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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Recognizing people by the way they walk
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Recognizing people by the way they walk can have numerous applications in the fields of security, leisure or medicine. A new technique offers significant advantages as recognition can be done remotely and does not require the cooperation of the subject. Detecting suspicious behavior (video surveillance), access control to buildings or to restricted areas and demographic analysis of a population in terms of gender and age range are just some of the possible applications of this technology.
Empowering Yourself and Your Relationship Through Healthy Love ...
You meet someone you are excited about and initially seems to be a perfect fit. As you begin the courtship process, you find yourself in the beginning phases of love which Dr. Helen Fischer describes as lust. Your hormones dictate this physical desire for your mate. As you move into the second phase of attraction, you are truly love-struck and you can think of very little except that you have met Mr. or Mrs Right. Initially, everything in the relationship and your love interest seems perfect or ideal. This is a time when we are likely to obsess about our partners and cannot think of anything else. However with time, you may start to notice certain pet peeves with your partner and yet it is brushed off.
Why? For what reason. There can be several explanations. One explanation is that in the early phases of the relationship, our partners are exalted and we believe that our bond and relationship is closer and more special than anyone else?s. Consequently, we do not want to pop our perfect bubble of romantic bliss. In addition, our early childhood experiences that we experienced and observed in our family of origin have created unconscious templates that guide our behavior in our adult romantic relationships. Depending upon our early years of conditioning, if we assert ourselves and our boundaries, we may perceive ourselves or fear that we may be perceived by our partners as being bossy, controlling, high-maintenance, unaccommodating, judgmental, etc.
This can be especially true for women. They do not want to be perceived as a ?b$@%*?. We may also have lost our self-worth and sense of self growing up and believe that we do not deserve to have beliefs, feelings, needs or boundaries. As a result, we struggle with establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries because we have lost the innate power and wisdom to love ourselves.
As the relationship continues, you both settle into the relationship and you move into the last phase of love called attachment where we develop an emotional bond to our partners. Those ?pet peeves? that you brushed away have now become a big annoyance, frustration or irritation and they are really upsetting you. Now you are left thinking: What happened and where did it go wrong? The answer is simple: You did not assert and maintain your boundaries in love. How do we foster a relationship with others, if we do not nurture, honor and have a loving relationship with ourselves?
Instead of perceiving boundaries as a negative character trait, it is important for you to develop a healthy view of yourself and your relationship to boundaries. It is not about being a ?b#%*@?, having boundaries is about empowering, respecting and valuing yourself. It is also about emulating to the other person how it is that you would like to be treated. Setting your own personal boundaries is one of the most healthy behaviors you can engage in for yourself and your relationship.
If you lack setting boundaries in your relationship, you may find yourself making excuses for your partner?s behavior until it all becomes overwhelming and you decide to throw in the towel. You move on to the next relationship, yet somehow history seems to repeat itself. The patterns continue until you take responsibility for yourself, your well-being and loving yourself in a way that allows you to start setting clear boundaries for yourself and your romantic relationship.
Identifying where you lack boundaries requires honesty and a reflective look at past romantic partnerships to determine where the problems originated and continued from the past. This practice requires courage. As you empower yourself to take responsibility for your actions, happiness and relationships, you reclaim your personal power and can create the life and relationships that you want. This allows you to recognize and accept that YOU are responsible for your happiness. When you set and sustain your boundaries you surrender the need to make excuses for others and their unhealthy behaviors.
Sustaining boundaries creates balance in your relationship. When you neglect your boundaries you are doing harm to yourself because you are not respecting your personal value. This opens you up to doing things to keep the other person happy at the expense of your own happiness. What happens over time is that you lose your sense of self for the sake of the relationship. This is dangerous territory as you continue to compromise yourself for the survival or longevity of the relationship. When you have boundaries you give balance to your relationship allowing both parties to enjoy the relationship as you both get what you want from one another. A balanced relationship is healthy because both parties are honoring their own needs and getting their needs met and this exchange is reciprocal. A healthy relationship is one in which both partners give and receive love. Boundaries strengthen bonds in couples and create mutually satisfying relationships.
Source: OM Times
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SPORTS: Transfer players give Columbus Christian shot at winning season
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Madeline Hodek | The Republic Macy Wingham, left, and Kayleigh Reed stand by the Columbus Christian basketball court Friday, July 26. Reed and Wingham transferred to Columbus Christian from Columbus East and Columbus North respectively.
Columbus Christian hasn?t had a winning girls basketball season since reviving the program two years ago, but an influx of talent could give the Crusaders a big boost.
Macy Wingham has transferred from Columbus North, and Kayleigh Reed has transferred from Columbus East. The 5-foot junior guards will have immediate eligibility since Columbus Christian is not an IHSAA school.
?It?s really big,? Columbus Christian coach Ron Bridgewater said. ?We have most of the girls back from the last two seasons, and then to add two girls, it?s just going to raise the level of all of our players and our whole program. The next two years are going to be a lot of fun.?
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
New Boston Celtics' Assistant Coach to Have NBA D-League Role?
The Boston Celtics will add former Butler point guard Ronald Nored to their coaching staff as an assistant. Still just 23 years old, Nored is expected to have some sort of role with the Maine Red Claws as well.
The Boston Celtics turned plenty of heads when they tabbed Butler University coach Brad Stevens as Doc Rivers' successor.
Just a few weeks into his tenure, Coach Stevens has quickly been turning heads on his own while filling out his coaching staff.
According to a recent report, Stevens will add an unprecedented second 23 year old prodigy to his bench. Ronald Nored will reportedly join the Celtics in player development related role.
A former point guard for Stevens at Butler, Nored is also expected to have some sort of D-League related role with the Maine Red Claws, Boston's minor league affiliate.
Whether he'll obtain some sort of an official title with Maine, or whether it'll simply fall under his player development related role with the Celtics remains to be seen.
