Hi there! My name's Andrei Dzimchuk, I'm a software architect at ScienceSoft. I'm obsessed with building high quality software, teaching and inspiring my peers and exploring new technologies and practices that empower us to take on new opportunities and deliver solutions that improve lives of everyone.
These days I'm mostly focused on Microsoft Azure and .NET. I actively share my experience and knowledge on my blog and at various local events as a speaker.
I started programming back in the early 90's. By that time I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer that my dad constructed and I started to play around with Z80 assembly language until I mastered it to a degree that I wrote a file manager that was communicating directly to the disk controller bypassing TR-DOS. I was like 13 year old kid then and early computer addiction is one of the reasons I wear glasses today (Speccy was plugged into a regular TV set, I got my first EGA monitor a bit later). Still, I don't regret a thing.
Later on in the beginning of 2002 I was learning C++ on a regular PC with Microsoft Windows and Visual Studio 6 on board. After a couple of years I was able to write things like multithreaded TCP server that was using completion ports, fat MFC clients that were rendering custom controls and communicating to databases using ODBC and ADO. In that period I wrote the first version of my Power Video Player and learned a bit of DirectShow.
In 2004 I got interested in .NET. I learned Windows Forms, Remoting, ADO.NET, COM Interop. This is when I started doing some web development. I got my first MCPD ASP.NET certification in 2008 and today keep passionately learning new stuff.
At the same time in 2004 I joined ScienceSoft and got involved in the Consul Insight project where we were developing a rather huge multi-platform security monitoring system. This allowed me to get good knowledge of Java and web technologies and have a sneak glance at exotic OS 390/400 systems. Consul was acquired by IBM in 2007 and I had a great chance to embrace IBM stack and Rational tools. The project was renamed to TSIEM and we migrated it onto WebSphere, DB2, Linux and AIX.
Today I'm a member of ScienceSoft's Microsoft technologies department where I help envision, design, build and deliver great solutions in automotive, retail and other industries.
Experimental Tools which is a free extension for Visual Studio that gives you a bunch of code refactorings and useful tools which improve your C# development experience.
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March is already drawing to a close and that also means the end of Q1 of 2015. Already. While many of my contemporaries are still partying it up in Austin at SXSW (someday), here's a peek at what I've been jamming to since we've last chatted. And no, Madonna's not on this list.
Easily the best offering on Harris' latest and not just because HAIM is the best. Their initial comparisons to Fleetwood Mac are really well founded on this one and that only adds to how great it is.
The former Voice contestant continues to offer up great pop tunes with just the right amount of sass to round out her big voice. While her previous stomper "Must Be Love" really benefited from how driving the beat felt, "Cliche" relies more on the character and personality pumped into her vocals. If she and Tori Kelly are destined to be the future Current Queens of Pop, I'd be more than alright with that, thanks.
DELTA RAE - "Bethlehem Steel"
This left of center duo describe themselves as being a cross of Bjork and Katy Perry. "Running Behind" initially feels a little grating because it is slightly atonal but the chanty feel grows with each listen. Their hipster aesthetic fits right in to the landscape though -- and this song has already been used in a promotional campaign for Apple.
IRIS - "I'll Wait For You"
Solid, straightforward pop single from this fab Candienne who was formerly a drummer for the band Roads (and you can see her drumming a bit in the video). Epitome of sparkly and catchy.
LE YOUTH - "R E A L"
With every Le Youth release, it's a bit like Christmas for someone like me -- wondering what (R&B) song from my childhood lies in wait to be chopped up as a sample and re-envisioned for the current dance landscape. This time 'round, Brandy "I Wanna Be Down" gets the royal treatment.
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS - "Can't Pin Me Down"
FROOT is here! After hearing the lead up instant grat tracks, a part of me really feared the full FROOT basket (yes? no?) would be a little too slow and serious for my tastes and I'm happy to say that I was very wrong. Overall, it is definitely her most mature work to date but still has lots of fun wordplay (especially here with "Can't Pin Me Down").
You've heard this a million times already but like with Adele before him, it doesn't get old. Adding John to the mix is just a cherry on top.
SHEPPARD - "Let Me Down Easy"
As much as I adore "Geronimo", Bombs Away left quite a bit to be desired for moi. Sheppard's sound is a little all over the place and while it's admirable that they are so versatile, in a debut set it's a little weird. Some songs I adore while others sound so different and not in a good way. "Let Me Down Easy" was the other big standout for its choral harmony bits. It makes me want to start a sing-a-long around a campfire. Who wants in?
i love me some Christina Grimmie - been a fan since way before "The Voice", but she was my fave on her season too!


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Thirteen Underrated Parks and Green Spaces in D.C.
By Valerie Paschall Jul 14, 2014, 2:37pm EDT
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D.C. may have it a little better than some other large cities in that it's not terribly difficult to find pockets of green space. Many of the neighborhoods are lined with trees, punctuated by grassy circles (more on those later) and the city's touristy focal point is a large green space topped with monuments. Moreover, there are several larger, yet less celebrated outdoor spots in the city that aren't named The National Mall or Rock Creek Park. Drawing inspiration from both our previous look at secret gardens and parks and your suggestions via email and Twitter we've mapped thirteen of those underrated spots in D.C. after the jump.
1. Meridian Hill Park
Washington DC, D.C. 20009
It's one of the best places to watch the fireworks, snap some engagement photos, play pickup soccer and join a drum circle. Or perhaps you'd just like to sit next to the amazing water fountain and read a book. There are always several (though not too many people) here doing any and all of the above. Photo by Pete Anderson.
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2. United States National Arboretum
3501 New York Ave NE
In addition to housing the stately National Capitol Columns, the 412 acre space in Northeast D.C. is also home to a wealth of floral species that won't be visible anywhere else in D.C. It's also a great place to see cherry blossoms in the spring and colorful foliage in the fall. Photo by L. Shanley.
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3. Crispus Attucks Park
63 U Street Northeast
Although it's not that far away from the foot-traffic heavy neighborhoods of U Street and Bloomingdale, this green oasis off North Capitol Street ideal for dog walkers, idle strollers and active children. For history buffs: the spot is named for a freed slave killed during the Boston Massacre of 1770. Photo by Flickr user rockcreek.
4. Hains Point
Ohio Drive SW
The Awakening may have relocated to National Harbor but Hains Point is still a worthwhile destination for those looking to take a walk along the water. It's an oddly calm spot although the bustle of Northern Virginia is in plain view.
5. Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
Analostan Island
It's only fitting that noted outdoorsman and National Parks founder Teddy Roosevelt has an island filled with trails and wildlife bearing his name. It's also not terribly packed, even in the warm summer months. Photo by Adam Fagen.
6. Enid A. Haupt Garden
1050 Lenfant Plz SW
The National Mall is a large green space in and of itself and it's bookended by sculpture gardens of two art museums. Still, this small, ivy-filled space next to the Smithsonian Castle is just hidden enough that it feels like a secret gem amidst national treasures. Photo by Flickr user cliff1066™.
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7. Smithsonian Butterfly Garden
9th St side of Natl Museum of Natural History
On the other side of the National Mall is a trail that's a brief flower-filled walk meant to attract butterflies. It's a small oasis from the concrete of Penn Quarter but definitely a welcome one. This one might be more filled with tourists than the Haupt garden, but chances are still high that you had no idea of its existence. Photo by Paulo Ordoveza
8. Battery Kemble Park
Chain Bridge Road
The westernmost park on this map used to be an encampment during the Civil War era. So while that makes it somewhat of a secret, it's also one of the most exciting neighborhood amenities in the Palisades. Photo by Geoff Livingston.
9. Anacostia Park
Anacostia Dr SE
In addition to being a great spot to watch the fireworks, this green space on the Anacostia River is also one of the best spots in the city for bird watching. Even without the addition of the 11th Street Bridge Park, this is an underrated jewel. Photo by Art Dragulis.
