Method: We retrospectively studied images of 17 patients with BCA who had undergone pre-operative MRI and 6 patients with pathologically proven BTB who underwent DCE-MRI during January 2014 to January 2015.
Results: All patients were female, with the age range of BTB patients being 23–43 years and the BCA patients being 31–74 years. Breast cancer patients had a statistically significant lower mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value (1072.10 ± 365.14), compared to the BTB group (1690.77 ± 624.05, p = 0.006). The mean T2-weighted signal intensity (T2SI) was lower for the BCA group (521.56 ± 233.73) than the BTB group (787.74 ± 196.04, p = 0.020). An ADC mean cut-off value of 1558.79 yielded 66% sensitivity and 94% specificity, whilst the T2SI cut-off value of 790.20 yielded 83% sensitivity and 83% specificity for differentiating between BTB and BCA. The homogeneous internal enhancement for focal mass was seen in BCA patients only.
The purpose of our study was to evaluate the use of the DWI parameter of ADC, the DCE-MRI enhancement morphologic characteristics and the T2W parameter of T2SI value to differentiate BCA from BTB.
We retrospectively identified 24 patients with histologically proven BCA (including ductal carcinoma in situ [DCIS]) who underwent DWI, T2W and DCE-MRI during January 2014 to December 2014. Seven patients did not have a full set of images on the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and were excluded from the study, which resulted in the final total of 17 patients.
For the BTB group, we included six prospectively and consecutively identified patients with proven BTB who also underwent the DWI, T2W and DCE-MRI. Although five patients had conclusive histology from either the breast or the axillary lymph nodes, one patient had inconclusive histology from breast and axilla, but had proven concurrent PTB, for which she was receiving anti-tuberculous therapy (ATT). Her clinical and radiological features were compatible with BTB, and both the breast and the axillary nodes responded satisfactorily to ATT. All BTB patients had undergone screening investigations at the referring breast clinic, including ultrasonography, with or without mammograms, depending on their age. Following the histological confirmation of BTB, the patients were invited for a baseline MRI scan within 2 weeks of confirmation of the diagnosis. Scans were not performed within 2 weeks of a biopsy in order to avoid the presence of haematoma and/or inflammation confounding our results.
Magnetic resonance imaging images were retrospectively analysed following retrieval from the hospital's PACS. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed on a 1.5 Telsa machine (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) using a dedicated breast coil. The patients were scanned in the prone position. A power injection of 20 mL intravenous (IV) Magnevist® (Gadopentetate Dimeglumine, Bayer) Standard 469 mg/mL (0.5 mmol/mL) at a dosage of 0.1 mmol/kg was administered to all the patients. The IV contrast rate was 3 mL/s followed by a 20 mL saline flush administered as a bolus. The T1 dynamic phase scan time was 6 min 41 s, during which five dynamic sequences were obtained in the axial position at various time points. The DWI images with the ADC map were also acquired during the same scan. The technical parameters are reported in Table 1.
TABLE 1: Local dynamic contrast-enhanced breast magnetic resonance imaging protocol technical parameters.
The BCA pathological subtype from the pathology records.
The enhancement pattern: Either mass-like enhancement (MASS) or non-mass enhancement (NME).
Non-mass enhancement distribution pattern: Focal, linear, segmental, regional, multiple regions or diffuse.
Non-mass enhancement internal enhancement: Homogeneous, heterogeneous, clumped and clustered ring.
MASS internal enhancement: Homogeneous, heterogeneous, rim enhancement and dark internal septations.
The presence or absence of axillary nodes was added to the above descriptors.
We further recorded the ADC values (×10−6 mm2/s) derived from the DWI images, and T2SI value derived from the T2W. For the quantitative parameters, the region of interest (ROI) was drawn on three contiguous axial images around the lesion circumference and the average recorded. All images were analysed on the dedicated Syngo-via (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) reading platform.
Data were entered into an Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel 2013. Redmond, WA) and analysed using the STATA software package (StataCorp. 2015: Stata Statistical Software, Release 14. College Station, TX). Differences in ADC value and T2SI between the two groups were assessed with a two-tailed unpaired t-test. Differences in ADC value and T2SI with enhancement pattern matching were assessed using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results were considered significant where p < 0.05.
Ethical clearance was obtained from the institution's Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (BREC) (Reference number BF213/13).
All the patients were female. The ages of the BTB patients ranged from 23 to 43 years, and for those with BCA, 31–74 years. Three BTB patients were HIV positive, one HIV negative and two not tested. The BCA subtypes included 13 cases of invasive ductal cancer (IDC) (76.5%); 3 cases of DCIS (17.6%), of whom one had high-grade DCIS; and 1 case (5.9%) of invasive lobular cancer (ILC).
The MRI morphological enhancement characteristics of the BCA patients are shown in Figure 1 and those of BTB in Figure 2.
FIGURE 1: Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging enhancement characteristic of various patients with breast cancer: (a) clustered ring, (b) clumped, (c) linear distribution, (d) homogeneous (e) larger homogeneous pattern and (f) multicentric heterogeneous enhancement.
FIGURE 2: Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging enhancement patterns of various patients with breast tuberculosis: (a) focal rim, (b) multiple regions rim, (c) same patient as (b) to better demonstrate multiple rim enhancement on the non-subtracted T1-weighted image, (d) clumped diffuse and (e) clumped diffuse associated with rim-enhancing left axillary nodes.
In the patients with BTB, 3/6 (50%) had mass-like enhancement, and 3/6 (50%) had NME patterns.
In the patients with BCA, 11/17 (65%) had mass-like enhancement, and 6/17 (35%) had NME patterns.
Amongst the BTB patients, 3 (50%) had clumped diffuse NME, 2 (33%) showed focal mass rim and 1 (17%) demonstrated multiple regions mass rim. Axillary nodes in BTB patients demonstrated rim enhancement (Figure 2).
Of the BCA patients, 5 (29%) had heterogeneous enhancement, 7 (41%) had homogeneous enhancement, 4 (24%) had clumped enhancement and 1 (6%) had clustered ring enhancement (Figure 1).
The representative images demonstrating data extraction for ADC values and T2SI measurements of the BCA and BTB patients are depicted in Figure 3.
FIGURE 3: Apparent diffusion coefficient value and the T2 signal intensity measurements. (a–c) Axial dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and T2-weighted (T2W)-MRI images of a 61-year-old female patient with left breast cancer: (a) Axial T1 post-contrast subtracted image demonstrates strongly homogeneous enhancing mass with neovascularity in the left breast. (b) Corresponding axial DWI-MRI apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map image shows dark signal. (c) Axial T2-weighted image shows the tumour hypointensity. (d–f) Axial DCE-MRI, DWI and T2W-MRI images of a 41-year-old female patient with left breast tuberculosis: (d) Axial T1 post-contrast subtracted image demonstrates a hypointense rim-enhancing mass in left breast; (e) Corresponding axial DWI-MRI ADC map image demonstrates a bright signal; and (f) Axial T2-weighted image shows a uniformly hyperintense signal.
We found significant differences in both ADC and mean T2SI values between the two groups. The mean ADC for BTB was 1690.8 ± 624.1, and for BCA, it was 1072.1 ± 365.1 (p = 0.006). The mean T2SI for BTB was 787.7 ± 196.0, and for BCA, it was 521.6 ± 233.7 (p = 0.020) (Table 2).
TABLE 2: Comparison of the diffusion-weighted imaging and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging quantitative parameters for the breast tuberculosis and breast cancer patients.
With regard to the ADC values, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed a sensitivity of 66.7% (CI 22.3% – 95.7%) and specificity of 94.1% (CI 71.3% – 99.9%) for a diagnosis of BTB at a cut-off value of 152.2 × 106 mm2/s, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.81 (CI 0.60% – 0.94%) (Figure 4).
FIGURE 4: Preliminary receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of the apparent diffusion coefficient value of the breast lesions for differentiating cancer from tuberculosis.
The corresponding values for T2SI were 83.3% specificity (CI 35.9% – 99.6%) and 82.4% sensitivity (CI 56.6% – 96.2%) at a cut-off value of 670.6, with an AUC of 0.77 (CI 0.54% – 0.91%) (Figure 5).
FIGURE 5: Preliminary receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of the T2 signal intensity of the breast lesions for differentiating cancer from tuberculosis.
These differences persisted when the two groups were matched for the patterns of mass-like enhancement (MASS) and non-mass enhancement (NME) and compared with ANOVA. Significance was shown for both mean ADC value (p = 0.040) and T2SI (p = 0.015).
This study evaluated the ability of the two quantitative MRI markers, the ADC value and the T2SI, and the qualitative dynamic post-contrast enhancement patterns to discriminate between BCA and BTB.
