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Chapter VII, Historia Calamitatusm: The Story of My Misfortunes, Pierre Abélard / Peter Abelard, c. 1140.
From the Geneva Notes.
"He means that he will force no man either to marry or not to marry, but to show them plainly what type of life is most advantageous."
From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
"Let us reflect on the advantages and snares of our own condition in life; that we may improve the one, and escape as far as possible all injury from the other. And whatever cares press upon the mind, let time still be kept for the things of the Lord."
From Wesley's Notes.
"That ye may resolutely and perseveringly wait upon the Lord - The word translated wait signifies sitting close by a person, in a good posture to hear. So Mary sat at the feet of Jesus, Luke 10:39 . Without distraction - Without having the mind drawn any way from its centre; from its close attention to God; by any person, or thing, or care, or incumbrance whatsoever."
From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
"...not . . . cast a snare upon you--image from throwing a noose over an animal in hunting. Not that by hard injunctions I may entangle you with the fear of committing sin where there is no sin."
From The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
"Not to interfere with your freedom to marry. A snare thrown over the head made the victim helpless. Paul merely advises what, under the circumstances of that period, seemed most prudent."
Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
"Undivided devotion to the Lord," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
Commentary, 1 Corinthians 7:32-34, Morine A. Bowen, The African American Lectionary, 2008.
"Singleness is not a curse. It is a gift to be embraced. There are benefits to being single as well as married."
"Single Vs. Married Life?" Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel.
"How does your life status help you to focus on the Lord? How does it hinder you? How can you use this hindrance as a means to holiness?"
Articles & Background:
"Celibate Pneumatics and Social Power: On the Motivations for Sexual Asceticism in Corinth," by Judith M. Gundry-Volf, Fuller Theological Seminary.
"The Corinthians were pneumatics. They viewed themselves as pneumatikoiv (14:37; cf. also 2:13, 15). They were interested in pneumatikav (12:1; 14:1), especially gifts of inspiration (chapters 12-14, esp. 13:1-2; 14:1-33, 39). Their self-understanding is reflected in Paul's use of this terminology throughout the epistle (cf. also 3:1; 9:11; 10:3, 4; 15:44, 46). Precisely because it is so prominent, the Corinthians' pneumatism is likely to have motivated their celibacy in some way. 1 Corinthians 7 suggests that this is the case."
"Who Should Be Called Father? Paul of Tarsus between the Jesus Tradition and Patria Potestas," S. Scott Bartchy, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2003.
"The Ascetic Impulse in Ancient Christianity," Vincent L. Wimbush, Union Theological Seminary. Theology Today, October, 1993.
"In the end, the matter is about perspective: whether Christianity's ancient legacy should be read as an admittedly complicated development toward the embracing of the world or as a struggle to sustain resistance."
"The Changing Role of Women in the Early Christian World," Howard Clark Kee, University of Pennsylvania. Theology Today, 1992.
"If the church in our time were to take with full seriousness the radical openness toward women and their participation in the life of God's people that characterized the movement at the outset, it could result in a significant contribution toward renewal of both the church and the human race."
"Blurring the Boundaries: A Response to Howard C. Kee," Virginia Burrus, The Theological School at Drew University. Theology Today, 1992.
"...a blurring of religious or cultural boundaries in our historical reconstructions may cut against the smugness that frequently creeps into Christian discussions of Judaism and other religious traditions. The roots of a distinctive Christian feminism would appear to be entangled in Jewish and pagan traditions, rather than emerging in pure and radical opposition to those traditions. Second, a blurring of chronological boundaries in our historical reconstructions may cut against the tendency to locate orthodox or authentic Christianity almost purely in a statically defined "golden age" of the distant past. After all, how liberating is it for Christian women to be invited to focus exclusively on "the insights of Jesus and Paul"?"
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Advent 1 - November 29
Advent 2 - December 2
Advent 3 - December 13
Christmas Eve/Day - Dec 24-25
Christmas 1 - Dec 27
Christmas 2 - Jan 3
Epiphany - Jan 6
Baptism of the Lord - Jan 10
Epiphany 2 - Jan 17
Epiphany 5 - Feb 7
Transfiguration - Feb 14
Epiphany 6 - Feb 14
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Astron. Astrophys. 355, 1129-1137 (2000)
The structure of the collapsing envelope around the low-mass protostar IRAS 16293-2422 *
C. Ceccarelli 1, A. Castets 2, E. Caux 3, D. Hollenbach 4, L. Loinard 5, S. Molinari 6 and A.G.G.M. Tielens 7
1 Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble - B.P. 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 09, France
2 Observatoire de Bordeaux, B.P. 89, 33270 Floirac, France
3 CESR CNRS-UPS, B.P. 4346, 31028 Toulouse cedex 04, France
4 NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA
5 Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique, 300 rue de la piscine, 38406 St. Martin d'Hères, France
6 IPAC, California Institute of Technology, MS 100-22, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
7 SRON/Kaypten Institute, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Received 6 December 1999 / Accepted 21 January 2000
Using H2O, OI and SiO data, we derive the structure of the collapsing envelope around the low-mass protostar IRAS16293-2422 down to AU. With an accurate model which computes self-consistently the chemical composition, thermal balance and line emission from a collapsing envelope (Ceccarelli et al. 1996), we find that IRAS16293-2422 is a 0.8 protostar accreting from the surrounding envelope at a rate of yr-1, in good agreement with previous studies. The model predicts that the water abundance in the outer (r 150 AU) part of the envelope is with respect to H nuclei, while it is a few times larger at smaller radii (r 150 AU). This enhancement results from the evaporation of icy grain mantles when the temperature exceeds 100 K. The same model can reproduce the observations of the SiO J=2-3 to J=8-7 lines provided the abundance of SiO is in the inner region, while it is only in the rest of the envelope. The SiO abundance enhancement in the inner regions is likely due to the evaporation of the grain mantles also responsible for the abundance enhancement of H2O. The cooling and heating mechanisms of the gas throughout the envelope as derived from the model are discussed, and used to derive the gas temperature profile.
Key words: stars: circumstellar matter stars: formation ISM: individual objects: IRAS 16293-2422
* Based on observations with ISO, an ESA project with instruments funded by ESA Member States (especially the PI countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) with the participation of ISAS and NASA.
Send offprint requests to: Cecilia Ceccarelli; LAOG; (Cecilia.Ceccarelli@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr)
Online publication: March 21, 2000