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10. The Yards Park
10 Water St SE
Just because it's landscaped doesn't mean it's not worthy of the list. It won an Urban Open Space Award from the Urban Institute in addition to its 2013 Vision Award. Photo by Daniel Lobo.
11. Fort DuPont Park
Fort Dupont Drive SE
It's possibly the largest green space east of the river and it's also the most well utilized. But despite the picnic areas and Sunday evening concerts, most people do not necessarily know about this spot.
12. Marvin Gaye Park
This spot east of the Arboretum has not always had the best reputation, but it's becoming a more community oriented space in Ward 7. Head down there over the weekend for Solar Sundays. Photo by Sherrine Thompson.
13. Langdon Park
2901 20th St NE
It's gotten a lot of press since a chunk of it will be dedicated to the late great Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown. However, it's also one of the best green spaces in a part of the city that doesn't have that many. Photo by Gordon Joly.
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More than 1900 University of St Andrews students from over 80 countries will take part in unique, virtual, on-line graduation celebrations this summer.
Degrees will be conferred on the Class of 2020 via virtual ceremonies to be premiered on social media from Monday 27 July to Friday 31 July. Principal and Vice-Chancellor Professor Sally Mapstone will preside as undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are conferred, and prizes awarded.
Class of 2020 honorary graduand and alumna of the University, Dr Fiona Hill, the former US National Security Council official who testified at Donald Trump's Congressional impeachment hearings in Washington DC, has recorded a special message for the class of 2020.
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GENEVA—About 90 people are feared drowned after a smugglers' boat carrying mostly Pakistani migrants capsized off Libya's coast early Friday, the UN's migration agency said.
Ten bodies have washed ashore near the Libyan town of Zuwara following the tragedy in the early morning, said International Organization for Migration spokesperson Olivia Headon, citing information from its partner agencies.
"We are told that two survivors swam to shore, and one person was rescued by a fishing boat," Headon said by phone from Tunisia's capital to reporters at the UN in Geneva. "We are working to get more details on the (capsizing) and where the survivors are so that we can assist them better."
The Libyan coast guard said in a statement Friday that, following reports of the incident, they sent out a patrol from the port city of Zuwarah on Friday morning but found no signs of a capsized boat, survivors, or drowned migrants. It called on the international organizations that issued the report to provide evidence to substantiate their claim of the incident.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said 11 of its citizens had drowned in the incident. Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Faisal told The Associated Press that Pakistani diplomats reached Libya's coastal area to collect more details and begin the process of repatriating the bodies of the deceased.
Headon said Pakistani nationals are increasing among the number of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy and Europe via Libya. By nationality, Pakistanis last year made up the 13th largest nationality represented among migrants making the crossing, but they were the third-largest contingent in January.
Headon said the reason for the increasing flow of Pakistanis wasn't immediately clear, nor whether the greater influx is likely to continue, but added: "We're looking into it."
IOM says 6,624 people crossed the Mediterranean in January — about two-thirds of them to Italy — about a 10-per cent increase from a year earlier. About 250 people died in the crossing in January, six fewer than a year ago.
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KELOWNA, B.C. – The women's basketball team will start their Canada West experience on the road this upcoming weekend as they play the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns on Friday night at 5 p.m. PST in Lethbridge, then on Saturday the Heat will play the University of Calgary Dinos at 5 p.m. PST in Calgary. The Pronghorns started the season on the road and lost both games to the Winnipeg Wesman while the Dinos had no trouble in Brandon, blowing out the Bobcats on both nights.
Friday, November 11 – UBC Okanagan Heat at the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns (5 p.m. PST in the 1st Choice Savings Centre Gym, Lethbridge, AB)
Saturday, November 12 – UBC Okanagan Heat at the University of Calgary Dinos (5 p.m. PST in the Jack Simpson Gym, Calgary, AB)
Both games will be streamed with live video: www.canadawest.tv
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The Heat started the season on a bye and haven't played a league game yet, but are familiar with their Friday night foe in the Pronghorns. The teams matched up in a tournament in Calgary and the Pronghorns came away with a 72-59 victory.
The Heat have a few veteran players that are ready to start their career in Canada West. Roz Huber (Kelowna, BC) a fourth year post will be expected to lead the team on the court and in the locker room, she hopes her team is ready for the leap in leagues and higher level of competition adding, that "overall we're really excited to be taking that next step."Coach Heather Semeniuk says "we're ready for this I think. We're as ready as we're going to be right now."
Third year point guard Ashley Briker (West Kelowna, BC) mentions that the team has come a long way since playing Lethbridge in the preseason, "we started to really click after the first four games." And expects UBC Okanagan to fare better this time around against the Pronghorns, pointing out that, "we did ok against them [in October when they first played]. It was one of the almost-turning point games with us clicking."
Head coach Heather Semeniuk agrees with her veterans about Lethbridge. "The biggest thing we recognized [in the first match] is that we can compete with them."
"We were struggling at the Mount Royal tournament to put four, good, solid quarters in. Often at a [preseason] basketball game you'll only put in two quarters where you play good offense and defense," explains Semeniuk about the team early in the year.
Lethbridge struggled to score in their first two games averaging just 54 points a contest and shooting below 40 percent from the field, the three point line and the free throw line. The Pronghorns only have two players averaging over 10 points per game in fifth year Lauren Tall (Guard, Lethbridge, AB) and 6'2″ post Kim Veldman (2nd year, Lethbridge, AB) at 12.5 and 10.5 respectively.
For Saturday's match the Heat will face a relative unknown in the Calgary Dinos and although unranked, they look to be strong. The Dinos absolutely dismantled the Bobcats winning 85-27 on Saturday and 90-22 on Sunday. The way they won their first two games and the fact that they are hosting the national championship this spring points to the team being strong in the league this year.
Coach Semeniuk says with the turnover on the Calgary roster it is hard to predict how they will be, " [with] six new faces on the roster. I don't really know [their] girls well, but we're going in expecting a lot of pressure from their defense. They like to run, they like the transition game, and we like that too, so we know what that's about. We're going to have to be on our toes, ready to move with them. It will be challenging, but we're good at stepping up to that."
LETHBRIDGE PRONGHORNS (0-2)
CanWest Standings: 3rd tied in the east
Last Week: 0-2; Fri 63-57 loss to UW, Sat 61-51 loss to UW
Streak: 2 losses
2010 CanWest Record: 4-20, 11th place
2010 CanWest Championship: NA
Last CanWest Title: 1993
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LETHBRIDGE PRONGHORNS
Key additions: Deanna Dotts (P), Natalie Nichols (G), Ali Cameron (G), Katlyn Olsen (G)
Key returnees: Lauren Taal (G), Kim Veldman (P), Morgan Cross (F)
Key departures: Becky Heninger (G), Kenzie Sheen-Balderson (P), Hannah Blanchette (F)
LETHBRIDGE, AB – With only five players returning from the 2010-11 roster, this year's version of the Lethbridge Pronghorns will have a distinctly new look and will strive to return to the post-season mix.
Senior guard Lauren Taal returns for her final season after missing the second half of last season due to injury. In 13 games last season, Taal averaged just over 10 points per game but will need to return to her form from two seasons ago where she finished among the top 10 scorers in the conference.
Two other returning veterans are two six-foot players Stephanie Inman and Morgan Cross, entering their fourth year. Both have developed their games to be a threat inside and outside. They will both be looked to for rebounding, inside finishes and perimeter shooting. Six-foot-two post Kim Veldman returns for her second season and has a great inside game.