We have shown that BCA patients have significantly lower mean ADC and T2SI values compared to BTB patients. ROC curve analysis suggests that the ADC value is a better discriminator between BCA and BTB; however, the confidence intervals are unacceptably wide and further validation, using a larger sample, is required before these can be accepted as having real diagnostic value.
This outcome is explicable in that malignant lesions have high cellularity with resulting restricted diffusion, yielding lower ADC values, a parameter derived from the DWI. This finding has been shown to be consistent across many studies,23,24,25,26,27,38,39 with few exceptions.12 Woodhams et al.24 found malignant breast tumours to have lower ADC values than benign lesions; furthermore, the IDC displayed lower values when compared to the non-invasive ductal cancer (NIDC). In contrast, Chatterjee et al.12 found similar ADC values for brain tuberculomas and brain metastases.
The studies that utilised T2SI to discriminate the benign from the malignant breast lesions predominantly focused on the qualitative T2 signal morphologic appearance rather than the quantitative value as in our study.34,35 The data on the use of quantitative T2SI as a discriminator between benign and malignant breast lesions are scanty.40 Other studies in which T2SI quantitative values were used in differentiating benign from malignant lesions involve other parts of the body and not the breast.41,42 Henz et al.41 investigated pulmonary nodules with MRI using the quantitative parameters ADC and T2SI in a granulomatous endemic area. They found both the mean T2SI ratio and the ADC to be significant in differentiating the benign from the malignant pulmonary nodules.
Based on our findings, we conclude that the combination of DCE-MRI morphologic enhancement pattern, the T2SI and the quantitative DWI ADC values may provide some useful non-invasive information in distinguishing malignant from non-malignant illness (in this case, BTB) in patients with suspicious breast lesions. Development of accurate diagnostic algorithms will require accumulation of a larger patient database for BTB in particular; more broadly, however, continued investigation is appropriate in terms of the development of tests to distinguish malignant from benign disease more generally. As with mammographic and ultrasonic findings, the MRI findings alone are not sufficient to distinguish BTB and BCA with acceptable accuracy, and histology remains essential for this purpose.
This publication was made possible by grant number: R24TW008863 from the Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator and the US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH OAR and NIH ORWH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the government. Further funding for operational costs was obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) strategic funds. The authors also wish to acknowledge the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) for providing seed funding.
D.P.R. contributed to the preparation of protocol and recruitment of participants, including personally obtaining signed consent forms, supervision of radiology investigations, interpretation and processing of images, and drafting of the manuscript for publication. R.J.H. conceptualised the project and contributed to protocol preparation. He further contributed to the editing of the manuscript.
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Christie's New Jersey Slide Continues After Bridge Scandal
His approval ratings have plummeted since the scandal first gained wider notice
By Dan Hirschhorn Feb. 24, 2014
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has seen his home-state approval ratings plummet 15 points in the wake of the so-called Bridgegate scandal that is threatening his 2016 presidential ambitions, according to a new poll.
A survey released by Monmouth University, in New Jersey, on Monday found 50% of the state's residents approve of Christie's job performance and 44% disapprove — still a healthy amount of support at a time when few incumbents can boast majority backing. But that also represents a steep drop since the scandal, in which aides closed lanes leading to a busy bridge in an apparent political-payback ploy, first started to gain wider notice late last year. His approval rating was at 65% in December and 60% in January, down from a high-water mark of 70% shortly after he was inaugurated for a second term in early 2013. Among registered voters, only 49% approve of the job Christie is doing, the first time he's dipped under 50% since 2011.
"This hole is getting deeper," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. "Christie's image as the hero of [Hurricane] Sandy is now just a fading memory."
Christie apologized and fired a top aide in January for the scandal, in which lane closures snarled traffic in a northern New Jersey town for days last year after the town's mayor refused to back Christie's re-election campaign. The Republican, seen as a leading 2016 presidential contender, has sought to project a business-as-usual aura even as his office deals with dueling investigations of the incident by state lawmakers and federal authorities. Christie stayed out of the public eye during the National Governors Association meeting last weekend in Washington, a time when state executives typically bask in national media attention.
The Monmouth poll of 803 New Jersey adults, taken from Feb. 19 to 23, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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Wedding at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Maggie Garrett and her husband, Anthony Chalker, were married in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center on Thursday, March 14, 2019.
Wedding at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Maggie Garrett and her husband, Anthony Chalker, pose for photographs following their wedding ceremony on Thursday, March 14, 2019.
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Anthony Chalker, left, kisses Maggie Garrett during their wedding ceremony on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who had been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Christina Barnhardt, left, a patient care assistant, helps apply makeup to Maggie Garrett in her room at Penn State Cancer Institute on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend, Anthony Chalker, in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
While Maggie Garrett grabs the hand of her fiance, Anthony Chalker, outside of her room at the Penn State Cancer Institute, Odessa Ryan, a registered nurse adjusts her oxygen tank in preparation for their trip downstairs to the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend at the chapel on Thursday, March 14, 2019.
With the help of staff from Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Cancer Institute, Anthony Chalker wheels his fiance, Maggie Garrett, to the hospital chapel on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend in front of friends, family and staff from the Medical Center.
While Anthony Chalker, rear left, and his fiance, Maggie Garrett, look on, their son is presented with wedding rings by Sarah Miller, an inpatient social worker, outside the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend in the Medical Center chapel in front of family friends and employees of the hospital.
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While she was transported to her wedding in a wheelchair, Maggie Garrett insisted on walked into the cermony with her father Michael, on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend, Anthony Chalker, in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Anthony Chalker and his fiance, Maggie Garrett, hold hands during their wedding ceremony on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
During the wedding of Anthony Chalker, left, and Maggie Garrett, their daughter, Melody, walks up to them. The 1-year-old joined others in wearing purple to show support for Garrett, who had been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer. She married Chalker, her longtime boyfriend, on Thursday, March 14, 2019, in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Looking on is chaplain Rose Baer, left, who performed the service, and family friend, Flexcia Delevine.
With Dr. Anna Mesina, right, looking on, Dr. Cori Shollenberger embraces Maggie Garrett following her wedding ceremony on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who had been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend, Anthony Chalker, in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Maggie Garrett and her husband, Anthony Chalker, pose for photographs following their wedding ceremony on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Maggie Garrett looks on as her husband, Anthony Chalker, shares some sparkling cider with their daughter, Melody, 1, following their wedding ceremony on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
With her brother, Justin, right, holding onto the cake, Maggie Garrett and her husband, Anthony Chalker, cut out pieces for guests, following their wedding ceremony on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Looking on from the left is the couple's 6-year-old son, Nick.
Maggie Garrett and her husband, Anthony Chalker, cut cake following their wedding ceremony on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Garrett, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer, married her longtime boyfriend in the chapel at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Looking on from the left is the couple's 6-year-old son, Nick.
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import unittest

