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I totally agree with the last post,
its strange how the tasks get easier as the game goes along, especially when auto pilot is introduced.
Being able to change the aircraft upon each new task is also counter productive as the whole point of a task is completing it to the letter.
I loved achieving my rank throughout the tasks though, that was definatly the main reason that kept me playing, but now there seems to be no point in carrying on once you get to the rank of inspector.
I really hope the game still gets worked on with more tasks and goals to aim for, because its a wonderful game even if its only while you reach the rank of inspector.

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TDATS 60 is a collection of tracks that feature brass instruments. Not often associated with hard rock, I set myself this challenge and found some really great music in the end. There was a bit of a "Brass Rock" movement within the progressive scene around the late 60s/early 70s with bands like Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago being at the commercial forefront. Then there were the lesser-known acts like the UK's Heaven, CWT, and Walrus who embellished their hard rock and heavy jazz sounds with brass.
We start with a real rarity that I must credit an online friend of mine, Marc, for bringing to my attention as I surely would not have found it any other way. Jeff Sturges' Universe was a hard rock big band recorded live at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in 1971. Sturges was a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band at North Texas State and went on to become musical director for Tom Jones. Dean Parks, guitarist of the ensemble, was also a member of The One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. Dean is best-known through his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan.
Next up is Minnesota's Crow, and yes, they were the originators of Evil Woman. It appeared on their 1969 album Crow Music, a song soon to be immortalised as Black Sabbath's first single in 1970. Strangely enough, it was also covered by Ike and Tina Turner as 'Evil Man'. Kent, UK's "CWT" made an album of brass-flecked hard rock in 1970 called The Hundredweight, lead by the gravelly-voiced Graham Jones, and the next track is one of my favourites on this volume, that I found on a compilation which celebrates a famous 1971 Mexican rock festival, Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro. División Del Norte used horns-a-plenty, in their energetic mix of sounds. The name "División del Norte" (Eng: Northern Division) came from an armed faction formed following the call to arms from Francisco Madero at the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
The Blood, Sweat & Tears track is taken from their 4th album "BS&T 4". It the heaviest track from this otherwise pop/jazz rock orientated New York ensemble, recorded at a time when they were losing their underground credibility having taken part in a United States Department of State-sponsored tour and recorded a soundtrack for a Barbra Streisand movie, The Owl and the Pussycat. Southampton, UK's Iguana were a very short-lived act who managed to get one album recorded on the Ploydor label before being adopted as Jess Roden's backing band for a few years, effectively ending their own original music writing. Lillestrøm, Norway's Undertakers Circus recorded two albums of brass'n'roll, they are one of the only non-english singing bands here and Birmingham, UK's Galliard had two albums on the Deram/Nova label, which concentrated on the new progressive rock movement of the time, and is a planned theme for a forthcoming comp...
The Alan Bown (originally The Alan Bown Set, and later just 'Alan Bown') trod the well-worn path from 60s psych to early seventies proto-prog, and featured some nice arrangements with the emotive vox of Alan Bown himself. At one point they also included the afore-mentioned Jess Roden, on their 1968 album "The Alan Bown!". This track is taken from the next album 'Listen' which developed a slightly harder edge. Having found Sandston, Virginia's Short Cross for vol53, they are perfect contenders for this one too. An equal mix of blues, hard rock and extra instrumentation, with musicianship and a big production that belies the band's small label and humble origins...doomed to fade into obscurity.
Track 12 features versatile keys man Brian Auger, who had a commercial day job with his backing band The Trinity and collaborations with Julie Driscol (of 'This Wheels on Fire' fame), and a prog night life with bands like Mogul Thrash (see vol20) and his solo 'Oblivion Express' work. Black Cat is a great fun track.
Portsmouth, UK's Heaven debuted at the Isle of Wight festival and were managed by its organiser Rikki Farr. Their debut (and final) double-album "Brass Rock 1" was an ambitious affair which experimented a lot, with patchy results but it does have some of the hardest rocking brass rock I have found so far. Get a load of the dirty bass in "Number 2". The comp ends on a track from a band called 'Room' that regulars here will know I like a lot, I have been awaiting a reason to use this one. Cemetery Junction [Parts I and II] is a gargantuan song of wide vision that distils Room's hard rock, blues and jazz tendencies perfectly into 8 and half minutes of proto-prog bliss. There's even a hint of Sabbath's jazzy swing in the riffs, awesome stuff!
Track List:
01. Jeff Sturges and Universe - Never In My Life (Mountain cover) (1971)
from album"jeff sturges and universe"
02. Crow - Evil Woman / Gonna Leave a Mark (1969)
from album "crow music"
03. CWT - Simon's Effort (1973)
from album "the hundredweight"
04. División Del Norte - It´s A New Day (1971)
from compilation "festival rock y ruedas de avándaro" (2002)
05. Walrus - Who Can I Trust (1970)
from album "walrus"
06. Blood, Sweat & Tears - Go Down Gamblin' (1971)
from album "bs&t 4"
07. Iguana - Iguana (1972)
from album "iguana"
08. Undertakers Circus - Mor Norge (1973)
from album "ragnarock"
09. Galliard - Skillet (1969)
from album "strange pleasure"
10. The Alan Bown - Curfew (1970)
from album "listen"
11. Short Cross - Nothin' But a Woman (1972)
from album "arising"
12. Brian Auger & The Trinity - Black Cat (1968)
13. Heaven - Number Two (1971)
from album "brass rock 1"
14. Room - Cemetery Junction [Parts I and II] (1970)
from album "pre-flight"
Thanks for listening! Rich
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1959's triumph: 'Charlottesville 12' get pair of plaques
The "Charlottesville 12," the African-American boys and girls– now men and women– who boldly strolled into Venable Elementary School and Lane High School 52 years ago to break down the walls of segregation, finally got to see their struggle commemorated with a pair of permanent historic markers. The signs were dedicated Friday, November 18 on the grounds of the two schools, one of which is now the Albemarle County Office Building.
"That's the most amazing thing," said John Martin, in a post-ceremony interview as he gestured toward the steel marker on the grounds of what had been Lane High School. "I would have never dreamed it."
Martin, who now lives in Richmond, told the story of what it was like to be a 14-year-old on the front lines of integration in a 2004 Hook cover story.
The commemorations include another chance to meet the Charlottesville 12, an 11am Saturday, November 19 event in the Venable auditorium.Read more on: desegregationracial integration
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Hawes, that last sentence is begging for a verb.
If this happened in 1959, it's only 52 years ago.
I'm the same vintage: I think I'd notice an extra decade.
Is the event Saturday Nov. 19? Or Friday, Nov. 18?
This is an excellent source of information for anyone wishing to know more about this period of Charlottesville history and the players involved.
The Bus Stops Here: A Study of School Desegregation in Three Cities
by Anna Holden
Thanks for your coverage. Friday was Nov 11 though, not 12.
God i love hometown history! Remember this is after the schools here re-opened since they were closed down locally after integration became law.


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Two of the world's largest consultancy firms, Accenture and Capgemini, have been dragged into the ongoing UK corporation tax row, after it was revealed that in recent years they have only paid between 1 and 3.5 percent on hundreds of millions of pounds of profit.
For example, Accenture only paid £2.8 million tax on nearly £82 million of profits in Britain last year.
This works out at under 3.5 percent of its profits, when the standard corporation tax rate is 25 percent in the UK. According to the Sunday Times, its accounts also disclose that it paid no UK tax in the previous two years on more than £180 million of profits.