The 'Horns have added a group of college transfers in the additions of Natalie Nichols, Deanna Dotts, Katlyn Olsen, Ali Cameron and Jami Wiebe. All of them bring something different to the team. Ali Cameron and Jami Wiebe will be playing the wing position and be looked upon for their shooting touch and ability to find a path to the rim.
http://www.gohorns.ca/
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CanWest Standings: 1st tied in the east
Last Week: 2-0; Fri 85-27 win over BU, Sat 90-22 win over BU
Streak: 2 wins
2010 CanWest Record: 10-14 (8th)
Last CIS Title: 1989
CALGARY DINOS
Key additions: Jenna Kaye, Jessica Franz, Ashley Hirons
Key returnees: Megan Lang, Tamara Jarrett
Key departure: Ashley Hill
CALGARY – With an entire season to prepare for three home games in mid-March, the new-look University of Calgary Dinos enter the 2011-12 season as a largely unknown commodity in Canada West.
Hosts of the 2012 CIS Women's Basketball Final 8 from March 17-19 in the Jack Simpson Gym, the Dinos are guaranteed an appearance at the national tournament, and 18-year head coach Shawnee Harle has added a solid crop of recruits that should make the Dinos competitive come playoff time.
Leading the way are former All-Canadian Jenna Kaye and last year's BC college player of the year Jessica Franz. Kaye, a law student who transferred to Calgary after stints with UPEI and Dalhousie, was a second-team All-Canadian in 2008 and a two-time AUS all-star, while Franz averaged better than 23 points per game with Capilano University last season. They're joined by Aussie Ashley Hirons, a Melbourne native who is a solid outside shooter and an outstanding student.
That threesome joins a veteran group of returnees including fifth-year guard Megan Lang, forward Alex Cole, and guard Tamara Jarrett. The squad lost the services of Ashley Hill, the school's third all-time leading scorer, to graduation.
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May 19, 2011 by Robin Brenner
Review & Roundtable: Feynman
May 19, 2011 by Robin Brenner Leave a Comment
I grew up with a variety of heroes. Writers like Roald Dahl, Tamora Pierce, Andre Norton, Ray Bradbury, and Susan Cooper led me deep into the world of stories, speculative and wondrous. Itzhak Perlman, a virtuoso violinist, amazed me by playing so brilliantly with enormous hands. Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly astounded me with their dancing and choreography. Carl Sagan glued me to the TV explaining the wonders of the universe in his landmark miniseries Cosmos.
Some people might think that one of these is not like the other — that science doesn't mix too well with the arts. As a natural writer and artist raised by two physicists, I was never aware of any contradiction.
Feynman
Jim Ottaviani, Leland Myrick
Ages 12+; Grades 7-Adult
First Second, August 2011, ISBN 978-1-59643-259-8
272 pages, $29.99
My mother, Joan Brenner, is a physics and astronomy professor at Bunker Hill Community College near Boston and impresses me with her quick grasp of all things mathematical as often as she shares her love of art and music. My father, John Francis Brenner, loves sharing the tiny world of particle physics with his two inquisitive daughters and is a talented writer. Both are outstanding teachers and love to both ask and answer questions. Our dinner conversations leap from the latest book I've been reading to a nearby art exhibit to just why my Dad thinks the Big Bang theory has some major flaws. It'd all just part of considering the world at large.
Jim Ottaviani's latest work, Feynman, is a graphic biograhpy of the Nobel-prize winning Richard Feynman: physicist, prankster, bongo-drum afficianado, and a man bursting with curiosity about all things. He did a great deal to popularize physics through his lectures available as audio recordings and in book form. Feynman also related his own adventures in the scientific community and beyond in Surely You're Joking, My Feynman? and What Do You Care What Other People Think? Ottaviani, working with artist Leland Myrick, has drawn on Feynman's recollections and his own extensive research to introduce new readers to this charming, enthusiastic genius. The book presents a well-rounded record. Feynman got off to an encouraging start in debates with his father and bouncing ideas around with his equally scientifically minded younger sister. He balanced a restless romantic life, memorably exemplified in his banter-filled first marriage, with a never-ending thirst for understanding that drove his research and academic life. Even before he got his Ph. D., he was recruited to work with some of the biggest names in science (Neils Bohr and Enrico Fermi, to name but a few) on the Manhattan Project and continued to seek out the most challenging minds in the field. With trademark insouciance, Feynman dealt with boring stretches on the base by learning to crack safes and decoding encrypted messages from his clever, bedridden wife, much to the military security's puzzlement and dismay. Far from just a character study, though, Feynman delves into the scientific puzzles he tackled and clearly visualizes his achievements in quantum physics, understanding that most readers are novices when it comes to the workings of subatomic particles. A man who once sat down to figure out how to describe how flying plates wobble and later dubiously accepted when he was awarded the Nobel Prize is by definition a character. The quote on the front of the book, from Feynman's own mother, is pretty much all the hook you need, "If that's the world's smartest man, God help us."
Richard Feynman was and still is a hero to my parents, and I grew up hearing humorous tales of his pranks while working on the Manhattan Project. As a teen I read through his collected memoirs, but I was more aware of him as a remarkable character than as a physicist. When I saw the new biography by Jim Ottaviani was on Feynman, from the always quality publisher First Second, I knew I had an opportunity to tap into my parents' knowledge as well as share the fun of reading a new work in their company. Our conversation was as far ranging as usual, with diversions into talking about books, movies (check out Matthew Broderick's Feynman biopic Infinity), and the latest news about trying to explain gravity and data from the Large Hadron Collider. The meat of our discussion, though, was this biography, how it worked for both myself and for my parents and how this biography shows Feynman to the wider world. Along with the 2011 prose biography, Lawrence M. Krauss's Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science, this book might well help to elevate his reputation.
Robin Brenner: I've often mentioned Feynman in passing because I think of him as someone people should know, and I find that often people don't quite know who he is. People might remember him for explaining the disintegration of the O-rings in the space shuttle Challenger explosion, but they don't really know why he was important.
I love that Jim Ottaviani has made this a mission in his life — to talk about science in the graphic format for people who may not be willing or able to understand the stories otherwise.
I see this graphic biography as a good introduction to Feynman. I think it's good that it is chronological. At first, I was a little put off by how Ottaviani was identifying every source for every story. I got distracted by them and thought, "Why do I need to know this in the middle of reading?" But then I started to realize that that Feynman didn't tell these stories in a straight line. The creators are putting this together in a way that is the actual narrative of his life rather than what stories he chose to tell. If you just read his books, you definitely get a sense of him, but it's not the same as a biography. This is a biography.
You guys, of course, introduced me to Feynman.
John Francis Brenner: Did you have any visual picture of him?
RB: I have the picture from the cover of the book, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman?, which had a photograph of him. I remember thinking his face was very charming.
JFB: That's maybe a good lead in to one comment that Mom and I have.
Joan Brenner: Yes, the caricature of him doesn't seem to capture him very well. I don't remember him having infinite hair.
RB: I was kind of amused by the hair over the course of the book.
JFB: I think what the artist was trying to do was provide a visual clue. To me, he picked the wrong one. To me the most impressive thing about Feynman was his eyebrows. They were really heavy and they kind of went up and sharply down at the end. If you get a photograph of him, it's the eyes that catch your interest. Along with the sneer!
In some of the pictures, I thought he did really well in terms of capturing Feynman. At the very end there was a really beautiful preliminary drawing.
RB: When we talked a couple of weeks ago, I had been saying that I hadn't been loving the art. But the more I read it, the more I liked the art. I still expected somehow that his expressions would be eloquent about his sense of humor and the way that he spoke and the way he told stories. Somehow the art style didn't work for me that way.
JB: Agreed.
RB: That's partially my own bias, I always look for people's faces.
JFB: And with Feynman, he was not a stone face. You get somebody like, oh, [theoretical physicist and mathematician] Freeman Dyson, his face barely moves. It's just the way he is. But Feynman was extremely animated and there would be a tremendous range of expressions.
RB: The one thing I started to notice toward the middle and the end was the attention to different things that define the character. His posture was very clear to me throughout the book, and the clothing that he wore, that everybody wore. I think Myrick followed the right tone.
