Copper3D is a Chilean company born in an academic process in the Master of Innovation at the Adolfo Ibañez University, the most important business school in Latin America.
The Copper3D team realized that more than 40% of amputees suffer some type of dermic disorders due to the use of their prostheses. This phenomenon is also observed in non-amputee patients who use orthoses. The reason? The high bacterial burden present in these medical devices, which in contact with the skin can cause dermatitis, folliculitis, fungal or bacterial infections, among others. But then they found out that the problem of bacterial burden is much more complex and huge: According to some studies, about 50% of all Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) worldwide are due to the bacterial burden of medical devices that are difficult to maintain clean and sterilized.
After a long process of research, development and innovation, the team realized that the ideal solution to this problem involved the molecular intervention of the material with which these medical devices are manufactured. After discarding many options, they began prototyping a new polymer for 3D printing with an internationally patented additive containing copper nanoparticles, extremely effective in eliminating fungi, viruses and bacteria but safe for humans at the right concentrations.
With successful preliminary trials in Chile, it was decided to start with the industrial manufacture of this material in Europe for later commercialization.
At the moment they have their first product available, it is a high-quality PLA polymer with additive concentrations of 1 and 2%, it is called PLACTIVE since it is a PLA polymer with "active" properties in the elimination of a wide range of microorganisms.


Yesterday I went and spent the afternoon with my friend who has recently moved from Zimbabwe to Joburg. Candy is such a phenomenal make-up artist and she offered to give me a little make-over.
Candy uses airbruhing to give your face a flawless finish without it feeling to heavy with make-up. There are so many advantages to using airbrushing as opposed to traditional foundation that we all use on a daily basis. Apart from it's porcelain finish, airbrushed make-up lasts a lot longer and has a much better 'holing' factor than foundation. For brides, airbrushing is an absolute MUST as it will keep your make-up looking flawless throughout your wedding and if/when there are tears, you don't have to worry about ruining your gorgeous face.
I've had my make-up professionally done on a number of occasions for things like magazine articles and weddings. I always find that the make-up artist does everyone else's make-up so beautifully but I'm never happy with mine. Wherever I can I always ask to do my own make-up because I know how I like it done and when I do my own make-up I always feel a lot more confident than when someone else does it.
This is because we all see things differently and what's pretty to one person may not be pretty to another - this is the beauty of personal style. We also know our faces so well, if you are like me, you put on basic make-up everyday which, over the years, you have perfected to a look that you are happy with. When someone comes along and does your make-up, they are working with your face and your flaws for the first time so it's not always easy for them to get your make-up perfect the first time.
Candy knew what kind of make-up I usually do and was comfortabe with so she used this as her guideline when deciding on a style that would best suit my face. I absolutely loved the look she did on me!! It was natural with a slight bit of sparkle. This is the kind of make-up I would want for my wedding day. I think bride's should look natural but it is the most important day of your life so you also don't want to look like you do every other day. Candy found the perfect balance between a natural and special occassion look.
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Department of Defense Post-Award Contractor Debriefing Procedures Revised
The revised rules make it easier for contractors to determine whether to file an appeal.
The Department of Defense (DOD) bidding process allows for appeals by unsuccessful bidders. These appeals, however, can be expensive and it's sometimes difficult to obtain the information about the successful bid required to determine whether the selection process was above-board.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018 is designed to make appeals less costly by making the award debriefing process more transparent.
Jacqueline Ryan's article in Federal Construction Contracting Blog outlines the DOD's "enhanced post-award debriefing requirements … . These enhanced debriefing requirements differ depending on the magnitude of the contract, but in all cases could have serious—and we think positive—impact on protests."
For contracts over $100 million "there will be an automatic disclosure of the defense agency's written source selection award [redacted to protect confidential bidder information] as part of the debriefing process. This means contractors will be able to review this information before committing to the time and expense of filing an appeal.
"For contract awards between $10 million and $100 million with a small business or non-traditional contractor, the 2018 NDAA requires there be an option for the small business or non-traditional contractor to request disclosure of the redacted source selection award determination as part of the debriefing process."
The DOD must provide a "written or oral debriefing for all contract awards and task or delivery orders valued at $10 million or higher."
Contractors have two days from the debriefing to submit additional questions. The DOD must respond to these questions within 5 days. "… The time a contractor has to file a protest will not begin until after the contractor receives answers from the Agency."
The enhanced post-award debriefing requirements are contractor friendly and reasonable. I, like most observers, are normally critical of the legislature for making it increasingly difficult for contractors to do business with the federal government. The NDAA is a welcome and much-needed exception to this trend.
Good News for Department of Defense Contractors: Enhanced Post-Award Debriefing Requirements are on Their Way, Jacqueline Ryan, Federal Construction Contracting Blog, January 26, 2018.

