Ingredients
1/4 cup fresh papaya seeds
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 c. yellow onion, chopped
1 tsp. ground, dry mustard
1/4 cup sugar
salt to taste
Directions
Put mustard, sugar, salt, and vinegar and blend until mixed.
Add olive oil and blend.
Finally, add the papaya seeds and onion and blend. You can add more papaya seeds if you want a more peppery flavor to the dressing.
Store in the refrigerator until ready to use. It will keep up to two weeks in the fridge.
Gregor Macdonald has a great post about Dubai, and the human tendency to “overshoot” in everything, whether in building, using up energy, or in taking on debt.
He posts this chart of UAE elecricity demand, which is as great as any photograph in explaining the insane growth the region experienced in recent years.
And he makes this ominous comparison to another state, which we’ve already given away:
According to the CIA Factbook, the UAE in 2008 “only” consumed 18% more natural gas than they produced. Now, it’s probably the case that when the data arrives for 2009 on UAE total energy demand we’ll see some form of a crash in electricity consumption. Perhaps in the next few years the great Dubai buildout will largely halt for time and the Emirates will return to developing their natural gas resources. If the economy crashes hard enough, perhaps their NG balance could get back to even.
Finally, I’m thinking of another state that has to import a large amount of energy, has severe water problems on which it has to spend additional energy for conveyance and treatment, and is also in deep fiscal trouble. The State I’m thinking of has also overbuilt for many years, has an opaque government, and is hoping to be bailed out by its overseeing government. The state I’m thinking of now struggles with vast, empty housing stock. And, like UAE, has an enormous “sovereign-wealth fund” (actually a pension fund) that has suffered large losses. Oh, and this state is also filled with lots of overshooters who think there’s no limit to either physical growth, or the growth of debt. Names that state!
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Filed under: Auctions, Earnings/Financials
The walls are closing in on Dean Kruse, head of the Indiana-based Kruse International auction house. In September, a slew of lawsuits were filed against the company. Further opening the wound, a county court in Indiana has now ordered Kruse to pay more than $1.3 million to a bank in Warsaw — just one of several debtors seeking money from the company — for an overdue loan originally in the amount of $4.5 million. Two foreclosure lawsuits in DeKalb County, Indiana, are pending. One is for $6.5 million in unpaid loans. The other is for a loan in default for $7.8 million. Adding to his growing headache, and slowing down his travel, GE’s financial arm has asked a federal court to repossess Kruse’s million-dollar Cessna corporate jet.
While Kruse isn’t talking to the media about his current events, he told The Journal Gazette last month that the recession has been hard on his sales. Compounding his troubles and drying up his cash flow, his longtime business practice of releasing cars to good customers before payment has come back to bite him. Understandably, he told the Gazette that he has since suspended that practice.
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Followup: Auctioneer Kruse ordered to pay bank $1.3M, has jet repo’d originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
To store ripe papayas, place them in a plastic bag and put them in the refrigerator. If they are left at room temperature they will continue to ripen and become overripe.
They will keep up to a week in the fridge but they are at their best if eaten within a day or two.
To freeze papaya, remove the seeds and cut into cubes or slices. Place them on a cookie sheet and freeze. Once they are frozen, put the pieces into freezer bags or containers. (The cookie sheet method prevents the pieces from freezing together into one solid mass.)
I’ve broadened out the podcast reviews to encompass media which include film and video particularly as there is an ever increasing amount of material on YouTube.
The topic I chose for this review is social anxiety and social phobia (or social anxiety disorder) on YouTube. I found quite a large number of videos on this topic but have just reviewed a small proportion of them here. The majority relate to social phobia and one to social anxiety and they are divided into education and experiential videos.
In this video, the lecturer gives a talk on social phobia with a case study and he also goes over some of the diagnostic criteria. He also goes over some of the treatments and is in two parts which in total runs to about 13 minutes. This cartoon features what sounded to me like adolescent narrators who explain social phobia with references to the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. The video also explains how it affects people and includes references to pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy runing to five and a half minutes. I wasn’t sure of the age of the target audience but the video is well presented and covers a lot of the basic information accessibly. This video is effectively a small number of slides displayed sequentially with background music. The slides contain some details about social phobia but I didn’t find them to be as informative as some of the other videos but this would be useful to someone who wants a rapid overview.
