a distrusted class of people.

The hopefulness of “Spotlight” — a celebration of the power of the press, even in the 21st century — is replaced in Spielberg’s film by a strong sense of “This is how it used to be, and isn’t anymore.” The film portrays an awful time period – the height of the Vietnam War, for crying out loud – yet also makes a viewer wish it were 1971 again, and that leads to a weird feeling of hopelessness.

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Description This engraving is after a drawing by John Webber from John Hawkesworth's account (1773) of the voyages of Captain James Cook, Joseph Banks and Captain John Byron. Captain James Cook (1728-1779) made three separate voyages to the Pacific (with the ships Endeavour, Resolution, Adventure, and Discovery) and did more than any other voyager to explore the Pacific and Southern Ocean. Cook not only encountered Pacific cultures for the first time, but also assembled the first large-scale collections of Pacific objects to be brought back to Europe. He was killed in Hawaii in 1779. John Webber was the artist on Cook’s third voyage from 1776-1780. Cook's traveled to Prince William Sound (Sandwich Sound), Alaska, from May 12-20, 1778. Thick and foggy weather prevailed, and the countryside was found to be rather inhospitable. As written by Samwell: 'The country all round having a very desolate and dreary appearance being almost entirely covered with snow we did not expect to find it inhabited. However, as soon as the ships arrived, two large canoes with about twenty Indians in each of them, appeared and made signs of a peaceful reception. All of the landscapes from Prince William Sound reflect the miserable weather experience. Pen work and grey sepia wash became the appropriate media, reflecting the grey light of the north Pacific coast. In this work, Webber shows two ships with Indian canoes around them. Webber's drawing is built upon the dramatic contrast between the forbidding grandeur of the mountains and the minute ships. Loosely bound in album with PAI3893-PAI3916, PAI3918-PAI3936.; Plate No.45.
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Three Students were expelled and a dozen more cases resulted in sanctions ranging from reflecting on conduct in writing to serving suspensions to being removed from university housing.

Offenses included rape, harassment, stalking, sexual intimidation and retaliation.

From July 2014 to June of 2015, 112 complaints were made. Forty-eight resulted in investigations, some of which are still ongoing.

Student McLaine Rich filed a complaint in March 2015 alleging she was raped in October of 2014. Her alleged attacker was expelled after he was found "responsible" for a second alleged attack on another student.

Rich called the process "intimidating" but said the reporting and investigation system is a major step forward for the university. She and a group of supporters have founded a group to encourage other students to report sexual misconduct and assist in the process.

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Tour & Ideation Workshop

KU’s IDSA Student Chapter came to Hallmark for a tour and ideation activity in conjunction with the kickoff of KC Design Week.

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We showed them around to see what corporate life is like, but also to highlight the unicorns of Hallmark. With hundreds of artists on site it is fun to walk around the studios seeing work on progress.

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Another favorite stop of mine is the Time Machine

To finish the day out we rolled up our sleeves to brainstorm and prototype some concepts for Christmas 2018 product line. I look forward to seeing the floating Christmas tree in stores soon.

It was energizing having the students on campus. I look forward to working with them more in the future. We actually have project starting with the Junior Studio next week. So I will get to see a lot more of those students.

Clever Packaging

While shopping in the Hallmark Gold Crown store near headquarters, I found this little gem. The product did not intrigue me as much as the packaging. Vinyl bag sealed with air inside allowing the product inside to be protected and bounce around.

Fun ride. Reminds me of Zorbing.

Giant hamster balls for humans. I wonder what other packing ideas taking a ride in one of these things would inspire.

IBM’s Take on Design Thinking

Ah… a company with an engineering laden past throwing down some Design Thinking. Feels good, because I work in a group lead by and dominated by engineers. Refreshing to see a similar company committing resources to internalize this approach.

At the center of their approach is a behavior model they call The Loop:

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Check out more of their thoughts on the approach here: IBM Design Thinking

Article: Design Thinking Coming of Age

Refreshing perspective on Design Thinking… where it is and where it is going within companies.

“Diagrams such as customer journey maps explore the problem space, prototypes explore the solution space”

Design-centric cultures

Emotional value propositions –
“An emotional value proposition is a promise of feeling: If you buy a Lexus, the automaker promises that you will feel pampered, luxurious, and affluent. In design-centric organizations, emotionally charged language isn’t denigrated as thin, silly, or biased. Strategic conversations in those companies frequently address how a business decision or a market trajectory will positively influence users’ experiences and often acknowledge only implicitly that well-designed offerings contribute to financial success.”