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Florida Drunk Drivers Are a Major Cause of Cycling Fatalities
Posted by Chris Burns in Florida Bicycle Laws, on Tuesday, January 08, 2019.
Sadly, one person dies every 50 minutes caused by a drunk driver in the US. And drunk driving is still a leading cause for people dying while riding bicycles.
Consumption of alcohol at or greater than .08 blood alcohol concentration in G/DL (the legal limit) results in reduced muscle coordination, reduced reaction time, impaired balance, impaired eye focus, loss of judgment, and difficulty detecting danger. The end result is too often death or severe injury. It is typical that impaired motorists may not notice a cyclist in the vicinity, or the motorist may be speeding. It is common for impaired motorists to claim they "never saw" the cyclist.
In 2015, 12% of all cycling deaths involved an intoxicated motorist (see PDF report). It is worth noting that 29% of all traffic fatalities involved a drunk driver. hen it comes to accidents involving a cyclist and a vehicle, motorists are much more likely to be intoxicated than cyclists.
Hit-and-run is an epidemic in the U.S. as many drunk drivers attempt to leave the scene of their crash to avoid arrest and charges for DUI. It is estimated that there were 737,100 accidents where an offending party left the scene (view PDF report). There is no accurate way to analyze how many of those hit-and-run drivers were intoxicated. We do know that hit-and-run drivers are a horrendous danger for pedestrians.
The Foundation for Traffic Safety has concluded that the majority of people killed by hit-and-run drivers are pedestrians. Off all pedestrians killed, they indicate that about 20% involved a driver leaving the scene. For this reason and others, Florida strengthened its hit-and-run law in 2014. As the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles explains, "The penalties for hit and run drivers changed on July 1, 2014 when the Aaron Cohen Life Protection Act (section 316.027, Florida Statutes) was signed into Florida law. The statute is named after Aaron Cohen, a 31-year-old avid cyclist and father of two that was fatally struck by an alcohol impaired driver that fled the crash scene in February 2012 in central Florida. The hit and run driver was sentenced to just two years in prison, a lesser sentence than what the motorist would have served had he been sentenced on a DUI manslaughter charge. The Aaron Cohen Life Protection Act imposes a mandatory minimum of 4 years for a driver convicted of leaving the scene of a crash resulting in a fatality."
Should you be the victim of a drunk driver, you have rights to recover money from that driver or his car insurer for your injuries and damages. To pursue the driver for his insurance coverage, you will want to retain a private attorney to bring a civil claim. Depending on the state, you may also be able to be awarded "restitution" in the criminal proceeding against the driver. Restitution would be handled by the prosecutor, or state attorney, or district attorney. Restitution often goes without being paid and is a small issue of many in the criminal matter. One can see how a drunk driver placed in jail would be unable to work and may not be able to pay restitution.
Florida law allows you to proceed against the drunk driver and their car insurance in civil court at the same time that their criminal case is pending. If you are hit by a drunk driver, you should contact a private attorney to represent you as soon as possible.
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Better Homes and Gardens Launches "Must-Have Recipes" App for iPhone and iPod touch
Best-selling cookbook reinvented using the best in mobile technology
DES MOINES, Iowa and NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the holidays, Better Homes and Gardens today announced the launch of its newest app, "Must-Have Recipes," for the iPhone and iPod touch. Now available in the App Store, (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/must-have-recipes-from-better/id480016415?mt=8) this free app builds on the success of America's all-time best-selling Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book. With its iconic red plaid cover, the cookbook has sold more than 40 million copies, and is considered a staple for American kitchens.
From mouthwatering main dishes to dozens of decadent desserts, the Must-Have Recipes app showcases the very best recipes, secrets and tips directly from the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchens. Together with a bonus section from launch sponsor Hidden Valley, the app provides access to over 500 recipes.
"As we've seen with the Better Homes and Gardens digital issues for the iPad, many of our readers already explore our extensive content on their mobile devices," said Editor in Chief Gayle Butler. "We're thrilled to expand our digital offerings even further and to provide America's cooks easy access to new Must Have Recipes. This free app is perfect for viewing recipes, organizing shopping lists, emailing favorite recipes to friends and more. We provide all the tools to make preparing meals quick and effortless."
With the Better Homes and Gardens Must-Have Recipes app, you can:
Get more than 500 delicious recipes, each with a gorgeous photo;
View 75 how-to videos and step-by-step instructions that guarantee success in your kitchen;
Share recipes by email;
Add personal notes and substitutions to any recipe, so every dish suits your family's preferences;
Organize your favorite dishes in your recipe box;
Create shopping lists for different stores or special occasions, and check off ingredients as you add them to your shopping cart;
Keep your place in a recipe with a sliding marker;
Find just what you're looking for with advanced browsing capabilities; and
Watch for future bonus recipes from your favorite supermarket brands.
Must-Have Recipes is the latest digital addition to the dynamic multi-channel Better Homes and Gardens portfolio. It already includes a robust website with nearly 7 million visitors a month, a comprehensive mobile site, and other popular apps, including Celebrate the Holidays with BHG and Veggie Love Cookbook.
Reaching nearly 40 million readers every month, the Better Homes and Gardens brand extends across the web, tablet, mobile, broadcast, broadband and numerous licensed products, serving and connecting women who are passionate about their homes and the lives they create there. A Meredith publication, Better Homes and Gardens inspires women to dream and gives them the confidence to move from dreaming to doing. Popular Better Homes and Gardens books remain cornerstone titles in their categories, including the New Garden Book, New Decorating Book and New Cook Book, which has sold more than 40 million copies to date and is now in its 15th edition. For more information, visit bhg.com, or join conversations on facebook.com/mybhg and twitter.com/bhg.
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Israel reopens probe into deadly 1982 blast at army headquarters during Lebanon war
Explosion that killed 91 in Tyre is widely believed to have been a suicide bombing by Hezbollah terror group; officials have so far said it was a gas leak
By Emanuel Fabian 17 November 2022, 11:24 pm Edit
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent.
Rescue workers search for survivors after an explosion at Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1982. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Archive)
Israeli authorities on Thursday announced they would reinvestigate materials related to a deadly explosion at Israel's military headquarters in Tyre during the First Lebanon War in 1982, widely believed to have been a suicide bombing.
In a joint statement by the Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security agency, and Israel Police, officials said a joint team would be established to examine the incident known as the first Tyre bombing.
Officially, Israel has said the explosion on November 11, 1982, was caused by a gas leak, although multiple reports have suggested it was a Hezbollah suicide bombing attack.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group claimed responsibility for the explosion, identifying the suicide bomber as 17-year-old Ahmad Qasir. A small monument was erected in honor of Qasir near Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon.
The explosion killed at least 91 people according to Israeli officials, including 75 members of Israeli security forces, and several more Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
Officials said the case was being reopened "out of respect for the fallen and the search for the truth," as last week marked 40 years since the blast.
The joint statement said the joint team would use "modern technologies that did not exist at the time" to investigate the incident.
The aftermath of the attack on IDF headquarters in Tyre, Lebanon, Novmber 11, 1982. (IDF/public domain)
Mossad historian Ronen Bergman, in a 2007 book on Israel's shadow war with Iran, said three witnesses saw a Peugeot apparently driven by Qasir speed into the IDF building moments before the explosion.
The book said Military Police investigators found a leg that did not belong to any of the bodies of the victims, as well as the engine of the Peugeot buried under the wreckage of the building. The engine was identified as having been acquired in Lebanon, and was not of IDF use, according to Bergman.
Additionally, Bergman said an affidavit by a Shin Bet man who served in Lebanon at the time stated that after the 1982 Tyre blast, he received a detailed intelligence report containing a full description of the Hezbollah preparations for the suicide bombing.
Ahmad Qasir (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
The affidavit also stated that the Shin Bet top brass ordered the report be discarded and not discussed again, according to Bergman.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Thursday welcomed the move to investigate the incident, saying it was a "clear message about our commitment to the bereaved families."
Almost a year after the blast on November 4, 1983, a similar bombing targeted the IDF base in Tyre, killing 28 Israelis and 32 Lebanese prisoners. Israel has confirmed the second blast was a suicide bombing by Hezbollah.
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Q: How to compare the results of a leave-one-out strategy? I tried to reproduce the experiments described in this paper and wanted to compare the output of my system with the one described in the article. I am looking for a statistical comparison of the systems (I'm not really confident when it comes to hypothesis testing).
To be more precise the dataset consists of images of certain categories of rooms (bathroom, living room, etc.) acquired in 6 different houses.
In the experiment, we use 5 houses to train a classifiers and the 6th to test it (the author call it leave-one-out but strictly speaking I'm not sure it's exactly that).
The results is the correct classification rate for each room in each "fold".
Do you have any idea?

A: This is really what is called the holdout method.  Some samples are used to construct or train the classifier and the rest for testing. Leave one out fits the classifier on all but one case and tests on that one case and then repeats this process for each case.  Leave-one-out produces a nearly unbiased estimate for the error rate.  If the holdout sample is randomly selected the holdout estimate is unbiased.  The error rate estimates are simply the number classified as belonging to group A out of the cases that are actually from A.  You would do the saem for group B. In your case you have as many classes as there are rooms in the homes. Of course 1-error rate estimate is the estimate of the correct classification probability for the room.  So that is how you calculate the estimate.  If you want confidence intervals for the estimated probabilities you could use the bootstrap.

