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Canaan is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut. The town of Canaan is often referred to locally by the name of its principal constituent village, Falls Village.
If you enjoy watching the leaves change in the fall, this is a wonderful place to be, with many varieties of trees throughout most of Canaan.
The average home listing price in Canaan last year was $221,895 - a small increase of 1.2 percent from last year. In the same time frame, the number of homes for sale modestly declined by 2.6 percent, with 38 listings hitting the market in this year. Quite a few properties in Canaan boast stunning wood floors; enjoy the look and feel of this beautiful flooring without having to tear up any carpet on your own! If you love throwing parties then having a swimming pool is a must, and you'll find them in quite a few residential properties in this location. Quality time will be much easier thanks to the homes in Canaan that have a family room, giving you plenty of space to gather your family for fun and games.
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Investshares Advisor Group Inc.
Investshares Advisor Group Inc. (CRD# 168085) is a financial advisory firm headquartered in Troy, MI. They manage $3,100,000 in 15 accounts and serve the financial needs of clients across 1 states (or territories).
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Saitek x52 Out of the box
First off, this is not a stick for just any casual gamer. I've read many reports of people who are put off by the fact that it has too many buttons, too difficult to program etc etc.
Well the news is out: the X52 is part toy, part gadget and like most things gadget the X52 requires a certain amount of patience to master. The Saitek X52 is aimed at the casual to serious flight sim market who can't afford it's big brother (the X52 PRO) or more expensive models from other manufacturers. So we're not talking Halo controller here. No point and shoot and wake up with a hole in your head. The X52 is for serious gamers who believe in a cause -- that cause being the non-dumbing down of games. Simmers are serious about their games -- and even more serious about their equipment. And let's face it, if you can fly an F16 Fighting Falcon, engage multiple bogeys beyond visual range while avoiding SAMs intent on blowing you out of the sky AND still get back to base in time to smoke a kipper for breakfast, then you really should be able to program this joystick.
The second thing to note is I'm largely comparing this to a ST290 PRO also manufactured by Saitek. This is a twist stick with a throttle lever at the rear, not a HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick for all you Halo players). It may seem strange that I'm comparing the X52 to the ST290, but I think that the majority of buyers will be upgrading from single sticks to the X52 to see whether a HOTAS is right for them. This is the only stick in its price range. It's the cheapest HOTAS money can buy and I think most players will upgrade to the X52 from MS Sidewinders, Saitek Cyborgs etc not from Thrustmaster Cougars or CH Products Sticks which are twice the price. This is for those of you who are thinking of travelling the same route I did.
So it arrives on your doorstep one day and you think "Hell, I just spent $100 on a joystick -- I hope it's worth it"
You go inside with a smaller box than you imagined -- also a little surprised at how light it is. Maybe they ship the stick and throttle seperately? Nope -- it's just well packaged. However the unit is light, so all those used to the weight of a Cougar are going to be a little disappointed.
So it's out of the box. What do you get? Well, obviously there's the stick and the throttle. There's also a connecting cable to join the two together (the joystick connects to the throttle via a 5 pin connector, and then the throttle connects to your PC via a USB plug. This seems a little backward to me because if the stick connected to the PC you could probably use it as a standalone joystick if you wanted, but this is no biggie).
Also in the box is the driver CD which also contains the SST software and the manual. What? No printed manual! That's right! It's a PDF on the CD.That's a real pet peeve of mine, especially on a piece of kit that costs $100. But I can live with it. I've had Saitek products before and know what to expect from the software so I don't need a manual. It would have been nice though.
And you also get a bag of rubber suction cups.
The rubber suction cups are about as much use as a chocolate teapot. My desk isn't smooth so they won't stick. And when you attach them to the stick or throttle they have a tendancy to fall out. Well, no worries, both the units have little rubber feet so that should be ok. Shouldn't it?
So now I have a little bag of little rubber suction cups to play with. Bonus!
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COPENHAGEN, March 31 (Reuters) - Denmark should tighten mortgage regulations for some of its most highly indebted households to help protect financial stability, the country's powerful Systemic Risk Council said in a statement.
Specifically, the government should prevent most borrowers in Copenhagen and Aarhus, the top two cities, from taking on interest-only or variable-interest loans if their debts exceed 400 percent of pretax income, the advisory body added.
Only about 15 percent of loans granted by mortgage institutes in the two regions should be exempt from the restrictions, it said.
The risk panel, which includes the Danish central bank governor and the head of the Financial Supervisory Authority as well as other experts, was established in 2013 in response to the 2008 financial crisis.
Danish housing prices fell sharply in the wake of the crisis, but key urban areas have since seen a booming property market accompanied by rising household debt.
The government has now three month's time to adopt the request from the council. If refused the government needs to publish an account, where it explains and argues its reasons for not following the request.
Denmark's covered bond market amounts to about 2.8 trillion Danish crowns ($402 billion). ($1 = 6.9596 Danish crowns) (Reporting by Erik Matzen, editing by Terje Solsvik)


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|Feb 22, 2005
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|Aug 7, 2000
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|Aug 6, 1999
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|John Zahorjan, Derek L. Eager, Mary K. Vernon
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|Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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|Patent Citations (9), Non-Patent Citations (28), Referenced by (79), Classifications (26), Legal Events (7)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is based on provisional application 60/147,569 filed Aug. 6, 1999 and claims the benefit thereof.