JB: Feynman was definitely almost a caricature of what professors wore, in that period.
RB: The other thing I will say is that there are a lot of really well done and smart visuals to explain the science that they were talking about. I would be peering at the science and thinking "Ah, I don't quite get that." And then I would look at the pictures and the pictures would help me understand.
JB: One of the things I enjoyed in the book is this attitude that the universe is as it is. And it's up to us to figure it out. And yeah, it's weird!
RB: And it can't all be explained by the rules we have.
JB: The current rules, anyway — that's why we have to keep coming up with new ones! Maybe it's never going to be explained.
JFB: I've been reading this other book, Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery and the Genius of the Royal Society edited by Bill Bryson, and it's interesting how this view is not at all unique to Feynman. He was very vociferous about it and would cuss you out if you didn't believe it, but it's interesting to see, in going through the archives and the transactions of the Royal Society Journal, they were seeing that attitude developing over the decades. At first there was a tendency to think that if the universe didn't quite fit your model of it, then you weren't observing it correctly. And later on they finally came to the conclusion that no, that's the wrong attitude. You experiment with it, and if it comes out weird it comes out weird. You're stuck with it.
RB: This book reminded me a little bit, in terms of explaining to the general public, of the film version of A Beautiful Mind. Not the schizophrenia part, obviously, but the ways of explaining game theory and using visual examples. It's a way to take something that's very complicated and very niche and give you a way to think about it that isn't too hard to understand. It's very personable.
The love story between him and his wife, that allows people in. I loved Arline and the codes and the government being unable to handle the fact that they were doing this letter exchange for fun. They made such a perfect pair — they were perfect for each other in a very specific way.
JFB: And they had so little time together.
RB: I appreciated through the whole book how they showed that he was certainly a ladies' man. Throughout the book there are all these sequences of him being like, "Ooh, that's an attractive woman…" It was there very subtly and they never quite said it out loud. That being said, Arline was the one that synced with him in a way I don't think he necessarily found again.
And his sister, [astrophysicist] Joan Feynman! I knew nothing about his support of her and her scientific pursuits.
JB: I didn't either. Wasn't that nice?
RB: I had no idea that he was that supportive of her the whole time. He clearly never thought women shouldn't do science or couldn't do science. It seems like it never entered his head and that is a wonderful thing to know.
JFB: In the books that I've read the story of Arline and all that was very abbreviated. I kind of imagine that he didn't want to talk about it. He squelched it when it came to giving interviews. Clearly it was an eye-opener for him. It was scary to find that he had such strong feelings and that he suppressed them completely for a while after she died.
RB: I like how they timed that in this book. Immediately after she died he was like, "I'm going back to work." Then that confession that two years later is when it really hit him. I'm glad it was included — I thought it made him very human.
My other experience of this place and period comes from Ottaviani's previous book, Fallout. I like that they included the flash forward in the book, "Well, obviously you want to hear about the bomb." The scientists working at Los Alamos were just so keen on the scientific achievement they that didn't think too hard about the aftereffects of what they were discovering. That's the hardest part of any science you do, especially if it's for a military purpose or for the government. You do have to think about where it's going to lead, how much of that concern is your job.
JFB: The other side of that is the blind eye turned toward the ramifications involving the atomic bomb was that it was a direct response to the Nazis — there's no question about that.
JB: Hence the letter from Einstein at the beginning of all this.
JFB: I think a lot of people said "I hate to think what this thing is going to do, but if we don't get it first, we're going to be screwed." So they made a pragmatic decision and decided, "We're going to do this." And turned off their feelings.
There is so much more energy in the atom than can be released by burning. There's way more energy in the nucleus than there is in the electron structure, which is involved in burning. So, one way you demonstrate this energy is by making a big boom. This was absolutely incredible, that it could release this much energy.
JB: I think we see this from this and from other books — there they were with their suntan lotion and sunglasses not really realizing what they were releasing.
RB: Visually speaking, I thought those pages were great.
JB: Yes, agreed!
RB: The explosion and seeing it. The whiteness of the flash, the dark blue and the red. I've seen it rendered in other ways, but this was just really well done. The idea they they were all running around celebrating, going, "Woo!" Sharing the story with everybody. All of us are thinking, "How could they celebrating!?" But of course they were!
JB: It worked!
RB: I fear sometimes people think scientists sit in a box somewhere and come up with ideas and it's all pristine and cold. This book shows how many personalities it takes to figure things out. Even just the way you approach a problem becomes a manifestation of your personality. A moment in here that reminded me greatly of growing up with you guys is the connection between faith and science, especially when you get to the quantum level. There is no order that makes it automatic or easy to observe. You need a lot of wild imagination, interest, and curiosity.
JB: There's the famous story about Einstein, who went around for years wondering, "The speed of light is constant, but what does that mean?" It takes someone who says, "Why? What makes it important?"
RB: I loved that whole sequence where Feynman was like, "I'm going to start doing physics for fun. I'm not going to this to prove anything or make myself a professional. I'm just going to do it and figure out why this works the way it does just because I want to know." That's what leads to discoveries people don't expect.
There is also no sense of hierarchy to Feyman. Just talk plainly or don't talk at all. He's more curious about what you're talking about than who you are.
JFB: Absolutely.
RB: That's a really wonderful way to look at how to solve a problem. You don't want to get bogged down. You just have to motor on. Too often people — we've seen examples in science where ego and emotional responses get in the way of things being discovered or things being talked about in the right way.
JFB: Reading this, one of the problems both Mom and I had is that we know too much about Feynman, so it's hard for me to put myself in the place of someone who doesn't know anything about him. My guess is they'd probably miss a great number of the subtleties.
RB: Are there things that you noticed that you think other people wouldn't? Things you thought were well done? References?
JB: One thing that I didn't pick up on, in this book, is that is in a lot of the things he did, for example, at Los Alamos, were because he was bored with the scene. And that really doesn't come through very clearly, like the shenanigans with the safe-cracking.
RB: They have those scenes here, but somehow it didn't have the same impact as when I read them, and I can't decide if it's because I already knew that he did that.
JB: I don't think that came through quite as clearly.
JFB: I had the same feeling that it didn't quite come through quite as clearly as reading it.
RB: Do you think it's the pacing or the writing…?
JFB: No, I think it's the fact that this is a visual picture and when you talk about safe-cracking and fooling people, it works better in my mind as an imagined thing. If I can see it happening on a page it just has no life for me. In a movie, maybe, because then it's moving. Then you get to see the reactions of the people in real time. When Feynman comes in and opens this safe for the administrator, I can imagine the look on the administrator's face changing from bland amusement to outright shock.
RB: That might be the problem. If we wanted to see that scene then we wanted to see more of it. You wanted to see the reaction shots. That's something you can definitely do in comics but I don't think it was done here because they took a shorter amount of time to tell those stories. It is a very long book. They chose to cover a lot and there's a lot in here I didn't know.
RB: As someone who doesn't know as much about Feynman, I felt like I respected a lot more what he had done in physics by the end of this book. I remember him as an interesting character, and I certainly knew he was considered one of the top physicists, but I didn't really get it until I read it explained here.
JFB: Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). One of the things on page 123 — you see all those equations?
RB: The calculations?
JFB: Yep — below them are little graphs. The really big thing about this is that these integrals are incredibly gory, but when you're done with them, once you've done the integrals once, you never have to do them again. The integrals come out to a number, or a sum. But to reduce all of this to a simple diagram — that is an absolutely stunning thing.
It's hard to get more explicit than that without taking a course in physics. There's no way someone writing a book like this could explain all the beauty in something like that. But, that's the stuff that knocks you over when you talk about Feynman and study QED. One of the fascinating things is that QED worked out exactly. It's one of the rare occasions in that as long as you're working with electrons, you get the exactly right answer with QED. These Feynman graphs were so attractive that physicists tried to use them for everything — the physics of the nucleus, where you have nucleons, and of course that didn't work. It had to be extraordinarily modified.
