(Part 2) Best products from r/pittsburgh

Get yourself Julia Sahni's Classic Indian Cooking book. It's a great place to start. If you're primarily into veg, another place to go would be Devi's Lord Krishna's Cuisine which is a positively massive cookbook that is great and vedic (no onions, etc. only hing).

Also, Manjula's Kitchen has some good videos.

Kept forgetting to respond to this-

Pita (toasted)
Tuna (raw, good quality)
Spicy Mayo (see recipe below)
Unagi sauce (find this at an Asian grocery, looks like this https://www.amazon.com/Kikkoman-Unagi-Sushi-Sauce-11-8/dp/B00AOQDMJ6)
Crabsticks (shredded)
Scallions
Tobiko (fish eggs found in frozen section of Asian grocery)

Spicy Mayo:
Lots of different recipes, but start out with this. You can add a bit of lime juice, sesame oil or fish eggs as different variations, or decrease the amount of Sriracha depending on your tastes.
Mix 2 Tbsps of Sriracha with 2 Tbsps of mayo and 1/4 teaspoon of sesame oil (you could buy Japanese Kewpie mayonnaise, which has a sweeter tang to it, but I think regular mayo is fine here).

Pizza Assembly:

Coarsely chop tuna and mix with spicy mayo to taste.

Spread tuna mixture on pita, drizzle with unagi sauce, top with shredded crabsticks, and garnish with sliced scallions and tobiko. Enjoy!

Please note: This is not an official recipe. Also don't be swayed into thinking you need "sushi grade" fish. This term is unregulated and most fish have to be flash frozen anyway to meet standards. Buy good quality fish from wholey's or Penn ave fish co in the strip and you'll be fine.

I don't even know where to begin....except here

You really need to learn how to use HTML/CSS. Its extremely easy to build a great looking very simple site like yours with some basic skills.

Learn how to reduce the size of your images. Images should be as tiny as possible. (In file size, not in resolution or quality)

You have no navigation other than using browser forward/back buttons. Good navigation is a key to a decent site.

Yellow background? absolutely not.

The above should give you a start, but I would honestly get a good book and start the site over from scratch.

-1951 (England)- Dr. Harold Gillies carried out one of the 1st types of reassignment surgery for male to female patients using a “flap technique” on Roberta Cowell. That surgery which became the standard for 40 years. Described in this paper. & More on Roberta Cowell from the Telegraph.

-1952 (USA)- The American public at large is introduced to the concept of transgender people when ex-GI Christine Jorgensen returns home after traveling to Europe for surgeries that make her the 1st American woman to undergo a penectomy & vaginoplasty. She then appears in a story on the front page of the New York Daily News. From there she becomes a nationally known name and the first American transgender celebrity. An NBC News article on her. & Jorgensen also wrote an autobiography that’s still available here.

-1953-1954 (Denmark)- Charlotte Frances McLeod, another ex-GI becomes the 2nd Amercian woman to undergo transition surgery after traveling to Denmark for the procedures. A newspaper article from later mentioning her.

-1953 (Taiwan)- Xie Jianshun becomes the 1st Taiwanese person to undergo sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) and likely the first Asian person as well. They were unfortunately forced into those firsts when their intersex status was discovered by Republic of China Armed Forces & they were made to have surgery to be politically correct. Xie's story is mentioned in this article.

-1956 (Morocco)- Dr. Georges Burou an ex-pat French gynecologist, develops a new type of male-to-female surgery, the pedicled skin inversion vaginoplasty. It uses live penile skin grafts to construct the neo-vagina. Worldwide publicity ensues & draws patients to the Casablanca clinic from around the globe. Over the next thirty years 3,000 trans patients pass through its doors. More on his surgery here.

-1958 (Morocco)- Coccinelle becomes the 1st publicized French person to undergo reassignment surgery after traveling to Morocco for surgery with Dr. Burou. She goes on to become a media sensation and prominent singer in Europe. Her 2006 obituary.