From the experiential perspective, there were a number of videos communicating the inner experience of social phobia. The diagnosis of social phobia is taken in good faith and the people in the videos explain what this means to them experientially. The videos can be very involved and would be orientated towards an adult audience. Certainly in putting together videos of their experiences these people are very courageous and I wondered how the nature of audience affected the social anxiety. For instance if the audience will view the video many years after it was made, how does this interact with the social anxiety? In this video, the quietangel123 has put together images and music to convey the experience of being alone although the term social anxiety disroder is used in the title. AlanJones78 narrates with a background picture about his experience of social anxiety over five minutes explaining the thoughts and feelings he has. Nayomee77 presents two videos (here and here) on her experiences of social phobia and the difficulties she has had in trying to cope with this. These videos have generated a lot of viewings and comments.
These are just a few of the videos that I came across on YouTube but there is already quite a lot of material showing how differently people can communicate the theoretical aspects of social phobia and even how the experiences can be communicated by those suffering with social anxiety and just how much of an effect this can have on a person’s life. Communities can build up in the YouTube forum and it would be interesting to know if this is beneficial through text comments and video responses.
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PS3 gamers had quite a bit to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Sony whipped out some Black Friday deals, Killzone 2 players are getting a Double XP …
* US charities expecting lean holiday. This makes writing proposals even more important, as Isaac explained way back during 2008 in “Market Tanks, Donors Disappear, Corporate Givers Vanish: Not to Worry, This is a Great Time to Write Proposals.”
* How government policy defeats itself, with California as an example. That’s my title for the article, anyway; the NYTimes dubs it, “California’s Zigzag on Welfare Rules Worries Experts.”
* What’s Wrong With Charitable Giving—and How to Fix It.
* Recession Drives Surge in Youth Runaways according to Ian Urbina the New York Times. As Isaac said in a note to Urbina: “I loved the subject article, which reads just like one of our grant proposals . . . lots of anecdotes, a few well chosen, but meaningless, statistics from dubious sources, and an entirely specious argument. You would make a great grant writer.”
The article says things like, “Over the past two years, government officials and experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including many under 13.” Compare this to our advice in The Worse it is, the Better it is: Your Grant Story Needs to Get the Money and Finding and Using Phantom Data.
(Urbina should’ve referenced Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children, which covers this topic from the perspective of the economic boom times.)
* America can’t be the world’s tech leader without immigration reforms.
* Another round of broadband stimulus money should be coming soon.
* Why newspapers are important, part 10,122: “Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost to Health.” Few if any bloggers would go into anywhere near the depth Charles Duhigg does and can.
* Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own. This is from Ars Technica:
ISPs may not act for years on local complaints about slow Internet—but when a town rolls out its own solution, it’s amazing how fast the incumbents can deploy fiber, cut prices, and run to the legislature.
* The worst kind of good news on AIDS.
* The WSJ predicts “The Next Youth-Magnet Cities,” where D.C. ties for first with Seattle. No mention of Tucson on the list.
* Why are some cities more entrepreneurial than others?
* From the New York Times (and linked to by virtually every blog): Chicago’s [Olympic 2016] Loss: Is Passport Control to Blame? The thrust of the answer: at least in part. America’s immigration process is screwed up, and so is its border control, which manages to combine ineffectiveness with invasiveness.
* The Books of Brin—that’s Sergey Brin of Google fame.
* * Computers are less effective at improving developing world education than other, simpler measures, like de-worming.
* The bookcase staircase is very cool.
* A Brief History of Sex Ed in America. Notice how this relates to our post on the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program.
* On helping students to finish college in four years. Given how few students do finish in four, this is of major consequence for economic health.
* Japan shows that knowledge is power.
* Those who would sacrifice property rights to development end up with neither.