Player development coaches aren't always required to appear on their team's bench for each and every game, for what it's worth. The position sometimes entails traveling and/or mentoring players on and off the court. In the past, a bevy of NBA assistant coaches (whether they be player development ones or not) have been tasked with tagging along for certain NBA young guns' minor league assignments. Both the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets have assigned similar staffers to closely monitor the progress of their NBA assignees.
Could Nored be assigned such a task himself next season? This past year, Boston assigned the likes of Fab Melo and Kris Joseph to the Red Claws. It'd certainly be beneficial to send someone with guys like that to keep a closer eye on how they're progressing.
Just a year removed from playing NCAA basketball and still just 23 years of age, it wouldn't be a shock to see Nored also participating in scrimmages with the Celtics this year. After all, the Hawks' Kenny Atkinson is one of the most notorious assistants for doing so, and he keeps up while still being over 40.
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Twitter CEO Commits NCAA Violation
Having graduated from Michigan in 1985, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is a Wolverines booster as far as the NCAA is concerned. Thus, the tweet below ? directed in part at George Campbell, a Class of 2015 wide receiver who recently committed to UM ? is an NCAA violation.
@WiltonSpeight @GeorgeCampbell0 amazing! #goblue
? dick costolo (@dickc) July 29, 2013
According to NCAA rules, boosters are not allowed to ?contact a prospect by telephone, email, Internet or letter.? Costolo?s at-mention of Campbell falls under the third one.
Twitter?s CEO committing a recruiting violation on Twitter?? We have your ?This Week?s Sign of the Apocalypse is Upon Us? right here, Sports Illustrated.
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Source: http://www.lostlettermen.com/twitter-ceo-commits-ncaa-violation/
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Weiner vows to stay in New York mayoral race after campaign manager quits (Washington Post)
Northern Ireland struggles to heal deep fracture
By Sam Cage
BELFAST (Reuters) - When U.S. President Barack Obama visited Northern Ireland before the G8 summit in June, he hailed its extraordinary progress in the 15 years since a peace agreement to end three decades of what locals call "The Troubles".
On the other side of Belfast the next day, a petrol bomb thrown over a fence dividing Protestant from Catholic communities exploded next to a four-year-old girl playing in the street - just one example of sporadic violence still haunting the British province.
The region of 1.8 million people is striving to heal a sectarian divide that mapped onto a deadly political rift between "loyalists" supporting the union with Britain and "nationalists" seeking unification with the Republic of Ireland to the south.
With more than 3,500 people killed during 30 years of paramilitary violence, deep-rooted enmity between the communities still leads to outbreaks of unrest - the latest around Protestant street parades that take place every July.
"It's like an earthquake zone," said Naomi Long, a lawmaker in the London parliament and deputy leader of the non-sectarian Alliance Party. "You have these divided communities and they rub along against each other, and suddenly something erupts."
In Belfast, symbols of the divide are inescapable, from the British flags flying from loyalist houses and the "peace walls" that separate Protestant from Catholic areas, to the hundreds of murals on the homes of both communities, some depicting balaclava-clad gunmen. (http://www.belfast-murals.co.uk/slideshow.html)
Hailed by London and international policymakers as an example of conflict resolution and economic progress, Northern Ireland has made great strides since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. But with traditional heavy industry in decline, it remains an economic laggard.
While data does not break out total output for the province, several indicators show it trailing the rest of Britain. With 3 percent of the UK's population, Northern Ireland has its lowest labor productivity, slowest growth in disposable income and largest proportion of people with no qualifications, according to statistics office data.
The province gets about 10 billion pounds ($16 billion), half its total public sector spending, through an annual block grant from London. About a third of the population is employed in the public sector, the highest level in the UK.
Peace has brought more investment in areas such as technology, film making and tourism thanks to relatively low labor costs, though multinationals prefer Ireland, where corporation tax is 12.5 percent, versus 23 percent in the north.
That has helped bring unemployment down to 7.8 percent, about the UK average yet still close to a 15-year high.
"Peace is the obvious improvement - for the first time ever, we have a whole generation who didn't experience the Troubles," said Ann McGregor, head of Northern Ireland's Chamber of Commerce. "We still need to create more jobs."
The province still carries a psychological burden from its troubled history, too. It had the highest rate of post-traumatic stress among 30 countries surveyed by the University of Ulster, at 9 percent, and its health services pay twice as much per capita for antidepressants as they do in England.
TROUBLE ON THE MARCH
For decades the traditional Protestant marches in July have sparked violent clashes, as Catholics see them as provocation when they pass the areas where they live. The peace deal has not stopped this annual dose of bad publicity for the province.
This month, rioters with bare chests threw petrol bombs, bottles and fireworks at police, who responded with water cannon and rubber bullets, after authorities stopped Protestant marchers from following a traditional route in Belfast.
Most of the trouble was away from commercial areas, but images of riots still hurt business and tourism, which Northern Ireland has sought to boost with a 97 million pound museum at the shipyard that built the Titanic. Its second city Londonderry - nationalists scorn the 17th-century addition of the London prefix and know it as Derry - is also hoping for gains from its designation as the 2013 UK City of Culture, a scheme to generate social and economic benefits through the promotion of cultural events.
The business community focuses on the improvement since 1998, with Belfast's city center - once a dead zone - now thriving and the number of foreign investment projects jumping 41 percent in the last year. But it remains exasperated by the sporadic sectarian trouble.
"Is this going back to where we were? That's certainly not the case; these are isolated areas, but it is damaging," said Nigel Smyth, who heads the local branch of the CBI industry association. "A negative image is a negative image, and people relate that to Northern Ireland."
During weeks of violence early this year, hotels reported sharp drops in occupancy rates and retailers a 30 percent fall in sales. With marchers now gathering each Saturday on the edge of the nationalist Ardoyne area, butcher Mark Maguire reckons it is costing half his shop's weekly business.
"Saturday is our busiest day, and there's no one coming in at all," said Maguire, wearing matching apron and hat behind the meat counter. "We open up, but it all just dies away. I wish they'd stop."
