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'Top Chef Masters' Finale: And The Winner Is...
Well, guys, we did it! We endured an underwhelming season of Top Chef Masters filled with monotonous challenges and repetitive buzzwords like "adopted!" and "ninja!" And in the spirit of repetitiveness, just like last year, the finalists were challenged to tell their life stories over three course meals.
The chefs were playing for $100,000 for their respective charities, and as Kelly Choi put it, "bragging rights FOREVER." Or, at least until people stop talking about Top Chef Masters, which should probably be this afternoon right around 4 p.m.
So, who won? Who lost? And who just swore a lot? Let's find out!
After 15 minutes of video footage highlighting Susur's hyperactivity, Rick's goofiness, and Marcus' favorite denim shirt with his name embroidered on it, Kelly Choi met the finalists at Union Station in Los Angeles to tell them about their final challenge. The real mystery here wasn't how Susur got his hair to look that shiny in the sunlight, but how Kelly Choi's frail legs managed to hold her body up long enough for her to ask the chefs to create a three-course meal celebrating their journeys as chefs (otherwise known as THE EXACT SAME CHALLENGE from last year's Top Chef Masters finale. Three cheers for originality!).
The first course had to be inspired by their first food memory; the second course had to represent the food or event that made them want to become a chef; and the third course had to be a dish that described them in the present day. Just when the guys were panicking like they were at the disco, Kelly Choi told them they'd be cooking for Tom Colicchio, Rick Bayless, and Michael Chiarell. So yeah. No pressure or anything, guys. Honest.
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We interrupt this Top Chef finale recap to bring you this important message from Susur Lee:
"Being a chef is like being a ninja. Your mind has to be very strong."
And now back to your regularly scheduled recap.
This episode of Top Chef was all about heartwarming stories and loved ones. Marcus talked about fishing in SWEDEN with his SWEDISH parents, and Rick told a story about shucking oysters with his father when he was a kid. "[My first course] is gonna make you melt," Rick said. "You're not gonna be able to stand after tasting it." Well in that case, I sure hope he didn't give any to Kelly Choi. Girlfriend can barely stand as it is.
Suddenly and without warning, the usually annoying Top Chef Masters background music changed to really somber, depressing music that you'd normally only hear while sitting in the reception area at a dentist's office wishing you'd flossed more last year. Susur then told a story about how his "first wife" died after her plane got shot down in Russian air space. I'm not sure if she had a name, or if he just spent their time together referring to her as "first wife," but I feel really sad inside either way.
Oh, but Susur still wasn't done bumming us out. "She was my best friend," he said with tears in his eyes... sad words that I'm sure his "second wife" absolutely loved hearing. Still, that's so horrible, and I actually felt bad for Susur for the first time all season. Damn you, Bravo editors. Damn you.
Next, Kelly "One Arm" Choi burst into the kitchen and excitedly screamed: "Chefs, stop what you're doing. I have a surprise for you!" For a moment, I thought she was going to tell them all that she she swallowed a bite of solid food, but no. Actually, the finalists' sous chefs had arrived to help them with the challenge! Suser went from "very pissed off he was interrupted" to "happier than Anne Burrell in a room of brown food" in about two seconds flat.
And while we're still on the topic of Susur, is it just me or did the guy say "penis sauce" about 19 times while describing his third course to the judges? He totally did. "I took my family to Thailand, and loved the PENIS SAUCE I had there, so I learned how to make the PENIS SAUCE and put the PENIS SAUCE all over this recipe." Jeez, Susur. Either your accent is still really heavy, or I need a cigarette.
The Tasting
For the most part, the judges offered the same banal commentary about each dish they tasted. "Extraordinary, delicious, and nice" were the buzzwords of the hour. I must say the dishes were aesthetically gorgeous, except for Marcus' African-inspired foie gras flan and and duck breast. I'm not sure when chefs are going to learn we diners don't think unidentifiable brown smears on our plates look "yummy."
The Meals
Susur's first course was steamed scallops and Cantonese black bean sauce with dim sum shrimp. His second course was tuna with wasabi mousse, pickled cucumber, and artichoke. His third course was a lamb Thailandaise, with green curry sauce and polenta.
Marcus' first course was smoked char with sweet horseradish, shellfish broth, and root vegetables. His second course was duck breast with a foie gras ganache, and his third dish was hamachi meat balls with sea urchin froth and couscous.
Rick's first course was a glazed oyster, with caviar, hamachi, and live sea scallop. His second course was pork belly with poached egg, mushrooms, truffles and gnocchi. His third dish was venison with matsutake mushrooms and pear butter.
Yes, you read that right. Rick, the fish guy who cooked seafood for almost every challenge during the show, cooked PORK and VENISON during the finale. Cue me screaming "WHY" at my television for 20 minutes like I was Annie Lennox circa 1992.
The Judges' Table
Of course, the judges found fault with the food prepared by all of the finalists. They thought Rick Moonen's gnocchi was too tough, Susur's chunk of tuna was too big, and Marcus' fish was too flaky. Oddly enough, Jay Rayner spent half the night making googly eyes at Marcus, but was exceptionally tough on Rick: "You're a sustainability guy. Your venison had to come on a plane. That's not the most environmentally friendly way for it to arrive," Jay said.
"I'm not a tree hugger. I'm a chef," Rick calmly replied. He then ran backstage to shove a pin through the small groin area on his Jay Rayner voodoo doll.