-1959 & 1960 (England)- Psychiatrist John Randell writes two important papers: 1959’s “Transvestism and Transsexualism” which appears in the British Medical Journal & records of his study of 50 particular transgender patients he has seen. And his 1960 unpublished University of Wales MD thesis “Cross Dressing and the Desire to change Sex” which records that he saw 61 male and 16 female cases of transsexualism himself over the course of the 1950s. The first paper is available here & the 2nd mentioned here.

-1965 (USA)- Dr. John F. Oliven first uses the word “transgenderism” in a medical text, “Sexual Hygiene & Pathology”. He uses it to mean transvestitism in the sense we know it as know, but his creation of the term "transgenderism" would go on to evolve into its current meaning during the 1970s. His text is still available for purchase here.

-1966 (USA)- Dr. Harry Benjamin publishes his book “The Transsexual Phenomenon” the first large work describing & explaining the affirmative treatment path he pioneered for transgender patients. The 1966 version is out of print, but here is it’s placeholder page. A 1969 updated edition is available for purchase on JSTOR.

-1966 (USA)- The 1st use of the term “gender identity” occurs in a press release from John Hopkins Hospital on November 21, 1966, to publicize their new clinic for transsexual patients. It is likely the first such dedicated clinic in America. An article about it from Baltimore Magazine.

-1969 (England)- The First International Symposium on Gender Identity is held in London. It’s the first international medical conference dedicated strictly to gender identity and transgender medical issues. Sound recordings made of the event are available here.

-1969 (USA)- Stonewall. LGBT rights and medical care are now indisputably not just a medical field of study but a mainstream American topic of public discourse. {I'll stop at this point because everything after is certainly considered the modern era of LGBT history.}

[-Further Information Sources-]

(Specific Links)

-Magnus-Hirchfield.de site- https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/ausstellungen/institute/

-"Pioneers of Transgendering: The Popular Sexology of David O. Cauldwell" by Ekins & King, available archived online here- https://web.archive.org/web/20060428021447/http://www.symposion.com/ijt/cauldwell/cauldwell_01.htm

-"Gender Identity in the Weimar Republic" on JSTOR- https://daily.jstor.org/gender-identity-in-weimar-germany/

-"A History of Transgender Health Care" on Scientific America: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-history-of-transgender-health-care/

-"The early 20th-century German trans-rights activist who was decades ahead of his time" on The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/the-early-20th-century-german-trans-rights-activist-who-was-decades-ahead-of-his-time-106278

(Specific Books)

-"Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement" by Ralf Dose (2014)

-"The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture" by Heike Bauer (2018)

-"Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology" by Charlottle Wolff (1986)

-"The First Man-Made Man" by Mary Roach (2007)

Yeah, you just make a huge batch of filling (potatoes + cheese, cabbage, whatever), and then the outside is like a dough with stuff you can easily get from the supermarket. There are lots of recipes online.... and for the shapes, we have one of these things but to be honest you could get the same result with a rolling pin (or better, pasta roller if you happen to have one to get the dough even and not too thick) and a fork for the crimping.

Great link. TY

Is there a definitive determination on the legality of something like a Kershaw pocket knife with "SpeedSafe"? Kershaw OSO Sweet

I'll add that I saw Kershaw knives with SpeedSafe at my local Walmart...

I use the Mohu Leaf 50 Antenna and I get HD-quality KDKA (CBS), WPXI (NBC), and WPGH (FOX), as well as a bunch of PBS channels, the CW, ME.TV, and some other random channels. I can't get WTAE (ABC) to come in, but I've read that other people have the same problem.

You'll get all the Sunday Steelers games because they're always on either CBS or FOX. The only ones you'd miss would be Monday night ones on ESPN. If you know someone with cable, you can use their login to verify your Roku, and use the WatchESPN app for the Monday night games, and all other ESPN programming.

Baseball and hockey are a little more complicated, because the Pirates and Pens are blackedout on the MLB and NHL streaming services. I use Unblock.us with my Apple TV and was able to stream Pirates games perfectly with my MLB.TV subscription (~$130 for the season). Unblock.us is $5 a month. I'm sure this setup would work for the NHL streaming service as well, but I haven't tried it myself.

