Almost immediately after posting last Friday's post, which made a quick reference to the fella's father's list of "true cookies" I began to get comments requesting this list of true cookies. Right on cue I got a moderately irate message from the fella's father demanding I print a list of the true cookies in an attempt to keep any holiday mayhem at bay. A world without knowledge of the true cookies is a world on the brink of disaster apparently.
So … I have for you right now, at this very moment, the much anticipated "list" of true cookies. If you aren't familiar with "the lists of true things", please refer to the list of true pies from July 7th, 2011. The following is a verbatim copy of the message sent to me by the fella's father. It has not been altered or edited in any way. All opinions expressed therein are those of the originator of the content.
"There are four true cookies and, from Hallowe'en until New Year's, one honourary true cookie. All other cookies are faux, jumped-up pretend confections not worthy of the name cookie.
#1. A two-piece white sugar cookie with a hole in the top so you can see the red filling. Filling can be raspberry jam from the E.D. Smith Co. of Winona, Ontario OR Smuckers crabapple jelly. Icing sugar on top allowed but not mandatory.
#2. Chocolate chip. Must be real chocolate.
Honourary: Ginger bread people, must be anatomically correct.
Shortbreads are pretentious, look-at-me-I'm-a-shortbread, for snooty people. Rumballs are NOT true cookies. They're not even cookies. They are lumps of dough infused with cheap liquor.
At Christmas you may feel an urge to make Christmas cookies in the shape of stars, bells and evergreen trees. Resist that urge.
The Nanaimo bar is a worthy confection but IT IS NOT A COOKIE. It is one of the true squares.
And there you have it. The reason behind why the fella is the way he is. And proof the apple pie doesn't fall far from the tree.
TeeHee this is delightfully hilarious, and to be quite honest I tend to agree with the Fella's Father — especially on the #1 cookie!
may I just add that no form of Whoopie Pie is a cookie and grocery stores/cook books really need to stop calling them so.
I am going to score myself a 2.5 correct out of 4+1. Yay me!
I am in complete agreement with the four True Cookies selection. I do insist that my own Black Cat Jam raspberry and raspberry peach are acceptable as filling in cookie number 1.
Does he have any guidelines as to the inclusion of nuts in True Cookie number 2?
And how anatomically correct do Gingerbread People cookies have to be?
I love the True lists. Thanks Karen. Please pass on thanks, as I know I can get through the holidays without faux cookies hanging over my head.
And technically, peanuts are not nuts, they are from the lentil family. So, no nuts. And I agree. Some people (namely my mother-in-law) insist on putting nuts in everything. Everything. And she doesn't believe in anything chocolate either. I must have mentioned that I loved chocolate and hated nuts early on in our relationship. She has issues. What can I say. Thank you for letting me vent. What were we talking about? Ah yes, true cookies.
So I'm pretty sure he wouldn't like my gang's Christmas cookies. Every year a dear friend has a Dipsomaniac's Holiday Cookie Party, where she bakes about 5 dozen sugar cookies in traditional Christmas shapes, which my team promptly cuts and decorates in very non-traditional themes. Last year, we even had a gingerbread house that turned into the abandoned house where all the zombie Santas hung out during the daytime.
Wow, the commenter ahead of me has the BEST username ever, doesn't she? WOW.
This was hilarious. You have all kinds of fun at his family stuff and yours, it's clear.
But what are the true squares?
And is there such a thing as true cakes?
I forsee a whole segment lol!
I was wondering the same thing…must know more of true squares!
I love the fella's father for his nod to anatomically correct gingerbread men. I used to go to London a lot on business, and at one high falutin' sweetshop I patronized, it being near my hotel, I found one, dreadful December day when I dropped by said establishment, that they were selling ARMLESS gingerbread men.
What, in all that's holy, was that about? What's wrong with those London bakers?? You just gotta be concerned about a nation that would treat gingerbread men like that.
Jeez, this brings back SUCH bad memories. I was totally shaken, gingerbread, and gingerbread men lover that I am. That happened 15 years ago, and the memory of it still gives me the heebie jeebies.
Oh Caro, now I am on edge waiting for when the "true cakes" will be announced. Do you think Coconut will make the cut with white, yellow and chocolate? Now I believe I am not a true cookie person at all. My favorite cookie is a simple soft frosted sugar cookie, no fruity jelly in there please. I dislike raisins and prefer oatmeal chocolate chip. I plant a Hershey's Kiss in the center of my peanut butter blossoms. I do love the Ghirardelli chocolate chip cookie recipe and make it straight up most times but I only eat them when I add pecans. Gingersnap cookies are good for making cheesecake crusts, my Grandma's Big Soft Ginger cookies with a single cinnamon imperial in the center are the only acceptable ginger cookies for the holidays here.
Why are all things "true" baked goods?
Leslie – You make an excellent point. But if memory serves me correctly … there is also a list of "true soups". Although you're right. Some of them might be baked. ~ karen!
That's a pretty good list! I love #1's – I think they are called linzer tortes or something like that. All I know is they are yummy!
Mix together. You can flatten with a fork (fella's father should approve!).
Bake at 350f for 10-12 minutes until they start to brown.
DO NOT REMOVE FROM COOKIE SHEET TILL COOL!
Since there isn't any flour, warm cookies will crumble so wait for them to cool.
This makes about 20 cookies, depending on how large you make them.
You can also experiment – add chocolate or butterscotch chips, nuts, vanilla. Be creative!
All I ask from anyone who tries this recipe is to say a prayer. This recipe was in a fundraiser cookbook for a nurse who was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her co workers came up with the cookbook to help her with bills. Sadly, the nurse did not make it. I always say a prayer for her when I make this & hope she's looking down, smiling.
But it is the recipes we need to make these true cookies, Every peanut butter cookie recipe I have tried is just not like my grandma's. Of course she never used a recipe.
Do you have an amazing peanut butter cookie recipe?
Yikes..my Aunties and my Mom would be having a go with him..scotch cookies are a standard with them at Christmas….can't wait to tell them the true list just to get the gals all stirred up !
Well, to us British there is only one true cookie: chocolate chip. Everything else is a biscuit. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, fella's father.
Are we sure that this is the fella's dad and not his brother?? You know that sort of thing happens… "Let's tell the kid his mom is his sister and we'll raise him as our son." Anyway, I'm glad my wagon has been straightened. I had a whole list of "cookies" that were apparently masquerading as cookies.
Ha! Our favourites in the store were exactly the same as Daddy's! The first one being the best Belgian you've ever tasted! But he obviously has never tasted my ginger…sofas! They are snappy but soft! The best! Keep true! Looking forward to more!
The Fella's Dad is a Rip!! Is he available for parties and/or holidays in Florida?
i am so with him on the rumballs. ugh , ugh and ugh! even the name is ugh! who wants to eat a cookie with balls in the name? gross!
It's nice that he agrees with the Doctor from Doctor Who he seems to like his jammy dodgers as well. I agree with the whole list except I love shortbread. I love crunchy, surgary, buttery cookies. I'm surprised he didn't have an opinion about the texture of chocolate chip cookies ie soft vs. crunchy but maybe that's an American thing.
I'm not sure about the Empire cookie over shortbread, but I'll agree on all the others & the nut clause.
While I tend to agree (to a point) with the Fella's Father's list, my question is: crunchy or soft? Personally I think soft chocolate chip cookies are better than crunchy (actually *gooey* is a better term!).
Also, for years my mom has made those fabulous peanut butter Kiss cookies–peanut butter (soft, mind you)–with no fork marks, but with a big Hershey's kiss smack dab in the middle.
Do those count? Or are they considered some type of foo-foo, cross-pollinated, wannabe cookie?
p.s. i also agree with FF that chocolate chip cookies should *never* contain nuts!
Agree with Caro. What are the true squares and cakes? I'm going to guess that cupcakes are not true cakes. Does the 'list of true things' only apply to baked goods? What about cocktails and men?
Maybe the fella's father needs his own blog.
"Maybe the fella's father needs his own blog." I think that is an fantastic idea! Or maybe give him a weekly bit on your site.
You may need to start a series on all of his lists. They're awesome.
The fella's father is absolutely correct – rumballs aren't cookies. They don't even count as lumps of dough (I was gonna say balls but that doesn't sound quite right). As a born and raised girl from Kentucky the only true and correct version are, of course, BOURBON balls and they must be made with a true Kentucky bourbon as well – no whiskey allowed.
And let's not forget the 4 true soups!