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Just when I think the extremists in Israel can't be any more loathsome, they do something to prove me wrong. A group of 50 rabbis (who are civil servants, yeat another reason not to mix government and religion) signed a letter that urged the nation not to rent or sell property to non-Jews.
"It is known that due to selling or renting one apartment, all the apartments of the neighbors devaluate even if the buyers or renters are nice at first ... and the one that sells and rents first causes his neighbors a loss and causes others to rent and sell after him and leave the place."
Wow. They just came right out and said it. I have to agree with them about devaluation of property. However, they are directing it at the wrong people. You know who I really don't want to live next to because they are dirty, filthy things who devaluate property? Jews.
How horrible does that sound? It is horrible and racist. However, when the good rabbis say it, its religious doctrine and must be followed. I remember reading about a country who thought a group of people devalued their land and dirtied everything up.
You would think a culture which had recently been victimized by such thinking would be less likely to engage in it themselves... Apparently we don't learn and/or are horribly hypocritical.
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Mechanical behavior of in vitro blood clots and the implications for acute ischemic stroke treatment
Background Clot mechanical properties are influenced by composition and the arrangement of components within the clot. This work investigates the effects of platelet-driven contraction on blood clot microstructure and mechanical behavior, and provides insight into some implications for mechanical thrombectomy.
Methods Platelet-contracted clot analogues (PCCs) and non-contracted clot analogues (NCCs) were prepared from blood mixtures of various hematocrits (%H), that is, the volume percentage of red blood cells (RBCs) in the mixture. Mechanical testing was performed to compare the behavior of the analogues with previously tested human thromboemboli. Scanning electron microscopy and histology investigated the clot microstructure and composition. The association between clot properties and their behavior during mechanical behavior was also investigated.
Results Overall, PCCs were found to be stiffer than NCCs, across all hematocrits. PCCs with a low %H resisted complete ingestion via contact aspiration alone or complete retrieval with stent-retrievers. PCCs with a higher %H and all NCCs were fully retrievable, although the likelihood of fragmentation was increased in clots with a greater %H. Histologically, there was little difference in the RBC and fibrin content between PCCs and NCCs with the same %H. However, the microstructure of the two groups differed significantly.
Conclusion A selection of repeatable clot analogues with a range of mechanical properties have been developed for in vitro modeling of acute ischemic stroke. Platelet contraction significantly affects clot volume and microstructure, and in turn clot stiffness. The significant difference in mechanical properties and microstructure, but without an appreciable difference in histology, implies that histological studies of explanted human clots alone may not prove to be predictive of the mechanical behavior of the clots in thrombectomy.
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S.C. Supreme Court Denies School Rehearing
The S.C. Supreme Court denied a request by Gov. Nikki Haley and the S.C. General Assembly to rehear a school funding lawsuit it ruled on two months ago.
In its denial, the Court said it was unable to discover any material fact or principal of law that had been overlooked or disregarded when it first ruled on the case.
In November 2014, the Court ruled the state failed to provide to children in poor, rural school districts with a minimally adequate education as required by state law.
Bobby Harrell Investigation – Is the Fix In?
Most of you probably already know that earlier this week the S.C. Supreme Court reversed a circuit court ruling that ordered the grand jury investigation into possible political corruption by S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell ended.
The Supreme Court ruled that Circuit Court Judge Casey Manning erred when he said the case belonged in the S.C. House Ethics Committee unless the committee found evidence of a possible criminal violation at which time it would refer its findings to the Attorney General's office.
The Court ruled that the existence of the House Ethics Committee "does not affect the Attorney General's authority to initiate a criminal investigation in any way."
Bobby Harrell v. Alan Wilson, No Clear Advantage
Neither side seemed to come away with a clear advantage from yesterday's S.C. Supreme Court arguments to determine whether the state grand jury investigating possible criminal ethics violations by S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell should continue.
Last month, S.C. Circuit Court Judge Casey Manning ruled that a state grand jury investigation into alleged ethics violations by Harrell should be terminated.
S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn Manning's ruling and allow the investigation to continue, leading to yesterday's hearing.
Bobby Harrell v. Alan Wilson at Supreme Court Today
The S.C. Supreme Court will hear arguments beginning at 1:30 p.m. today on the continuing controversy over who has the right to investigate possibly illegal actions by S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell.
The case originally dates from an alleged ethics complaint brought to S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson by the libertarian South Carolina Policy Council. It included allegations that Harrell used his influence as Speaker to obtain a contract for his pharmaceutical supply business and improperly appointed his brother to a judicial candidate screening committee.
(In South Carolina, the legislature appoints a panel that screens judicial applicants and sends recommendations back to the legislature which votes on the recommendations for final approval of the judges. To further complicate the situation, many of the applicants are former legislators.)
The complaint also questioned the use of approximately $324,000 of Harrell's campaign funds to reimburse himself for costs associated with trips in his personal airplane.
Freedom of Information Act Retreat in South Carolina
The Freedom of Information Act in South Carolina took a huge step backward last week with a ruling issued by the S.C. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court basically ruled out any requirement for public bodies to tell citizens what they are doing, or intend to do, during their meetings.
The rather surprising Supreme Court ruling was based on interpretation by the justices of S.C. Code of Laws 30-4-80, otherwise known as the Freedom of Information Act.
Time to Replace Chief Justice Jean Toal – Updated
The S.C. General Assembly is set to vote today on whether Jean Toal will continue as Chief Justice of the S.C. Supreme Court.
Toal and Associate Justice Costa Pleicones have spent the last several months lobbying legislators with neither, apparently, garnering enough support to force the other out of the race.
It takes a majority of those voting to win a new 10 year term that will begin July 1, 2014 with the new fiscal year. The Senate will begin voting at noon with the House following shortly thereafter.
Supreme Showdown Over State Pension Fund (Updated)
S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis and the S.C. Retirement System Investment Commission will have a showdown in court Tuesday April 16th over transparency of retirement funds.
The commission, of which Loftis is a voting member, is suing Loftis in his position as custodian of the trust fund. The S.C. Supreme Court has accepted original jurisdiction on the case and has agreed to expedite a decision.
The court is holding in abeyance a decision whether documents and exhibits associated with the case will be allowed under seal or whether they will be part of the public record of the case.
At issue is Loftis' refusal to sign a $50 million check for an "alternative investment" of state pension funds managed by investment firm Warburg Pincus. Loftis said he would not sign the check until the attorney for the SCRSIC has officially notified him in writing that all fees and other charges associated with the proposed investment are those approved by vote of the commissioners.
S.C. Supremes vs. Illegal Gambling
The S.C. Supreme Court struck a blow against illegal gambling this week when it upheld 2006 convictions of five people who were arrested for the supposedly serious crime of playing penny ante poker in a private home in Mt. Pleasant.
Even better, the convictions were based on an 1802 law that a majority of the judges considered flawed and outdated.
Do 1802 laws still count in South Carolina? That's 58 years before the state seceded from the Union and joined in armed rebellion against the federal government. That losing effort had to void something.
Katrina Shealy: I Swear I Did!
"The Defendant (Shealy) has already shown a propensity for saying things which are untrue, even under oath."
The election contest for Senate District 23 is going to be nothing if not entertaining this year. Challenger Katrina Shealy who is opposing incumbent Sen. Jake Knotts, with the help of Gov. Nikki Haley, has become embroiled in a new legal challenge.
Shealy was one of the many Republican candidates left off the ballot after she failed to file her candidacy papers properly. The state Republican Party executive committee attempted to put her name back on the primary ballot after a special hearing in May. The S.C. Election Commission, however, refused to ignore a S.C. Supreme Court ruling by which Shealy was declared ineligible.
S.C. Supremes Deny Election Commission
The S.C. Supreme Court Wednesday denied a petition by the S.C. Election Commission to dismiss a lawsuit by 7th Congressional district candidate Preston Brittain on certification of votes in the 7th Congressional race.
After the Election Commission threw out the 2300 plus votes cast for S.C. Rep. Ted Vick who had previously withdrawn his candidacy after an arrest in Columbia for DUI and weapon's charges, and the Election Commission subsequently certified Gloria Bromell Tinubu as the Democratic Party nominee.
Brittain filed the suit In S.C. District Court last Friday, asking that the Election Commission be required to include Ted Vick's votes in the total of votes cast, the result if successful would have triggered a runoff between Brittain and Gloria Bromell Tinubu.