from remote_helper import filters

class DefaultFilterTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.filter = filters.DefaultFilter()

    def test_filter_should_block_a_matching_event(self):
        filtered_event = {
            'type': 'keydown',
            'content': {
                'code': 87,
                'modifiers': ['ctrlKey']
            }
        }
        self.assertEqual(self.filter.blocks(filtered_event), True)

    def test_filter_should_not_block_a_non_matching_event(self):
        non_filtered_event = {
            'type': 'mousedown',
            'content': {
                'button': 'left',
                'coordinates': {
                    'x': 140.2,
                    'y': 90.0
                }
            }
        }
        self.assertEqual(self.filter.blocks(non_filtered_event), False)

    def test_invalid_event_should_not_be_blocked(self):
        invalid_event = {
            'type': 'bogus',
            'content': {
                'code': 'n',
                'modifiers': ['foo', 'bar']
            }
        }
        self.assertEqual(self.filter.blocks(invalid_event), False)

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Screen back xref entities by changing them to color 250.
Leland Leahy uses this routine to change all the layers in an AutoCAD xref. You can modify the color to your liking, but Leland uses 250 to screen back the xref entities really quickly. Of course, since this routine only changes the xref layer colors, anything in the xref whose color is not bylayer probably will not change.
To use this routine, load the LISP file, then type in the command X250. Select any entity that is part of the desired xref and press Enter. Performance would be better if the code didn't make repeated calls to: (vla-get-Layers (vla-get-ActiveDocument (vlax-get-Acad-Object). You could set this to a variable and reference the variable in the loop.


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The 2019 recognition dinner is scheduled for Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the Hilton Orrington Hotel in Evanston, IL but we're already looking forward to 2021. If you'd like to join the event committee, email Caroline Lawless Friedman '82, Dinner Chair.
Interested in serving on the Educational Foundation Board? For information about our Board of Directors responsibilities, contact the Chair of the Governance Committee, Michael Gard '87.
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2018 is your year to celebrate if you graduated in a year ending in 3 or 8. Contact the office of alumni relations to start your planning. The office can assist you in many ways. Contact Niki Dizon, Director of Communications and Alumni Relations or Renee Mosley.
Please consider how you can help New Trier. For more information about volunteer opportunities contact the Foundation at 847-784-7667.


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Watch: "Me Time" Trailer Starring Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg and Regina Hall
By Ms. BPosted on July 26, 2022
Netflix has dropped the trailer for the upcoming comedy "Me Time" starring Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg and Regina Hall.
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The film which debuts August 26th on the streaming service is centered around a stay-at-home dad (Hart) who finds himself with some "me time" for the first time in years while his wife (Hall) and kids are away, he reconnects with his former best friend (Wahlberg) for a wild weekend that nearly upends his life.
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I've always been a reasonably outgoing sort of person. I've always enjoyed going to SCA Events and Activities (even to Meetings), to sporting events, and getting together with friends, and going on trips, and just getting out and doing things. Hmmmm. So why is it that lately I find myself dragging my feet when it comes to leaving the house?
I think the problem is partly that the friends I most enjoyed doing things with in the past have mostly scattered, or gone inactive from the SCA, or (God forbid) died — or they work such long hours at such oppressive jobs that they themselves have no energy left at the end of the day to do anything other than crash. No pep left in their step for socializing with me, or really with anyone else. Bummer.
The truth is that I don't much like doing things alone, or as a part of a large group not reliably containing people whose company I enjoy. There are few things more God-awful depressing than being in a large group of people you don't know and who are coupled-up or friended-up with no real inclination to meet or interact with anyone outside their circle.
Sitting alone watching other people have fun is really not all that enjoyable, if you take my meaning. I took a cruise alone once, and it was the worse vacation EVER!!! If you're young and hot, lots of strangers want to meet and talk to you, but if you aren't "America's Next Top Model", or if you've reached "a certain age", that no longer tends to be quite true, at least mundanely. They can and will look right through you.
Anyone with another alternative is more than welcomed to make suggestions, of course!!


This is a technique my mum read about in a magazine. We thought it looked really cool so we decided to try it out. Basically, we just needed a clean, scratch free transparent surface to drip water on, the idea being that you would then photograph your subject though this surface so it became distorted though the water drops.
.... and this is how it looks, much closer to the images from the magazine. I continued to experiment with different coloured flowers and some different objects under the glass and, after much cropping, this is how they turned out.
This didn't really work as well as I'd hoped it would. Although it's out of focus, there's too much going on in the background with too many similar colours and so the blobs don't stand out as much as they do in the flower images.
Not sure that this works too well either. This time, however, I don't think there's enough in the background. I mean lets face it; it's quite boring (also, looking at it now I can see that it's a little soft which probably doesn't help).


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Marholm is a village and civil parish in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. West of Peterborough and 1 mile from the seat of the Fitzwilliam family at Milton Hall. The parish covers some 1,400 acres, with the village positioned roughly in the centre. For electoral purposes it forms part of Northborough ward in North West Cambridgeshire constituency.

According to the 2011 census there were 76 males and 75 females living in the parish.