Executives from Amazon and Googlewere also recently grilled by a parliamentary committee on how their UK operations pay tax.
Both internet giants have been criticised in recent months for making substantial sales in the UK, but only paying a small amount of tax to the Treasury – as little as 1.5 percent on hundreds of millions of pounds in some instances.
According to the reports, Accenture is being audited by tax authorities in America over cross-border deals between its various subsidiaries, which can shift profits into tax havens or low tax countries.
Accenture is also a key player in HM Revenue & Customs'£8 billion 'Aspire' contract to provide its main computer systems. It also has a £9.6 million contract with the department to provide technical support.
An Accenture spokesman said: ""Accenture pays tax in accordance with the tax legislation of each country in which it operates."
Capgemini, the lead on the Aspire contract, only paid £308,000 of corporation tax last year on £38 million of profits – less than 1 percent. It told the Times that tax relief on a pension deficit and losses in previous years were the main reasons for the low rate of tax.
Margaret Hodge, chairwoman of the public accounts committee, said she is going to question HMRC officials on the findings. She said: "It is absolutely absurd if HMRC are doing business with companies that are not paying their fair share of tax."
Martyn Hart, National Outsourcing Association Chairman, has also come out and said that it is time for a change in the law to ensure that companies earning revenues from the taxpayer should pay their fair share in taxes.
"That the largest of companies pay the least tax is a failure in the system, and this loophole needs to rectified. If companies earning from the government paid more tax, maybe there would not be such a great need for budget reductions," said Hart.
"Attitude to taxes could become a differentiator. Of course, price, technology and service levels will remain crucial aspects of a bid, but maybe the company that pays the most tax could prove to be the most attractive bidder – The NOA would like to see the tax factor built into the public sector RFP evaluation process, to make sure companies with the most honest approach to taxpaying get the most business from government."
He added: "HMRC would need to facilitate this, providing clear and open information and guidance to government departments needing to check potential suppliers' taxpaying credentials. A scoring system, a tax attitude health-check is required – something transparent, for fair comparison between companies - so that organisations that are currently operating carefree, paying next to no tax, but perfectly within the law, have a more morally righteous code to operate under."


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Track Athlete Singles Himself Out
At the age of 21, Singleton has begun to turn heads in the track world, and on Sunday he qualified for the Paralympic Games for the first time.
"I just try to do what I can to the best of my ability and I hope that it inspires people," Singleton said about drawing attention to his recent surge on the track. "I got my first fan letter three weeks ago, so I guess I've inspired somebody."
The Trials, which ran at Arizona State University, was the athletes' sole chance to make the U.S. Paralympic Track & Field Team that will compete in Beijing, China. Singleton saw himself on the same level as any of the other competitors heading into the Trials.
"I feel that I have a pretty good chance of making the team," Singleton said before the trials. "I'm just working on relaxing, making sure I want to run the race."
The Trials concluded Sunday, and the team was announced as the sun went down. But Singleton did not attend the nomination banquet and would have to wait by the phone to find out if he made the team. As he sat by the phone, time passed in silence.
He was getting worried.
Eventually, Singleton, who was tired from the long weekend under the boiling Tempe sun, fell asleep.
Around midnight in South Carolina, Singleton was awakened by an awaited ring. His friend, David Prince, called with the good news. Singleton was going to Beijing.
"I was ecstatic," Singleton said about the phone call. "This takes a relief off my shoulders. This takes a burn off my shoulders. I was able to go to sleep without being nervous anymore."
It won't really sink in until September, though.
"It hit me a little bit," Singleton said about his nomination. "But it's not going to really hit me until I'm on the plane to Beijing."
Singleton was born without a fibula in his right leg (known as fibular hemimelia) and with an extra thumb. When he was 18 months old, his parents had to decide whether to amputate his leg or allow him to undergo surgery every year for about the next 20 years. His parents decided to amputate his leg, and Singleton said he would have done the same.
"I've seen people who kept their foot and they didn't have the same functionality," Singleton said.
Now at 5-foot-9, Singleton won the bronze medal in the 100m (men's T44 division) at the 2007 ParaPan Games and the silver medal in the 200m (T44). The Games served as his first formal international competition, giving him a better idea of the field he will face in Beijing.
"There's a (large) range of people outside of the U.S.," Singleton said he realized at the Games. "I felt a lot of pressure. My reaction was based off all of the different languages."
In 2006, Singleton had a successful showing at the Endeavor Games in Edmond, Okla., where he took home the gold in the 100m, long jump and high jump, and the bronze in the 200m.
Troy Engle, Associate Director and Head Coach, Paralympic Track and Field, said Singleton has definitely not gone unnoticed the last couple of months.
"Hands down, he's the most improved athlete on our elite squad," Engle said. "He's gone from an emerging athlete to a contending athlete to be on the podium in Beijing."
But the Greenwood, S.C., native is not just talented on the track, as he excels just as much in the classroom. Singleton said school is his primary focus, and that track always follows as a close second.
Singleton graduated from Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, S.C., where he was a member of the varsity football and track teams, and was also on the junior varsity basketball team.
He now attends Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., where he is pursuing a triple degree in math, physics and biomechanical engineering. Next fall, he will be transferring to the University of Michigan. Eventually, Singleton hopes to pursue a Master's in bioengineering and possibly a Ph.D. He then wants to go into consulting or become a professor.
"It's time consuming," Singleton said about everything he does, "but at least with track I can keep my body in shape."
Last summer, Singleton studied and worked in Geneva, Switzerland, in a program through Yale University, and also at the Park City Mathematical Institute in Park City, Utah. He flew back home just two days prior to the National Championships.
The track star averages just six hours of sleep per night, and sometimes gets only three or four.
"When it comes to sleep, it all depends on what I have to do," Singleton said.
Engle describes Singleton as a "fine scholar-athlete" who is driven in everything he does.
"He's a brilliant kid with the world at his feet both on and off the track," Engle said. "I can't imagine there's a lot he approaches in his life in a half-hearted fashion."
Most of Singleton's inspiration, both in school and on the track, has come from his parents, particularly his father. Jerome Singleton Sr. is the head of the South Carolina High School League and started his son in sports at the young age of five.
"They seem to be more excited than I am," he said about his parents when they found out he made the team. "Me, I'm more happy to see others do well. I get more excited when others do well because you can control yourself to a certain degree, but you can't control what others do."
The young star has come so far only because he admires others like he does.
"Everyone's story is so impressive," Singleton said. "Everyone's story inspires me."
For his parents, though, their son's story impresses them the most.
"They call me every day," Singleton said about his parents. "They keep me grounded."
If Singleton is stressed out about anything, all he has to do is pick up his phone.
In their daily conversations, his parents always reassure him with the words,
" 'You'll get better. You'll fight through it.' "
But Singleton won't rest until he reaches his goal - the top.
"I have a desire to be the best in all aspects of life," Singleton said. "If I'm an athlete, I want to be the best athlete. If I'm a researcher, I want to produce the best research."
Many people do not know that Singleton also has a strong faith that pushes him both in his studies and on the track.
"I have a lot of faith," Singleton explained. "I'm a devout Christian believer. I pray a lot to help me."
Singleton's next goal is to medal in Beijing. He got a taste of competition at the Trials and wants to represent those close to him on the podium in September.