This invention was made with United State government support awarded by the following agencies:
The United States has certain rights in this invention.
The present invention relates to methods of transmitting "streaming data", such as video or audio content, to multiple clients at arbitrary delivery times within a delivery period and as selected by the clients. In particular, the present invention provides a method of reducing the bandwidth or other costs associated with transmitting such data at different delivery times to different clients.
"Streaming data" is data that a client will process sequentially as it is received during a transmission, under a timeliness constraint requiring progress in the reception of the data. Examples of streaming data are video and audio programs, including movies, television shows, news clips, product advertisements, medical or recreational information, or education programs. This list of examples is not exhaustive. "On-demand delivery" of streaming data is the delivery of streaming data triggered by client requests for that data, rather than simply by reaching a previously defined point in time. For example, in a video on-demand (VOD) system a customer might be able to request a video program at any time, with the expectation that the video would be viewable within a small time following the request.
Programs of streaming data may be stored at and transmitted from a server to clients via phone lines, cable, broadcast radio, satellite links or other media. The server may be a single machine or a set of machines that together provide a service.
On-demand delivery may be provided by making a separate transmission of data to each client when the client request arrives. This approach is simple and works with standard receiving devices but has the disadvantage of requiring a large number of transmission channels, one for each new client. The transmission capacity of the server and the intervening communications medium (phone lines, cable etc.) is termed "bandwidth," referring generally to the amount of data transmitted in a given time interval. For this simple scheme of providing on-demand delivery of streaming data, the bandwidth required to serve the clients increases linearly with the number of clients and thus does not scale well to large numbers of clients. The bandwidth can be reduced by "batching" clients, that is, by delaying the transmission of the program to a first client request for some interval in the hope that additional client requests for the same item will be received, and then serving all clients in a batch with a single stream. However, the bandwidth savings achieved by batching is, under standard assumptions about client request times, inversely proportional to the delay imposed in the start of the data transmission for at least some clients.
Referring to
A primary data stream 10 requested at delivery time t1 is delivered at some base rate (indicated by the slope of the line extending from time t1) that allows the client to view the data without interruption once playback begins.
At a later time t2 the server may receive a second request for the same program. Instead of transmitting an entirely new data stream, the technique of piggybacking responds to this second request by transmitting an accelerated data stream 12. This accelerated data stream is actually a different encoding of the program, such that the slightly fewer frames are created for each minute of the program. Data stream 12 delivers the same number of frames per minute as stream 10 but because these frames cover more than one minute of the program, the client receiving stream 12 progresses through the program at a rate that is imperceptibly faster (e.g., 5% faster) than the client who receives simple data stream 10. As a result of these differences in viewing rate, the data streams 10 and 12 will intersect at time t3 and the accelerated data stream 12 may terminate, saving the bandwidth that would have been required for its continuation. After data streams 10 and 12 have merged, the continuation of stream 10 can be merged with an earlier or later stream for the same program, by accelerating stream 10 or by accelerating the later stream, respectively.
Like the previous method of on-demand delivery, piggybacking requires no storage of data at the client's receiver, yet it reduces the bandwidth required for multiple clients. On the other hand, multiple encodings of the file must be stored at the server or created when the file is transmitted to different clients. Furthermore, either the rate at which an accelerated stream merges with a simple data stream is limited by the rate at which a client can view the accelerated stream without noticing that it has been accelerated, or the distortion in the accelerated stream may be unacceptable.
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Under this system, a client wishing to receive the program at time t1 waits until the next delivery time on an even minute increment (i.e., t2) and then listen to channel 20 a to receive the first minute of the program indicated by stream 22. The client's receiver begins displaying that first minute and simultaneously records channel 20 b providing segment 21 b of minutes 1-3 of the program. At the conclusion of the stream 22 at time t3, the client's receiver begins playing the previously recorded portions of stream 24 of segment 21 b at its beginning while continuing to record segment 21 b on channel 20 b. At time t4, one minute later, the client's receiver begins recording channel 20 d in preparation for the termination of the segment on channel 20 c two minutes later. In this way, by simultaneously recording and playing different channels, a continuous program may be assembled starting at any even minute interval. This method is termed "skyscraper broadcasts" referring generally to the way the complete program is assembled from segments of different sizes which when stacked like blocks from smallest to largest resemble the profile of a sky scraper.
It can be seen from this simple example that with skyscraper broadcasts, four channels may provide a nine-minute program starting every minute. If separate data streams were used for each new start time, nine channels would be required so it is apparent that skyscrapering can significantly reduce the bandwidth required for regular transmissions. It should be appreciated that the bandwidth savings is even greater for longer running programs; for example, a two-hour movie can start every minute using just 12 skyscraper channels (with the number of minutes delivered on each channel having the pattern 1,2,2,4,4,8,8, . . . ), rather than the 120 channels that would be required if a separate data stream were used for each new start time. Further the reconstructed programs are not time distorted as required by piggybacking. On the other hand, the client receiver must have the ability to concurrently store and playback received data and must be capable of following more sophisticated storage and playback schemes than are required for piggybacking. Further because periodicity of the initial time segments (for channel 20 a) is fixed and predetermined, skyscraper broadcasting is not truly an on-demand system as the client must wait for the initial segment starting time.