And The Winner Of Top Chef Masters Season 2 Is...
Wait, whaaaaaat?! Susur didn't win? Even though his dishes looked better and the only fault the judges found with them was that the tuna was sliced a little too thick? Are you kidding me?! This is a conspiracy! His food was better (or at least was edited to look that way!) I want the last three months of my life back!
Rick took the loss like a champ, but Susur looked pretty darn miserable. Upon hearing he lost to Marcus, he hung his head in shame and disappointment and actually looked like he should be sitting next to sad Keanu Reeves on that park bench.
And that brought this season of Top Chef Masters to an end. What did you think of the finale, Serious Eaters? Did the right man win? Will you be watching Top Chef when it premieres next week?
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Han Dynasty Rocks the First Stage Then Loses Its Beat
Han Dynasty
90 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10003 (b/n 12th and 13th; map); 212-390-8685; handynasty.net
Setting: Bright, bustling room that draws crowds and waits.
Must-Haves: Wontons in chili oil, dan dan noodles, husband and wife beet.
Service: Gregarious and well-informed. They're proud of the place and they show it. Cost: Starters $7 to $10, mains $13 to $22.
Compare To: Legend, Cafe China
Recommendation: Recommended with reservations. Starters are very strong but main dishes don't live up to the hype.
When a new Sichuan restaurant opens in Manhattan, I listen. Far from being the Sichuan dead zone that it was even a decade ago, New York has become a virtual checklist of regional Chinese cuisines with the likes of Legend and Café China leading the Sichuan charge.
Han Dynasty is a little different. The first New York branch of proprietor and Philadelphian Han Chiang's chain of a half dozen dazzlingly successful restaurants (five in Philly and one in Jersey), the restaurant rolled into town with what seemed like a busload of groupies already in tow. Our wait for a table on a week day night one month after opening still stretched to nearly an hour. You're not used to that kind of a line at a restaurant that serves you with plastic cutlery.
Good news first: the opening act at Han Dynasty is stellar. Their Dan Dan noodles ($7.95) were talked about even before their doors opened, and with good reason. The slippery noodles tossed in housemade chili oil with a touch of sesame paste and a nest of stir-fried minced pork and pickled Sichuan vegetables is the benchmark for how this dish should be served everywhere. It comes with more than a bit of theatricality—in what seemed to be a well-practiced move, our server even asked me whether or not I'd like to get my camera ready for a photo of the action. With noodles this good, the shtick doesn't wear thin; Han Dynasty should consider installing a spotlight.
If the noodles are the brash opening number, the Cold Pork Belly ($9.95) in garlic sauce is the slow groove that lets you pick up on the nuances of that chili oil a bit better. The paper thin slices of pork soak in the oil, revealing layers of smoke, spice, sweetness, and even an almost raisin-like rich fruitiness.
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More excellent use of that chili oil: the Wontons ($6.95) with their thin, slippery skins and sweet pork filling are great when they come out hot and still fantastic when they've been sitting on the table for half the meal (I can even confirm that they taste great cold, out of the fridge at 2 a.m.). Those wontons are better than the very similar but more cloying and less meaty Dumplings in Chili Oil ($6.95).
If you stick to that first half of the menu, you'll be treated to what might be the finest version of Husband and Wife Beef ($9.95) I've had, not to mention a full-on telling of the story of its invention by an enthusiastic waiter. If you've ever thought of dabbling in tripe but have been afraid to try, this is the dish to do it with. Simultaneously cool and hot, fresh with cilantro and the intense camphor of Sichuan peppercorns, it's incessant, percussive in its flavors; It drives a beat that makes you helpless to reach for more. This is food with flavor you can tap along to.
The cold rabbit cooked with peanuts and chili oil ($9.95, a favorite of Chinese ladies, our waiter tells us) is the first truly excellent version of the bone-riddled dish I've had in Manhattan, and the Dry Pepper Chicken Wings ($9.95) give even Mission Chinese's wings a run for their money in terms of crispness and sheer fiery heat.
I foresee the Spicy Beef Noodle Soup ($8.95) becoming a winter staple. A spicy beef broth tempered with mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns that's home to a tangle of slippery noodles, bamboo shoots with the crisp snap of young asparagus, and chunks of tendon-riddled beef cooked until it just holds together on the spoon but melts away with a push of the tongue against the roof of your mouth. This is the kind of dish that will be so recognizable for its excellence that it should become expected institutional knowledge for any East Villager.
It was blindingly good stuff. So blindingly good that I failed to notice a few of the warning signs at the tables around us—the sheen of a cornstarch-thickened sauce here, and scattering of fussily brunoised red and green bell peppers there. I should have noticed them, but I didn't. I should have noticed that instead of the tightly structured, well-thought-out, protein-and-sauce combinations on the menu of, say, Cafe China, Han Dynasty's has you first choose from 14 styles of preparation before then picking your protein. Could that dry pot-style sauce really match with intensely flavored lamb just as well as it does with delicate rabbit? Do I really want my fish served in the same hot sauce as my beef?
It's a warning sign I missed, and frankly, it's easy to get excited with a cursory scan of the second half of the menu—Pickled chili fish? Long pepper pork? Dry-fried beef? Heck, I haven't even seen legit dry-fried beef on a menu since New Taste of Asia closed in Brookline a decade ago, unless you count that Sichuan joint we stopped at in Hong Kong during honeymoon, but I've been informed by my wife that nothing I did during our honeymoon counts.