CX – Customer Experience Framework

Call it what you will, but I believe in this holistic approach. Better is always better than just being different.

Inspire Motivated Talent

I like and agree with this thought…
(not sure of the source… just found on linkedin feed)

Innovation Confusion Explained

Presenting a refreshed framework for approaching innovation, Patrick Whitney states:

“Innovation is often confused with new technological capability, but we now know that business models and understanding people’s needs are equally important. The problem is the people in each of these areas operate with competing conceptual frameworks and approaches that prevent adequate understanding each other. Progress in one area is neutralized by confusion and lack of stakeholder alignment.”

He called his approach a Whole View framework. From my experience. I agree completely with his observation and somewhat with his approach to resolving. Thanks for always sharing wise words.

Check out a whole presentation about the subject…

Ideation with Kids

This great article was shared with me. It has some very practical tips on ideating with kids, by making just a few tweaks to typical ideation methods.

Schedule lots of breaks.
Whereas I recommend a break every two hours for adults, you need a break every hour for 8-11 year olds and every 90 minutes for 12-18 year olds.

Help keep them stay still.
I know this sounds silly, but kids will swing around in chairs and can’t sit still, especially boys. You’ll avoid that distraction with chairs that don’t spin or have wheels. Ideally, have lower chairs where kids’ feet can touch the ground. It physically “grounds” them as well as helps them not feel so small. All that being said, don’t stress about their fidgeting—it’s natural.

Pay attention to blood sugar.
Provide snacks—that is the BEST way to change the energy of the room, but beware of high sugar snacks where you’ll have big blood sugar spikes and dips.

Talk to them in an age-appropriate way, but don’t be condescending.
Talk TO them, not LIKE them. Be yourself and authentic, but don’t resort to gimmicks to relate to them. Lay off the thesaurus and use age-appropriate words.

At the beginning, clarify that you are not a teacher and this is not a classroom.
Kids this age are absolutely wired for school. They see the moderator as the authority and are looking for the “RIGHT” answer. Spend some time debunking that and make sure that they know that you are looking for THEIR answers and ANY answers are the right ones. Use humor to reinforce that you are in charge, but not the teacher who will be grading them.

Over-emphasize the process and what you want from them.
Tell them the process at the beginning and reference it several times through the session. Remind them often (seriously, like every 10 minutes) what kinds of output you want out of them. It helps them to know where they are and what they are supposed to be doing.

Link these thoughts with IDEOs Methods JR cards and my Ideate Like you’re 8 tips and you’ve got some real fire power.

Work Differently by Gravity Tank

Online resources for methods, theory, and case studies are very helpful, especially when an organization is new to trying to infuse innovation behaviors and capabilities. Gravity Tank has recently launched a new resource called Work Differently. Although it is a thinly veiled advertisement piece, it is also extremely useful. Divided into 6 principles to “Work Differently” they explain some of the basic elements of their innovation approach.

My favorite principle covered on the site is Dimensions and Diagrams:
“Whoever best describes the problem is most likely to solve it.” – Dan Roam

Gravity Tank brings clarity to frameworks by clearly explaining dimensions and diagrams to structure problems…

Slide Share here

The whole section of the site is work checking out. Gravity Tank – Think Differently

Toy Design – UofU Midterm Reviews

A few short weeks ago we had a fun time ideating together. Now returning to help their review progress developing these toy designs, I am greatly impressed by how quickly these students arrived at and creatively communicated some very solid concepts.

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Friday, June 13, 2008

A Revolution Stalled

Gerald flags yesterday's 5-4 verdict from the Supreme Court rejecting the suspension of habeas corpus and upholding the separation of powers. As Yale constitutional law professor Jack Balkin writes:

Boumediene is further proof, if any were necessary, that the constitutional revolution proposed by the Bush Administration after September 11, 2001 has failed.
It's a revolution that, per Gerald, Sen. Collins worked to advance.

And it may still succeed if the junior senator has her way.

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Sunday, September 11, 2016

North Korea and the MTCR

North Korea’s test of a nuclear device has prompted discussion of its missile program.  When I was at the State Department, I spent years working on the creation of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).  I am disappointed that I have not seen it mentioned in connection with North Korea’s development of missiles.  Before the North Korean test, the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” published several articles dealing with missile proliferation and the MTCR: “Missile proliferation: Treat the disease,” and “Too late for missile proliferation?” as well as several other articles that were part of a debate about how to deal with missile proliferation.