Patching, like the skyscraper technique, assumes that the client receiver may simultaneously store and playback portions of the program and may follow a given storage and playback scheme. Because the technique of patching has some similarities to the technique of piggybacking, it will be explained by referring again to FIG. 2.
Again assume a primary data stream 10 is requested by a first client at delivery time t1 and delivered at a rate equal to the rate at which the client reviews the primary data stream 10. A request for the same program by a second client at time t2 causes the allocation of a second data stream 14 having the same data rate as primary data stream 10 but starting at time t2 from the beginning of the program.
At time t2 the second client receiver also begins recording the ongoing transmission of the primary data stream 10 from stream position p1. The receiver is thus receiving data at a higher rate of a composite data stream 15 equal to the sum of the rates of the data streams 10 and 14. This composite stream merges with the primary data stream 10 at time t3 at which time data stream 14 (being part of composite data stream 15) may be terminated saving the bandwidth that would have been required if data stream 14 had continued for the length of the program without an attendant time distortion.
At a fourth time t4, a third client may request the media stream and composite data stream 13 may be created from the ongoing primary data stream 10 and a new data stream 16. This composite data stream 13 then merges with primary data stream 10 and data stream 16 is terminated. Additional client requests may be accommodated in this manner until the time when a composite data stream will no longer be able to merge with the primary data stream 10 before its conclusion, at which time a new primary data stream 10 is started. Additionally, variants of patching may start a new primary data stream for a client that could merge with an existing primary data stream, as a performance optimization.
The present invention provides true on-demand delivery with scalability better than that of previously existing true on-demand approaches. Further, it may be combined with techniques that do not provide true on-demand service to further reduce the bandwidth requirements of those techniques.
The present inventors have recognized that the efficiency of skyscraper broadcasts flows in part from its merging of data streams into a multi-level hierarchy. At each level of the hierarchy where earlier streams are merged into larger groups, an attendant savings in bandwidth is realized. The present invention, therefore, as a first matter, provides a multi-level hierarchy of merging to produce a high degree of scalability with no program distortion and true on-demand delivery.
The present inventors have also recognized that a fixed merger hierarchy, with each later stream merging in a predetermined pattern into earlier streams, may not be effective for on-demand delivery. As an alternative, the present invention provides a dynamic merger hierarchy which is broadly a function of the actual delivery times requested by clients and that will produce greater bandwidth savings. Non-intuitively, such merger hierarchies may result in a longer time before merging for a given client, and may allow clients to discard previously received data in some circumstances without creating a need for additional transmissions from the server.
Specifically, the present invention provides a method of transmitting a streaming data file on-demand including the steps of scheduling a transmission of a program in response to a client request by a client; selecting a target transmission that is farther along in the program as a merge target for the transmission, so that the transmission could merge with the target transmission absent a change in the target transmission; receiving at the client a composite of the first transmission and data of the merge target, neither of which is time-distorted; and merging the transmission and the merge target and subsequent to the merger, merging the merge target with another transmission.
Thus it is one object of the invention to provide the benefits of a multilevel hierarchy in the context of a true on-demand delivery system. By merging streams with each other prior to merger with an earlier contemporaneous stream greater consolidation of bandwidth may be achieved.
The merge target may be chosen to reduce transmission costs that are a function of total bandwidth of the transmission of the streaming data to clients.
Thus it is another object of the invention to provide a merging structure that flexibly changes to reflect transmission costs.
In one embodiment, the determination of transmission costs may be done at the time of receipt of the request of the client.
Thus it is another object of the invention to provide a dynamic merging structure that changes in response to unpredictable arrival times of client requests.
Determining transmission costs may be by modeling or by the use of predetermined merger rules related to relative arrival times of the client requests.
Thus it is another object of the invention to provide a dynamic hierarchy of merging that may be employed efficiently on simple servers through easily implemented rules or on more complex servers which have the capacity for actual modeling of costs.
In one embodiment, merge targets may be selected by static techniques.
Thus it is an object of the invention to provide at least one extremely simple rule for dynamic merging.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description. In the description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and in which there is shown by way of illustration a preferred embodiment of the invention. Such embodiment does not necessary represent the full scope of the invention, however, and reference must be made to the claims herein for interpreting the scope of the invention.
The example of video on-demand will be described, it being understood that the invention applies also to other types of streaming data.
Referring now to
A server 48 holds a video program 51 in memory 50 which will be formatted into data streams according to the present invention by a processor 52 executing a stored server program 53 (described below) also stored in memory 50. The processor 52 and memory 50 communicate with each other over an internal bus 54 and also with multiple I/O ports 56 which may communicate via the previously described transmission media 41 and devices to multiple receivers 30, 30′ and 30″.
The particular communication protocols between the server 48 and the receivers 30 are not critical provided they allow for broadcasting or multicasting in multiple logical channels and in a broadcast or multicast manner to other receivers 30′, 30″ and 30′″ shown connected via lines 44′, 44″ or 44′″.