(Additional reporting by Ian Graham; Editing by Will Waterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/northern-ireland-struggles-heal-deep-fracture-011814290.html
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Texas Monthly: Maybe Animals Just Need Quality Time With Friends
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Source: www.nytimes.com --- Saturday, July 27, 2013
At the International Exotic Animal Sanctuary near Fort Worth, a self-trained behaviorist is using a method known as emotional enrichment to improve the lives of animals in captivity. ? ? ? ? ...
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David Einhorn refers to Microsoft as sinking ship, dumps stake
David Einhorn,?president?of Greenlight Capital, a hedge fund company, has just withdrawn his stake from Microsoft and placed his bet with Apple instead. In a brutal bashing of the company, he stated that Microsoft is at risk of becoming a shrinking company. He further compared them to Yankee player Alex Rodriguez, with their products failing and their?value declining.
According to him;
Windows 8 appears to be a flop, and a decade of mismanagement has put Microsoft at risk of becoming a shrinking company. We were pleased when an activist gave the stock a boost, giving us the opportunity to exit with an annualized high single-digit return that slightly outpaced the market during our lengthy holding period.
Einhorn however, also invests in Apple and predicts that despite the falling share price, Apple will return to profitability soon and they will begin to make gains.
This is not the first time he's butted heads with Microsoft, in 2011 he called for Steve Ballmer's resignation claiming that Ballmer's leadership skills weren't exactly the best and stating that the stock would be worse for it.
It is however not stated how much he had actually invested in the company and how much profit he made.
Balancing out David Einhorn's loss however is ValueAct Capital who reportedly bought a state in Microsoft this week for $2 billion helping to increase confidence in the company.
Flip-flops like this are not uncommon?between Microsoft and?investors.
In the past year, Microsoft's stock has seen a lot of ups and downs with the?stock falling in late 2012 due to investor worries and rising after the?Microsoft reorganisation exercise.
Source: Business Insider?| Image: Greenlight Capiital
Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/david-einhorn-refers-to-microsoft-as-sinking-ship-dumps-stake
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Nunn Entering GA SEN Race; Guinta Gearing Up for NH-01 Rubber Match; Filner Sued by Ex-Comm. Dir
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WHAT'S NEWS
- Pres. Obama "will move forward with a plan" for the U.S. "to arm the struggling Syrian rebels" after some cong. concerns "were eased, officials said on Monday" (Reuters).
- Philanthropist Michelle Nunn (D) said Monday that she will run for GA SEN, though a formal announcement "will come Tuesday, when she files the official paperwork" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Nunn has retained Shorr Johnson Magnus for media and The Feldman Group for polling (Hotline reporting).
- The RGA "is poised to launch its first ads" in VA GOV '13 "starting Wednesday" (Politico).
- NJ Gov. Chris Christie (R) has raised $2.2M thus far in the general (Newark Star-Ledger).
- Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) released his first TV ad in next month's NJ SEN Special primary, while Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) "is putting his third TV ad on the air" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
- Senate Majority PAC launched a new TV ad as part of their "30 Years Is Too Long Campaign" against Senate Min. Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (release).
- AK Natural Resources Commis. Dan Sullivan (R), a possible SEN candidate, is "on leave for six weeks" and "is deploying to Afghanistan after being recalled to active duty with the U.S. military" (AP).
- Ex-Rep. Frank Guinta (R-NH) "is moving aggressively toward a third run" for NH-01 and will make a formal announcement in Sept. (New Hampshire Union Leader).
- NH-02: Ex-state Sen. Gary Lambert (R-NH) "is closing in on a run" for NH-02, meeting with the NRCC this week (New Hampshire Union Leader).
- In "his most expansive comments about the idea first floated in May," ex-NY Gov. David Paterson (D) said he "may run" for NY-13 if Rep. Charles Rangel (D) retires (AP).
- CT State Senate Min. Leader John McKinney (R) said Monday that he will run for GOV, becoming "the highest-profile" GOPer in the race, although '10 nominee Tom Foley (R) "has said he will try again" (Connecticut Post).
- IL state Sen. Kwame Raoul (D), who "was poised to run" to replace AG Lisa Madigan (D) if she ran for GOV, "says he is giving ... serious consideration" to a GOV run himself (WLS-TV).
- WI Gov. Scott Walker (R) raised $3.5M in the first half of this year and has $2.2M CoH (AP).
- FL Gov. Rick Scott (R), asked by National Review "why he's so confident" about his chances at reelection: "I will have $25 million in the bank by the end of the year and will use it in early 2014 to define my opponent" (National Review).
- '13 MA SEN nominee Gabriel Gomez (R) was asked this weekend on WBZ-TV about his political future, refusing to rule out runs for SEN, GOV, LG or state treas. Gomez, on a rematch with Sen. Edward Markey (D): "It's definitely one of the races I would look at" (WBZ-TV).
- Ex-comm. dir. Irene McCormick Jackson sued San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) and the city on Monday, "alleging he repeatedly made unwanted sexual advances toward her and put her in a headlock on several occasions so she couldn't get away" (U-T San Diego).
NUMBER BRUNCHING
- According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll of nat'l adults, conducted 7/18-21, 49% approve of the way Obama is handling his job as POTUS, while 44% disapprove. In the previous poll, conducted 5/16-19, 51% approved of Obama, and 44% disapproved (release).
OUR CALL
Hotline editors weigh in on the stories that drive the day
? Dems were hoping for a July triumvirate of top tier recruits -- Schweitzer, Grimes and Nunn. Grimes had a bumpy rollout, Schweitzer stuck a fork in himself, but Nunn's campaign is starting off on the right foot. Two out of three ain't bad.
? With Guinta gearing up for a third tilt with Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D), NH state Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley (R) appears to be the most likely GOP candidate to take on Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D) next year. Bradley was already reportedly leaning toward running, and he'll now likely enter the GOP primary as a heavy favorite.