The MTCR is basically an export control agreement for nations capable of supplying missile hardware and technology.  By joining the MTCR they agree not to supply items or knowledge to proliferating countries that could be used to build nuclear capable missiles.  It is not an arms control agreement that prohibits the proliferation of missile technology.  It is more like the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) than the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

As proliferating countries become more capable of producing missiles on their own, the export restrictions of the MTCR have less effect.  The MTCR probably did slow down North Korea’s development of missiles, but now it is less effective.  However, building missiles is “rocket science,” and there are some very difficult technologies involved.  Therefore, the MTCR may still play a role in limiting or slowing down the ability of North Korea to build more powerful and more accurate missiles, but at this point, slowing down is about the best it could do.  Press articles seem to agree that North Korea could build strategic nuclear missiles that could reach the US by 2020, e.g. a New York Times article says, “Military experts say that by 2020, Pyongyang will most likely have the skills to make a reliable intercontinental ballistic missile topped by a nuclear warhead.”  However, the MTCR might still help restrict the accuracy and the size of the warhead for such a missile by 2020.  It might mean that North Korea could be able to hit somewhere in the greater Washington metropolitan area with a bomb the size of the one the US used on Hiroshima, rather than one that could reliably hit Pennsylvania Avenue and destroy both the White House and the Capitol, as well as most of the city.  Neither of these outcomes is acceptable, but the greater the chances that a missile might misfire, go off course or fail to detonate, the better.

Of course it would be better to have in place a strong treaty that prohibits missile proliferation like the NPT does for bombs, but that is unlikely.  One reason the MTCR is so weak is that it is all that even the friendliest countries, like the UK, France, or Japan, would agree to.  Furthermore the NPT has not been successful in limiting nuclear proliferation by the most threatening countries, such as North Korea.  As in most areas of life, laws constrain decent people, but criminals commit crimes despite the laws against it.

One advantage of the NPT is that it has its own police force, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has performed its job well in a number of cases, discovering and reporting prohibited activities by member parties.  However, the IAEA has no authority in countries that are not parties to the NPT, which includes most of the worrisome countries, such as North Korea.  There are countries that have joined the NPT, but then have gotten off the track, perhaps after a change of government.  This happened in Iran.  The IAEA has worked successfully in Iran and is a key component of the US-Iran deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program.

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Ok, so I've decided to go ahead and post this one...Please give me your comments on it; so far, most of the people who've read it have cried, which is interesting. I'm less sure of myself on this one, but I think it's a better story than the first one. --Joi

Story II:

So many here now, so many children saved from darkness into light. I still wait for them at the gates: many think that a grand, white-bearded man guards the gates, but it is only my husband and myself. We wait for ourchildren to arrive, and now, instead of grieving for those who join us, we rejoice, and welcome them with tears of joy. But still...before, in the shadows, all of our children came, and if we grieved for their presence, at least we saw them. But now we see only some: we are told that the others fall into shadow still.

I do not weep for them: I understand that children must be free to choose. But oh, is there a mother whose heart is not pierced when her children choose their own destruction?

And one day--though all times are one--the last of my children came. I welcomed them with open arms and tears of joy--these I am free to weep over-- and my husband and I begged their pardon. All was joy and gladness, and yet...I still thought of the ones--my babies!--still in shadow.

Then I was called. "The Mother awaits you in the Garden," I was told. But how can this be, since I am The Mother, and the Garden was forever closed to me? But here, to be asked is to do, and so I came to the Garden Wall. He still stood there, sword aflame, but now the fire purified and gave life instead of taking it away.

I entered, still dripping flame perhaps, and sought her in the cool of the day. She stood there between the trees, and I came before my Queen, bowing. "My Lady, " I said. Her hand caressed my once-withered cheek, and drew my face up to meet hers. She kissed me on both cheeks, throwing her blue-robed arms around my neck. "Welcome, dearest Mother and Daughter! Enter into your happiness!"

I looked at her, knowing her to be one of my children--after all, they all are. But in her eyes, I saw the Son, and knew her to be my Mother, as well as Daughter. Laughter, the laughter that spills out from extravagant grace, welled up in me. "Blessed are we among women, for we are both Daughter and Mother!"We laughed together, the stars in her crown twinkling merrily. "And all generations shall call us blessed, dear one."

She pulled my head onto her shoulder, and placed an arm around me, much as I had done to comfort my sons when they were small. "I know you,Mother-Daughter," she said, "for we have much the same heart." She pulled back a fold of blue, revealing a heart pierced with seven wounds as red as rubies, and shining with the rays of the sun--no, brighter than the sun's rays. "Dearest Mother-Daughter, I too have had a child who willed Himself to destruction. He went like a lamb to the slaughter, setting His heart towards death."