To achieve effective bandwidth reduction, clients are merged in a hierarchical manner. A major question for any such technique is how to pair clients for merging. The present invention includes, but is not limited to, a family of techniques that rely on the notion of a "race" to determine these pairings. A spectrum of techniques exist within this family. In each technique, each client (except the oldest) may have a current merge target, and operates in a way that would allow it to merge with that target at some future time, if the media program is long enough and depending on the outcomes of other mergings that are in progress by other existing clients and those clients that might arrive in the future. The succession of merges that occur, are those merges that happen earliest, given the ongoing set of races taking place. Each merge that occurs, and each new client request received, may result in one or more clients choosing new merge targets, and so may change the set of races.
The family of techniques varies in how much effort is put in to evaluating what the set of winning races will be, given the information available at the time of a new client arrival. In this sense, the simplest technique in this family is to choose for each client stream, upon its creation due to a new client arrival or the merger of two existing streams, a merge target selected at random from the set of existing streams at that time. This is not a particularly effective technique, though. A better choice is for each client to pick as its target that other stream ahead of it that is least far along in the program at the time. Like random selection, this technique requires no prediction of the outcomes of current races. More complicated techniques do perform some race outcome prediction, either exactly (under some set of assumptions about future client request times) or approximately, and use this information to avoid assigning targets that are predicted to be unreachable at a given time because of the outcomes of the races in progress.
Referring now to
Referring now to
The hierarchy 100 (shown in
Initially no earlier request for this particular video program 51 are being processed so the first request (indicated by circled number 1) is placed at the top level of the hierarchy 100, indicating that its data stream (as will be generated) merges with no other earlier data streams. The hierarchy of other requests has not changed (because there are no other requests) so the merge target remains the same as checked at decision block 65. Therefore, the server program 53 proceeds to process block 66 where the server 48 responds to the receiver 30 with a control message specifying the identity (for instance, the Internet multicast address) of the data stream that the receiver should listen to. The server 48 then begins a new data stream 80 (shown in FIG. 4), as indicated at process block 68, before concluding its execution at process block 70.
Referring again to
Referring now to
At decision block 65, no change was made to the merge target, hence the position of the first request in the hierarchy 100 so the program proceeds to process block 66 and a control message is sent to receiver 30′ (received as indicated by process block 67 of
Referring also to
As shown in
At the time of the merger of the data streams 80 and 84, the receiver 30 will switch to playing the recorded data stream 80 per normal patching protocols.
Referring generally to
Thus at process block 68 of the server program 53 of the server 48, a third data stream 86 responsive to the request at time 0.3 is generated and the receiver 30″ receives a control message indicating that it should begin recording data stream 80 related to the request on which it hierarchically depends. At this time, the hierarchy 100 anticipates that composite data stream 88 (being formed of recorded data from data stream 80 and the third data stream 86) will merge with data stream 80 at time 0.6.
Referring still to
At process block 68 of the server program 53 of the server 48, a fourth data stream 90 responsive to the request at time 0.4 is generated and the receiver 30′″ receives a control message indicating that it should begin recording data stream 86 related to the third request on which it now hierarchically depends.
Second levels of the hierarchy 100 are unstable to the extent that they lead to a merger reducing the hierarchy 100 again to single levels. This future merger and change in the hierarchy 100 is handled by queuing the merger's times to trigger a change in the hierarchy 100 appropriately. Thus the message provided by process block 67 establishing the dependency of the fourth request on the third request puts in a time queue yet another change in hierarchy message to be effected at time 0.5 causing a reconnection of both the third request and the fourth request to the first request so that a composite data stream 91 formed of newly recorded data of data stream 80 (beginning at time 0.5) and data stream 86 merges with data stream 80 at time 0.8. This effectively collapses out the second level of the hierarchy 100 after time 0.5 as depicted in
This change of hierarchy 100 is communicated to receiver 30″ associated with the second request so as to indicate a new stream to be received. The change is detected at decision block 77 of the receiver program 39 (shown in FIG. 7). At process block 79, the third receiver 30″ receives the new stream, and may choose to discard all of the data it previously recorded from stream 80, without this creating a need for additional transmissions from the server.
By inspection of
Referring again to
Another approach for selecting merge targets is to use one of the methods previously defined for the prior art of piggybacking. For example, referring to
A third approach creates new methods for still more efficient merging by taking advantage of the fact that clients receive and store extra data to implement a merge. In particular, one stream can have a merge target, and simultaneously the merge target can have another merge target. Referring to
1. Early Merging
Early merging supports the intuitive hypothesis that in choosing merge targets, one should merge the two neighboring streams that can be merged at the earliest point in time, followed by the next such pair and so on. For example in
2. Earliest Reachable Merge Target (ERMT)
In this variant of early merging, a new client or newly merged group of clients records the closest stream that it can merge with, if no later arrivals preemptively catch them. For example, for the client in
One way to compute the target stream to record is to "simulate" the future evolution of the system, given the current merge target for each active stream and the rule for determining new merge targets, and assuming no future client arrivals. A more efficient, incremental maintenance of the merge tree is also possible. One approach involves keeping a list LS for each active stream S of all earlier streams that were active at the time S was initiated, together with the ending times of these streams as had been predicted prior to the arrival of S. The current scheduled ending times of all active streams are also maintained, in a list Lcurrent. When a new request occurs, the list LS for the new stream S that is created for this request is set equal to Lcurrent. Further, Lcurrent is used to compute the merge target stream T for the new client, and thus as well the projected length of the new stream S. T's own list LT (together with the projected time at which stream S will merge with stream T, after which T will be able to make progress towards merging with some earlier stream) is then used to compute an updated merge target for T, and an updated length. This (possibly new) merge target for T is now, in turn, considered, in the same fashion as was stream T. This process continues until a stream is reached that cannot catch any earlier stream, at which point the scheduled ending times of the active streams have been correctly updated, as necessary, and an updated list Lcurrent has been formed.
