I've gotten stuck with the job of reading through yet another review, and putting things right where they're wrong. That's not the part that's annoying me. The part that's annoying me is the part where the other co-authors either don't bother to cite their sources, or (apparently) don't think that anybody is going to do a quote-check. Because so far, I've uncovered two incidences of plagarism--rather blatant plagarism, too. As in, word-for-word, copy-pasted out of another paper, WITHOUT citiations. Y'know, I can understand where you might get lazy and not put in a reference for something you paraphrase--which is annoying as hell, but I'm human--but to forget to do that for a direct quote is just unforgiveable, IMO.

Is it just me? Am I being an overly-anal-retentive-psycho-bitch? Or is this just REALLY bad?

does anyone have any recommendations for vocal lessons here in vegas? theatrical/broadway singing type of lessons is what i need. this is for a christmas present for my actor boyfriend. he had a vocal coach back home and wants to take some more lessons and hasnt gotten any recommendations or found out anything about theatrical singing lessons in vegas.

hey guys, my name is mel, and all though ive been watching this comm for a while, this is my first post.
today i decided to make potato soup from stuff i had and it turned out pretty darn delicious! heres what i did:

-2 lbs baby red potatoes, cubed with the peel left on.
-2 cups baby carrots, sliced into rounds
-1 med red onion, chopped
-aprox. 15 garlic cloves crushed, then roughly chopped
-1 1/2 - 2 cups sliced mushrooms
-1 tsp salt
-3 cups chicken stock
*i boil a TB spoon of bacon grease in with the stock for extra flavor.

i combined all this with about an extra half cup of water and put on low for 7 hours (while at work).
afterwards i added:

-1 TB black pepper
-1 cup half and half
-about 1/3 cup instant potatoes (if you like it on the thicker side like me).
-1/2 cup milk

cook on low for about another 15mins, stir once.
then i added about 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese slowly stirring in as it melted.

i topped with sliced green onion and more shredded cheese.

i meant to take a picture, but everyone devoured their bowls before i got the camera out!

enjoy!!

I just made my favorite meal EVER in the crockpot. I want to eat it everyday for the rest of my life! I love it so much I kind of don't want to share the leftovers with my boyfriend tomorrow night because he eats like a wildebeest and that will leave less for me...

I work in a restaurant and we have a jalapeno cilantro sauce that I call "crack sauce". The chef refuses to give me the exact recipe because he knows I'm addicted and I think he likes to hear me beg. I have however somehow cajoled the ingredient list from him but he's still holding onto the measurement info. So I'm sorry if the recipe isn't very detailed- I don't know the exact amounts myself!

So I've got a couple turkey legs in the freezer, and am looking for a recipe for turkey leg soup. Anyone have one?

Also, I just realized that in about 12 days, there will probably be a ton more people looking for leftover turkey recipes... so if you guys know of anything brilliant and delicious to do with turkey leftovers in the crock pot... let me know!! I'm a beginner and love the ideas everyone here has...

Ok, so I never use my crock pot on high, but I didn't hear my alarm this morning and slept through when I was supposed to put in the pork roast to make pulled pork.
Recipe is for 12hrs on slow. Does that mean 6 hrs on high?

Please and thank yous all around!

From scarybaldguy 's pic of Knack:

scans_daily is back!

From midknight_starr 's blank:

I maed her this Tiger Lily macro and she said I should post it for you guys. So here ya go!

I'm working to translate "Erdbeben" by Fettes Brot for my German class, and I was having trouble making sense of this line:

"Vom Haus mit Pool in der besten Lage
bis zum sozialen Brennunkt. "

I have tried to look up Brennunkt on some online dictionaries, but i can't find it anywhere. I also checked other versions of the lyrics, and they all have it spelled that way. What does this mean, if anything?

eta: Okay, Brennpunkt makes a lot more sense.

I'm also having issues translating the following line:

"Ich mach dick hier ein auf Player."

Is this another typo in the lyrics, or does this make sense?

I think I was five years old, maybe still just four, when I was taken to see a therapist. Her name was Joan, and her specialty was family and couples therapy. She had helped my parents out a great deal, before I was born, and I think she was the only therapist they knew and trusted. So, they took me to her.

I remember this sitting room, with beige walls and very neutral paintings and a table, where I sat, drawing. My parents were in the other room, talking to Joan. I don't remember being told to draw, but I must have been - I don't think I ever did it of my own accord.

I drew a hamburger in four colors. By little kid standards, it was a good but not great drawing, but when Joan walked into the room, she complimented me on it anyway. "My saba [grandfather] was a painter", I remember telling her, and she agreed that the talent must run in the family.

I remember that moment, sitting on a black leather seat, drawing and discussing that hamburger, so clearly. It's more sensual than almost any of my memories from that time. It's hyper-real. I have a few childhood memories like this, that have a dreamy quality to them that's full of longing and resonance, like they're more real than actual memories. I can still picture the hamburger.