A tear like a crystal ocean fell onto her robe, andanother splashed my own cheek, and I tasted its sweetness. "I held the body of my Son, his blood staining my clothes deepest red. And it is through that body and that blood that you and your children have been freed." I remembered the body and blood of my son, of all my sons, and wept tears to match hers. But here, any tear that can be wept is one born of grace and joy, and such were ours. "And another gracious mystery is here, dear one," she whispered in my ear."Through that body and that blood, you and I are not onlyMother-Daughter." I looked up and saw her eyes sparkling like stars. "My Son has brought all into His family, and we are all children of His Father." I saw, and we fell into each other's embrace, whispering: "Sister!"

Copyright 2005. Elizabeth J. Weaver

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Marcy said...

I didn't actually cry, but I liked it. Sorry I have nothing more intelligent to say at the moment...


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Spring Head Coaches

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Fall Head Coaches

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Hall of Fame Nominations
The Comstock Hall of Fame committee is accepting nominations for the 2018 induction. Nominations must be received by the athletic director by November 1 to be included in the process for the 2018 induction. A nomination form  can be found online at Please call Justin Ansel with any questions at 269- 250-8711.

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  8. Athletic events are among the most popular school activities for participants and spectators. These games and competitions provide another learning experience in life. Integrity, fairness, respect, and the principles of good sportsmanship are lifetime values enhanced through athletics.

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Pseudo-Republican Squishes Are Anything but Compassionate

David Limbaugh,

It is enormously frustrating that conservatives can’t capture the moral high ground from the phony virtue-signaling factory that is the modern Democratic Party. Conservative policies not only work better but also are morally superior.

Democrats depend on cliches and false narratives to obstruct true reform — which includes shaming many Republicans from believing enough in their own agenda to pursue it with conviction. This is nowhere more apparent than in the endless debate over the fate of Obamacare and the future of American health care.

It is unconscionable that Republicans are unable to muster a simple majority to end the Obamacare monstrosity — a freakish beast that does everything it promised not to do and does little it promised to do, a gargantuan scam that is destroying our health care, eroding our liberty and punishing our economy. It’s a camel with its entire body already inside the tent of the American idea — hellbent on completing Obama’s plan to fundamentally demolish it.

It’s almost a waste of space to reiterate the obvious truth that the Democratic Party is bankrupt. It is wholly out of ideas except for concocting ever more creative ways to demonize conservatives as bigots, thwart policies that could bring relief to the people it professes to champion, and advance an agenda whose inevitable result is socialism — all while pretending to believe in free market competition.

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Democrats mouth such banalities as offering a “better deal,” as if they weren’t the ones who have given us this horrendous deal that is rotting the American system from the inside out.

They are incapable of offering new ideas because they are ideologically and politically enslaved. Their worldview weds them to the historically discredited notion that great results flow from allegedly good intentions.

And their lust for power impels them to exploit identity politics and perpetuate victimhood for the constituencies whose overwhelming support is essential to their political lifeblood.

For example, they can’t support decentralization and competition in education, no matter how much that could improve the lives of minorities trapped in inferior schools, or support across-the-board tax cuts — even though cuts for higher-income earners help stimulate economic growth, which redounds to the benefit of middle- and lower-income earners — because they cannot abandon their class warfare strategy.

Now back to today’s more pressing issue — health care reform. Their policies have wrought untold disaster across the board, yet they will acknowledge no responsibility for these failures, much less join, in any way, those seeking solutions.

Democrats tell us they would be happy to work with Republicans to repair the glitches in Obamacare. The problem is that we are not dealing with mere glitches. The entire legislative debacle is a galloping cancer on our system.

Further exposing the Democrats’ fraud, almost all of the Republicans’ so-called “repeal and replace” proposals have not actually contemplated repeal at all; they’ve just proposed revisions.

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What about the couple of handfuls of pseudo-Republicans who don’t have the decency to end this nightmare — the ones who campaigned on the promise to repeal this law but won’t now pull the trigger?

I don’t want to hear that their consciences are involved or that they are from liberal states. How about their intellectual honesty and dignity?

Why do they enable Democratic propaganda that millions would be hurt by repealing a law that forces those millions to buy insurance against their will? Why aren’t they held accountable for giving life-support to a law that is already harming people and would result in socializing one-sixth of our economy?