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Transforming the Twentieth Century
Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
by Vaclav Smil
This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th century advances. The history of the 20th century is rooted in amazing technical advances of 1871-1913, but the century differs so remarkably from the preceding 100 years because of several unprecedented combinations. The 20th century had followed on the path defined during the half century preceding the beginning of World War I, but it has traveled along that path at a very different pace, with different ambitions and intents. The new century's developments elevated both the magnitudes of output and the spatial distribution of mass industrial production and to new and, in many ways, virtually incomparable levels. Twentieth century science and engineering conquered and perfected a number of fundamental challenges which remained unresolved before 1913, and which to many critics appeared insoluble. This book is organized in topical chapters dealing with electricity, engines, materials and syntheses, and information techniques. It concludes with an extended examination of contradictory consequences of our admirable technical progress by confronting the accomplishments and perils of systems that brought liberating simplicity as well as overwhelming complexity, that created unprecedented affluence and equally unprecedented economic gaps, that greatly increased both our security and fears as well as our understanding and ignorance, and that provided the means for greater protection of the biosphere while concurrently undermining some of the key biophysical foundations of life on Earth. Transforming the Twentieth Century will offer a wide-ranging interdisciplinary appreciation of the undeniable technical foundations of the modern world as well as a multitude of welcome and worrisome consequences of these developments. It will combine scientific rigor with accessible writing, thoroughly illustrated by a large number of appropriate images that will include historical photographs and revealing charts of long-term trends.
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including Energy and Civilization, published by the MIT Press. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. In 2013 Bill Gates wrote on his website that "there is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."
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The existential threat to Israel is real and has been since Israel was founded as a modern nation-state in 1948. The four major wars Israel has fought plus the numerous terrorist threats have defined Israel since its founding. But there is a new aggression being leveled at Israel?an economic aggression in the form of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. Members of the European Union (EU) are working to develop economic sanctions designed to force Israel to accept political concessions such as ending the blockade against Hamas in Gaza. Further, major EU banks and financial firms have blacklisted various Israeli banks because they operate in the West Bank. Also, the UK?s Trade and Investment agency in a 2013 report called on UK banks to avoid doing business with Israeli entities associated with the West Bank. In addition, in 2013 the Dutch water supplier Vitens was advised by the government of the Netherlands to terminate its contract with the Israeli company Mekorot, alleging that its presence in the West Bank violated international law. Ironically, this ridiculous order occurred one day after Mekorot announced a deal with Jordan and the Palestinian Authority to provide more water to the West Bank!! The United States must not be drawn into such BDS actions. Representative Peter Roskam of the House Ways and Means Committee correctly observes that ?The US cannot allow its firms to be pressured to leave Israel or risk their commercial operations in Europe. This threatens not only our ally, Israel, but the health of our own economy . . . We must not be fooled by those marketing BDS as anything but blatant discrimination against the Jewish state. And we must seize the historic opportunity to push back forcefully against the BDS movement to ensure the strength of the US-Israeli relationship.?
Joshua Muravchik, fellow at the Johns Hopkins University?s School of Advanced International Studies, gives a most helpful perspective on the BDS movement and its inherent hypocrisy and inconsistency. He argues convincingly that Palestinian nationalism did not exist before the 1967 War, for the major Arab and Palestinian passion was pan-Arabism. Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt promoted this pan-Arabism, which was humiliated by Israel in the 1967 war. Pan-Arabism died in 1967. Palestinian nationalism replaced it with a series of terrorist acts by various Palestinian radicals, including airplane hijackings, bombings and culminating in the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The 1973 oil embargo followed this brutal terrorism, awakening especially the European world to the Arab cause. Muravchik writes that ?Israel suddenly seemed the larger party and the Palestinians the ones deserving sympathy.? But, it makes little sense for the European community to be so exercised about this. ?When was the last time you saw an angry demonstration on a college campus over the brutal occupation of Tibet?? Over the last 15 years, Ehud Barak and later Ehud Olmert (in 2000, 2001 and 2008) offered Yasser Arafat everything he demanded (a Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital and with every Israeli settlement in the new Palestine uprooted), but the price was the recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland. Arafat refused and went home to organize the Second Intifada. China has never offered anything like that to Tibet! He goes on, ?For 100 years the core idea in leftist thought was economic: class struggle, poor against rich, workers against capitalists. After World War II ethnic, racial or national struggles become dominant, growing out of anti-colonial movements . . . Palestinians are the anti-colonial people of color.? The late Edward Said is the darling of this anti-colonial conviction, for he symbolized this new leftist idea that it is all about race and not about class; ?the great moral drama is the history of the oppression of people of color by white people, and the rebellion of the people of color against this repression.? To EU leftists, the Palestinians are the new ?people of color? and Israel is the white oppressor.
Iran has rekindled its relationship with Hamas in Gaza. Over the last few months, Iran?s Revolutionary Guards have transferred tens of millions of dollars to Hamas?s Izz al-Din al-Qassam brigades. According to intelligence reports, these funds are being used by Hamas to rebuild the network of tunnels destroyed by Israel during last summer?s conflict. Hamas is also replenishing their depleted stocks of medium-range missiles. As Con Coughlin, defense editor of the Telegraph in the UK, argues, ?The Revolutionary Guards are eager to revive their relationship with Hamas because it gives them access to Israel?s southern border . . . Given that Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the US and its allies, Iran?s fresh outreach to the group should raise another caution flag as world powers negotiate with Tehran over the Iranian nuclear program.?
As Charles Krauthammer persuasively argues, ?The fundamental reality remains: This generation of Palestinian leadership?from Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas?has never and will never sign its name to a final peace settlement dividing the land with Jewish state. And without that, no Israeli government of any kind will agree to a Palestinian state.? Hamas and Fatah (the Palestinian Authority) are again feuding?quite bitterly. So, with whom does Israel negotiate for a lasting peace in Palestine?
Furthermore, given the current chaos in the Middle East, a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is impossible. With the major authoritarian dictators gone in this region (e.g., Saddam Hussein, Hafez al-Assad), there is no reliable government in the crucial states of Syria and Iraq. No matter how you evaluate it, the nation states of Syria and Iraq no longer exist. The order imposed by the western powers at the end of World War I and re-affirmed at the end of World War II no longer exists. Egypt has had two revolutions and three radically different governments. Yemen is becoming a client of Iran. Libya no longer exists as a nation state either. In short, the ?Arab Spring? is a complete disaster! With this incredible instability in the region, why must Israel be forced to make irreversible territorial concessions on the West Bank in return for promises and guarantees? As Krauthammer observes, ?Israel is ringed by jihadist terrorists in Sinai, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Islamic State and Iranian proxies in Syria, and a friendly but highly fragile Jordan . . . Peace awaits three things. Eventual Palestinian acceptance of a Jewish state. A Palestinian leader willing to sign a deal based on that premise. A modicum of regional stability that allows Israel to risk the potentially fatal withdrawals such a deal would entail.? These three items do not exist in today?s Middle East.
There is one final reality: President Obama has fundamentally changed the relationship between the US and Israel. Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has forcefully demonstrated that under Obama, two principles that have governed the Israeli-US relationship have been abandoned: (1) The principle of ?no daylight,? meaning that Israel and the US would disagree but never openly. Doing so would encourage common enemies and render Israel vulnerable. (2) The principle of ?no surprises,? meaning that the US would always keep Israel informed and engaged. The very first meeting between Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu saw this principle violated. Thus, as Oren declares, ?with the Middle East unraveling and dependable allies a rarity, the US and Israel must restore the ?no daylight? and ?no surprises? principles. Israel has no alternative to America as a source of security aid, diplomatic backing and overwhelming popular support.?
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The next time your tooth is broken or rotten and you need a new one, your dentist might drag out a three-dimensional printer and fabricate a new tooth that fits perfectly in your mouth within minutes. Although this sounds like a scene from a science fiction movie, the technology is already developed.
3D printing, which fabricates a solid object by building up successive layers of materials, usually plastic or metal, has lit the technology world on fire. Aerospace, military, architecture and industrial design professionals are all using it. But Xiao Lan, director of the Beijing New Material Development Center, under the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, believes its most viable immediate use is replacing teeth and bones.
"The medical industry is the one with the greatest market potential, since it's related to each individual person," says Xiao, adding that experts and doctors in Beijing have already made solid progress in this field.
"3D printing will have a revolutionary effect [on the medical industry]," says Tang Zhihui, doctor of dental medicine and clinical professor at the Peking University School of Stomatology.
According to Tang, 3D printing can help dentists in many ways, including printing braces, surgical guide plates and even artificial teeth. Since no tooth is the same, the patient's mouth can be scanned and a digital three-dimensional model built. The printer can fabricate anything the dentist needs.
In Beijing, three dogs were implanted with false teeth fabricated by a printer, and three months later they are adapting well without any rejection by the body, said Tang.
Liu Zhongjun, professor and director of the orthopedics department of Peking University Third Hospital, has gone further. Liu and his team are the first in China that have carried their research to the phase of clinical trials. Liu told Metropolitan that they have put artificial implants fabricated by 3D printers into 40 patients over the past year.
"The overall situation [of the patients] is looking good," Liu said. Liu's studies will mainly help patients who suffer from degenerative joint disease and degeneration of the spine. Artificial bones and spinal implants of titanium have been fabricated from the printers and implanted into patients in the trial.
Huang Xindi, 54, is one of Liu's earliest patients to receive a fabricated implant. The doctor implanted a prosthetic bone into her spine to treat her spondylosis, and there have been no side effects. "I trust Professor Liu and the technology," she says, noting the severe dizziness she had before the surgery has vanished.
The biggest advantage of 3D printing is providing an individualized and complicated product tailored for each person, since each tooth or bone has a unique shape.
Chen Jimin, professor at the Institute of Laser Engineering from Beijing University of Technology, and his colleagues are cooperating with hospitals and local companies to develop 3D-related technologies to use for medical purposes.
Chen notes that using the printers in skull repair is already a mature technology. "The traditional way is trimming a piece of titanium roughly into the shape needed to fix the defect, but it's not an accurate method. Now we can scan the good side of the skull and symmetrically build a digital model of the side with the defect, in order to print a metal implant that fits perfectly," Chen explained.
"Implants fabricated by the printer are extremely accurate," said Tang. "A traditional tooth implant is screwed into the jaw, but 3D printing allows making a false tooth with the exact same root, and a dentist can just put it in the extraction socket. And in mechanical terms, fabricated teeth can also last longer," says Tang.
The traditional way of making artificial teeth involves making a plaster model and usually takes more than six months, but 3D fabrication is much faster, costs less and causes less pollution, he says.
The fabricated teeth are also very well suited to the jaw bone. "We can fabricate the metals into shapes that include porous structures for vessels and nerves to grow into," Tang explains.
Despite of all the advantages of 3D printing, the technology still needs to go through clinical trials, and the China Food and Drug Administration hasn't approved using printed implants in human bodies yet. Patients who have faith in 3D printing should still put their plans for printed implants on hold.
For this reason, Tang has been able to fabricate braces, surgical plates and the outer parts of fake teeth, but he has not been able to implant any fabricated products inside human bodies. Tang and his team will finish testing to make sure the implants won't be rejected by the body or harm people's health.
Although Chen cannot directly put fabricated bone replacements inside patients, he has already used the technology to print a model of a patient's damaged skull, to help guide the construction of a titanium implant.
Liu estimates that it will take at least one year for 3D-printer-fabricated implants to be approved by the government and put on the market. Liu started this research in 2009. In 2010 his department imported a medical 3D printer from Sweden, and started designing implants and doing animal experiments. As far as Liu knows, domestic producers don't make medical 3D printers yet.
A variety of implants and printing technologies, including biological materials printing, will happen in the future, says Chen. Using 3D printing and injections of living cells, living organs will probably be fabricated, he said.
Experts from Cornell University have already fabricated a replacement ear using the technology, the Sydney Morning Herald reported in February. A report in May said that doctors from Washington, DC, fabricated hearts, and doctors from Britain fabricated a partial prosthetic face for a man disfigured by cancer.
"But biological printing is much more complicated than metal printing," Chen said. "Biological printing still seems like it will be impossible in ten years," added Liu.
A 2012 report by Wohlers Associates, an American consulting firm, estimates that the worldwide market for 3D printing reached $1.7 billion in 2011. And it says that the medical and dental industries are the third biggest buyers of the technology, comprising 15 percent of the market. The consumer products and electronics sector spent the most, followed by the motor vehicle industry.
Some have compared 3D printing to the emergence of factories, predicting it may spark a third industrial revolution. However, ever since the emergence of the technology, voices have veered into two extremes. Among them, Taiwan-based Foxconn CEO Terry Gou thinks 3D printing is "just a trick" because it cannot realize mass production for commercial use, the Guangzhou Daily reported last month. The disadvantage of 3D printing is that the production process will be slower, says Xiao. However, he notes that the technology is still maturing. "We should increase investment," he says.