? The NRCC is hitting Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) with tracker video of the freshman explaining why he didn't vote for any of the House budget proposals this year. Ruiz said he wants a bipartisan budget, and House leaders didn't put one on the floor this year. Now that 2012's challengers are 2013's members of Congress, Dems who ran against obstruction and do-nothingness last year are also open to being tarred with the failures of the institution, as this attack on Ruiz shows.
? GOP recruits get the benefit of hefty amounts of published research on their opponents by the likes of the NRCC and the NRSC. Primary challengers starting from scratch don't get that benefit, one of many obstacles to their success. But it is possible for an outside group to fill the void. Club for Growth president Chris Chocola's local op-ed detailing Rep. Mike Simpson's (R-ID) failings is basically a 760-word oppo research memo to endorsed challenger Bryan Smith (R), with whom the Club can't privately communicate, and anyone else who might want to take an independent-expenditure hack at Simpson next year.
HAIR OF THE DOG
FRESH BREWED BUZZ
- More than six months after losing his seat, ex-Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) hired "The Hula Monsters," a Hawaiian-shirt clad band that plays a blend of swing, honky-tonk and more, to perform for a backyard party, according to campaign spending records and an interview with a band member (National Journal).
- "He tried to make love to the tea party and they didn't like it" -- Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid, on McConnell's primary challenge (Washington Post).
- "In a case of only-in-Chicago political timing," the WH "announced Monday it would honor" Chicago Ald. Joe Moore (D) "as a 'pioneer for political reform,' the same day the veteran City Council member revealed he has spoken to FBI agents about allegations he improperly paid two aides he fired" (Chicago Tribune).
- "A former high-ranking aide is returning to court for her sentence in a scandal that ended" Rep. Thaddeus McCotter's (R-MI) career (AP).
- Ex-SC Treas. Thomas Ravenel (R), "who has reportedly been contemplating a return to political life after serving seven months on federal drug charges, was arrested" early Monday morning by East Hampton (NY) police and "charged with drunken driving" (East Hampton Star).
- "I don't want to be John Boehner" -- Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), tearing up while talking about the woman who turned out not to be his daughter (CNN).
- NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) whitewater rafting team defeated NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's (I) squad in a promotional event on Monday by 18 seconds. Bloomberg joked after that he was going to challenge Cuomo to skydiving next. Cuomo: "You go first. I'll see if I can beat your time" (New York Times).
- Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) led NY state troopers on a 100+ mph high-speed chase in '08, claiming "to be late for a dinner meeting" with Paterson (Albany Times-Union).
SWIZZLE CHALLENGE
- Dwight Eisenhower once denied that he had fought Knute Rockne in a boxing match.
- The winner is Chris Huckleberry, and here's his Swizzle Challenge: "Everybody knows that Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' is the top selling album of all time worldwide with more than 65+ million copies sold. Many people may be surprised to learn this album is the second bestselling album with over 50 million copies sold. Name the album." The 4th correct e-mailer gets to submit the next question.
NJ'S EARLY BIRD SPECIALS
SHOT...
"So, while I'm thinking and talking at the same time, I'm also trying to decide things like: 'can anyone else see this fly?' Because if they can't, and I start swiping at it, I'm going to look like I've lost my mind. And if they can see it in the room, can folks see it on T.V. And 'should I take a swipe?' What are my odds of actually getting this thing in one shot? Bzzzzzzzzzzz..." -- VA AG Ken Cuccinelli (R), in an email to supporters (via BuzzFeed).
...CHASER
"Listen to me. There is a fly in the studio, and this is not a normal-sized fly. It's a jumbo fly. It has made a habit, now, of flying into my monitors at a great velocity. You would think that at this velocity it would blow apart on impact, but apparently this fly has some sort of protective coating that allows it to come right back at me" -- "Casey McCall" ("Sports Night").
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nunn-entering-ga-sen-race-guinta-gearing-nh-090159077.html
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Matt Kemp returns to lineup, leads Los Angeles Dodgers over Washington Nationals 9-2, plus more NL scores
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Matt Kemp returned to the lineup with a home run and a double in the same inning Sunday, and the Los Angeles Dodgers completed a sweep of the Washington Nationals with a 9-2 win that kept them a half-game behind first-place Arizona in the NL West.
Activated from the 15-day disabled list before the game, Kemp led off the second with a homer and then doubled home Andre Ethier in a seven-run inning against Jordan Zimmermann (12-5), quickly turning a much-anticipated matchup of All-Star aces into a rout.
Clayton Kershaw (9-6) allowed only two hits ? solo homers by Jayson Werth ? over seven innings with nine strikeouts and no walks, putting his major league-best ERA at 2.01.
The Dodgers have won 20 of 25. This game marked the first time all season that Kemp, Hanley Ramirez and Carl Crawford were all in the lineup together. But it might be a few days before it happens again because Kemp hurt his left ankle sliding into home plate on a force play in the ninth.
Washington has dropped eight of 10.
PIRATES 3, REDS 2
CINCINNATI (AP) ? Jeff Locke allowed only an infield single through six innings and Pittsburgh beat Homer Bailey to salvage the final game of its series with Cincinnati.
The second-place Pirates left town with a three-game cushion over the NL Central-rival Reds, who won the first two games of the series.
Locke (9-2) and the majors' second-stingiest bullpen limited the Reds to three singles, but issued seven walks and let a run score on a wild pitch. Jason Grilli worked the ninth for his 30th save in 31 chances.
Locke had to miss his last scheduled start and couldn't pitch in the All-Star game because of a sore back. There were no problems when he got back on the mound.
Bailey (5-9) struck out a career-high 12 but remained winless since his no-hitter against San Francisco at Great American Ball Park on July 2. Garrett Jones hit his second homer in two games, and the Pirates added a pair of runs in the seventh.
METS 5, PHILLIES 0
NEW YORK (AP) ? Matt Harvey struck out 10 in seven overpowering innings, and David Wright and Juan Lagares each hit a home run upheld by video review to lead New York over Philadelphia.