Don’t you just love hearing the self-serving protestations of these squishes, pretending to care so much about people while they are single-handedly (as Democratic intransigence is an irremediable reality) decimating world history’s greatest health care system?

There is nothing compassionate about what Democrats and their sanctimonious foxhole-sharing Republican frauds are doing here.

It’s time for freedom-loving, people-loving Americans to turn the tables on these charlatans and recapture the moral high ground through aggressive and intelligent messaging.

We’ll never save this republic if we can’t make the case that government largesse is fundamentally destructive and incompetent and that the invisible hand of the market yields results across the board that are more beneficial for more people than those of any other system known to man.

Socialism kills, impoverishes and enslaves and only masquerades as compassion while facilitating the compassion merchants’ consolidation of power. Freedom brings prosperity and, if you insist on using compassion as the be-all-end-all yardstick, is abundantly compassionate.


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Optimizing the Management and Treatment of Allergic Conjunctivitis

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Optimizing the Management and Treatment of Allergic Conjunctivitis

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Lacey Hellwig
Lacey Brooke Hellwig

Ring Names:

Lacey Hellraiser

130 lbs

July 6, 1987 (Age 24) Crawfordsville, Indiana

Orlando, Florida

Billed From:

Crawfordsville, Indiana

Trained By:

Ultimate Warrior

Katie Borden

June 12, 2011

Early Life

When Lacey was little she always traveled to Wrestling Shows with her brother. While doing that she was also homeschooled and trained to be a wrestler herself.

Wrestling Career

In early June Lacey signed a contract with TNA and debuted at Slammiversary costing Mr. Anderson the World Title. Also that night she aligned herself up with then TNA World Champion Katie Borden A Few Days later on June 16 Lacey had her debut match against Mr. Anderson which she won. After then she would also align herself with Sting for a couple of weeks until Katie stopped aligning herself with him full time.

On September 1 it was announced that Lacey became the assistant to The VP of the Knockouts Division Traci Brooks. It was also announced that she would also become her bodyguard. In addition to that she still helps out Katie when she can.

On October 13th She aligned herself with Ink Inc. To help them against Mexican America at Bound For Glory but they did not win the titles. On the Same night she was the special guest referee for the Knockouts Title match which Velvet Sky won.

On October 27th Lacey was promoted to Co VP of the Knockout Division along with Traci's sister Shiloh Brookshaw.

Personal Life

Lacey is the youngest sister of the Ultmate Warrior. When growing up she never had alot of friends because she always felt uncomfortable around too many people but she's gotten over that when she was 20.

Siblings: Ultmate Warrior (Brother)

Finishing Moves

  • Gorilla Press Drop and Running Splash
  • Twist of Fate

Tag Team

  • Hellraisers Rage (DDT (Lacey) Styles Rage (Katie) Combination)

Tag Teams/Stables

  • Hellraiser Angels
  • Katie, Ally and Lacey

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Lacey's Twitter Account is @LaceyHellraiser and she mostly uses it to tease her brother or talk to her fans and Friends.


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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Scandinavian Style in England

Hello, dear readers. Hope you are all enjoying your Saturday.
Eva Johnson is Swedish but she now lives in this mid fifteenth century restored farmhouse, located among the meadows and hills of Suffolk, in England. A lot of work was needed to complete the restoration. Eva says the house looked like it had been taken directly from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". Shudder! Most of the furniture belonged to Eva's grandparents. Hope you enjoy our tour!

Photography: Christopher Drake

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Christmas Inspiration

Back from my mini holidays. Had a joyful time and there was no way I could sit down and make a post. So, here we are again and, oh my gosh, it's October! Time to start thinking about Christmas, don't you agree? Let's do so by visiting this home in France, decorated in greens and silvery tones. Hope some of the images inspire you.

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ouverture des cadeaux

la salle à manger

Les bougies

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Trekquinox Episode 04: Eggs Benedict, or “Transporter Accident”

Right, time for some real Modernism! A basic enough dish, your Eggs Benedict, but we shall apply some weird cooking techniques and some weird presentation, too.

Menu Item #4 "Transporter Accident", or Inside-Out Eggs Benedict
Menu Item #4 “Transporter Accident”, or Inside-Out Eggs Benedict

Technically this movie isn’t Star Trek at all, but a brilliant comedy parody called Galaxy Quest. The conceit of the movie is that the show Galaxy Quest (easily recognizable as Star Trek) was popular in the 60s, and now the actors all go to conventions to make money and play on their former fame, but aliens who saw the “historical documents” broadcast built an actual working ship, just like the one they saw in the show, and come to Earth to take “the crew” (who are actually just actors) into space to fulfill the roles of their characters. In this scene, the actor who played the engineer has just tried to use the transporter – unsuccessfully. When their friend on the surface, the “captain”, asks what happened, they all say everything is fine. But their clueless alien escort announces “The animal is inside-out.” Then it expires messily, and he concludes “…and it ex-plod-ed.” So my dish will be inside-out!