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Home//Matthews Legal News//Abuse by Clergy//Pennsylvania may change Priest Abuse Law
Pennsylvania may change Priest Abuse Law
(Sept. 3, 2018)
Due to a grand jury report released last month which detailed sex abuse by hundreds of priests, Pennsylvania may change its law on the statutes of limitations for filing Pennsylvania priest abuse lawsuits.
En Español: Pensilvania podría cambiar la Ley del Abuso Sexual de parte de los Sacerdotes
State lawmakers will soon vote on whether to eliminate Pennsylvania's statute of limitations for clergy sex abuse lawsuits, and whether to lengthen the time a victim has to file such a lawsuit. Several other states — like Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Minnesota — have already restored victims' expired rights to file civil lawsuits.
Even if such new law were passed by the Pennsylvania legislature, whether or not an alleged victim could file a sex abuse lawsuit would depend on several factors. The grand jury lamented the fact that many of the 1,000 priest-abuse victims it estimated could not seek justice due to the passing of the statutes of limitations. And there were likely thousands more victims, said the jury.
Current Pennsylvania Law fails Victims
Current Pennsylvania law allows child victims of sexual crimes to pursue criminal charges against their abusers until the victims reach age 50. Victims can file civil lawsuits only until they reach age 30. That law fails many people who, through shame and other personal reasons, don't readily reach a point where they are ready to sue their perpetrators. Many of the victims of pedophile priest George Epoch, for example, didn't sue the church until the man was dead, decades after he had abused them.
A bill before the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives would eliminate the time limit for prosecutions and move the lawsuit ceiling to age 50. A Pennsylvania state lawmaker who survived abuse himself also wants to give a temporary grace period to victims whose time limit to sue has already passed.
Similar bills have sat unsupported in the legislature in recent years, but House Majority Leader Dave Reed said last week that he wants to schedule this one for a vote in fall 2018. Mr. Reed said in a web site statement: "The actions revealed through the grand jury report are heinous and shameful. (With) the timeliness of this report and its findings, the statute of limitations bill (is) primed for discussion in the House."
The bill (SB 261) has sat in the House since last year after the Senate passed it unanimously.
Grand jury says lift prosecution limits
The grand jury report said last month that internal documents from six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania showed that more than 300 "predator priests" were credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 children since the 1940s.
Pennsylvania may change Priest Abuse Lawsuit Law
The grand jury recommended the state eliminate the statute of limitations for prosecutions. Members noted that "no piece of legislation can predict the point at which a victim of child sex abuse will find the strength to come forward."
As it now stands, people for whom a statute of limitations has expired before any new law extends the window are generally out of luck.
A U.S. Supreme Court precedent constricts any extension of criminal liability after a case's statute limit expires, said Marci Hamilton, a University of Pennsylvania professor and CEO of think tank focused on ending child abuse and neglect Child USA. That means that even if the Pennsylvania bill passed, a child victim age 51 or older when it became law would not be able to seek criminal charges.
Pennsylvania limits for prosecuting child sex abuse cases used to be five years for prosecution and two years for civil suits. They increased in the 1990s, and again in the 2000s, eventually settling on 50 and 30.
The grand jury wrote that even those grace-period changes prevent many of the hundreds of victims detailed in the report from suing.
Lawmaker who survived abuse wants broader limits
Pennsylvania state Rep. Mark Rozzi has publicly shared his own personal account of being abused by a Catholic priest as an eighth-grader.
Mr. Rozzi wants to amend the Senate bill to provide a two-year window which would start whenever the new law would take effect. In that time, any child sex abuse victim could sue an abuser, no matter how long ago the crime occurred.
The retroactive window for civil lawsuits "is the only avenue for these victims who are in the grand jury report" to get justice, said Mr. Rozzi to reporters.
In 2016, Mr. Rozzi gave the Pennsylvania House an emotional account of his rape by a priest in a rectory shower when he was 13 years old. That story helped trigger the bill which the House unanimously passed, but which the Senate then defeated. The grand jury report says Graff died in a Texas jail in November 2002 while awaiting trial on suspicion of sexually abusing a boy.
Mr. Rozzi first told his story in 2009 after a second childhood friend of his killed himself. Both friends had also been abused by Graff, said Rozzi, a democrat. He believes he has support in the House for his measure this year, but both chambers are controlled by Republicans.
Mr. Rossi vowed: "Expect that sometime in September, we will move a bill out of the House that has a retroactive window" for civil lawsuits.
Grand jury also recommends retroactive civil window
The grand jury also recommended a two-year civil lawsuit window to allow child victims whose statutes of limitations have expired to sue, the same measure which Mr. Rozzi proposes.
Pennsylvania Priest Abuse Lawsuit
Abuse by Clergy Lawsuit
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Catholic Church pays $1 Million to settle Sex Abuse Claims
Catholic Church updates Canon Law to cover Sex Abuse of Adults June 1, 2021
Two brothers allege sex abuse by Rev. Michael Pfleger January 28, 2021
Catholic Priest sues Vatican as McCarrick Scandal Grows January 12, 2021
More than 230 NJ Sex Abuse Suits filed against Catholic Church December 9, 2020
New Mexico Priests, Nuns accused of abusing orphans November 6, 2020
Cardinal McCarrick Scandal Haunts Catholic Church Hierarchy October 26, 2020
Anti-Pornography Crusading Priest named in Sex Abuse Lawsuits July 30, 2020
The Roman Catholic Church received Billions in Taxpayer Funded Coronavirus Aid July 20, 2020
Child Sex Abuse Survivors urged to Share their Stories July 10, 2020


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Do you like muffins?
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not worth the calories.
if i'm gonna eat 700 calories and gain weight, it's gonna be with something tastier. like a slice of pizza.
flour + sugar + fat = gross
I like muffins but I don't eat em because they are a waste of calories. Also poppy seed is best in the case of having no alternative breakfast food.
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Anyone got any dank pork chop recipes?
I got some nice chops waiting for me at home.
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Badass one from Ramsay here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKATWmOiRTw
why do all his youtube cooking videos look like they were recorded using a potato?
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What's your favorite bread?
Mine is baguette and I'm not even French though.
General bread thread!
Sourdough Boule.
Its a bread, or it's a bowl. take your pick. Great with any creamy soup.
i stopped browsing /ck/ for quite a while. Is this a meme?
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I bought two boxes of this because I was in a rush and thought it was coconut sugar, what can I make with it?
get coconut sugar, coconut milk and make coconut cookies
Look up vegan recipes. They use a lot of coconut and almond flour
replace parts of wheat flour with it in sweet applications
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So my favorite foods are pancakes and waffles. Current bid for the best pancake I've made was just invented as I was making them
1/2 sugar
1 or 2 TB baking powder (haven't figured out which is better)
2 Eggs separated
1 TB Butter
A decently sized pinch of salt
A Dash of Vanilla
Combine solids and liquids in separate bowl
Butter should be actual sticks of butter not margarine or any of the likings, cream sugar and butter together
Whip egg whites until stiff peaks form for thicker pancakes
Combine liquids...
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OP here
If you have any idea of how to tweak my recipe please let me know
That sounds pretty great. Never used salt or vanilla in them before, I'll try that.
All I can add is that I was cutting out milk once and subbed the milk for coconut milk and butter for olive oil and it was still pretty edible, so if you can't into dairy, there's that.
I'd also strongly recommend you sift your flour (shake it through a sieve to break up any lumps).
What do you put on your pancakes OP? I like lemon juice and sugar. Reminds me of being a kid on pancake day. It was a weird feeling when I'd lived away from my parents...
I just cooked up and ate some lemon, American-style pancakes. I usually make them with bicarb and something acidic for lift.
Today, however, I forgot to add the bicarb and acid (lemon juice, in this case) until after the batter was already mixed so I stirred in the bicarb then added and stirred in the lemon juice at the end.
Know what?
Fluffiest pancakes I've ever made. I'm guessing it's because adding the bicarb and acid just before cooking makes the rising action less weak, resulting in a higher, fluffier pancake.
As for recipes... well......
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>no marbling
>expensive af
I don't understand this meme. I'd rather eat a NY strip any day of the week. Do people honestly thing it tastes better?
Filet mignon is known for being very tender rather than being particularly flavorful.
You forgot
>raw
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What kitchen knives do you use /ck/?
Do you hone your knives with a steel/ceramic rod?
Do you actually sharpen your knives? How?
I just use this. I also use a buck diamond sharpening rod that I got on sale for 15 bucks.
I've got a 10" mundial. Cheaper than most current top of the line knives but works the same, also has a straight blade which I prefer to the modern curved one
I sharpen with three stones; 400, 2000, and 6000 grit respectively and my knives are pretty sharp. Don't have a honing rod but am unsure if i need one as my edges are sharp and hold up for quite a while
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Still using my G2 almost every day.
Work supplies restaurant supply tier knives that I don't really like and which still occasionally give me new blisters, but they get sent out every week to get sharpened, so they're alright.
How can you get a good slicing edge with such a high grit? I usually sharpen with a 1000 and a 3000 stone, and I have the feeling that it is harder to slice when I use the 3000 grit
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Hey /ck/, are there any good vegan bottled water brands? Seems like they're all either filtered with activated charcoal or produced with slave labor.
>babby's first trollan attempt
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What you like to put in coleslaw and what dressing?
I just moved to a cooler region where vegetables grow very well.
I have a good supply of cheap and fresh cabbage, lettuce, kale, apples, carrots, beans, radishes, onions etc.
As I'm trying to live cheap until I'm settled I was thinking I could eat it or variations on it for the fibre and nutrients to counter the dense and stodgy low priced meat and root vegetables that I have also found here.
only problem is how do I keep it interesting and how do I make it last to cut down on preparation time?
Make cabbage stir fry instead
Brussel sprouts are good in slaw. I do half head of red cabbage and equal amount of brussel sprouts. Dressing is only mayo, sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper
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My base dressing:
3 TBS apple cider vinegar
2 TBS oil (sun flower or whatever you have)
1.5 TBS sweetener (honey, white sugar, brown sugar, whatever)
1 TSP each of: salt, pepper, mustard, celery seed
Use this ratio to make as much as you need.
Tweak the recipe by using a variety of different vinegar and sweetness combo's. Add some heat with either cayenne or chili pepper. Add some sweet with apple slices or sliced grapes. Cut back on the sweet and add some ginger. Add some almonds,...
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welcome to Henry's Kitchen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIaUm-Go0k
fuck off henry, you're worse than jakc.
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What's your favorite kind of ramen?
Tonkotsu forever.
miso's better you weeb faggot
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>Miso
Wow. Look at this hipster
Good taste OP, I love Tonkotsu Ramen including Katsu.
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see >>7396615
and delete this you autismal fuck
I like them both but B&Js has better flavor selection.
That said I just buy which one is on sale, don't really care that much.
Ice cream tastes good, therefore it is for fat people and children and no self-respecting, fedora-wearing patrician adult would ever be caught dead eating it.
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So I've got this little jar of red curry, and a can of coconut milk.
Do I mix the curry in with the milk and then cook the chicken in the sauce, or is it better to cook the chicken on the side? Or am I just way off?
Cook the paste in a little oil and then add the liquid. There's a few ways to go about cooking the chicken. You can sautee it after the paste, sautee it separately and add it later, cook it and then remove to prevent it from overcooking or just cook it in the liquid.
I would probably cook it, remove it and add it later.
There's no problem with coconut milk boiling, is there?
MIchelin chef 2016-02-22 11:19:23 Post No.7403007
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so what does it take to be a michelin chef?
cooking skills, language skills and others?
You need to be able to speak and cook French cuisine
spend 25 years under another Michelin chef.
not op but, how do you get the opportunity to work under a Michelin chef
Buttermilk crispy cookin'. 2016-02-22 05:35:24 Post No.7402476
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Buttermilk crispy cookin'. Anonymous 2016-02-22 05:35:24 Post No. 7402476 [Report] [View thread]
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If that's the one from McDonald's, you will be sorely disappointed, op
I like a good chicken sandwich as much as the next guy, and was excited to pick one up a short while back. It was like 90% bun to 5% chicken to 5% toppings ratio
The chicken was very slim, and had way too much breading on top of that.
If you're looking for a decent chicken sandwich you can get just about anywhere, the spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy's is actually pretty solid
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to much mayo.
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Барашівська сільська рада — колишня адміністративно-територіальна одиниця та орган місцевого самоврядування у Левківському, Троянівському, Житомирському районах та Житомирській міській раді Волинської округи, Київської та Житомирської областей УРСР з адміністративним центром у с. Барашівка.