"I hope to make everybody proud," Singleton said. "I hope to make my country proud."
Now that Singleton knows he has inspired at least one other person, he feels he needs to keep gaining ground on the track and steadily rise to the top.
"You just need to be dedicated," the new Paralympian said. "Don't let your disability hold you back."
And after seeing international competitors for the first time in Rio de Janeiro, Singleton received all the inspiration he needed to qualify for Beijing and make his name known to the world at the Paralympic Games in September.
"I've seen the most abled disabled individuals - that inspires you to do well," Singleton said. "You want to be so good that people don't compare you."
According to Engle, Singleton is already there.
"He's gotten there because he's worked hard and shown commitment. I'm sure he didn't take the path of least resistance," Engle said. "He's Jerome Singleton."
Singleton is one of 44 athletes nominated to the 2008 U.S. Paralympic Track & Field Team that will compete in Beijing in September.


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Saturday, August 29, 2009
--and our fat, lazy Ballantine keeps us from having to read all the bad news in the newspaper:
Unfortunately, she also likes to lay on the comics, the drive-in movie times, and the garage sale listings, but that's the price you pay, I guess.
In other news, Willow woke barfing at 3:00 this morning. She felt better, fortunately, after just three or so hours of being VERY ill, but I still kept her in bed all day (thank GAWD for Netflix's Watch Instant--Willow had her first exposures today to Meercat Manor, Blue's Clues, Kipper, AND the Wiggles), and she's been sound asleep, I'm hoping for the night, since about 5:00 pm, poor kid.
Syd, of course, absolutely basked in being the only kid on call today. The constantly-running television soon paled in comparison to a set of parents able to completely focus on her (although probably asking her if her tummy hurt or if she felt like throwing up a little too often to be quite normal). She hung out at the drop-off laundromat with Matt (this is the first time we've tried it, and I'm a little squeamish about it now after Matt described in detail the burn-out employee who will likely be the one to wash all of my panties), and helped him clean the kitchen, and there was a lot of wrestling worked in there somewhere, and this afternoon she and I went to the park all by ourselves, and I pushed her in the swing for as long as she wanted.
We brought Sydney's bucket to collect leaves, because I've been wanting to do leaf rubbings with the girls for a while now. Not necessarily to learn all the parts of the leaves or anything just yet, but mostly to admire the shape and the form and to see the detail, all that good stuff.
Unfortunately, it's been too long since I've brought out our huuuuuuge Strathmore sketch pad--it's too big for the girls to get out independently, and I guess I just don't think about it very often--and Sydney was way more interested in just drawing than in doing any particular project. Don't you find that kids have to spend a lot of time, I mean a LOT of time, exploring any specific material or medium before they're ready to manipulate it in any kind of actual "project"? My kids are that way, at least.
So Syd and I spent a lot of time drawing with crayons on our huge sketch pad, and then, just because I'd been looking forward to it for a few days, I made some leaf rubbings myself:
I forgot how freakin' fun they are, but they are FUN! And very satisfying, especially to someone who can't really draw a lick. My goal now is to offer the girls the sketch pad a LOT in the next couple of weeks so that we can try leaf rubbings again real soon. I was thinking, though--wouldn't something like this make a cool Spoonflower print?
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I'm a bad mom because I don't think I've ever done leaf rubbings with my kids.
Hey, is that a hickory leaf, BTW?
I have to stop reading your blog until you stop putting cat photos in because I am soooo tempted, and we (the family) had agreed to no cats until 1) ds#1 grows out of his allergies, and 2) we never travel any more (too many animals to ask people to take care of).
- August 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM
p.s. hope Willow gets well quickly (and that Syd doesn't get whatever it was).
- August 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
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I guess we are "fostering" a kitten for now. Zack found it in a drainage ditch while walking today. Sound familiar (Snowball). It has it's eyes open, but she is very, very tiny, probably not four weeks old. We ARE ONLY KEEPING HER UNTIL SHE GETS A LITTLE BIGGER. I have to keep telling Katie that who now has the kitten in bed with her.
- August 30, 2009 at 10:53 PM
- cake said...
when our kids finally have an official playdate, can we play hi-ho cherrio? i mean, can THEY play it?
glad willow is better. what a drag, though i have a secret crush on steve from blues clues, so glad she got to see that.
- August 31, 2009 at 9:30 AM


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I'd looked at a number of articles on the internet about multi-threading, and thread-pool designs, but could not really adopt any of them suitably to my requirements. Most of the thread pools I'd seen, had a lot of the thread management logic intertwined with the actual function that the thread was executing. I wanted a different conceptual view of it. To do this, I moved away from deriving from threads and assigning pointers to functions to execute, and latched onto the command pattern, from the inherently useful Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Gamma, Helm et al. Requests are submitted as functors, allowing the functor to maintain its own environment.
Fundamentally, you submit a request in the form of a functor to a queue, and then let the thread-pool do the rest. I didn't want to have to "join" threads back to the main thread, or "wait" for completion. A thread was merely an execution process. It doesn't care what it's executing, it just keeps doing the next thing in its path.
You'll need first of all to:
#include "ThreadPool.h"
Then, create the ThreadPool object. The simple way is simply to create the ThreadPool object thus:
ThreadPool myPool;
Once this is done, you can call myPool.accept() to prepare the thread-pool to accept connections.
A second way, provides more control. We can derive from the ThreadPool class, and override the onThreadStart and onThreadFinish methods to provide thread specific information.
class COMPool : public ThreadPool
void onThreadStart(int threadId)
void onThreadFinish(int threadId)
We also need to create one or more functors which we can request the thread pool to handle. These are created by deriving from ThreadRequest. If you wish to pass in parameters, or retrieve information from the functor, you can provide these in a constructor. Also, any necessary cleanup can be done in the destructor.
class SpecialRequest : public ThreadRequest
SpecialRequest(int param1, int param2, int& retStat) :
myLocal1(param1), myLocal2(param2), myStatus(retStat)
// Any constructor setup stuff, like transaction begin or
//file opens or whatever else the functor
// may need to operate with.
void operator()(int)
// Do whatever you want in here -
//but DON'T let exceptions propogate.
retStatus = myLocal1 + myLocal2;
// OK - so it just adds 2 integers.... but it's multithreaded!!!
int myLocal1;
int myLocal2;
int& retStatus;
To submit the request, we use the previously defined ThreadPool object, and submit the functor into the queue. In this case, creating it at the same time:
myPool.submitRequest(new SpecialRequest(1, 2, returnVal);
Note that the SpecialRequest has the two parameters being passed in, 1 and 2, and the reference to the returnValue for the functor to populate when it is completed. Note that the functor must be created on heap memory using new, because the thread pool will delete it.
Once we are finished with the thread-pool, we can shut it down using
So, our main loop looks like this:
int main(int, char*)
int result;
COMPool myCOMThreadPool;
// We tell it to accept requests now
// Add 1 and 2, and store in result
myCOMThreadPool.submitRequest(new SpecialRequest(1, 2, result));
// And output the result.
std::cout << result;
The demonstration project contains a more explicit example using multiple threads, loops and thread statistics
Note: It's important that you handle any exceptions that your code may throw in the overridden operator()(int). The acceptHandler will not allow any exceptions to propagate out of its loop in order to maintain integrity. This is not actually a bad thing, because your functor should be able to handle its own exceptions anyway.