The mind boggles at anatomically correct gingerbread people. Are gingerbread fig leaves an acceptable accessory?
Revision.. I see he had gingerbread men as an honorary once a year substitute, but, NO WAY!
I am so sad – shortbread is the quintessential Scottish biscuit = cookie for New Year/Hogmany! Cooked with a little rice flour my mum says, to give bite.
I kind of agree, but I think the basic sugar cookie should be #1, and the jelly filled kind is kind of a tarted up version.
Soft or crunchy? Crunchy. Duh!
Cute names for cookies like jammy dodgers, snickerdoodles and cranberry hootycreeks? Just kill me now!
I may go into a sulk and keep the list of true squares to myself.
Please don't stop, sir. I'm looking forward to hearing all of your "Four True XXXX List".
Love it, but I too wonder about the sugar/butter cookie. How can that not be a "true cookie"? It's the basic dough of all the others.
He's missed ginger-molasses, and my Scots heritage is outraged at having shortbread called pretentious. It's butter and flour, fer cryin' out loud! Getting a white chocolate, macadamia, granola cookie and a cup of no whip soy latte is pretentious. Shortbread is made by grandmothers who smell like cinnamon, and means love in any language.
I haven't chimed in to tell you how great the reports from the Fella and the Fella's father are. Excellent, sometimes-embarrassing-to-read-in-public because-you-snort, posts.
Love the true cookie list by The Fella's Dad. Maybe we could call the others Cookie Knockoffs. That seems right.
Every time we pass through Winona, we say Winoooonaaa. It's a thing. You can smell the jam oozing out of E.D. Smith!
I LOVE the fella's father…… I know I worked with his clones… I disagree on #1, tho it is wonderful, & how can he leave out ginger snaps & shortbread?? Both have histories way older than he is!
Anytime you're too sick or tired to write, get the F's F to write your blog…. he has a cult following now!!
I'm sorry. That would have to be The True Cookie Knockoffs. Bwahaaha.
I'm no baker, and I certainly don't want to get the Fella's Father in a rumple, but I'm pretty sure that the number 1 cookie (which is my favorite btw) is quite often made as a shortbread/jam cookie. The components of a shortbread/jam cookie are similar to a sugar/jam cookie and I would venture to bet he couldn't taste the difference. Although the shortbread ones usually have more butter and thus are better.
It was just few days and moments ago that I found your blog ( sads that it took me so long in life ) and now that I´ve read thorugh every. Single. Post ( I actually have a life, well almost, but I have a mental PhD in procrastination ) I must tell that you made me stay up for the majority of the night, messing with my bookshelves. It was invigorating, in the loss of other stuffs invigorationg that would be preferable in the midst of darkest hours. As a result, I have a plan for my foyer readily, I now only must wait for the demolition to stop and the animals to repaire what they´ve torn.
Being allergic to almost anything I can not comment on the topic of True Cookies. But I can comment that I adore both your Fella and his Father person. They sound highly entertaining.
Oh, and I absolutely needed to link your blog and home featured on the glossy magazine, to my blog. Because good deeds are meant for paying forward. Such as treetrunk tables and fluffy kitties and frozen youghurt tampons. Thogh I still shiver at the notion of " frozen "… that just sounds so beastly and… cold.
I had to search out the Nanaimo bar. Wow — they sound incredibly rich, holiday perfect, and I'm going to be making this delightful *square* treat!
I have to mostly agree with this one. Although, like Lisa, I think that a sugar cookie is a true cookie and the ones with a jam window are simply a tarted up version of that cookie.
This has the makings of a wonderful series, maybe even some movies!!
Say "ta" to The Fella's Father!


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Election Resources
Eanes ISD voters approved the proposed Penny Swap, or Proposition A, by 63 percent during the Nov. 3 election, adding an estimated $3.3 million of non-recapturable funds to the district's operating budget without a tax rate increase. The election engaged more than 21,000 voters who took time to participate at the polls. According to the Travis County Elections website, all votes are counted but results are unofficial until certified by Travis County.
"We are incredibly thankful to our community for its support of our students, teachers and staff and voting to keep $3.3 million local," said Superintendent Dr. Tom Leonard. "This approval is crucial to our budget and our efforts to recruit and retain quality staff, maintain class sizes and operate with a small surplus rather than a deficit."
The Board of Trustees expressed gratitude to the Eanes ISD community citing the important role the community plays in providing students an exceptional education.
"During these unprecedented times, it is wonderful to see our school district continues to have the support of the community," said Board President Jennifer Champagne. "That backing plays an important role in maintaining a quality education for our children and a supportive environment for our staff. We are thankful, humbled and committed to continuing a path of excellence in our schools."
Each year Eanes ISD sends more money back to the state than it keeps because of recapture, totaling more than $1.1 billion since recapture began. The Penny Swap/Prop A increases the amount of local dollars ($3.3M) Eanes ISD is able to keep in the district for operations. Even as a state recapture district, Eanes ISD has maintained one of the lowest ISD tax rates in Central Texas and has consistently demonstrated a proven track record as fiscally responsible while providing a high-quality education to students.
Two new Eanes ISD trustees were also elected while a third was re-elected. The election was originally scheduled for May but was rescheduled for Nov. 3 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Trustee election results are listed below:
Place 1 -- Kim McMath
Place 2 -- Laura Clark
Place 3 – John Havenstrite (re-elected for second term)
Watch this video to learn about the Penny Swap in under 4 minutes:
Election Day is November 3, 2020.
Early Voting runs October 13 through October 30.
Los documentos se encuentran disponible en las oficinas del Edificio Central de la Administración del Distrito Escolar de Eanes en Camp Craft Road, número 601, Austin, Texas 78746.
Penny Swap / Prop A Passes at 63%
Voter-Approval Tax Rate Election (VATRE) Presentation
2020 Efficiency Audit
Penny Swap Printable Handout
Budget Projections presentation (August 17 Board Meeting)
Board Resolution on Penny Swap

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Going back almost a year, Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney has been on the attack against Windows 10. He called it a walled garden, and a few months later, he formulated a theory that Microsoft will gradually update Windows to break Steam over the course of five years.
Sweeney's latest target has been Windows 10 Cloud, a version of Windows that Microsoft hasn't even announced yet. The OS will only run apps that come from the Windows Store, which means that Win32 games from Steam won't work.
That was from a few days ago, but it's worth noting that the idea that you can only get apps from Microsoft is a conspiracy theory. As mentioned above, Windows 10 Cloud hasn't even been announced, so nothing is for sure yet; however, from the build that leaked last week, it appears that users will still be able to sideload UWP apps, or buy them elsewhere.
In other words, it's Win32 apps that are blocked, and not necessarily the ability to install apps from outside of the Windows Store.
Windows Cloud is ransomware: It locks out Windows software you previously bought and makes you pay to unlock it by upgrading to Windows Pro.
Firefox blocked. Google Chrome blocked. Google search blocked as web browser search option.
OpenGL, Vulcan, OpenVR, Oculus VR blocked.
Calling the OS ransomware is, as usual for Sweeney, hyperbolic. It's not like you're going to go and update your Windows 10 PC and end up with Windows 10 Cloud and no access to the apps that you've been using. This is something that you'll get on a new PC, and likely one that sits on the lower end, so you're probably not thinking about heavy-duty PC gaming anyway.
At this point, Windows 10 Cloud seems like it will be an OS that's free for OEMs to license, and if an individual wants more functionality from their new PC, they can purchase the license themselves. Sweeney's argument seems to imply that the OS will somehow be forced upon users.
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Do I really have the right to remain silent?
Probably the biggest mistake anyone makes in a criminal case is talking to anyone other than their lawyer about their case. This is particularly true when someone chooses to speak to the police without an attorney.
Despite the fact that most people know that they have "the right to remain silent," most people don't know exactly what that means. Some think that they have to talk to police and only have the "right to remain silent" after they have been given the Miranda warning. Others know they don't have to talk to police, but think that if they refuse, it will make them look guilty. Still others think that they can just stand mute and that is sufficient to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights.
Any attorney will tell you that you should never talk to the police or other investigative agency without legal counsel. This right to silence and the right to avoid self-incrimination begin from the moment you are questioned by police--you do not have to wait until you are under arrest, even though you will not be informed of your Miranda rights unless or until you are placed under arrest.
However, you have to inform police that you will be invoking your right to silence. If law enforcement agents wish to speak to you or ask you questions, it is important to state unambiguously that you insist upon having an attorney and that you will not answer any questions without your attorney present.