Feynman isn't here any more, so it's hard to say — maybe he could come up with an equivalent to the Feynman graphs that would work. String theory constructs — they sound like Feynman graphs in that they're a flexible model of what's going on — but they don't work nearly as well. With QED he just somehow hit it right on the head. Nobody's been able to do that with nuclear physics or particle physics or with gravity. It's just a nightmare.
RB: I know you've used books like this in the past, Ottaviani's Fallout for example, for your honors seminar. And the students react to the format as a way to get the story?
JB: Many of them, yes. We also used Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossom, and the students absolutely loved that book.
RB: Do you think you would use this? Is this a good introduction to Feynman? For someone who doesn't know him?
JFB: At the level we teach physics, to freshmen, I don't know. It might be a bit too scary. At the honors level, it would work.
RB: Too complicated for the freshmen?
JFB: No, I think it could distract them from what they're trying to learn. They're not learning anything that's nearly this exotic.
This section with the Feynman graphs is really good, and it's probably the only part of the book that deals with the hard science in a very transparent way. It's incomplete, but making it complete would add 100 pages to the book. I'm glad he put that in there because it is such an interesting thing, at least to me. What I don't know is whether the average reader or maybe even a physics student in freshman year would appreciate this.
RB: There were moments in here when I was reading clearly a lecture, and I'd be like, "OK, I'm not getting this. I'm trying to understand but I'm not getting it." But it didn't matter. I still sat there thinking, "This is really impressive."
To me, it's kind of when I learned to play the violin. If I heard Vivaldi, I knew that is what you could do if you learned to play the violin really well. "The Lark Ascending" by Vaughan Williams is a violin piece I might aspire to play. I think to me that's what this might be, that if you learn physics, this is the kind of thing you might learn to contend with. It's kind of like what you've said before, Mom — everything before calculus is just arithmetic. Calculus is when it gets interesting. That always disappointed me because I could never get calculus — my brain just doesn't work that way!
JB: There are many colleges that have courses what are referred to in the trade as physics for poets. A book like this might be an interesting one for a group like that to read. It shows how a mind works.
JFB: I might well use it at the end of this elementary physics course I'm teaching now. The reason is that the first 80 or 90 percent of this two term sequence is classical physics. The model in everybody's mind is "billiard ball" physics. Here is a round ball, and a particle is just a very small ball, and it behaves the same way. You can go as fast as you want because we never get close to the speed of light.
One of the major things I do at the end of this course is to go, "OK, you've all learned all of this according to classical physics. Guess what? It's all wrong." This isn't the correct model of the universe. It's only an approximation. The beauty of this book about Feynman is that it would show the students that they could go beyond what we see in every day life. You can only do this if you're willing to take the time to learn the mathematics and thinking that goes behind this, and understand what science is all about.
RB: One of the things I thought that Feynman was known for is that he was good at teaching physics. Sagan is the other person I know you loved for his ability to explain science to the hoi polloi, so to speak.
JB: Feynman put together those lectures for freshman in college, and it went pfffft.
RB: Ha! OK.
JB: It went completely over their heads.
JFB: It didn't work. But everybody who graduated in physics loved it.
JB: It is wonderful. He pulled the logic structure together for everybody.
RB: I hear of them as great examples of lectures on physics.
JB: They are!
RB: But perhaps only for graduate level students, rather than undergrads.
JB: This is something that you tend to see with theoretical physicists. They can't come down far enough for freshmen. Even at a place like Cal Tech or Berkeley, the entering students are still freshmen.
JFB: It's an example of the fallible Feynman. He's clearly made a mistake, and he knows it. I think he realized the graduate students loved it, and it was still worth doing even if the freshmen didn't get it. This is what I struggle with right now — how do I teach students knowing that I can't exploit all the background that I have.
If Feynman had done a television show, like Carl Sagan, it would have been a disaster. He would have been too snarky. Sagan was a marvelous presenter. Feynman really wasn't. Feynman was so adept at discovering and exposing, if you like, of physical laws, but I don't think he had much teaching in him. You had to be almost as good as he was to benefit from it.
RB: I really like the whole friendship he had with the artist Jirayr Zorthian, and the fact that they would each push each other to think outside their chosen disciplines. That's what I take away from somebody like Feynman. I like that they show him saying, "I don't understand art. I don't understand what people are talking about when they talk about art. So why don't I go find someone who does understand and have them teach me." That's the kind of thing that people should do as often as they can.
JB: About ten years ago, they took a group of people that were teaching poetry and creative writing and had them take some very serious science. Then they had the scientists study medieval poetry. It really changed their ability to interact, for both groups. They basically took a course in the other discipline. And they did just fine!
RB: I love that this book does come with an extensive bibliography at the end. And not just Feynman's books, but a variety of books on the topics discussed. I don't know that many people who will think, "I'm going to go pick up a book on quantum physics!" But this might actually make them do that.
JFB: It's had that effect on me! I am going to go look and see if I can find the Feynman lectures and re-read them.
RB: We have them at the library! Where do you think he ranks in the modern groups of physicists?
JB: Everybody hears about Einstein — it's very hard not to. People know some of the engineers perhaps more than they know other folks. Also Watson, of Watson and Crick for DNA.
JFB: Feynman as far as I'm concerned is up there with the top one percent of the physicists that have ever existed. I don't think that would come through in the popular press. He wasn't a very pleasant character to deal with. If someone interviewed him, he wouldn't come across well. On the other hand, someone like Freeman Dyson, who was almost a deadpan sort of guy, he has a lot of patience. He had better relations with the press, with authors and interviewers.
JB: Sagan did do some work but it's not at the level of Feynman.
JFB: Maybe this book isn't going to create too many high level physicists. But at least it might get some people to understand what this is about. One thing that makes my blood boil is how the general population is just plain ignorant of how science is done and why it's done. If you get a book like this into that mix, it will help.
Ottaviani's Feynman is a strong addition to the works already available on this curious character, as he dubbed himself, and here's hoping the graphic presentation will draw new readers into his innovative, question-driven world.
Robin's note: I would like to thank my parents, Joan H. Brenner and John F. Brenner, for being willing to join me in reading and discussing this title. I'll never get tired of hearing about their take on the universe, and hopefully they'll never get tired of mine!
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About Robin Brenner
Robin Brenner is Teen Librarian at the Brookline Public Library in Massachusetts. When not tackling programs and reading advice at work, she writes features and reviews for publications including VOYA, Early Word, Library Journal, and Knowledge Quest. She has served on various awards committees, from the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards to the Boston Globe Horn Book Awards. She is the editor-in-chief of the graphic novel review website No Flying No Tights.
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Add broccoli mix, add oil (be liberal) and salt to your liking and also use some pasta water if needed.
The pasta and the broccoli should mix together easily and the broccoli will breakdown and coat the pasta.


Spartanburg, S.C. native, Jeremy Clements has been racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for more than 10 years now. He began his racing career at the age of seven when his grandfather started taking him to the go cart track where he would eventually pick up 47 feature wins. In 1999, Clements moved up to modified and stock four-cylinders collecting 59 wins and three track championships over the next three years. In 2002, Clements made his debut in the ARCA Series. It wasn't until 2003 when he made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut driving the No. 3 at Talladega Superspeedway. But on July 24, 2004, Clements' career was put in danger after he suffered an injury while driving his No. 51 late model in Madison, N.C. The torque arm broke under his car and sent a steel driveshaft darting through the cockpit, nearly removing his right hand. With hopes to regain use of his right hand, he underwent numerous surgeries and months of physical therapy. He returned to the track in July 2005 testing his mate model. Thankfully, he overcame the injury and has been competing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series full time since 2011. Clements got his first win in the 2017 Johnsonville 180 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisc.
A few weeks ago at Darlington I had the chance to ask Jeremy a few questions as he was walking to his car to qualify. Here is what he had to say!