Peterborough Crematorium, a holder of the prestigious Green Flag Award, is located in approximately 26 acres (10.52 ha) of land in the parish, much of it left as original ancient woodland. Located just north is Woodcroft Castle.

History
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Marholm like this:MARHOLM, a parish in Peterborough district, Northampton; adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 4½ miles NW by N of Peterborough r. station. Post town, Peterborough. Acres, 1,790. Real property, £1,534. Pop., 172. Houses, 33. The property belongs chiefly to the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £311. * Patron, the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam. The church is partly Norman, partly early English, partly later English; consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains monuments of the Fitzwilliams. There are alms houses with £14 a year.

Marholm Church
Marholm Church, otherwise known as the Church of St Mary, is a Grade I listed building. The earliest known alterations to the church can be dated to 1534 by Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton (Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1524) when the chancel was re-built.

Marholm Farmhouse
Marholm Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building. It is a thatched building made from coursed stone rubble. The date 1633 is carved into the stone below the roof however there is evidence to suggest the origins of the building could date even earlier, particularly the recessed windows.

The Farm has been occupied by the Darby family since 1912. The Darby family are one of the oldest tenants to the Fitzwilliam estate and are traceable to nearly 400 years ago on the Castor register.

Home Farmhouse
Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building. It was listed in 1955. It is very similar to Marholm Farmhouse, again it is a thatched building made from coursed stone rubble with flush quoins.

Home Farm was initially run to meet the domestic needs of Milton rather than primarily for income. In the 20th century it was used as a mixed farm and after the First World War began a period of dairy farming that ceased in 1998.

Demographics

Population
The population of the last two centuries (1801-2011) has shown a steady rise and subsequent fall of total population in Marholm. This trend is also true in within both the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1801 the population of Marholm was recorded to be 109, by 1851 this figure had risen to 172 only to have fallen back down to 146 by  1901. The trend continues in the 20th century. Between 1901 and 1951 Marholm saw its biggest increase in population during any period in the last two centuries with the population peaking at its highest with 266, however fast forward 60 years to 2011 the population has reverted almost to levels recorded in 1901 with 151 people counted.

According to the 2011 census 13% of the population are aged 0–17, 68% aged between 18-74, and 19% are aged 75+. The average ages is 51 years old.

Ethnicity
According to the 2011 census, 98% of the population is White British & Irish. The remainder 2% is made up of White and Black Caribbean. Ethnicity figures are very similar in the 2001 Census with 97% of the population being White British & Irish.

Employment
The largest sector in employment in 1881 for males was agriculture with 26. This was most expected as the parish covers some 1,400 acres and has always retained an agricultural community. Although over the last 50 years the domination of agriculture has diminished Marholm still retains its rural feel. In contrast with the most recent 2011 occupational census data (although fields are very different from the ones used in 1881) we see a large proportion has moved away from agriculture and into tertiary sector jobs, 44% of the Marholm population work in office related jobs. A large proportion of the female population in 1881 were recorded with either unknown of unspecified occupations with 13 and 17 respectively.

Housing
Marholm is a small village surrounded by inhabited countryside. Typical housing in the area is detached, semi-detached and flats, with property prices regarded as 'average to high'. The 2017 average value for property in Marholm is £419,382 with a 2.91% increase from values 12 months ago. Over the last 10 years Marholm's properties have increased by 14.45%. Prices in Marholm are higher than the averages shown in other nearby villages with Glinton showing an average of £204,833, whilst the average value in Upton is £255,361.

Education
The closest primary school is Watergall Primary School located 1.9 miles away from Marholm. In their most recent Ofsted report the school was founded to 'require improvement' in a number of areas, despite being surrounded by a number of alternative primary schools it still manages to attract an intake of 200 pupils. The nearest secondary school is Ken Stimpson Community School, Ofsted recently found the school as 'good' and it is located 6.3 miles from Marholm.

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Geography of Peterborough
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire

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El Interim Control Module (ICM) és un mòdul espacial fabricat per la NASA dissenyat per ser utilitzat com a "remolcador" temporal per a l'Estació Espacial Internacional en cas que el mòdul de servei Zvezda fou destruït o no s'ampliés la durada a l'espai. Fou derivat d'un Titan Launch Dispenser anteriorment classificat utilitzat per distribuir satèl·lits de reconeixement en diferents òrbites. Hauria estat capaç de perllongar la vida útil del mòdul Zarià proporcionant capacitats de propulsió equivalents al Mòdul de Servei, encara que no compte amb cap de les funcions de suport de vida.

En el 1997, la NASA va sol·licitar al Naval Research Laboratory estudiar la viabilitat de l'adaptació d'un sistema espacial existent per proporcionar operacions de propulsió a baix cost per l'Estació Espacial Internacional (ISS).

Després de determinar que el sistema podria adaptar-se a temps pels requisits de la NASA, la NRL se li va concedir autorització per procedir amb el Interim Control Module (ICM). Des de la seva concepció, l'ICM era una opció de contingència per reimpulsar en alçada l'ISS que permetria NASA per preservar el programa de construcció en òrbita en cas de retards en la posada en marxa del mòdul de servei rus.

L'ICM hauria d'haver sigut llançat a bord del Transbordador Espacial, desplegar-se des de la zona de càrrega del transbordador, i acoblar-se amb l'ISS al Mòdul de Control Rus (anomenat Zarià). Un cop en òrbita, l'ICM proporcionaria suficient combustible per a un a tres anys d'operació.

L'ICM es troba en un estat de manteniment al Payload Processing Facility de la NRL a Washington, D.C.

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The 2007-08 Citizenship Survey, undertaken by Communities and Local Government, found that 27 percent of people in England participated in formal volunteering at least once a month. In the USA, the figure is remarkably similar. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last month that approximately 26.8 percent of the population – some 63.4 million people – volunteered through or for an organization between September 2008 and September 2009.
Much of the time, since the notion of voluntary work is that it is unpaid, people's best efforts can go unrecognized in the wider field. A campaign venture by GVI entitled Are You The Difference? hopes to change that by providing volunteers from across the globe with the opportunity to showcase their community efforts.
Я бы не стал делать столь категоричные выводы. Ну что ж, здесь есть что обсудить. Интересно услышать другие мнения на эту тему.