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Anthony Bourdain and Barack Obama's Dinner Table
The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.
Place setting 55.5, where the two men ate their famous meal in April 2016. Darren Healey (Used With Permission)
A waitress carries dishes to customers next to the glass-encased table. NHAC NGUYEN/Getty
The restaurant serves only bun cha, a noodle dish with fresh herbs and pork patties. Danny Kowk (used with Permission)
Obama's visit has been memorialized on the menu. Danny Kowk (Used With Permission)
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In May 2016, the Vietnamese noodle store Bún Chả Hương Liên went from relative obscurity to being on television screens all over the world, after two of the world's most famous men chose it as their dinner spot in Hanoi.
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Anthony Bourdain and President Barack Obama came for the slippery noodles or fragrant pork patties—but the world tuned in not for the food, but to see these two icons sit on blue plastic stools and drinking chilled bottles of local beer.
At the time of the meal, Bourdain was filming the CNN series Parts Unknown. A year earlier, he told the network, the White House had reached out to try to arrange a meal between the president and himself: something fun and unexpected. This relative hole-in-the-wall, where the total cost of the meal came in at under $10, fit the bill. (Bourdain picked up the check.)
Footage from the series shows the men laughing and chatting over their noodles like two old friends. "Is it appropriate to chuck one of these whole suckers in your mouth?" the president asks, gesturing at a patty with his chopsticks. "Well, slurping is totally acceptable in this part of the world," Bourdain replies, with a laugh. They received no directive from the White House about which topics were and were not up for discussion, Bourdain later told the network. "We spoke like two dads, and Southeast Asian enthusiasts, and had a good time."
Today, the restaurant continues to thrive. It looks much as it did when Bourdain and Obama sat down to eat there, but there are a few key changes. Guests hoping to relive the experience can now order a "Combo Obama" from the menu: bun cha, a seafood spring roll, and a bottle of Hanoi beer for a total of 85,000 VND, or about $3.60. But what they can't do is sit down at that same table, in those same blue plastic stools. The restaurant's encased the entire set-up in glass for posterity. (From time to time, they also pop a decorative plant on top.) The metal-topped table's still set, as if waiting for the return of its diners, ready with plates, bowls, chopsticks, and beers.
When Bourdain died in June 2018, Obama tweeted a photo of the two men drinking their beers in that restaurant, with the caption: "This is how I'll remember Tony. He taught us about food — but more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To make us a little less afraid of the unknown. We'll miss him."
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A Lego model of a character from the Disney film Zootropolis (released as Zootopia in the US and China) that reportedly cost more than £10,000 to build was destroyed by a child just hours after going on display in China.
The four-year-old boy was admiring the human-sized model at Beijing's Wanda Plaza when he got a little closer than he should have.
The Lego model of Nick Wilde, a fox character voiced by Jason Bateman in the film, had taken the artist three days to finish. A 'no touching' sign at the expo did not appear to have been heeded.
The parents of the boy who broke the statue reportedly offered to pay compensation for the damage their son caused, but were refused by the artist, Mr Zhao, who said that the boy had not intended to break his sculpture: "The child did not intend to break it," he is reported as saying.
The model was said to have been built to attract more visitors to an event at the plaza. Pictures later posted of the model before and after the incident have been going viral on Chinese social-media site Weibo.
Lego has long been a popular modelling material for big events and shows: the Brick 2015 exhibition took place in London last December, and included a sculpture of a woolly mammoth that took nine weeks to build using 400,000 bricks.