I eagerly ordered. Cumin-crusted lamb. Dry fried beef with its promises of dry peppers, celery, and Sichuan peppercorn. Double cooked pork belly with hot peppers, chili oil, black beans. Beef strips stir-fried with shredded long horn peppers. Delicately battered salt and pepper shrimp—a long time favorite of my sister.
Then the main courses started arriving—first that Dry Fried Beef ($15.95). I gingerly withdrew a crisply curled strip of beef from the pile on the plate, like a deep fried game of Pick Up Sticks and brought it close to my nose, waiting for that waft of chili to rise up and smack me in the face. It was like waiting for the lead singer to walk up to my nosebleed second balcony seat to perform a personalized ballad. I can still imagine how glorious it would have been had it ever arrived.
But no. Nothing. No intense aroma, no burst of flavor, heck, not even a fleck of salt to season the beef with. All we got was a tangle of bell pepper strips, a few slices of ginger, and a whole lot of disappointment. Is this the same chef that created that effortlessly brilliant rendition of oxtail and tripe? Are we still in the same restaurant?
Dish after dish arrived with similar results. Beef with Long Oepper ($15.95) with a mildness and inoffensive sweet soy flavor that would have been more at home at Shun Lee Palace. Gloppy Kung Pao Chicken ($12.95) with no hint of its trademark ma la mouth-numbing spice. Salt and Pepper Shrimp ($19.95) that were "delicately battered" so clumsily thick that the soft, bready coating was actually bulkier than the overcooked shrimp it housed, all with no hint of salt and pepper that was identifiable only by appearance. And bell peppers. Bell peppers everywhere, in nearly every dish, as unavoidable as the smell of fish in Chinatown.
Perhaps my disappointment was intensified by the unreasonably high expectations reading the menu gave me. It was like hitting a Paul McCartney show, finding out that he has magically recaptured his 28-year-old voice, falling off my seat with the awesomeness of the first act, then finding out that the second half would be Beatles covers performed by the cast of Glee.
There were a few redeeming stars on the table—Double Cooked Pork Belly ($13.95) that despite a few too many leek greens was as tender as could be, deeply seasoned with fermented soy beans. A version of Mapo Tofu ($11.95) that was a little too thick with cornstarch but managed to balance the numbing heat that was so lacking from the chicken.
Cumin-Crusted Lamb ($15.95)—the Northern Chinese specialty—was disappointingly soggy and greasy on one visit. I visited again to order it at the behest of a trustworthy source and found it to be far superior, though that time it was the Dry Pot Style Pork ($15.95) that was greasy and one dimensional with salt and chili heat dominating the flavor.
It's telling when tender, gorgeously purple and orange Eggplant in Garlic Sauce ($11.95) with its very mild seasoning was one of the most enjoyable dishes on the table. It would have been an afterthought had the rest of the dishes lived up to their promise. A large tray of greasy, battered catfish in a stodgy sauce had none of the promised punch from pickles arrived and left the table in almost identical states after a few exploratory probes were made by our table of eight. A washed up guest star who accidentally walked on at the wrong show and tried to pass it off as part of the act before shuffling off stage.
The disappointments of the second act were almost enough to banish the memories of the brilliance of the first. Almost, but not quite. From here on out I'll stick to the cold appetizers and the noodle dishes. Luckily, there's nobody at Han Dynasty preventing you from walking out during the intermission.
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The CW announced its new fall schedule Thursday, pairing The Vampire Diaries with new period drama Reign, moving Beauty and the Beast and Supernatural to new nights holding Nikita's final six episodes until later in the season.
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Kicking off the week on Monday will be Hart of Dixie and Beauty and the Beast, both on a new night. Tuesdays will now be the home of Vampire Diaries spin-off The Originals, which is followed by Supernatural. The Amell Family rules Wednesday nights with Arrow remaining in the 8 o'clock hour followed by the new show The Tomorrow People, which stars Stephen Amell's cousin Robbie Amell.
Other notable shifts include a move for The Carrie Diaries, which returns in the fall on Friday nights.
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"This church shall develop social statements … that will guide the life of this church as an institution and inform the conscience of its members in the spirit of Christian liberty." (ELCA social statement, "The Church in Society: A Lutheran Perspective")
ELCA social statements are teaching and policy documents that provide broad frameworks to assist us in thinking about and discussing social issues in the context of faith and life. They are meant to help communities and individuals with moral formation, discernment and thoughtful engagement with current social issues as we participate in God's work in the world. Social statements also set policy for the ELCA and guide its advocacy and work as a publicly engaged church. They result from an extensive process of participation and deliberation and are adopted by a two-thirds vote of an ELCA churchwide assembly.
The description and procedures for developing and adopting these social teaching and policy documents are established by "Policies and Procedures of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for Addressing Social Concerns."
