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November 20, 2017

New photographs celebrate Queen and Prince Philip's 70th wedding anniversary

https://news.sky.com/story/new-photograph-celebrates-queen-and-prince-philips-70th-wedding-anniversary-11133146

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The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh pictured after their wedding in 1947

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New photographs of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have been released to mark their 70th wedding anniversary.

Three images were published on Sunday night, including one where Her Majesty is sitting in a gold-coloured chair, with Prince Philip standing alongside her.

Two of the other new photos are of the couple standing next to each other.

The Queen is wearing a cream day dress by her in-house designer Angela Kelly, which she also wore at the Diamond Wedding Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving. The brooch she is wearing was given to her by Prince Philip in 1966.

November 19, 2017

Hannity tried to book one of Roy Moore's accusers for an on-air interview and she replies....

https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/932325858768953344

November 19, 2017

question for our female readers: how many times have you felt sexually harassed ?

Sexually harassed = your own definition of it, which is fine with me 100%. Of course, a guess is fine.

I thought of this when I was reading about that nutjob preacher who claimed that, oh the humanity, you women have been harassing we poor males (bullshit).

If this is in bad taste, I am sorry and will self-delete.

eta: in advance for all you women who respond.

eta2: changed subject line

eta3: felt = been, IMHO. I changed my original subject line.

November 19, 2017

Am I the only one who really strongly dislikes the way CNN does BREAKING???

I don't watch CNN very often, but my god, EVERYTHING IS FREAKING BREAKING NEWS, DROP EVERYTHING, CALL YOUR MOTHER, CALL THE NEIGHBORS etc.

They abuse that term to the point of utter ridiculousness. It could be freaking hours since it "broke" and they STILL say breaking.

You too?

November 19, 2017

The great generosity of Abe at Gettysburg

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/great-generosity-abe-gettysburg-article-1.3640585

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3640584.1510957075!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/pres-lincoln-gettysburg-address.jpg

Imagine it: A recently defeated vice-presidential candidate invited to give the main speech at the dedication of a new cemetery for soldiers who died for their country, and the President of the United States asked later, and only half-heartedly, to deliver just “a few appropriate remarks” on the same occasion.

Can anyone imagine Donald Trump ceding the spotlight to Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, at such an event today, much less congratulating his onetime rival later for his effort?

Yet that is exactly what transpired seven score and 14 years ago after Abraham Lincoln accepted second billing at Gettysburg to Edward Everett, a veteran Massachusetts politician who had run for vice president just three years earlier on a third-party ticket. As the President well knew, Everett’s supporters believed Lincoln lacked the capacity to handle the mounting national crisis over slavery.

On Nov. 19, 1863, Everett delivered a long, orotund, quickly-forgotten stem-winder at Gettysburg. Lincoln followed with what he called a “short, short, short” statement that eventually attained the status of American scripture.

November 19, 2017

The Decline in the Republicans: tweet comparing Lincoln and Trump nails it!

https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/932307818346139648

November 19, 2017

How to Tell If You're a Supertaster

http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-supertaster

Most humans can be placed into three major categories of tasters—nontasters, tasters, and supertasters, roughly in the ratio of 25 percent: 50 percent: 25 percent. There is also a small percentage (less than 1 percent) of humanity categorized in a super-supertaster category. Supertasters are mostly women, and people of European ancestry are usually not supertasters. So what exactly is a supertaster? You might think that a supertaster would have a lot of fun eating and drinking, but it’s more like the opposite. Because supertasters experience tastes more intensely than nontasters and tasters, the effects of different tastes detected by tongues of supertasters are amplified relative to the nontasters and tasters. Super-supertasters have it even worse than supertasters. Taste is a good case of “more is not better.”

The best way to describe the differences between the categories of tasting is to take one of my favorite beverages to taste—beer—and explain how each of the categories of tasting will respond to this beverage. The Master Brewers Association of the Americas recommend what is called the American Society of Brewing Chemists flavor wheel to help its members assess the taste of their brews. The flavor wheel was created by a coauthor of Sensory Evaluation Techniques, first published in the 1970s and now in its fifth edition. Morten Meilgaard, a professor of the senses and how to measure them, created the taste wheel to lend a more quantitative aspect to beer tasting.

The taste wheel is quite complex and has gone through many iterations since Meilgaard created it, but it does focus on the complexities of the perception of beer. Examples of the more than 100 possible categories of taste include grapefruit, caramel, farmyard, funky, burnt tire, and baby sick/diapers (which I hope never to taste). It is safe to say that these tastes are the result of many factors, but they all emanate from the very simple contents of beer. In fact, to protect the simple contents of beer, in 1516 Germans created the Bavarian Beer Purity Law, or Reinheitsgebot. The purity law forbids any beverage labeled “beer” to be made with anything but hops, water, and barley. Although yeast is needed in brewing, it is a microbe, and was obviously not recognized as an ingredient 500 years ago. So, the modern concept of taste in most classical beers comes from only four ingredients. The most interesting aspect of the taste of beer, at least to me, comes from the hops and the sugars in the brew, and of course the alcohol that is the product of fermentation implemented by yeast on the sugars from grain.

Although beer is probably several millennia old, hops have been a part of brewing beer for a little more than a millennium. Its widespread use began in the last 800 years in Germany and was cemented in brewing technology with the invention of India pale ale (IPA) in the early to mid 19th century. With the modern advent of microbreweries and the development of custom-made hoppy beers such as the many IPAs that are on the market, this beverage becomes one that has a wide range of bitterness. It might be surprising to note that hops were first used as a preservative in beers. The bitter taste from hops is an afterthought. The manipulation of hops today as an integral ingredient in producing craft beers makes for some pretty wildly hoppy beers. (All of which I enjoy immensely, making me more than likely a normal taster.)

November 19, 2017

fyi, don't go to the CNN.com page about the nuclear orders, malware there

I don't know how to report this to CNN, but just don't go there. You will get a huge fake page pretending to be Microsoft telling you to do stuff. Microsoft NEVER does stuff like this.

Just trying to help. I don't know if pop-up blockers and ad blockers block that kind of shite but at any rate, yea one of the ads on that page served it up.

eta: Just remembered I can report it on Twitter, now reported.

eta2: it is their version of this story https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-strategic-command-gen-john-hyten-resist-illegal-nuke-order-from-trump/

November 18, 2017

"Escape from Cyber Monday with our one-of-a-kind Internet Escape Pod. . Let Colonel Sanders...."

https://twitter.com/kfc/status/931260934764445696

What ? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Like something out of a bad dream!

November 18, 2017

"If you want a fully immersive 'postmodern design hellscape' themed dining experience I highly....."

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