For the individuals who REALLY want to know how it works, the entire cpp and h files are commented using doxygen, and the tricky clever bits are commented also. What I'll try to explain here is why I've done certain things.
The guiding principle that I tried to follow was that a thread is a completely separate entity to the thing that it is executing. The idea being to disconnect the management of the threads and the execution completely. This would enable the thread-pool to be used easily for database calls - simulating an asynchronous call effectively - HTTP responses via fast-CGI, and calculations of PI to (insert arbitrarily large number here) decimal places, whilst simultaneously making me a coffee. I didn't want the thread to be aware of the execution status of the function/functor, and I didn't want the functor to be aware that it was being executed in a thread.
This provides a slightly different programming model to what would otherwise be expected. In many of the implementations I've seen, the worker thread is responsible for signalling it is finished, and the "main" thread of execution is responsible for waiting until the worker thread has signalled this. Then, the main thread needs to clean up the worker, or query the worker to get the workers results. Some of the implementations passed an arbitrary number of pointers around the place to indicate parameters and return values.
In this implementation, the worker thread doesn't wait at all. It executes the job and then cleans up after itself. If you need to get results, you can provide a pointer or reference to a structure in the constructor, and use the functor to populate that structure as part of its implementation. For example, you can send the results of a database commit into the passed constructor, and check this at anytime to see whether it has committed yet. Or, you can pass an entire business object, such as a Purchase Order, into the constructor, and make the functor responsible for populating the values. The thread doesn't care. All it does, is populates and cleans up after itself. If your application needs to wait for something to happen, you can include a signal (event) in the functor, and put the main thread to sleep until the signal is signalled. (sugged?) Again, you are waiting for the functor to complete not the thread. A conceptual difference, but I think a more accurate representation.
The second thing that I had to add was an onThreadStart and onThreadFinish call. In the simple case, this is a no-op, however by deriving from ThreadPool you can make these do whatever you like. I had to add these because COM needed to be initialized per thread when I was using this for my OLEDB calls.
The queue itself when it reaches the maximum queue length will actually block, which in the case of the example provided will also block the main thread. This has the affect of preventing additional requests, allowing the pool time to catch up.
See my todo list at the bottom, for improvement ideas I have for this
I also used functors because for the OLEDB calls, I really needed transaction integrity. To provide this, the constructor of the functor could perform the beginTransaction() and the destructor would call commit() or rollback() depending on the private transactionSuccess flag. This ensured that either commit or rollback was called, regardless of the outcome, and improved exception safety incredibly. After implementing it this way, I realized just how effective functors were, so I ended up using them for the generic solution.
The beauty of this is that the functor contains everything that it needs to execute. Because it can maintain state, you can actually pass parameters in the constructor, and use these parameters to get information about the current functor object, including its state of execution, and the data returned. The best part though, is that by using a functor, you can test the functor itself outside of the multithreaded environment quite easily - allowing easy integration for unit tests.
Another benefit of functors is that they can maintain their own environment. In the case of the FastCGI application, I needed to pass the address of the output structure to return the output back to the webserver. I did this passing the environment, including the CGI parameters, the error stream and the output stream into the functor during construction. This meant that the same functor was perfectly thread safe because it was a completely individual object, and yet it had access to the environment that was created - at that time. On execution, it would always write to the correct output stream. This provided thread safety, without the need for mutexes and critical sections etc.
The acceptHandler has been declared as throwing no exceptions. This is necessary, because exceptions would potentially disrupt the safety of other threads. If a functor throws an exception, and it's not handled in the functor (This is bad!), the handler will simply swallow the exception, and you will not see it. You should not bank on this functionality though, because it may change. (Not sure how, or why, but if someone comes up with a better method, I'll change it in a flash)
All these are tentative ideas, and not things that I'll implement until I actually need them.
Special thanks to Taka for reviewing the code for this article.
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
---Ricky Marek (AKA:Rbid)
- And on the eight day God said, "Murphy, you're in charge."
void ThreadPool::FlushQueue(void)
// Ensure that only one thread is actually waiting on the notEmpty signal at a time.
// Eliminates race conditions to get at the queue
//::WaitForSingleObject(queueAccess, INFINITE); // Question: commented or not?
// Autopointer takes ownership of request
std::auto_ptr<ThreadRequest> request(jobQueue.front());
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A federal appeals court has ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it denies equal rights for legally married same-sex couples. Booyah!
Now it will go to the Supreme Court, which will overrule the appeals court. Or not – I say those things out of settled pessimism about this Supreme Court, but then Rieux comes along to explain why actually the Supremes are quite unlikely to overturn.
Anyway in the meantime – DOMA has been thrown out. Very good.


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Applications are being accepted for
Illinois scholarships sponsored by American Legion Auxiliary Unit
263, Department of Illinois, as well as a Children and Youth
Scholarship, two nursing scholarships, and three national
Illinois scholarships for eligible
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Scholarship for Junior members --
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Scholarships for special education:
The national American Legion Auxiliary has the following
scholarships available:
Children of Warriors National Presidents' Scholarship -- One
$2,500, one $2,000 and one $1,500 scholarship will be awarded in
each national division. Candidates for this award shall be direct
descendants, stepchildren or stepgrandchildren of U.S. wartime
veterans who served during one or more of the periods of war
officially designated as eligibility dates for membership in the
American Legion. The applicants must complete 50 hours of community
service during their high school years to be eligible for one of
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Spirit of Youth Scholarship for Junior members -- One
Junior member in each national division will receive a four-year
scholarship. The applicants must have held membership in the
American Legion Auxiliary for the immediate past three years,
currently hold a 2013 membership card, and continue to maintain her
membership throughout the four-year scholarship period.
Non-Traditional Student Scholarship -- One $1,000 scholarship
will be awarded in each national division. These scholarships are
available for students returning to the classroom after some period
of time in which their formal schooling was interrupted. The
applicants must be members of the American Legion, the American
Legion Auxiliary or Sons of the American Legion; dues must have been
paid for the two preceding years; and must be current 2013 members.
The applicants must have completed at least one year of college and
be pursuing an undergraduate degree.
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Nobody really thinks that Albany will come to their senses, and pass an effective state budget that will give New York state children a chance at a good education.
Not only did the bigwigs in the education here bobble the ball when the Obama administration offered millions to remedying some of the defects in our schools, to lift the standard of achievement statewide. Now, this charter school dilemma comes before the wise sages in the state capital at a time while greed and political pressure have dulled any progressive vision from any representative of both parties.
This is not a great time for reform. Reform of anything. Bad economic times have killed the will for change or courage to bolster an increase in charter schools and improve our standing in the federal Race to the Top application competition. A few days ago, the Democratic- led State Senate approved legislation to double the number of charter schools, by a 45-15 vote, a significant victory for its prime backer, Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson of Brooklyn.
He turned aside a wave of controversial attacks by the union-funded lobby to kill all support for charter schools.
When a number of Democrats joined the Republicans, coming late to the party, the power of the union-funded Working Families Party, which had received $243,000 from the United Federation of Teachers and the state teachers union since 2008, threatened all who added their votes to the charter school cause. It was a litmus test for any politicians who bucked the might of union clout. At election time, the unions said they would have long memories and campaign against the renegades who would not be bought.
Many of the city's Democratic politicians, including Senate President Malcolm Smith, did not like the excessive pressure put on the opposing public officials. State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver kept looking over his shoulder at the rising tide of union oppression, maintaining a lukewarm attitude at getting anything done. Like everybody in Albany political circles, they take the threat very seriously by the state teachers union that they will campaign, with their $10 million war chest, against any Senate Democrats who cast their vote in favor of the charter school legislation.