1. Has it set in that you're now a winner in the Xfinity Series?
JC: Yeah, I think it must be real now because everybody keeps congratulating me, I don't think they're congratulating me for anything else so I think it's pretty cool.
2. Would you have ever expected your first win to be on a road course?
JC: No, definitely not because I didn't come from road course racing - to win at a road course is pretty special and they're a lot of fun so i'm glad I was able to do it at one and I hope it's the first of many more.
3. I know you had to be extremely nervous leading the field on that last lap, describe how you were feeling!
JC: I was feeling a lot of emotion, I was mad at myself for spinning me and Matt Tifft out and then I grabbed the gear and kept going - it was just unbelievable. I couldn't believe that was actually real and we were going to win the thing. I had a lot of emotions that last lap.
4. What is one of the biggest struggles you face being a small team in Spartanburg, South Carolina?
JC: There are a lot of struggles, we don't have the funding we need a lot of the times and we race against a lot of big teams with a lot of money, support and engineering that we don't have so that's definitely it.


Discussion in 'Acoustic Instruments' started by nightbird, Apr 27, 2016.
I've been on a search for either a mid 1900's to around 1927/ 28 L1 or L3. They both are almost identical but I was wondering if ther is any difference in sound. Which would you prefer?


My first visit to New York was at a pivotal time in my life. I was all of fifteen years old, and like most teens, desperate to be a cultured adult. I had just decided I wanted to be a writer and had committed to a serious daily writing practice. Heavy stuff for someone still in braces. I got drunk on words and the worlds they allowed me to build, worlds that took me far, far away from the study in human misery that was high school. So when the opportunity arose to visit my brother in New York--and miss school to do it--I was bursting with excitement to taste what to me was the artistic and literary life of The Adult Writer. I will always love the city for what it was and what it continues to be for me: a distilled memory of a young woman first finding her words, her stories, and her roar.
...and then came graduate school. It felt like no small cosmic coincidence that I lost my lion figurine within the first quarter of my advanced studies. I've since learned that those library lions are named Patience and Fortitude, which somehow seems the perfect metaphor for the unfolding nightmare that was grad school. Don't get me wrong: I'm glad I have my doctorate degree, yet I also found that I wasn't the traditional academic scholar I had once dreamed of being (it was, in retrospect, a mere detour in my development as a creative writer). Never had I felt so silenced. Never had I struggled so hard to keep my natural exuberance alive. Never had I struggled more to keep my free spirit independent from the hive mind.
By the time I finished my dissertation, that enthusiasm for the written word had dwindled to a small half-dead spark. Then came those purgatory-like years in which I identified as a Recovering Academic, thirsting for a time when I unabashedly loved big books and knew who I was as a writer. It took some time--years--to painstakingly relearn the joys of storytelling and even longer to find my Writer's Roar again. This blog, in fact, started out as a daily exercise in reclaiming that wild woman writer with a lust for life buried under bureaucratic dust. Patience and Fortitude, indeed.
All by way of saying, I found myself taking a similar sojourn to this city fifteen years after my first life-changing experience there to celebrate the return of My Writer's Roar. The dwindling spark I nourished for so long had suddenly burst into an unquenchable internal fire. I had done it. The realization hit me at my writing desk one morning after tending my blog. I was literally living The Writer's Life teen-me dreamt of for so long. I was a teacher, a writer, a healthy yogini with a home (okay apartment) of her own. And I was one with my stories again.
It seemed only fitting to return to this literary mecca after recently finding that I had, in fact, found my words again. I must pay homage to the city that fueled me as a young writer. And so began my pilgrimage to the place that marked the beginning of my writing life.
One of the beauties of traveling is being open to the synchronous moments where you stumble upon the exact thing you didn't know you needed. Like those magical instants in our daily lives that push us in the right direction, an impulsive decision to get off the New York subway blocks earlier than you intend can lead you to marvelous places. Such was how I found the Argosy Bookstore, New York's oldest indie bookstore and my first (unexpected) stop on my day-long feast of books.
Interior shot of the Argosy Bookstore's first floor.
Here I was wandering the streets of Manhattan in search of a good cup of coffee on my way to the Morgan Library when all at once I was in front of this magical store. It was like walking into the inside of a story or some literary alchemist's den where only the most potent tales were spun. Old and rare books lined the shelves, stacks of antique prints teased the eye, and, my personal favorite, rare books and first editions on the occult promised otherworldly insights on the turn-of-the-century "new sciences" like astrology and clairvoyance. I drooled over rare prints and first editions of fairy tales, novels I'd grown up reading, and older than sin Shakespeare folios. What more could a woman ask for?
My splurges: first edition occult texts circa 1920s from the Argosy.
The books were alive here. Breathing living things made up of leather stretched across book board and handstitched pages smattered with inky words. Needless to say, I could have spent a whole day there. There was splurging. There was a rekindled love of old books and the rich vanilla-like smell of stories that have had time to marinate on their shelves. And there was also that fantastic cup of coffee I was looking for from a food cart on the corner of Park and 59th, thanks to the recommendation of the bookstore's employees. The day was off to a good start.
The Morgan Library...I could live here!
My next stop was the Morgan Library, a must for any bibliophile. Once the home of famous financier and avid collector Pierpont Morgan, this museum, according to the website, houses "illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints." What does this mean in layman's terms? Only the first edition of Jane Austen's Emma, in the original three separate volumes; or the remains of the earliest known tarot card set, circa 1450; or a 15-year old Mozart's attempts at a symphony; not to mention preserved hand-written letters of Samuel Johnson to his publisher and Victorian-era musings on magical flying machines (hello airplanes!) and early discussions of what we now know to be computer coding. But perhaps the most breathtaking piece on display was a first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which he wrote, designed, published, and marketed himself. Now there was a free-spirited writer if there ever was one.
First edition of Jane Austen's Emma (1816).
Four Italian tarot cards from before the deck became associated with occult practices (1450).
First edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855).
This is to say nothing of Morgan's fabulous library where you feel you could while away an afternoon reading selections from this marvelous collection or spend an evening in thoughtful conversation with the man who so passionately hoarded these treasures. And even if all those manuscripts aren't enough to stir up writing inspiration, then there's always a Hemingway three-martini lunch (featuring three 2 oz martinis) to top off your visit. Writer's fuel never tasted so good.
Reading nook in the Morgan Library.
The secret vault where Morgan kept the most prized pieces of his collection.
My final stop that day (but by no means my last literary adventure in the city) was the New York Public Library, naturally, and just a few short block away from the Morgan. I wanted to see how good 'ol Patience and Fortitude were doing. It had been a long time, but they were just as majestic as I remembered them. I spent some time wandering the library, through the various reading rooms and up and down the wide, imposing staircases, remember how big it all seemed to me at fifteen. Okay, how big it still seems to me.
Like your favorite novel, you never get over your first time reading it. Each successive rereading is enriched and informed by that initial experience. This is the only way I can seem to describe what it was like to revisit this literary landmark. Walking through those halls I was fifteen again, awed by my first exposure to the bigger world--bigger possibilities--outside my own small teen life, and I was also thirty-one, seeing the library through the eyes of a woman with a little more seasoning under her belt. I'd done things. Gone through stuff. Made mistakes and made things right. Had adventures and even written some of them down. Experienced the plot twists that make life--and stories--and people--interesting.
Best of all, walking these halls, sitting in these reading rooms, and reclaiming those literary lions (I just had to get a magnet of them for my fridge!), I realized I always had it: that spark. The internal joy of living and reading and writing deeply had never left me. Not really. All I had to do was reclaim my Roar. Own it. Because there is no room in this world for anyone who thinks they can silence you. There is no room in your stories to submit to being silenced. I owe this lesson to Patience and Fortitude. As with many of my travels, I went a long way away to find that I what I needed was right in the palm of my hands.