Населені пункти
Сільській раді на момент ліквідації були підпорядковані населені пункти:
 с. Барашівка
 с. Іванівка
 х. Давидівка

Населення
Кількість населення ради, станом на 1923 рік, становила 959 осіб, кількість дворів — 188.

Історія та адміністративний устрій
Утворена 1923 року в селі Барашівка Левківської волості Житомирського повіту. 7 березня 1923 року увійшла до складу новоствореного Левківського району Житомирської округи. 21 серпня 1924 року, відповідно до постанови ВУЦВК «Про зміни в адміністративно-територіальному поділі Волині», сільську раду було передано до складу Троянівського району. 28 вересня 1925 року, відповідно до наказу Волинського ОВК «Про зміни в адміністративно-територіальному поділі Волинської округи», до складу ради включено с. Давидівка Богунської сільської ради Троянівського району. 15 вересня 1930 року, відповідно до постанови ВУЦВК та РНК Української РСР від 2 вересня 1930 року «Про ліквідацію округ та перехід на двоступеневу систему управління», рада увійшла до складу приміської зони Житомирської міської ради.

14 травня 1939 року, відповідно до указу Президії Верховної ради УРСР «Про утворення Житомирського сільського району Житомирської області», сільраду було включено до складу новоствореного Житомирського району.

Станом на 1 вересня 1946 року, відповідно до інформації довідника «Українська РСР. Адміністративно-територіальний поділ», на обліку в раді перебували с. Барашівка та х. Давидівка.

11 серпня 1954 року, відповідно до указу Президії Верховної ради УРСР «Про укрупнення сільських рад по Житомирській області», до складу ради було передане с. Іванівка ліквідованої Іванівської сільської ради Житомирського району.

12 травня 1958 року до складу ради було включене с. Кам'янка ліквідованої Кам'янської сільської ради. Одночасно адміністративний центр ради було перенесено до с. Іванівка з перейменуванням ради на Іванівську.

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Держави і території, засновані 1923
Держави і території, зникли 1958
Колишні сільські ради Троянівського району

