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Still enjoying that leftover Easter chocolate? You might be less enthusiastic about it if you knew more about the questionable labor practices behind much of what’s in the candy aisle, or if you realized that a lot of your favorite bars might not technically be chocolate at all.
But let’s assume that you want to eat something that is actually chocolate, and that you care about quality. You’re looking beyond those candy-aisle bars of your youth to find something made with higher-quality beans, or with more ethical labor standards, or that’s simply more interesting—and more delicious. Where do you kick off the search?
You might not begin with the fancy seals increasingly seen on chocolate-bar labels, for starters. “We look for chocolate made by thoughtful makers that represent a good understanding of the equipment, the raw materials, and the marketplace for fine chocolate.” said Aubrey Lindley of Cacao in Portland, Oregon. “The stamps and certifications labels are simply not useful to us. There are almost no regulations controlling the information that people put on the label other than the definition of chocolate, and the weight, and the ingredients.”
The chocolate that Cacao seeks out includes bars made by manufacturers like Rogue and Venezuela’s Kakao. Before you do your own shopping—because chocolate-eating season doesn’t end when the Easter Bunny’s work is done—here are seven key terms to become familiar with.
Cacao (or Cocoa) Percentage
“The percentage indicates the amount of cacao—cacao mass, cacao butter—in the bar,” Lindley said. “The rest of the percentage is going to be sugar and whatever else the maker wants to add—vanilla, emulsifiers, nuts, caramel, et cetera.” So the cacao percentage you see on the label refers to the total mass of the ingredients that comes from the cacao bean, which includes the mass (ground-up cacao beans) and the butter (the isolated fat of the cacao bean that’s sometimes added back to the chocolate for a smoother mouth feel). Generally, the higher the cacao percentage, the more intense chocolatey-ness (and less sweetness) you can expect. A higher percentage doesn’t necessarily mean a better-quality bar, or vice versa; it’s just a hint of the kind of flavor you’ll get.
Lindley said his job would be a lot easier if there were words on the ingredient label to immediately indicate that a chocolate is high quality. Plain dark chocolate needs only cacao and sugar, he said, but quality chocolate can have extra ingredients. “Additional ingredients that are common are added cocoa butter, vanilla, and lecithin,” he explained. “None of these ingredients would disqualify a bar from being good quality.” And some bars mix in ingredients like nuts, fruit, and spices to vary the flavor and texture.
“Generally I find there is an inverse relationship between label modifiers and quality—the more stamps and seals and qualifiers it has, the poorer that quality.” Lindley said. “I suspect this typically is a result of larger companies having more money to pay for various certifications and stickers.” Labeling terms that send up red flags for him include all-natural, vegan, non-GMO, gluten free, and fair trade—and he notes that many of the high-end chocolate products he carries do in fact fit those terms, but just don’t have the official seals and labels saying so.
Fair trade certification generally means the base commodity price for cacao was at least $200, Lindley said—a higher selling price for the cacao beans should mean a better price for the farmer, which in turn means the farmer makes a better living. But fair trade isn’t necessarily all it’s cracked up to be, Lindley explained. “This is an extreme simplification of the issues, but generally the conclusion is that fair-trade certification has a very questionable benefit to either the consumer or the farmer,” he said. “High-quality cacao is usually purchased at prices many times over the fair-trade minimum standard. This requires a short communication chain. Truly, the only way to know what is going on is to know the maker, and for them to know the farmer.”
Lindley referred to knowing the maker and the farmer—and this is where direct trade comes in. Direct trade is what it sounds like: a direct relationship between the manufacturer and the farmer, where the beans are purchased directly from the farms where they are produced. This allows the manufacturer to not only ensure the quality of the beans, but also to provide the farmer with a better price for his crop by cutting out the middleman and to have first-hand information about the wages and working conditions for the farm’s employees. Taza Chocolate was an early leader in direct trade for the chocolate industry, and developed its own direct-trade certification program in 2010.
Single source (or single origin) is a selling point for some fans of high-quality coffee—it refers to beans that come from a single source, which can be defined as broadly as a single country or region or as specifically as a single farm. The same is true for chocolate, where single source refers to where the cacao beans were produced and not where the chocolate itself was made. Focusing on beans from a particular region allows for the creation of chocolate that has unique qualities and flavor profiles, thanks to the ways that different growing conditions and techniques can influence the taste of the beans.
However, a chocolate maker’s art and skill of blending cacao beans from several origins to create a consistent flavor profile in a signature chocolate is not to be underestimated. Single-source chocolate isn’t by definition superior to blended chocolate; it’s just a better way to showcase the distinctive qualities of exquisite beans that can stand on their own.
In the United States, a product must meet the FDA’s standards for organic certification to carry the certified organic labeling. However, there are many reasons why a chocolate may fit most—or even all—of the standards but still not have that label. The product could meet nearly all of the standards, for example. Or it could meet them all, but not have the financial means to get the certification. So a product with the FDA-approved organic labeling definitely meets a particular set of standards—but that doesn’t mean a product without that labeling doesn’t.
While there’s a lot of gray area in chocolate terminology, don’t let it overwhelm you. Think of it as an opportunity. If you have a chocolate shop in your area with a passionate, knowledgeable staff, they’ll gladly fill you in on the background of any bar they carry, and help you find chocolates with the flavor profiles you find most pleasing.
Terri Coles is a freelance writer living in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She’s a recovering picky eater.

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Checkpoint immunotherapy drugs have seen a surge in their adoption as their effectiveness in treating various cancers continues to provide clinical success. Yet, one type of persistent tumor has remained relatively intractable to immunotherapeutic interventions—bladder cancer. However now, a team of researchers led by investigators at the Vancouver Prostate Centre and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) has just released new findings that offer a possible explanation for why this new type of cancer treatment hasn't been working as expected.
Results from the new study—published today in Nature Communications in an article entitled “Evasion of Immunosurveillance by Genomic Alterations of PPARγ/RXRα in Bladder Cancer”—finds that checkpoint immunotherapy, which is designed to activate the immune system, is not effective on some bladder cancers because there are no immune cells in those tumors. The new findings explain what is occurring at the cellular level to prevent the immune cells from getting into the tumor. Moreover, the research team is optimistic that their data will open up new avenues of research that will direct scientists toward developing a combination therapy that could be more effective.
“It's been a mystery for decades as to how tumors escape the immune system,” explained co-senior study investigator Mads Daugaard, Ph.D., assistant professor of urologic science at the University of British Columbia and a senior scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre and VCHRI. “We've identified a cellular signaling pathway that regulates whether the body's immune cells are allowed to infiltrate the tumor.”
Currently, bladder cancer accounts for about 5% of all new cancers in the U.S. and is the fifth most common cancer in Canada. Furthermore, there is only one line of chemotherapy available, cisplatin-based therapy, for invasive tumors. Once cancers become resistant, only checkpoint immunotherapy is approved as a second-line treatment.
Atezolizumab, an anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (anti-PDL1) antibody drug, strengthens the body's immune response and recently became the first new bladder cancer drug to be approved in more than 20 years. While initial results were very promising, subsequent clinical trials have shown that only one in five patients showed an objective response to treatment, which has perplexed researchers, until now.
In the current study, the researchers found that some invasive bladder cancer tumors block the immune cells from accessing it by activating a cell signaling pathway called the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) pathway.
The authors reported in the current study “that the PPARγ/RXRα [retinoid X receptor alpha] pathway constitutes a tumor-intrinsic mechanism underlying immune evasion in MIBC [muscle-invasive bladder cancer]. Recurrent mutations in RXRα at serine 427 (S427F/Y), through conformational activation of the PPARγ/RXRα heterodimer, and focal amplification/overexpression of PPARγ converge to modulate PPARγ/RXRα-dependent transcription programs. Immune cell-infiltration is controlled by activated PPARγ/RXRα that inhibits expression/secretion of inflammatory cytokines. Clinical data sets and an in vivo tumor model indicate that PPARγHigh/RXRαS427F/Y impairs CD8+ T-cell infiltration and confers partial resistance to immunotherapies.”
“With this pathway, the tumors close the door to the immune system,” Dr. Daugaard added. “Without immune cells in the tumor, checkpoint immunotherapy has little effect. Now we know what door the tumors are closing, and we can, therefore, focus our efforts on breaking down that door and let the immune system back in.”
The researchers have taken the first steps to develop a drug that is capable of targeting the PPARγ pathway. The rationale is to use such a drug in combination with checkpoint immunotherapy treatment.
“The most efficient way to combat a cancer would be to have the immune system take care of it itself. This is ultimately what we want to achieve,” Dr. Daugaard concluded.