Marlon Byrd followed Wright's first-inning homer off the dark metal railing atop the new left-field wall with a no-doubter into the second deck against Cliff Lee (10-4) for the Mets' first back-to-back homers of the season.
Lagares' drive that also struck the railing in left was a three-run shot, giving New York a 5-0 lead against the 2008 AL Cy Young Award winner. Lagares made a running catch in center field with Delmon Young on third base in the seventh to help preserve the shutout.
In his first outing since starting the All-Star game on his home mound, Harvey (8-2) allowed three hits in his 30th career start.
Phillies All-Star Domonic Brown struck out all four times up.
CARDINALS 3, PADRES 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Adam Wainwright worked eight sharp innings for his National League-leading 13th win and Allen Craig ended the game with a leaping catch at the left-field wall as St. Louis beat San Diego.
Craig has 12 hits and six RBIs during a seven-game hitting streak for the Cardinals, who took two of three in both series against the Padres this season. The St. Louis defense turned three double plays behind Wainwright (13-5), who allowed two runs with seven strikeouts and two walks.
Yonder Alonso singled three times with an RBI for the Padres. Eric Stults (8-8) allowed three runs and eight hits in six innings.
Craig's tough catch preserved Edward Mujica's 28th save in 30 chances and robbed pinch-hitter Jedd Gyorko of at least an extra-base hit that would have put the Padres.
The Cardinals, who have won nine of 12, own the best record in the majors. The Padres have lost 19 of 24.
DIAMONDBACKS 3, GIANTS 1
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Paul Goldschmidt hit a sacrifice fly and a double against All-Star Madison Bumgarner, Cody Ross added a late two-run single, and first-place Arizona held off a late rally by San Francisco to avoid a three-game sweep.
The Diamondbacks snapped a three-game skid with their first victory of the second half.
Randall Delgado (2-3) won in his first career start at AT&T Park, and Goldschmidt's first-inning sac fly got things going against the World Series champions. Arizona threw out Buster Posey at the plate in the sixth.
A day after stranding 13 and going 2 for 12 with runners in scoring position, the Diamondbacks did just enough against Bumgarner (10-6) in his first outing after the All-Star break.
Ross singled in the eighth as Arizona won for just the fourth time in 16 road games.
Brad Ziegler finished a crazy ninth that featured two errors for his fourth save. The Giants scored on second baseman Aaron Hill's wild throw past first.
BREWERS 1, MARLINS 0, 13 INNINGS
MILWAUKEE (AP) ? Caleb Gindl hit his first career home run in the bottom of the 13th inning and Milwaukee shut out punchless Miami for the third consecutive game.
Miami has gone a club-record 37 innings without a run, the longest drought by a major league team in 28 years. The Houston Astros were held scoreless for 42 consecutive innings in July 1985, according to STATS.
The Marlins haven't scored since Derek Dietrich drove in two runs in the fourth inning of a 5-2 loss in 10 innings to Washington on July 14.
This one was the longest scoreless game in the majors since Boston won 1-0 in 16 innings at Tampa Bay on July 17, 2011.
The Brewers were the last team in the majors to produce a shutout this season, but now have eight in the team's past 31 games. The Marlins have been blanked 12 times.
John Axford (4-3) pitched two innings for the win and helped the Milwaukee pitching staff set a franchise record with 35 scoreless innings.
Gindl connected off Ryan Webb (1-4) after a pitching duel between Miami's Henderson Alvarez and Milwaukee's Wily Peralta.
ROCKIES 4, CUBS 3
DENVER (AP) ? Tyler Chatwood pitched six solid innings, Nolan Arenado hit a go-ahead single and Colorado beat Chicago to win the three-game series.
Chatwood (6-3) went the distance last time out but was a tough-luck loser to Zack Greinke and the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0. This time, he allowed seven hits and two runs ? one earned.
Rex Brothers allowed a run in the ninth before earning his fifth save.
Starlin Castro had four hits for the Cubs, matching a career high, and Anthony Rizzo homered.
Edwin Jackson (6-11) settled down after a rough start to go seven innings. His three-game winning streak was snapped.
Source: http://www.nola.com/zephyrs/index.ssf/2013/07/matt_kemp_returns_to_lineup_le.html
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Geraldo Rivera tweets half-naked photo
Celebs 
5 hours ago
It's usually teenagers or politicians who get in trouble for taking risque photos of themselves, not senior citizens. But TV personality Geraldo Rivera isn't your average senior.
In the wee hours of Monday morning, Rivera, 70, tweeted out a photo of himself shirtless in his bathroom, a white towel on the counter blocking the area below his hips. He's also wearing red-tinted glasses ...and nothing else.
?70 is the new 50," he wrote to accompany the shot."(Wife) Erica and family are going to be so pissed?but at my age?? (Rivera turned 70 on July 4.)
Later in the day, however, Rivera deleted the photo -- but only after it had been screengrabbed, shared and retweeted by fans and mockers alike. "Note to self: no tweeting after 1am," he wrote in a new tweet.
Twitter followers would seem to agree that's a good rule. Wrote Bonzo Beckett, linking to an equally terrifying cat photo, "You scared my cat with that picture. See? He keeps meowing "Why Geraldo why?"
Joked author and Fox TV host Greg Gutfield, "Our thoughts and prayers are with Geraldo's towel," says the president of Bed Bath and Beyond."
Rivera's not alone. The trend of celebrities sharing photos of themselves showing a lot of skin seems to be only growing. On July 9, singer Justin Bieber used Instagram to share a shirtless photo of himself, and "Project Runway" host and on July 16, model Heidi Klum tweeted a babe-on-the-beach shot of herself making a smiley face on her body with sand and shells. (Her hand strategically covers what her missing bikini top does not.)