ELCA Social Statements:
- Abortion / Aborto (1991)
- Caring for creation / Medio ambiente (1993)
- Church in society / Iglesia en la sociedad (1991)
- The church and criminal justice / La iglesia y la justicia penal (2013)
- The death penalty / Pena de Muerte (1991)
- Economic life / Vida economica (1999)
- Education / Educación (2007)
- Genetics (2011)
- Health and health care / Salud y asistencia sanitaria (2003)
- Human sexuality / La sexualidad humana (2009)
- Peace / Por la paz (1995)
- Race, ethnicity and culture / Raza, etnicidad y cultura (1993)
taken from https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements


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Posted September 10th, 2010 by Olga Kirnos with Comments Off on A Career in Make Up
Working as a professional Make Up Artist for several years, I started freelancing in Canada as a Film & TV Make Up Artist, working on commercials, TV series' & Feature Film Productions. Later on expanding my work into the Fashion & Film Industries in India.
Within the past twelve months of working in India, I've had the chance to collaborate with some of Indian's top Photographers & Fashion Magazines doing Print Ads, Campaigns, Calendar Shoots, Magazine Covers and Spreads.
I contribute my progress to a few basic and essential work ethics that I follow and advice new comers who wish to become a part of this fast paced industry.
To make it means to be busy. My four tips of becoming a busy Make Up Artist are these:
Passion & Profession go hand in hand. First and foremost when choosing this line of work be sure that this is the career choice you are passionate to follow and invest in.
Working in the Fashion Industry requires a 100% commitment to face the challenges that such an industry may present. Your passion for your line of work will determine how you will face all the other steps that, in my opinion, are required to become a successful professional.
It is also fundamentally expressed through one's work quality, range of versatility and creativity, which are key elements of working in this line.
Keep your finger on the pulse- if you choose such a versatile line of work you have to do your homework.
Never feel that your cup is full and there is nothing left to learn, this is when you will stop growing and eventually sabotage your own progress. Whether observing other professionals, experimenting with products or simply browsing all the fashion magazines you can get your hands on, there is an endless source of knowledge to observe and absorb.
Good knowledge & research of the industry will also help you understand how to create the right portfolio and approach the right clients.
"Practice Makes Perfect". Don't be afraid to make mistakes, play around & experiment with different ideas, techniques & styles.
This will not only contribute to your versatility but also your ability to improvise on the spot and be well prepared for any creative challange.
Criticize your work to understand what you can improve on and compliment yourself on job well done. Be confident and open minded because there is no one right way to follow except to posses a positive attitude.
Always strive to improve. A good approach to maintain is to keep in mind that you are not competing with anyone- you are only competing with yourself to do better than your last performance.
Innovating yourself is a must if you choose to work as a freelancer like I did, you should never have nothing to do. Improving your skills is something that has to be followed persistently whether it's your product knowledge, portfolio or simply interaction in person, there is always something that you should be doing.
It's important to remember there is a direct relationship between your output and your input. Between your efforts to the amount of work that follows.
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text: ksasser 0 Report post Posted May 17, 2011 We have a studio that is open to individuals who take classes. They are free to come in and use the space outside of class. I am trying to put together a list of "Studio Rules of Etiquette" just as a reminder to students (they range in age from teen to adult). This is what I have so far: #1 Do not touch anyone else's work unless you have permission (This seems to be a big one that we have a problem with) #2 Clean up after yourself. Leave your space cleaner than when you arrived. #3 If you borrow someone else's tools, templates, etc. put them back where you borrowed them from. #4 Watch your elbows, arms, bats, boards, etc. when placing items on the shelf. Please be aware of the other masterpieces on the shelf. Anyone have any more etiquette rules I can add for an open studio? Thanks for any info! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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In 1988, Ken and Rosave Handy, parents of Henry Hochstatter, survived a semi-truck collision while driving from work in a moving car on Route 53 and St. Charles Road, in Glen Ellyn, Du Page County, Illinois. Rosave Handy was air-borne by helicopter to Loyola Hospital in Maywood. While Ken Handy suffered from post-traumatic syndrome and injury to the left knee and underwent surgery. This couple received treatment at the Mayo Clinic and Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital. The victims of this tragic vehicle accident were awarded compensation for lifetime disability.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Handy will be celebrating their 39th wedding anniversary in 2009.


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We want to be able to stop a running thread or task when we discover that we no longer need or want to finish it. As we saw in the last two columns, in a simple parallel search we can stop other workers once one finds a match, and when speculatively running two alternative algorithms to compute the same result we can stop the longer-running one once the first finds a result. [1,2] Stopping threads or tasks lets us reclaim their resources, including locks, and apply them to other work.
But how do you stop a thread or task you longer need or want? Table 1 summarizes the four main ways, and how they are supported on several major platforms. Let's consider them in turn.
Option 1: (Thou Shalt Not) Kill
The first option, which is nearly always wrong, is to kill the target thread or task immediately right in the middle of whatever it happens to be doing. This form of reckless slaughter is available in most platform APIs and frameworks, including the venerable UNIX kill -9, Pthreads' pthread_kill (or pthread_cancel in async mode), Java Thread.destroy or Thread.stop, and .NET's Thread.Abort.
Every major platform has reinvented this trap because it seems like a simple idea at first, until you realize it's nearly impossible to write correct code whose execution can be abruptly killed at arbitrary and unpredictable points.
The main trouble with Option 1 is that it is an extreme measure with extreme consequences: There's rarely such a thing as killing just one thread or task. Doing that is liable not only to stop that particular work, but also to corrupt the entire process and possibly other processes. Chances are, the thread will be partway through an operation where it's taking an object or data from one valid state to another. For example, data may be partly written into a buffer; or a money-transferring task may have taken money out of one account and not yet put it into the target account. Now mix in compiler optimizers, processors, and cache subsystems that routinely transform your code and execute it out of order, and you typically have no idea just from reading the source code what memory values might be read or written, and in what orders, and therefore, no way to predict the consequences of interrupting that execution at a random point.