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1. Light salt water soaking: General vegetables first rinse with water at least 3 to 6 times, then soak in light salt water, then rinse with water 1 times. For balsamic vegetables, they can be cut first, soaked in clean water for 1 to 2 hours, and rinsed with clean water to remove residual pesticides.
2. Alkali washing: Wash the vegetables with alkali first put a small alkali powder in the water, anhydrous calcium carbonate or ice alkali, crystalline sodium carbonate, stir well before adding vegetables, soak for 5 to 6 minutes, the alkaline water Pour it out, then rinse with clean water. It can also be replaced by baking soda, but it takes about 15 minutes to properly extend the soaking time.
3. Wash with detergent: Wash the detergent 300 times to wash 1 time, then rinse with water 1 to 2 times, this can remove bacteria, eggs and pesticide residues on the vegetables.
4. Hot water with boiling water: For some residual pesticides the best way is to remove hot, such as green peppers, cauliflower, beans, celery, etc., in the pot before the best hot water with a look. According to tests, this method can remove 90% of the residual pesticides.
5. Disinfection with sunlight: Irradiation of vegetables with sunlight in a multi-spectral effect will cause decomposition and destruction of some pesticide residues in vegetables. It has been determined that vegetables and fruits are exposed to sunlight for 5 minutes, and organochlorine and organomercury pesticide residues are lost by 60%. For the convenience of storage of vegetables, it is best to be placed for a period of time, the oxygen in the air and the color enzymes in vegetables have a certain decomposition of residual pesticides. Therefore, after buying vegetables, it should be left at room temperature for about 24 hours, so that the average disappearance rate of residual chemical pesticides is 5%.
6. wash with rice wash: use rice wash water to remove some of the pesticide residues in vegetables. As most of our country currently use pesticides such as methamidophos, phoxim, dichlorvos, dimethoate and other organic phosphorus pesticides, these pesticides will lose their toxicity in the event of acidic substances. Soaking rice in water for about 10 minutes and washing it with clean water can reduce the amount of pesticides left in the vegetables.


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The self-described acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau petitioned a federal judge late Sunday to block President Donald J. Trump from putting John M. “Mick” Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget in charge of the rogue agency.
Richard Cordray named Leandra English as his deputy director Friday, his last day in office, and as such set up the crisis, English seeks to resolve with her petition to the federal courts asking that she be recognized as the acting director until the president has his own selection confirmed by the Senate.
“Leandra is a seasoned professional who has spent her career of public service focused on promoting smooth and efficient operations,” said Cordray, a native of Ohio, widely expected to return home to run for governor there.
“As deputy director, we will continue to benefit from Leandra’s in-depth knowledge of the operational needs of this agency and its staff,” he said.
English had a series of positions at the CFPB, including serving as the bureau’s chief of staff and deputy chief operating officer. Before joining the CFPB, English had senior positions in President Barack Obama’s Office of Personnel Management and his Office of Management and Budget.
While the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, also known by Dodd-Frank for its two main sponsors Rep. Barnett “Barney” Frank (D.-Mass.) and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D.-Conn.), states that the deputy director becomes the acting director, but the president issued this statement Friday:
Today, the President announced that he is designating Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Mick Mulvaney as Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The President looks forward to seeing Director Mulvaney take a commonsense approach to leading the CFPB’s dedicated staff, an approach that will empower consumers to make their own financial decisions and facilitate investment in our communities. Director Mulvaney will serve as Acting Director until a permanent director is nominated and confirmed.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has been a total disaster as run by the previous Administrations pick. Financial Institutions have been devastated and unable to properly serve the public. We will bring it back to life!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2017
The president is exercising his authority as spelled out in the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, which allows the president to fill any vacancies that required a presidential nomination and Senate confirmation for 90 days. This was the president’s authority at the beginning of his administration that allowed him immediately send “landing teams” throughout the executive branch.
Saturday, the Justice Department sent a memorandum to White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn II with its interpretation of vacancies law, which acknowledges the conflict between Dodd-Frank and the 1998 law, but ruling that because the Dodd-Frank law is vague and puts no limit on the “temporary” filling of the vacancy at the CFPB, it must yield to the vacancies act.
Also, Saturday the CFPB’s top lawyer Mary McLeod circulated a memorandum, obtained by Politico, advising all CFPB employees to regard Mulvaney as the acting director.
Questions have been raised whether the President has the authority under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) to designate Mick Mulvaney, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, as the Acting Director of CFPB following the resignation of Richard Cordray as of midnight, Friday, November 24, 2017, even if the Deputy Director otherwise could act under 12 U.S.C. § 5491(b)(5).
“This confirms my oral advice to the senior leadership team that the answer is “yes,” she wrote. “I advise all bureau personnel to act consistently with the understanding that Director Mulvaney is the Acting Director of the CFPB.”
Take note: McLeod’s memo and advice was circulated one day before the CFPB’s senior leadership team went ahead and filed suit in federal court.
The true foundress of the CFPB is Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.), who as an aide to President Barack Obama and a law professor at Harvard University.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) November 27, 2017
It was Warren, who devised the CFPB’s convoluted governance with an all-powerful director and a relationship to the federal government that made it immune to congressional oversight by having it funded by the Federal Reserve, but with the central bank exercising any supervisory control.
Beyond the unprecedented independence of the bureau, the CFPB has enormous powers to interfere in private businesses and transactions, as well as its receiving a copy of every financial activity in the country.
From the bureau’s beginning, Congress has been concerned about so much power and access in the hands of the CFPB without oversight, but the agency, as designed by Warren, does not answer to Congress, it is only required to appear before the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee every six months.
Cordray’s last-minute move cannot be seen as anything other an attempt by members of the previous administration to hold onto a powerful and secretive agency with characteristics that could have it described the NSA of finance.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R.-Texas), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, pressed Cordray on his plans in August, because his five-year term did not expire until July.
Cordray was appointed as the director in 2012, but Senate Republicans kept the Democrats from the 60 votes required to end debate. When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) changed the Senate rules to remove the 60-vote requirement in July 2013, Cordray’s nomination was quickly confirmed. In another example of the Byzantine character of the CFPB, the Dodd-Frank law said that the bureau’s first director would run the agency as part of the Treasury Department, but as soon as the first director is confirmed, the agency would be spun-out of Treasury and put under the aegis of the Federal Reserve.
Hensarling said concern was that Cordray would rush the completion of a new regulatory regime, so that the director could resume his political career back home.
The tragedy of the star-crossed CFPB has not yet played out, but the next twist could be that Hensarling, who himself is retiring from Congress at the end of this session, could himself end up the next director of the bureau.
Curt Schilling Reveals that AIG Canceled His Insurance Over His Social Media
The woke purges are only beginning.
On January 12, 2021, former all-star pitcher and now-conservative commentator Curt Schilling announced that AIG canceled his insurance policy over his “social media profile.”
“We will be just fine, but wanted to let Americans know that @AIGinsurance canceled our insurance due to my ‘Social Media profile’,” Schilling said in a Tweet.
We will be just fine, but wanted to let Americans know that @AIGinsurance canceled our insurance due to my "Social Media profile"
— President Elect Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) January 13, 2021
“The agent told us it was a decision made by and with their PR department in conjunction with management,” he continued.
Social media censorship has become normalized over the last four years. Now, however, this kind of corporate policing is being extended to people’s ability to do banking. Paul Joseph Watson of Summit News observed the following:
While innumerable Trump supporters have lost their Twitter and Facebook accounts due to social media censorship and cancel culture, cases of individuals being cut off by banks and other financial services are now growing too.
The logic of corporate America’s woke crusade is to change people’s behavior by censoring social media activity. In addition, corporate entities will cut off people from basic services to make their lives miserable simply for dissenting against the regime’s official narrative.
Republicans will have to stop worshiping corporations and rethink some of their economic policies. Corporations have too much power in America and are clearly not on the side of the Right. The refusal to recognize this new reality will lead to continued defeats for the Right. It’s time to adapt.
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Dancing, Floating Flame
I have a DV gas fireplace that has an intermittent flame problem. At times when it is turned on the manifold lights but the flame begins to float, and only burn in areas that I believe to have proper air for combustion. Within 45 seconds all flame is out and the thermal couple shuts off the pilot. The fireplace worked fine when it was new but in the last few years the problem began to happen more frequently. Now it's about 50% of the time and normally after a weather change. I've trouble shot this as a air flow issue.
If I turn off the fireplace and remove the glass I can feel cold air at the exhaust opening in the firebox with a slightly positive pressure. I've set the pilot to high to hopefully keep the exhaust insert warm enough for a draft ( the glass is very warm) to no avail. I've removed the liner to check for obstructions or other issues (two 3 inch liners). No problems were found so I reinstalled them.
Is it possible to have the draft reversed (in through exhaust out through intake) by wind/cold pressure and have it sustained even with a pilot burning?
I just dropped $100 for a service guy who just scratched his head. It worked fine for him and he has never seen a problem like this. Whats my next step? Thanx