Once you have done so, it is important that you stick by what you have said. You cannot pick and choose which questions you wish to answer. If you begin answering questions after you have said that you are invoking your right to silence, then you have contradicted yourself and effectively waived your 5th Amendment right.
The Fifth Amendment and the subsequent Miranda ruling are intended to prevent a person's silence from being used as an indication of guilt. However, a 2013 Supreme Court ruling does allow prosecutors to use silence as an indication of guilt if the person initially began answering questions but then decided to clam up.
Petitioner, without being placed in custody or receiving Miranda warnings, voluntarily answered some of a police officer's questions about a murder, but fell silent when asked whether ballistics testing would match his shotgun to shell casings found at the scene of the crime. At petitioner's murder trial in Texas state court, and over his objection, the prosecution used his failure to answer the question as evidence of guilt. He was convicted, and both the State Court of Appeals and Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed, rejecting his claim that the prosecution's use of his silence in its case in chief violated the Fifth Amendment.
Held: The judgment is affirmed.
369 S. W. 3d 176, affirmed.
JUSTICE ALITO, joined by THE CHIEF JUSTICE and JUSTICE KENNEDY, concluded that petitioner's Fifth Amendment claim fails because he did not expressly invoke the privilege in response to the officer's question. Pp. 3?12.
(a) To prevent the privilege against self-incrimination from shielding information not properly within its scope, a witness who "desires the protection of the privilege . . . must claim it' " at the time he relies on it. Minnesota v. Murphy, 465 U. S. 420, 427.
The important things to remember about your right to remain silent are that you (1) must claim it and (2) must consistently stick to it. The best way to do that is to insist upon finding legal counsel, to inform police that you will not speak to them without your attorney, and to follow through with your intentions. Call a lawyer for more information.
A new administrative parole process allows the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to streamline parole for certain eligible inmates.
With everything going on in the world today, news reports that the U.S. Supreme Court has officially placed limits on civil asset forfeiture could have you scratching your head and wondering why it's getting so much attention. I've previously written on civil asset forfeiture, and the Washington Post even cited to it, but many lay persons don't understand what all the fuss is about.


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Category Archives: Space
It's not clear where a SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon, but observers think it will likely hit the lunar equator in a few weeks. This isn't the first time a rocket has crashed into the moon. Last February, SpaceX launched a booster into orbit that launched a mission to Mars. The booster performed a long burn and deployed a NOAA space station, but did not have enough fuel to return to Earth.
Scientists believe that a SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon on March 4, 2019. This is because it's a near-Earth object, which means that it will crash into the moon. However, there is a small chance that it will change its trajectory after the launch, affecting the exact impact spot. Amateur astronomers have calculated that the upper stage of the rocket has been in orbit for seven years, and this will influence the exact time of the crater formation.
The crater will be large enough to bury a spacecraft. The rocket's four-ton booster will crash into the lunar surface at about 5,600 mph, which will probably create a crater several feet wide. NASA's LCROSS spacecraft purposely crashed into the moon in 2009, and collected data about the impact. This impending SpaceX crash will give astronomers the opportunity to study crater formation on the moon.
The exact timing of the crater's impact remains uncertain, but the impact will occur on March 4 and will cause the moon to be impacted by the booster. The exact location remains uncertain because of the unpredictability of the moon's gravity. Nevertheless, NASA is planning to send astronauts back to the Moon by 2025, which is far sooner than most people believe. This event will be a milestone in space exploration.
In March, the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the moon at a speed of 1.6 miles per second. The moon is a dark object and will be darkened by the impact. The space junk is increasing at a staggering rate, and this will accelerate the second space race. The Apollo-Ariana mission was the first to land on the Moon, but its mission ended in disaster in the skies.
The astronomical impact will happen near the equator of the moon on March 4. The SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon seven years after it was launched. In addition to the lunar impact, the spacecraft will hit the Earth seven months later, on the day when the equator is closest to the moon. The crash, however, will be visible only to a few space-watchers.
The first SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon on 7 February. It will be visible from Earth until the moon's surface is too dark to see the impact. This mission will be a historic moment for humans as the first ever in the history of astrophysics. In February 2015, Elon Musk's rocket was attempting to launch a weather satellite. The runaway part of the rocket failed to return to Earth's orbit and instead headed to the moon.
The space rocket's second stage is set to crash into the moon on March 4. While the impact is unlikely to affect Earth or human life, the new crater may reveal some interesting information about the composition of the moon. The company didn't immediately respond to an ABC News request for comment on the crash. There is still a small window of time in the lunar orbit for the rocket to reach the moon. It is expected to hit the moon at a high-speed and should impact at a low-speed.
Although the impact isn't a major event, scientists are still working to determine the exact time of the crash. While the rocket will not hit the moon directly, the second stage's impact should occur at a speed of 2.58 kilometres per second. It is expected to cause no damage to Earth and no human life, but it is still a huge milestone for science. The collision is a significant milestone for humankind.
Can you imagine all of that floating space junk someday becoming a threat decades after it ends up in space?
Just earlier today (Dec. 3) at around 3 a.m. EST (0800 GMT), The International Space Station dodged a decades-old rocket body from a fragment of a Pegasus rocket. According to a statement from America's NASA program, this debris was created in 1996 from the object 39915, which was the upper stage of a Pegasus rocket that had launched two years prior to it breaking up.
NASA had been notified to delay a spacewalk and forced to schedule for later due to the concerns of the floating fragments on Tuesday (Nov. 30).
That debris came from a Russian anti-satellite test conducted on one of its own defunct satellites; fragments from the incident might threaten astronauts on the station for years to come.
All seven astronauts currently living and working on the space station faced a still more serious space junk scare just a few weeks ago. On Nov. 15, the crew was forced to shelter in the two passenger spacecraft currently docked to the space station during two close passes with orbital debris.
As the Crew-2 mission departed the International Space Station aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, the crew snapped this image of the station during a flyaround of the orbiting lab that took place following undocking from the Harmony module's space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission was the second operational mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, which has worked with the U.S. aerospace industry to launch astronauts on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil to the space station.
Frequent contributor to Fox News Steven Milloy retweeted a Politico story about climate change to suggest that CO2 won't kill Earth because Venus is made of CO2 — the only trouble is humans don't live on Venus, as far as we know.
Milloy is no stranger to ignoring accurate and verified scientific truths. A lawyer and frequent commentator for Fox News, he refers to himself as a libertarian thinker and runs a twitter account called @JunkScience through which he ironically, but not facetiously, often peddles what mosts scientists would refer to as junk science. His close financial and organizational ties to tobacco and oil companies have been the subject of criticism from a number of sources going back to the early 2000s, as Milloy has consistently disputed the scientific consensus on climate change and the health risks of second-hand smoke. Having close ties to tobacco and oil, it's not difficult to understand why.
Among the topics Milloy has addressed are what he believes to be false claims regarding DDT, global warming, Alar, breast implants, second-hand smoke, ozone depletion, and mad cow disease. This time, however, he attempts to equate planet Earth with planet Venus, saying that CO2 won't destroy the Earth because Venus is largely made up of CO2.
DeFazio on climate: "This is the existential threat to the future of the planet."
Insanity.
For comparison, the atmosphere Venus is 96.5% CO2 — and the planet is still there.
In contrast, Earth's atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2. https://t.co/SvScU32iZG via @politico
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 15, 2018
The obvious problem to scientists (and most people with a high school science education) is that humans don't live on Venus, and couldn't since it is so darn hot, hailing an average temperature of 864 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's obvious that Milloy is being paid to promote bad science in an effort to persuade Fox News watchers into believing that climate change is a hoax. The trick he uses here is to make it seem like people who believe in man-induced global warming through greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide think the Earth will cease to exist with too much CO2. That isn't what climate change scientists and activists think at all.
On the contrary, climate change scientists and activists are concerned about human and animal life will cease to exist — the way it doesn't exist on Venus.
The danger in having to explain this to people is that it's easier to look at things Milloy's way. Despite it being wrong, lazy thinkers will read what he tweets and hear what he says on Fox News without doing anymore research or thinking on the matter. When people say convincing things with authority, it usually doesn't matter if what they're saying is true or not.
Eight Planets Found Orbiting Distant Star, Says NASA
For the first time in history, NASA has discovered a total of eight planets orbiting a distant star that is much like our Sun, the space agency announced on Thursday.