Patience and Fortitude manning their posts in front of the New York Public Library.


The international mobility of students has considerably gained ground as a major policy in Europe over the last decades. As a result of the heightened political importance attached to international mobility, and the manifold practical attempts to increase it, there is an enhanced need for comprehensive, up-to-date, and reliable information on the phenomenon: statistical data on mobility are needed to measure progress – or otherwise – towards the various mobility goals and thus to inform the political actors of the impact of the programmes and other measures launched. However, data measuring real mobility (as opposed to foreign nationality) is not always available and is rarely sufficiently differentiated.
This publication has therefore a double objective. First, it investigates which data on international mobility are being compiled and made available and which are not, both at the international, the national and the programme level. Second, this study presents in one volume the student mobility data identified, and - based on an analysis of these data – it tries to depict a picture of the main trends in international student mobility into and out of 32 European countries. Next to analysing and presenting the availability and quality of data on international student mobility, this report also makes recommendations for the improvement of student mobility statistics both at national and international level.


This is about one of those products that you probably see every time you shop at the grocery store or drug store. It is also a product that I should have recommended earlier, during the winter months when dry, chapped, irritated skin is more common.
As riders, we probably suffer quite a bit of damage to our skin from the elements; the cold especially causes me a variety of problems, not the least of which is hand eczema. Or chilblains. I've been told either. And they are two different things. Maybe I'll just go with chilblains because it sounds like a 19th century affliction, like dropsy or consumption, and I have a strong affinity for the Victorian era. Anyways.
Aquaphor has been one of the few affordable and readily available products that relieves the skin of my hands during winter. Summer is a good time to have it on hand, too, as it relieves sunburn a little bit.
It isn't winter right now, so I have only the remnants of blisters from the cold on my hands–I applied Aquaphor multiple times daily when the cold was at its worst and while I still have scarring from the blisters, the Aquaphor shortened their duration by a lot (which I know because the winter before I wasn't using Aquaphor) and kept my skin from cracking and bleeding. My hope is that next winter, I will start using Aquaphor before I have a problem and it may prevent some of the blisters.
Apologies for the graphic nature of this post, but Aquaphor has significantly improved my winter skin and I thought sharing my experience would be worthwhile for fellow equestrians because we are all out in the elements with our horses on a regular basis. Sometimes gloves just aren't enough.
AQUAPHOR IS THE BEST EVER. I have several large tubs sitting around from previous tattoos that now just get used for my horrid chapped lips (thanks, Accutane 10 yrs ago). Also love it to cover scratches on horses. The best best best.
AGREE x 1000! I started using it on minor scrapes on horses, too. I wish I had found it much earlier in life!
My old room mate used to swear by this!
I use aquafor on everything.
It's good for so. many. things.


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The Browning Hi-Power A Love Story Part II — An Unfaithful Heart
by Mike Durand
Categories: Assorted Ramblings
Tags: Gun Reviews, Red2Alpha73
John Browning's last design and I have a long history, one going back to 1989 when I purchased my first Browning Hi-Power. Throughout the next four years of high school, my Hi-Power and I ran hand in hand through the sunny, verdant, fields of youth. It was a joyous time for us both; together we struck down target after target on the range, and the Hi-Power was on my hip as I traveled through unknown deserts and forests. We were together more than we were apart.
The original Browning Hi-Power
Springfield Armory's SA-35 9mm pistol – a much more recent homage to the original Hi-Power (which we'll be talking about soon).
In the summer of '93, I left for One Station Unit Training, Ft Benning, GA. My teenage love and I were separated by space and time. In the intervening years, I was to gain experience and knowledge with a large spectrum of weapons of all types. Like the storybook sweetheart at home waiting for her soldier to return, the Hi-Power laid in a drawer, well oiled and wrapped in a sock. Untouched by the hands of another man, unlike the flesh and blood type of sweethearts most Soldiers are familiar with.
What happened was that I was lured away.
In the foolishness of my youth, my covetous thoughts turned to the voluptuous magazine capacity of the… Glock 21.
Allow me to explain. I was born a .45 fanboy and my heart is always looking for The Ultimate .45. A key component of The Ultimate .45 is magazine capacity. The Glock 21 had it in a package that was "space gun" looking (my favorite film is 'Blade Runner' so use that as a baseline for my aesthetics). However, just the way I lusted after Anna Nicole Smith I had no practical experience with the Glock 21. I hadn't even seen one outside of print, let alone handled one. But, unlike Anna Nicole Smith, the Glock 21 showed up one day behind the glass in Jim's Pawn Shop on Yadkin Rd in Fayetteville, N.C. The guy behind the counter pretended to not be annoyed as I handled the weapon, gripping, aiming, re-gripping, dropping the magazine then slamming it home. The entire time a queer feeling was building in my stomach. I tried to ignore it but finally, it was too much. I didn't like the 21.
The grip was too fat and the angle was off. Furthermore, it lacked features that, without me even being fully aware of, had become requirements for a pistol. Those being an external safety and hammer and the reassurance — perhaps a crutch — that both of those obvious indicators of my weapon's status gave me with the brush of my fingers could not be denied. The Glock gave me none of that.
Disappointed and with an aching heart, I walked away from that crushing — hurt, yet wiser. Now I had a clearer picture of what I truly wanted.
The Second Love
Flash-forward to early 1995; I'm back at Jim's on a rainy Saturday with Timmy and Weird-Nuts. All three of us have our noses pressed to the gun cabinet glass. Weird-Nuts was a Desert Storm vet. He was with the 101st before coming to the 82nd. Both Timmy and I looked up to him. Later, Weird-Nuts began banging Timmy's sister and that made things… tense.
"Hey, look at this," says Weird-Nuts. He points to a blocky, slab-sided, beast of a pistol. It's big and black and has all the elegance of the beefy local in a small, remote town that watches you from across the lot as the numbers on the gas pump increase, and you wish you were back on the interstate. This pistol does one thing; throw copper jacketed lead at its target until the target stops. That's it. There are no art deco or artisan curves on this weapon, and that is just what it is — a weapon. This is no gun. A gun can belong to a gentleman who hands it off to a lackey to be reloaded. A gun can have intricate engravings of foliage, animals, and flowers. With a gun, one can find gold filigree and mother of pearl. With a weapon one gets death.
Efficient.
Practical.
Professional.
With a weapon, there is a coldness that speaks of a business deal. A gun will sit with you, play a hand of poker, drink whiskey, and smoke a cigar. A weapon puts all matters to a conclusion without the foreplay.
Personally, I prefer the latter.
When I handled it the clouds parted and a beam of warm yellow light split the warehouse ceiling of Jim's, bathing me and the weapon in a perfect light. The pistol and I existed outside normal space, and time was a forgotten concept. It was as if Ares himself had awakened upon distant Mount Olympus with this weapon made especially for my hands, the way the Gods had crafted weapons to Perseus.
"Heed thy words, mortal; before thee lay 'The Ultimate .45.' Wield it with honor."
With that, the God was gone and, in my hands, lay the Heckler & Koch USP .45.
Heckler & Koch USP .45.
It was a…well, it was a blaster. You killed Replicants with this thing. The bore gaped from the business end, hexagon grooves twisting into the chamber, and an image of the Agro from Star Blazers, with its Wave Motion Gun, flashed into my head. The slide lacked the artist's grace, but it had the engineer's efficiency. It may have been a milled rectangle of metal but the sides were precisely beveled with an attractive flare where the slide met the rails of the polymer receiver. Inside the weapon lay a recoil reduction system that makes the HK USP .45 a smooth shooting pistol. A 1911 has a certain snap to it when it is fired. There is a flip that happens. It can be tamed, learned, compensated for; but it's always there. The USP lacks that snap. It's a gentle wave as opposed to a breaker. This blaster had a precision to it that outstripped Imperial Stormtroopers.