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|barbed-bristle bulrush, Northeastern bulrush, Northern bulrush|
|Elizabeth J. Farnsworth|
The following Participating Institutions are custodians for this species in the CPC National Collection:
New England Wild Flower Society
The conservation of Scirpus ancistrochaetus is fully sponsored.
Elizabeth J. Farnsworth contributed to this Plant Profile.
This leafy bulrush in the sedge family is currently known only from about 60 populations scattered from New Hampshire and Massachusetts, south to West Virginia. An obligate wetland plant, Scirpus ancistrochaetus grows in shallow water along the margins of sinkhole ponds (in the south), beaver ponds, sandplain depressions, backwater ponds in river floodplains, a boggy marsh, and even a wet depression on a mountaintop rocky bald -- broadly described as "low areas of hilly country" (Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program 1992). Sandstone or sand appears to be its favored substrate, and sites tend to share the common feature of a fluctuating water level. Although it is everywhere rare (with populations mostly under a few dozen stems), several new discoveries have been made with increased inventorying and an improved understanding of the habitat features with which it is commonly associated.
Research and Management Summary:
Several recent field studies of Scirpus ancistrochaetus have revealed much about its ecology and habitat associations. Extensive field surveys have turned up a number of new populations, and monitoring efforts are ongoing in a number of states.
Scirpus ancistrochaetus is a tall (to 1.2 m) bulrush with leaves from 3 to 8 mm wide. Its short, woody rhizomes give rise to a flowering stem in in mid-June to mid-July, with a drooping flower head bearing dark, chocolate-brown florets with broad bracts. Each floret has six rigid bristles ending in recurved, sharp-pointed barbs -- the source of its Latin name, ancistrochaetus, meaning "hooked hairs." The 1.1-1.3 mm-long dry, one-seeded fruits (achenes) ripen in late summer.
Distribution & Occurrence
- New York
- West Virginia
Scirpus ancistrochaetus is described from a variety of wetlands along its extensive range. In the north, the species is found most commonly on the edge of shallow beaver ponds (Royte and Lortie 2000) where water levels vary depending on animal activity. One population occurs on an inland sandplain in Massachusetts, in a depression that periodically fills with groundwater. In the south, the taxon occurs often in sinkhole ponds that form in sandstone bedrock at intermediate elevations around 200 to 500 meters (somewhat higher elevations in the Virginias). Plants at all sites occur around the margins of ponds in 8 to 40 cm of standing water (in wet years). In a study comparing Pennsylvania wetlands that support Scirpus ancistrochaetus with nearby ponds that did not, researchers found that Scirpus ponds were typically larger (> 400 square meters), more free of forest canopy cover, higher in exchangeable sodium (> 7 ppm), and higher in pH (Lentz and Dunson 1999).
Associated plant species reported from sites with the bulrush include: Dulichium arundinaceum, Ilex verticillata, Scutellaria lateriflora, Boehmeria cylindrica, Apocynum sp., Rosa palustris, Lyonia ligustrina, Vaccinium angustifolium, Acer rubrum, Nyssa sylvatica, Quercus alba, Pinus strobus, Nuphar advena, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Lemna minor, Carex crinita, Carex lupuliformis, Carex lurida, Carex lupulina, Carex canescens, Carex vesicaria, Carex stricta, Eleocharis obtusa, Eleocharis quadrangulata, Scirpus cyperinus, Scirpus pedicellatus, Triadenum virginicum, Glyceria canadensis, Glyceria septentrionalis, Glyceria acutiflora, Osmunda cinnamomea, Leersia oryzoides, Potamogeton pulcher, Polygonum amphibium, Sium suave, Scutellaria lateriflora, Bidens frondosa, Polygonum punctatum, Nuphar variegatum, Schoenoplectis tabernaemontani, Sparganium androcladum, Hypericum virginicum, Galium tinctorum, and Ludwigia palustris (Schuyler 1962, Bartgis 1992, MANHESP 1992, Lentz and Dunson 1999, Royte and Lortie 2000, NatureServe 2001).
|Precise numbers of populations of Scirpus ancistrochaetus are unknown, and others may yet be discovered. Approximately 50 to 60 sites are recorded. Because plants are clonal and population sizes also vary widely among years, estimating the global population is problematic.|
Conservation, Ecology & Research
Flowering occurs from mid-June to mid-July across the range of the species.
Hybridization has been observed between S. ancistrochaetus and S. hattorianus in the wild; in fact, Schuyler (1962, 1967) suggested that the intermediate, co-occurring species, S. atrovirens, may have arisen evolutionarily from a back-cross hybridization of these taxa.
Plants are likely to be wind-pollinated.
Seeds mature in late summer to fall, and have been observed germinating on the parent plant (NatureServe 2001). Plants may also reproduce vegetatively by proliferating along rhizomes or by initiating new shoots off decumbent stems (Bartgis 1992); however, the relative contributions of sexual and asexual reproduction to population growth are not currently understood.
The bristly seeds may be dispersed by animals or by water (Lentz and Dunson 1999).
Seeds can remain viable in storage for several years (W. E. Brumback, New England Wild Flower Society, personal communication; Lentz and Johnson 1998), but their longevity in natural seedbanks has not been determined.
Herbivores are unknown, but mammals such as deer, beaver, and bear have been noted to disturb the soil around Scirpus ancistrochaetus stands (Lentz and Dunson 1999).
Run-off from upland sources that contaminates wetlands where Scirpus ancistrochaetus is found
Logging (particularly at one site in Maryland)
Additional seed germination trials have been undertaken at the New England Wild Flower Society (Framingham, Massachusetts). Fresh and dried seed both germinate well after a period of moist cold (in refrigeration or storage outdoors); this finding is corroborated by Lentz and Johnson (1998), who obtained optimal success with dried and stratified seed. Flowering plants have been cultivated for seed. Scirpus ancistrochaetus currently grows at the NEWFS Garden.
Rodney L. Bartgis (The Nature Conservancy, West Virginia) has surveyed for the taxon in West Virginia and Maryland (Bartgis 1992) and maintains a regular monitoring program.
G. C. Tucker (Eastern Illinois University) reports a new site for Scirpus ancistrochaetus in Canada (Tucker, in review, Rhodora)
Tom Rawinski of Massachusetts Audubon Society (Lincoln, Massachusetts) has surveyed for Scirpus ancistrochaetus in Virginia
Joshua Royte (The Nature Conservancy, Brunswick, Maine) and John Lortie (Woodlot Alternatives, Topsham, Maine) have surveyed for the taxon in New Hampshire and found several new occurrences (Royte and Lortie 2000).
The Nature Conservancy has conducted systematic surveys for the taxon in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire
Studies to assess the relative contribution of sexual and asexual reproduction to sustaining population viability and possible roles of inbreeding depression
Experimental field studies to determine how water levels and other ecological factors can be manipulated to promote establishment and expansion of populations
Studies of inter-breeding dynamics with other Scirpus species.
Rhoads, A.F.; Klein, W.M., Jr. 1993. The vascular flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated checklist and atlas. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society. 636p.