The star, Kepler-90, is 2,545 light-years from Earth and located in the Draco constellation. It is the first star known to humans to support just as many planets as the known Solar System, but what is exciting to many is that astronomers believe that this is in fact only the beginning of a long line of discoveries to come out of our latest technological advances.
For a time, researchers had known that a total of seven planets were orbiting Kepler-90, but Google Artificial Intelligence had a hand in discovering the eighth planet when it looked into archival data originally obtained by NASA's Kepler telescope, designed specifically to look for planets.
With the idea of eventually differentiating among exoplanets, Christopher Shallue, senior software engineer at Google AI in California, and Andrew Vanderburg, astronomer and NASA Sagan postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, trained a computer how to differentiate between images of cats and dogs, refining their approach to identify exoplanets in Kepler data based on the change in light when a planet passed in front of its star. The neural network learned to identify these by using signals that had been vetted and confirmed in Kepler's planet catalog. Ninety-six percent of the time, it was accurate.
New NASA study shows Moon once had an atmosphere
A new study shows that an atmosphere was produced around the ancient Moon, 3 to 4 billion years ago, when intense volcanic eruptions spewed gases above the surface faster than they could escape to space. The study, supported by NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, was published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
When one looks up at the Moon, dark surfaces of volcanic basalt can be easily seen to fill large impact basins. Those seas of basalt, known as maria, erupted while the interior of the Moon was still hot and generating magmatic plumes that sometimes breached the lunar surface and flowed for hundreds of kilometers. Analyses of Apollo samples indicate those magmas carried gas components, such as carbon monoxide, the ingredients for water, sulfur, and other volatile species.
In new work, Dr. Debra H. Needham, Research Scientist of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and Dr. David A. Kring, Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Senior Staff Scientist, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), calculated the amounts of gases that rose from the erupting lavas as they flowed over the surface and showed that those gases accumulated around the Moon to form a transient atmosphere. The atmosphere was thickest during the peak in volcanic activity about 3.5 billion years ago and, when created, would have persisted for about 70 million years before being lost to space.
The two largest pulses of gases were produced when lava seas filled the Serenitatis and Imbrium basins about 3.8 and 3.5 billion years ago, respectively. The margins of those lava seas were explored by astronauts of the Apollo 15 and 17 missions, who collected samples that not only provided the ages of the eruptions, but also contained evidence of the gases produced from the erupting lunar lavas.
NASA's Needham says, "The total amount of H2O released during the emplacement of the mare basalts is nearly twice the volume of water in Lake Tahoe. Although much of this vapor would have been lost to space, a significant fraction may have made its way to the lunar poles. This means some of the lunar polar volatiles we see at the lunar poles may have originated inside the Moon."
David Kring notes, "This work dramatically changes our view of the Moon from an airless rocky body to one that used to be surrounded by an atmosphere more prevalent than that surrounding Mars today." When the Moon had that atmosphere, it was nearly 3 times closer to Earth than it is today and would have appeared nearly 3 times larger in the sky.
This new picture of the Moon has important implications for future exploration. The analysis of Needham and Kring quantifies a source of volatiles that may have been trapped from the atmosphere into cold, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles and, thus, may provide a source of ice suitable for a sustained lunar exploration program. Volatiles trapped in icy deposits could provide air and fuel for astronauts conducting lunar surface operations and, potentially, for missions beyond the Moon.
Over the past decade, the search for volatiles within the Moon and on the surface of the Moon has intensified. Those volatiles may hold clues about the material that accreted to form the Earth and Moon and, thus, our planetary origins. The volatiles may also provide the in-situ resources needed for sustained lunar surface activities that may follow the development of NASA's new Orion crew vehicle and a Gateway structure that may orbit the Moon. In addition, robotic assets, like NASA's Resource Prospector, are being developed to explore the nature and distribution of volatile deposits that might be suitable for scientific analysis and recovery. Based on the new results of Needham and Kring, those assets may be recovering ice that is partially composed of volatiles erupted from volcanic fissures over 3 billion years ago.
The new research was initiated from the LPI-Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, led by Kring and supported by NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute. Needham is a former postdoctoral researcher at the LPI. The LPI is operated for NASA by Universities Space Research Association (USRA).
Cassini's Last Moments In Space Before Landfall
For NASA's Saturn explorer, the end will come all too quickly.
Cassini, NASA's explorer of Saturn, remaining life is now measured in just a few days. Coming up on September 12, just three days before NASA's veteran Saturn explorer takes a dive into the planet's atmosphere, the spacecraft will whip around the hazy moon Titan in a slingshot maneuver that will seal its fate.
During these final days, Cassini will take one last look around. Onboard cameras will snap pictures of Titan and its hydrocarbon lakes, Saturn's innermost rings, the bizarre hexagon-shaped jet stream at Saturn's north pole, and other targets. On the evening of September 14, Cassini will send this last photo album to Earth, about 1.4 billion kilometers away, and the engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will post them online.
After that, no more pictures will be taken. But seven other instruments will continue to gather data on the chemical composition of Saturn's atmosphere, its gravity and magnetic fields, its innermost radiation belts, and its rings—for as long as they can. "We'll be transmitting the science data back almost as fast as we gather it," says Tom Burk, Cassini's attitude control team lead.
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It rains solid diamonds on Neptune and Uranus
Scientists forecast rain storms of solid diamonds on two of the solar system's most interesting planets
The obvious question any entrepreneur might ask is how do you mine these diamonds? In short, you don't. It would take highly advanced space drones, the likes of which not even SpaceX is ready for yet, let alone the cost of getting there and back.
But that doesn't make the idea of diamonds raining down on a distant planet any less of a spectacular discovery, igniting space-nerd radars everywhere.
According to the scientists who ran the experiment, the diamonds form in hydrocarbon-rich oceans of "slush" found around the solid cores of these two gad giants. According to the Washington Post,
Scientists have long speculated that the extreme pressures in this region might split those molecules into atoms of hydrogen and carbon, the latter of which then crystallize to form diamonds. These diamonds were thought to sink like rain through the ocean until they hit the solid core.
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Water, weather, new worlds: Cassini mission revealed Saturn's secrets
Dan Reisenfeld, The University of Montana
Cassini is the most sophisticated space probe ever built. Launched in 1997 as a joint NASA/European Space Agency mission, it took seven years to journey to Saturn. It's been orbiting the sixth planet from the sun ever since, sending back data of immense scientific value and images of magnificent beauty.
Cassini now begins one last campaign. Dubbed the Grand Finale, it will end on Sept. 15, 2017 with the probe plunging into Saturn's atmosphere, where it will burn up. Although Saturn was visited by three spacecraft in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow scientists and I couldn't have imagined what the Cassini space probe would discover during its sojourn at the ringed planet when it launched 20 years ago.
A huge storm churning across the face of Saturn. At the time this image was taken, 12 weeks after the storm began, it had completely wrapped around the planet.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI, CC BY
A planet of dynamic change
Massive storms periodically appear in Saturn's cloud tops, known as Great White Spots, observable by Earthbound telescopes. Cassini has a front-row seat to these events. We have discovered that just like Earth's thunderstorms, these storms contain lightning and hail.
Cassini has been orbiting Saturn long enough to observe seasonal changes that cause variations in its weather patterns, not unlike the seasons on Earth. Periodic storms often appear in late summer in Saturn's northern hemisphere.
In 2010, during northern springtime, an unusually early and intense storm appeared in Saturn's cloud tops. It was a storm of such immensity that it encircled the entire planet and lasted for almost a year. It was not until the storm ate its own tail that it eventually sputtered and faded. Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.
Having made hundreds of orbits around Saturn, Cassini was also able to deeply investigate other features only glimpsed from Earth or earlier probes. Close encounters with Saturn's largest moon, Titan, have allowed navigators to use the moon's gravity to reorient the probe's orbit so that it could swing over Saturn's poles. Because of Saturn's strong magnetic field, the poles are home to beautiful Aurorae, just like those of Earth and Jupiter.
Saturn's six-sided vortex at Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon.' This is a superposition of images taken with different filters, with different wavelengths of light assigned colors.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University, CC BY
Cassini has also confirmed the existence of a bizarre hexagon-shaped polar vortex originally glimpsed by the Voyager mission in 1981. The vortex, a mass of whirling gas much like a hurricane, is larger than the Earth and has top wind speeds of 220 mph.
Home to dozens of diverse worlds
Cassini discovered that Saturn has 45 more moons than the 17 previously known – placing the total now at 62.