Parents are watching the political games as the critics yell about more accountability and enrollment of more special education students. One of the major critics against the legislation, State Senator Bill Perkins (D-Harlem) said the entire matter involved greed. "This is like a race to the trough," Perkins said. "It is more like folks seeing an opportunity to get some public dollars."
And he is right. Everybody on both sides wants to collect some public money.
However, all the parents know is that the charter schools are producing results in educational achievement and soaring graduation rates with competent students who can compete in any college. They read the newspapers and magazines. They see the testimonials of the parents of charter schools students. Although the critics would love to say that charter schools are getting a free ride, what they don't say is that the schools have to meet the same standards as their public school counterparts.
They also must meet the requirements of the city Board of Education and the State of Regents, and the charters get less money than the those of the public sector.
With the public schools about to be dealt a near-fatal blow with the axing of a proposed 6,414 teachers due to the $9.2 billion state budget deficit, the public and the parents are taking at the fiscal strategies of UFT union president Michael Mulgrew and other public sector union leaders.
They are also taking a second look at the weak-kneed politicians who refuse to stand up to the lobbies and public interest groups to fight for New York State.
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Italian scaleup, TeamDev, the developer of 'WiseTown' a big data analytics platform for local governments, has joined the EIT Digital Accelerator to assist their plans for growth and to gain access to new European markets.
Founded in 2008, TeamDev is a dynamic Italian ICT SME with a strong focus on technological innovation and system integrations. The scaleup has strong experience in geographical environmental sciences, agriculture and smart cities. They have just developed a big data analytics platform for the public administration sector called WiseTown.
This smart city product is a B2B solution integrated with Fiware that collects information from different data streams to identify the issues that affect cities in several areas: urban renewal, refuse collection, public safety, transportation, social services and environmental issues.
They have now joined the EIT Digital Accelerator to help them increase their access to market locally in Italy but also throughout Europe in countries including Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. They are also expecting to grow their workforce making use of the access to talent that the EIT Digital Accelerator provides.
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(Poem #417) Thistles
Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men Thistles spike the summer air And crackle open under a blue-black pressure. Every one a revengeful burst Of resurrection, a grasped fistful Of splintered weapons and Icelandic frost thrust up From the underground stain of a decayed Viking. They are like pale hair and the gutturals of dialects. Every one manages a plume of blood. Then they grow grey like men. Mown down, it is a feud. Their sons appear Stiff with weapons, fighting back over the same ground.
One of the marks of a great poet is the ability to take a perfectly ordinary object and cast it in an entirely new light. Hughes does this with the thistles of today's poem - transforming them from humble weeds into a symbol of strength and resistance. As George Macbeth says, "[Thistles] is a short paean of praise to the unkillable virtue of heroism. By presenting this quality through the nature of part of the vegetable, rather than the animal, kingdom, Hughes contrives to give it an air of naturalness and inevitability, as if heroism like the flowers in spring is something which must go on for ever." Of course, the fact that it mentions Icelandic frost and Viking gutturals makes it utterly irresistible to someone like me... thomas. [Links] Hughes' poetry is centred on the natural world, as our previous offerings testify: 'The Thought Fox', a poem about being visited by the Muse: poem #98 'Hawk Roosting', a depiction of the ruthless egotism of a tyrant: poem #42 Martin once ran a week of poems loosely based on the theme of 'defiance'; here they are: poem #34, poem #36, poem #38.


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A simple yet tedious task occurs near the end of most Sudoku-solving algorithms, computerized or manual. The task is, given the row (or column or square) of a Sudoku puzzle with only a single number missing, fill in the missing number and return a completed row.
For more information regarding Sudoku, refer to the Wikipedia Entry for Sudoku.
The input will be in the form of a vector (row or column) or a 9x9 matrix and the output has to have the same dimensionality as the input. Blank entries are signified with the number 0. There will always be one and only one blank entry in the input.
input = [ 1 2 3 4 0 6 7 8 9 ]; output = [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ];
Problem description says the input can be a 9x9 matrix, but the test suite gives a 3x3 instead.
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text: Show Hide image Culture 4 October 2012 The Enlightenment values of Eric Hobsbawm Remembering a historian who tried to keep historical change in the spotlight. Sign-up In July 2002, Eric Hobsbawm, who died on 1 October at the age of 95, gave a lecture at the Institute of Historical Research in London. It was entitled "A Life in History". The phrase referred ostensibly to his long career as a professional historian but it also evoked Hobsbawm's sense of himself as someone who'd had the good fortune to live in "interesting times" (a phrase he used as the title of a memoir published in the same year). Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 to an Anglo-Jewish father and Austrian Jewish mother, and spent the early part of his childhood in Vienna. Both his parents died young and in 1931 he moved, with his sister, to live with an aunt and uncle in Berlin. He arrived in the German capital, he wrote later, "as the world economy collapsed . . . [That was] the historic moment that decided the shape both of the 20th century and of my life." It was in the gathering chaos of Berlin in the early 1930s, as Hitler prepared to take power, that the adolescent Hobsbawm made a political commitment to the Communist Party that he took with him to Britain, where the family moved in 1933. And it was a commitment that he would never recant – not after the shock of the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939, nor after rumours of the horrors of Stalinism began to spread and not after Nikita Khrushchev corroborated those rumours in his "secret" speech to the 20th congress of the Soviet party in February 1956. By the time news of Khrushchev's speech reached the west, Hobsbawm was a leading light in the Communist Party Historians' Group; Christopher Hill, E P Thompson, Raphael Samuel and Rodney Hilton were also members. The books these men would write in the following decades – including Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution (1962), the first volume of his majestic trilogy on the "long 19th century", Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (1963) and Hill's The World Turned Upside Down (1972) – are among the finest fruits of the Marxist tradition in historiography; indeed, they're among the finest works of history written in English in any tradition in the second half of the 20th century. But in 1956, the group became the focus of opposition to the leadership of the British Communist Party, whose response to Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin, and to the Soviet invasion of Hungary, they deemed wholly inadequate. On the verge Looking back on this period 30 years later, Hobsbawm told an interviewer that "everyone was living . . . the political equivalent of a nervous breakdown". For most of the other members of the Historians' Group, the upshot of that nervous episode was departure from the party. Hobsbawm, however, stayed put. He was asked many times why he remained, a question that in his last years he tended to dismiss grumpily as a "cold war" one. The closest he came to an answer was in the memoir, Interesting Times, where he presents his enduring fidelity to the party as a biographical rather than a political imperative. "It was . . . for someone who joined the movement where I came from and when I did, quite simply more difficult to break with the Party than for those who came later and from elsewhere." Remaining in the party was, as the late Tony Judt put it, a way for Hobsbawm to "keep faith with his adolescent self". But that isn't the whole story. In a radio interview he gave last year to the historian Simon Schama, Hobsbawm reiterated his belief in the principles of the Enlightenment, what he called "18th-century" values (his "long 19th century" having begun in 1789, with the French Revolution). It's clear, too, that he understood his unwavering support for the Soviet experiment, for all its moral compromises, as the expression of an Enlightenment faith in the ability of human beings to remake the world in the image of abstract ideals. You see this cast of mind in the 2002 lecture, when Hobsbawm discusses, with mandarin disdain, the kind of "history from below" that emerged in the 1970s. This was history as a means not of "interpreting or even changing the world" but of "collective self-discovery" – a way for previously marginalised groups to write themselves into the historical narrative. And it carried with it huge risks, for it threatened to undermine the "universality of the universe of discourse that is the essence of history as a scholarly and intellectual discipline". He would observe later that the "big transformative questions", questions about the role played by "great crises" in historical change, "have generally been forgotten by historians". Hobsbawm is best remembered as someone who tried to keep them in the spotlight. To read a selection of Eric Hobsbawm's writing for the New Statesman, visit: newstatesman.com/writers/eric_hobsbawm. Jonathan Derbyshire is executive opinion editor of the Financial Times. He was formerly managing editor of Prospect and culture editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 08 October 2012 issue of the New Statesman, Conservative conference special SUBSCRIBE More


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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
And So It Begins..