(As it turns out, I managed to fulfill the “…and it exploded” part too, much to my dismay. But that’s later.)

Pictures of eggs at different temperatures
The Book of Egg

So how does one make an egg inside-out? Well first of all, it helps if you can dial in the consistency of the egg exactly, which is where the sous-vide technique shines, you may recall. In fact, the obsessive-compulsive authors of the Modernist cookbook have put together a pretty page of photographs detailing the various “doneness” of eggs you can achieve at certain temperatures, as you can see. If you click on it, you might almost be able to read the text in the larger scale version. Almost. Let’s zoom in to the part that concerned me, the bottom of the left-hand page.

The perfect consistency of egg, in the centre
The perfect consistency of egg, in the centre

Probably the perfect consistency would be 165°F, but my girlfriend prefers hard to soft. For eggs, you perverts! A runny-yolked egg makes her physically sick; I saw it happen on the ferry once. So I tuned it up a little, to 172°F. Originally I had thought to put the white in the centre and the yolk around the outside by separating them and cooking the whites first. For this I needed to make sure that the yolk never ended up getting flaky, so this chart was of extreme utility. But in the end I gave up on that notion for two reasons: the first being that once covered with hollandaise sauce the exact colour of egg yolk, the effect would be kind of wasted. Secondly, again thanks to the hollandaise, I would have some leftover egg white at pretty much one to one for each poached egg. So it didn’t make sense to expand the inside white and stretch the outside yolk even further.

Egg pouch
Egg pouch

So the trick to making a pretty “flower” out of a poached egg is to gather it up in cellophane, making a little pouch. Then when you unwrap it, it will appear rather like a flower. Okay, that’s putting a little romantic spin on it; it really more the shape of an onion. But regardless, it’s more interesting than a flat patty of the kind that normally appears as part of Eggs Benedict.

Pan and Pam
Pan and Pam

The trick (well, my trick) is to start on a muffin pan. Then you just push the square of cling wrap down into it, give it a little spray of Pam or some other oil, and break your egg into it. Then you can gather it up and seal it. The sealing proved to be annoying, though. I’d originally thought to use a plastic-coated twist tie, but those things just don’t exist any more. Most plastic bags are self-sealing, and those ones from the grocery store are wrapped in paper. Not so good for sous-vide; they’d dissolve in the water and make a mess. I mean, it wouldn’t matter to the food much, but you’d still have to clean out the cooler afterward. No, I wanted plastic. Eventually the answer was found not in any grocer’s, but at the hardware store – zip ties, intended for small-scale electrical wiring. For a nominal fee I now have one thousand tiny little zip ties like the one you saw in the egg pouch photo. Perfect!

Zip ties
Zip ties

Anyway, after you’ve sealed your egg in whatever fashion you want, in it goes into the bath. If you’re just trying to make breakfast pretty for Mother’s Day (for example), you can just do the whole egg as I’ve shown it and drop it into a pot of boiling water the way you’d cook any other egg, for 4 or 5 minutes, then pull it out and unwrap it, and you’re ready to go.

However, that wouldn’t be inside-out. What I did was to start with the egg yolks. I separated the whites into 12 separate hors d’œuvres glasses, since I had them anyway for the hamachi shots, and it would make it easier to put them back together later. Then I set up 12 yolk flowers. I broke the yolks so that I could stir in some pepper and Worcestershire sauce, to give it a little surprise flavour. Those went in the sous-vide bath for a half-hour. Thanks to the yolks I was collecting for the hollandaise sauce I had extra egg whites, so I separated them into the same 12 glasses, so each had a double helping of egg white. Once the yolks were out and cooled, I started again with making flowers of egg white, laying on top of the liquid a slice of ham and then on top of that the egg yolk. When you packaged it all up, you had an egg with a layer of ham in the middle of it. Magic! Sorry, science! Really just some tedious manual labour. Those flowers went in the bath next, and half an hour later my eggs were both inside-out and cooked to perfection. At this point they were basically hard-boiled eggs, so they could go into the fridge until it was time to serve them.