3. Simple Reachable Merge Target (SRMT)
The requirement of ERMT that all merge targets be the earliest possible complicates the calculation of which target stream to record. A simpler approach is to determine the closest reachable merge target if each currently active stream terminates at its current target merge point (or at the end of the file if it has no current target merge point). For example, if client D arrives at time 0.49 in
The SRMT is easily computed. For M currently active streams numbered 1 . . . M in order of earliest client arrival time, let Dj,i1≦j<i≦M, be the distance between streams j and i (i.e., the time, from the current time, that it would take to accomplish a merge of streams i and j). Let T (j) be the known target stream for each stream j<i. Stream i is assigned merge target k for which Dki<DT(k),k and k is as large as possible, k<i.
SMRT overlooks some merges that ERMT finds. (For example, if client D arrives at time 0.49 under ERMT, client D will snoop on client B's stream.) This happens because SRMT ignores the fact that a new merged stream is created when two streams merge. This simplifies the calculation of the stream to listen in on, but results in some merge operations taking longer than necessary.
4. Closest Target (CT)
This scheme simply chooses the closest earlier stream still in the system as the next merge target. In
The merge targets computed by CT are not necessarily reachable, even if no further arrivals occur. The reason is that the target stream may itself merge with its target before the later stream can reach it. When this happens, the later stream must select a new merge target, again using the CT algorithm.
The above description has been that of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will occur to those that practice the art that many modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, the transmissions refereed to above may be divided into fractional bandwidth signals each of which carries less than the full bandwidth required to convey a program of streaming data in real-time, (but which together provide the full data of the program in real-time) and the merging principles discussed above may be applied to these fractional bandwidth signals. In order to apprise the public of the various embodiments that may fall within the scope of the invention, the following claims are made.
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"Great recipe that cooks while you are away; your house will smell like you slaved all day! Use regular noodles (not the no-boil noodles). You can brown the meat and onion the night before and assemble in the morning. This recipe was passed onto me by my friend Melissa."
Slow Cooker Cheesy Beefy Lasagna
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READY IN:3hrs 15mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 lbs cooked meatloaf mixture or 1 1⁄2 lbs ground beef, browned
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 1 (24 ounce) jaryour favorite spaghetti sauce
- 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can chopped tomatoes, undrained
- 2 teaspoons italian seasoning
- 15 ounces part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1 cup parmesan cheese
- 3 cups mozzarella cheese, divided
- 12 lasagna noodles, uncooked
- Brown meat and onion in skillet, drain.
- Combine meat, sauces, tomatoes and seasoning in a bowl, set aside.
- Combine ricotta, parmesan and 2 cups of the mozzarella in a bowl, set aside.
- Spray crockpot lightly with cooking spray, bottom and sides; cover bottom of cooker with 1/4 of the sauce.
- Layer in 4 lasagna noodles, breaking to fit.
- Top with half of the cheese mixture.
- Continue alternating layers : sauce, 4 noodles, remaining cheese mixture, sauce, 4 noodles, sauce on top.
- Cover and cook on low approximately 6 to 8 hours or on high for 3 to 4 hours, until noodles are al dente.
- Sprinkle with mozzarella and some more italian seasoning on top of cheese and let melt before serving.
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Three great angles to my pick for the compelling game of the weekend, San Francisco at Minnesota, Sunday, at the Metrodome:
3. Singletary called signals as the Chicago defensive leader in 1992 in two games against Green Bay in Favre's first year as a starting Packer. Now Singletary oversees a game plan as a head coach trying to beat Favre. He played against Favre in the QB's fourth and eighth career starts. He's the opposing head coach in Favre's 272nd start.
Last angle first. Singletary is 50. It's interesting that he was out of football for a few years, then began to climb the coaching ladder, and ascended to the perch of NFL head coach while Favre didn't miss a Sunday, so that now it's Singletary coaching against Favre, 17 years after they first played against each other.
"I remember the second game we played the Packers that year vividly,'' Singletary recalled from his office Thursday afternoon. It was Nov. 22, 1992, Packers-Bears at Soldier Field, and only six games remained in his Hall of Fame career. Singletary told the Bears before the season this would be it for him.
"Cold. Very cold," he said. "They were marching down the field, and if you're asking me what I remember about him, I could literally hear the ball whistling by me. I got my hands on one and [it] about tore my fingers off. I couldn't see how his receivers were going to catch the ball.''
He said he "hadn't thought about that [the Favre angle] a whole lot. But it is an interesting thing. I've always admired him. Always thought he played the game the way it was meant to be played.''
The 49ers have taken on Singletary's persona in his short time there.