To body build competitively is something that I have wanted to do for a few years now. I really enjoy lifting, watching my body change as I develop mass, getting stronger as I can lift heavier weight and more reps. I love seeing the progress. I love the challenge. I love stepping into the unknown. In the past I allowed myself to be afraid, to be paralyzed by fear. I now embrace the fear as I realize it is growth.
Last year I became serious about lifting and even set a date for a competition. I continued to run high mileage as I was planning a few 100s in addition to the show. I wanted to find out for myself if I could train for both sports. I found that I couldn't train as hard as I wanted while training for two, extensively. Training for both sports took a toll on my body and I was left without enough energy to practice either of the sports well. I believe that I need to focus on a single sport in order to obtain the outcome I desire.
Once I put my goal of bodybuilding on hold last season I again began to focus on endurance and ran Lean Horse 100, running a PR for the distance and then Javelina 100 in the later months. As I was training for and running these races I continually checked in with myself : are you ready to put this away for a year and focus on bodybuilding? How badly do you want it? Have you had enough of the 100s for a year? Is running 50 miles a week tops enough for you, along with many other questions.
The past few months I've revisited that same question and scenario. When my 2010 calendar was full for the 100s I was loosely planning to run I decided to again look at bodybuilding seriously. It didn't take long for the excitement to engulf me. I've now taken steps to create a successful outcome. I've worked out a lighter running schedule, one that I am happy with. I've interviewed or met with over a dozen bodybuilding coaches and I have found a coach who is a great fit for me.
My original thought was that it might be possible for me to be ready for a competition this next October/November. My coach suggests I wait until early 2011 as he would prefer more mass to my back and chest and to balance out my quads by building my inner quad and hamstring, in order be competitive. I agree. I would prefer to go into this in the best shape I can so that I can be competitive instead of just dieting down in order to get on stage before I am ready.
The past month I've been running with Topaz, 6-8 miles a day. No heavy training, just short nice relaxing runs. My coach states that as long as I keep my heart rate between 145-155 I will be able to continue this. I didn't do well with giving up my daily lovely runs with Topaz last spring when I tried bodybuilding by training myself. During this off season-the muscle building time between now and when I begin to prep (16 weeks prior to the comp which will be sometime early 2011) I will maintain a 13-15% body fat so that when prep season arrives I don't have a large percentage of body fat to lose.
He's teaching me so much about the science of food and how it relates to my body. I learned that the female body is most anabolic when kept at 9-15% body fat. I have slowly been increasing my calorie intake and I'm not gaining fat. I am a steady 13% body fat. We'll keep increasing the calories as time goes on so that I can continue to build and when I began the prep stage I will be able to have something to cut back upon. As it was prior to the increase I was only eating 1200-1400 calories a day, running 100 miles a week and lifting 5 times a week. There were no extra calories to cut and my body had become completely adept at eating low calories and exercising at a high rate.
I love instant gratification but this journey will not be providing much of that. This will provide a learning experience as bodybuilding is something I know nothing about, it will provide a great sense of accomplishment and a whole lot of dedication to myself in order to obtain the outcome I desire. I will be tenacious and show great perseverance.
Of course this isn't about the comp, that will take one hour. It is about the journey to the comp. It's about working hard, pushing myself harder than ever, learning about myself , goal setting. I'm ready.
And..I tend to become stale when I don't have something to fuel my desire..
..And So it Begins..
4 comments:
- Shelly said...
Good luck! I am so excited to see your progress throughout your journey. I am a runner and just began lifting- I love it! I have also become a clean eater and It is exciting to see my body change. I have never felt so good! Again, good luck!
- Steve said...
Julie, you have to follow your heart and your passion. As always, I wish you the best in your endeavors!
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Rock on Julie.
Just stumbled onto your bog and massaively inspirational.
Salad is my choice for Brekkie and loads of Chia. Have also put down the bottle and loving life.
Keep spreading the good word and doing good things.
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FOOD- DISH- Smokin' good: Pigs fly on the Mall
BBQ aficionados know that Jinx's Pit's-Top Barbecue, that little brightly decorated building on East Market Street that can be seen smoking profusely in the early morning, is the spot for true pit-cooked barbeque.
Years ago, owner Jinx Kern journeyed to famed house of bbq Starnes in Paducah, Kentucky and managed to talk his way into a tour of their barbeque pits out back. "Their barbecue is simply the best," Jinx, now 52, told the Hook when he first opened.
For nearly six years, we've been reaping the benefits of the secrets he discovered, secrets he still refuses to divulge.
"Smoke is the essence of barbecue," Jinx tells the Hook. "Mine is pit-cooked on a hickory fire...that's the critical thing." Not surprisingly, Kern is critical of barbecue that relies on sauces for taste. "You could put ice cream on it and it would still be my barbecue," he says.
Now that smokey concoction is available for pick up at the new newsstand on the Mall. Just call Jinx and place an order before 11am, and it'll be ready for pick-up at the newsstand in front of the Regal movie theater by noon. Pass the napkins!
Calling all restaurants!
After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast last year, Charlottesvillians answered the call for help.
Allen Powell, owner of Pyramid Construction and Wolfie's restaurant, drove 20 trucks with 20 men, 20 generators, and two backhoes down to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to help out, bringing along 1,000 gallons each of gas and diesel, as well as chainsaws, chippers, and water and ice. Oliver Kuttner and David New, owners of The Starlight Express, a bus service that runs between Charlottesville and New York City, drove down to help families relocate to Charlottesville. In addition, hundreds of other local residents (big shots and small shots) donated their money, time, and aid to relieve the suffering the disaster caused.
That's why Dish was surprised to discover that only one restaurant in town has signed up for Share Our Strength's Restaurants for Relief 2, the second annual relief effort to help rebuild school cafeterias, open summer meal programs, and provide assistance for affected restaurant workers.
If you dine out on Tuesday, August 29, participating restaurants across the country will donate a portion of your tab to Share Our Strength's relief efforts. And all you have to do is go out and enjoy a nice meal! Unfortunately, it looks like we'll all have to go to Red Robin in Fashion Square Mall, the only restaurant within 30 miles of town signed up for the August event.
The good news is that there's still time for area restaurants to sign up. Just visit the Share Our Strength website at strength.org to register.
Attention chefs!
Remember those awful school lunches? The Sloppy Joes on stale bread and the rubbery mac and cheese served with chewy, tasteless beans and some mush you were told was mashed potatoes? The only good thing were those cold cartons of milk. Well, thanks to a new program at Clark Elementary School, the lunch lady could be replaced by a real chef!