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Dial B for Brexit – The Government's Conference Call with Big Business, and the Brexit Endgame
Shortly after Parliament voted down Theresa May's Brexit deal by a record margin, three Cabinet ministers spent about an hour on a conference call with executives from major UK businesses. The call was transcribed, and it offers a good insight into the relationship between business and government, and what this means for the Brexit endgame.
The House of Commons voted on the EU Withdrawal Agreement shortly after 7.30pm on the evening of 15 January. The government motion to approve the Agreement was defeated, as everyone knows, by the historically unprecedented margin of 230 votes.
After the vote, three senior Cabinet ministers went straight back to Whitehall where, at 9.30pm, they held a conference call with around 330 executives representing businesses with major operations in the UK.
Inevitably, given the number of people involved, someone recorded the call and leaked a transcript to the press – in this case to the Daily Telegraph, which promptly published the text on its website (here, sheltering behind its paywall).
Aside from the pleasure of feeling like an eavesdropper at the Davos conference, reading the transcript offers a genuine insight into the relationship between government and big business, and the likely next steps in the ongoing Brexit saga.
The Conference Call
The three Cabinet ministers involved in the call were Philip Hammond (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Greg Clark (Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), and Stephen Barclay (Secretary of State for Exiting the EU).
The call lasted for a little under an hour. Mostly the ministers did the talking. But eleven of the business leaders – including the senior UK executives of Amazon, BP and Siemens – spoke to ask a question or make a statement.
Five key things emerged from the call.
1. Business can live with Brexit, so long as it changes nothing
Philip Hammond: Our purpose in the next few days is to reflect all the things you have told us. First, that we can't have no deal…Secondly, we need to achieve a deal that allows us at least as close a trading relationship with the rest of the EU as in the Agreement that has been negotiated…The third is that we need to come to a conclusion quickly. This can't go on much longer.
Roughly translated this means that business can live with Brexit perfectly well, so long as nothing much actually changes as a result of leaving the EU. Moreover, the government has absorbed this lesson and made it central to its agenda.
The government's aim is to deliver for business an outcome in which the post-Brexit world looks very much like the pre-Brexit world. This, as the call makes clear, is both the underlying purpose of the Withdrawal Agreement and the intent behind what is about to happen next.
I wrote in my critique of the Withdrawal Agreement (here) how, in spite of its many and serious flaws, it attracted the support of big business because it at least provided a form of short/medium-term continuity.
The conference call suggests that business regards this as an axiomatic and sufficient reason to support the Agreement, and is baffled that anyone could take a different view. Hence as Jürgen Maier of Siemens put it: '…we are very much behind the Withdrawal Agreement, [and] can't for the life of us understand why [it] got such a heavy defeat.'
2. Government and business are in joint enterprise
Greg Clark: Perhaps I can start by saying to everyone on the line thank you for all the evidence and work you have done [sic], especially contacting local MPs over the last few weeks…I am sure it is frustrating that not everyone has changed their minds accordingly, but I don't think that is wasted…in the days ahead your needs and the way you have communicated them will be influential.
It would be surprising, in fact disconcerting, if the government did not liaise closely with major UK businesses, keep them informed of developments, listen to their concerns, and accommodate their needs to the extent that they were consistent with public policy.
Even so – and making all allowance for the solicitous tone that government ministers are expected to adopt towards big business on a call of this nature – the most striking feature of the call is the prevailing sense that the ministers involved considered themselves to be engaged in a joint enterprise with business to deliver a certain version of Brexit.
As the call made clear, this includes senior members of the Conservative Party recruiting business in a lobbying operation against their own backbench MPs, in the hope that this will achieve a result more effective than the failing Tory Whip's Office.
As to the desired outcome, Clark was blunt: 'Some Members of Parliament want to go even further [than the current deal] in terms of a closer relationship [with the EU]. Our job is to crystallise that and make it happen.'
Those who voted for Brexit in protest against finding themselves losers in the globalised economy may note, ruefully, that this is how the world really works.
3. Plan A is Plan B
Philip Hammond: We are short of time, and we have to be clear that pursuing what we call unicorns – ideas that would involve fundamental renegotiation of the deal we have done with the EU – is not going to work. The Withdrawal Agreement will need to remain in place, but there is flexibility to look at the terms of the Political Declaration on the future relationship.
The Withdrawal Agreement is not going to change. The idea that it could still be changed is talked about within government as a kind of joke. A creature of fantasy. A 'unicorn'.
What can still be changed, however, is the Political Declaration – the non-legally binding statement of aspirations towards a future trade deal which was cobbled together at the last minute and published as a joint package with the Agreement.
Hammond makes clear that the government's strategy is not to abandon its deal with the EU, regardless of the scale of its defeat in the House of Commons, but to present it again to Parliament, together with an enhanced version of the Declaration.
Plan B, in other words, is Plan A, reheated, with a little garnish.
As to what the changes to the Political Declaration would look like, Hammond said: 'The government has already indicated that it is willing to accept amendments tabled by Labour members on workers' rights and environmental protections.'
What this means is that the Tories had more or less given up on bringing round enough of their own backbenchers to support the deal, and were hoping to gain Labour support by including some words in the Declaration reflecting the special interests of the Labour Party. None of this would be legally effective, of course – the Declaration is just a wish list for negotiations – but it might be sufficient to swing votes towards the Agreement and the Declaration as a package.
As if to prove the truth that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, this strategy collapsed within 48 hours, when it was undermined by the refusal of Jeremy Corbyn to participate in cross-party talks.
Following this, the government tacked back in the opposite direction. It has reverted to trying to do something (anything) about the 'backstop' provisions of the Agreement. The hope is that this could yet bring enough recalcitrant Tory and Unionist MPs back into the fold and get the deal over the line.
There are many things wrong with the Agreement other than the backstop, but criticism from the Tory and DUP side has largely now devolved to a focus on this single issue, and the political calculation (probably correct) is that if only something could be done about it there would be a large number of MPs willing to reverse course and support the deal.
The problem with this is that Hammond made clear on the call that nothing of substance will change: 'very clearly, removing the Irish backstop arrangements cannot be negotiated'. The only question therefore is whether the government can find a fig leaf large enough to cover the embarrassment of MPs who, in spite of this incontrovertible fact, now wish to change their minds and support the deal.
4. There is high level support in Cabinet for 'taking no-deal off the table'
Philip Hammond: If you remove an option from the table, that has consequences. But in a sense, this is not a decision for us to take. Backbenchers have tabled a draft bill and are taking this forward…The point here is not dependent on the government's acquiescence in any way. This will be something the House of Commons determines.
Above all, what big business wants is to ensure that Brexit will not occur on a disruptive no-deal basis. The no-deal scenario dominated the conference call. 'Is there anything you can do' asked Doug Gurr of Amazon UK, 'that would enable us to give any comfort to our global board that no deal can be ruled out?'
Since Parliament passed legislation empowering the government to issue the Article 50 notice, and the government exercised that power to set the clock ticking inexorably towards departure, leaving the EU without a deal is now the default position.
To take no-deal 'off the table' means: (i) in the short term, extending the Article 50 notice period by agreement with the EU; or (ii) more permanently, withdrawing the existing Article 50 notice. The government's position at the present time is that it will do neither.
Unless the government changes its mind, Parliament can only guarantee that the UK will avoid a no-deal outcome by further legislating to negate the discretion previously given to the executive and require it to change course.
However, this runs into the problem that control over legislative business lies with the executive. Historically, it has been difficult for ordinary backbench MPs to get sufficient Parliamentary time for their own Bills without government support. And this is not just a matter of convention; government control over the business of Parliament is codified in the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
Ruling out a no-deal scenario therefore requires two moves. First, backbench MPs must find a way of getting enough Parliamentary time for a debate and vote on legislation that forces the government to extend or withdraw the Article 50 notice. Second, they must find a form of legislation capable of winning that vote in a full House of Commons.
At the time of writing there are several procedural and legislative devices being used by a group of backbench MPs towards this end, to be debated in a session of the Commons on 29 January. But both of these steps, and particularly the first, are difficult to achieve.
However, the MPs pursuing this agenda have two advantages. The first is the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, who has demonstrated that he does not feel bound by precedent and is unafraid of procedural innovation. It seems likely that he is also personally sympathetic to the cause of those MPs. The second is the existence of high level support within Cabinet.
On the conference call, Hammond mentioned these backbench initiatives no fewer than seven times. On each occasion he paused to emphasise that they were moves being made by parliamentarians and not government. Some might conclude that this was protesting too much. But the real giveaway was his statement that backbench legislation was 'not dependent on the government's acquiescence'.
In fact, as the rules stand, it is entirely dependent on the government's acquiescence. But Hammond plainly knows, or wants to know, differently.
Those pursuing the legislation that will rule out a no-deal scenario clearly have a key ally in the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This may yet play to their advantage.
5. No-Brexit is not 'off the table'
Stephen Barclay: It is often mooted that a second referendum is a way of ending the uncertainty. It would actually lead to a significant period of further uncertainty. Of course one cannot guarantee the result of that referendum either. One could have a prolonged period of uncertainty followed by a result not dissimilar to the first result.
There is not the faintest echo here of the government's official position – the manifesto commitment of both main parties at the 2017 general election – that the outcome of the Brexit referendum ought to be honoured as a matter of principle.
Instead, Barclay's stance is one of pure pragmatism. A second referendum would be bad for business because it would take so long to organise, and who even could be sure that it would go the 'right' way the second time round? Better to pursue a Brexit deal which has no real adverse effect on business than to run these risks.
The importance of this relates to the mechanisms being proposed to avoid no-deal. If the Article 50 notice is withdrawn – ultimately the only way to truly rule out a no-deal Brexit – no-one should suppose it will ever be re-issued without a second referendum.
This, for many backbenchers who are pursuing this outcome, is the point. They explicitly support remaining in the EU. The chimera of no-deal is being used to leverage a situation in which not only is leaving without a deal blocked, but a path to blocking Brexit in its entirety can be seen. If the Article 50 notice were withdrawn, all of Barclay's objections to a second referendum fall away, and it is inevitable that there will be one.
The Brexit Endgame
Two months from the scheduled date of Brexit, the choices simply come down to this – the Deal, No-Deal, or No-Brexit.
The Deal, in the form of the Withdrawal Agreement, was meant to be business-friendly, as far as that was possible consistent with leaving the single market and so addressing Theresa May's immigration-fixation. But it was so poorly constructed as to be polarising. It pushed many MPs away from the centre and towards positions at opposing ends of the spectrum.
And yet May persists with the same strategy. The closer we get to Exit Day, the more she expects that MPs will gravitate back towards her Agreement for fear of the alternatives. However bad it may be, No-Dealers will be grateful it is not No-Brexit, and those who seek No-Brexit will at least prefer it to No-Deal.
A few tweaks to the Political Declaration are all that is needed to provide sufficient cover for MPs who, having made their point first time round, now want to move back into the more comfortable centre ground.
This is essentially the strategy as told to big business on the conference call on the very evening of the government's defeat.
Given the high stakes involved, this amounts to a remarkable game of chicken, and more or less as desperate a piece of political calculation as one can imagine. For a government that so often appears at the mercy of events rather than in control of them, it runs the risk of a whole series of unintended, undesired and avoidable consequences. A few basic missteps could easily lead to the disruption of a no-deal Brexit or the toxicity of a second referendum.
Some senior ministers are committed to working with backbench MPs to remove the first (but not the second) of these outcomes from the agenda, taking little care to disguise the splits within Cabinet or their party. There are so many ways in which that could go awry.
Even so, who's to say that May's gamble will turn out to have been wrong in the end? For all its faults, and despite its heavy Parliamentary defeat, the Withdrawal Agreement is still the outcome backed by most businesses. For that reason alone, it is far from finished.
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A los cuatro vientos o Lauaxeta, a los cuatro vientos és una pel·lícula espanyola de caràcter bèl·lic i històric patrocinada pel Govern Basc estrenada l'abril del 1987, coincidint amb el 50è aniversari del bombardeig de Guernica. Fou dirigida per José Antonio Zorrilla. A l'estrena foren convidades les primeres autoritats del País Basc i un centenar de representants de ciutats màrtirs d'arreu del món.

