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Original Sin: The Psychology of Dishonesty
March 31, 2012 March 31, 2012 ~ Neel Burton	~ 2 Comments
Are lying and cheating instinctive or calculating?
To answer this question, Shaul Shalvi and his colleagues set up an experiment in which volunteers were told that they could earn ten shekels (about $2.50) for each pip of the numeral that they rolled on a die. The volunteers were asked to check the outcome of the roll, to roll the die twice more to satisfy themselves that it was not loaded, and then to report the outcome of the original roll on a computer terminal. Half the volunteers were given no time limit in which to do this, whereas the other half were given a time limit of just 20 seconds.
If the volunteers had been completely honest, the average reported roll would have been 3.5 or thereabouts. The volunteers with just 20 seconds in which to complete the task reported an average roll of 4.6, whereas the volunteers with an unlimited amount of time reported an average roll of just 3.9, an important and statistically significant difference.
Although both groups lied, the group with more time for reflection lied considerably less. This finding was confirmed by a second, similar experiment in which volunteers were asked to roll the die just once and then to report the outcome. Half the volunteers were given no time limit, whereas the other half were given a time limit of just 8 seconds. The volunteers with the 8 second time limit reported an average roll of 4.4, compared to 3.4 for the volunteers with an unlimited amount of time. Note that, in this case, the volunteers with an unlimited amount of time actually told the truth.
These findings strongly suggest that lying and cheating are more instinctive than calculating: if people are given plenty of time to think over a problem, they are far more likely to come up with an honest answer. Or as the philosopher Kierkegaard put it,
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Shalvi S, Eldar O, & Bereby-Meyer Y (March 2012): Honesty requires time (and lack of justifications), Psychological Science.
Does True Altruism Exist?
March 28, 2012 ~ Neel Burton	~ Leave a comment
Altruism has been thought of as an ego defense, a form of sublimation in which a person copes with his anxiety by stepping outside himself and helping others. By focusing on the needs of others, people in altruistic vocations such as medicine or teaching may be able to permanently push their needs into the background, and so never have to address or even to acknowledge them. Conversely, people who care for a disabled or elderly person may experience profound anxiety and distress when this role is suddenly removed from them.
Altruism as an ego defence should be distinguished from true altruism—one being primarily a means to cover up uncomfortable feelings and the other being primarily a means to some external end such as alleviating hunger or poverty. However, many psychologists and philosophers have argued that there is, in fact, no such thing as true altruism. In The Dawn, the 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche maintains that that which is erroneously called 'pity' is not selfless but variously self-motivated.
Nietzsche is in effect agreeing with Aristotle who in the Rhetoric defines pity as a feeling of pain caused by a painful or destructive evil that befalls one who does not deserve it, and that might well befall us or one of our friends, and, moreover to befall us soon. Aristotle surmises that pity cannot be felt by those with absolutely nothing to lose, nor by those who feel that they are beyond all misfortune.
In an interesting and insightful aside, Aristotle adds that a person feels pity for those who are like him and for those with whom he is acquainted, but not for those who are very closely related to him and for whom he feels as he does for himself. Indeed, says Aristotle, the pitiful should not be confounded with the terrible: a man may weep at the sight of his friend begging, but not at that of his son being led to death.
Altruistic acts are self-interested, if not because they relieve anxiety, then perhaps because they lead to pleasant feelings of pride and satisfaction; the expectation of honor or reciprocation; or the greater likelihood of a place in heaven; and even if neither of the above, then at least because they relieve unpleasant feelings such as the guilt or shame of not having acted at all.
This argument has been attacked on various grounds, but most gravely on the grounds of circularity— altruistic acts are performed for selfish reasons, therefore they must be performed for selfish reasons. The bottom line, I think, is this. There can be no such thing as an 'altruistic' act that does not involve some element of self-interest, no such thing, for example, as an altruistic act that does not lead to some degree, no matter how small, of pride or satisfaction. Therefore, an act should not be written off as selfish or self-motivated simply because it includes some inevitable element of self-interest. The act can still be counted as altruistic if the 'selfish' element is accidental; or, if not accidental, then secondary; or, if neither accidental nor secondary, then undetermining.
Need this imply that Aristotle is incorrect in holding that pity cannot be felt by those with absolutely nothing to lose, or who feel that they are beyond all misfortune? Not necessarily—although an altruistic act is often driven by pity, this need not be the case, and altruism and pity should not be amalgamated and then confounded with each another. Thus, it is perfectly possible for someone lying on his deathbed and at the very brink of death, who is compos mentis and whose reputation is already greatly assured, to gift all or most of his fortune to some deserving cause, not out of pity, which he may or may not be beyond feeling, but simply because he thinks that, all things considered, it is the right thing to do. In fact, this goes to the very heart of ancient virtue, which can be defined as the perfection of our nature through the triumph of reason over passion. The truly altruistic act is the virtuous act and the virtuous act is, always, the rational act.
Adapted from my new book, Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
Why People Are So Often the Opposite of What They Appear
March 23, 2012 March 23, 2012 ~ Neel Burton	~ Leave a comment
An important method of transforming uncomfortable or unacceptable feelings into something more manageable is 'reaction formation', which is the superficial adoption and exaggeration of ideas and impulses that are diametrically opposed to one's own.
For example, a man who finds himself attracted to someone of the same sex may cope with the unacceptability of this attraction by over-acting heterosexual: going out for several beers with the boys, speaking in a gruff voice, banging his fists on the counter, whistling at pretty girls (or whatever people do these days), conspicuously engaging in a string of baseless heterosexual relationships, and so on.
Other, classic, examples of reaction formation are the alcoholic who extolls the virtues of abstinence, the rich kid who organizes anti-capitalist rallies, the absent father who occasionally returns with big gestures to spoil and smother his children, and the angry person who behaves with exaggerated calm and courtesy.
An especially interesting case of reaction formation is that of two people who matter deeply to each other, but who argue all the time to suppress their mutual desire and dependency. Typically, A accepts that B is really important to him, but B does not accept this of A; thus, B initiates arguments so as to help deny those feelings, and A initiates (or participates in) arguments so as to help cope with that denial, that is, to safeguard her ego, vent her anger, and temper her feelings.
Another, rather special, case of reaction formation is the person who hates the group but not the individual members of the group with whom he is personally acquainted; this helps to explain such phenomena as the misogynist who is devoted to his wife or the racist who marries a coloured person.
Behaviour that results from reaction formation can be recognized—or as least suspected—as such on the basis that it tends to have something of a manic edge, that is, it tends to be exaggerated, compulsive, and inflexible. More importantly, perhaps, is that the person's behaviour does not seem to 'add up' in the context of his bigger picture, and may therefore appear to be groundless, irrational, or idiosyncratic. In many cases, the behaviour is also dystonic, that is, out of keeping with the person's ideal self-image, and therefore damaging to his deep-seated goals and ambitions and—ultimately—to his sense of worth and his actual worth.
Manufacturing Someone Perfect
The eponymous hero—or antihero—of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote idealizes his 'princess' to such an extent that it becomes comical.
To emulate the knights-errant of old who fought battles to earn the affections of their true love, Don Quixote identifies a simple peasant girl called Aldonza Lorenzo, changes her name to the much more romantic and aristocratic sounding 'Dulcinea del Toboso,' and then paints her in the most flattering terms possible—even though he has only ever seen her fleetingly and never spoken to her. Dulcinea barely exists, but the idea of her nonetheless keeps Don Quixote alive on his quest.
…her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare.
Idealization involves overestimating the positive attributes of a person, object, or idea and underestimating the negative attributes; but more fundamentally, it involves the projection of our needs and desires onto that person, object, or idea. The classic example of idealization is that of being infatuated, when love is confused with the need to love, and the idealized person's negative attributes are not only underestimated but turned into positive attributes and thought of as endearing. Although this can make for a rude awakening, there are few better ways of relieving our existential anxiety than by manufacturing something that is 'perfect' for us, be it a piece of equipment, a place, country, person, or god.
But even a god is not enough. According to the philosopher and theologian St. Augustine, man is prone to a curious feeling of dissatisfaction and to a subtle sense of longing for something undefined. This feeling of dissatisfaction arises from his fallen condition: although he has an innate potential to relate to God or the absolute, this potential can never be fully realized, and so he yearns for other things to fill its place. Yet these other things do not satisfy, and he is left with an insatiable feeling of longing—longing for something that cannot be defined.
The writer and thinker C.S. Lewis calls this feeling of longing 'joy,' which he describes as 'an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction,' and which I like to think of—in the broadest sense—as a sort of aesthetic and creative reservoir. The paradox of 'joy' arises from the self-defeating nature of human desire, which might be thought of as nothing more or less than a desire for desire, a longing for longing.
In The Weight of Glory, Lewis illustrates this from the age-old quest for beauty,
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have not visited.
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Thinking about Love: The Myth of Narcissus
Narcissistic personality disorder derives its name from the Greek myth of Narcissus, of which there are several versions.
In Ovid's version, which is the most commonly related, the nymph Echo falls in love with Narcissus, a youth of extraordinary beauty.
As a child, Narcissus had been prophesized by Teiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes, to 'live to a ripe old age, as long as he never knows himself'.
One day, when Narcissus was out hunting for stags, the mountain nymph Echo followed him through the woods. She longed to speak to him but did not dare to utter the first word. Overhearing her footsteps, Narcissus cried out, 'Who's there?' to which she replied, 'Who's there?' When she finally showed herself, she rushed to embrace Narcissus, but he scorned her and pushed her away.
Echo spent the rest of her life grieving for Narcissus, until there was nothing left of her save for her voice.
Then, one day, Narcissus became thirsty and went to a lake. Seeing his reflection in the water, he fell in love with it, not realizing that he had fallen in love with his own reflection. However, each time he bent down to kiss it, it seemed to disappear.
Narcissus grew increasingly thirsty, but would not leave or touch the water for fear of losing sight of his reflection. Eventually he died of love and thirst, and on that very spot there appeared a narcissus flower.
Narcissus pseudonarcissus, or Daffodil