Earl's photo of Eggs Benedict
Earl’s photo of Eggs Benedict

Now let’s discuss the hollandaise sauce. It’s usually regarded as a pain to make, but that’s because it involves a lot of egg yolks, and if you apply the wrong amount of heat or the wrong degree of heat you’ll end up breaking your sauce. It’s finicky. However thanks to the magic of the sous-vide we have total and perfect control over the temperature. This gives us a magical unbreakable hollandaise. That’s another half-hour, only at a lower temperature, so I had to adjust the bath downwards. When the time came at dinner, I finished the hollandaise sauce (finishing in this context means adding an appalling mass of butter to the yolk preparation along with a touch of mustard powder – thanks for that trick Dad!), broiled some English muffins topped with cheddar, and the whole thing came together. Thanks to Earl’s excellent photo skills and equipment there’s a fine picture here of the finished product.

Aside from a bit of a panic looking for twist ties for the Saran wrap, this one actually worked pretty much as I imagined it would right from the get-go. Except the perceptive of you will have noticed that on the menu it called for “hollandaise foam“. What’s that all about, you ask?

Well, one of the things Modernists like to do is create weird presentations. The inside-out egg is at least as much Modernist in concept as it is Transporter Accident. Foaming has become a much-used technique. You know how you make whipped cream? Well that technique works on anything that contains fat. So you can turn all sorts of things into foam. I bought a siphon from a Modernist cooking store online and was all set to make hollandaise foam.

I was following along the recipe – my Modernist cookbook’s recipe for sous-vide hollandaise actually contains the extra steps needed for foaming it; I wasn’t even improvising – and after filling the canister (not too full!) I applied the requisite two cartridges of nitrous oxide to it. Failing to note that my Modernist cookbook calls for a 1 litre siphon, and mine is a half litre. So after overpressurizing the hell out of this, I inverted the can as instructed and went to apply it to my dinner.

A little background: this was my testing night. But I was home late from work, and it took a while to get started, and then it turns out that all this fiddling around with zip ties and cellophane and eggs and half hour cooking cycles etc. etc. is all very time-consuming. Also, one of the ingredients for hollandaise sauce is white wine, so your humble cook and narrator was being ecologically friendly and finishing off the rest of the bottle. So by the time we’d actually reached the stage where the eggs were all done, and the muffins broiled, it was slightly after midnight. So not only was I starving, but I really wanted to go to bed. At any rate, inverting the can in the approved manner I slowly applied gentle pressure to the handle.

You know how when, at the end of a can of whipped cream, you get that last little bit where it spits out at you and splatters what remains at high velocity? Well, it’s annoying but never too bad because there’s not much cream left to come out, nor is there much pressure left. Now I want you to imagine twice as much pressure as there is supposed to be, and a can with nearly half a litre of hollandaise sauce to spray out. At first, nothing. A little more pressure, still nothing. Slightly more pressure, and there’s a tiny noise, like a hissing. One tiny iota more pressure, and blam! A fire hose of hollandaise sauce explodes all over the counter. It’s up under the fume hood of the oven, all across the backsplash, up onto the cabinets… it is seriously everywhere.  Now I’m drunk, tired, starving, and I have at least an hour of cleanup to do. I sat down and tried to enjoy the food, but somehow the foam that managed to stay on the plate did not seem appetizing to me at this point. It’s not bad in theory, actually; a light and fluffy hollandaise sauce. But it tasted like rage and betrayal in my mouth that night. I don’t think I got to bed until 2:00 am, and this was a weekday.

I wanted to try again, so I ran a practice run again the next night, this time budgeting my time more wisely – but still a late dinner. And this time, I used just one cartridge of compressed nitrous. A light squeeze, gradually increasing the pressure, and this time it was working! The foam was dispensing in a nice tubular pattern as it should! I went to move to the next one, and… blam! Once more, it exploded. After the cleanup, I briefly contemplated my options. This time the plate had at least come out looking okay, if not the kitchen. What if I got a garbage bag out to serve as a backstop for the spray, and finished each plate safely inside? Then I came to my senses and said, as every great chef has done before me, “Fuck it!” Regularly constituted hollandaise sauce would be fine. The siphon has retired to the cupboard, as yet untouched since the fiasco.