June 5, 2008
U.S. engineer Dr. Philip Williams has added his voice to concerns expressed by a Chinese expert that the Zipingpu reservoir, now cracked and damaged as a result of China’s devastating May 12 earthquake, could actually have induced the earthquake.
In a recent interview, Dr. Williams said: “I think there are substantial grounds for connecting the triggering of the earthquake to the filling of the reservoir as a Reservoir-Induced Seismicity event (RIS).” The dam’s reservoir is just 5 kilometres from the earthquake’s epicenter and it was filled only about 18 months ago, he pointed out. Both conditions are consistent with the phenomena of reservoir-induced seismicity in which increased pressure from water infiltrating into micro-cracks and fissures in the ground under and near a reservoir lubricates faults and induces slippage.
Dr. Williams echoes the concerns of Fan Xiao, chief engineer of the Regional Geology Investigation Team of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau who agrees that Zipingpu has all the conditions that provoke reservoir-induced earthquakes and who last week called for an investigation of whether the dam could have contributed to the temblor.
If Zipingpu, part of China’s dam building spree of the last decade, actually induced the May 12th earthquake then China’s dam building industry, consisting primarily of state agencies, can expect unprecedented and intense scrutiny. To date, many of China’s dams have been built without receiving official environmental approval, often with no public knowledge, and certainly without public oversight. Even if no link between the recent earthquake and Zipingpu is conclusively drawn, public concern about dam safety in the event of earthquakes will take on a whole new life as approximately one-third of China’s 88,000 dams are thought to be poorly constructed or dangerous.
According to Dr. Williams, the lesson from this earthquake is that “dams and their reservoirs should not be built on major active faults.” Moreover, he says, the planning of all dams must be transparent, so that issues like RIS can be scientifically assessed and weighed in the benefit-cost analysis so affected people can be properly informed of the implications.
As for dams that are already built, Dr. Williams adds, emergency evacuation contingency plans must be prepared, including the publication and dissemination of potential dam failure inundation maps. In all cases, Dr. Williams argues, dams must be designed to make sure that outlet structures can withstand maximum ground accelerations to allow for rapid reservoir drawdown in the event of damage to the dam.
Environmental groups in China voiced similar worries some three years ago when they signed a petition calling for an earthquake warning system around large dams and a stricter assessment of the vulnerability to earthquakes of dams proposed for China’s southwest region. In fact, during the planning of Zipingpu, Chinese authorities heard these concerns from their own officials including Fan Xiao, the Earthquake Bureau, and the Chinese Academy of Geological Science. Their collective concerns should be more seriously heeded now.
So far, public reviews by the country’s environmental regulator, the State Environmental Protection Agency, have been narrowly focused on environmental impacts and less on dam safety and emergency preparedness in the event of catastrophic failure. Now, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission can be expected to step in too as it has the mandate to review all costs and financial risks associated with project proposals that affect consumers electricity rates. And, whether induced or not by Zipingpu, China’s May 12 earthquake has pointed out just how costly the interrelationship can be between dams and earthquakes.
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#1 Overall Pick? Scout Says Kristaps Porzingis Hype is Real
One of the names that started randomly flying up this years NBA draft board was that of Kristaps Porzingis. The guys over at Grantland seemed to be big fans as well as NBA insider Chad Ford, who drew comparisons of Porzingis to that of Dirk and AK47.
I’ve even read more than one Kevin Durant comparison published recently. While most of us haven’t had the pleasure to see Kristaps Porzingis, some scouts are telling me personally that the comparisons are real.
Over at ESPN a piece was published signing the praises of Porzingis which noted:
He’s a 19-year-old Latvian who is 7 feet tall and projects as a stretch 4. He has 3-point range, the size and skills to score inside, and the athleticism to get up and down the floor. He’s too raw to contribute right away, but plenty of scouts consider him the one player in the draft with a higher ceiling than Towns.
If that wasn’t enough to convert you, I’ve even had a scout privately contact me and tell me that this kid is the real deal.
Here is a snippet of our conversation:
Kristaps Porzingis the real deal man..will def go top 5..& if played college ball..could have even gone No.1 overall possibly…
This guy knows his stuff, and I take his word as gold. I’ve heard that the Knicks are serious players at #4 and now I wouldn’t be surprised if someone pulled the trigger at #2 overall if they can wrangle that pick from LA (Sacramento?)


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SMART Gilas Pilipinas 2.0’s quest for the Fiba Asia Cup championship came to an end at the hands of Iran, which threw the full might of its fiery outside shooting and mean inside game on the Filipinos in an emphatic 77-60 victory on Friday in Tokyo.
The two-time Asian champions broke open a close game behind a barrage of three-pointers in the second half as they avenged a defeat to the Filipinos in the last Jones Cup in Taipei which Iran star Samad Bahrami took so badly he vowed to settle score in Tokyo.
Bahrami did, and in the process exposed how dominant the Iranians can be even without NBA player Hamed Haddadi – and how far Smart Gilas Pilipinas still is in its quest to bring the country back to the upper echelons of the sport in Asia.
Iran now advances to the finals of this event that guarantees the top three placers outright berths in next year’s Asian Championships in Lebanon. It faces the winner of the other semifinal match pitting Japan against Qatar.
The Philippines, on the other hand, is left to face the loser of the Japan-Qatar match in a battle for third place and the last automatic berth to next year’s tournament.
A victory would also enable Gilas to surpass the fourth-place finish of their predecessors in this tournament two years ago under Serbian coach Rajko Toroman.
Jared Dillinger and LA Tenorio each had 13 points to pace the Nationals, who held their own against the Iranians for much of the first half before an opening eight-point salvo by the enemy suddenly put them on the back foot.
Things simply turned from bad to worse after that as the Filipinos continued to misfire from three-point distance while foul trouble hounded big men Marcus Douthit, Sonny Thoss and Ranidel de Ocampo.
Iran (77) - Afagh 14, Jamshidi 13, Kardoust 13, Bahrami 12, Sahakian 12, Davoudichegani 6, Foroutan 1, Aslani 0, Mashayekhi 0, Yahkchali 0, Sedihgi 0.
Philippines (60) - Tenorio 13, Dillinger 13, Douthit 8, Norwood 7, Chan 5, Fonacier 5, De Ocampo 4, Villanueva 3, David 2, Thoss 0, Ganuelas 0, Reyes 0.
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The streaming-rights war rages on, with beloved children's show Sesame Street being the latest title caught up in the custody battles (sort of). After securing a five-year deal for the exclusive streaming rights to the show in 2015, HBO was the only place you could watch new episodes for the first nine months after they aired. Following that period, you'd be able to also watch them on PBS. Deadline is reporting that a new agreement announced today would make Sesame Street's entire 50-year library available online. Episodes that were previously on HBO will be moved to HBO Max along with the entire existing collection -- that's more than 4,500 episodes, although it's not clear how many of these will be available to watch at the same time. The exclusive rights also cover annual specials and character-driven short-form collections.


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Re: CCD video camera DC
The only reference I can find to the product on the web,
is for a service manual. The JVC site doesn't mention a
user manual, and that tells me that the camera you have,
is part of some bigger kit. Perhaps the kit includes
a power source. JVC does sell cameras separately, so
the fact that there isn't a user manual for your camera,
suggests you don't buy that camera as a separate end-user
If the camera has a separate DC-IN connector, you can
find a power supply at your local electronics store. The
two cameras I own, take 12VDC, and I hooked an unregulated
"brick" to a 7812 regulator IC and made my own regulated
supply. Each camera will have a different spec, and may
use regulated or unregulated power, somewhere between 12VDC
If the camera _only_ has a BNC connector, and it said
"DC IN/VIDEO OUT" next to it, that could spell trouble.
There is a technique for sending power-over-coax, such
I'm not showing you that page, to suggest you build the
circuit. That page shows you would need a special box
at the end of the coax, to separate the DC power from
the video signal.
So I sure hope your camera has a DC power connector _and_
a BNC video connector. If it does, the camera hook up will
be a lot easier.
A cheap tuner card, with a BT848/BT878, will get you a
picture, like 640x480 in recording mode. Hauppauge makes
these as "Win-TV" cards, but there are many other small
companies making stuff like that. But to use that tuner
card, you need to have a video only connector on the camera,
as if the BNC carries video and power, the video and power
have to be separated, before the video signal can be used.
Note - if you operate the BT848/BT878 card in a "snapshot"
mode, which is what you would want for a microscope, take
several pictures in a row, then "average" the pictures
together. You can do that in Photoshop (for two pictures),
or cook up your own recipe using the primitives in PBMplus.
I find that averaging just two pictures of the same still
object together, measurably improves the video noise problem.
Try to contact someone at JVC, and see if they can tell
you a little more about the camera.
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Provo • Defensive MVP Harvey Langi played the game of his career in a position different than the ones he played all season, offensive MVP Jamaal Williams ripped through Wyoming's defense for the second-most rushing yards in Poinsettia Bowl history, and Kai Nacua solidified his standing among the best safeties in school history with a game-saving interception in the final two minutes.
BYU's fourth captain, injured quarterback Taysom Hill, watched it all from the sidelines as the Cougars held off Wyoming 24-21 at soggy Qualcomm Stadium, his contribution under center to the 9-4 season in head coach Kalani Sitake's inaugural season having paved the way for his teammates to even be in a position to shine.
Fittingly, BYU's seniors almost every one of the 21 who were honored on Nov. 26 before the 28-10 win over Utah State are the reason the Cougars snapped their three-bowl losing skid Wednesday night.
"Well, I think it is a huge compliment to these young men, these seniors," Sitake said. "They've been leading this team the entire time. I get way too much credit for doing things as a head coach when these guys have made it so much easier for me."
Sitake said the captains are also why the Cougars were able to shake off a 1-3 start and win eight of their final nine games, the only loss in that stretch a one-pointer at Boise State.
"The guys played their butts off and they lead, and they're great young men," Sitake said. "I just sat there and watched them take the team and they did it. Made me look good."
Sophomore quarterback Tanner Mangum added his congratulations after throwing for a touchdown OK, he was bailed out of an awful throw by a fortunate series of tips and rushing for another in an otherwise forgettable game for Hill's heir apparent.
"So pumped for our seniors to go out the way they did. It was an honor playing with them," Mangum noted.
First, there was Langi, the defensive end/running back who moved back to linebacker to fill in for suspended starter Francis Bernard and injured backups Adam Pulsipher and Austin Heder. He was in on 16 tackles, broke up a pass and made a tackle for loss.
"First and foremost I want to give a shout-out to the D line," Langi said. "The other linebackers got me up to speed these past couple of weeks as I tried to come back to playing linebacker."
Then there was Nacua, whose 14th career pick moved him into a fourth-place tie on BYU's interceptions list with Derwin Gray. The former high school quarterback didn't return it for a pick-six like he did last year against Boise State to seal that win, but it will likely go down as the biggest play in a standout career.
"I almost over-ran the ball because I was so excited and I knew it was coming," Nacua said, describing the play. "That's what [Wyoming QB Josh Allen] is used to doing, and I ended up picking it."
Of course, Williams also shined, easily surpassing Hill's BYU bowl record for rushing yards, 133 against Washington in the 2013 Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco. Williams finished with a school-record 3,901 rushing yards on 726 carries.
"These guys have played every down their hardest and I can't ask for anything more as a coach," Sitake said.
It was one of the best senior classes in school history, a group that set an NCAA record for the fewest points separating a four-loss team from an unbeaten season, eight points, according to Cougarstats.com. They tied an NCAA record with seven games in a season decided by three points or fewer.
Other senior stars Wednesday night included receivers Nick Kurtz and Colby Pearson and offensive linemen Andrew Eide, Kyle Johnson and Parker Dawe. On defense, Logan Taele was headed for a big night before leaving with a knee strain, while linebacker Sae Tautu and cornerback Michael Davis made important plays.
Other seniors who didn't contribute quite as much at Qualcomm but were vital to the program's success were receivers Mitchell and Garrett Juergens, fullbacks Algernon Brown and Toloa'i Ho Ching (injured), Maurice Maxwell (injured), safeties Eric Takenaka and Chris Badger and defensive tackle Travis Tuiloma (injured).
BYU seniors shined in bowl win
• Jamaal Williams*RB*26 carries for 210 yards, touchdown
• Nick Kurtz*WR*Three catches for 59 yards, long of 39
• Colby Pearson**WR*Two catches for 16 yards, long of 12
• Andrew Eide*OL*Paved way for 216 rushing yards
• Taysom Hill*QB*Injured leader calmed, settled down Mangum
• Logan Taele*DL*Clogged middle before leaving with knee injury
• Harvey Langi*LB*Switched positions again, made 16 tackles
• Kai Nacua*DB*Game-sealing interception with 1:22 remaining
• Michael Davis*DB*Helped hold Wyoming to 207 passing yards
• Sae Tautu*DE*Forced an intentional grounding penalty with near sack