The myth of Narcissus has long evaded interpretation, and what could Ovid possibly have meant by it?
Like many blind figures in classical mythology, Teiresias could 'see' into himself and thus find self-knowledge. This self-knowledge enabled him not only to understand himself, but also to understand other people, and so to 'see' into their futures.
If asked to predict someone's future, he sometimes, reluctantly, uttered a vague prophecy. But what did he mean when he prophesized that Narcissus would 'live to a ripe old age, as long as he never knows himself'?
Perhaps he just meant that Narcissus would live for a long time so long as he did not fall in love with himself.
Or, more subtly, that once Narcissus 'saw' himself, that is, understood himself and others (including Echo's love for him), he would be such a different person as to no longer count as his former self, and so resurrect as a flower (a plant that has flourished).
Echo too must have been looking for herself, which is why she was never anything more than an echo.
For both Echo and Narcissus, love of the world (of beauty, of the other, and, in particular, of the beautiful other) represented the means to self-knowledge, self-completion, and self-fulfilment – which is why Echo withered away after having had her love spurned by Narcissus.
By falling in love with his reflection, Narcissus not only received the punishment that he deserved for his lack of piety in the treatment of Echo, but also unwittingly exposed the love of the world as being nothing but, or the same as, self-love.
In his novel The Alchemist, Paolo Coehlo invents a continuation to the myth of Narcissus: after Narcissus died, the Goddesses of the Forest appeared and found the lake of fresh water transformed into a lake of salty tears.
'Why do you weep?' the Goddesses asked.
'I weep for Narcissus,' the lake replied.
'Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,' they said, 'for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.'
'But… was Narcissus beautiful?' the lake asked.
'Who better than you to know that?' the Goddesses said in wonder, 'After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!'
The lake was silent for some time. Finally it said: 'I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.'
1. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 3, Narcissus and Echo.
2. Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist, Prologue.
This blog post is adapted from my new book,
Hide and Seek, The Psychology of Self-Deception.
Non Traditional Method Sparkling Wines
Prosecco, Lambrusco, Sekt, and Asti
The long ageing, autolytic character, and expense associated with the traditional method is not best suited to all grape varieties. The other main method of making sparkling wine is the tank method, also known as cuve close or Charmat. Sugar and yeast are added to the base wine in a large pressurized tank, which may be fitted with rousing paddles to increase yeast contact. Once the second fermentation has taken place, the wine is cooled, clarified by centrifugation and filtration, and given a dosage. The method is cheap and consistent and has the notable advantage of preserving freshness and varietal character. On the other hand, it calls upon a large upfront investment, requires a skilled operator to prevent any loss of pressure, and lacks the charm and cachet of the traditional method. It is also unsuited to small-scale production.
Prosecco, most lambrusco, and most Sekt, amongst others, are made using the tank method. Prosecco is made in the area of Treviso in northeast Italy, where the cool and continental climate is perfectly suited to the late-ripening prosecco (Glera) grape. The DOCG delimited area covers 4,100 hectares running into the pre-Alps and Dolomites in the north. Most prosecco is made in the Conegliano and Valdobbiadene area. Prosecco from the hill of Cartizze, a vineyard of 107 hectares, is particularly rich and creamy and highly rated. The bulk of the prosecco production (around 20 million bottles) is spumante, most of the rest is frizzante (lightly sparkling), and a small amount is still. Prosecco should be drunk young. It is light, fresh, and intensely aromatic with primary fruit flavours, a modest alcohol of around 11%, and a signature slightly bitter finish. The traditional style is off dry with a sugar content of 16-17g/l that nicely fills out the wine. Today, much of exported prosecco is brut in style so as to suit modern tastes and best compete with champagne.
Lambrusco is, in the main, a red frizzante wine that is made from the eponymous lambrusco grape, a black grape that encompasses several varietals and that has been in cultivation since Roman and even Etruscan times. For a period in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the biggest selling import wine in the United States. The grapes and the wine originate from four areas of Emilia-Romagna and one area of Lombardy. The climate is Mediterranean and the soils are fertile, and yields can be fairly high. Most lambrusco is made by the tank method in co-operatives, and is of rather ordinary quality. Of the five Lambrusco DOCs, Lambrusco di Sorbara is the most highly regarded, with the best examples being made by the traditional method. Lambrusco is characterized by a flavour of sour cherries, high acidity, and a dry or off-dry style.
About 90% of Germany's Sekt is made from inexpensive base wine sourced from outside Germany — mainly Italy, France, and Spain. The remainder is Deutscher Sekt, that is, Sekt made from German grapes. The vast majority of Sekt and Deutscher Sekt is made by the tank method and sold under the label of a large and inexpensive brand. The small amount of Deutscher Sekt that is made by the traditional method tends to consist of riesling, chardonnay, or the pinot varieties. The very best are likely to state the vineyard name and the vintage on the label. Sekt is big business in Germany, so much so that three of the world's five biggest producers of sparkling wine are German.
Asti (formerly asti spumante, a name that had acquired a noxious reputation) is made from moscato bianco, that is, muscat blanc à petits grains, from a delimited region in southeast Piedmont, Italy. The DOCG limited areas are centred on the towns of Asti and Alba. Here the climate is continental and the land calcareous and gently sloping. The grapes are harvested by a large number of growers and sold off to négociants. The method of vinfication is the Asti method or single tank fermentation method. The must is transferred into large tanks and chilled to almost 0°C to inhibit fermentation. The tanks are sealed and pressurized and the temperature is raised to 16-18°C for a single fermentation to 7-7.5% alcohol and a pressure of around 5 atmospheres. The wine is then cooled to 0°C to halt fermentation and membrane filtered to remove the yeast and yeast nutrients. Finally, it is bottled under pressure using cool sterile bottling. Asti can also be made by double fermentation, with a second fermentation from 6% to 7.5% taking place in a sealed tank to build up pressure. The wine is fresh and intensely fruity and floral with dominant aromas of peach and musk and enough acidity to balance out the 3-5% residual sugar. Asti should not be confused with Moscato d'Asti, which is made from the same grape in the same region, but which is frizzante and with even lower alcohol. The Asti DOCG has the largest production of all Italian appellations, with an annual output of almost 90 millions bottles.
Why is it so difficult to do … nothing at all?
March 9, 2012 March 9, 2012 ~ Neel Burton	~ 1 Comment
The manic defence is the tendency, when presented with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings, to distract the conscious mind either with a flurry of activity or with the opposite thoughts or feelings. A general example of the manic defence is the person who spends all of his time rushing around from one task to the next, and unable to tolerate even short periods of inactivity. For this person, even leisure time consists in a series of discrete programmed activities that he needs to submit to in order to tick off from an actual or mental list. One needs only observe the expression on his face as he ploughs through yet another family outing, cultural event, or gruelling exercise routine to realize that his aim in life is not so much to live in the present moment as it is to work down his never-ending list. If one asks him how he is doing, he is most likely to respond with an artificial smile and a stereotyped response along the lines of, 'Fine, thank you – very busy of course!' In many cases, he is not fine at all, but confused, exhausted, and fundamentally unhappy.
Other, more specific, examples of the manic defence include the socialite who attends one event after another, the small and dependent boy who charges around declaiming that he is Superman, and the sexually inadequate adolescent who laughs 'like a maniac' at the slightest intimation of sex. It is important to distinguish this sort of 'manic laughter' from the more mature laughter that arises from suddenly revealing or emphasizing the ridiculous or absurd aspects of an anxiety-provoking person, event, or situation. Such mature laughter enables a person to see a problem in a more accurate and less threatening context, and so to diffuse the anxiety that it gives rise to. All that is required to make a person laugh is to tell him the truth in the guise of a joke or a tease; drop the pretence, however, and the effect is entirely different. In short, laughter can be used either to reveal the truth or – as in the case of the manic defence – to conceal it or to block it out.
Indeed, the essence of the manic defence is to prevent feelings of helplessness and despair from entering the conscious mind by occupying it with opposite feelings of euphoria, purposeful activity, and omnipotent control. This is no doubt why people feel driven not only to mark but also to celebrate such depressing milestones as entering the workforce (graduation), getting ever older (birthdays, New Year), and even, more recently, death and dying (Halloween) – laughing when they should be crying and crying when they should be laughing. The manic defence may also take on more subtle forms, such as creating a commotion over something trivial; filling every 'spare moment' with reading, study, or on the phone to a friend; spending several months preparing for Christmas or some civic or sporting event; seeking out status or celebrity so as to be a 'somebody' rather than a 'nobody'; entering into baseless friendships and relationships; even, sometimes, getting married and having children.
In Virginia Woolf's novel of 1925, Mrs Dalloway, one of several ways in which Clarissa Dalloway prevents herself from thinking about her life is by planning unneeded events and then preoccupying herself with their prerequisites – 'always giving parties to cover the silence'. Everyone uses the manic defence, but some people use it to such an extent that they find it difficult to cope with even short periods of unstructured time, such as holidays, weekends, and long-distance travel, which at least explains why airport shops are so profitable. In sum, it is not that the manically defended person is happy – not at all, in fact – but that he does not know how to be sad and, in time, at peace and at play. As the 19th century writer Oscar Wilde (Figure 3) put it in his essay, The Critic as Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing, 'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.'
It is interesting to note that the manic defence is particularly prevalent in Occidental and Occidentalized societies. One of the central tenets of the Western worldview is that one should always be engaged in some kind of outward task; in contrast, most people living in a country such as Kenya in Africa do not share in this idea that it is somehow noble or worthwhile to spend all of one's time rushing around from one task to the next. When Westerners go to Kenya and behave as they do back home, they are met with peels of laughter and cries of 'Mzungu', which is Swahili for 'Westerner'. The literal translation of 'Mzungu' is 'one who moves around', 'to go round and round', or 'to turn around in circles'.
Sometimes, however, a life situation can become so unfulfilling or untenable that the manic defence no longer suffices to block out negative feelings, and the person has no real choice but to switch and to adopt the depressive position. Put differently, a person adopts the depressive position if the gap between his current life situation and his ideal life situation becomes so large that it can no longer be carpeted over. His goals seem far out of reach and he can no longer envisage a future. As in Psalm 41, abyssus abyssum invocat – 'hell brings forth hell', or, in an alternative translation, 'the deep calls onto the deep'.
Adapted from The Art of Failure, The Anti Self-Help Guide