S.N.A.P., the School Nutrition Awareness Program, is an effort spearheaded by Clark Elementary School parents and officials to improve the quality of school lunches. In addition to introducing fresh whole wheat bread and muffins, fresh fruit, and plenty of water to the menu, they also want to start a Guest Chef Program.
Organizer John Sweet is looking for nine local chefs to make a one-time commitment of less than a day of work over the next nine months. The chef will work with the school nutrition staff to come up with a special lunch menu on Wellness Wednesdays. So come on, you food wizards, help the kids out! If you're interested, give Sweet a call at 466-8392.
Jinx's Pits-Top Barbeque's Jinx Kern brings his tasty pork to a newsstand near you!


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I wrote in this blog on April 7, 2011 about Anna Hazare, saying, "Perhaps after Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan's call for sampoorna kranti, … Anna's fast may be the next most significant mass movement in modern India yet." Soon thereafter, when the ruling Government seemed to respond to Anna sensibly and sensitively offering a joint dialogue with and say to the civil society for drafting a suitable Lokpal Bill, one thought it a sagacious gesture on the part of the UPA government and a victory for the maturity of our democracy.
Alas, that hasn't been the case. Of late, with every single passing day, the ruling polity has come out looking increasingly petty, cussed and vindictive, targeting Anna with every gun that it has at its disposal. It has accused Anna Hazare and his Trust as being "seeped in corruption". It is questioning the funding of Anna's website. It is digging up his ancient army records in the hope of finding something – anything – to chuck at him, hoping something may stick. It is leaning on the weak spine of the Delhi Police to deny him a place to fast, placing uncalled for and unconstitutional limits of time and the size of crowd . It is not that our politicians have usually stood so tall that we are surprised at how low they can stoop; but to accuse a simple and straight forward soul like Ana Hazare, who is the first major voice against corruption in independent India to stir the conscience of the nation, dwarfs even their pigmy standards.
In a democracy of a billion people, it is understandable to have a billion different views on the issue of the Lokpal Bill versus Jan-Lokpal Bill. It is understandable if some think PM should be kept out of the ambit of Lokpal. It is understandable if some think civil society (read Anna Hazare) should be more practical and more patient or yielding in their demand or protest. It may also be understandable if some think that Anna Hazare's Satyagraha is not to be compared to Bapu's Satyagraha, or even that inarticulate Anna himself is in no way comparable with the suave Mahatma. It is understandable too if some question the somewhat intemperate language deployed by Anna Hazare in his communication to our straight as sphinx-like Prime Minister. It may be understandable too if a section of the society is apprehensive about the liberties Civil Society seems to be taking with our constitutional mechanism. For that matter, it may also be understandable if some seem to think Anna Hazare to be a greater danger to our Constitution for seeking "extra-constitutional" remedies to cure our sick society of utter, run-away and rampant corruption, than the malaise of corruption itself. I even came across a very intelligent, articulate and genuinely sensitive young professional who was "entirely against corruption, but who disagreed with Anna Hazare's methods", even if he did not have an alternative to suggest. In his view, one couldn't be led into a Bush-like stance – "You are either with us (or Anna Hazare) or against us (or Anna Hazare)". Well, in short, we can understand all these various views in a democracy, and then some.
While we understand all of the above, we must also understand the low-stoop of the senior Congress functionaries in the personal mud-slinging against Anna for what it is — the last-ditch defense of a political class running scared. And let us not get it wrong. Let us not believe for a moment as if it is only the Congress politicians who are running scared. The reality is that the major opposition, the UPA politicos, have not comported themselves much better on the ground and in the parliament, beyond opportunistic lip service to Anna. Thus, it may be equally naïve to believe that even a Jana-Lokpal Bill blessed by Anna, shall sail smoothly through the Parliament, as a simple Anna seems to do. But then, Anna does seem to believe that at least in that case the country would know which parties support or do not support the people's bill, the knowledge of which could decide the fate of the parties at the next hustings. I, for one, can understand that.
True, participation of "Civil Society" in a parliamentary process is hardly the standard constitutional process in our democracy. The constitutional process provides only for the Legislature, the Executive, and the Judiciary; it provides for no un-elected Civil Society to play a role. But this is because the constitutional processes are ordinarily supposed to work. When constitutional processes work reasonably, for example, all citizens are genuinely equal before law, ministers and government servants are accountable to people, parliament functions and passes laws to govern the country rather than being in a perennial state of adjournment for one reason or the other, nor does it take over four decades to pass a law against corruption, justice is available to all and speedily, and 60% of the population does not remain bereft of food, education, health and justice due to large-scale corruption six decades after independence. None of these conditions has been made available under our constitutional processes. The so-called 9% growth is despite these.
These are the reasons why the call of Anna Hazare has stirred the nation's conscience. Never mind whether public support for Anna is 50%, 85%, 95% or 100%. Even if Anna were in a minority of one, it stands to reason that given that our constitutional processes worked by the legislature, executive, and the judiciary have failed us in all these decades, the constitutional mechanism is perhaps already in a damaged condition in any case. Bringing in the "Civil Society" is unlikely to do any more damage to it.
Anna Hazare has offered the nation an opportunity which all the constitutional mechanism and its political 'leadership' did not give it since independence. If we are smart as a people, we shall seize the opportunity and lend our shoulders in whatever little way we can to him – not for his sake, but for our own. But if we are not smart, we can continue to debate the issue to shreds while Anna Hazare acts tomorrow.
V Raghunathan is a former academic (professor of finance, IIM, Ahmedabad), a former banker (president, ING Vysya Bank) and currently a corporate CEO. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy, since 1990. Some of his books include "Games Indians play" (Penguin), "Don't Sprint the Marathon" (Harper Collins) and "The Corruption Conundrum and Other Paradoxes and Dilemmas" (Penguin). He is also a columnist of long standing, with over 450 papers and articles to his credit. He sits on numerous boards and lectures extensively in India and abroad. Collecting old and ancient padlocks is his hobby.
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1 1/4 pound Brussels sprouts (will make about 1 lb. trimmed and sliced)
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Any recommendations (from readers, as well) on what type of chicken to make with this?
Oh, and Chef: GO GIANTS!
Yes, GO GIANTS!!!!!
I can't think of a chicken recipe this wouldn't work with!
looks appetizing. im not a salad person but definitely a bacon guy...XD
Ok...being that it is a warm dressing and being that it is crazy on Thanksgiving with everything else going on, what are the chances of placing the dressing in a bowl and prepping the sprouts ahead placing in fridge and all I would need to do is nuk the dressing for 30 sec, at the last minute, and pour it over the salad??? What do you think?
Hello Chef John, I really love your recipes and I will enjoy this I am sure because I grew up picking dandelion greens and we always used a dressing like this. Good old PA dutch. Any how, no quibble here, but I was curious, you use cayenne in many recipes. Is this because you really like it, is it just a little secret that ups the ante in many recipes. Thanks and keep up the great delivery. I love the playfulness
Great idea,they do brussels sprouts up here every year for thanksgiving(which was a few weeks ago)Now I have a way to make it more interesting
Yes, you can muke and add the dressing later!
Sorry, I can't recommend a specific pan, so check the online review sites! Depends on budget!
Thank you for the vegi recipe, keep them coming! As Alton Brown puts it, most people have a negative association with vegetables because growing up, they ate them overcooked and poorly prepared.