The largest, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury. It possesses a dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere with a surface pressure one and a half times that of Earth's. Cassini was able to probe beneath this moon's cloud cover, discovering rivers flowing into lakes and seas and being replenished by rain. But in this case, the liquid is not water, but rather liquid methane and ethane.
False-color image of Ligeia Mare, the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It's filled with liquid hydrocarbons.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell, CC BY
That's not to say that water is not abundant there – but it's so cold on Titan (with a surface temperature of -180℃) that water behaves like rock and sand. Although it has all the ingredients for life, Titan is essentially a "frozen Earth," trapped at that moment in time before life could form.
The sixth-largest moon of Saturn, Enceladus, is an icy world about 300 miles in diameter. And for me, it's the site of the Mission's most spectacular finding.
The discovery started humbly, with a curious blip in magnetic field readings during the first flyby of Enceladus in 2004. As Cassini passed over the moon's southern hemisphere, it detected strange fluctuations in Saturn's magnetic field. From this, the Cassini magnetometer team inferred that Enceladus must be a source of ionized gas.
Intrigued, they instructed the Cassini navigators to make an even closer flyby in 2005. To our amazement, the two instruments designed to determine the composition of the gas that the spacecraft flies through, the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) and the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS), determined that Cassini was unexpectedly passing through a cloud of ionized water. Emanating from cracks in the ice at Enceladus' south pole, these water plumes gush into space at speeds up to 800 mph.
I am on the team that made the positive identification of water, and I have to say it was the most thrilling moment in my professional career. As far as Saturn's moons were concerned, everyone thought all of the action would be at Titan. No one expected small, unassuming Enceladus to harbor any surprises.
Geologic activity happening in real time is quite rare in the solar system. Before Enceladus, the only known active world beyond Earth was Jupiter's moon Io, which possesses erupting volcanoes. To find something akin to Old Faithful on a moon of Saturn was practically unimaginable. The fact that it all started with someone noticing an odd reading in the magnetic field data is a wonderful example of the serendipitous nature of discovery.
The geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus, with its water plumes illuminated by scattered sunlight.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, CC BY
The story of Enceladus only becomes more extraordinary. In 2009, the plumes were directly imaged for the first time. We now know that water from Enceladus comprises the largest component of Saturn's magnetosphere (the area of space controlled by Saturn's magnetic field), and the plumes are responsible for the very existence of Saturn's vast E-ring, the second outermost ring of the planet.
More amazingly, we now know that beneath the crust of Enceladus is a global ocean of liquid saltwater and organic molecules, all being heated by hydrothermal vents on the seafloor. Detailed analysis of the plumes show they contain hydrocarbons. All this points to the possibility that Enceladus is an ocean world harboring life, right here in our solar system.
NASA at Saturn: Cassini's Grand Finale.
When Cassini plunges into the cloud tops of Saturn later this year, it will mark the end of one of the most successful missions of discovery ever launched by humanity.
Scientists are now considering targeted missions to Titan, Enceladus or possibly both. One of the most valuable lessons one can take from Cassini is the need to continue exploring. As much as we learned from the first spacecraft to reach Saturn, nothing prepared us for what we would find with Cassini. Who knows what we will find next?
Dan Reisenfeld, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Montana
Our discovery of a minor planet beyond Neptune shows there might not be a 'Planet Nine' after all
Ever since enthusiasm started growing over the possibility that there could be a ninth major planet orbiting the sun beyond Neptune, astronomers have been busy hunting it. One group is investigating four new moving objects found by members of the public to see if they are potential new solar system discoveries. As exciting as this is, researchers are also making discoveries that question the entire prospect of a ninth planet.
One such finding is our discovery of a minor planet in the outer solar system: 2013 SY99. This small, icy world has an orbit so distant that it takes 20,000 years for one long, looping passage. We found SY99 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope as part of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey. SY99's great distance means it travels very slowly across the sky. Our measurements of its motion show that its orbit is a very stretched ellipse, with the closest approach to the sun at 50 times that between the Earth and the sun (a distance of 50 "astronomical units").
The new minor planet loops even further out than previously discovered dwarf planets such as Sedna and 2013 VP113. The long axis of its orbital ellipse is 730 astronomical units. Our observations with other telescopes show that SY99 is a small, reddish world, some 250 kilometres in diameter, or about the size of Wales in the UK.
SY99 is one of only seven known small icy worlds that orbit beyond Neptune at remarkable distances. How these "extreme trans-Neptunian objects" were placed on their orbits is uncertain: their distant paths are isolated in space. Their closest approach to the sun is so far beyond Neptune that they are thought to be "detached" from the strong gravitational influence of the giant planets in our solar system. But at their furthest points, they are still too close to be nudged around by the slow tides of the galaxy itself.
Planet Nine could explain why the few known extreme trans-Neptunian objects seem to be clustered together in space. The diagram was created using WorldWide Telescope.
Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
It's been suggested that the extreme trans-Neptunian objects could be clustered in space by the gravitational influence of a "Planet Nine" that orbits much further out than Neptune. This planet's gravity could lift out and detach their orbits – constantly changing their tilt. But this planet is far from proven.
In fact, its existence is based on the orbits of only six objects, which are very faint and hard to discover even with large telescopes. They are therefore prone to odd biases. It's a bit like looking down into the deep ocean at a school of fish. The fish swimming near the surface are clearly visible. But the ones even only a meter down are fainter and murky, and take quite a lot of peering to be certain. The great bulk of the school, in the depths, is completely invisible. But the fish at the surface and their behaviour betray the existence of a whole school.
The biases mean SY99's discovery can't prove or disprove the existence of a Planet Nine. However, computer models do show that a Planet Nine would be an unfriendly neighbour to tiny worlds like SY99: its gravitational influence would starkly change its orbit – throwing it from the solar system entirely, or poking it into an orbit so highly inclined and distant that we wouldn't be able to see it. SY99 would have to be one of an utterly vast throng of small worlds, continuously being sucked in and cast out by the planet.
The alternative explanation
But it turns out that there are other explanations. Our study based on computer modelling, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, hint at the influence of an idea from everyday physics called diffusion. This is a very common type of behaviour in the natural world. Diffusion typically explains the random movement of a substance from a region of higher concentration to one of lower concentration – such as the way perfume drifts across a room.
We showed that a related form of diffusion can cause the orbits of minor planets to change from an ellipse that is initially only 730 astronomical units on its long axis to one that is as big as 2,000 astronomical units or bigger – and change it back again. In this process, the size of each orbit would vary by a random amount.
When SY99 comes to its closest approach every 20,000 years, Neptune will often be in a different part of its orbit on the opposite side of the solar system. But at encounters where both SY99 and Neptune are close, Neptune's gravity will subtly nudge SY99, minutely changing its velocity. As SY99 travels out away from the sun, the shape of its next orbit will be different.
The long axis of SY99's ellipse will alter, becoming either larger or smaller, in what physicists call a "random walk". The orbit change takes place on truly astronomical time scales. It diffuses over the space of tens of millions of years. The long axis of SY99's ellipse would change by hundreds of astronomical units over the 4.5 billion-year history of the solar system.
Several other extreme trans-Neptunian objects with smaller orbits also show diffusion, on a smaller scale. Where one goes, more can follow. It's entirely plausible that the gradual effects of diffusion act on the tens of millions of tiny worlds orbiting in the near fringe of the Oort cloud (a shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system). This gentle influence would slowly lead some of them to randomly shift their orbits closer to us, where we see them as extreme trans-Neptunian objects.
However, diffusion won't explain the distant orbit of Sedna, which has its closest point too far out from Neptune for it to change its orbit's shape. Perhaps Sedna gained its orbit from a passing star, aeons ago. But diffusion could certainly be bringing in extreme trans-Neptunian objects from the inner Oort cloud – without the need for a Planet Nine. To find out for sure, we'll need to make more discoveries in this most distant region using our largest telescopes.
Michele Bannister, Research Fellow, planetary astronomy, Queen's University Belfast


Meet our new Commercial Manager!
Andrew Elsworth has taken up his new position as Commercial Manager. Find out a bit more about Andrew with this introduction.
Based at our West Yorkshire branch in Yeadon, Andrew comes with an array of background knowledge and experience which will help service our business and aspirations, as we continue to grow and thrive sustainable, towards our 20:20 vision.