Alternatively, if you have a jailbroken iOS device or rooted Android device, you can download a location spoofing app, set your location somewhere outside the US and Canada, and watch the games on that device/stream them to a TV via a Chromecast. This is a little more cumbersome, but you'd save $5 a month not needing Unblock.us

$30 is probably worth it..but I did go to a bike PGH event where they gave out free lights to everyone that attended. Maybe if you reach out to them they could hook you up?

Edit: found this one for under $10 on Amazon BV Bicycle Light Set Super Bright 5 LED Headlight, 3 LED Taillight, Quick-Release https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A6TBITM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_ArVywbN1SWFR6

Kinda quasi-Pittsburgh book, but I really loved Confessions of a Hero Worshipper

Had a themed wedding and bought one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Nostalgia-PCM805RETRORED-Retro-Sugar-Cotton/dp/B004XD8FFW/ref=sr_1_3?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1492267699&sr=1-3&keywords=cottono+candy+machine

Worked pretty well. This might not solve your immediate problem, but it's a fun thing to have around if you do kids parties.

I'd agree with some other folks. I could swear I remember seeing it at the Robinson Giant Eagle.

There are places with public-use mircowaves. If you learn some of them along your route, you might be able to utilize them with leftovers of your choice.

You might also try to follow the food truck scene to see if any are in an area you're working (https://www.foodtrucksin.com/city/pittsburgh_pa) though they're only a step above "fast food" most of the time.

You actually can't go bad with Subway if you order the 6" and are selective with what you have put on it. I guess this counts as cold foods.

Have you thought about thermoses? I don't know how long your day is, but they can keep things like stews/soups warm a good time, and both of those are okay to eat tepid. You can even layer them.

Considered one of these? https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Portable-Cooler-Warmer-28-Quart/dp/B072826X13/ [research for which model, not endorsing that specific one]

EDIT: You could also carry with you an electric kettle and do plenty with hot water + packaged foods. (Cup of noodles, etc)

A friend of mine, Eric Sipple, wrote a YA fantasy novel set in Pittsburgh, I like it a lot and not just because he's a friend ;) http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009FLIA9S/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

Intel all the way. I didn't believe the hype but was seeing 250mbps caps on my realtec onboard nic. Bought Intel nics for all my boxes and never looked back.

I'd be interested to see what hardware you go with for your PfSense box. I went with this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OY8Q0QC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and a 8GB stick of ram. I love it.

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Box-320mAh-Battery-Dashboard/dp/B00J2OVN74

This is one of the ones I see recommended quite often, I bought mine almost two years ago (June 2014) and attached it behind my mirror, ran the wire up around the edge of the headliner, down through the A-pillar trim, under the dash, and to the cigarette lighter via the edge of the glove compartment. I also bought an add-a-fuse that I was planning on adding a hardwired cigarette lighter outlet for it but I never seem to get around to it.

Still works like new, gets great footage

I don't believe much, but I accept it as the best explanation for what we currently know about quantum physics.

Edit: Link for desktop: http://www.amazon.com/The-Quantum-Universe-Anything-Happen/dp/0306821443 (I had posted the mobile link before)

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-black-families-have-struggled-for-decades-to-gain-wealth-2019-02-28

Also take a look at the policies that excluded people of color from social security. The GI bill provided for returning soldiers’ education but the only colleges that accepted minorities were for things like farming. So while white guys came back and became engineers, people of color were still only able to access lower income jobs. Then there’s redlining which prevented black families from becoming homeowners. Homeownership is the main way people gain wealth. So the simple answer to your question is structural racism.

I’m reading this book right now (https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414) which I highly recommend.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1893162192?pc_redir=1407160099&robot_redir=1

When I went to Cal, the author of this book was a local legend. He was probably around 60 and partied with the best of us. He probably still does. Anytime I went into a local bar, he was in there, slamming drinks and writing. God knows if it is any good, this Souls of Steel, but he is an entertaining fellow.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077H1Z3VV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0LNNBbGHXSQR3




This is way better than that eyesore that everybody has.