Public and private school choice proposals, being promoted by the Obama Administration, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the neoconservative Trotskyite/corporate conglomerate, if implemented, will spell the end of traditional education in the United States. Tax-supported school choice proposals affecting public, private, religious, and home school education are the vehicle to change not only the right of Americans to choose what kind of education they wish for their children, but may also result in changing our representative form of government to an unelected council form of government due to one form of school choice, charter schools, run by "unelected councils."
Under the proposed school choice proposals, including Parent Trigger laws, education is being surreptitiously converted from academics to socialist work force training necessary for the United States imminent merging into a global, collectivized economy.
The research used in this article documents the plan to change America from a free enterprise competitive economic system to a planned economy necessary for United States membership in the global economic system. The plan is being implemented in every state in the nation right now! It seems ALL state governors are on board, including Maine's Governor LePage, who we traditional conservatives (NOT Trotskyite neoconservatives) worked our hearts out to get elected as a so-called traditional conservative. LePage was co-opted, prior to his election, by The Maine Heritage Policy Center (affiliated with the national neoconservative Heritage Foundation which has affiliates in most states). Maine Heritage manipulated Governor LePage into supporting all forms of school choice which are essential for work force training.
What we are looking at now in education is a result of NAFTA which got the ball rolling in the development of work force skills standards by the National Skills Standards Board, endorsed by the U.S. Labor Department Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) This study originated under Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole in 1990 and eventually led to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act and the dumbing down of American education curriculum for workforce training. (Foregoing information on role of the national Heritage Foundation in creation of NAFTA and educational restructuring can be found here, page 304).
The above-mentioned types of school choice will be tax-supported, with the tax money following your child. Each child, regardless of type of "choice" education, will have an individual education plan (IEP) determined by decisions made by the school/business partnerships (for which kind of workforce training "they" have determined your child's intelligence/talents are best suited, for their own profit-seeking purposes.) This is the failed communist/socialist job quota system from which millions of foreigners escaped. These immigrants, the backbone of our nation, made enormous sacrifices (some dying on the way!) to come to the United States of America in order to enjoy the upward mobility guaranteed by our free (unplanned) economic system.
Professor Eugene Boyce, University of Georgia, said in regard to the above communist education system: "They (communists) do not educate for jobs that don't exist." No matter what your child wants to be/do in the future (welder or ballet dancer) his freedom to pursue his dreams will be limited by whether he is included in the school/business partnership's "quota" for training.
Example: If he wants to be a welder at the shipbuilding company in your town, he will only be able to get training if he is fortunate enough to be included in the training quota. If the company only needs ten welders, and your son/daughter is No. 11 on the list, he/she will NOT receive training. Ask yourself what this socialist system will do to the spirit of entrepreneurship for which America is so well known?
The choice proposals being recommended by most state Governors will ultimately destroy all forms of education: public, home school, private, and religious. The most lethal form of education choice is tax-supported public schools (charter schools) which have no elected school boards resulting in "taxation without representation." This is an oppressive system which caused our nation to revolt and declare war against the British (the American Revolution, 1776). What is to keep Americans from accepting the unelected council form of government at all levels of government once one of the major sections of our economy (education) is being run by unelected councils? Do Americans think giving up their representative/elective form of government is a good idea? I doubt it.
The Carnegie Corporation's agenda, which has been in effect since its first experiment with Outcomes/Performance-Based Education, known as "The Eight Year Study" (1933-1941), has been and is continuing its agenda to destroy the traditional hierarchical public school with its elected school boards and its K-12, A,B,C,D,F grading system which focused on individual academic excellence. The latter description represented our formerly excellent public education system until passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 when education became Skinnerian/Pavlovian "outcomes/performance-based" rather than "brain-based." This "new" system is so focused on academic dumbing down it will allow students to graduate at 14 or 21! Google Reinventing Schools Coalition (RISC) to find out what is in store for you and your children, and teachers! You will find out what the reformed education (training) system looks like, giving "successful" (define, please!) schools the Malcolm Baldridge Quality Management Award. This award is traditionally given to corporations like Cadillac! Are our teachers and children to be educated using the same system used to manufacture cars? RISC is already spreading across Maine.
So...not only will private education be destroyed...yes, home schoolers...you too are part of this wicked web. The tax money, if you accept it, will follow the child and that means "your child," not just your neighbor's child, who goes to public, private, or religious school. You had better read the research regarding what is planned for you with virtual (computer) education. Former Secretary of Education William Bennett's Virtual Academy (computer-assisted-learning for home schoolers) is part of the switch from book learning to computer learning. It MUST administer the federal National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, the focus of which is at least 50% "politically correct", since it is a charter school and is federally funded. Wake up home schoolers! You are going to be connected with the central education/training unelected "community chief's" computer, just as will be the case with private and religious schools that accept federal money.
All education will/must be sucked into the computerized global system called for by Carnegie in 1934 and Carnegie's minion, Marc Tucker, in the nineties and now. The Director of the Office of Libraries and Learning Technology in my old office, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education, Malcolm Davis, told me in 1981, when I commented to him that computers could allow students to be educated at home: "In the future all education will take place in the home, but we will always have the schools for 'socialization' purposes." What Davis is referring to is the lifelong Womb-to-Tomb education/training/health care/leisure services, etc. system, under the supervision of the unelected "Community Planner/Commissar" and his unelected council. (Does the UN Agenda 21 ring a bell?) Most (old) dictionaries define "council" as a "soviet." Or look up Soviet, and you'll find "unelected councils." See Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary.
Massive documentation exists to substantiate this description of Americans' futures IF they fall for the school choice proposals. This unconstitutional unelective system is known as "regional government." It has been described as "communism" by Morris Zeitlin, a sociologist, in an article he wrote in The Communist Daily World, 1976.
Finn also believed the government is obligated to recognize that the private schools it helps support are different from public schools—that it is this "differentness" that makes them supportable. "The other side of the coin," he says, "is the obligation of private schools to recognize certain limits to their differentness and certain ways they must conform to the norms and expectations of a society that values and supports them...."
Some, to be sure, like to think they can have it both ways; i.e., they can obtain aid without saddling themselves with unacceptable forms of regulation. But most acknowledge the general applicability of the old adage that he who pays the piper calls the tune, and are more or less resigned to amalgamating or choosing between assistance and autonomy.
(Quote taken from Finn's article entitled "Public Service, Public Support, Public Accountability," March, 1982 issue of the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Bulletin. Reprinted in "Tuition Tax Credits…A Responsible Appraisal," The Barbara Morris Report, Upland, California, 1983).
Twenty-nine year public school veteran teacher, Steven Schran, and I attended the press conference of Maine Governor LePage, and Maine Heritage Foundation's clone, Commissioner of Education Bowen, held July 24, 2012 in the State Capitol to outline the Governor's plan to change our schools from academics to Work Force Training.
– Following a report released by Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG), Governor Paul LePage and Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen will hold a media conference in the Hall of Flags of the State House on Wednesday, July 25 to discuss Maine's educational system and the Administration's plan moving forward. The conference will begin at 2:00 p.m.
The PEPG report, an analysis of growth trends of student performance in math, reading, and science, ranked Maine 40th out of the 41 participating American states. The study examined test scores from one U.S. series of tests and three series of tests administered by international organizations given to fourth and eighth grade students across the country.
In 1992, Maine was ranked 3rd in the nation in overall test scores, but has fallen nine places since then. Maine is currently ranked 12th in overall test scores – the lowest of the participating New England States.
Governor LePage and Commissioner Bowen will present in more detail the findings of the PEPG report at the conference, as well as discuss initiatives to improve Maine's educational system.
component to a prosperous economy. Last year, Governor LePage increased funding to general purpose aid for education by $63 million over the two-year budget.
During the 125th Legislature, the Governor led the initiative to allow charter schools in Maine for the first time, giving more choices to Maine families. The Governor also introduced a series of reforms to improve Career and Technical Education in Maine, bringing it back to the forefront of education and Commissioner Stephen Bowen created comprehensive legislation addressing educator effectiveness, making sure Maine's educators are evaluated regularly, given the training and support they need to improve, and are held accountable for student achievement and growth.
"We have come to a pivotal moment for the future of Maine's educational system. We have proof that past methods have not been effective. We now have a chance to change our educational system for the better," said Commissioner Bowen.
For the full findings of the PEPG report, click here. For more information on charter schools and Maine's current educational initiatives, click here.
The Governor's talk was long on "bad" test scores, need for performance-based teaching to the federal test, and accountability, etc. (Are teachers and children considered nothing but Skinnerian/ Pavlovian slobbering dogs with no soul, conscience or free will?) The speech was short on telling the truth which you are reading in this article. Steve Schran had a great sign hanging around his neck which said "Lies, Lies, and More Lies!" My sign quoted from C.S. Lewis, the famous English writer, "When training beats education, civilization dies." The Governor was really upset when he saw us and mumbled something to effect, "Ha, ha, look at those two freaks." He recognized Steve since he had recently had a meeting with Steve during which he promised not to do any of what he is doing right now. He knows me due to a telephone conversation we had the day before he was inaugurated during which I warned him regarding charter schools and their unelected boards! He admitted he would have to do something about the unelected boards. Well, he must have found out you can't have elected boards with charter schools or you end up back where you were with the traditional public school! So he literally did nothing about the problem and went with charter schools.
I did spout words to the effect, "This plan of yours (Marc Tucker Plan) has been in effect since the 1980s!" He wanted everyone to believe what he is doing is simply in regard to Maine's low test scores!!! Of course, the press conference was limited to questions from the press, so we couldn't speak, although I did mutter those few above-mentioned words which it is unlikely anyone heard.
The pathetic press corps is made up of well-meaning young people who don't have a clue. The nightly news carried NOTHING regarding our attendance; i.e. total corporate media control of what Americans are allowed to know about this so-called education reform which is designed to forever change our nation. The average American doesn't have a clue either. He/she doesn't have the foggiest idea that their country is being comfortably merged into the communist/socialist New Global Economic Order, and that their children and their teachers are the guinea pigs being used as fodder (drones) to spin off profits for the global elite.
Governor LePage's talk, and that of his Maine Heritage-controlled Commissioner, Steven Bowen, was long on phony statistics out of Harvard (we are supposed to trust Harvard?) which are designed to convince us that Maine's test scores are bad in comparison to those of southern states.
(So we are supposed to emulate what is being done in Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, et al?) These states which have traditionally had the lowest academic test scores, in part due to their children being experimented on with the same Skinnerian Effective Schools/Direct Instruction pigeon-training methods since 1965, are all on board with the school choice agenda and work force training. When our system remained an academically-focused one, these states, which were involved in experimentation for the new system, were considered failing. Now that the focus has officially changed to work force training, and the tests focus on training, not academics, these states are considered succeeding. And we are meant to follow in their footsteps? (These southern states and many inner cities have been since 1965 the pilots for the Outcomes-Based Education Skinnerian method which is now being implemented for the rest of the country in order to change our education from academics to work force training!) Take a look at the headlines of the Knoxville News Sentinel for July 27, 2012!
The Governor's speech was short on telling the truth about how traditional education is being targeted for elimination; about how all this low test score hype is simply the means to get Americans to accept yet another reform, like the 1981 "A Nation at Risk" which came out of my old office, and was a farce. Check out The Sandia Report, commissioned by Admiral James Watkins, Secretary of Energy. This report stated the nation's test scores were nowhere as bad as they were stated to be by the so-called phony Commission on Excellence, whose purpose was nothing other than to move us toward a restructured education. This report was successful in carving in stone the future use of Skinnerian method, known as Mastery Learning/Direct Instruction, something traditional teachers had been opposing since 1965's ESEA.
We are looking at a repeat of The National Commission on Excellence's "A Nation at Risk," 1983, using, for the umpteenth time, the Hegelian Dialectic: Create the problem (the very expensive deliberate dumbing down) over a period of 78 years, get people to scream using partially phony statistics, and then, since the public is so incensed over those so-called dumbing down statistics, get them to accept any solution the "change agents" want.
When you see President Obama's Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who calls for Skinnerian/Pavlovian paying students for good grades, the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, and the neoconservative movement led by the Heritage Foundation, and other tax-exempt foundations and corporations, all supporting TAX-SUPPORTED SCHOOL CHOICE, you MUST start asking yourselves questions about their ultimate goal.
Great article. I must have a different view of 'old' dictionary than that of the author; the 1913 edition of Websters does not list 'soviet' as a definition of council.