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In 1908, prominent architect Samuel Maclure was hired by James and Laura Dunsmuir to design their family retirement home, Hatley Castle. Maclure's task was to design and construct a home that would serve both James and Laura's needs. James wanted the exterior to look like a medieval castle that would be a refuge from the business world; where he could spend time fishing, hunting and playing the role of a gentleman farmer. Laura wanted the inside to be like Government House where she could entertain and accommodate her large family and staff. In just 18 months, the results of Maclure's dedicated work was a 200'x86'x82' masterpiece featuring a Norman tower with two Tudor‐revival wings on either side. On May 1st, 1910 the Dunsmuirs officially moved in to Hatley Castle, then the largest private residence on the west coast.
The portico‐like structure at the building's main entrance is called the Porte‐cochère meaning carriage door or carriage‐porch. This provided access for a horse and carriage or motor vehicle to pass, in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather. The stepping stones across from the oak double‐doors are used for getting on and off a horse.
The main doors are made of oak with brass door handles featuring Scottish rampant lions. The stone carving above the door features James Dunsmuir's initials surrounded by Scottish thistle. The medieval busts on either side of the door indicate the gender distinction of the first floor's east and west wings – east meant ladies' wing, west meant men's wing. The bronze doorbell figure has a definite Art Nouveau influence.
As one enters, the Grand Hall is Elizabethan, or Tudor Revival, in style, featuring half‐paneled/half‐plaster walls, vaulted ceilings, heavy oak beams and a 'pointed arches' pattern which runs up and down the banisters, across the minstrel gallery, and above the stairwells. The stone fireplace is carved from rose‐colored sandstone brought from Flagstaff, Arizona. It is the first of seven wood‐burning fireplaces found on the castle's first floor; all of which are designed to be inefficient – because the building is actually heated by a steam‐based central heating system.
The drawing room - Greek Revival - was where Laura Dunsmuir entertained her society friends. The room is 1200 square feet with 16‐foot ceilings; "the size of a modest three‐bedroom home."
Two sets of double French doors lead out to the terrace where one overlooks the spectacular view of the grounds, Esquimalt Lagoon, the Straits of San Juan de Fuca, and the Olympic Mountains.
When the family moved into the house in 1910, only six of ten children were still living at home; the four older children were already married. The four east wing bedrooms were children's rooms, as was one of the west wing rooms; the four remaining west wing rooms were three guest rooms and a dressing room. All the children's bedrooms had sculptured ceilings and lovely views of the gardens and the lagoon.
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Homemade mayonnaise might be one of my favorite, simple DIY foods. The very first time you make it, you'll be wondering why you haven't done it before. Once you see how simple it is to make and how incredibly delicious it is, you'll be hooked, too. As usual, beyond the taste, what I really love is how I have control over all of the ingredients and I know the quality of the eggs and oil used and I know that there are no additional preservatives or stabilizers being added.
We get farm fresh pastured-raised eggs delivered to our home weekly, the farmer himself, drops them by. Before you even taste Tony's eggs, you will notice a significant difference in the color of the yolks, compared to regular store-bought eggs (even the fancy organic, "free range" ones). The color is so vibrant, more of a golden orange color, much like the sun, rather than a pale, pastel yellow, like most eggs. There is truly nothing like farm fresh eggs, everything you make with them is tastier than you can ever imagine.
Most store bought mayonnaises rely on canola oil and other less ideal vegetable oils. What I love about making my own mayo at home is that I can use the highest quality eggs and oils. I generally prefer to use a mix of organic extra virgin olive oil (Terra Delyssa, of course) and either coconut oil or MCT oil. Avocado oil and macadamia nut oil are also both really great options.
The best thing about homemade mayonnaise is not just how fresh it tastes, but you can also flavor it and easily turn it into a fancy aioli of sorts. For sauces, dips, dressings, etc. Adding minced garlic gives you a flavorful and simple aoili, from there try adding sriracha, fresh herbs, avocado, honey mustard, sundried tomatoes, chipotles, curry powder and really the list goes on and on. I suggest adding the garlic in at the beginning with the yolks, the same for most other add-ins, though some can simply get stirred/folded into the finished mayonnaise at the end.
Be sure to use room temperature ingredients, anything too cold or too hot could break the mixture.
If you break your mayonnaise, fear not, it IS fixable. Simply grab a new egg yolk, add that to a separate, clean bowl and very slowly beat your broken mayonnaise into the new yolk. You will be able to re-emulsify the sauce, bringing it back to life and you still get your yummy homemade mayonnaise.
You can use whatever light-flavored oils you'd like, or any combination. My favorites are extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, macadamia nut oil.
1) In a large bowl, whisk the egg yolks, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, mustard and salt and pepper together, until well mixed. About 30 seconds.
2) Mix the oils together in one pourable container (If only using 1 oil, just make sure it is stored in an easily pourable container). Slowly drizzle a few tablespoons into the egg yolk mixture, whisking the entire time (if making in the blender or processor, have it on low and slowly drizzle it into the pitcher, while it's running).
4) Continue drizzling and whisking (or blending) until all of the oil is gone and your mixture is completely emulsified and it's creamy and smooth.
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Have I said how much I love this blog??? You inspire me all the time. Thanks you!!!
Does it work if you cut the recipe in half?
Yup should work just fine. Just halve everything across the board.
Can I choose to use only Olive Oil? If so, do I just add another 1/2 cups of olive oil to replace the other oils, or do I just use the same amount?
Thanks. Can't wait to try.
Using Olive Oil is not a real Mayonnaise, when using Olive Oil, there should also be added Garlic, so it becomes an Aioli.