* 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee. This comes in visual form.
* Hard-Hit Factory Towns Slow to See Relief From Stimulus.
* Ryan Vent on Libertarians and their “transportation blindspot.”
The Prudential group is withdrawing from the equity release (lifetime mortgage) market during the first quarter of next year.
Prudential said the product, which enables retired people to unlock money tied up in their home without having to move, was too capital intensive, and it could us the funds more profitably elsewhere.
The group first entered the equity release market four years ago, and it now has 14,000 customers and a lifetime mortgage book worth £1 billion.
But it has seen its share of the market halve this year, dropping from 23% at the end of 2008 to 12% during 2009 so far. Lifetime mortgages enable retired homeowners to borrow a lump sum against the value of their property, but the debt is not repaid until they die or move home. As a result, a significant amount of capital is paid out up front, but it is often many years before any of the money is repaid.
Barry O’Dwyer, managing director of retail life & pensions, said: “The focus for Prudential UK remains to compete selectively in areas of the retirement savings and income markets where we can generate attractive returns on capital employed.”
Existing lifetime mortgage customers will not be affected by Prudential’s decision to pull out of the market.
The number of providers of this financial service has dropped from 20 to 11 over the past year.
Can you green your business for free? With the right qualifiers, you might. There is at least one company that will take a comprehensive look at your organization, project out the amount of money it can save on your electric bill by installing greener technologies, and outfit you — free — on a contingency basis and through performance contracts.
Certainly, there are other companies offering similar services. For this reason, this post is not intended as an advertisement for this particular company, but I will use it as an illustration of this business model. If there are other companies offering savings-based energy services, please let me know and I’ll compile a list for a future post.
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Bologna, Italy | Medical Museums
You know you are in for something unique as you walk down a hall lined from end to end with skulls. Housed in a historic building at the oldest still-operating university in the world, the Instituto has a collection of some of the first wax anatomical models ever made. Bologna University was the first institution to create a series of wax anatomical models for their medical students.
The Bologna school of wax modeling was distinct in that they would model wax directly onto real bone. Particularly excellent are the oversized wax models of brains, skulls and heads. Many of these remarkably beautiful works of art are still on display for students and visitors alike. However, the museum is not limited to anatomical waxes. The museum now also displays the collections of the Museo de Anatomia e Istologia Pathalogica or the Museo Cesare Taruffi.
In a room adjacent to the exposed muscles and veins of the anatomical waxes is an extraordinary collection of pathological specimens and models. Amazing and not for the faint of heart, it includes numerous delicately posed fetal skeletons and models of babies born without various organs. Don’t miss the wicker basket holding a dozen apple sized fetal skulls.
Also of note are the twisted frames of the pathological fetal skeletons and the strange and entertaining wax model of the albino with a mutton-chops and mullet.
Phillips, Wisconsin | Outsider Architecture
The untrained eye married to the compulsion to create can produce the most strangely moving art. The Wisconsin Concrete Park is one such outdoor museum housing 237 concrete sculptures built by the self-taught outsider artist Fred Smith. Smith was a retired lumberjack who didn’t sculpt his first figure until the age of 65.
The park’s subjects, which are decorated mostly with shards of broken glass from beer bottles, are figures from American folklore, tradition, historical events and nature, ranging from Native Americans to miners, and from soldiers to woodland creatures. Smith created this concrete walk through American history unmotivated by money or fame, but built the masterwork, in his words, “for all the American people everywhere. They need something like this.”
Kalaupapa, Hawaii | Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries
Cut off from the rest of the world by 1600-foot cliffs on one side and ocean on the other, Kalaupapa, Molokai, is a naturally beautiful prison. When Hansen’s Disease, historically known as leprosy, struck Hawaii in the mid-1800s along with other trade-borne eastern diseases, the government of Hawaii followed what was then common practice: they formed an isolated quarantine and moved the affected population there.