Killing a thread or task in the middle of doing some work usually means that we will leave behind state that has been corrupted, typically in an apparently random and unpredictable way; and/or we will lose resources the thread or task held, such as any locks it held.
Consider for a moment the specific issue of locks: If the killed thread was holding a lock, it's because it was using (and possibly changing) some data protected by that lock. Killing it in that state has two possible outcomes. First, on some platforms, the lock is released, which makes corrupted state visible to other parts of the program. Second, on other platforms, the lock is not released, which will deadlock any other parts of the program that are already waiting, or subsequently try to wait, for that same lock. Perhaps surprisingly, the second outcome is usually better, because at least it prevents the rest of the system from seeing the data that was left in a corrupt state. Of course, better still is not pulling the trigger and corrupting the data in the first place.
In short: Please, let's stop the slaughter. Option 1 is nearly always wrong because it is likely to corrupt at least the entire process, and might also corrupt other processesincluding even processes on other machines if the killed thread was in the middle of performing some important I/O. Most of the time when someone tries to use pthread_kill, Thread.stop, and their ilk, the programmer is unaware of the extreme measure they're really signing up for. Be aware, and don't use it unless you really intend to take down the process or the machine without any attempt at graceful cleanup.
There are two use cases where Option 1 can be appropriate, one rare and one very rare:
- If you can prove that the target thread is doing nothing but reading memory and that it owns no resources, it may be safe to kill it.
- If you deliberately intend to terminate and restart the entire target process (not just thread) and possibly even the entire target machine, without even trying to clean up corrupted state, then killing may be appropriate. For example, in a system that uses three redundant and independent computers or processors that do not share data, when one misbehaves, it can be appropriate to kill and restart it in isolation.
Interlude: Cancellation/Interruption Points
Unlike Option 1, all of the three remaining alternatives share one vital point in common: The target thread or task can be stopped only at well-defined points in its execution, called "cancellation points" or "interruption points", which are typically when the thread is blocked doing one of the following things:
- Waiting to acquire a mutex, get a signal on a semaphore, or other synchronization.
- Joining with another thread or task.
- Sleeping.
Under Options 2, 3, and 4, these are the points at which a thread or task could be interrupted. This still imposes a burden on the author of the thread's or task's code: The code has to be ready to be interrupted at such points, and especially you have to either reestablish your invariants before you make any such calls at which you could be interrupted, or arrange for the invariants to be reestablished if you are actually interrupted. Let's see what this looks like under the remaining three Options.
Option 2: Peremptory, Don't Take No For an Answer
Option 2 is to follow the model of POSIX threads (Pthreads) deferred cancellation via pthread_cancel: Wait until the target thread reaches its next well-defined cancellation point, then stop it and run the chain of cancellation handlers that the program installed (if any) which serves a similar purpose as destructor/dispose functions in modern languages. This is much better than Option 1.
The key drawback of Option 2 is that Pthreads cancellation requests cannot be ignored or caught; the target has no choice but to be stopped at its next cancellation point, and once cancellation has begun it cannot be stopped. This is a reasonable design for a language that does not have exceptions or objects with destructor/dispose functions (the cancellation handlers simulate the latter), but it is largely inappropriate for modern languages which have exception handling and know how to catch and recover from errors and continue correct execution. So Option 2 is appropriate in languages like C and Fortran if it is acceptable to force target threads to stop, but is less well suited for use with modern languages that have more sophisticated error-recovery mechanisms or your threads or tasks may legitimately want to handle the cancellation request and continue or ignore it entirely, neither of which is permitted under Option 2.
Option 3: Ask Politely
Option 3 is to follow the interruption model common to modern languages and frameworks, including Java and .NET, which spell it as Thread.interrupt and Thread.Interrupt, respectively. Like Option 2, the target thread continues to run until it reaches its next interruption point, at which point in most systems implementing Option 3 the interruption manifests as an exception thrown from the wait/join/sleep call. Then, unlike Option 2, the target thread can catch and handle the exception like any other exception, including that it has more options:
As in Pthreads, it can simply let destructors/disposers and finally clauses unwind the stack entirely and exit. Unlike Pthreads, the target thread can choose to unwind its stack partway until it finds a handler that catches and handles the exception, and then continue normal operations. Also unlike Pthreads, the target thread can immediately catch and ignore the exception entirely.
This is polite interruption, the state of the art in automated interruption facilities.
Option 4: Cooperate
Finally, Option 4, which you can and should use together with Option 3, is a fully cooperative model where the target thread can check to see whether someone has asked for it to interrupt work. This checking can be in between between interruption points (if you want to use both Options 3 and 4 together), or instead of interruption points (if you want to use Option 4 alone). We saw Option 4 in action in the previous two columns [1,2]: In a simple parallel search, once one worker finds an answer and records it in a shared location, the other workers can periodically check that shared location and stop their own work when they see that someone else has already found the answer.
What About Library/OS Calls?
What should you do about library calls that are not interruptible? If it doesn't cooperate, it doesn't cooperate. Don't shoot! Violence is not the answer.