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Little Fockers
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam, and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, ...
Actor: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Jessica Alba, Laura Dern, Kevin Hart, Daisy Tahan, Colin Baiocchi, Tom McCarthy, Harvey Keitel, Yul Vazquez
The future is set for Tony and Michael - owning a neighbour- hood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's ...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actor: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, Victor Argo, George Memmoli, Lenny Scaletta, Jeannie Bell, Murray Moston, David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Lois Walden, Harry Northup
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Actor: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Edward Bunker, Quentin Tarantino, Randy Brooks, Kirk Baltz, Steven Wright, Rich Turner, David Steen, Tony Cosmo, Stevo Polyi
Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after ...
Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Mystery
Actor: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer, David Dayan Fisher, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, Oleg Taktarov, Stephen A. Pope, Annie Parisse, Mark Pellegrino, Armando Riesco, Erik King
While Ben Gates is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, a man by the name of ...
Actor: Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood, Ty Burrell, Michael Maize, Timothy V. Murphy, Alicia Coppola, Armando Riesco, Albert Hall, Joel Gretsch
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Mary-Louise Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anthony Heald, Ken Leung, Frankie Faison, Tyler Patrick Jones, Lalo Schifrin, Tim Wheater, John Rubinstein, David Doty
In the midst of World War II, the battle below the seas rages. The Nazi's have the upper edge as the Allies are unable to ...
Country: USA, France
Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, David Keith, Thomas Kretschmann, Jake Weber, Jack Noseworthy, Tom Guiry, Will Estes, Terrence &#39T.C.&#39 Carson, Erik Palladino, Dave Power, Derk Cheetwood, Matthew Settle
After a bank heist in Abilene with several casualties, the bank robber Seth Gecko and his psychopath and rapist brother Richard Gecko continue their crime ...
Genre: Crime, Horror, Fantasy
Actor: George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu, Salma Hayek, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Tom Savini, Fred Williamson, Michael Parks, Brenda Hillhouse, John Saxon, Marc Lawrence, Kelly Preston
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Genre: Crime, Comedy, Music
Actor: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André Benjamin, Steven Tyler, Robert Pastorelli, Christina Milian, Paul Adelstein, Debi Mazar, Gregory Alan Williams, Harvey Keitel, Dwayne Johnson, Danny DeVito, James Woods
Sister Act is about a Reno lounge singer named Deloris Van Carter who witnesses her mobster boyfriend killing an employee. She is then hidden in ...
Actor: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn, Robert Miranda, Richard Portnow, Ellen Albertini Dow, Carmen Zapata, Pat Crawford Brown, Prudence Wright Holmes, Georgia Creighton, Susan Johnson
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for ...
Actor: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Peewee Love, Regina Taylor, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr, Elvis Nolasco, Lawrence B. Adisa, Hassan Johnson, Frances Foster
The Congress
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
Country: Belgium, Israel, Poland, France, Germany, Luxembourg
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Animation
Actor: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Danny Huston, Sami Gayle, Michael Stahl-David, Paul Giamatti
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby ...
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Adventure
Actor: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: ...
Genre: Thriller, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Actor: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel
By the Gun
Nick Tortano is a smooth-talking, ambitious criminal from the streets of Boston. After years spent working for and idolizing the Italian gangsters he finally proves ...
Actor: Ben Barnes, Leighton Meester, Slaine, Ritchie Coster, Toby Jones, Harvey Keitel, Kenny Wormald, Paul Ben-Victor, Tully Banta-Cain, William Bloomfield, Bonnie Belle Skinner, Jack Chausse, Billy Concha, Julie Ann Dawson, Damien Di Paola
Bad Lieutenant
A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt ...
Actor: Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Leonard L. Thomas, Robin Burrows, Frankie Thorn, Victoria Bastel, Paul Hipp, Brian McElroy, Frankie Acciarito, Peggy Gormley, Stella Keitel, Dana Dee, Anthony Ruggiero, Vincent Laresca
The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective ...
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Actor: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey, Dana Gillespie, William Hootkins, Eugene Lipinski, George Roubicek, Stefan Gryff, Sevilla Delofski, Robert Walker, Gertan Klauber, Ania Marson, Lex van Delden
The Pick-up Artist
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actor: Molly Ringwald, Robert Downey Jr., Dennis Hopper, Danny Aiello, Mildred Dunnock, Harvey Keitel, Brian Hamill, Tamara Bruno, Vanessa Williams, Angie Kempf, Polly Draper, Fred Koehler, Robert Towne, Victoria Jackson, Lorraine Bracco
Louise is working in a diner as a waitress and has some problems with her boyfriend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the ...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Adventure
Actor: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brad Pitt, Timothy Carhart, Lucinda Jenney, Jason Beghe, Sonny Carl Davis, Ken Swofford, Shelly Desai, Carol Mansell, Stephen Polk
Sometime in the 1970's, police officers from New York wanted a safe haven to live, away from the dangers of the streets of New York, ...
Actor: Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Peter Berg, Janeane Garofalo, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport, Annabella Sciorra, Noah Emmerich, Cathy Moriarty, John Spencer, Frank Vincent, Malik Yoba, Arthur J. Nascarella
Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is ...
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy
Actor: The Retrosettes, Gabriella Belisario, Harvey Keitel, Alex Macqueen, Michael Caine, Ian Keir Attard, Adam Jackson-Smith, Paul Dano, Roly Serrano, Loredana Cannata, Madalina Diana Ghenea, Mark Kozelek, Nate Dern, Alex Beckett, Mark Gessner
An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.
Actor: Luke Mably, Ana Ularu, Harvey Keitel, Andrei Albulescu, Tomasz Aleksander, Radu Banzaru, Claudiu Bleont, Alma Caldare, Paul Carroll, Diana Cavallioti, Sam Churchill, Ioachim Ciobanu, Andrei Csolsim, Sorin Dobrin, Andreea Dogaru
The Young Americans
The London police is having trouble with organized crime commited by juvenile delinquents. Their leader is an American who is an expert at turning young ...
Country: UK, France
Actor: Harvey Keitel, Iain Glen, John Wood, Terence Rigby, Keith Allen, Craig Kelly, Thandie Newton, Viggo Mortensen, Dave Duffy, Geoffrey McGivern, Nigel Clauzel, Huggy Leaver, Dig Wayne, Christopher Adamson, James Duggan
A Beginner&#39s Guide to Endings
Upon learning they only have a few days left to live, three brothers set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes.
Actor: Tricia Helfer, J.K. Simmons, Harvey Keitel, Scott Caan, Paulo Costanzo, Stephen McHattie, Wendy Crewson, Jared Keeso, Jason Jones, Jesse Bostick, James Preston Rogers, Allison Graham, Gavin Fox, Alex Appel, Thomas Michael
Full Tilt Boogie
A docu-drama about filming From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Sarah Kelly takes a non-union film crew onto the set and on location near Barstow of ...
Actor: Rick Stribling, Ken Bondy, Amy Minda Cohen, Elizabeth Avellan, Dieter Busch, Cecilia Montiel, Greg Nicotero, Victoria Lucai, George Clooney, McPherson O. Downs, Earl Thielen, Michael Parks, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Fred Williamson
Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night ...
Actor: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, George Memmoli, Lucy Saroyan, Lane Smith, Cliff De Young, Borah Silver, Chip Fields, Harry Northup, Leonard Gaines, Milton Selzer, Sammy Warren
Wrong Turn at Tahoe
A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.
Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr., Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Keitel, Alex Meneses, Leonor Varela, Michael Sean Tighe, Noel Gugliemi, Johnny Messner, Reed McColm, Mike Starr, Louis Mandylor, John Cenatiempo, M. Scott Sue, Paul Sampson, Walter Poole
The Men&#39s Club
A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier ...
Actor: David Dukes, Richard Jordan, Harvey Keitel, Frank Langella, Roy Scheider, Craig Wasson, Treat Williams, Stockard Channing, Gina Gallego, Cindy Pickett, Gwen Welles, Penny Baker, Rebeccah Bush, Claudia Cron, Ann Dusenberry
Head Above Water
In this dark comedy, a supreme court judge (George) and his very young wife (Nathalie) are on vacation at her family's summer home on an ...
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Actor: Harvey Keitel, Cameron Diaz, Craig Sheffer, Billy Zane, Shay Duffin
Dangerous Game
Eddie Israel is a moviemaker. He is beginning the shooting of "The mother of mirrors", starring Francis Burns and Sarah Jennings. "The mother of mirrors" ...
Actor: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Nancy Ferrara, Reilly Murphy, Victor Argo, Leonard L. Thomas, Christina Fulton, Heather Bracken, Glenn Plummer, Niki Munroe, Lori Eastside, John Snyder, Adina Winston, Dylan Hundley
Two Evil Eyes
"The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar": The gold-digger Jessica Valdemar and her lover Dr. Robert Hoffman plot a scheme to take the money ...
Actor: Adrienne Barbeau, Ramy Zada, Bingo O&#39Malley, Jeff Howell, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, John Amos, Sally Kirkland, Kim Hunter, Holter Graham, Martin Balsam, Chuck Aber, Jonathan Adams, Tom Atkins
A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
Actor: Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Harvey Keitel, Edie Falco, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman, Lucy DeVito, Billy Crystal, Veronica Ferres, Lois Smith, Jessica Kirson, Jim Norton, Jimmie Walker
Two Men in Town
Forest Whitaker plays a parolee, who finds Allah inside, and tries to get his life on track after 18 years. He's off to a good ...
Country: Algeria, USA, Belgium, France
Actor: Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel, Ellen Burstyn, Brenda Blethyn, Luis Guzmán, Reg E. Cathey, Tim Guinee, Sarah Minnich, Dolores Heredia, Matthew Page, Michael Stone, Chris Ranney, Cheo Tapia, Stan Carp, Joshua R. Aragon
Mother, Jugs & Speed
To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help people in ...
Actor: Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
The Duellists
A duel between two feuding Napoleonic officers D'Hubert and Feraud eventually evolves into a 16-year-old series of violent sword and pistol duels, after each bout, ...
Actor: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney
The film follows a border guard who is relative to drug trafficking along the Rio Grande. One day, he gets some serious problem with his ...
Actor: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine
The film starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey is directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the novel telling the life of ...
Actor: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey
The movie tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel, the playboy gangster who betrayed the Mob for love, and his relationship with Virginia Hill, a ...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Biography
Actor: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel |
Resevoir Dogs
After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong when the alarm is tripped and the cops show up within moments, the surviving criminals begin to ...
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Actor: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen