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Twenty-three persons have now been confirmed dead in the petrol tanker fire explosion on Wednesday at Felele along the Lokoja-Abuja Highway.
It was gathered that the tanker belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) experienced brake failure around 8 am which resulted in the accident.
The tanker fell on five cars, two motorcycles and three tricycles popularly known as Keke, killing all occupants.
Qed.ng had earlier that 10 persons died including a primary school student.
The latest count places the casualty figure at 23.
Five students of Kogi State Polytechnic and three nursery school pupils were among those burnt beyond recognition.
It was gathered that a businessman identified simply as Samson, his wife and three children died in the fire.
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Xiaomi is celebrating its 5 12 months anniversary in India and introduced lately a few merchandise. It contains Redmi Okay20 collection system, wi-fi earphones, Mi Rechargeable LED Lamp, and extra. The new LED gentle might be accessible on the Xioami Crowdfunding platform very quickly. The worth of this LED lamp is Rs.1,299 in India.
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KANSAS CITY, KS. – Sporting Kansas City hosted Colorado Rapids on Saturday night. It was the first game for Colorado in a month. They had been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak within the team. Alan Pulido and company were ready for the rust Rapids.
Alan Pulido, Sporting KC Outlast Rusty Colorado Rapids 4-0
This game was all Sporting from the start. The Rusty Rapids looked like they hadn’t played a game in a long time. Colorado struggled to string passes to get forward and create chances. Sporting found space and played through lines early and often.
Colorado goalkeeper William Yarbrough stood on his head in this game. Alan Pulido nearly opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Lalas Abubakar missed on a pass to Danny Wilson. Pulido intercepted the ball at the top of the box but Yarbrough came off his line to make the save.
The game got physical early with tough fouls by Amadou Dia and Collen Warner, who was starting for the suspended Kellyn Acosta. Warner was subbed out in the 28th minute after sustaining an injury.
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Andreu Fontàs made it 2-0 in the 67th minute. SKC had plenty of free kick chances until that point and they finally made one count. Johnny Russell found Pulido for a header that was deflected up in the air. Fontàs volleyed it first time to score.
The match ended 3-0 with Colorado recording their first shot attempt in the 82nd minute. Gadi Kinda and Gerso scored in garbage time on counter attacks against exhausted Rapids defenders.
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Rusty Rapids: It’s pointless to critique this performance. Colorado looked like a team in preseason and understandably so. Hopefully for Robin Fraser, they can improve quickly in fitness, passing, and tactics
Pulido back on the score sheet: Alan Pulido scored two goals against Houston Dynamo earlier this month. Prior to that, he hadn’t scored since the Colorado game at the MLS is Back tournament. He appears to be finding his shooting boots again.
Keeping pace: SKC have now won four of their last six. They are very much in the hunt for the top seed in the Western Conference, jumping into first place over Portland and Seattle with this win.