All right, Star Trek trivia. Well, the original Star Trek was known for being very progressive for its time, in that many races were represented on the bridge, and presented as equals and not stereotypes. Nichelle Nichols (who played Uhura) is famous for two race-related stories: the first was that she was thinking about quitting the show, because she hadn’t been getting a lot of lines, and no less a person than Martin Luther King, Jr. begged her not to quit. He told her that as a black woman being portrayed as an equal to all the white men on the bridge, and in a non-stereotypical role, she was a tremendous role model to all blacks but particularly black women. Well, in her own words, “when MLK asks you to do something, you do it!” She remained on the show for the rest of its run. The second thing she was famous for was the first interracial kiss on broadcast television. In the context of the show it was forced on the two characters whose bodies were being controlled by aliens, but despite this the show stirred up a firestorm in the American south and many stations refused to run it. Apparently the network was terrified that this would happen, and they asked the show’s director to film two versions of the scene, so they could choose later. One version of the story has it that the cast, knowing that it meant a lot to the show’s creator to break this racist boundary, delayed and fiddled around during filming until the light was almost gone, making it impossible to get the alternate shot. Apparently William Shatner, the other participant in the kiss, made sure to have a goofy face on in the alternate take with the last rays of sunset coming down, in order that the “suits” would have no choice but to air the scene that was written because there was no usable alternative. And so it went out that way, the first interracial TV kiss.

Fast-forward to the Next Generation show in the 80s. Levar Burton played the new engineer, and had previously been famous for playing Kunta Kinte in Roots. He had fond memories of Star Trek from his youth, and recognized the important role it played for showing good role models for black kids. Whoopi Goldberg asked to be allowed to be on the show, in the decade when her career was exploding and she was considered far “above” a TV show like this, for the same reason – to honour the role the original Star Trek played in breaking through black stereotypes. And in a later season, there was one more noteworthy black cast member who appeared on the show. She didn’t get a lot of lines, but she represented perhaps the most direct link to what the character of Uhura represented to black youth in the 60s: the character of Lieutenant Palmer was played by Mae Jemison, real life astronaut and the first black woman in space. She played a transporter operator. I trust she never turned anything inside-out by accident!

Hollandaise Sauce

100 ml   dry white wine
50 g   shallots, minced
35 g   white wine vinegar
75 g   egg yolks (5 or 6)
20 g   water, or stock for flavour (depending on what it’s being served on)
1 cup   unsalted butter, melted
1 tsp   salt
1 g   lemon juice (or malic acid or citric acid), can add more lemon juice to taste

  1. Combine wine, shallots, and vinegar in a pot. Simmer until the liquid becomes syrupy, about 8 minutes.
  2. Strain, discarding the solids, and measure 20 g (4 tsp) of the reduction.
  3. Blend egg yolks and water/stock in with the 4 tsp of reduction.
  4. Seal in airtight bag (Ziploc container), using the water-displacement method to seal it without air. Cook sous-vide at 149°F for 30 minutes.
  5. Blend the melted butter into the mixture.
    I added some mustard powder for a little “kick”. This is the step to make flavoured variations, by replacing some amount of butter (typically 20 or 40 g) with an equal amount of some other ingredient like hot sauce or garlic.
  6. Add the salt and lemon juice and serve warm.

You can also add it to a siphon and pressurize it at this point – if you want to paint your kitchen.

Poached Egg

This can really be left as an exercise for the reader, but in case you feel like getting scientific, here’s the chart of egg temperatures from Modernist Cooking at Home (as shown in the earlier photo).

Temp. Whole egg White Yolk
131°F pasteurized, 2h pasteurized, 2h pasteurized, 2h
140°F semiliquid starting to gel runny
144°F onsen egg runny viscous
149°F firm onsen egg loose syrupy
154°F poached barely set jammy
158°F soft-boiled tender fudge-like
162°F peeled yolk is spherical silky pasty
165°F both set, best bet just set just solid
172°F medium-boiled, elastic moderately firm moist
176°F hard-boiled firm tender
180°F rigid very firm slightly dry; greening begins
183°F rigid rubbery dry; greening increases
187°F solid brittle and rubbery powdery; more greening
194°F solid very brittle and rubbery very powdery; a lot of greening

Eggs Benedict

2   English muffins
4   poached eggs
Sliced   sharp cheddar

  1. Halve the English muffins and place them on a cookie sheet on parchment paper. Broil on a top rack until lightly toasted. Remove from oven.
  2. Cover each half with sliced cheddar cheese. (Sharp and orange, so as to stand up to the flavours and to also stand out visually.) Return to the oven on broil until the cheese is melted and the muffins are toasted a darker brown than before.
  3. Plate; top with poached egg. Cover with hollandaise sauce. Serve.

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  1. Ellen says:

    You are crazy. But those were delicious!

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