"We got a good chance to see how Mike operated when he was interim coach last year,'' GM
These 49ers are a physical group. The classic 49ers teams won five Super Bowls with three Hall of Fame aerial marvels --
"Football,'' said Singletary, "is a game of toughness. Or at least it should be. That's what it was created to be.''
I told Singletary that one of the things that stands out about him -- and Trotter reflected it well in his story -- is that he's not enamored of great talent as much as great effort players. He wants talented players who love football. He'd rather have a bunch of fifth-round hard-tryers (like his fifth-round, undersized linebacker from Pitt this year,
"I want to say this: You have to have to have talent to win in the NFL," Singletary said. "But it has to be the right talent. Football is supposed to be fun. I want to be able to coach guys who can really appreciate the game, who love the game, who know it's a team sport. The team that wins the Super Bowl every year is not necessarily the most talented team. It's the best team.''
Now for the Peterson side of the story. In December 2007, the Vikings traveled to San Francisco, with Singletary on the 49ers defensive staff and Peterson the runaway rookie star of the league. He rushed 14 times that day -- for three yards. The current San Francisco defensive coordinator,
"You've got to go back and look at that tape,'' Singletary said. "But he's a much better runner now. There's no way we can contain him like that. I remember us going out and playing lights out that day ... The only way you can play him is to play a gang-tackling game. People have to just swarm to the football.''
Peterson, who has been limited in practice this week with a sore back, has heard that defensive strategy before ... about a hundred times. So far, the Niners have played two average running teams, Arizona and Seattle, well. There's much to be learned about the Niners defense, and the team as a whole, in this telling game. But I could sense Singletary was trying to straddle the line between humble and we've-done-a-little-something-here when I asked him about the importance of Sunday's game.
"Do you consider this the way I do -- sort of a barometer game for your team?'' I asked.
"Well, when I look at our first game, the Arizona game, that was a barometer too,'' he said, sending a not-so-subtle reminder that the Niners went to the defending NFC Champions in Week 1 and wiped the sod with them. "Minnesota's a barometer too, but we've got to keep it in perspective. We can go to Minnesota and win a football game, but if we haven't played well, I'm not going to be happy.''
Classic Singletary. Surprised his players are buying in?
One of the strangest NFL stats after one-eighth of the season: Tennessee, ninth in the league last season in defending the pass, is dead last in the NFL in pass defense, giving up an eye-popping 338 passing yards per game after facing
The onus to improve is on the rookie defensive coordinator as much as it is on the pass rush or secondary because the Titans have lost only two significant pieces from the 2008 defense --
The depth on the defensive line is good enough that the loss of Haynesworth shouldn't be crippling. But I don't think Schwartz would have put the blitz in his pocket the way Cecil did late in the opener at Pittsburgh. Then Schaub had a career day in Nashville last Sunday. The new man on the job has to call for pressure on rookie
The Raiders host the resurgent Broncos on Sunday, and I'm interested in seeing


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Shot on location in Montreal, Quebec, the new visuals feature both optical frames and the new Fysh UK sunglass collection recently launched by WestGroupe. Each style highlights bold colors, intricate patterns and polished design details that take inspiration from the latest fashion trends, emphasizing individuality.
The new campaign was first unveiled at Mido for the European, Asian, African and Australian markets, and will debut at Vision Expo East for the North and South American markets.
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FYSH UK is produced by WestGroupe. For more information, visit fyshuk.com or westgroupe.com.


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Facebook Messenger bug caused the app to freeze on some iPhones (updated)
The company says it fixed the issue.
Tackling CES 2018, one newsletter at a time.
'chaiOS' bug can cause iMessage to crash with a text message
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Google denies launching optimized version of Maps for China
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Toyota caves to pressure and adds CarPlay to new models
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The largest all-Bengal body of doctors, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), is caught in a political battle in which all non-CPM parties, including some Left Front partners, appear to have come together to embarrass the CPM-controlled health department.
The IMA (Calcutta branch), in tandem with IMA (headquarters) representatives here, is organising a rally and convention on Saturday at which, for the first time in the recent past, leaders of the CPI and the RSP have confirmed participation, along with Trinamul Congress leaders.
The issues to be raised the Murshidabad child-deaths and the state governments inept handling of the situation are such that the IMA (Bengal branch), despite the perception that it is controlled by doctors favouring the CPM, has not been able to oppose the move.
But the manner in which the programme has been organised has led it to lodge a complaint with the Delhi headquarters, alleging indiscipline by branches subordinate to it.
Saturdays programme comprises a convention at the anatomy lecture theatre of Medical College and Hospital and a rally at Esplanade, culminating in the submission of a memorandum to Raj Bhavan. IMA (headquarters) and IMA (Calcutta branch) are taking the help of the Medical Service Centre and the Trinamul (MLAs Tapas Roy and Saugata Roy are likely to attend with their supporters).
We have invited every political party, including the CPM, as we are interested in voicing peoples and doctors concerns, said IMA (Calcutta branch) spokesperson Sudipto Roy. The CPI office confirmed that the party would be represented at the apolitical rally taking up a peoples cause.
IMA (Bengal branch) secretary Malay Patra admitted that the issues were genuine, but suspected some other motivation, including political, behind the programme.