I need help with an iPhone 7 bought used- to send to Europe- it was previously used on Straight Talk and i am getting "sim card incompatible message" i sent the phone to my brother in Europe and he cannot use it with his or any carrier there. I previously sent my family iPhones and never had this happen.
Sure sounds like it's carrier locked. This COULD be simply something Straight Talk does OR it could also be the phone was locked because it was carrier financed. Once the financing is done you must contact the carrier to get this type of lock taken off. Also if its locked as part of their policies, then you may be able to get them to unlock it. You would most likely need to be a customer in good standing to get this done.
EDIT: Based on my google research, it appears often Straight Talk DOES SIM lock their phones in particular when it's an AT&T compatible phone.


In "A Knight's Prize" my heroine Edith pretends to be an exotic eastern princess, The Lady of Lilies, to save herself and her fellow villagers from starvation after the pestilence (the Black Death, which struck England in 1348).
Edith is a peasant woman and blacksmith, but presents herself as a strange princess with her own seductive costumes, language and customs. One of my inspirations for this particular desperate deception was a real-life fake from the eighteenth century, the Princess Caraboo.
This 'princess' was a young woman who appeared in a Gloucestershire village in 1817, dressed in unusual clothes and speaking a strange language. Upon investigation by the local magistrate, it was discovered she called herself Caraboo and later a sailor claimed he knew her language and translated her story. Caraboo claimed to be a princess from an island in the Indian ocean, who had escaped after being captured by pirates.
The magistrate, Stephen Worrall, and his wife took in Princess Caraboo. She lived with them for several weeks, famous and fêted by the local community.
In reality Princess Caraboo turned out to be Mary Baker, the daughter of an English cobbler. When the hoax was revealed due to her picture in the 'Bristol Journal' being recognized, the Worralls arranged for Mary to leave for Philadelphia.
Mary did go to America but returned later to England and died there. It was the story of her unusual deception that inspired a 1994 film, Princess Caraboo and partly inspired my own novel.
This is fascinating. I never knew about that (guess I didn't catch the film). The hoax sounds like a great idea, I'll have to look for the book.
I watched the film of princess caraboo. What a bizarre thing to do lol Good luck with your book.
Thanks, Margaret - what a coincidence! Ta, too for the good wishes.
I saw the movie years ago, but never realized that it was a true story! Now I know- interesting- thank you!
Lindsay, fascinating. I wonder if it was just a straight hoax, or if Princess Caraboo had a head injury of some kind? Sometimes, that accounts for a change in personality and language... ?


Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism As my son's limitations became clearer, I found it harder every year to write a vision statement for his I.E.P. Then he showed us how.
In desperation, we signed Ethan up to work at a local farm that specializes in employing young adults with disabilities assuming it would go the way the others have. He'd be interested at first, then bored, and then — because he was bored — silly and unsafe around the equipment in a way that would get him removed from the program. It was his pattern and if there's anything we've learned, autistic kids love repeating their patterns.In desperation, we signed Ethan up to work at a local farm that specializes in employing young adults with disabilities assuming it would go the way the others have. He'd be interested at first, then bored, and then — because he was bored — silly and unsafe around the equipment in a way that would get him removed from the program. It was his pattern and if there's anything we've learned, autistic kids love repeating their patterns. What we wrote for his vision statement that year reflects our rock-bottom expectations: "We hope that Ethan can remain with this program for the year." Then he surprised us. He worked there for a month and we got no phone calls.