Also Chef, I found your app on my Roku and I'm so glad I did, this is the best cooking blog I've come across. Thank you!
This sounds like a perfect supper dish with a fried egg and some crusty bread to mop it all up. And a nice glass of wine of course. Thanks for the recipe, I think I had something similar to it once and I'm reminded how good it was.
That sounds just about perfect. :)
Alexander here..
Chef John, what can replace cider vinegar? Will white wine vinegar work well here ? What can we do with those pieces of the sprouts which are left after cooking the dish ? Just discard them ?
I may have found my offering for the community Thanksgiving dinner I go to every year. There are always too many potatoes and not enough interesting vegetables. And thanks to cookinmon I know I can mess with the timing on the final service. What's not to love about bacon and cruciferous veg!
What is that old phrase from the kitchen?
"If in doubt, add more bacon"?
it was working beautifully until you dumped all that saturated lard in the salad bowl, Chef. How about throwing it away and dressing the sprouts with e.g. some raw olive oil? Would it be that detrimental to the taste? Thank you, and a thumbs up for the site.
Made this today and it was delicious! I was worried I wouldn't like raw Brussels sprouts but these turned out to be just warm enough to make me think it was cooked but had that oh-so-satisfying crunch.
How about a lot less sugar, some harissa in the dressing and a poached egg or two on top?
We made this for dinner a few days after this was posted. From what I remember it was delicious. I do know I liked it enough to try it again, and may be doing so again soon.
We made this with Chicken cordon bleu and it was unanimous that we all preferred the brussels sprouts over the chicken. That was a first!!!
This looks like the brussel sprouts need to be fresh. Frozen and thawed sprouts probably would never slice up so well, and they'd be damp and soggy. Might want to say that for those who are cooking illiterate and go to the store and buy frozen.
I made this dish for a pitch-in this weekend (I am from Indiana, what you call a potluck, we call a pitch-in...get over it). I prepped ingredients at home and made the dressing when I arrived. I actually made a double batch because sprouts were on sale and I had some in the fridge. Anyway, there were eight of us at the pitch-in and the bowl of this got clean out.
It was simple and delicious.
I love you, Chef John. Thanks to you, my family and friends think I am a culinary genius.
I've tried making this dish twice now and I can't tell if I'm doing something wrong in the preparations, or if I simply don't like brussel sprouts. They taste good initially, but after a few seconds of chewing the taste goes from pleasant to a bitter tone with a very bad aftertaste. After a few bites into the dish I can't stomach it anymore. Do I just hate this poor vegetable?
Yes ;) Maybe not for you.
Chef John,
This recipe looks might tasty, but what is the difference between using brussels sprouts and green cabbage? I have never tasted the two side-by-side
and am curious about their particular flavor profiles. It seems that finely shredding a head of green cabbage would be much less tedious than shredding individual sprouts.
You can buy Brussels sprouts already sliced up like this. It's so easy. Last Christmas we had bacon broccoli because it's one of the few times I'll splurge on bacon. Maybe this year we'll have this recipe. It looks so good.
sooo good! husband and I devoured this. It's tangy, salty, and sweet. you'll spend the most time prepping the brussels sprouts, but other than that, so easy to make. I'll be making alot more of this. Thank you Chef John!


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Since I had been out of town for five days, three weeks ago, while I ran Lean Horse 100 Mile, I didn't feel like I should be heading up north to Lutsen to run the Superior races this weekend. So much for 'should'. When I mentioned to Steve a few days ago that I am normally packing drop bags to head up to Sawtooth 100 he asked why I wasn't going to this year. I explained that I was just out of town for 5 days and I felt like I 'should' stay home. He pooh poohed me and said to go up north, enjoy myself and run well. I had already made up my mind to stay home but it is nice to know that he was fine with me going.
I looked at Raceberryjam.com to see what road races were in town this weekend for a training run for Twin Cities Marathon. I haven't run distance on asphalt forever so figured I might as well. I found the Bear Lake Run 10 and 20 mile as well as City of Lakes 25K. I know I've run the City of Lakes before and I think I may have run Bear Lake 20 but I haven't looked in my old log books yet to see for sure.
Twin Cities Marathon is just three weeks away so I decided I'd get some asphalt training in for it. I decided to run 20 at Bear Lake and then an additional loop of 12, making it an ultra distance training run. Maybe TCM will seem easier that way!
People that aren't runners ask me if marathons seem effortless now that I run 100 mile races. No, they don't seem effortless. It's a matter of frame of mind. When the mind knows it is 26 miles it hurts and becomes difficult at 20 miles. It's all in the mind.
Today was just a beautiful day. Warm and sunny, humid. Just how I like it. I can't believe it is 83 degrees right now. I love it!
I was worried about race day registration. The race fills at 1200 so I didn't know if I'd make the cut. I decided I'd give it a try and if I didn't make it I'd head out to run the 50K course at Afton, forgetting the asphalt. I didn't want to run a 50K on asphalt alone. I'd be bored silly. As TCM isn't a goal race for me, it really didn't matter.
I made the registration cut off with a number in high 900s. I was about an hour early so I don't know if they reached the max or not. Lots of people for this road race.
We began at a beach, on a skinny asphalt path. The 10 and 20 milers began together so it was quite crowded but there was Championship Timing so nobody was pushing to the start too quickly.
The race was very nicely done; well organized, great water stops, a picturesque course, actually. There were aid stations every 2..yes, every 2 miles so I didn't carry liquids the first 20 miles. I wore my Nathan vest for gels. I used every aid station! It was real warm so I drank a couple of glasses of Gatorade and a couple of glasses of water at each stop. The two mile aid stations came up quickly. Each station had a theme; there was the White Bear Lake Dance Line and others. I recall the Dance Line because they were cheering madly and were very encouraging.
As I listened to conversations around me it became apparent that many were running their first 10 mile race as well as first timers at 20 miles. How inspiring! It was really fun to listen in on the worries, the experiences, the races they were training for.
One thing that was kind of cool: many of the homes around White Bear Lake have statues of white bears in their yards and hanging from their mailboxes.
The course went around the lake and before I knew it 10 miles were up and I was off for another 10. My first lap was 130. I made a note to now slow it down a bit so that I was up for an additional 22 miles.
When I came around to 20 miles the clock was at 311 I believe. I wasn't wearing a watch so I congratulated myself on being able to hold an accurate pace. I'll take all of the congratulations I can give myself!
As I crossed the finish line I removed my chip and had a couple of orange slices. I picked up my finishers bag and began to head to my car. As I was leaving the race I heard my name called. There was Dave Just, who I haven't even seen this summer. It was nice to see him. He was the only person I recognized at the race!
I walked to my car, dropped off my bag, filled two bottles with Heed, replaced the gels in my vest and headed out for another loop.
At aid station 1 they began to cheer for me, I said "oh, I'm done" then realized I had my number on. I took it off and threw it into the garbage, then noticed that there were still runners out there beginning their second loop.
I decided to put on my iPod and just enjoy the next 12, slow and steady.
When I finished my 30 miles there were still quite a few runners milling about the beach. I hung out for a few minutes and went out and back another mile, calling it a 50K.
I must say, when I first decided to run this race I had toyed with the idea of running it as a time trial for Twin Cities Marathon. I then decided against it and run it as a training run. I was tired at the finish and happy it was a slow training run!
The Bear Lake Run is a good one, I enjoyed it very much :)


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