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Identification of Vβ7.1_H3F7 as a Therapeutic Gene Encoding TCR Specific to Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Systemic Immunomodulation of Autoimmune Disease Using MHC-Derived Recombinant TCR Ligands
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Therapeutic Blockade of TCR Signal Transduction and Co-Stimulation in Autoimmune Disease
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Negative Regulation of TCR Signaling in Immunological Tolerance: Taming Good and Evil
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Modulation of T Cell Immunity by TCR / pMHC Dwell Time and Activating / Inhibitory Receptor Pairs on the Antigen-Presenting Cell
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The enduring energy of Nottingham's DIY underground
Nottingham's rich musical heritage has always had a raw edge, from punk rock to acid and rap. That spirit lives on in a new generation of DIY rave promoters and artists. DJ Mag takes a look at the city's musical history, and speaks to key players past and present, to find out what makes Nottingham special
Oliver Payne
128 miles north from the bright lights of London lies Nottingham. A vibrant creative community, Nottingham's musical heritage has not just survived, but evolved, and its underground electronic scene is making the city a destination for ravers throughout the Midlands. From intimate dancing to dynamic, art-driven raves and an impressive inner city festival, all run by local promoters, the city has hit top speed in its journey to being crowned the UK's next raving destination.
Nottingham's rock roots has long given the city's rave scene a raw edge. Punk ruled Nottingham in the '70s and '80s, with bands like Heresy, Concrete Sox, and Fudge Tunnel, and when it became a dance hub in the early '90s, the city's taste for rock transformed into a taste for acid house.
Venus is often referred to as Nottingham's answer to the Haçienda, and brought in punters far and wide for hardcore and acid house parties. James Bailie is a local legend in Nottingham. He ran Venus between 1990 and 1994 and, in roughly the same time period, had a stint as trance legend Sasha's manager. He managed and opened clubs in the city: Venus was first, with its fashionable edge, followed by Deluxe, and in 1997, Bailie turned jazz club Hippo into The Bomb, with its cross-genre bookings for emerging dance music styles.
"We're talking progressive, acid house in the main room, piano house in the other room, and Balearic stuff as well. Friday night had drum & bass nights and alternative breakbeat nights," The Bomb resident Dan explains. "On Saturday nights, the main room was house and techno. Eclectic in the back room, disco, and house upstairs – that New York sound. The Bomb had a really good standard of bookings on a consistent basis. We just didn't have to go anywhere else."
Bailie ran The Bomb for seven years. In 2004, before leaving Nottingham for London, Bailie set up Stealth, a behemoth venue that's still the go-to for weekly dance music from global headliners, and sits at the top of the student-focused city's pecking order. It's a two-room, 660 capacity space that's hosted Gerd Janson, Hunee, and Nathan Fake, to name a few. But the past focus on The Bomb and the contemporary dominance of Stealth can often overshadow Nottingham's long-running and eclectic underground scene.
One of the earliest spots for dance music in the city, The Garage, took over a space that had been, throughout the '80s, a reggae club, then a punk and indie bar. When The Garage opened in the early '90s, it continued to attract the kind of 'ahead of the curve' music fans that made its previous iterations successful. This time, it was the fans who were intrigued by the early house sound.
"The rave scene [in Nottingham as well as the wider UK] really came about in the first instance when the Chicago house movement began," former owner of The Garage, Ian Gardiner, tells us. "Our DJ, Graeme Park, introduced that music into what was basically a post-punk nightclub." Park – a knowledgeable record collector, after playing motown and disco in the club since 1983 – brought the sounds of Steve 'Silk' Hurley, Derrick May, and Farley Jackmaster Funk to The Garage in 1986.
As more popular styles of house music gradually made their way into the city's 1000-plus capacity venues, like NG-1, Gardiner notes that The Garage changed its sound to rare groove, acid jazz, hip-hop, and disco, purposefully creating a more sonically diverse and underground space. Although other venues later achieved it, The Garage was the first club to play post-punk and rock in one room, and dance music in another. "The most important thing," he reflects, "is that Nottingham people are open to all sorts of music and the crowds mix so well. It was amazing! We could still do with a venue that does that."
From its punk and acid roots, Nottingham's raw musical edge lives on: in rock bands, like Sleaford Mods, in grime, with MC's like Mez, and in hip-hop, too. One of the city's biggest labels, Deal Maker Records, having been giving platforms to hip-hop artists since 2003. Their 'UK Duty Paid' compilation, showcases 24 Nottingham rappers, includes Scorzayzee, a daring and clever lyricist whose track 'Great Britain' made him a local favourite. He's been an MC since 1994, and is a fountain of knowledge for the early days of hip-hop in the north of England.
"I'm very proud to have played a small role in Nottingham being recognised for good music," Scorzayzee says. "Recent statistics show that we are the poorest city in the UK. I say we are the richest in music. "It's always had a big hip-hop scene from the break-dancing days of the '80s at Rock City, right through the grime era and up 'till now. Here's a fun fact for you: my song 'Crepps' in 2001 is the reason you call trainers 'Crepps'. That was a Nottingham slang word. Every time you see Crep Protect in a store, think 'that's Notts that gave you that!'"
"I guess we're not trying to take on the world. It's raw, it's got acid house running through its veins, and is a real independent scene run by real people"
Bass-orientated club music has also been a staple – unsurprising, given that bassline was born not much further north, in Sheffield. The characterful face of Nottingham bassline, Darkzy, shot up in the scene after posting the words 'book me xxxxx' on Stealth's Facebook page in 2016. Showcases a boisterous and animated spin on the genre, he produces screeching, head-banging beats far from the once subtler flavours of bassline.
He's quickly become a city-wide legend among students thanks to his controversial humour, both in his sets and out and about in the city, and he's headlined the annual dance music Detonate festival, which takes place in Colwick Country Park not far from the centre. Last year, Darkzy sold out the 2,000 capacity Rock City venue three nights in a row.
Arguably the city's most important dance music figure right now, though, is promoter and DJ Lukas Wigflex. The godfather of 'rudeboy techno', he's been pushing all things dark, weird, and bleep-y in the Nottingham techno scene for 13 years. The party series takes over venues like grimy, industrial The Brickworks, student-spot Box, or even one-off spots, like city rooftops or caves. Events differ in style: one might explore UK garage, another might be a fusion of breakbeat, 2-step, and electro, or a straight journey through house and techno. Their venue takeovers give each party a sense of freedom, nodding to the city's acid house roots.
"We're just happy putting on interesting parties without the same old line-ups," he says. "The crowd's good. It's not an overly-documented, soap opera place, y'know – I guess we're not trying to take on the world. It's raw, it's got acid house running through its veins, and is a real independent scene run by real people."
The success of Wigflex is down to a changing club landscape in Nottingham. Spaces like Venus, The Bomb, and The Garage created a legacy, but with club closures rife, younger promoters have to come up with more inventive, DIY ways to run quality underground dance parties. "When we first started going raving [in the '90s] there was more choice," Lukas remembers.
"There were a lot more promoters and it was a lot more fun. The smoking ban changed a lot of stuff – it got a bit dry, slowed down – but recently there's been a lot of younger promoters. They're starting to realise 'Okay, we haven't got a lot of clubs, but let's see where we can go with our parties'. We've got our own thing going on and it's worth sticking around for."
Lukas's point about the next generation of DIY promoters is key. In the last year, promoters Expert Death have introduced a wealth of top notch gigs with the UK's upcoming bass-driven talent into the city. Expert Death have one motto: 'No Lights. No Visuals. No Stages.' The night is run by George Inman. "Wigflex have done such a good job of providing a 'fully immersive' experience with visuals and interesting sounds," he explains, "that I felt there was very little point attempting that in Nottingham, so I always tried to provide dark intimate rooms in a bid to encourage a similar level of immersion with less elements."
"Often I find myself wishing clubs that I go to were smaller or darker, and having never got to experience places like Plastic People, I've sort of tried to provide that intensity in a different way," Inman continues. "I want to represent the weird hybridity that exists in Nottingham. Even though we've had artists play who can be tagged as grime or garage pretty confidently, the other aim was to provide a platform for this conglomerate soundtrack of grime, garage, and techno that I think represents Nottingham's place in UK electronic music."
Lukas remarks on recent parties that have made an impact. After the last-minute cancellation of this year's Houghton Festival due to stormy weather, Wigflex hosted a surprise rave in a Norfolk barn, which they comically dubbed Barnarellas. Last month, they hosted a rave in the woods with Special Request and Saoirse, which got shut down by the neighbours at 9PM. "It was a bang in the centre, opposite the prison. They were like: 'It's fucking very loud.' The police were happy to keep it going, but the neighbours were less keen." This month, they hosted their 13th birthday party, with a back-to-back set from Ben UFO and Batu and a live set from Rrose in The Brickworks.
In May, he debuted Wigflex City Fest, which saw him take over 14 city venues, including an art gallery with a mega lighting rig set-up with Yazmin Lacey, Bufiman, and more, an ambient stage where ravers lay on beanbags, and an intimate cave-rave beneath an unassuming pub. Showcasing local talent alongside Midland, Honey Dijon, Peach, and Call Super, the one-day festival merged blinding sets with art installations and was a mammoth event that Lukas "staked everything on".
"Fucking hell, it killed me mate," Lukas admits, laughing. "It was a lot of hard work. I didn't really get to enjoy it because I was rushing all day but the last two hours when I got to play" – referring to his 4am set at NG1 – "everyone was happy and still there. That was a cool moment for me." He says that next year's City Fest is set to be bigger and better, he insists, with more visuals and more exciting concepts.
Another pair of new promoters are Glaswegian brothers Auld Rab and Tam O'Shanter, who run Audiobahn – a no frills party that, in the last year, has hosted Banoffee Pies, Bruce, and Space Dimension Controller. Falling for the rave scene while in university, the brothers' started Audiobahn in 2018 because of a lack of bookings they wanted to see in the city, and drew inspiration from their old favourite, Sub Club. This month, their party at the intimate Bar Eleven pushed a high-energy, electro-tinged sound, with sets from resident DJs Nikki O and Kurty.
Other newcomers include Peach Fuzz, who have hosted a diverse, long-form crate-diggers and contemporary producers, including Yak, Stevie Cox, Jon K, and Object Blue. Peach Fuzz is held in the Chameleon Arts Cafe, a 140-capacity venue above a Clinton Cards shop. "There are such amazing small venues such as the Chameleon, and those venues wouldn't be used for this sort of rave-y music if it wasn't for [parties like] us, Audiobahn, and Expert Death," Matt says. There's a tight-knit community at these small events, "but it's like a house party, it has that energetic vibe," he says. "We [promoters] all support each other - we're all trying to make it better together and we all communicate. There's no backstabbing."
This relatively small city is going through an important change in 2019. Contemporary underground electronic music is not the sole domain of Stealth's weekly offerings, or even Wigflex's conceptual one-off raves or regular parties. Gradually, an ecosystem of DIY promoters has emerged from both, where young ravers met and decided to form their own crews. There are fewer key, specialist venues now than in decades past, like Venus, The Bomb, and The Garage, but the passion persists. Nottingham's underground music scene – boisterous, punkish, in your face – is now in the hands of a new generation.
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Bath & Tennis Club on South Ocean Blvd.,
circa 1930s.
After World War I, social life in Palm Beach expanded from the hotels to private clubs, including the Bath and
Tom Bohne, secretary to E.R. Bradley from 1926 until Bradley's death in 1946, recalled many prominent members of Bradley's Beach Club, such as Joseph P. Kennedy, who bought a home in Palm Beach in 1933:
The president's father came in one night and he won $500, so Mr. Bradley gave him a $500 bill...And a couple of nights later Mr. Kennedy came in and said, "Bradley, you know that $500 I won from you the other night?... Well, I went to church the next morning, and I was reaching in my pocket to put a bill in the collection, and I meant to put a $50 bill in, [but] I put the $500 bill in by mistake!"...That really happened.
Tennis Club, Bradley's Beach Club, the Everglades Club, and the Sailfish Club. Except for Bradley's, they all are still in business.
Paris Eugene Singer was the 23rd child of Isaac Singer, founder of the Singer Manufacturing Company, and earned a Ph.D. and M.D. from Cambridge University. In 1917 he visited Palm Beach and rented "Chinese Villa," a cottage on Peruvian Avenue at the ocean. Singer purchased the land of Alligator Joe, who had died in 1915, on the shore of Lake Worth and transformed it into the Everglades Club, designed by Addison Cairns Mizner, whom he brought to Palm Beach in January 1918.
During World War I, the only way to build anything was for the building to be used for the war effort. Singer thought Palm Beach was the perfect place for recuperating shell-shocked officers, and had Mizner design the Touchstone Convalescents' Club. The war ended before the building could be completed, so it never served its original purpose. Instead, Singer opened it as the private Everglades Club in January 1919. The club became a popular daytime destination, allowing more informality than the hotels. By the end of the first season, membership was closed. Singer expanded the club's facilities and added apartments, including a tower for his own residence.
Mizner's revolutionary design—a combination of Moorish, Spanish, Gothic, and South American styles—created an instant demand for Mizner's services and the look that was uniquely Palm Beach, called Mediterranean Revival.
In 1926 Joseph Urban designed the Bath and Tennis Club on today's South Ocean Boulevard. The "B&T," as much a social club as an athletic club, was originally open only in the winter and spring. Both Vanity Fair and Vogue used the Bath and Tennis as a backdrop for 1927 fashion layouts. Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (Marjorie Merriweather Post), who hired Urban to finish the design of her home, Mar-a-Lago, just across the street, enjoyed costume balls. The flamboyant Urban was an accomplished set designer and produced elaborate sets for parties at the Bath and Tennis Club that were sometimes recreated in New York for Post's friends.
Organized in 1914, the Sailfish Club is the oldest private club in Palm Beach; it met at The Breakers Casino for many years. In 1932 the Sailfish Club of Palm Beach joined with the Palm Beach Anglers and Sports Clubs to become the Sailfish Club of Florida. They built a clubhouse and pier on North Lake Way two years later.
The Gulf Stream Club
As Palm Beach became more popular, a group of residents went looking for a new golf course
The Gulf Stream Club, designed by Addison
Mizner, was built in 1923.
location "accessible by boat from the Everglades Club;" they purchased about two square miles located 13 miles south of Palm Beach on A1A. During 1924 the Gulf Stream Golf Club received its state charter and finished the golf course, designed by Donald Ross, and the clubhouse, by Addison Mizner. The initial suggested membership fee was $2,500. The first officers and owners included Paris Singer, Edward T. Stotesbury, William Gray Warden, Edwin Shearson, Charles Munn, John F. Harris, and John S. Phipps.
In 1925 the Town of Gulf Stream was chartered and several Palm Beach architects were commissioned for houses: Maurice Fatio, Howard Major, John Volk, and Marion Sims Wyeth. Although rumors spread of the "possibility of a rather heavy exodus from Palm Beach to Gulf Stream," both towns continued to grow.
Brothers John Shaffer Phipps and Howard Phipps were heavy backers of the Gulf Stream Polo Club and its two 10-acre polo fields, which had its first regular season in 1927 and became known as the "Winter Polo Capital of the World." By the 1930s, Gulf Stream was established as a winter resort for the wealthy; in 1938 the Gulf Stream School opened to educate residents' children during the winter season.