Starting in 1866 with nine men and three women who were allegedly tossed overboard and told to swim for shore, the colony eventually housed more than 8000 people. Despite medical advances and the discovery of sulfone drugs that effectively eliminated the contagious effects of Hanson’s Disease in the 1940s, Kalaupapa remained a forced quarantine site until 1969, over a century after its formation.
The saving grace of the colony may have been the arrival of the 33-year-old Belgian missionary Father Damien de Veuster in 1873. De Veuster lived and worked in the colony, eventually contracting the disease himself. He described himself as “the happiest missionary in the world” before his death in 1889. His work at Kalaupapa has been recognized as a model of compassionate care, and there are statues of De Veuster in the US and Hawaiian Capitol buildings. He is slated to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic church in October of 2009.
Jack London wrote about his visit to the island colony in 1908, saying that, from a distance and thanks to its reputation, it seemed “the pit of hell, the most cursed place on earth.” But after landing and spending time with the residents – watching horse races and listening to dinnertime sing-a-longs – he found himself to be “having a disgracefully good time along with eight hundred of the lepers who were likewise having a good time.”
Now a US national park, the colony is home to a dwindling population of fewer than two dozen voluntary exiles, workers, and family members. The residents of the colonial Hawaiian homes and small church are outnumbered by those in the cemetery, where there are an estimated 2000 unmarked graves in addition to those with headstones. An organization dedicated to the lives and legacy of the Kalaupapa residents is hoping to establish a formal memorial listing the names of all who were exiles there.
Visitation to the colony is strictly limited, and unless you are invited by a resident, tours must be arranged through Damien Tours or the Hawaii Department of Health. People without pre-arranged reservations will be denied access to the park.
Hey guys and girls, looks like Japan and Europe get to update their Walkman X firmware which is said to improve online browsing (is anyone surfing the net on your X?):
This firmware update improves the following performance:
Note
“NetFront” browser installed in your device will be upgraded with this update. After the upgrade, the browser will not display Thai language fonts anylonger. If you want to be able to display Thai language fonts, do not perform this update.
Let’s hope we get the same treatment in the US soon, as I understand it is a holiday season and Sony software engineers just need to tweak the installer to work on the US models. When I tried using the firmware upgrade from a European website, it does not recognize my Walkman model (NWZ-X1051/1061) as it is intended for NWZ-X1050/1060 models (even though the software agreement lists all the US legal language and the installer is for X1000 series).
Anyways, the good news is Content Transfer software is at version 1.3 now and you can get it here and install it without any problems on your English speaking VAIOs, Lenovos, Dells and whatever else you are using.
Content Transfer software is an easy way to get audio, video and photos, as well as podcasts on your Walkman.
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The blog reviewed here is ‘Movies and Mental Illness’. The blog is described as
‘A blog that Danny Wedding, Mary Ann Boyd and Ryan Niemiec will use in preparing the 4th Edition of movies and mental illness‘
While I wasn’t able to find many details in the contributors section about the authors at the time of writing, a quick google search reveals that Danny Wedding is a Professor of Psychiatry and that Ryan Niemiec has authored another book on positive psychology at the cinema. If my search results for Mary Ann Boyd are correct (I may have misattributed) then she is a prolific author of nursing books including textbooks. It thus appears that the group have produced a large and impressive body of work between them.
Appearance and Design
There is a white background with a white rectangular title section. The articles have a white background with orange text in the article title section. The main text in the article uses a black font. Articles also detail the author, comments and tags. On the right hand panel there are links to other sites of interest, previous posts and archives. I found it very easy to navigate through the archives section – the results are displayed on a single page. Further, the articles are displayed in full rather than needing the reader to click on a tab to reveal the full article (which would take up more time).
Articles
The first article in the database is a brief commentary on the 1948 film ‘The Snake Pit’. There are links within the articles to the relevant film details in the Internet Movie Database. What is interesting here as with other blogs is that the readers can contribute to the articles in the commentaries section adding different perspectives as in this post about the film ‘Off the Map‘ which explores clinical depression. I found this review of ‘Night Watch‘ to be quite interesting because Wedding writes that he is left puzzled after watching the film which seems to have no purpose. This in itself is useful as by showing us what a film shouldn’t be according to Wedding, we can work out what a film should be and this in turn gives a value to that same film. There were a number of reviews that draw attention to films with interesting subject matter and these include reviews of Mozart and the Whale on Asperger syndrome, Das Experiment which is apparently analogous to the famous Stanford prison experiment from 1971 and Grey Gardens exploring folie a deux.