Història
Narra els darrers anys de la vida d'Esteban Urkiaga Basaraz, poeta basc conegut com a "Lauaxeta" i amic de Federico García Lorca. Durant la guerra civil espanyola fou comandant de l'Eusko Gudarostea, fou capturat per les tropes franquistes mentre investigava el bombardeig de Guernica per la Legió Còndor el 1937 i afusellat.

Repartiment
 Xabier Elorriaga - Esteban Urkiaga
 Anne-Louise Lambert- Georgina
 Jean-Claude Bouillaud - Monnier
 Ramon Agirre - José Antonio Aguirre

Pressupost
Produïda per Igeldo Z. P., la productora del cineasta basc Ángel Amigo, va comptar amb un pressupost de més de 170 milions de pessetes i ha pogut realitzar-se gràcies a una subvenció de 70 milions del Ministeri de Cultura d'Espanya i 65 milions més del Govern basc. Fins al moment de l'estrena fou la pel·lícula més cara de la història del País Basc, però tanmateix fou un fracàs de taquilla i va rebre crítiques molt dures.

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Enllaços externs
 A los cuatro vientos a IMDb

Pel·lícules d'Espanya del 1987
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Barnes & Noble Sees Bright Future in Digital
Barnes & Noble sees it sales of e-books rising from about $250 million in 2010 to over $2 billion in 2015, according to a presentation made by CEO William Lynch at Liberty Media's investor meeting Thursday. While e-book sales are expected to skyrocket, sales of print books through B&N are expected to fall from about $3.6 billion in 2010 to about $2.8 billion in 2015, Lynch reported.
Despite the decline in print sales by 2015, B&N sees its share of the print book market growing over the years from an estimated 17% in 2010 to 20% in 2015 due in part to the closure of Borders and what it believes will be the decision by large chain stores that currently sell books as a sideline to abandon the business. As the company said in September when it reported first quarter results for fiscal 2012, it expects the demise of Borders to boost store sales between $300 million to $400 million on an annual basis. Based on industry forecasts, B&N sees the overall print book business falling from an estimated $21 billion in 2010 to $14 billion in 2015, while e-book sales rise to $7 billion from $1 billion.
B&N's growth won't come from just sales of e-books, however, but from gains across the digital spectrum. It anticipates that in fiscal 2012 it will sell $1.8 billion in Nook devices and content (e-books, magazines, apps and PubIt! services) compared to $880 million in fiscal 2011. It put its share of the digital newsstand business at about 30%, and Lynch reiterated what he said in September that PubIt! is B&N's fastest-growing digital business.
He also once again stressed the importance of using Nook displays in its stores as a competitive advantage in selling digital devices and content as well as its 35,000 booksellers. With Borders gone, Lynch noted is the only national bookstore chain remaining for developers, leading to favorable deals. Lynch also repeated B&N's strategy of expanding in the educational toys and games business.
For its part, Libery laid out some of the reasons it made its $204 million investment in B&N earlier this year during the investor meeting. It too cited B&N as being the only national bookseller that operates profitable stores with short-term leases and with a good chance to profit from the liquidation of Borders. The physical stores will drive sales of digital goods, Libery said, and noted that it believes B&N is "cracking the code of e-book service, e-reader and low-end tablet market."
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August 4, 2011 by Snow Wildsmith
Review: Freshman: Tales of 9th Grade Obsessions, Revelations, and Other Nonsense
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Ah, freshman year: the beginning of high school, the most wonderful years of your life.
WHATEVER. Annie and her friends are beginning to suspect that getting older and heading to high school may not be all it's cracked up to be. Are they ready for a year of shifting friendships, stubborn lockers, first crushes, team sports, drama geeks, drunken parties, and school dances? Probably not, but it's here anyway.
Freshman: Tales of 9th Grade Obsessions, Revelations, and Other Nonsense
By Corinne Mucha
Ages 14-18, Grades 9-12
Zest Books, July 2011, ISBN 978-0-9819733-6-4
112 pages, $12.99
Zest Books obviously did some thinking before deciding what their first graphic novel should be and that thought resulted in this very funny, very real title that fits perfectly in with their "tell it like it is" publishing philosophy. Mucha's loose, comic strip inspired style perfectly renders short, snarky stories that paint a true picture of the bizarre world of high school. From the major dramas of friendship and love to the minor ones of schoolwork and clubs, Mucha brings to life the pain and the joy of freshman year. She writes with an immediacy that doesn't feel like an adult reminising about her teen years, but her tales will be familiar to both those in high school now and to those who have already been emancipated from those hallowed halls.
Taking a tip from popular kids' comics like Babymouse and Kit Feeny, Freshman is mostly black-and-white, but shaded in an olive green. When combined with Mucha's scratchy, purposefully cartoonish art, this plays up the humor aspects of the stories, keeping things light. Though 8th graders longing to be out of middle school will enjoy Mucha's work, the ideal readers are those currently suffering through the madness of their freshman year. They'll agree with her assessment of their plight and appreciate the glimpses of light at the end of the tunnel.
This review is based on a complimentary copy supplied by the publisher. All images copyright © Zest Books.
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Snow Wildsmith is a writer and former teen librarian. She has served on several committees for the American Library Association/Young Adult Library Services Association, including the 2010 Michael L. Printz Award Committee. She reviews graphic novels for Booklist, ICv2's Guide, No Flying No Tights, and Good Comics for Kids and also writes booktalks and creates recommended reading lists for Ebsco's NoveList database. Currently she is working on her first books, a nonfiction series for teens.
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Designing a custom industrial conveyor oven involves the careful consideration of multiple factors. You must determine not only the oven configuration and belt type that most closely fit your needs, but also the best material to use for the belt itself.
From metals to fabrics, a variety of materials can be used to manufacture belts for conveyor ovens, depending on the oven's purpose. Below, we examine seven of the most common materials used in conveyor oven belts, along with their applications.
Carbon steel belts offer many benefits for industrial ovens, including durability, precision tracking, and belt straightness and flatness.
Carbon steel belts are also very hygienic thanks to their easy-to-clean and abrasion-resistant surfaces. As such, they are a popular choice for industrial ovens used in all stages of baking and food processing, including heating, cooling, drying, and even product transportation.
However, carbon steels rusts and discolors more easily than stainless steel.
Stainless steel conveyor belts do not rust or corrode and need to be cleaned less frequently than belts made from other metals.
True to its name, stainless steel won't rust or corrode like other metals so it doesn't need to be cleaned often. This durability and corrosion resistance makes the material ideal for a large number of industries and applications, including plastic, lamination, wood, rubber, chemicals, and even food production.
Similar to stainless steel, stainless alloys don't rust or corrode. They also offer several other benefits, such as being less expensive and easier to machine than stainless steels.
Upon first consideration, rubber may seem like an unusual choice for an industrial conveyor oven belt since it can melt more easily than some of the other materials on this list. However, if rubber is treated properly it can withstand temperatures up to 450° F, making it an excellent choice for applications such as food production.
Like rubber, plastic may also seem like a surprising selection for a conveyor oven belt, but this material works well for cooling chambers and other low-heat applications. Plastic is also a very cost-effective material since it lasts a long time and requires minimal maintenance.
Plastic conveyor oven belts are usually made of sections that are linked together, making it easy to remove and replace damaged modules, further reducing costs.
Polypropylene is a specific type of thermoplastic polymer that is known for its wide range of applications.
When it comes to industrial ovens, polypropylene offers many of the same advantages as other types of plastic belts with several added benefits. In addition to being lightweight, sturdy, and flexible, polypropylene also resists water, mold, abrasion, chemicals, and corrosion, making it a very versatile material for conveyor oven belts.
Conveyor belts made of fabric coated with Teflon are both non-stick and heat-resistant.
Fabric can also be used to create conveyor oven belts as long as it is coated with Teflon to make it non-stick and heat-resistant. In compliance with FDA rules, these types of belts are often used in industrial ovens designed for baking or drying applications in food production.
Solid conveyor oven belts are also made using woven PVC material. Somewhat like the rubber belts mentioned above, conveyor belts made from PVC are treated with chemicals to make them fire-resistant and thus suitable for industrial ovens. As with rubber belts, drying and baking are also common uses for PVC conveyor oven belts.
The material used to manufacture a conveyor oven belt is just one factor you must consider when choosing an industrial oven, but it's an important one. Each material has its own advantages and limitations, as well as a particular range of applications it is best suited for.
Custom building an industrial oven gives you control over not only the conveyor belt material but also a whole host of other choices, allowing you to design the oven to fit all your production needs.
With over 100 years of combined experience in designing and manufacturing conveyor ovens, Davron Technologies can advise you on all steps involved in building your own custom industrial oven. If you'd like to learn more about this process or simply have questions about choosing the right material for your conveyor oven belt, please contact us.