It's an eye for an eye. For an eye. And another and another eye!
When you have a bowl full of little candy eyes, it is inevitable that food in your house will soon be dotted with eyes! I picked up several packages of these Wilton Candy Eyes and I've been experimenting like a mad scientist with Halloween treats to add them to. My Halloween Spider Sandwich Cookies are the most recent treats to get some peepers.
And now I have rolled some apples in those eyeballs!
I used Wilton Candy Melts in bright shades of purple, green, and orange for that Halloweeny feel. I love the candy melts both because they melt so quickly and smoothly, and because there are so many brilliant colors to choose from.
A cooling rack is also a good place to prop up the apples to dry.
The apples with these bright colors are the perfect base for a whole lot of creepy eyeballs! They make me think of the colorful, assorted monsters in Monsters, Inc.!
These are really fun to do with kids: they can do the dipping and add the eyes.
Because the Candy Melts melt easily and dry quickly the apples come together fast.
The Candy Melts and candy eyeballs can be found at craft stores like Michael's or ordered online.
These are awesome treats for a Halloween party or school celebration!
Enjoy, and remember: I've got my eye(s) on you!
Fresh apples have their evil eyes on you! These apples have a brightly-colored candy dip and lots of creepy eyeballs. They're a fun Halloween treat!
Have ready a place to stand up the apples once they are on the sticks and dipped, such as a sturdy block of Styrofoam or a shallow, sturdy cardboard box with holes punched in the lid. Have the candy eyes opened and in a small dish.
Stick a treat stick into the bottom of an apple. Holding the apple by the stick, roll it through the melted Candy Melts until the top and sides are coated. Tap off the excess or use a small rubber spatula to smooth off the excess. While the candy is still wet stick on the candy eyeballs all over the apple. (Add in 1 or 2 larger eyeballs if you're using them.) When done, stand the apple up in the prepared Styrofoam block or the box. Continue to skewer, dip, and decorate the remaining apples. Allow them to dry completely - this should only take 10-15 minutes.
When the apples are all dry you can served them immediately. or gently wrap them in plastic wrap. Store them at room temperature for up to two days.