Hi everyone back in Providence! It is such an awesome opportunity to be able to write a little blog entry that may help some of you fellow EDU students make the decision to come explore Florence. It is a crazy feeling that two weeks from today, I will be on a plane traveling back to my real home. Just like it was hard saying goodbye to my home back in the United States, I feel like it is going to be just as hard to leave Florence. It's the time that I have to start saying goodbye to a place that will always have a special part of my heart. Florence has become my home. When traveling home from weekends away in other countries or just walking home from classes throughout the week, I notice myself calling my apartment home. I have become so comfortable here in the past three months that it has similar feelings as when I am at my real home. Yes, you will miss your families, but I mean there's nothing a good FaceTiming session with your loved ones can't fix. Last week on Thanksgiving, I FaceTimed my whole family (all 47 of them) for about an hour, being passed down the line to talk to each of them. And when you do feel like you're really missing your family, you will find that the women/men from the PC Elementary and Special Education Program become your family here.
Florence symbol at Piazza Michelangelo.
With the thought of these next two weeks being my last in my Study Abroad experience, I am going to focus on not thinking about the future, but to live in the moment for these next two weeks. Friends and I have already started planning days around our class schedules for our last specific experiences in Florence. Planning our last Gusta Pizza, our last walk to Piazza Michelangelo, last De Neri Gelato, and even our last practicum experiences here in Florence. It will be hard to say goodbye, but I know I will always find my way back to this beautiful city. See you in two weeks America!


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Q: How to play an mp3 file on c# in visual studio I'm just messing around with coding, and I want to know how to play an mp3 file if a user presses a button. I can already detect the user input no problem, it's playing a file that I can't seem to find how to do
    {

        Console.WriteLine("Hello,[user]!");
        Console.WriteLine("Please Enter Your Username");
        Console.WriteLine();

        string uname = Console.ReadLine();

        Thread.Sleep(600);
        Console.Clear();
        Thread.Sleep(600);

        Console.WriteLine("Welcome to Axiom, " + uname);
        Console.WriteLine("If You Want To Find The Full List Of Commands, Please Press 1");
        Console.WriteLine();

    while (true)
    {

        string keyChoice = Console.ReadLine();

        switch (keyChoice)
        {
            case "1":
                Thread.Sleep(600);
                Console.Clear();
                Thread.Sleep(600);
                Console.WriteLine("Console Commands:");
                Console.WriteLine("Press '2' To Get 1000$ FREE");
                Console.WriteLine("Press '3' To Pick Command 3");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine("Press '0' To Exit Or Press A Command Button To Execute A Command");
                Console.WriteLine();
                continue;

            case "2":
                Thread.Sleep(600);
                Console.Clear();
                Thread.Sleep(600);
                //This is where I want to add the file. To rickroll someone of course
                continue; `

A: If you want to play an mp3 file when a user presses a button, you could refer to the following code:
static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello,[user]!");
        Console.WriteLine("Please Enter Your Username");
        Console.WriteLine();

        string uname = Console.ReadLine();

        Thread.Sleep(600);
        Console.Clear();
        Thread.Sleep(600);

        Console.WriteLine("Welcome to Axiom, " + uname);
        Console.WriteLine("If You Want To Find The Full List Of Commands, Please Press 1");
        Console.WriteLine();
        while (true)
        {

            string keyChoice = Console.ReadLine();
            WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer wplayer = new WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer();
            wplayer.URL = "the path of  Your MP3 file.mp3";

            switch (keyChoice)
            {
                case "1":
                    Thread.Sleep(600);
                    Console.Clear();
                    Thread.Sleep(600);
                    Console.WriteLine("Console Commands:");
                    Console.WriteLine("Press '2' To Get 1000$ FREE");
                    Console.WriteLine("Press '3' To Pick Command 3");
                    Console.WriteLine();
                    Console.WriteLine("Press '0' To Exit Or Press A Command Button To Execute A Command");
                    Console.WriteLine();
                    continue;

                case "2":
                    Thread.Sleep(600);
                    Console.Clear();
                    Thread.Sleep(600);
                    wplayer.controls.play();
                    continue;

            }
        }
    }

Before that you should follow the steps below to add a reference:

*

*First go to the references of your project

*Right click on choose 'Add References…'

*Add the library under COM object for window media player

You can also refer to these pages.
https://learn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/win32/wmp/creating-the-windows-media-player-control-programmatically?redirectedfrom=MSDN
Playing a MP3 file in a WinForm application