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Letter to Judge David Klim
14 June 2000
Judge Klim:
I am presently schedule to appear on June 28th for the start of a trial. I have had significant problems with Mr. Bartholomae, who you assigned as counsel, and ask the Court to please assign another attorney and delay the start of the Trial. Please understand how deeply I regret having to make this request. It was my desire to get this matter addressed quickly, but the responsibility rests with Mr. Bartholomae and his conduct.
I also regret having to go into detail regarding his conduct. If I had retained him privately I would have just said goodbye and sought other Counsel; however, I do not have that option here. I'm sure he is a good man and a capable attorney - but for some reason he has been unable to provide me with competent representation.
My initial appearance on the violation was on March 29th. When I appeared in Court I also had a petition pending for support modification (which had an appearance date of May 4th). You assigned Mr. Bartholomae as Counsel for the violation. The next appearance date was set for April 20th. I asked you about the modification and you told me to ask Mr. Bartholomae, that he would know what to do.
I called his office the next day and left a message for him, and about 1-2 messages a week after that. I also wrote him a letter to make sure he had all the materials and to outline how we might proceed. That I had a conflict with the May 4th date because of a trip to Colorado to see my son. I never got a reply. On April 20th I went to Court and he appeared late. We only talked briefly in the hall. He was busy and distracted and trying to familiarize himself with what was happening. I told him I would be out of town on May 4th and could he cover. He told me he would take care of it. He also told me he had been very busy and to call the office the next week to make an appointment for a visit.
I called his office a couple of times and left messages. The secretaries told my he was still very busy with trials. The next week was that of the appearance. I called the office again and left a message reminding him of the appearance on Thursday, May 4th. When I returned from Colorado I called his office and left a message. I never got a reply.
On May 15th I received an Order of Dismissal from Examiner Davies, it noted that no one had appeared in Court! I was very concerned about the future status of my Driver's License (which had only recently been restored). I called his office and also sent a FAX with a copy of the order. I never got a reply.
On May 19th I wrote Examiner Davies a letter (and sent Mr. Bartholomae a copy). I kept trying to call, the secretaries kept telling me he was pretty busy. There were no replies. I simply did not know how to proceed. I called Examiner Davies office, and finally at the end of May got a letter stating I could file an Objection to the order.
Finally, in the very last week of May he called me. He told me that he had been busy and could not return the calls. There was no apology. He also told me he had clearly said during our brief meeting on April 20th that he could not represent me on the modification. I was very surprised to hear that. We schedule a meeting for June 12th, two days ago. I really had doubts about what he had said and began to question his veracity and whether I could trust him. I decided to wait till we could finally meet in person and see what else he might have to say.
We met on June 12th for about 40 minutes. I don't know why, but his conduct was inexcusable:
Judge Klim, there is so much at steak here. I am not asking for "Perry Mason", but I want an attorney I can trust, who will communicate with me, has the time to do the job, and will try to the best of his efforts to plea my cause.
As much as anyone, I want these issues of Child Support and Imputed Income to be resolved. My financial state is a disaster. It benefits no one. I am a moral person and I feel that my actions have been justified and that I have done all that I can to support my son. I came from a poor family, we didn't have a bathtub till I was about 5, no phone till I was about 10, no car until I learned to drive - but my parents loved me and were always there for me. I graduated with honors from the Air Force Academy, became a pilot, involved in the community. Would I have traded any amount of money for not seeing my parents, no. I owe that same commitment to Domenic. I have spent thousands on him in the last year, but it doesn't appear to count?
There has been a simple rule since he has been in Colorado, if I don't see him face-to-face, there is no contact between us. The problems have become so bad that I recently filed a Violation Petition for a change in Custody.
With the proper Counsel there is a chance for justice to be done. Right now I have already purchased plane tickets for Domenic's summer vacation with me (about $800.00). He is looking forward to it and so am I, the dates are from July 13th - August 24th . I plea with you for the chance to just spend some quiet time together, for Domenic, my mother, and I. Mr. Bartholomae also told me I could probably end up in Jail for 6 months, " I had made my bed, and now had to lie in it," as he put it. Please let it be after this vacation.
I have listed the other pending actions on the cover of this letter. In the interest of Justice, is there any way the same Judge can handle these matters? They are all so interrelated?
Sincerely yours,
John Murtari 315-635-1968,x-211


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Resident Life and Housing saw a high number of Resident Assistant applications in the spring of 2009, which has dropped this year as economic troubles decline.
This year a lot of positions have gone down in numbers across the board because people either currently have positions or have found some other means of getting money, said Renee Landers, associate director of ResLife.
In spring 2009 Residence Life and Housing received 150 applications from students, which dropped down to 109 applications in February, which is typical, Landers said.
"Spring semester of 2009 it was a high number, astronomically high," Landers said.
It was the first time Landers had seen such high numbers since her start here in 2001. It was also the first time that transfer students were not recruited during the summer; instead 70 students were turned down. With such a high number of students applying it was harder for Res.Life and Housing to choose because of the limited amount of positions.
"I just didn't have the positions to hire all of those folks," Landers said.
There was a rush to submit applications due to the economic times, which led students to apply for various reasons. Some applied because they really wanted the R.A. position, while others saw the room and half board plans as a means to get through college.