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Throwback Thursday B&B Poll: Fourth of July Forrester pool party distraction
"It's almost as though they're in love."
To celebrate the upcoming holiday, Soaps.com is taking readers back to 1991 in this week's "The Bold and the Beautiful" Throwback Thursday poll when many gathered around the Forrester pool for a Fourth of July party…
The Forresters, Spencers and Avants will likely gather for BBQs and fireworks during the holiday. Years ago, the Forrester mansion had been the gathering spot where many were distracted by Stephanie Forrester and her date. Eric Forrester had been married to Brooke Logan at the time and it was their first year celebrating the Fourth with their very young son Rick. After Eric strolled off with the baby, Brooke approached Ridge to let him know how special he was to little Rick then proceeded to pry about how troubled Taylor appeared. Ridge reminded Brooke that his personal life was his and that he wouldn't tell her even if there had been trouble in paradise.
Stephanie and her date appeared from having toured the grounds and chatted off in the distance. As Brooke joined Eric by the pool, she noticed how distracted he was by the couple, who were now sharing a kiss, and called him on it. Eric explained that he didn't realize how close Stephanie and the man were, appearing to be in love, and finally admitted that their closeness bothered him a bit.
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Last week's poll answer: In the nick of time, Eric saved Stephanie from Morgan DeWitt, who tried to drown her in a bathtub.
Read Soaps.com's "The Bold and the Beautiful" 1990s episode guide for more on the various men in Stephanie Forrester's life.
Photo credit: Brian Lowe/JPI
– Amy Mistretta
B&B Spoiler Video: Steffy bans Quinn...
B&B Saturday Teaser Poll: Steffy...


Blisters are painful, annoying, and can put a big damper on any activity you may participate in. Whether you're interested in athletics, or you're simply on your feet all day for work, a painful blister can leave you down for the count and not enjoying your active time. The right socks can help you to prevent blisters, and give your feet a bit of extra protection against the pain and inconvenience that blisters bear, so looking to your socks to avoid blisters is always your best bet.
Blisters aren't only painful and irritating, they can also be dangerous in some circumstances. For those with diabetes, a blister on the foot can easily lead to a dangerous foot infection, and the open wound that a blister leaves can also leave your feet susceptible to contracting MRSA, so these little afflictions should always be avoided for more reasons than just the pain.
When looking to avoid blisters, the first thing you should look for in your socks is a synthetic material that will allow your feet to breathe and be kept dry. Moist skin is skin that will blister more easily, and synthetic materials can be made to optimize moisture wicking potential. Next, you'll also want to look for socks that don't have seams which could cause rubbing and the start of blisters on your feet. Moisture wicking and seamless socks are the socks that will help you to avoid blisters whether you're at work, at play, or enjoying your favorite type of physical activity.
If you plan to wear the socks for particular sports or athletic training, there are other aspects you'll also want to look for if you wish to avoid the start of blisters. For running socks, for instance, you may want look in to toe socks which keep each toe protected by moisture wicking fabric, or if you plan to go hiking, a padded pair of socks with a little more cushion could be your best bet.
When it comes to blisters, your socks will make all the difference. Whether you're looking for an everyday pair for work, or a specific type of pair while playing a sport or participating in physical activities, it's always important to focus on synthetic moisture wicking fabrics and socks without bothersome seams. With the right socks, you'll find that your blisters are decreased as your comfort is increased, and blisters can be a thing on their way to the past.


Driving In France :: Road Rage, Not Me!
Road Rage, Not Me! A recent survey showed shows some unsurprising results.
Road Rage? Not me it's everybody else!
A recent survey carried out by the car insurance company ingenie.com showed that 85% of all drivers surveyed (just under 4,000 took part in the survey) feet that they are not "road ragers" themselves but when questioned further 85% of those same drivers admitted doing things that are in fact indicative of the fact that they have road rage tendencies.
Over 66% of the drivers questioned said they had been a victim of road rage within the last year. past 12 months.
Ingenie offers some tips for reducing road rage, a lot of which is common sense such as not getting behind the wheel when you are upset or angry. Planning journeys, allowing for traffic problems so you don't run behind schedule and therefore getting worked up. Keep your distance from drivers who you can tell are driving badly and avoid eye contact with them.
Hold up your whole hand (not just one finger) as an acknowledgement of your mistake and an apology as it can diffuse the situation.
Ingenie are a "young driver" specialist car insurer, who fits a "black box" type device to young drivers cars allowing them to track there driving style. This then allows young people who drive well and safely not to get lumped in together with all the other "boy racers" who get them a bad name and more importantly insurance premiums that are astronomical.
I would stress that drivinginFrance.org has absolutley no connection with Ingenie Services Ltd.