The Nursing Assistant I provides basic health and personal care and participates in ongoing data collection for patients assigned her/him by a registered nurse. The Nursing Assistant I performs certain patient care activities under the direction of an RN who accepts accountability for the safety and effectiveness of said care. The Nursing Assistant I may also be assigned to indirect care of patient equipments, etc. or be assigned to work other nursing units in order to meet patient/staffing needs. The NA I competently perform interventions and care in accordance with standards of care specific to the age group of patients served. The age groups served by the above named NA I are Infants, children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics.
The following is a summary of the essential functions of this job. The incumbent may perform other duties, both major and minor, that are not mentioned below; and specific functions may change from time to time. Assists with patient personal hygiene and grooming according to hospital procedures in a reasonable amount of time. Changes bed linens and removes soiled linen according to hospital procedure. Assists patients with ambulation, transfer, and repositioning using proper body mechanics and protecting patients from falls or injury. Assists patients with meals and fluid intake; measures totals and documents intake according to hospital procedure. Assists patients with elimination and measures, totals and documents output according to hospital procedures. Assists with maintaining a clean and safe environment for patients. Assist with special procedures as instructed by the registered nurse and according to hospital procedures. Communicates appropriately with patients, visitors and employees. Performs indirect patient care activities as assigned. Demonstrates preparation for appropriate response to emergencies. Continues to learn. Cooperates with rules expected of health care team members.
High school education preferred. Successful completion of Nursing Aide I course at an approved North Carolina institution. Listing as a Nurse Aide I by the Department of Facility Services. Special instruction and supervised clinical practice for Category II procedure.
Demonstrates sound basic clinical Nurse Aide I knowledge and interpersonal skills adequate to interact in a polite and respectful manner. Demonstrates an attitude of cooperativeness with fellow caregivers from all areas. Demonstrates the ability to interact with all levels of patients/families/visitors as well as employees. Demonstrates support of a patient-focused care philosophy and completes any special instruction and supervision needed for clinical practice in Category II or special procedures. Must be able to read and write legibly.
Meets employee health requirements of Caldwell Memorial Hospital. Must be able to stand and walk for long periods of time, turn and position patients, perform CPR. Must have adequate hearing to hear patient call bells and communicate with physicians and other healthcare personnel by telephone (hearing impaired phone may be used). Must be able to see adequately (with glasses if necessary) to assess patients and document on the patient record. Moderate physical exertion is required including but not limited to moving, lifting and transferring patients. Must be able to lift and support a minimum of 50 lbs. Must be able to lift and support a minimum of 150lbs with assistance. Under certain circumstances lifting devices and equipment as well as additional personnel may be required.