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/geraldo-rivera-tweets-half-naked-photo-himself-6C10701867
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A scientific experiment is able to create a wave that is frozen in time
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"A wave is a deformation in the surface of a liquid that moves at a speed that is independent of that liquid," the researchers explain. For example: in the waves that are formed when a rock is thrown into a pond, the water remains still while the waves move away from the center at their own speed. "In our case, what occurs is actually the opposite: the water moves very rapidly (at several meters per second), but the wave moves at a speed of zero. That is, it remains still, "frozen" in time for any observer who sees it from outside of the water," explains one of the authors of the research report, Javier Rodrguez, of UC3M's Fluids and Thermal Engineering Department.
Every surfer's dream
In this experiment, which is described in an article published in the journal Experiments in Fluids, the scientists used digital processing techniques and visualization techniques that used a laser to reconstruct the form of the wave in three dimensions in order to compare it with real waves, similar to those that are ridden by surfers. "The most remarkable thing is to observe a pipeline wave that remains still, to the point that we can put our fingers under the crest for as long as we want and not get wet, because this wave never breaks," describes Javier Rodrguez.
In order to recreate this phenomenon, the scientists constructed a small canal in a laboratory at the University. The prototype is relatively simple, they say: it consists of a semi-submerged panel with a square corner that partially obstructs the flow in a tank of water that is approximately the length of a van. "This is the simplest and cheapest way to produce different heights in a very rapidly moving current of water," states Professor Rodrguez.
In the theoretical part of the study, in which the UC3M scientists are currently collaborating with colleagues from UC San Diego (USA) and from the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), they are using computer simulation techniques and asymptotic analysis to create an approximate description of this wave's formation. "This description is precise enough to enable us to understand its behavior; we are taking advantage of the fact that the wave is very slender. That is, as we move away from its starting point, its size slowly increases," points Pablo Martnez-Legazpi, a researcher at UC San Diego. "As we investigate further into this subject," he adds, "we realize that this formation process is representative of and common to other waves that are of great interest to civil and naval engineering, such as waves that crash into ports, bridges or off-shore oil rigs during rough sea conditions."
Structural and environmental applications Thanks to this experiment, it is possible to generate a wave that would never be static in Nature and to render it motionless in the laboratory for the time that is necessary to study it in detail. Understanding how these waves are formed can be tremendously useful when predicting the intensity of the streams that appear when waves impact against marine structures (ports, off-shore oil rigs, ships, etc.) and it could help to anticipate the damage that they might cause. In fact, this research was suggested and partially financed by the US Navy due to its implications for improvements in naval hydrodynamics.
From the oceanographic point of view, this is also a very useful tool, as it allows for the implementation of a great number of research techniques that would be very difficult to apply to a wave in motion. In addition, it has direct environmental applications: it allows for a better response to what occurs on the marine surface when a wave breaks, which in turn can help scientists understand how carbon dioxide exchange between the ocean and atmosphere occurs. "And although it has nothing to do with science, we also think this research can be of interest when it comes to creating decorative fountains or rides in water parks," notes Javier Rodrguez. "If, in addition to being interesting because it can help us understand the ocean, you can also have fun with it, why not do it?" he concludes.
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Title: Plunging to spilling transition in corner surface waves in the wake of a partially submerged vertical plate Authors: Martinez Legazpi, P; Rodriguez-Rodriguez, J; Marugan-Cruz, C; Lasheras, JC Journal: EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS. Volume: 54. Number: 1. Article number: 1437. DOI: 10.1007/s00348-012-1437-7. Published in January 2013.
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"A wave is a deformation in the surface of a liquid that moves at a speed that is independent of that liquid," the researchers explain. For example: in the waves that are formed when a rock is thrown into a pond, the water remains still while the waves move away from the center at their own speed. "In our case, what occurs is actually the opposite: the water moves very rapidly (at several meters per second), but the wave moves at a speed of zero. That is, it remains still, "frozen" in time for any observer who sees it from outside of the water," explains one of the authors of the research report, Javier Rodrguez, of UC3M's Fluids and Thermal Engineering Department.
Every surfer's dream
In this experiment, which is described in an article published in the journal Experiments in Fluids, the scientists used digital processing techniques and visualization techniques that used a laser to reconstruct the form of the wave in three dimensions in order to compare it with real waves, similar to those that are ridden by surfers. "The most remarkable thing is to observe a pipeline wave that remains still, to the point that we can put our fingers under the crest for as long as we want and not get wet, because this wave never breaks," describes Javier Rodrguez.
In order to recreate this phenomenon, the scientists constructed a small canal in a laboratory at the University. The prototype is relatively simple, they say: it consists of a semi-submerged panel with a square corner that partially obstructs the flow in a tank of water that is approximately the length of a van. "This is the simplest and cheapest way to produce different heights in a very rapidly moving current of water," states Professor Rodrguez.
In the theoretical part of the study, in which the UC3M scientists are currently collaborating with colleagues from UC San Diego (USA) and from the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), they are using computer simulation techniques and asymptotic analysis to create an approximate description of this wave's formation. "This description is precise enough to enable us to understand its behavior; we are taking advantage of the fact that the wave is very slender. That is, as we move away from its starting point, its size slowly increases," points Pablo Martnez-Legazpi, a researcher at UC San Diego. "As we investigate further into this subject," he adds, "we realize that this formation process is representative of and common to other waves that are of great interest to civil and naval engineering, such as waves that crash into ports, bridges or off-shore oil rigs during rough sea conditions."
Structural and environmental applications Thanks to this experiment, it is possible to generate a wave that would never be static in Nature and to render it motionless in the laboratory for the time that is necessary to study it in detail. Understanding how these waves are formed can be tremendously useful when predicting the intensity of the streams that appear when waves impact against marine structures (ports, off-shore oil rigs, ships, etc.) and it could help to anticipate the damage that they might cause. In fact, this research was suggested and partially financed by the US Navy due to its implications for improvements in naval hydrodynamics.