Pawing the Ground After Peeing/Pooping?
I just need to know if anyone else's pug does this: Tallulah aggressively paws the ground with both her front and back paws after peeing or pooping - she really digs up the ground; she can spray dirt and grass (and worse) up to 5 or 6 feet! One neighbor put a little fence around an area of her yard near the curb where T has left a patch completely bare. I try hard to pull her away if she does this anyplace but off the beaten path but she is bound and determined to dig. Anybody else experience this and if so is there any way to curb it?
Re: Pawing the Ground After Peeing/Pooping?
It's called thatching and most dogs do it as do most canids in the wild. It's done to spread their scent around. All my dogs do it.
Yep, scent. My experience has been that the sassier the dog, the more they kick. Marlee is a champion.
SacramentoPugs wrote: Yep, scent. My experience has been that the sassier the dog, the more they kick. Marlee is a champion.
Marlee kills me! How'd you get such a diva?
Yep, Blanche and DeeDee are right. My girl pug does this, and when Ichiro is acting tough, he does it too.
Yup! I have seen many a pug and other dogs do it. The nice soft grass and dirt areas are their favorite places. Then when you come inside with them one has to wipe the paws and make sure all the dirt is out from under their nails. Which nearly every pug hates having done.
Here too, my yard is looking quite pathetic from Julian!! Not that it wasn't already from my lab!
Mine both do it, generally only with the back paws. Snifter makes a particular effort to kick the poop and if you are behind him and at the wrong angle it can be rather unpleasant.
Only my males have ever done it, Stewie started to then stopped now that I have a foster he is back at it again.
Snifter&Toddy wrote: Mine both do it, generally only with the back paws. Snifter makes a particular effort to kick the poop and if you are behind him and at the wrong angle it can be rather unpleasant.
Indy and Sophie both kick, and Sophie likes to kick poop-like immediately after she's done (can't waste a second!), so yes, if the angle is wrong, you can get hit.
Hooli, my lazy angel, still squats to pee and has no interest in kicking his scent around. That would be a waste of energy.
Just one more reason I love Hooli, his concise use of his resources.
Penny does it, too, and makes a funny little growl when she does it. Always has, and probably always will.
And I love Hooli - conservation of resources is his motto!
Wow - I never had a dog that did this...but of course I never had a pug before. Tallulah uses both front and back paws and is really aggressive when she "thatches" after a pee or poop- she generally snorts and chuffs while she does it and snaps her head assertively. And yes, I either have to be ready with my little baggie to grab the poop while she is still hunched..or wait until she has "thatched" (never heard this term before)and hope I can find it because it may have sailed off somewhere...and I have gotten pelted by flying poop when she does this and have learned to back off and stand to the side. Yikes! Well, the good thing is that this isn't just some aberrant behavior of Tallulah's - it is a relief to know other pugs do this too...but it doesn't sound like it's something I can break her of.
dianebarrybrazil wrote: - it is a relief to know other pugs do this too...but it doesn't sound like it's something I can break her of.
I always kinda laugh when my pugs do this, I know they are feeling good and assertive. Whenever Ichiro does it, not often, I always think he must be feeling manly at that moment, hehe!! I usually say something like, "Oh look at you Mr Tough Guy!". Pugs are so funny!
I have 2 that do it with gusto (Remi and Mickey ~tough guy competition) , Milo will when he wants to and Drago is to lazy to be bothered. It wasn't just the boys either , when Sissie was here, she did it to.
Louie always did and Chamuco learned from Louie. His first attempts were quite hilarious -- like he didn't quite have control of all his feet. Now he's not only good at it, he does it all the time -- he loves to do it on the mats we use outside the front and back door. Ulysses has now learned from Chamuco though he's not quite good at it yet. Watching him learn is very amusing.
Both of my boys did this (thatching) until they got older. I love it. I think it is hilarious. I actually miss it now that my remaining boy, Henry doesn't do it so much at 12 years old. Thatching is one of the many rituals that Pugs must complete while they are on their walks. The others being that all-over body shake they do, plus the circling round and round before they poop.
Several of ours (both male and female) do that. My Odie Gus Gus has it down to a science. He kicks LONG, SLOW strokes (holding his foot stretched out off the ground at the end of each stroke). He almost looks like a ballet dancer out there. He goes even LONGER and SLOWER if he is being watched! I'll try for a video someday.
Donna wrote: Only my males have ever done it, Stewie started to then stopped now that I have a foster he is back at it again.
Yup, Moose (our lab) still squats to pee when we let him out. But if we are babysitting another dog, or when we go for a walk and he sees another dog, he pees with his leg lifted as high as possible and he dows a lot of back-kicking afterwards. *LOL* Silly dog!