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Let me just say this upfront: Many dumplings are spherical in shape and can only be described as balls. Go ahead and giggle like I did during the four-day Asian Dumplings photo shoot when photographer Penny De Los Santos repeatedly said "balls" to break up the tension. But seriously, round shaped dumplings have a large presence in the Asian dumpling repertoire. Consider classic Asian dumplings such as fried Chinese sesame balls (jin duei) and Indian gulab jamum (once referred to in a recipe as cakey balls). I'll stop with the innuendos.
What got me hooked on making Japanese takoyaki is not their shape, nor the fact that their name literally means octopus balls, reflecting that they are traditionally filled with chunks of cooked octopus. Takoyaki resemble French profiteroles but they combine an unusual array of savory ingredients – dashi stock hydrates the wheat flour batter, the filling includes raw, cooked, and pickled items, and garnishes comprise mayonnaise, seaweed, shaved bonito flakes and tonkatsu sauce, which tastes like Worcestershire sauce. All of these seemingly disparate ingredients give donut-like takoyaki a savory, rich, tangy, sea-like taste. These dumplings remind me of Japan's quirky culture and its penchant for building layer upon layer of subtlety to create wonderful foods.
In terms of Japanese dumplings, takoyaki is not as popular as gyoza but a close runner up. The dumplings are a Japanese street food enjoyed by many young people. In recounting her youth, my friend Maki gleefully talks about eating takoyaki after dancing up a storm at the discos. The dumplings are popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong too. I've witness hordes of Chinese hipsters in Kowloon (Hong Kong) around the takoyaki vendor. In the States, Japantowns and Japanese markets are where you are likely to find takoyaki. I've seen them at the Vancouver weekend night market in the Asian section of town.
What to do when you're not near a takoyaki vendor? Make them yourself. You need a cast-iron pan with semi-spherical wells in them. There are special takoyaki pans sold at Japanese hardware/houseware shops but an aebeskilver type pan works. I used my as-seen-on-TV pancake puff pan; it's the one I used for South Indian kuzhi paniyaram rice and lentil dumplings. Love the crosscultural uses, don't you?
As for the filling, who has access to small quantities of boiled octopus? When I spoke to Japanese food authority Elizabeth Andoh (author of marvelous Japanese cookbooks such as Washoku), she told me that you can put whatever you'd like into takoyaki. That's true. I've seen takoyaki recipes that called for using tempura bits and konyaku as filling. In that regard, takoyaki is like its Osaka sister, okonomiyaki, which is sometimes translated as "as you like it pancake." For the filling, I prefer shrimp, scallion, cabbage and some pickled ginger, either the salty red variety or the tangy-sweet slices served with sushi.
There are takoyaki batter mixes but the clerks at Marukai, Mitsuwa and Nijiya markets that I ventured to suggested okonomiyaki batter mix, which is easier to find. I prefer to mix my own using cake flour, and have provided a takoyaki batter recipe below. Note that I use instant dashi stock powder, an acceptable practice. The brand I prefer has no MSG and is sold at Japanese, Korean markets, and some Chinese markets. Sushi-type pickled ginger is terrific, or go for the saltier and pretty shredded ginger sold in the refrigerated section of the markets.
Regardless of what you're squeezing, use a freezer zip-top plastic bag as a makeshift pastry bag and nozzle. Put your squeezable ingredient in a corner of the bag. To fashion the pastry bag tip, snip a small hole – a scant 1/4 inch wide – at the corner so you can squirt the sauce or frosting out.
Go ahead and squeeze and you should get thin lines. Practice on a flat surface if you've never used a pastry bag before. Below are photos of this nifty method as applied to mayonnaise.
You can use the plastic bag for decorating a cake, cupcake, or cookie. Just fill it with frosting or icing. The lines will not be smooth and pretty as what you see in a bakery. If you're going for perfection, put decorative pastry tip in the corner of the bag.
Hot from the pan, these dumplings are lightly crisp but they lose their crispness in less than a minute. That's to be expected and is part of takoyaki's unusual nature. If you'd like, substitute 1 1/3 cups homemade dashi for the dashi powder and water. Takoyaki dumplings are meant to be eaten hot from the pan (I've burnt my tongue several times) so line up your guests. See the tip on using a plastic bag to pipe out the mayonnaise in nice lines.
1. To make the batter, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and dashi powder in a bowl. Make a hole in the center. Whisk together the egg and water, then whisk into the dry ingredients to form a smooth batter. Transfer to a measuring cup. Set aside to bloom for at least 15 minutes, or cover with plastic and leave at room temperature for as long as 2 hours.
2. Have the filling ingredients ready near the stove, along with the batter. Make sure the garnishes are ready too as the dumplings are best eaten hot from the pan.
3. Heat the pancake puff, aebelskiver, or takoyaki pan over medium heat. Brush a light coating of oil in each well. Aim for a moderately warm pan as if you're making pancakes. Too hot of pan will form craters on the surface and you want a smooth finish on these dumplings.
When the pan is sufficiently hot, pour batter into the pan to just shy of the rim. If your burner has hot spots, fill the wells above those hot spots last. If anything, there should be just a light sizzle when the batter hits the pan. Lower the heat if the sizzling is loud as that's a sign that the pan is too hot.
4. Add 1 or 2 pieces of shrimp and generous pinches of scallion, ginger, and cabbage to each well. The batter level will rise a tad. Then wait for about 1 minute until the edges have begun to set or small bubbles have formed at the rim. When that happens, use two skewers to loosen each dumpling around the top edge and flip it over. Expect the dumplings to be pale in color at this stage.
Don't fret about doing it neatly. Aim to flip it over when there's still enough loose batter to form a round underside; some may look like Pacman but that's fine. After about 1 minute, the batter should have set on the other side and you can tuck the dumpling into the well to cook evenly into a nice round shape.
Keep turning and rotating the dumpling for about 5 minutes, until the dumplings are golden and crisp. Use the skewers to transfer (stab the dumpling if you must) the dumplings to a plate. Let cool for about 1 minute before serving. Meanwhile, oil and repeat the cooking to make more takoyaki dumplings.
5. To serve, drizzle the tonkatsu sauce and squeeze (or pipe) mayonnaise atop the dumplings. Follow by sprinkling with seaweed and finish with the bonito flakes. Eat with forks or skewers, should you want to mimic the act of eating takoyaki on the street.
I saw that pan and I thought "banh khot". Those takoyakis are tasty, esp with the octopus fillings.
Binh — banh khot is on my list!
Jesse — love that tip on preventing Pacman takoyaki. The extra bit of batter should definitely do the trick. There's a little clean up between batches but it should lift off the pan easily.
Oyster Culture — you are too much. Takoyaki are oddly lovable.
I have to get one of those pans! The uses could be endless, and these dumplings sound delicious.