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We went with Pepe (and Antonia B, review below, was on our trip) below on the 3-day Colca Canyon trip. It was a fabulous experience -- from the booking to the dropping off at our hotel afterward in Arequipa. This company is listed in Frommer's or Fodor's, can't remember which, but IT NEEDS TO BE IN EVERY GUIDEBOOK, especially Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, etc.!!!! Catherine answered every one of my many questions by email. Our group was very small -- just my husband and me, and two women from LA. It was very intimate, and they were able to customize the trip for us. For example, they picked us up in Yanque (where we had a wonderful stay at Miskawassi B&B), and we did the scenic stops from Arequippa to the Canyon on the way back instead, so we didn't miss them. I also really liked the timing of this company's trip. They don't leave at the crack of dawn, or get you up at 3 a.m. to hike out of the canyon. They spend only one night in the canyon, and frankly, although we really liked the oasis on our second day, I'm not sure i would have liked to stay there. (On the other hand, i could see doing a longer Canyon trek, as there is so much to see there -- Land Adventures can make this happen too!)
So, Pepe was incredible -- he is so knowledgable and really shared his knowledge with us -- flora, fauna, geology, history, culture, etc.. As part of his 5-year program to be certified as a Colca area guide, he stayed for a while in a small village in the canyon and worked to really up the number of students who attended school there. Unlike other guides, who passed the town by, we sat for a good 45 minutes in the little town as he really explained what life was like there, especially the needs of the school and the medical clinic. (If anyone wants a service project in a health clinic or a school, Pepe will hook you up.)
Pepe is fun-loving and kind and went out of his way for all of us to make sure we had a great and safe experience. We are not young (55 and 59), and my husband was getting over, um, stomach problems, so he was a slow hiker. Pepe managed to bop between the 30-year old women (who run the fire trails in LA) and us, keeping both sets of us in mind.
A couple of pointers. TAKE THE MULES OUT!!! I hiked out of the Grand Canyon when I was younger, and although this is a shorter hike, it is by far steeper. No sweeping switchbacks. It is essentially a rocky stair case straight up. The best thing Pepe did was show us a portion of the trail as we hiked through the canyon in the morning that was about 20 minutes long but the same steepness as the out-of-the-canyon ascent. That showed us all, especially my husband, that the mules would be 60 soles very well spent. I don't know if you can reserve them in advance, but we had a moment of panic (esp for my husband) when there were no mules when we got to the Oasis. But, as usual, Pepe to the rescue. We paid for his mule up to, so he wouldnt have to walk beside us.
Second, about the lodging, you might want to try to find out from Catherine where you will be lodged. You can spend $50 extra for 3-star accomodation (Kunturwassi), which is quite lovely. We didn't mind lesser accomodations and did not pay extra. However, it was the Festival of the Virgin del Carmen, and there was not a lot of availability. We were placed in the (coincidentally named) Hostel Virgin del Carmen, which really wasn't that great (though the bed was comfortable and they had plenty of hot water). Also, it was new construction, and withstood the earthquake.
As Antonia notes, we were there during a 6.0 (says USGS) earthquake more or less centered in the town. 20 houses were flattened (80 in the next town over), rockslides on the road,ruined water supply, and tremendous rockslides in the canyon, closing some of the trails and sending up clouds of dust that darkened the skies all the way to Arequippa. Frightening. But it sure gave us something to chat about on the long (and so beautiful) ride home.
Can't say enough good stuff about the trip: great drivers, good food (great buffet in Chivay), magical time in the canyon (simple accomodations expected and very adequate there), the organization, and especially our great guide Pepe. Looking down through other reviews, I see other people really liked their guides too. I'm so glad - it's a real testament to the company. (But I'm sure Pepe still is the best!)
, but none of them could compare for value ($200/pp including the Colca Canyon ticket) or
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- Serves: 4
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Prep Time: 40 minutes plus chilling time
- Effort: easy
For the crayfish sauce
- 4 crayfish
- sunflower oil, for frying
- 1/2 medium fennel, bulb, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 banana shallot, chopped
- 1 bay leaf
- 2-3 sprigs thyme
- 175 ml white wine
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- splash brandy
- 1 small cube chilled butter
- 1 pinch chilli powder
For the quenelles
- 4 pike fillet, skin removed, chopped
- 40 g chilled butter
- 40 g plain flour
- 100 ml milk
- 3 tbsp double cream
- freshly grated nutmeg, to taste
- eggs, 2 whole and 2 separated
- splash jersey cream
- 4 small sprigs chervil
1. For the crayfish sauce: remove the meat from the crayfish tails, reserving the heads and shells, and set aside.
2. Heat some sunflower oil in a large frying pan and fry the crayfish shells and heads until they begin to brown. Add the fennel, garlic, shallot, bay leaf and thyme and cook until the onion has softened. Add 250ml of water, plus the wine and tomato purée and bring to the boil. Boil until the liquid has reduced by half, then remove the pan from the heat.
3. For the quenelles: melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour. Gradually add the milk, whisking until you have a smooth, thick white sauce. Cook for a few minutes then remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the double cream. Season with freshly grated nutmeg, some salt and black pepper and leave to cool.
4. Once the white sauce has cooled a little, whisk in two of the egg yolks.
5. Place the pike fillets in a food processor and blend until smooth. Add the white sauce, then the whole eggs one at a time, and one of the egg whites. Blend the mixture between each addition and continue to do so until it is light and fluffy. Add a splash of jersey cream and a pinch of salt, mix well then refrigerate for 30 minutes.
6. Strain the crayfish sauce through a fine sieve and return it to a clean pan. Add the brandy and bring the mixture to the boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer, add the chilled butter and slowly whisk until the sauce is thick and glossy. Add the chilli powder and the meat from the crayfish tails. Keep over a very low heat.
7. Bring a saucepan of lightly salted water to the boil. Using two wet spoons, shape the pike mixture into quenelles (rugby ball shapes). Gently drop them into the water and poach for approximately 8 minutes. Remove the quenelles with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.
8. Arrange the quenelles in serving bowls and pour over a little of the hot crayfish sauce. Garnish with the chervil and serve.
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The last act of Orson Welles’ life is a very strange, sad epitaph; reduced to peddling mid-grade plonk in commercial endorsements for Paul Masson’s winery, recording a prologue for the television series, Moonlighting, and becoming the frequent brunt of Johnny Carson’s glib monologues on The Tonight Show. Welles not only observed as his reputation as the cinema’s enfant terrible eroded into something of a laughing stock; he also, to some extent, contributed to the malaise. In his prime, Welles had been a man of varying bombast; a perfectionist with a penchant for morose excesses in food, drink and late night carousing. He was bitter and self-loathing; an artist, arguably deprived of his first love – directing – but given the opportunity to perform before the cameras in projects of varying quality – the system exploiting his obvious talents to their own purposes. If only his movies had acquired a healthier respect, Welles might have risen through the ranks to become a legend in his own time. As it stands, he remains something of a legend untapped; a visual artist who gave us, arguably, the greatest movie of all time – Citizen Kane – before becoming a disappearing shadow of his former self.
Before this implosion, however, Welles was given one last opportunity to direct. Based on Robert Wade and William Miller’s Badge of Evil, Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958) has long since acquired a reputation as a classic film noir. In its day, however, the movie was misperceived by executives at Universal Studios as little more than a gritty little melodrama, unceremoniously dumped on the market as the bottom half of a double bill and all but ignored by audiences. Viewing the studio’s cut it’s easy to see why. In the editing process, conducted after Welles had already been removed from the project, Touch of Evil was ruthlessly butchered, given a score by Henry Mancini (which Welles abhorred) and a linear narrative that, curiously, complicated the story rather than drawing out its clarity.
Disgusted with their meddling, Welles rattled off a memo to Universal – an in-depth step-by-step critique with suggestions on how to improve the movie before its general release. Welles’ ideas were ignored. For decades, Touch of Evil remained a grand disappointment to Welles who, in the intervening decades, made several valiant attempts to convince Universal to reinstate his original vision and re-release the film. Sadly, it was not until after Welles’ death in 1985 that a more concerted effort came around to honor his wishes. But by then the damage seemed permanent. Universal had saved none of the outtakes, edits or trims; all of this extemporaneous material junked a long time ago. Miraculously, however, all was not lost.
There are two theories as to how Welles came to direct Touch of Evil. Co-star Charlton Heston has claimed after learning Welles would be in the movie he insisted that if Universal wanted him they would have to agree to Orson as its director. There is some merit to Heston’s claim. By 1958, his reputation was clearly the more respected in Hollywood. His box office cache alone could easily have coaxed Universal into accepting his terms. There is, however, another tale to tell; this one involving producer, Albert Zugsmith; a longtime admirer of Welles’ gifts and who, reportedly gave Welles a stack of scripts to consider; Orson’s wily genius accepting the challenge to make something unique out of the worst in the batch: Badge of Evil.
In Touch of Evil, Welles is barely recognizable, buried under a mountain of prosthetics and body armor to portray the disreputable Capt. Quinlan; a once admirable cop, long since gone to seed. Drawing on a parallel between his character and Ramon Vargas – played by Heston as the forthright officer of the law – Welles’ performance in Touch of Evil remains both tragic and bone-chilling; a sort of self-effacing spiral into oblivion from which neither Quinlan’s reputation in the film, nor Welles’ own in Hollywood, survived. Viewing Touch of Evil today, one is immediately reminded of the caliber of Welles as a performer, utterly wasted long before his emeritus years; Welles – tragically made the workhorse by someone else’s vision of his talents.
As originally intended, Welles opens Touch of Evil with a justly famous and fascinatingly complex three and a half minute dolly shot. A bomb is placed inside the convertible of an American couple driving through a Mexican border town (actually Venice Beach, Ca.). The car passes interracial newlyweds, Ramon Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) and his bride, Susan (Janet Leigh) before bursting into hellish flames. From here, the plot diverges into two parallel (and later, converging) narratives; the first involving Vargas, who is called to assist in the investigation, much to the discontent of Police Chief Captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles). Quinlan’s bigotry and rage are directed at Uncle Joe Grandi (Akim Tamiroff); the head of a local Mexican crime syndicate.
Quinlan’s right hand, Pete Menzies (Joe Calleia) is also a close friend who would do just about anything to ensure Quinlan’s one-time sterling reputation remains intact – even frame the innocent Manelo Sanchez (Victor Millan) for the crime of murder. But Vargas smells a rat. Furthermore, he is not onboard with Quinlan’s theories of the crime and decides to slowly explore the investigation from a different angle. Meanwhile, Susan has been left to her own accord at the remote Mirado Motel, run by its hapless and fearful manager (Dennis Weaver). Using Susan as leverage against Vargas, Uncle Joe sends a posse of delinquent youth, fronted by his nephew, Risto (Lalo Rios) and a lesbian cohort (Mercedes McCambridge) to the Mirado. In a rather shocking (then) and still very potent scene of implied gang rape, forced drug abuse and lesbianism, Susan is taken hostage to conceal the fact Grandi and Quinlan have been working together. She awakens from her stupor in a seedy bordello with Grandi’s corpse lying next to her; the latest victim in Quinlan’s cover-up. This being a noir thriller of a certain period and ilk, Quinlan is eventually found out by Vargas, who isolates and confronts him as per the charges; the whole conversation recorded for posterity by a hidden microphone.
Touch of Evil is a potent melodrama. Yet, at some level it fails to live up to Welles’ reputation as a cinematic genius. The story is compelling – in spots – and Russell Metty’s bold cinematography augments what is, in fact, a very pedestrian crime story with considerable visual panache. But somehow, Touch of Evil remains a fractured masterpiece – if ever a masterpiece, in fact, it was. There is more than one irony at play in the film: Heston’s star on its meteoric ascendance even as Welles’ own is exiting the stratosphere like a supernova; the padded appearance of a slovenly Welles in makeup shockingly foreshadowing his own formidable girth in later years; the film punctuating the end of Welles’ Hollywood career on a decidedly sour and undistinguished note – the visionary reduced to making a standard noir melodrama.
Welles amassed an impressive roster of pop talent and veterans to appear in Touch of Evil; including Zsa Zsa Gabor as the madam of a border-city bordello and Joseph Cotten, playing a good-humored police officer. Undeniably, the outstanding cameo belongs to Marlene Dietrich as Tanya; Quinlan’s one-time lover who now runs a washed-up fortune-telling racket Quinlan frequents to remind him of his bygone youth. Realizing he is about to be caught by Vargas, Quinlan asks Tanya to tell him his future. “You haven’t got any,” she coldly replies, “Your future’s all used up.” Dietrich is at her careworn best in this scene, higher up the proverbial food chain than Welles’ Quinlan, as she cruelly deprives him of his last possible respite from the world and his own incarceration. It is a masterful performance, the one-time vixen having quietly accepted the ever-evolving parade of youth and beauty has passed her by, unlike Quinlan, who is doomed to thirst after his former glory days.
Despite its boundary-pushing exploration of taboo subject matter, Welles’ rough cut of Touch of Evil failed to impress execs at Universal who found the narrative confusing. They opted to excise almost 25 minutes from his final cut; adding and re-shooting several key sequences in an attempt to draw clarity from the story. In response, Welles fired back a fifty-eight page memo that detailed numerous ways to improve the picture while remaining faithful to his vision. Virtually all Welles’ ideas were ignored by the studio. Although Universal’s 98 min. cut did have its admirers in Europe, in America it was immediately dismissed and quietly forgotten. Then, in 1976, Universal discovered it had in its possession a 108 min. preview version of Touch of Evil. Misrepresented as Welles’ definitive version (when, in actuality, the preview cut included footage shot after Welles’ European departure), Universal re-released Touch of Evil theatrically and to good reviews.
Then, in 1998, Touch of Evil was sent back to the editing room once more – this time under the supervision of Walter Murch, who used Welles’ original memo to Universal as his guideline. Since many of the damaging cuts made by Universal in 1958 no longer existed, this latest revision represents only an approximation of what Welles might have hoped for. Nevertheless, it is this cut that best represents Touch of Evil as closely aligned to Orson Welles’ original intent. Touch of Evil was released as a Collector’s Edition by Universal several years ago – disappointingly without any extras and minus all but the 1998 version of the film. Universal then rectified these oversights with Touch of Evil: the 50th Anniversary Edition.
Two years ago, in celebration of its 100th Anniversary, Universal debuted the deluxe 3 versions of Touch of Evil on Blu-ray. Now we get Touch of Evil on the Blu-ray again, minus the snazzy gold embossed packaging and reproduction of Welles’ memo, but incorporating virtually everything else already readily available on home video in hi-def. Personally, I don’t really see the point of this reissue. Like the aforementioned anniversary edition, this Blu-ray contains all three edits of the film, allowing the film enthusiast to judge which cut is best. All three versions are presented in anamorphic widescreen. The theatrical and preview versions contain the overlay of credits and extemporaneous music written by Henry Mancini. But the restored version reinstates Welles’ original concept for the prologue, laying in various organic tracks of music and effects without a main title sequence.
Universal has seamlessly-branched all three versions on a single Blu-ray disc. The bit rate isn’t quite what I had hoped for. Nevertheless, the results are fairly impressive, beginning with the fact there is a discernable amount of more information on the left and top edges of the screen. In Europe, Masters of Cinema (MOC) released a competing Blu-ray of Touch of Evil, Region B locked. The Universal is region free (which all Blu-ray discs ought to be by now). MOC’s edition exhibits more noticeable grain than the Universal, which also appears ever so slightly softer overall by direct comparison. So, which do I prefer? Hmmm.
Universal’s effort is very strong, but contrast appears slightly bumped, especially when compared to the MOC. Blacks are understandably richer/deeper on the Universal. I still think the MOC looks more refined than the Universal – the grain structure more genuine to its film-sourced material; the Universal’s looking a shay too smooth and also less sharp. The MOC edition does not appear to have been edge-enhanced, leading me to suspect Universal’s lower bit rate is responsible for its overall softer appearance. Finally, Universal’s DTS audio is slightly more refined than the MOC edition; very subtle differences in timber and overall spatiality – more noticeable on higher end sound systems.
Universal has ported over virtually all of the extra features from their anniversary edition DVD and previously issued Blu-ray, including commentaries - on the ‘reconstructed version’ from Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and producer, Rick Schmidlin; the ‘theatrical version’ from writer/filmmaker F.X. Feeney, and the ‘preview version’ featuring Welles’ historians, Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore. Also revived is ‘Bringing Evil to Life’, just over 20 minutes on the ‘making of’ and Evil Lost and Found, a 17-minute featurette about the restoration efforts. Both featurettes are presented in inferior 480i. We lose the booklet featuring Welles’ original memo to the studio. Parting thoughts: I have to admit I’m not entirely sold on Universal’s transfer. It bests the DVD – which is never hard to do – but it still seems to lag behind their efforts Universal has shown when time, care and money have been spent correctly. Low bit rates on a format that can offer so much more is just a waste of Blu-ray’s capabilities.
FILM RATING (out of 5 - 5 being the best)