Born in Pudsey, Leeds, Andrew has a solid educational background as well as experience behind him, graduating from Sheffield Hallam University with a Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying. With 14 years experience in Construction, Andrew has worked at nationally-recognised brands such as Lovell Partnerships Ltd as Quantity Surveyor, progressing his way up the ranks by becoming Senior Quantity Surveyor and then Managing Quantity Surveyor. Andrew also spent two and a half years at construction giant Morgan Sindall.
Andrew now takes up a new step in his career as he becomes Commercial Manager in the Construction division at RFM Group. Andrew will lead all commercial aspects including the preparation and pricing of contracts, supporting the pre-construction and delivery team in achieving successful project delivery through our consistent ethos and values of Safety, Quality and Service.
Andrew states the help from his father inspired him to get into Construction in the first place, as well as watching popular TV Show Grand Designs!
Andrew recognises the big impacts on his career so far, and he'd like to pay special mention to John Dalby, his former Commercial Manager at Lovell, who took Andrew on as a trainee and was a big advocate of trainees and apprentices in Construction.
When not at work, Andrew enjoys going to gigs and music festivals as well as getting out on his mountain bike and the ski slopes.
Welcome to the group, Andrew!
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Fingers crossed that's the worst thing that happens.
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not EVERY thing in this town gets interrupted by crazies, right?
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Bosnian Serbs vote on national holiday, in challenge to Sarajevo
BANJA LUKA - Serbs in Bosnia headed to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to mark their "national holiday", in a referendum that has placed the country's fragile institutions under pressure.
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The vote is the brainchild of Milorad Dodik, nationalist leader of the Bosnian Serb-run entity Republika Srpska (RS).
He has ignored a veto by Bosnia's constitutional court, disapproval by the United States and the European Union and the reservations of Serbia, RS' big ally.
Some 1.2 million voters are entitled to cast a ballot on whether they want their "national holiday" to continue to be celebrated on January 9. Polls opened at 7:00 am local time (0500 GMT) and are to close at 7:00 pm (1700 GMT).
"I came to vote because every nation and every state has its own national holiday. Accordingly, our Serbian people must have their holiday," said Vojo Vujakovic, 60, at a polling station near the Bosnian Serb capitol of Banja Luka.
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The date has huge emotional resonance in Bosnia, stirring memories of nationalist fervour, trauma and bloodshed.
It marks the proclamation of a "Republic of Serb people" in Bosnia that took place three months before the inter-ethnic 1992-1995 war that claimed 100,000 lives. The founders of that "republic" included Radovan Karadzic - sentenced in March to 40 years' jail for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the war that also displaced more than two million people.
Bosnia's constitutional court has cancelled the referendum, ruling that the holiday is illegal for discriminating against non-Serbs, but Dodik pressed ahead defiantly.
"The Republic is going into a referendum. It's a great day for our Republic and our people," Dodik said on Friday after a trip to Moscow, where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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"We have to show our dignity, that we are a democratic people and that we have the right to make our own decisions," he said.
The Dayton peace agreement that ended Bosnia's war split the country into two semi-independent entities - the RS and a Muslim-Croat Federation.
But analysts say that the institutional bonds between the entities remain weak and prone to instability.
Some fear Dodik is warming up for a referendum on the independence of RS, which he has repeatedly threatened to carry out.
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Bosnian Muslim leader Bakir Izetbegovic has accused Dodik of "playing with fire", and a wartime commander of Bosnian Muslim forces, Sefer Halilovic, has accused him of "crossing the red line."
But some commentators say a conflict is unlikely and a crisis is being stoked to boost nationalists' chances in upcoming local elections.
Anecdotal evidence points to strong support from the public for the vote.
"We are all going to take part, to preserve our freedom, peace and dignity," Vida Kojic, a pensioner in Lukavica, a suburb of Sarajevo that lies in the RS, told AFP.
Many roadsides in the RS had placards urging people to turn out and cast their ballot, and some signs portrayed Dodik along with the message, "The force of Srpkska."
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Famed Sarajevo library reopens after 22 years
Govt nominates 47 officers for National Management Course
Lawyers challenge presidential reference against Justice Isa
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The refugee question
Prof. Khursheed Ahmad
Kashmir: Some important facts
K. Iqbal
Afghanistan's untenable stalemate
The Pakistani in row W
Another War
A Humanitarian Emergency
Oversimplifications
Teachers' training
Quaid's death anniversary
Nurses in Balochistan
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As 2012 comes to an end, I want to reflect on some of my favorite cards of this year. There are some cards I created that were my absolute favorite and some I wish I did a better job on.
My absolute favorite card I created this is in a June post labeled Summer Drink.
his is the first image I ever colored with this level of detail. I do not consider myself to be a coloring expert, but when it comes to this card, I just love the coloring.
I hope you enjoyed my recap on one of my favorite cards of 2012. Tune in tomorrow on my post for a small gift bag.
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This is so beautiful! I've had white asparagus on my list to try for forever and haven't done it yet. I've had so much fun playing with purple asparagus this season I'll have to try some white soon. Thanks for the great recipe!
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I made a few changes last year; besides quitting my job of ten years, selling and giving away most of my worldly belongings, and heading off into the blue with little to no idea about where the road would take me, by far the wildest choice I made was to learn to surf.
In July, 2014, I made my way to Sri Lanka to work with Seva Lanka, an NGO two good friends had served immediately after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. After testing out the role I realised that I'd put myself back into an office seat, the last thing I needed after ten years working for a bank in Jersey, Channel Islands.
In late August, 2014, I beat a path to the island's eastern province and during my first week in Arugam Bay two Norwegian travellers convinced me to take a surfing lesson with them. It was the last thing I fancied doing, but I went along anyway.
Our instructor, Aatha, unbeknownst to me at the time, is one of Sri Lanka's top surfers. Every time I fumbled and half drowned this mad man kept picking up my board and dragging me back out into the water. I thought he was trying to finish me off once and for all. What I didn't realise was that he was leading me back to life.
I was too stunned by the power of the experience to notice what I was falling in love with that day, being totally terrified and utterly incompetent. I certainly didn't think I'd go back. I'd been completely useless, not even able to select clothing that stayed put (my saviour was a visiting goddess from Dubai, Leia, who leant me her shorts and got me through the first lesson) let alone do anything remotely resembling surfing, and yet, despite my distress and my distressing performance, I kept booking more lessons.
I'm still learning. I'm about to go back to the waves in the Sri Lankan east after a two and half month break in Tanzania, East Africa, and I expect to be almost as clumsy a surfer as when I first began, but I have found I can think of very little other than surfing while I've been away from the water.
And so I was delighted to find this article on The Inertia this morning; the author expresses an experience of learning to surf which is a near carbon copy of my own. After a year of surfing, Genesse Carillo can also count her memorable waves on both hands (it's not just me!) and expresses that thing all the surfers I know agree on: that surfing is the secret.
Surfing is a liminal experience. I cracked ribs, scuffed skin, even bruised my face trying – mostly unsuccessfully – to do it, but it has helped me to heal wounds I didn't know I had.
I look forward to failing and falling better than ever this surf season.


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Our highlights of 2021
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Just like last year, this year has been a tumultuous year for many institutions with various changes that were triggered or influenced by the COVID-19 crisis. SMEs in particular had to adapt to the new normal. Yet, financial institutions were also required to adjust their parameters for responsible lending and assess risk for organisations that were receiving larger government subsidies. As the year comes to a close, I would like to take the time to take a look at what happened over the past year and what we can expect to see in the fields of data and analytics in 2022.
Veronica Flyckt
Director and Head of Analytics for the Netherlands
New way of working
The COVID-19 crisis has forced us to adapt our way of working and has boosted the pace of innovation for different working methods. We have received substantial feedback from our employees and clearly need to maintain a certain level of flexibility, even at times when the corona measures allow us to move freely. Our aim is to strike the right balance by giving employees the freedom to organise their work in the way that allows them to be most productive.
We are constantly looking for new ways to use data to change lives and build a better future. Our powerful combination of intellectuals, valuable data and cutting-edge technology allows us to do things others cannot. That is why we want our work culture to be the best it can be. Our office will be an environment for team meetings and collaboration, which will allow us to maintain and nurture our special and vibrant company culture.
As a result of the pandemic, individuals have turned to cloud applications – as accessing branches, or using cash, became increasingly difficult, particularly during lockdown. That also meant a shift towards digital banking, with many people taking advantage of new apps and services. To better understand the needs and priorities of organisations in the context of PSD2 in this changing climate, we conducted an Open Banking study involving more than 100 clients from financial services, telecommunications, insurance, and ecommerce sectors, across different countries. This research provides insights as to where businesses see the biggest opportunities and challenges, which some of my colleagues and I also discussed during our Open Banking webinar.