What should you do if you need to call an OS (possibly kernel-mode) function that isn't interruptible? The answer is the same: If it doesn't cooperate, it doesn't cooperate. Don't shoot. Incidentally, you may have noticed a recent trend: More recent operating systems are on the road to making all calls interruptible. For example, in Windows Vista, nearly all file and I/O APIs support interruption, so that you can stop them without just waiting for them to return. This shouldn't be surprising, since we've been considering the importance of interruption in concurrent code.
Interrupt politely. Always use Options 3 and 4, which allow the thread or task to participate in the decision about whether and how it should clean up its work and/or continue on. Notify a thread of interruption requests only at well-defined predictable wait/join/sleep points, and make sure you write your code to be safe if interruption does happen at those points. Note that both Options 3 and 4 provide a strict superset of what is possible in Option 2: Anything you can code in Option 2, you can code in Option 3 or 4 as well. Avoid the peremptory Option 2 of not letting the thread participate in the decision. Even if you are running on Pthreads which does not support Option 3, you have the option of writing Option 4 yourself.
Finally, never kill a thread or task as in Option 1, unless you can prove you're truly in one of the rare cases where this questionable practice is safe and it's okay to take down the whole process (or more) without any graceful cleanup at all. Most real-world attempts to kill a thread at arbitrary points are indefensible; every major threading library or environment started here, but now we know betterviolence is not the answer.
[1] H. Sutter. "Going Superlinear" (Dr. Dobb's Journal, March 2008).
[2] H. Sutter. "Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine" (Dr. Dobb's Journal, March 2008).


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There are a couple of essays on more or less that topic on this site:Documentary and Street PhotographyStreet Photography in China
If you want to "practise" street photography then I suggest shooting political rallies. I have been doing this for about ten years with very little hostility. I have had more hostility shooting street the few times I have tried. Shooting political rallies means that the protesters expect to be photographed and 99% ignore the photographers even when they are in their face. A lot of police in attendance means very few would think about making a fuss. You can get very close or stand back with a long lens. You get the people interaction that happens on the street. In the ten years of shooting I have seen very little violence and in Scotland, where I live, the protesters are civilised and the police rarely antagonize them and vice versa. I also find it more productive than aimlessly wandering the streets.
The real question is how do you take pictures of strangers without feeling guilty about it?
Of course, if, like Rob, you feel guilty about shooting the picture, you're screwed. I suspect a guilt feeling is just as detectable by people around you as an attempt at stealth. If you feel guilty about shooting people on the street, go shoot landscape. Most landscapes don't seem to be self-conscious.
... the most consistently successful street shooters have been people like HCB and Robert Frank who didn't try to be stealthy...
Photographers and others who saw him work talked about his swift and nimble ability to snap a picture undetected. (Sometimes he even masked the shiny metal parts of his camera with black tape.)Cartier-Bresson, Artist Who Used Lens, Dies at 95
"I asked permission and she agreed to pose for me. I'm not very good at intruding in people's lives, and the way I work I really don't have to. I can ask for cooperation.""I shot several rolls and then paid the woman for her time. I always offer to pay people when I photograph them. I make a point of that." p120, 121 Pete Turner: Photographs
Isaac, you seem to conflate being undetected with being stealthy. Not true.
"stealth: movement that is quiet and careful in order to avoid notice, or secret or indirect action""Sometimes he even masked the shiny metal parts of his camera with black tape." Not stealthy?
Well, I'm not going to play word games. Did you look at the pictures toward which I pointed?
A couple of weeks ago I shot an image of a street busker and someone talking to him. The talkative person then took me to task for shooting the image and I should pay the busker for taking the image. I wandered on after an exchange of words. When I looked at the image on my monitor the talkative person had the back of his head to me. He must have had eyes in the back of his head! So much for being stealthy.


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In changing this column from Continuous Wear Colloquy to Contact Lens Materials, we've recognized that silicone hydrogels aren't just for continuous wear (CW). The obvious change when moving moving from CW to daily wear with silicone hydrogel lenses is the introduction of lens care systems. Recently, Serina Stretton, BSc, PhD, from Sydney, Australia, wrote an article on this topic suggesting that vast differences between silicone hydrogels and conventional hydrogels require a new FDA lens group that better describes the unique characteristics of silicone hydrogels.
This argument has been brewing in our industry for some time, and I took the opportunity to research the topic by interviewing Ralph Stone, PhD, vice president of Consumer Products R & D at Alcon Laboratories. In 1984, working at Bausch & Lomb at the time, he developed the theory behind the four FDA Lens Groupings that we still adhere to today. Following are his responses to my questions.
What prompted the development of the four FDA Lens Groups? The initiative came from the FDA Device Branch in recognition that with the growing number of new lens brands coming to the market, it wasn't feasible to list all compatible lens brands on care product labels. We designed the lens groupings to test care products by lens group, rather than testing each individual lens brand for compatibility with each care system. The four groups streamlined the testing and approval process by allowing manufacturers to test only one lens in each of the four groups; the FDA quickly streamlined the process further by allowing testing of Group 1 and Group 4 only.
In the early 1980s, we were increasingly aware of certain lens and solution incompatibilities. For example, the Hydrocurve 55 lens (baufilcon A, 55 percent water) behaved differently from the Hydrocurve 45 percent water material: Sorbic acid-preserved saline and heat discolored the worn 55 percent water material, yet not the 45 percent water material. This provided an early hint that differences in lens materials were responsible for different solution interactions.