My husband's youngest niece (who is Japanese-American)is wild for these. I remember her driving with her aunt all the way from Sacramento to the South Bay just to score some. Actually, now that you've shown me I can make them in my ebelskiver pan, I can whip some up for her the next time she visits.
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Carolyn, What's with young people and takoyaki? You'll be the most favorite auntie to that lucky young woman!
out there — and new fruit to pluck every day.
I am denser than I thought! I love them and will approach the guild about buying them.
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hmm i have a question, why you use not whole around pan hole?
i use whole around pan hole so i can make excellent ball of takoyaki in Takoo!
No comments to give cos all OK but I want to know where to get DASHI powder. thanks.
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Q: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on Raspberry PI - MySQL was working and then stopped I have been using MySQL with Ubuntu 20.04.3 on Raspberry PI for about 3 months with absolutely no problem but earlier this week I discovered mysql.service was no longer running. As this is definitely only a development machine and I am doing all kinds of things whilst developing a webapp I assumed it was something I had done to screw it up. However, when investigating I quickly realised that mysql.service was starting and immediately failing -
Mar 23 21:48:16 magPIe mysql-systemd-start[2280]: ERROR: Unable to start MySQL server:
Mar 23 21:48:16 magPIe mysql-systemd-start[2280]: mysqld: error while loading shared libraries: libprotobuf-lite.so.3.11.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After a lot of digging and searching (and learning) I first installed libprotobuf-lite17 without effect but then found libprotobuf-lite.so.3.11.4 in /usr/lib/oldsql/private - I created a symbolic link for the file in /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu and hey presto was able to restart mysql.service. As I am only playing around with the system I should now be content - but as I am not aware of doing anything that would 'archive' the .so file and not aware of doing anything to suddenly create a need for the .so file I am curious about how the situation came about (and slightly worried that my 'fix' is inappropriate)...
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Walter Iuzzolino Speaks To The Media Show On Radio 4
Walter Iuzzolino, the titular curator of the new Channel 4 venture Walter Presents, was interviewed by Steve Hewlett for the Media Show on BBC Radio 4 this week. Here are the highlights, but the interview can be heard in full on the BBC website.
SH: How did you end up with Walter Presents?
WI: I'm not an insane megalomaniac. The name was not my idea. This is just a passion project. I've always loved international drama. I'm Italian so I was raised with a rich diet of international drama, because they dub stuff there – albeit very badly. Italian television is dubbed. It means that language is no barrier to accessing drama. There is no such thing as Italian drama or English drama – there is just drama. So as a kid I was exposed to quite a lot of really interesting stuff from German cop shows to telenovelas.
SH: What gave you the idea of trying to put together a collection for the UK. Why the UK?
WI: I moved to the UK 20 years ago and I was quite struck with the understandable Anglo-American nature of drama here so why not replicate it? I was struck with the absence of more languages in the sense that subtitles have always been considered niche and art house. I knew, where I came from, that there was incredible mainstream fun content in all languages, and ten years ago BBC4 started in a pioneering way with Spiral, which I think is an absolutely extraordinary piece of television.
SH: And then The Killing…
WI: Yeah, but I remember that Spiral was the one that got me because I remember watching it and thinking "if this works, the time is right – let's do it". It started to become really mainstream and really sizeable audiences realised that it's good fun.
SH: So when you put the proposition together, how did it end up at Channel 4 rather than the BBC?
WI: First of all the proposition was always that I and my colleague Jason Thorp and Jo McGrath would sit down and curate a selection so we spent two years watching thousands of hours of drama and picked out what we thought was the very best.
SH: Is this before you pitched it?
WI: The three of us got together and we set up a company and we gave ourselves a year to really make it happen. We went out there, and the last time we counted it was 3500 hours, but now it will be more than that, from all over the World and it's not genre specific so we went everywhere.
SH: Tell me how it got to Channel 4 then…
WI: I worked as a commissioner. I produced shows for Channel 4. I've always loved Channel 4. I think the DNA of Channel 4 was absolutely perfect for something that was, in a way, so contemporary.
SH: Why not the BBC though?
WI: The BBC are not in the business of going into business with private people to set up services. And so, the BBC have cornered a beautiful market, which is the Scandi Noir, and that's what they do and they do it really well. But I thought that there was much more texture to be had from all sorts of pieces from all over the World.
SH: If it's not too crude a question, what's the business model? How does it work?
WI: It's very straight because, imagine it's a mini Netflix, right, only it's entirely free of charge and it's built on advertising. So you watch the programmes and then there are adverts in the same way as there are in any Channel 4 hour.
SH: What I'm slightly sceptical about is that could generate enough to pay the rights fees for all these thousands of hours or hundreds of hours of drama…
WI: Well, time will tell if it will work. Honestly though, there is a point to be made here. I think that both Jay Hunt (Chief Creative Officer at Channel 4) and David Abraham (Channel 4 Chief Executive) have been absolutely incredible with this. Not only because they move at the speed of light and there is something incredible when you are a creative or an entrepreneur walking through the doors and having a chat with someone and getting an instant response and reaction. I think at a time, and in an era, when everyone from Netflix to Amazon is desperate for your 6.99 a month subscription fee… To take premium content that we associate with subscription and making hundreds of hours of that available entirely for free is a fantastic act of creative madness. And also, what I think is important, is that it shows their real desire to accelerate the convergence between linear and streaming.
SH: Do you expect to make any money out of this?
WI: I would hope so in a few years, but God knows. The truth is this is actually born of an act of passion, so as of now I pinch myself every morning thinking "oh God, this is actually my job".
SH: When you are looking at your thousands of hours, what criteria do you apply?
WI: Three very simple criteria we applied from the start. The first was that the shows needed to be big hits in their country of origin. So nothing in it is Art House or niche or intellectual in that way, and so they needed to be seen by millions of people in their country of origin. So they are our Mr Selfridges, they are our Bridges and so on, and so forth. The quality needed to be the quality of Homeland, House Of Cards, Bridge and Borgen so the quality bar in terms of excellence in writing, acting and directing. And then we also looked at award winning pieces nationally and internationally. And if two of these three criteria fit we went for a show.
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