Open Banking for SMEs is likely to increase rapidly in 2022. Early adopters of the system will become more advanced and will have a competitive advantage. Additionally, we will likely see more lenders improving customer experiences and decision making via PSD2 possibilities.
Read more about how our data and insight can help you make confident decisions, so you can assess affordability quickly and easily.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
In April 2021, a draft of the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) act was created, aiming at a legal framework for the use of AI and machine learning (ML). AI technology allows customers to better support their business decisions. Many businesses in the credit risk management sector have already been looking at ways to adapt AI and ML into their practices. Almost half of the companies will invest in improved data analytics capabilities, such as machine learning, as they no longer have sufficient confidence in their current models for analysing and managing credit risk. Forward-thinking companies will need to use alternative and synthetic data to predict the credit needs of their customers.
For next year, it is paramount to have a conscious mindset when designing algorithms and observing data. As we design algorithms, it is essential that we have socially conscious, diverse teams that continually ask questions on how these algorithms could be used to hurt and exploit specific communities – particularly those already vulnerable. To ensure confidence in AI/ML models, they should be developed fair, meaning not biased with respect to protected attributes, and explainable in what happens from input to output. To help counteract certain biases, it helps to have a team working on analysing data and programming AI algorithms, in which women are equally represented. Companies that focus on data science and analytics have a responsibility to support women in STEM careers with resources and opportunities, so it is a privilege to say that three of our senior executives at Experian Netherlands are female. We plan to continue to narrow the gender gap as we move forward.
Read more about how artificial intelligence can help maximise value and drive your growth.
Over the past year, we have identified certain trends, including the way consumers make their online purchases. This has implications for companies and how they should respond to potential fraud and how they should protect their data. 58% of online consumers made at least one purchase via a smartphone in the first half of 2021. These smartphone purchases are generally more impulsive, which could cause consumers to overlook phishing attempts.
Addressing the growing threat from fraud, is one of the key challenges Experian has been focussed on to help financial institutions. In addition, we also provided support in opening-up credit to underserved communities, adapting to changing consumer expectations and behaviours, and becoming a more agile technology provider in an ever-changing market. This was recognised by the IDC FinTech Rankings were Experian moved to #11, which is a big jump compared to our previous position at #45.
Read more about Credit Risk Assessment for consumers.
With that said, I wish you and your beloved ones a happy holiday and we look forward to engaging and collaborating in 2022.
Veronica Flyckt,
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Abstract: The minimum amount of memory you should be running a computer with is 2GB RAM, even if you're only running Microsoft WindowsXP. If it's Microsoft Windows Vista, even more memory may be required!
We're finally starting to see games that truly push the limits of modern computer hardware. Titles like Supreme Commander, Command and Conquer 3 and STALKER can really stress a PC. Besides having a lot of CPU power to go around and a good videocard, these games require a lot of system memory.
The minimum amount of memory you should be running a computer with is 2GB RAM, even if you're only running Microsoft WindowsXP. If it's Microsoft Windows Vista, even more memory may be required! I've noticed that extra memory helps when I play my favorite game titles, and particularly so if you like to play with all the eye candy maxed out. More memory is a must!
If you're looking for some new higher capacity memory to upgrade you computer with, you'll easily find dozens of 2GB memory kits available, enough to fit whatever budget you've got to work with. In this review PCSTATS will be testing out a new kit from Patriot Memory, it's a 2GB set of dual channel DDR2 memory which is rated to run at DDR2-1150 (PC2-9200) speeds, with 5-5-5-12 memory timings.
Patriot Memory call these bad boys the PDC22G9200ELK, and you can bet we were eager to put them through a few rounds of benchmarks. Patriot wrap their memory modules with a lifetime warranty as well as free technical support. With a retail price of $319 CDN ($300 USD, £151 GBP) the Patriot PDC22G9200ELK PC2-9200 memory kit is rather aggressively priced too.
The Patriot PDC22G9200ELK comes equipped with grey coloured aluminum heat spreaders which as I'm sure you know are mainly decoration at stock speeds. When overclocked with higher voltages, heat spreaders are a must. The hardware on the Patriot DIMMs do a decent job at keeping the tiny DDR2 BGA DRAM modules cool.
This Patriot PDC22G9200ELK memory kit is rated to run at DDR2-1150 (PC2-9200) speeds with 5-5-5-15 timings at a voltage of 2.3V. The Patriot memory kit does not support nVIDIA's EPP, so if you're a novice at overclocking make sure you check out PCSTATS' guide at overclocking memory . It will help you through the twists and turns of overclocking, and should allow you to get a decent boost from your computer.
One way to gauge how well a manufacturer feels about its products is by the warranty it offers. With a lifetime warranty on the Patriot PDC22G9200ELK memory kit, you can tell that Patriot believes in this memory. It definitely means peace of mind.


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622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrive in Medina
917 – Kyun Yeo born, Korean poet, noted for "Songs of the Ten Vows Samantabhara" which were included in the 1075 biography The Life of Kuehne, the earliest extant collection of Korean poetry
1058 – Regent of the Holy Roman Empire Agnes of Poitou meets with Andrew I of Hungary to resolve a border-zone dispute concerning Burgenland
Henry III on left, Agnes of Poitou in center, from Codex Aureus
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe
1596 – Diego de Montemajor founds the city of Monterrey in Alta California
Foundation-of-Monterrey – mosaic mural by Joaquin Mora
1737 – The 'Walking' Treaty, based on how far a man could walk in a given time, is signed – Sons of William Penn claim 1,200,000 acres of land, showing the Lenape (also known as the Delaware) Tribe an unsigned, possibly forged, deed dated 1686, which the Lenape reluctantly accept when they are shown a distorted map of the area, and then their appeal to the Iroquois for aid is refused
1758 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines born as the slave Jean-Jacques Duclos, a leader of the Haitian Revolution. He was bought by a free black man, but became free three years later during the slave uprising of 1791. He gained military experience rising to become an officer in the French colonial army. During the revolution, he was a key military leader, and became the leader of the revolution when Toussaint Louverture was captured. He was the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the its new constitution, initially as governor-general, but was quickly proclaimed Emperor Jacques I of Haiti. One of his first acts as head of state was ordering the massacre of all white people on the island, resulting in deaths estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,000. His reign lasted from 1804 until his assassination by members of his own administration in 1806
1822 – Elizabeth 'Libby' Smith Miller born, author, suffragist and financial supporter of the women's movement; creator of the "bloomer costume" named after Amelia Bloomer who first exhibited it in her magazine, The Lily
1831 – Kate Harrington born, teacher, author of children's books and educational materials; pioneer in developing a sequential reading program, with emphasis on phonics, complete with a separate teacher's manual and spelling and reading books; noted for innovative use of music and reading materials geared to children's interests
1835 – The Ragamuffin War begins in Rio Grande do Sul, a Republican uprising led by generals Bento Gonçalves da Silva and Antônio de Sousa Neto with the support of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi. Rio Grande do Sul cattlemen were facing hardship because of competing imports of charque (dried salted beef) from Argentina and Uruguay. The rebels were called farrapos (ragamuffins) because of the fringed leather worn by the gauchos (cowhands)
1842 – Sir James Dewar born, inventor of the Dewar flask, the first insulated bottle
1847 – Susanna Rubinstein born in Ukraine, Austrian psychologist, noted for her study of the senses, and her 1878 work "Psychologisch-Asthetische Essays" ("Psychological-Aesthetic Essays"), considered a major contribution to the study of human emotions
1853 – Chulalongkorn born, became King Rama V of Siam, Phra Piya Maharat (Great Beloved King) whose major governmental and social reforms, including an end to slavery, modernized Siam. Thanks to these changes, and his adroitness in dealing with the British and the French over territorial concessions, his country avoided becoming a colony or a protectorate. In 1897, he became the first Siamese monarch to visit Europe, appointing Queen Saovabha as regent during his absence, and cementing European recognition of Siam as a fully independent power
King and Queen of Siam – Le Petit Journal, 1893
1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is founded in Philadelphia PA with William C. Redfield as its first president
1859 – George B. Simpson patents an electric range
1861 – Herbert Putnam born, American longest-serving Librarian of Congress (1899-1939), under eight U.S. Presidents, undertaking a massive reorganization of the library's materials which took 25 years to complete, while adding many new books to create a universal collection in many languages; the system of classifying books which he introduces, now known as the Library of Congress Classification, is still in use