What are the key properties of silicone hydrogel materials that make them unique in terms of solution interactions? Silicone changes the total properties of the lens. The base siloxane material is uncharged, non-wettable and hydrophobic. The water loving domains have channels that bind water differently than do hydrogels. We determined the current FDA Lens Groupings in part by how water gets incorporated into a material and how tightly the water is bound. The chemistry puts a silicone hydrogel lens somewhere between a traditional hydrogel and GP lens material.
How are the four FDA Lens Groupings used today? We generally assume that contact lenses within the same FDA group will behave similarly and that contact lens solutions approved for use with one FDA group are suitable for all lenses within that group. We've expanded them, somewhat unintentionally, to clinical care guidelines that predict on-eye lens performance and estimate the compatibility between lenses and patients' ocular responses.
Where do we go from here? Silicone hydrogels differ markedly in chemical composition from conventional hydrogels. To date, the industry has "forced" them into one of the current FDA groupings. If practitioners use these guidelines when prescribing solution systems with this new class of contact lenses, then unexpected lens/solution incompatibilities may result. In fact, a few silicone hydrogel/lens care system incompatibilities are already documented.
A new FDA classification system for silicone hydrogel lenses is the first step in identifying the unique characteristics that silicone and other monomers impart to lens performance and solution compatibility.
Dr. Szczotka-Flynn is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University Dept. of Ophthalmology and is director of the Contact Lens Service at University Hospitals of Cleveland.


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Mike Krzyzewski is no longer ruling out a return as coach of the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team.
Though the Duke coach had repeatedly said he wouldn't be back after last summer, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo says they spoke about a week ago and there has been "movement" toward a return.
Krzyzewski told Sports Illustrated in a story Saturday that "there's a chance" he would be lead the United States in 2016 for an attempt at a third gold medal.
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Krzyzewski took over as U.S. coach in 2005. The Americans won a bronze medal in the 2006 world basketball championship and haven't lost a game since.
Even as Krzyzewski kept saying he was finished, Colangelo hoped he would reconsider. Colangelo wants a coach in place before the team holds a minicamp in July and believes there will be a decision soon.
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U.S. military helicopter crashes during training exercise at American base in Okinawa, Japan
TOKYO A U.S. military helicopter crashed at an American base on the southern island of Okinawa, Japanese and U.S. officials said Monday.
A HH-60 rescue helicopter crashed in a training area at Camp Hansen with four crew members on board, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement. The status of the crew members is unknown, it said.
The helicopter, which belongs to Okinawa's Kadena Air Base, was on an unspecified training mission, the statement said. It said the cause of the crash was not known.
Television footage showed smoke rising from a spot in the forest, although it was unclear whether the aircraft was on fire.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters that he was told that three of the four crew members on board survived, with a fourth person missing. He said no other details, including the condition of the crew members, were immediately known.
Okinawa prefectural police said there were no reports of injuries or damage outside the base.
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Ahead of wedding season's official start, Poppy and Cara Delevingne have already supplied some styling fodder at their sister Chloe's wedding in London. Instead of Fashion Week-ready attire, both Delevingne girls opted for perfect wedding-guest dresses, which we certainly wouldn't mind borrowing for a friend's big day.
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Actually, I forbade my son from watching South Park when it first came on the air because of the content. I only became a fan of the show after his teenage rebellion phase ended, and I didn't have to worry about encouraging disrespect and foul-mouthed bad attitudes. Nick Gillespie at Reason argues as the show starts its 17th season tonight that I had it backwards all along, and that in this era of Big Nanny-State Government, we need to teach our kids to watch out for abuses of power and infringement of freedom:
1. Disrespect My Authoritah!
Virtually every episode points out the difference between legitimate authority and the abuse of power and scare-mongering. Whether it's the show's Jew-baiting jerk Eric Cartman going nuts as a traffic cop or former Vice President Al Gore trying to scare the boys into hysteria overManBearPig, South Park always emphasizes thinking for yourself rather than blindly following what leaders say.
2. Respect True Diversitah!
Today's kids are constantly force-fed hosannas to tolerance and diversity that ring hollow and false. But even when it's brutally satirizing something like Mormonism, South Park actually fosters a true live-and-let-live ethos that's sadly lacking in most K-12 curricula.
3. It Emphasizes Personal Responsibility
Among South Park's core values is taking responsibility for one's actions. In the episode where Stan's father develops a drinking problem and seeks supernatural intervention for a cure, it's the child who lays out the case for self-control and accountability.
Well, most of the above is true, and I later became a big fan of the show, although I haven't kept up with it lately. However, some of the "thinking for yourself" messages come across more as "ridiculing anything that Stone and Parker don't like," which isn't exactly the same thing. I'm also a fan of Penn & Teller's "Bullshit," even when I sometimes vehemently disagree with their point of view, because they tend to offer a little more respect to competing points of view.
Of course, the material in both shows is raw, and I definitely wouldn't have kids watching the Penn & Teller show, which is aimed at educating adults, not children. I don't find Nick entirely convincing on this point, but perhaps more so on an implied point — which is that most of the rest of the programming that kids and teens watch have very different messages aimed at them. My son used to watch The Simpsons, and I found it necessary to deconstruct the multitudes of straw men erected by that series until he grew out of his interest in it. I also am inclined to think that most kids would be more likely to emulate Cartman than to see him as a bête noire.