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Powering the 11 inch iPad Pro is an A12Z Bionic Chip with Neural Engine. True to form, the laptop replacement supports accessories such as the Apple Pencil, Smart Keyboard and Magic Keyboard so you can be more productive on the go. Everything runs smoothly and great on the Liquid Retina edge to edge display.
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At $104, the 2020 iPad Pro is definitely a tempting prospect. Buy one before the promo ends!


To help immigrants who have been detained, the organization United We Dream, which is led by young immigrants, and digital agency Huge developed the Notifica app. When immigrants are detained by ICE their families and loved ones might not even know what happened, but Notifica aims to change that.
“You have the right to be prepared,” says the app’s site. “Be prepared with Notifica, an app that sends out secure messages to your support network when you need it most.”
How The Notifica App Works
With Notifica, users can select contacts they want to notify in case they are taken by ICE. The app allows users to set up a personalized notification to each recipient, for example, a message to your mom or sibling would be different than the one you send to your attorney. After you write the preloaded messages, others will not have access to them and will not be able to read them. There is also a pin that seals off the messages in case your device is lost or stolen.
If the user is taken by ICE, a single click will send all messages via text in less than two seconds. Huge has also launched a phone hotline for those who don’t have a phone in reach but may be able to make a call afterwards.
The app will debut this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas, but individuals can sign up on the site to get notified on the launch. Huge and United We Dream will share the app to families in states such as Texas, Florida and New Mexico or other places with large immigrant communities.
Throughout Donald Trump’s campaign he spoke harshly about undocumented immigrants in the United States, pledged to carry out mass deportations and promised to build a wall to keep people from entering the U.S. from the southern border.
President Trump signed an immigration executive order shortly after taking office, spurring panic among the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the country. The law makes it easier for officials to investigate an immigrant suspected of posing "a risk to public safety. Before the law, immigrants in the U.S. had been categorized as “removable aliens” if they had previously been convicted of a crime. However, Trump’s new order now includes low-level crimes, such as marijuana possessions and DUIs.