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Inspired by the late great Robin Williams as the incredible Genie of the Lamp in Aladdin, Three Wishes features lilac and blue blended together to really capture the magic that graced our screens in the early 90's. Robin Williams is nothing short of a legend, and so picking an iconic character for him was difficult - he played so many! We went for the Genie because we just couldn't resist the pull and allure of such wonderful childhood mag...ic. On that note, tell us, what would your three wishes be?
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Complicated Custody Case Raises Questions About Surrogacy :: Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Lawyers and Attorneys in Charlotte, North Carolina
Published on: February 26, 2013 | Matthew R. Arnold, Esq.
CNN recently discussed a tragic case involving a fight between biological parents who discovered the child their surrogate was carrying would have a serious health defect and the woman carrying the child. The couple wanted the woman to have an abortion, something the surrogate fought, saying she felt protective over the baby. So protective in fact that she fled to another state that does not recognize surrogacy laws and found an adoptive mother to raise the handicapped child. The parents, who, it turns out, used an egg donor and thus are not both biologically related to the child, filed suit to claim legal rights to the child.
This convoluted tale is not a law school hypothetical, but the real case involving a woman named Crystal Kelley from Connecticut. The case began when a Connecticut couple who already had three children of their own decided they wanted a fourth but discovered the wife would not be able to carry the child. They then selected Kelley as their surrogate and, after using an egg donor, implanted the embryo. Not long after that they learned that the fetus their surrogate was carrying had developmental disabilities. Doctors said the child had a cleft lip and palate, a brain cyst and heart defects. The baby would need to have multiple heart surgeries after birth and was given only a 25% chance of leading a normal life.
The couple, worried about the child's ultimate quality of life after having several premature children of their own, offered to pay the woman $10,000 to abort the baby. The woman, who initially claimed the procedure went against her religious beliefs, later admitted to demanding $15,000, but since says that was only in a moment of weakness. The couple refused the additional amount and launched a protracted campaign to enforce the surrogacy contract.
The original agreement the surrogate signed said specifically that she would agree to an abortion if the fetus had a severe abnormality. The woman said that she did not want to follow the agreement when confronted with the reality of what she would have to do. She then chose to leave Connecticut for Michigan where state laws disregard surrogacy contacts and where she would be deemed the child's legal guardian.
Since then Kelley has given birth to a child with even worse medical problems then were expected. The child's internal organs are in the wrong places, some don't function properly, her ear is misshapen, she has an abnormally small head and has a brain that failed to completely divide into two hemispheres.
Several weeks after the child's birth the couple reached an agreement with Kelley and agreed to give up their parental rights as long as they could maintain a relationship with the child. Kelley then handed the child over to the adoptive mother. The child is now alive and living in Michigan with her new family. She has multiple medical complications and has met her biological parents on at least one occasion.
The case is about more than what would happen to this particular child, but about who has the right to choose what happens to a surrogate child and even larger issues of life, death and abortion. As more and more couples turn to surrogacy to solve fertility issues, the case is important because it makes people confront the issue of what should happen if all three parties are not on the same page.
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Ihedioha made this known at a capacity building workshop organised by the National Association of Nigerian Traders for farmers and traders in Owerri. According to the governor-elect, 70 per cent of the youths who are unemployed need to be positively engaged, stressing that some of them had taken to certain vices as a result of hardship and unemployment.


I started watching the dot net show a while back, and I downloaded a few episodes particularly to look at the future of Windows as a platform. There was quite a bit of stuff about the likes of Avalon, and Indigo and suchlike, but there was also something very interesting about the new Microsoft shell. Known as "Monad", or MSH, this is pretty much Microsoft's version of BASH or KSH, but for Windows instead of UNIX. As someone pretty into UNIX because of its command line and the ability to do shell scripts and so forth, I was immediately interested. Might be a little bit on the late side, but its great that Microsoft is doing something like this. I was reassured by the people presenting the dot net show episode that Monad would be in Longhorn. However, like many other Microsoft promises, this one looks unlikely.
Rumors that Microsoft officially had cut Monad from Longhorn began circulating last week. When asked last week if Monad was still slated to be part of Longhorn, the Windows client team declined to comment. A representative with the Windows Server team said that Microsoft had not committed to a ship vehicle for Monad.
"We are changing the command line environment in Windows using a new object-oriented command line technology, code-named 'Monad,' that will exceed what has been delivered in Linux and Unix for many years," said Senior Vice President Bob Muglia in an interview. "It (Monad) will take three to five years to fully develop and deliver."
That timeframe of three to five years puts Monad outside the scope of the next version of Windows, scheduled to appear in 2007.


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Study suggests that the vitamins, such as E, C, and beta carotene, could raise bad form of cholesterol
The notion that antioxidant vitamins could provide a safe, convenient way to protect the heart from disease appears to have hit a pothole. Instead of protecting the heart, a new study suggests that the vitamins, such as E, C, and beta carotene, could raise the production by the liver of the so-called bad form of cholesterol, which transports cholesterol into the artery walls.
The study, led by New York University School of Medicine researcher Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, the Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Professor of Cell Biology, is published in the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
"It does appear that antioxidant vitamins may be potentially harmful for the heart based on their ability to increase the secretion of VLDL in the liver cells and in the mice that we studied," says Dr. Fisher, who directs the Lipid Treatment & Research Center at NYU Medical Center.
After its secretion from the liver, VLDL is converted in the bloodstream to low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the so-called bad form of cholesterol. The liver is the major source of atherosclerosis-causing lipoproteins.
"However, our study is the first to document this association between antioxidant vitamins and VLDL cholesterol, and more studies are needed to back up our findings," says Dr. Fisher, who is also Director of the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Research Program at NYU.
"Until more data becomes available, we can't make any recommendations about whether people should not use these vitamins," says Dr. Fisher.
Overall, antioxidants usually have been considered healthful. The vitamins scavenge "free radicals," which are highly reactive and damaging forms of oxygen produced by natural metabolic processes in the body and by external sources like the sun's UV rays, ozone, and toxins in pesticides, among other things. In the early 1990s, laboratory studies suggested that antioxidant vitamins prevented biochemical changes that made cholesterol form plaques that can block blood flow through the arteries. Although some subsequent clinical studies seemed to back up these findings, others did not.
The new study by Dr. Fisher and his colleagues provides a different perspective on antioxidants. Surprisingly, his group found that antioxidants hampered a process in the liver that prevents the production of harmful lipoproteins.
When cells are under "oxidative stress," free radicals produced by the normal conversion of polyunsaturated fatty acids to lipid peroxides bombard the cells. The scientists discovered that liver cells respond by activating a pathway that breaks down ApoB100, a critical protein component of VLDL and other harmful lipoproteins. Deprived of ApoB, the liver cannot now produce these bad lipoproteins and their secretion into the bloodstream is reduced substantially.
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In further experiments, vitamin E, a well-known antioxidant, prevented the activation of the lipoprotein-breakdown pathway in rat and mouse liver cells. Thus, the liver destroyed fewer of the bad lipoproteins.
The study also explains why polyunsaturated fatty acids, the good fatty acids found in cold water fish, are healthy for the heart. In another series of experiments, the scientists show that omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids activated the pathway in the liver that breaks down the bad lipoproteins. Dr. Fisher's group recently described this pathway, which they dubbed PERPP for post-ER presecretory proteolysis.
The scientists also found that the polyunsaturated fatty acids increased the generation of lipid peroxidation products (these compounds produce the nasty smell of rancid fish) and stimulated the PERPP pathway. In addition to the studies with liver cells in laboratory dishes, they also demonstrated the relationship between lipid peroxidation and reduced production of bad lipoproteins in living mice.
Dr. Fisher plans to conduct further experiments in mice to confirm these findings. Direct experimentation in people to explore the inner workings of the liver is difficult, says Dr. Fisher, "but there are already observational studies in normal people showing that a diet enriched in polyunsaturated fats increases blood levels of lipid peroxides and decreases levels of VLDL and LDL."
Antioxidants may still have beneficial affects on other parts of the body, says Dr. Fisher. The molecules, for example, have been shown in some animal studies to protect the arteries from atherosclerosis and the pancreas and other organs from damage caused by diabetes. "In other words, oxidant stress is damaging in some contexts, but probably beneficial in others," he says. "In terms of the risk of cardiovascular disease," he adds, "the previous view that all oxidant stress is bad is probably an oversimplification."
In an editorial accompanying the study titled "Hold the antioxidants and improve plasma lipids?," Ronald Krauss of Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California, writes, "Thus, although there is considerable evidence for the involvement of oxidative stress in many disease processes, including atherosclerosis, the potential for unintended outcomes of oxidant therapy should serve as a warning against proceeding with such treatment in the absence of clinical-trial evidence of benefit and safety."
The new study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the American Diabetes Association.
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