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Three Canadians prepping for the 2016 Rio Summer Games showed their Olympic form today, sweeping the men's, women's and wheelchair divisions in the 32nd annual Vancouver Sun Run. Canada's foremost women's distance runner, Lanni Marchant of London, Ontario, won her first 10K race in Vancouver in her first attempt, finishing five seconds ahead of last […]
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Three Canadians prepping for the 2016 Rio Summer Games showed their Olympic form today, sweeping the men's, women's and wheelchair divisions in the 32nd annual Vancouver Sun Run.
Canada's foremost women's distance runner, Lanni Marchant of London, Ontario, won her first 10K race in Vancouver in her first attempt, finishing five seconds ahead of last year's champion, Kenyan Risper Gesabwa, who operates out of Marietta, Ga. Marchant was timed in 32 minutes, 16 seconds.
Eric Gillis of Guelph, Ontario, a qualifier for the Olympic marathon, took the men's division in a time of 28:53. Gillis won the 2011 Sun Run and was making his return to Vancouver for the first time since 2012, when he finished fourth. Gillis had a 12-second edge over Kenyan Christopher Cheruiyot.
It was the first time Canadians have swept both men's and women's elite divisions in the country's biggest 10K race since 2012, when Natasha Fraser of Port Moody, B.C. and Kelly Wiebe of Regina were at the top of the podium.
Canadian Paralympian Tristan Smyth of Lake County, B.C. won the wheelchair division for the third straight year.
A total of 43,372 runners officially were registered for the event, an increase of six per cent from last year.
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'The Custer Fight' by Charles Marion Russell
Battle of The Little Big Horn
Black Hills Visitor Magazine· August 25, 2017
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The following is a brief summary of the complex events leading up to the battle of The Little Bighorn, the battle, and its aftermath.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 created a reservation consisting of that portion of the present state of South Dakota lying west of the Missouri River; the section of current-day eastern Wyoming east of the Bighorn Mountains and north of the North Platte River; as well as lands in Nebraska north of the Platte River were designated as unceded Indian territory. Its conservation did not last long. Gradual withdrawal of United States protection and the disappearance of game provoked disturbances with tribes in the area.
The survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad route west from Bismarck, Dakota Territory, aroused further hostility in 1872. General Philip H. Sheridan, in command of the Army's Department of the Missouri, determined to ease the conflict by establishing a fort in the reservation near the Black Hills. He visited Fort Laramie late in 1873, but found Indians there so opposed to the plan that he gave it up in favor of Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory as the permanent base for regional operations. He ordered General Terry to send an expedition led by Lt. Colonel George A. Custer to do a general reconnaissance of the Black Hills, a move in direct violation of the 1868 treaty.
Sitting Bull by D F Barry ca 1883 original cabinet card
Custer's report of a gold discovery in the summer of 1874 brought many gold seekers to the Black Hills. This illegal settlement was checked by orders from General Sheridan to General Terry in order to prevent settlers from entering Indian lands.
In March 1875, Professor Walter P. Jenney conducted an independent geological reconnaissance of the Black Hills under the protection of Lieutenant R.I. Dodge with a guard of four hundred men, and confirmed the presence of gold. A commission was appointed to meet with the tribes to gain possession of these lands, but long and patient negotiation resulted in failure. Prospectors were now pouring into the Black Hills, and by March 1876, eleven thousand white men had gathered in Custer City. The tribes believed that the only way by which they could preserve their rights was to make war.
At this time Crazy Horse, American Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull were encamped along the Powder River. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail remained at their agencies, but their warriors gradually slipped away, presumably on buffalo hunting expeditions, which they had a perfect right to do under their treaty. In December the agents were instructed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to send messengers to all the Indians, asking for their return by the end of January. If they failed to obey, they were to be treated as hostiles.
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Ohunakin, Folake and Adeniji, A. A. and Akintayo, I. Dayo (2016) Transactional Leadership Style and Employee Job Satisfaction among Universities' Guest Houses in South-West Nigeria. In: 3rd International Conference On African Development Issues (CU-ICADI), May 9- May 11 2016, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
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George R.R. Martin says the 'Game of Thrones' ending will be 'bittersweet'
George R.R. Martin speaks during the Harbour Front Literature Festival in Hamburg, Germany, on June 21.
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By Yohana Desta 2015-08-14 16:31:39 UTC
Surprise, surprise — Game of Thrones won't have a "happily ever after" ending.
In an interview with The Observer, author George R.R. Martin explained the famed book series (and subsequently, the TV series) will have a "bittersweet" ending.
"I've said before that the tone of the ending that I'm going for is bittersweet," he explains.
He still has not written the ending yet, but says he's very inspired by the ending of The Lord of the Rings and wants to reach for the same kind of feeling.
See also: George R.R. Martin loved 'Ant-Man,' but thinks Marvel has a villain problem
"[Lord of the Rings] ends with victory, but it's a bittersweet victory," he says. "Frodo is never whole again, and he goes away to the Undying Lands, and the other people live their lives. And the scouring of the Shire — brilliant piece of work, which I didn't understand when I was 13 years old: 'Why is this here? The story's over?' But every time I read it I understand the brilliance of that segment more and more."
Fans of the series won't be surprised at the news of the "bittersweet" ending, considering how often favorite characters are brutally killed off. The TV series, which has passed the storyline in the books, will likely wrap up after eight seasons.
Now, we just sit back and play the waiting game for the last two bittersweet Game of Thrones books.
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Young Candidates Champion Climate Issues at the Local Level
October 26, 2020; Teen Vogue (Drilled News)
Research from Tufts University's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) and Catalist, a Democratic data firm, reports that in the 2020 presidential election, two-thirds more early voters under 30 had already voted in Texas by 11 days before Election Day than they did for the presidential election in 2016. It isn't just the youth vote that is gaining notice, though; it's also the youth of the people running for office.
For many of these young voters and candidates, climate change is the critical issue. The US Conference of Mayors released a poll in December of 2019 that found 80 percent of voters between 18 and 29 said climate change is a "major threat to human life on earth as we know it." As a result, it's inspired them to become activists.
For instance, seven years ago, organic farmers joined with environmentalists in Josephine County in southern Oregon to collect signatures to put a ban of a local cultivation of genetically modified plants on the ballot. They continued to advocate for the ban even as large corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta poured money in to stop it. The voters passed the ban in 2014 by 6 points.
"It was an amazing win for the community," recalls Vanessa Ogier, a 28-year-old Josephine County climate activist.
But in 2015, the county was sued by commercial beet farmers, and in 2017, the ban was appealed as unenforceable.
"That radicalized me," Ogier says. "That's when I realized that we need climate sympathizers inside the government to get any serious work done."
This year, Ogier ran for a spot on the city council of Grants Pass, the county seat, near where the Almeda Fire in September killed three people and destroyed nearly 3,000 homes in an area that already had a shortage of affordable homes. Ogier won her race on Tuesday with 60.6 percent of the vote.
It's an uphill journey, running for office with a more progressive agenda in municipalities that lean right, but these young candidates believe their communities are ready to make changes for the climate, clean water, and environmental justice. Ogier campaigned for measures to assist residents to become resilient in the face of hotter summers with increasing wildfires. She is advocating for creating sustainable housing and an "energy action plan" that would reduce carbon emissions. Ogier wants to build a system of shelters to protect people without housing from the rising temperatures; she fears this year's wildfire is a foreshadow of what's to come if the city council doesn't start to take action on climate issues.
"We will continue to be plagued by droughts, wildfires and smoke, a lack of snowpack in our mountains, and warming rivers," she says. "We need to recognize these trends and adapt to them."
It is not just an increase in wildfires, either. On the Atlantic Ocean side, where Nicole Hamm, 27, ran for office, there have been 27 named storms in 2020, 11 of which became hurricanes. Hamm's district in Jacksonville, Florida, is Republican. There has not been a Democrat elected to the city council from her district in 17 years, but she felt voters were open to her ideas for climate action, such as investing in resilient infrastructure to protect local homes and businesses from flooding caused by rising sea levels, and developing urban green spaces.
"It's different when people start to see [climate change] affecting their pockets and their well-being," Hamm says. "They can't avoid it anymore."
Hamm was hoping to target environmental social injustice—communities of color that have had failing septic tanks for years, damaging the drinking water. "When you drive over the bridge there, you can smell the water and sewage," she says.
Unfortunately, Hamm lost. Still, the need for clean water is an issue Florida voters can see, with storms causing sewer systems to overflow and failures of the power grid dumping raw sewage into streets and waterways, as 11 million gallons did during Hurricane Matthew.
Rayonte Bell, a 22-year-old activist, ran for a seat on the Berrien County Board of Commissioners in Michigan, where there are water problems, too. The county sits on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan, where stronger storms have eroded the shoreline. Bell advocates sustainable solutions and climate-resilient infrastructure.
"Using environmentally safe practices is the best approach" to solving these problems, says Bell, "rather than trying to put a band-aid on them. We need to think long term."
Lead was discovered in the drinking water of Benton Harbor, a majority-Black community located just north of where Bell campaigned in St. Joseph. While the source of the water—Lake Michigan itself—may be safe, as is the case in Flint, Michigan, corrosion in old pipes that have not been replaced has contaminated the water that comes out of the tap. Infrastructure dollars need to be spent in the community.
Bell noted that voters are willing to talk to a young candidate, offering that they are concerned about the cost of fixing issues like water quality but aware those problems must be fixed.
"We need to acknowledge and address that inequity," Bell says. "If we don't, Black people are going to continue to be the most vulnerable to climate change."
As of Thursday night, Bell was tied with the other candidate, Bruce Gorenflo, for the open seat; each has 3,934 votes. The next step is for the Berrien County Board of Canvassers to meet—in the case of a tie, lots will be drawn.
Younger candidates can look to New York for an example of a younger candidate who succeeded. Nassau County legislator Josh Lafazan was the youngest person to ever become an elected official on New York's Long Island when he won a spot on his home town school board at the age of 18, and then became the youngest official elected in the county at the age of 23. He is now 26, still a county legislator, and last year took on an adjunct teaching position with a college seminar course called "Running for Office in the 21st Century," addressing affordable housing, student loan debt, and climate change.
"There are major threats facing young people, where it's time that we're going to have to step up and demand that our priorities are met. The surest way to do that is to elect representatives from our own generation," Lafazan says.—Marian Conway
Marian Conway, the executive director of the NY Community Bank Foundation, has a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies, Writing and a Ph.D. in Public Policy, Nonprofit Management. She has discovered that her job and education have made her a popular person with nonprofits and a prime candidate for their boards. Marian keeps things in perspective, not allowing all that to go to her head, but it is difficult to say no to a challenge, especially participating in change, in remaking a board. She is currently on eleven boards of various sizes and has learned to say no.
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What is better than recieving the best gift?
pretty gift ideas for our mom's.
These also happen to be things I want horribly.
1. Personalized Notepads from Paper Source. Anything personalized is so personal and moms love lists.
2. A DIY cookbook with all your favorite family recipes. The one pictured is what I did last year for Mother's Day. It was quite the undertaking since I made all the recipes to photograph but I loved giving it to my mom, and having my own copy. I made it on Picaboo.com, here is a link to mine if you want an example.
3. Williams-Sonoma cupcake mixes+gingham cupcake liners. These are for the baker mom who will make stuff from a box, and from WS box how bad can it be? Cupcake mixes here and liners here on etsy.
4. Chalkboard Herb Potters and herbs. Mom's tend to have green thumbs.
5. A Pedicure. Can you ever go wrong with a pedicure?
6. New Purse/Beach Bag/Book Bag. This pastel bag would be perfect for the beach, throw in a book she has been wanting to read inside.
7. Chenille Throw. My mom has a thing for blankets and she is always cold. This one is from Pottery Barn and looks so cozy and scrumptious!
8. Owl Measuring Cups. Found these at West Elm, they would be so fun for mom's with little one's or just for mom's who love to bake.
10. DIY Picture and Quote Coasters. For a more affordable option, these are SO cute and you can put anything you want on them. Pair them with a cute mug and a box of her favorite tea or hot chocolate! Great Tutorial for coasters found here.
Ps. I couldn't showcase on this list what I actually got the mother's in my life, didn't want to ruin the surprise, so sorry mom, don't get your hopes up!
Hope this list gives you some inspiration on what to get the amazing women in your life.
oh i love those pillow cases!
I love any and all of the above!!!!!
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what a great list and i love the idea of family recipes!
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New Report Reveals Exactly How The CIA Was Involved In Diana's Death!
July 6, 2021 ronie1 Comment on New Report Reveals Exactly How The CIA Was Involved In Diana's Death!
Stunner news from the British publication "The Observer" is due to be released.
The soon-to-be-released piece claims that US intelligence was spying on Princess Di just hours before she died, according to NBC News.
Naturally, the United States denies the story, claiming that they did not bug Princess Diana's phone.
To be honest, many Americans find it difficult to believe anything that comes from US intelligence at this moment.
The revelation raises questions about why US intelligence would "reportedly" be spying on Princess Di just HOURS before her death.
As you can expect, Princess Di's death has sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories, and this will just add fuel to the fire.
According to the NBC News:
"That the Central Intelligence Agency was bugging the telephone conversations of Britain's Princess Diana on the night she died, a British newspaper reported Monday. But current and former U.S. officials told NBC News that intelligence agencies never targeted the late Princess of Wales.
The Observer newspaper, citing the findings of a British inquiry into Diana's death to be released later this week, said the CIA was listening in on the princess in the hours before she died in a car crash in Paris."
While being trailed by media photographers, the 36-year-old princess, her friend Dodi Fayed, 42, and driver Henri Paul died when their Mercedes crashed within the Pont d'Alma tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997. Paul had three times the French legal limit of alcohol in his blood, as per British Broadcasting Corporation.
However, the Observer reported the CIA did not obtain approval from British intelligence to tap Diana's phone.
It follows when another report from Tucker Carlson, in which he says that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on him.
That claim is likewise denied by US intelligence.
Is this where we are in our country right now? Our own government entities, which we, the taxpayers, finance, are working against us?
Doesn't it sound incredibly "China-like"?
Sources: WayneDupree, NBCNews
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Q: Trackpad randomly dies My Macbook's trackpad will randomly stop working (frequency seems to be every couple weeks) and the only way I've found to fix it is to reboot. I'd file a bug report, but I'm not sure what component I'd be reporting about. Is there any way to prevent this or fix it without a reboot? Everything else still seems to work fine, so I'm assuming some mouse-driver is crashing and not being restarted.