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Kouga residents once again can get rid of their unwanted items and goods they have at home that cannot be put out for standard refuse collection.
“The project dubbed ‘Coca-Maak Skoon’ – which is the isiXhosa and Afrikaans words for cleaning up – forms part of the ongoing Keep Kouga Clean Campaign that kicked-off on October 31 and will come to an end on November 25,” said Community Services Portfolio Councillor, Daniel Benson.
This after the very successful secondCoca-Maak Skoon initiative at the beginning of the year.
According to Benson, items and goods include electronic waste and even old furniture.
“The only things that are excluded are food – as we do not want to attract scavengers – as well as garden refuse and builders’ rubble,” he said. “Old food should be put out in wheelie bins on the days usually reserved for refuse collection, while all garden refuse and builders’ rubble must be taken to the respective landfill sites.
“We urge that residents only take out materials on the day advertised for collection in their area. Once the truck has moved away from a specific area, do not put anything on the pavement.”
Benson said the campaign started off in the Gamtoos Valley on Monday, October 31. This will be followed by Humansdorp, the Greater St Francis Area, and Jeffreys Bay.
The programme is as follows:
Gamtoos Valley – 3 to 4 November
Humansdorp – 7 – 11 November
Monday: Kruisfontein and Donkerhoek
Tuesday: Maak `n Las, Gill Marcus, Vaaldam, Mooi Uitsig, and Johnsons Ridge
Wednesday: Arcadia, Graslaagte, Mat Melville, and Moerasrivier
Thursday: KwaNomzamo, Vergenoeg, Golf Course, Shukushukuma, and Polar Park
Friday: Humansdorp Town, Boskloof and Panorama
The Greater St Francis – 14 to 18 November
Tuesday: St Francis Bay
Wednesday: Cape St Francis and Sea Vista
Thursday: Oyster Bay
Jeffreys Bay – 21 to 25 November
Monday: Paradise Beach and Aston Bay
Tuesday: Pellsrus, Ocean View, Madiba Bay, and Tokyo Sexwale
Wednesday: C-Place, The Sands, and JBay Central
Thursday: Upper Wavecrest
Friday: Lower Wavecrest and Kabejauws
KOUGA LAUNCHES SMART LEAK DETECTION TECHNOLOGY
Prevents millions of litres of water loss
SWEEPING Kouga’s water pipes with an acoustic listening device to detect ‘invisible’ leaks has prevented the loss of about 420 000 litres of water per day since September this year.
This at a crucial time for water supply in the drought-stricken region.
The Aqua AM300 Measuring Device (acoustic listening device) is just one element of the state-of-the-art leak detection vehicle that was officially launched by Kouga Municipality in Jeffreys Bay today (09 November 2022) – equipping the municipality with much-needed resources to swiftly detect and respond to leaks.
Leak Detection Vehicle
“The leak detection vehicle was procured through a NAKOPA Partnership Project between Kouga Municipality and Ilsfeld Municipality in Germany,” said Kouga Executive Mayor, Horatio Hendricks.
“The project is funded with more than 200 000 Euro through the German Competence Centre for Local Development Cooperation (SKEW) over a period of three years.”
Hendricks said the project, spearheaded by the Kouga Leak Detection Unit established in May this year, is a key part of the effort to minimise water lost to leaks and non-revenue water of almost 50% across the region.
Apart from the acoustic leak detection, which involves listening for signs of a leak by tapping a stick microphone to a meter or pipe connection – the vehicle is also equipped with a Lokal 100 Correlator (accumulator and PC with two measuring boxes and other attachments that are to be utilized for establishing where in the pipeline the source of the leak is most likely to be situated).
Other equipment used includes a pipe mic – used to detect and locate leakages within a drinking water pipe network.
“It also has the functionality to detect an underground pipe and a very sensitive microphone that is connected to the tip of the device,” said Hendricks.
“To date the Leak Detection Unit has identified and repaired three major water leaks with a combined estimated value of close to R1.3 million in water lost taken over a conservative timeframe of just one year,” said Hendricks.
“The leaks were situated at Platkroon Avenue, Pink Oak Crescent, and Silver Tree Road in Jeffreys Bay.”
Five district metered zones have, furthermore been established: Ocean View, Pellsrus, Aston Bay, St Francis Bay, and Sea Vista.
“Minimum night flows and trends are recorded to identify any anomalies,” said Hendricks. “Visual leak detection exercises, water meter audits, and acoustic detection on meters are also being conducted.
The Leak Detection Unit has embarked on a storm water tracking exercise over the past weeks.
“This entails walking the trail of all stormwater drainage from the outflow points at the lower elevations to the upper elevations,” said Hendricks. “Once flowing water is found in the drains, it is tested for chlorine.
“If chlorine is detected, which indicates the presence of potable water, the source of the leak is investigated and repaired.”
SOME much-needed R57.4 million will be streaming into Kouga’s coffers over the next few weeks to help the municipality secure crucial additional water for the drought-stricken region.
The funding application for drought-relief, submitted by Kouga Municipality has been approved by the Department of Water and Sanitation in September this year.
Kouga Executive Mayor, Horatio Hendricks, said the funds will be used for the development and equipping of boreholes across the region, as well as to construct four water purifying plants.
Of which one is already in operation.
“The first plant has been constructed at the Humansdorp Water Treatment Works – significantly improving the quality of the borehole water, removing iron and manganese through a chemical process that utilize activated oxygen,” said Kouga Executive Mayor, Horatio Hendricks.
“The plant has the capacity to add 6Ml of additional borehole water to the existing reservoirs. An additional 25% to 30% of water capacity is already added to the Humansdorp water supply.
“The second plant is being constructed at the Jeffreys Bay Water Treatment Works and is set to be completed by the end of October this year. Once completed it will add an additional 4Ml of water to the existing reservoir – approximately 50% of water used by residents daily.”
Two more plants are planned for Hankey (between 2Ml/day and 6Ml per day) and St Francis Bay (between 2Ml/day and 6Ml per day).
According to Hendricks, funds secured will, furthermore, be used for the equipping of existing boreholes in Humansdorp and west of Hankey, as well as for the development of new boreholes in Humansdorp (two) and Hankey (three).
“The exploration, equipping of new boreholes and connection to the existing water treatment network is also high on the priority lists for St Francis Bay. Exploration work, drilling, and testing of preferred boreholes are planned for Thornhill and Loerieheuwel.”
A geohydrologist will be appointed for a period of three years to manage the boreholes, ensuring the protection of the aquifer and compliance with the requirements of the Department of Water and Sanitation.
Hendricks urged that residents must continue to reduce their water consumption.
“It is important that all residents reduce their water usage to a maximum of 25l per person per day in a bid to avoid taps from running dry,” he said.
“Thank you to all residents who are saving water, we really appreciate it.”


Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Sunday that President Barack Obama has failed to address the country’s deficit, debt and jobs problems during his first three years in office .
“They’ve got to cut spending, and they’ve got to lessen the unfunded mandates in the states,” the Republican governor said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We need to have things that create jobs, not just promote benefits for people that aren’t working.”
The chairman of the Republican Governors Association said the government could learn from “what states are doing,” pointing out that his state’s unemployment is down to 6 percent.
“Jobs are coming back to Virginia,” McDonnell said, adding that what the country needs is “not more taxation and regulation and spending - that’s not the path to success.”


Figured it out!!!!!
I have a 90 300E and a 91 300SEL. I took out the MAS relay from the 300E and plugged it into the 300SEL. FUEL PUMP works on the SEL! I found one post that talks about MAS units containing the fuel pump relay.
Do the M103 motors have the fuel pump relay included in the MAS relay? Neither of my cars have a fuel pump relay.
Why does FAST LANE show a fuel pump relay for both the 300E and 300SEL when it appear that they do not have one? Nothing against FAST LANE, my local benz shop thought the car had a fueld pump relay too.
This post is for the benefit of the next poor fellow who is trying to figure this one out. The parts books appear to not be very clear on this subject.


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I love cooking and baking with fresh herbs, but I haven’t had much experience with sage. No particular reason–it’s not that I don’t like sage, I just had other herbs I was perhaps more familiar with.
I bought some fresh sage on a whim since it was cheaper than the other herbs at Shoppers ($1.39 instead of the regular $1.99). I’ve read a lot of recipes that pair fresh sage with mushrooms, and lo and behold Shoppers also had baby shitake mushrooms! $8.99 a pound, but they’re so light I got 10 mushrooms for just $1.35.
I kept it simple to let the sage flavor really shine: Sauted onions, sliced baby bella and shitake mushrooms, chicken breasts, and salt. So don’t be afraid, try some sage! You’ll love the hearty, earthy flavor. This is chicken dish is perfect for a winter dinner served with roasted veggies and steamed basmati rice.
Chicken w/ Mushrooms & Sage
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 large onion, quartered and sliced
1/4 tsp sea salt
10 oz. sliced baby bella mushrooms
10 oz. sliced baby shitake mushrooms
2 packed Tbsp chopped fresh sage
3 boneless chicken breasts
1/4 cup white wine or soup stock
- Heat oil in large saute pan over medium heat. Add onions and cook 6-8 minutes. Add mushrooms, sage and salt. Cook 8-10 minutes until mushrooms are soft.
- Add chicken and brown on both sides. Add wine, stirring contents of pan to deglaze (remove browned bits from the bottom). Reduce heat, cover, and cook 6-8 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
Grand total: $9.91; serves 2 w/ roasted veggie & steamed basmati rice, plus lunch for tomorrow.


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Ed Sheeran and actress Ruby Rose have been announced as this year's co-hosts for MTV's Europe Music Awards in Milan on October 25th. Grateful for the opportunity, both Ed and Ruby have tweeted their excitement over the event.
As for this year's award nominees, it comes as no surprise that Ed's pal Taylor Swift might walk away with a whopping nine EMas. Competing against Justin Bieber in three categories- Best Pop, Best Look and Biggest Fans- who do YOU think will be worse off at the afterparty, Justin or Taylor?
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How do I set up a virtual mac on Windows and host a mac server?
You can set up a virtual Mac on Windows by downloading Virtualbox. From there, look at a tutorial on YouTube.
ok i finally got mac os running, where do i download the blockheads server file now?
i got the server running but how do i connect to it? i port forwarded 15151 for the host windows pc, but i cant connect to it
Maybe @Wingysam can help you.
Sorry, I only know how to use QEMU for this, but I’ll still see if I can help.
@jojothka123 are you trying to connect from the same wifi as your computer? If so, what IP address are you using? Is it possible that your router is isolating each device?