From the oceanographic point of view, this is also a very useful tool, as it allows for the implementation of a great number of research techniques that would be very difficult to apply to a wave in motion. In addition, it has direct environmental applications: it allows for a better response to what occurs on the marine surface when a wave breaks, which in turn can help scientists understand how carbon dioxide exchange between the ocean and atmosphere occurs. "And although it has nothing to do with science, we also think this research can be of interest when it comes to creating decorative fountains or rides in water parks," notes Javier Rodrguez. "If, in addition to being interesting because it can help us understand the ocean, you can also have fun with it, why not do it?" he concludes.
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Further information:
Title: Plunging to spilling transition in corner surface waves in the wake of a partially submerged vertical plate Authors: Martinez Legazpi, P; Rodriguez-Rodriguez, J; Marugan-Cruz, C; Lasheras, JC Journal: EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS. Volume: 54. Number: 1. Article number: 1437. DOI: 10.1007/s00348-012-1437-7. Published in January 2013.
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NIMBioS wins $18 million renewal award from National Science Foundation
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KNOXVILLEThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $18.6 million to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) to continue its interdisciplinary efforts in developing new mathematical approaches to problems across biology, from the level of the genome to individuals to entire ecosystems.
The award covers the next five years and renews the work of the Institute, which was initially funded by a five-year, $16 million NSF award in 2008. NIMBioS is also supported by UT.
Since NIMBioS was established in 2008, "Since many of today's significant scientific challenges require the convergence of multiple fields to find creative solutions, the scientific activities that NIMBioS has fostered have been highly interdisciplinary and have involved collaborations between researchers from vastly diverse backgrounds," said NIMBioS Director Louis Gross, who founded the institute.
Thus, participants have included anthropologists and psychologists, game theorists and economists, biophysicists and statisticians, experts on partial differential equations and control theory, and experts from across all areas of biology. more than 3,500 researchers from every state in the US, Washington DC and Puerto Rico and more than 55 countries have participated in NIMBioS' scientific activities, which include workshops, smaller Working Group meetings, tutorials, postdoctoral and sabbatical fellowships, short-term visits, and a wide variety of educational and outreach events for elementary school-aged children up to post-graduate students.
Research activities have led to more than 270 scientific publications, many in high impact academic journals, across a vast array of different areas of science and education.
One area of particular emphasis at NIMBioS has been modeling animal infectious diseases, such as white-nose syndrome in bats, pseudo-rabies virus in feral swine, Toxoplasma gondii in cats, and malaria from mosquitoes. As a leading international center for animal infectious disease modeling, NIMBioS has contributed significantly to global needs in analyzing the potential spread, impact and control of diseases that can move from animals to humans, such as West Nile virus, anthrax, swine flu and mad cow disease.
The renewal award continues NIMBioS' efforts in animal infectious disease but will expand activities in other areas including biological engineering, molecular biology, cell biology and microbiology, as well as offer new opportunities for graduate students to conduct research and train at NIMBioS.
"NIMBioS is pleased to be able to continue to build new collaborations among diverse researchers and educate future leaders of interdisciplinary science," Gross said.
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To view a graphic about NIMBioS' activities over the past five years, visit http://www.nimbios.org/about/#infographic. To learn more about NIMBioS, visit http://www.nimbios.org.
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KNOXVILLEThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $18.6 million to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) to continue its interdisciplinary efforts in developing new mathematical approaches to problems across biology, from the level of the genome to individuals to entire ecosystems.
The award covers the next five years and renews the work of the Institute, which was initially funded by a five-year, $16 million NSF award in 2008. NIMBioS is also supported by UT.
Since NIMBioS was established in 2008, "Since many of today's significant scientific challenges require the convergence of multiple fields to find creative solutions, the scientific activities that NIMBioS has fostered have been highly interdisciplinary and have involved collaborations between researchers from vastly diverse backgrounds," said NIMBioS Director Louis Gross, who founded the institute.
Thus, participants have included anthropologists and psychologists, game theorists and economists, biophysicists and statisticians, experts on partial differential equations and control theory, and experts from across all areas of biology. more than 3,500 researchers from every state in the US, Washington DC and Puerto Rico and more than 55 countries have participated in NIMBioS' scientific activities, which include workshops, smaller Working Group meetings, tutorials, postdoctoral and sabbatical fellowships, short-term visits, and a wide variety of educational and outreach events for elementary school-aged children up to post-graduate students.
Research activities have led to more than 270 scientific publications, many in high impact academic journals, across a vast array of different areas of science and education.
One area of particular emphasis at NIMBioS has been modeling animal infectious diseases, such as white-nose syndrome in bats, pseudo-rabies virus in feral swine, Toxoplasma gondii in cats, and malaria from mosquitoes. As a leading international center for animal infectious disease modeling, NIMBioS has contributed significantly to global needs in analyzing the potential spread, impact and control of diseases that can move from animals to humans, such as West Nile virus, anthrax, swine flu and mad cow disease.
The renewal award continues NIMBioS' efforts in animal infectious disease but will expand activities in other areas including biological engineering, molecular biology, cell biology and microbiology, as well as offer new opportunities for graduate students to conduct research and train at NIMBioS.
"NIMBioS is pleased to be able to continue to build new collaborations among diverse researchers and educate future leaders of interdisciplinary science," Gross said.
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To view a graphic about NIMBioS' activities over the past five years, visit http://www.nimbios.org/about/#infographic. To learn more about NIMBioS, visit http://www.nimbios.org.
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92% Fruitvale Station
All Critics (83) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (76) | Rotten (7)
In naturalistic and unforced strokes, he allows Grant to exist as a complex, even contradictory human, inviting the audience simply to sit with his life, his loss and what they both meant.
Fruitvale is easy to see as something more than a movie - a diagnosis, perhaps, or a part of that sticky vortex we call the zeitgeist.
Oscar Grant had friends, he had a sister and a mother and a grandmother, a girlfriend, a child. In concise measures, Fruitvale Station shows us these connections, these bonds.
Grant's ordinary life seems eminently dramatic even without its place in history.
Coogler could've settled for an enraging, full-throttle melodrama, designed to boil your blood from beginning to end. But "Fruitvale Station" is better, more heartbreaking, than that.