Conclusions
This is an interesting blog which publishes a few articles in a month and at the time of writing there were four archived months in 2009. The articles are brief and focus on films that the author has found interesting. Some of the reviews are longer and focus on issues related to the films. This blog should appeal to those in particular who have an interest in the representation of mental illness in films.
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The Leo has had a lot of hype surrounding the processor, and it really should be something special, but the videos below show a different story.
It may well be just an issue of configuration, but so far it looks like the Leo is less good than the Diamond…
Clearly this isn’t ideal with a lot of frames skipped and a generally laggy feeling operation.
I’ll keep you posted as and when anything changes.
The video below is with a slightly different configuration, and clearly shows the HD2 can perform well!
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Tod’s driving loafers and Ferraris go together like gin and vermouth, if not because every barchetta-driving playboy on the Amalfi Coast is sporting a pair, then because Ferrari’s longtime chairman Luca di Montezemolo also sits on the board of the leathercrafter’s company. But now the two companies have teamed up to bridge the divide with a special line of loafers bearing the iconic Cavallino Rampante.
The shoes bear all the hallmarks of Tod’s enduring design – comfort, flexibility, style and those little rubber nubs in lieu of actual soles, all the better for gripping the pedals. The Ferrari line upgrades with little prancing horses, insoles patterned after Ferrari seats and – in the case of the Gommino Mascherina Griglia – a badge on the tongue reminiscent of the GTO’s grille, replacing the tassels or laces on the Leccetto or Laccetto Tubi GT. They’re available in a variety of colors, but will set you back a little more than the horse-emblazoned Puma sneaks available at your local Foot Locker.
Gallery: Tod’s for Ferrari
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Well Heeled: Ferrari and Tod’s team up for driving mocs originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dutch developer Vincent Verweij from Makayama, speaking at the iCE Amsterdam conference, has joined others in expressing reservations about the iPhone AppStore.
“I’m not sure if you still want to be in the App Store." he said.
His company develops mobile application, including for the Appstore, and his biggest success has been the Television app, which aggregates 72 international TV broadcast and spent two and half months in the highest position in the App Store.
Vincent complained that of the intense competition in the app store, with applications being widely copied and then sold for cheaper by hobbyists who code in the evening.
“Shortly after the release of the App Store was it possible for a voice control application to sell for 10 euros. A month later there was a competitor with a similar application for 99 cents, the month after there was a free app. You can not compete with free," says Verweij.
Additionally the influx of big brands like EA and others has meant smaller developers are less likely to get the attention they need to sell apps.
The answer, Vincent felt, was to turn to other application stores.
"We try now to (sell) applications in other stores. For example in the Nokia Ovi Store also Windows Marketplace. The sale of applications that he has this app stores are a lot of draws,” says Verweij.
An additional advantage is that there are not many developers focussing on these alternatives to the App Store.
Verweij has great expectations of the forthcoming Windows Mobile 7.
Co-founder of Twitter and iPhone developer Dom Sagolla added "Apple’s market share is so large that they can only lose."
Source: Webwereld.nl via Allaboutphones.nl
Dear creditors of Dubai World: don’t come begging for cash from Abu Dhabi.
At least, that seems to be the message.
Reuters: Abu Dhabi, wealthy capital of the United Arab Emirates, will “pick and choose” how to assist debt-laden neighbor Dubai, a senior official said on Saturday, after fears of a Dubai default sent global markets reeling.
“We will look at Dubai’s commitments and approach them on a case-by-case basis. It does not mean that Abu Dhabi will underwrite all of their debts,” the official in the government of the emirate of Abu Dhabi told Reuters by phone.
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