Years later, as a teenager, I was told that I was taken to see Joan because I had threatened to kill myself, something I have no memory whatsoever of actually saying. I don't even remember feeling particularly sad - Joan, apparently, agreed; she thought I didn't really mean it. All I remember is that room, that chair, and my real-as-a-dream hamburger.

Twelve Caesars guests hurt in escalator mishap

I guess it happened at the entrance to the Suetonius Nightclub.

This is a random question, but I was wondering: what sorts of tips, tricks, and programs do you use in order to organize collections of journal article PDFs? I'm undertaking a rather large undergraduate thesis this year, and I'm already gathering a rather large collection of literature to refer to as I'm working for that. Right now what I'm doing is tagging stuff in the file name along with a brief description of the title (example: [ecdysone][fat]inducible-functions), but that's still missing stuff like authors and years which would be useful, but I find when I use file names like that I end up opening a lot more files to find what I need. Even the system I'm using now I usually end up opening more files than I'd like to find what I want. And I hate going through and renaming files after I go on an article downloading spree...

I just downloaded Mendeley Desktop and it seems rather nice, but almost a little too overpowered for what I want to do right now. I want to be able to find the articles I need at a given moment, but I don't really need to annotate them digitally, as I print out the articles I want to take deeper notes on, and I don't need an online backup of them or anything as I have multiple backups on my own external drives. Are there any other programs of a similar sort that are OS X compatible?


Also, another random question but I figured I'd tack it on. I'm planning on applying to graduate school while taking a year off next year. It would be for a Ph.D in some sort of molecular biology program; I'm particularly interested in epigenetics (and I'm aware of all the silliness that undertaking a Ph.D entails, what with lack of employment and misery). I've started talking to my advisors here about possible schools, but I was wondering how all of you who have gone through the graduate admissions process have approached making that list? My grades are quite good, I haven't taken the GREs yet but I will be studying my ass off for them during winter break, and I'll have a solid two years of continuous research on the same project complete by the time I graduate along with the aforementioned thesis. The professor who I do research with suggested I could probably get into a top tier school, and I know a lot of the schools doing research in epigenetics are top tier or very close to it. How did you manage to balance your own interests and institutional reputation?

(If this isn't an appropriate place to ask such a question, tell me and I'll edit it out of the entry. I was going to try applyingtograd but they seem to be much more humanities driven.)

My French dictionary translates "le libéralisme" unhelpfully as "liberalism", however, according to my professor, the word actually means something closer to "free market". This sounds to me more like what we'd call "classical liberalism" in English, which is actually rather conservative by modern standards.

My question is, does "le libéralisme" have the same dual meaning in French that "liberalism" does in English, or is it used exclusively to refer to classical liberalism? If so, what would one call modern liberalism? Also, could some one who supports a free market be referred to as "libéral"?

I know there have been posts about this but I searched the memories and couldn't find anything! My parents are renting a house with an Amana glass/ceramic cooktop and my mom wants to know what the best cleaner for it is. She's obsessive about it - NO streaks! haha. Suggestions? I have seen a few at the store and plenty come up in a google search, but I'm looking for tried and true, I'm tired of hearing her complain every time I come over for dinner :) If anyone recalls the past post(s) about this and can redirect me, please do, and I'll delete. I haven't been able to find them, at least the ones specifically about this kind of cooktop.

So, I just encountered the word "canæt", used seemingly instead of "cannot". Can anybody tell me where this word is used, or anything else about it?

Well, I have an odd question today. Its a little fix-it yourself (so maybe the men in your lives would know too? Im not sure.) My boyfriend and I are wanting to recarpet our dining room and hallway, and take out the carpet in our extra room (which serves as our puppy's room for when we are not home during the day.) The recarpeting isn't a problem, I have a bunch of handy men in my family that will do it for some beer. Haha, but its the extra room Im worried about...all the floors under the carpets are real hardwood (extremely gorgous medium dark hardwood that makes my heart melt in happy. Haha.) My boyfriend wont let us have hardwood in the main areas, so only my room/guest room (my crafting/sewing room) has hardwood. :/ Its unfortunate. We dont want to put new carpet in our puppy's room because she still has accidents and we dont want to spend the money on something that is going to get ruined soon anyways, so we were thinking of just not putting carpet in...there's where I stopped my boyfriend, there is no way Im going to willingly let him ruin the hardwood. >.< I would die. So we agreed to tile it for now...but again...dont want to ruin the wood.

Question: Is there anyway...or anything to put down over the hardwood (like plywood or something) that we can vinyl tile over, but isn't going to ruin the floor under it? Like no glue, no nails in the middle of the floor, ect.

Any answers would be great and extremely helpful! Thanks!