1870 – Italian troops take control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy
1878 – Upton Sinclair born, author and crusader for social reforms, from clean meat to trade unionism and abolition of child labor, birth control, Socialism, morality in business and industry, education reform and civil liberties; his novel The Jungle helped the passage of the first U.S. pure-food statute; awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for Dragon's Teeth
1884 –The Equal Rights Party forms in San Francisco CA, nominating Belva Lockwood and Marietta Snow as the party's candidates for President and Vice President
1884 – Maxwell Perkins born, American book editor, credited with discovering Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe
1888 – Sue S. Dauser born, serves as a Navy nurse from 1917 until her appointment as Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps during WWII; retires in 1945
1890 – 'Jelly Roll' Morton born, legendary Blues musician
1890 – Linda Eenpalu born, Estonian politician and a leading women's rights activist; first woman member of the National Constituent Assembly (1937) and the Second Chamber of the National Council (1938-1940); co-founder of the Estonian Female Student's Society (1911), member of the central committee of the Estonian Women's Club (1928-1940), and member of the National Economic Council (1935-1938); a librarian (1913-1920) and high school teacher (1920-1926). In 1940, when the Soviet Union annexed and occupied Estonia, her husband, Prime Minister Kaarel Eenpalu, was among the leading Estonian politicians who were arrested and deported to Russia, where he died in 1942 in a Soviet prison camp. She was arrested in 1941 and deported, with thousands of other Estonians, to Siberia, where she was held until 1956
1893 – Charles Edgar Duryea road-tests his "motor wagon," the first gasoline-powered automobile, with his brother Frank in Springfield MA
1899 – Leo Strauss born in Germany, American political philosopher, lecturer and writer; political science professor at University of Chicago
1902 – Stevie Smith born, English poet, novelist and short story writer
1904 – Orville & Wilbur Wright fly in a circle for the first time, in their Flyer II
1906 – Vera Faddeeva born, Soviet mathematician, a pioneer in the field of linear alegebra. Her 1950 work, Computational methods of linear algebra, was translated into other languages, widely acclaimed and won a USSR State Prize
1906 –The Cunard Line launches RMS Mauretania in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1909 – The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from British Colonies: Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony
1917 – Olga Dahl born, Swedish genealogist. In the 1950s, she wrote consumer advice articles for the women's magazine Husmodern, then became interested in family history when she moved to Gothenburg. In the late 1970s she was a co-author with Per Clemensson, Sven Gulin and other contributors of Gothenburg, Göteborgs hjärta – en bok om människor, affärer och byggnader kring Kungsgatan (The Heart of Gothenburg – a book about people, things, and buildings around Kungsgatan)
1920 – Jay Ward born, American animator; creator and producer of animated TV series, notably Crusader Rabbit, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and George of the Jungle; founder of Jay Ward Productions, which also made Cap'n Crunch and Quisp commercials for Quaker Oats
1922 – Alfred Goodman and Harold Atteridge's The Passing Show of 1922, a musical revue, opens at NYC's Winter Garden Theatre
1923 – Geraldine Clinton Little born in Northern Ireland, American author, playwright, poet and singer; her book-length poem Hakugai (Persecution) is based on the Japanese-American internment during WWII, but her best-known work is her historical play Heloise and Abelard; sang with the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia
1927 – John Dankworth born, English jazz and film score composer, saxophonist; also music director for his wife, Jazz singer Dame Cleo Lane. Made a Knight Bachelor (rank of knighthood, not marital status) in 2006
1929 – Anne Meara born, American actress, comedian and writer; she and her husband, Jerry Stiller, performed as the comedy team Stiller and Meara; she wrote the play, After-Play, and won a Writers Guild Award for The Other Woman. Meara was nominated for 4 Emmys and a Tony Award
1934 – Sophia Loren born, Italian International Film Star, first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in a non-English language film, for Two Women (originally called La ciociara in Italy)
Sophia Loren by Armando Gallo
1937 – Birgitta Dahl born, Swedish Social Democratic Party politician: Member of Parliament (1969- 2002; Minister for Energy Affairs (1982-1990); Minister for the Environment (1986- 1991); Speaker of the Parliament (1994- 2002). Since 2005, chair of the Swedish section of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
1938 – Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for Jazz Orchestra #2, premieres
1940 – Anna Pavord born, Welsh-English gardening expert and writer; correspondent for The Independent newspaper since 1986, associate editor of Gardens Illustrated magazine, contributor to The Observer newspaper, and to the magazines Country Life, Country Living and Elle Decoration. Author of many books, including The Curious Gardener, The Tulip, and The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants
1942 – Rose Rogombé born, Gabonese Democratic Party politician; acting President of Gabon (June to October 2009) after the death of President Omar Bongo; President of the Senate and Senator from Lambaréné (2009)
1946 – Opening day of first Cannes Film Festival, 18 nations represented, after being delayed from 1939 by WWII. The films shown include David Lean's Brief Encounter, Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, Roberto Rossellini's Open City, and René Clement's The Battle of the Rails
1954 – The first program written in FORTRAN is run. IBM develops this general-purpose computer programming language, but the FORTRAN compiler won't be delivered until three years later; still in use for engineering and scientific applications
1956 – Jennifer Tour Chayes born, American mathematician and computer scientist; Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England since 2008; known for work on phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory, as well as an expert in the modeling and analysis of dynamically growing graphs; holder of over 25 patents, and author of over 100 published papers; honored with the 2015 John von Neumann Lecture Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
1959 – Meral Okay born, Turkish film producer, screenwriter and actress; producer of the TV series Second Spring (1998-2001), and screenwriter for the historical soap opera, Muhteşem Yüzyil, based on the life of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
1960 – Deborah Roberts born, American television journalist; 20/20 correspondent (1995 to present), Dateline NBC (1991-1995)
1961 – Caroline Flint born, British Labour politician; Member of Parliament for Don Valley since 1997; Minister for Public Health (2005-2007)
1962 – James Meredith, a black student, is blocked from enrolling at University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett, but later admitted, escorted by U.S. Marshalls
1967 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II (QE2) is launched
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in 'The Battle of the Sexes' tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas
1977 – The first "boat people" arrive in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program
1989 – F.W. de Klerk is sworn in as president of South Africa
1995 – U.S. House of Representatives votes to drop the national speed limit, allowing states to decide their own speed limits
1995 – Laura Dekker born in New Zealand, Dutch sailor; at age 16, she became the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed. Her solo voyage began August 21, 2010, in a 12.4 metre (40 foot) two-masted ketch called Guppy. After 518 days at sea, she completed her circumnavigation on January 21, 2012
2011 – Repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" compromise takes effect, allowing gay and lesbian service members to serve openly
West Point graduate/LGBT activist Dan Choi removes symbolic 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' duct tape
2017 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico, a powerful Category 4 hurricane which results in 2,975 deaths, over $90 billion USD in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis. Over 400,000 Puerto Ricans left the island between October 2017 and February 2018, about 43% of them going to Florida. Accurate figures on those still remaining in the continental U.S. are harder to find, but at least 50,000, and probably many more, have not been able to return home
2019 – The New England Patriots released wide receiver Antonio Brown following an investigation of allegations of sexual assault. One woman accused him of rape and sexual assault and has filed a civil lawsuit against him, while another woman accused him of inappropriate conduct and sending threatening text messages. The lawsuit plaintiff, 28-year-old Britney Taylor, alleges the 31-year-old Brown sexually assaulted her on three occasions in 2017 and 2018, and the 3rd incident escalated to rape. Brown denied the accusations through his attorney, and filed a countersuit, claiming their relationship was consensual "at all times."
Britney Taylor
2019 – Over 2 million people across 2,400 locations worldwide participated in strikes to protest inaction on the climate crisis
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This warm spell is hatching lots of Meadow Browns, still a few Large Skippers and an odd Common Blue but I was surprised to see a Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary in the usual area, it's about three weeks since the first one was spotted.
The Four Spot Dragonflies are still about but looking a bit threadbare,see pic, now waiting for the Hawkers to show themselves.
The Dark Green Fritillaries have been see by Ian and Lew feeding on the tall thistles.
Had a walk around the fields off Cow Tarn Lane and there is a beautiful display of Water Lillies on the pond near the road, see pic.