"After looking into the position a little bit more, I realized the outstanding financial advantages of being an R.A., which also encouraged me to apply," Amy Lalonde, a sophomore applied mathematics major said.
The R.A. job requires students to be responsible, to be leaders and to be organized, LaLonde said.
"Since this position requires these skills, I knew that it would be great not only as a learning opportunity, but also as a resume builder," LaLonde said.
Students who applied to be an R.A. just because they wanted a job did not realize the amount of work that goes into being an R.A. Some students really got into the position once they were accepted, while others found it to be a lot harder than they previously thought. Their academic work and R.A responsibilities were too much to handle, Landers said.
"Although the compensation definitely helps the wallet, students should know the commitment that being an RA entails," Kimberly Clements, a junior child education major said.
Clements decided to become an R.A. because she wanted to help other students feel at home at Oswego State just as her previous R.A.s had helped her transition into college.
"I support them in their decision if they think the R.A. position isn't for them," Landers said. "They are here to be a student and succeed as a student. The R.A. job is supposed to be here to help them and not take away from their ability to succeed."


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Review:The Wandering Falcon—Exploding the Myth about Tribal Culture(s) in Pakistan
By Aslam Kakar
The Wandering Falcon, Jamil Ahmed's debut novel, was published in 2011—almost four decades after it was written in the early 1970s. Why it took so long for the novel to hit the bookstores' shelves were the endless rejections from publishers from around the world. One wonders what was it then that kept the author for so long from trashing the manuscript at first.
Perhaps, it was the book's promising content and Ahmed's faith in his words, or, perhaps, his wife Helga's tenacity in introducing the manuscript to a wider network of journalists and writers globally till it was published finally in the US. And no wonder why Raza Rumi, a renown Pakistani journalist and author, says, 'this is the finest book amid all the other Pakistani writings in English'.
One way to look at the book is the incredible hope and power it gives to the aspirants of fiction writing. All writers, particularly the beginners, must understand that no writing is a waste. Good or bad writing is really a subjective opinion. One never knows when one's voice and story resonates with millions' others to change perceptions about people, places, and the world.
The author's first hand experience as a civil servant for decades in the tribal regions of Pakistan makes his' a unique voice to reveal the areas' complex socio-cultural dynamics. The story or stories of the novel, since it is a novel built on a collection of short stories with closely recurrent theme(s) throughout, take(s) place at the crossroads of tribal life and culture and the modern nation-state system. For example, how, in the novel, the check-posts at the Pak-Afghan border destroy the livelihood and meaning of life of the Afghan nomadic tribes that had taken them centuries to form.
I think the survival of people in the rugged and naturally unjust terrain is the recurring theme of the book. Whether it is the Baloch tribes' 'rebellion' against the Pakistani state; the Mehsuds' or the Waziris' tribal vendetta for supremacy; the nomads from Afghanistan fighting the odds of the nation state system; the killed couple, Gul Bibi and her lover, fleeing the spell of honor killing from the enraged Baloch tribesmen; their son, Tor Baz (Black Falcon), the wandering protagonist who appears with peculiar faces in the novel; or, the two women, Sherakai and Shah Zarina, escaping domestic violence and hate into an unknown world, all are in quest for safer and better lives.
The novel also sharply mirrors the tribal wit and wisdom and the integrity of tribal cultural personality overshadowed by clichés like the 'hot bed of militancy' and 'no man's land' used very often by the media to describe the tribal areas and its people. It sets to explode such platitudes, and, instead, offers a holistic insight into a much complex way of life that the tribal people are unknown for.
In one of his interviews with a British journalist, Ahmed says that we all have the instinct of associating with a tribe, which is absolutely true and fine. He maintains that what he likes about the tribal people is the clarity and honesty in what they say or do—a tendency he finds the government and the system short of.
They are, Ahmed says, as honest about honor killing and working as informers for the state as about cooperating with it. An oddity as it is, the truth about it is impeccable. An example of such integrity from the book's second chapter, A Point of Honor, is the 'rebel' Baloch tribesmen's curiosity when the state officials ask them to swear an oath on the Koran for speaking the truth. In their culture, they swear by their chief—the sardar, not the book, Ahmed writes.
Not only that, the officials also violate their offer for negotiations on just terms with the tribesmen by detaining them. And that is exactly what the Pakistani state has repeatedly done to a number of Baloch sardars in history. But, it's media and Pakistani journalists, which Ahmed rightly points out, have been either silent or fussing about injustices and wrongs done to people in Palestine and elsewhere.
Finally, is it a weak state that shapes the tribal people's social and political behavior and their affiliation to the tribes rather than the state or vice versa. Second, while absolutely agreeing with Ahmed about the much authentic nature of the tribal cultural personality, the question is how one can reconcile with this bitter truth reflected in acts of violence like honor killings and endless tribal vendettas. Also, does the alternate dispute resolution mechanism, or the Jirga system, much effective as it is in some cases, truly fulfill people's needs and demands of social justice like in modern democracies.
Ahmed's book is an open question to how the Pakistani state can look in a holistic manner to the woes of its forgotten lands and people and reintegrate them in the system with respect to their way of life.


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