A: I have been having problems on my MacBook as well (particularly since upgrading to 14.10).  When the trackpad freezes, I can get it working again with:
synclient TouchpadOff=0

I still haven't figured out how to turn off the trackpad while typing (even with System Settings -> Mouse & Trackpad -> Touchpad disable while typing box checked; and synclient PalmDetect=1).
The trackpad also seems to zoom in/out in an application when accidentally brushed.


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Q: Extract lines with multiple patterns occuring in one column using awk I have a quite large text file with genetic data (94,807,000 rows). I want to extract the rows in which specific patterns occur in a specific column. I tried using awk and grep in various ways but did not find a way to get the job done. The file is space-delimited and looks like this:
   V1     V2 V3 V4   V5      V6
1: 10 179406  T  . HPGM T,T,T,T
2: 10 179407  T  . HPGM T,T,T,T
3: 10 179408  G  . HPGM G,G,G,G
4: 10 179409  A  . HPGM A,A,A,A
5: 10 179410  A  . HPGM A,A,A,A
6: 10 179411  T  . HPGM T,T,T,T

V5 and V6 can have more then the four entries shown here and everything might look pretty weird, like:
   V1        V2 V3 V4   V5                    V6
1:  1 158154514  A  . HPGO A,AAAA..204..TTTT,A,A

I want to keep the lines where both entries for H and P (those are the first two comma-delimited characters in V6) are exactly either A, C, T or G, so should only have one of those four characters. H and P do not have to have the same character, though.  In V5 multiple combinations can occur, but all start with HP. I am not interested if any or how many entries come afterwards and all rows do have entries for H and P, so I do not have to deal with missing entries.
I found some answers that show how to search for multiple patterns using logical or || , some that show how too look in a specific field using $6 ~ '/A,.' and how to look for exact matches using == "pattern". However, I did not find answers for combining these things and could not figure it out by myself.  Help would be very much appreciated.

A: You can use this awk command:
awk 'split($NF, a, /,/) && a[1] a[2] ~ /^[ACTG]{2}$/' file

1: 10 179406  T  . HPGM T,T,T,T
2: 10 179407  T  . HPGM T,T,T,T
3: 10 179408  G  . HPGM G,G,G,G
4: 10 179409  A  . HPGM A,A,A,A
5: 10 179410  A  . HPGM A,A,A,A
6: 10 179411  T  . HPGM T,T,T,T

*

*split($NF, a, /,/) is splitting last column by comma

*a[1] a[2] ~ /^[ACTG]{2}$/ is using a regex to ensure first and second sub-fields after split are one of A or C or T or G


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Q: Can't get firebase user info from provider I'm facing problem when I try to fetch data with the help of a provider. Everything looks okay but still i can't make it.
//Provider
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { AngularFireAuth } from 'angularfire2/auth';

@Injectable()
export class SomeProvider {
user: Observable<firebase.User>;

  constructor(private firebaseAuth: AngularFireAuth) {
    this.user = firebaseAuth.authState;
  }

this.firebaseAuth.authState.subscribe(user => {console.log(user.uid)}); // i can get UID with this
........

But when I call it here it returns undefined:
//menu.ts
import { SomeProvider } from '../../providers/some/some';
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { AngularFireAuth } from 'angularfire2/auth';

@IonicPage()
@Component({
  selector: 'page-menu',
  templateUrl: 'menu.html',
})
export class MenuPage {

constructor(private cfg: SomeProvider, private firebaseAuth: AngularFireAuth){}
ionViewDidLoad(){
console.log(this.cfg.user.uid);  //returns undefined
.....

I have tried firebase SDK but getting same problem.

A: You are missing the firebase import needed for user: Observable<firebase.User>;, if you haven't already, you should be importing it in SomeProvider:
import * as firebase from 'firebase/app';

Also, as per your code, user is an Observable, therefore you need to subscribe to it:
export class MenuPage {

  constructor(private cfg: SomeProvider, private firebaseAuth: AngularFireAuth){}
  ionViewDidLoad(){
    this.cfg.user.subscribe(user => console.log(user.uid));

Alternatively:

@Injectable()
export class SomeProvider {
  user: Observable<firebase.User>;
  userId: string; // initialize

  constructor(private firebaseAuth: AngularFireAuth) {
    this.user = firebaseAuth.authState;
    this.user.subscribe(user => this.userId = user.uid); // assign userId here
  }

  get getUserId(): string {
    return this.userId;
  }

Then in the component:
export class MenuPage {

  constructor(private cfg: SomeProvider, private firebaseAuth: AngularFireAuth){}
  ionViewDidLoad(){
    console.log(this.cfg.getUserId); // user id should be logged here