But the Gods of Olympus were not satisfied with that. No. The USP was, after all, The Ultimate .45. There, on the left side of the frame, was an easily accessible thumb-activated safety. On the back of the slide was a rubber-coated hammer. The weapon was single-action/double-action and had a twelve-round magazine. The grip was thinner with a paddle type mag release that, after getting used to, proved superior to the traditional type. Though top-heavy when empty, like all polymer-framed pistols, the USP balanced nicely when loaded.
It was all I wanted, but the time was not right and Ares, on Mount Olympus, wept as I left Jim's Pawn Shop without my weapon of war.
I left Active Duty.
1996 found me at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California. One block east of one of my classes was a gun store. Under the glass was a HK USP .45 Variant 3. It was a display model and was $650. Using my just issued G.I. Bill check I put down the initial payment during lunch and made the final payment and pick up during a break from drawing class with a girl named Kathy. She smoked cloves and was fond of bodysuits.
I had The Ultimate .45.
Ares smiled and lay down to his deserved slumber.
One winter's day, in need of money, I sold the Hi-Power. It rained heavily and I felt as if I had betrayed a lifelong friend. The money felt dirty in the pocket of my jeans.
Time passed.
In between, I carried the USP professionally and personally. It never failed me once and was a trusted companion and friend in the way that only a weapon can be. Through strife and uncertainty, the USP was always there, my teeth when I was toothless, the roar of defiance when I could not make a sound. The comfort it gave during certain times cannot be understated. I feel a level of love for that pistol that the owner of a dog has for his animal.
A war began, then another one. I went to the second war.
I came back.
I started over.
I started over with the Browning Hi-Power.
In time came a replacement for the original USP. This one was extra space gun blaster-ish because it had night sights. The Hi-Power went back in the box. Then, several years ago, my fetching wife took an interest in shooting. She came under the spell of the USP's smoothness and its blunt, mechanical, brutalism.
Lazarus-like, the Browning Hi-Power awakened from its slumber, and it has become my go-to ever since. Could I carry the USP again? Absolutely. Yet, it doesn't feel like my pistol anymore. It's foreign in an intrusive way that I cannot fully explain. It's not a feeling I like.
But the Hi-Power is all comfort and warmth. The welcome arms of a loved one who's been away for a time. The pistol feels different than the USP; the circumference of the grip being the most obvious.
Browning Hi-Power next to HK USP .45
When handling the Browning Hi-Power, it sits deeper into my hand, snug against the place where the meat of the thumb meets the palm. The weight of an added magazine combined with the all-metal construction pushes the grip down into the palm, not harshly, or violently, more of a settling. As if the pistol is finding its angle of repose. The hammer is still stiff but it's breaking in. The safety, trigger, barrel, slide release, and sights are the same as the day I brought it home. (Even still has the magazine disconnect.) Any faults or issues with the pistol I either don't notice or have grown so accustomed to over decades of experience that they are no longer issues. For me. This isn't a pistol for everyone, and, no, I'm not being an effete, hipster gun snob. I mean that in a world of Glocks and whatnot, not everyone is going to like this throwback, no matter how en vogue vintage is. It's heavy. Even empty and despite its slim lines the pistol has the aforementioned heft. It's not a hammer down double action, the hammer must be manually cocked to fire the first round. It has exposed safeties. These are not insurmountable obstacles, but they might turn certain shooters off.
Me? I love all of it. I love my retro pistol. Other people like it too and will comment on it. Want to handle it. I don't mind. It's been through a lot, dust from the deserts of Nevada are ground into the grips and cling to the cracks and crevasses of the gun that no amount or intensity of cleaning seems to get rid of. The slide and barrel now rattle when the pistol is shaken. The finish is badly scratched and worn away on the edges. This Browning Hi-Power and I have been on some adventures. It's been neglected and abused on more than one occasion but has always worked when I wanted or needed it to.
I trust it with my life.
Read Part One: The Browning Hi-Power | A Love Story.
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James E Kiser on November 27, 2021 at 5:41 am
cool story about how people respond to well built items. One of the reasons I watch Mike Rowes shows. Ans this blog.
Tim on November 17, 2021 at 8:27 am
Amazing read… thanks for sharing your story.
Ghost of JMB on October 31, 2021 at 2:50 pm
Have longed for a Hi-Power for years, and was sad when they got ended. Now that the SA-35 is here, am really looking forward to seeing what folks like yourselves would have to say about it.
Great read, completely appreciate your sentiments towards an Old Faithful.
Rick on November 9, 2021 at 4:39 am
I have had several BHPs and have liked everyone of them. But in today's world as nice as this one looks I wonder if it will only be a niche gun?
Mike on October 1, 2021 at 2:50 pm
Very eloquent. I too have an old love, in my case the S&W model 10, especially with the pencil barrel. It just feels right.


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Pentium Pro
<processor> (Known as "P6" during development) Intel's successor to the Pentium processor, in development Jan 1995, generally available 1995-11-01.
The P6 has an internal RISC architecture with a CISC-RISC translator, 3-way superscalar execution, and out-of order execution (or "speculative execution", which Intel calls "Dynamic Execution").
It also features branch prediction and register renaming, and is superpipelined (14 stages).
The P6 is made as a two-chip assembly: the first chip is the CPU and 16 kilobyte first-level cache (5.5 million transistors) and the other is a 256 (or 512) kilobyte second-level cache (15 million transistors).
The first version has a clock frequency of 133 Mhz and consumes about 20W of power.
It is about twice as fast as the 100 MHz Pentium.
The original 0.35 micron versions of the Pentium Pro released on 1995-11-01 run at 150 and 166 Mhz for desktop machines and up to 200 Mhz for servers.
Heat disspation is about 20 Watts.
The Pentium Pro is optimised for 32-bit software and runs 16-bit software slower than the original Pentium.
The successor was the Pentium II.
[Performance?]
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This book is written by a practicing Waldorf teacher Peter Giesen. As a central starting point the drawing of shapes from movement is of great importance. This gives the form designs a vitalizing character and harmonizes work and health. The book also includes numerous didactic and practical tips along with a curriculum for Grade 1 to Grade 6. In addition there are many extra features included.


Reader, don't be startled by the photo of Mark Twain, AKA George McDaniel. Twain is not the new writer for the print edition, alluded to in the header– George is. He has played Mark Twain in one-man shows for years, about 400 performances to be exact. The Advertiser asked for the Twain impersonation photo of him, for many know him from these performances.
George claimed to this newspaper that he is not a writer, but for those who saw his response (published 4/13/16) to Dr. Mims Mobley's Memoir printed serially through the early part of this year, these readers are likely to disagree, as this newspaper did. As a result of his article, the Editor summoned from him articles about his home town of Trenton, for the Advertiser has wanted for some time to have stories about Trenton for publication. And these stories begin this week, in the print edition.
George graduated with a class of 52 students in 1955 and worked for two years before entering college, at Newberry. His years there were productive, and he worked during that time in businesses that led to his career in banking. Along the way he gained a great deal of information, through reading, about Mark Twain and decided to do the one-man show using Twain's stories and dressing as Twain. He was aware of Hal Holbrook and his performances; in fact, when Holbrook came to Newberry to see his wife perform at the Opera House there, George got to have dinner with him and to commiserate over their performances.
It is a fact that George McDaniel is a story teller. Sit with him a few minutes and those minutes extend into two hours – more or less. These stories he has collected for the Advertiser reader and put into publication form. It is for certain that readers will enjoy them.


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Q: Is it possible to create a block using xsl fo with only a background color but no text content? I am trying to create a box with rounded corners filled with color using xsl fo, apache fop library. I tried using "background-color" but that works only with text in a block. Same thing if I try using table cells. Please provide a way to get a background color with no text etc.
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Gives an empty box with no color.

A: Put the background-color property on the fo:block-container, since that's the area that you are trying to fill.

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