From Tammany Hall, robber barons and the sinking of The Maine to Vietnam, Watergate and the Lewinsky scandal, editorial cartoonists have exalted, lambasted, praised and skewered the rich, the powerful and the foolish.
Since the history of newspapers, cartooning has been a rich and vital contribution to American political commentary.
With the advent of news on the web and new design technologies, who will carry on that tradition?
Washingtonpost.com is looking for the next star of cartoon satire – a "Herblock" for the digital age.
We're proud to announce the 2005 Washingtonpost.com "Editorial Shorts" Digital Animation Competition.
10 Nov 2005 in Aesthetics, Current_Events, Design, Humanities, Journalism, Media.
Ok, Yeah I sent in a toon, got a signature Chiboub on Reg. Mail reciept,,, I haven't done much Editorial Cartooning but I fig'd give it a shot, hoping for at least honorable mention if this is the contest Washington Post held. I've written Editors twice since Jan. 15th, trying to find the page with results they was supposed to be out aroun, 15th of Jan.
Ok, so surfing Washington Post trying find it, was a night mare. Why does main page of Washington Post Need POP-UPS?
I can understand pages that opens in a new windows, but pop ups are an entirely different thing.
contest not been judged yet, Info on results by, Jan 15 th was error.


19 JAN, 1500 UTC, 5715 AM, V24 weak in Colorado, also weak on the Chiba "soy sauce" SDR (wide skip zone perhaps?), but clear and copyable on Token's Mojave SDR on the kiwi network. I almost forgot about this and didn't tune in until about 1503, so I missed the music. Korean numbers read until 1512z, QRT at that time.
I really like that V24 has kept 5715 kHz operational. That may be the oldest used numbers station frequency active today, and as far as I know has been pretty much continuously active. Records of Korean numbers, often presumed to be South Korean, go back to the mid 1970's. I know the first time I heard V24 it was on this frequency.
22 JAN, 1600-1609 UTC, 5900 received with poor to fair quality at KPH kiwi SDR in California, and JBA at my own QTH.
26 JAN, 1500 UTC, 5715 AM, weak signal in Denver. Good but noisy on Chiba "soy sauce" SDR in Japan. Good and mostly clean, but some adjacent radar QRN on Token's kiwi SDR in the Mojave Desert. Presumed repeat of message sent on previous broadcasts used on this time/frequency slot.


the disc never blocks in closed position (phenomenon that may occur with a wedge type that is closed with the line in temperature and opened when the line is cold).
The opening/closing torque is much lower than a corresponding wedge type valve, resulting in less expensive actuation systems.
The "sliding" feature keeps dirt away from the seating surface.
The double spring loaded disc has the tendency to trap working fluid in the body cavity when the valve is closed. This is avoided, when unidirectional functioning is allowed, by applying an equalizing hole on the upstream part of the disc.
Design codes and overall configuration, including stem-to-disc connection are the same than the wedge type gate valves. Materials range from carbon steel to low alloy steel, to austenitic stainless steel, to nickel alloys.
Materials are either to ASTM/ ASME standards or to EN standards, either harmonized or calculated to design conditions. Pressure classes (per ANSI standard) are normally ranging from 150# to 300# to 600#. Size range depends on pressure class requirements, FLUITEK ORSENIGO VALVES having no limits in relation to market requirements.


While its design lends well to a contemporary feel, this LED pendant has a classic appeal. It will add originality to your interior space with its concrete grey hue, offering sophistication and elegance. A clear style statement will be made, whether it offers a subtle appeal on its own, or a bolder feel with several pendants arranged together for some added artistic flair. Flexible use across a range of design themes in the home, with a look of adaptable class.


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Q: For a linear system, why is direction "stored" in the variables when considering it as linear equations, but in vectors when its as a vector equation? Given an arbitrary system of equations, why is direction in space "stored" in the variables when considering the system as linear equations, but "stored" in vectors when considering the system as a vector equation? For example suppose we have a system of three equations in three variables where each equation is of the form (a_i)x + (b_i)y + (c_i)z = d_i. Lets also suppose they represent three distinct planes in R^3.  In the context of the system representing planes in space, it seems to me that dimension/direction is sort of "stored" in the variables x, y and z. Considering the system as a linear combination of vectors, the coefficients associated with any one variable make a column vector; for example, for variable x lets call the vector v_1 = . The vector equation associated with the system would then be xv_1 + yv_2 + zv_3 = . In this context it seems as though dimension/direction is stored in the vectors, and the variables x,y, and z now just scale them. I realize that both contexts have the same solution set, and both take place in R^3, but is there a more intuitive explanation for this relatedness?

A: You have stumbled upon the principle of duality in projective geometry, and Dual Theorems. Basically You define a plane as $$\mathbf{P}\cdot \mathbf{x} = 0$$
where $\mathbf{P}=(a,b,c,d)$ are the plane coordinates and $\mathbf{x}=(x,y,z,1)$ are point coordinates. The equation is then $ax+by+cz+d=0$.
It can interpreted as either

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*All the points $\mathbf{x}$ that pass through a fixed plane defined by the coordinates $\mathbf{P}$.

*All the planes $\mathbf{P}$ that pass through a fixed point defined by the coordinates $\mathbf{x}$.

So for this construction, either $\mathbf{P}$ are coordinates and $\mathbf{x}$ are arbitrary, or the other way around. The caveat is the which ever is the coordinates in cannot contain all zeros. So either $\mathbf{P} \neq (0,0,0,0)$ or $\mathbf{x} \neq (0,0,0,0)$. It is said than in $\rm R^3$ points are dual to planes and vise versa.
What this allows to define is that

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*for every point in $\rm R^3$ there is corresponding unique plane (through the point, with the normal away from the origin)

*and for every plane there is a corresponding unique point (closest to the origin)

So I can define a plane using the point coordinates $\mathbf{x}=(\vec{r},1)$ such as $\mathbf{P} = \left( \frac{\vec{r}}{\| \vec{r} \|}, -\vec{r}\cdot\vec{r} \right)$
Or I can define a point using the plane coordinates $\mathbf{P}=(\vec{a},b)$ such as $\mathbf{x}=(-\vec{a} b,\vec{a}\cdot\vec{a})$
Example
A plane has coordinates $\mathbf{P}=(\vec{a},b)=((2,1,3),-5)$ has equation $2x+y+3z-5=0$. The unique point closest to the origin is $\mathbf{x}=\left((-(-5)(2,1,3),(2,1,3)\cdot(2,1,3)\right)=(10,5,15,14)$.
The Cartesian coordinates of $\mathbf{x}$ are $x=\frac{10}{14}=\frac{5}{7}$, $y=\frac{5}{14}$ and $z=\frac{15}{14}$.
Lets prove these coordinates satisfy the plane equation $$ 2 \frac{5}{7} + 1 \frac{5}{14} + 3\frac{15}{14} - 5 =0\;\checkmark$$
So either $(2,1,3,-5)$ are the plane coordinates of this construction, or $(10,5,15,14)$ are the point coordinates of this construction.

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