Fruitvale Station's wrenching power lies in the specificity of its storytelling and the ordinary human warmth of the world it conjures.
Sober, even-handed and quite moving.
Michael B. Jordan portrays Oscar Grant as a complex and real person, making Fruitvale Station more than just the story of a death. In fact, it's one full of life.
A devastating portrait of the fallibility of man and the importance of appreciating what one has while it's still here.
Where it could have been angry ... the film is instead clinical...
Many directors have trouble accomplishing something like this even when they're throwing character development in your face. To be able to succeed by using a standard "day in the life" approach makes it all the more incredible, and makes it a must-see.
A star-making performance by Michael B. Jordan.
Even though we know where this dark road travels, the remarkable Fruitvale Station still manages to be both sorrowful and suspenseful while also celebrating a life only half-lived.
Writer/director Ryan Coogler's debut feature, Fruitvale Station, is one of those first films that announces that a major talent has hit the scene.
A gut-wrenching, emotional powerhouse of a film, politically and socially resonant while also standing on its own as a compelling and often-heartbreaking story
A viscerally wrenching experience, filled with foreboding from the first frame but stylistically naturalistic.
Strives only for an emotional response rather than an intellectual one.
Coogler's goal is clear - to put a human face on Grant, to make him recognizable.
Though the film's ending is no mystery, the personal details are what make this story so absorbing and so moving - more so precisely because his fate is already known.
It's a heartbreaking story that is so emotionally powerful that, while I may not want to see again, if it's on I won't be able to help but see it's tragic conclusion again.
"Fruitvale Station" will emotionally move you and simultaneously make you appreciate the filmmaking abilities of Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Israeli,Palestinian to resume peace talks in Washington
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have laid the groundwork to resume peace talks frozen for three years and will meet in Washington within "the next week or so," US Secretary of State John Kerry said.
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After a day of dramatic diplomacy and a late afternoon helicopter dash to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah,Kerry announced a hard-won breakthrough to get the two sides back to the negotiating table.
Both Israel and the Palestinian presidency welcomed the development, but the Islamist Hamas movement which runs the
Gaza Strip rejected a return to talks.
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Kerry's announcement yesterday came after he spent four days consulting the Israeli and Palestinian leadership from his base in an Amman hotel.
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"I am pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement that establishes a basis for resuming direct final status negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis," he told reporters in Amman just minutes before boarding his plane to fly home.
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"This is a significant and welcome step forward," he added, having doggedly pushed the two sides to agree to resume talks in six intense trips to the region since becoming the top US diplomat in February.
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But after a day in which the deal almost slipped away forcing him to spend? hours working the phones, the top US diplomat cautioned he would remain tight-lipped about the details.
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?"I think all of us know that candid, private conversations are the very best way to preserve the time and the space for progress and understanding when you face difficult, complicated issues such as Middle East peace," he said.
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"The agreement is still in the process of being formalized, so we are absolutely not going to talk about any of the elements now".
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?A US State Department official said: "They have agreed on the core elements that will allow direct talks to begin". The? Israelis and Palestinians remain far apart on final status issues including the borders of a future Palestinian state, the right of return of Palestinian refugees, and the fate of Jerusalem which both want as a capital.
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Can foreigners own landed properties in the ... - Zillow Real Estate ...
It depends on what country.? Generally Foreign Nationals are able to purchase Investment Properties in the States.? Your are subject to taxes and the laws of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the State you purchase in.?
When the property is re-sold, there is a 10% withholding tax on the sale proceeds until a final tax return is filed and all taxes paid unless the sale is less than the purchase amount.
You will be required to pay taxes on the Rental Income, minus the expenses to maintain the property including property management, taxes, Association fees, Insurance etc...
I work with many foreign nationals here in Florida and it's very easy.
Look for an agent knowledgable?with Investment properties within the areas you are focusing on.? A good agent will be able to help you with all aspects of the transaction.??Identifying property, renovations, rental, management, and resale.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
The Little Mexican Cooking School: Chocolate ... - Food Musings
The Little Mexican Cooking School: Chocolate Made with Muscle
July19
One of the most fascinating things that we learned at The Little Mexican Cooking School in Puerto Moreles was how essential chocolate was and is to Mexican history and culture.? In the gorgeous setting where the classes were conducted, we could not have felt further away from picking up a chocolate bar at the till of a convenience store.? Rain had fallen that morning and the garden around us was rich with aromas and sounds.? This was our setting while we learned about chocolate under the tutelage of Chef Christrophe.
The cacao tree flourishes in the south east of Mexico.? For thousands of years the Olmecas and then the Mayans have collected the little seeds from the ripe cacao pod.? The seeds were then fermented, sun-dried and then mixed into a drink that they called bitter-water.? Sometimes they would sweeten and flavour it with vanilla, honey or chili.
When the Aztecs ruled the empire, the cacao seeds were used as currency becoming more valuable than gold itself.? Only the richest of the rich could actually consume the food-they were literally ?eating and peeing? their money away.? After the Spaniards arrived on Mexican soil and then returned to Europe, chocolate which is closer to the treat that we know today, was created.? We were reminded that chocolate along with the vanilla bean were the two greatest presents from Mexico to the world.
Chef Christrophe showed us how to roast the cacao seeds on a flat grill called a ?comal?.? He constantly moved the seeds around until we started to notice a chocolate aroma.
Next, he demonstrated how to peel the roasted seed and then place them over a ?metate?.? With muscle, he started to mash the seeds gradually adding sugar and then eventually the roasted cinnamon and vanilla.
The result of the process and all of Chef Christophe?s efforts:
The procedure was fascinating, the result delicious and Chef Christophe was not too hard on the eyes.? Artesanal chocolate making is one of the many reasons to check out The Little Mexican Cooking School.
Kath?s quote: ?The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.?-Jean-Antheleme Brillat-Savarin
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Friday, July 19, 2013
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