Nick makes his case in this video, but please Note: this clip is definitely Not Safe For Work, and has enough in here to offend most people, at least once or twice. If you are easily offended (and one episode in here offends me), just stick to Reason's post on the subject:
And just how far are parents supposed to go to encourage open-mindedness? I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be this far.


text: The Joy Formidable are a three-piece band from North Wales, now living in London. The band were originally a four-piece known as Sidecar Kisses, and played In The City in 2006 under that name. In 2007, they dropped their bassist, and changed their drummer and their name. The Guardian cited them as "one to watch" in 2008, and the NME described their music as "Epic, melodic, hand-shandy pop from a band who understand the true joys of life".


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If you prefer, there is also an alphabetical list of categories.
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Hollywood's Awards Season is a marathon, as the same herd of nominees rush from one party to another. After two months cocktailing and dining together, friendships old and new are strengthened. As members of this year's Awards Season Class of 2012 tell PopcornBiz, you suddenly find yourself bonding – sometimes unexpectedly – with the fellow nominees while sharing eight weeks of surreal celebration.
George Clooney says he gets a kick out of actually socializing with his colleagues in a way he thinks the public imagines he does all the time.
"A lot of people at home think we all just hang out together," chuckles Clooney, who's been nominated for a slew of trophies, including an Academy Award for Best Actor for "The Descendants." "I think that they think we're always at the Beverly Hilton drinking champagne, and the truth is that I hadn't seen Brad Pitt in about a year when I saw him at Globes, or in Palm Springs before that. So it's fun to catch up and it's fun to see people that I like and that I haven't seen in a long time, and get to meet people. I've gotten to spend some time with Gary Oldman, who I've really enjoyed spending time with."
U.S. & World
Pitt agrees with his friend and fellow nominee's assessment, especially when it comes to forging new relationships.
"I've made some great friends with Jean Dujardin and Demian Bichir," the Oscar-nominated "Money Ball" star explains. "It's been a pleasure. Both gave extremely different and strong performances, and it is a nice time of the year for us when we get to get together and pay respect."
"I had a chance to talk to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the SAG Awards and they were really, really nice," adds Bichir, nominated for his starring role in "A Better Life." "They were really moved by the film. They liked it a lot and they just wanted to talk about that."
"I met Patton Oswalt a couple of times and I've gotten on ever so well with him, and I bumped into Alexander Payne on a plane flight," says Kenneth Branagh when asked to name-drop some colleagues-turned-chums in this year's awards scrum. "Then the other week I was sitting next to Meryl Streep, I've had a lovely chat with the wondrous Glenn Close…"
"The chance to catch up with people and enjoy this moment that's away from the sometimes dark days of raising money, trying to get an idea past people – and actually being in the celebration business," adds Branagh, "that's fun."
"You start meeting different actors, like Octavia Spencer – you see them at each event," says Jean Dujardin, the French-born Oscar-nominated star of "The Artist" who says he's enjoyed getting to know the Alabama-bred star of "The Help. "She's very natural and she's enjoying the process. She's very warm and welcoming."
"I've met a lot of people on this wonderful circuit," agrees Spencer, though she's happy to retain a little awe in her encounters. "It's just a bunch of really normal people who happen to be named Glenn Close and George Clooney and Brad Pitt. And sometimes you just find yourself kind of ogling them – and I still do. But they've been very gracious throughout this whole thing. I think I've kind of mauled everyone thus far."
Sometimes encounters with the stars you revere go swimmingly, as in "Descendants" director Alexander Payne's scenario: "I was at the Golden Globes a couple weeks ago and met Meryl Streep, and it was a thrill for 45 seconds to have those laughing eyes look at me," Payne recalls. "And I did tell her 'Many people in this room tonight are slinging around versions of this phrase, but I'd love to get my mitts on you someday.' And she laughed and she took it in the spirit in which I offered it. That was a thrill for me. I do get star-struck from time to time. And I had 45 seconds of being star-struck meeting Meryl Streep."
And sometimes the celebrity encounters bring you back down to earth, as "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" actor Andy Serkis points out. "At the Golden Globe Awards Morgan Freeman's son Alfonso, came running up to me and he said, 'Are you Andy Serkis?'' he remembers. "I said, 'Yeah,' and he said, 'Oh, my God – come with me!' And he dragged me kind of into the pit where all the top guys are, all the way to the front to meet Morgan. He dragged me up to me Morgan. And Alfonso goes, 'Dad, Dad – this is Andy Serkis! This is Andy Serkis!' And Morgan just looked at me and said 'And what do you do?'"
"Everyone I've met has blown me away," says "Young Adult" star Oswalt. "I got to talk to Paul Schrader. I'm as excited to talk to him as I am Lee Majors. Robert Loggia, I got to talk to him; Al Pacino – meeting all those people is amazing…I'm a big film nerd, and so you go to these parties and like Catherine O'Hara is there and I talked to her for an hour and nerded out about 'SCTV,' and then you get to talk to people that meant something to you growing up about their work and about their films. That to me has been the best part of the process."


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San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2013
Fracking foes in California win in court
Fracking opponents in California have won what may be their first victory in court, with a federal magistrate's ruling that federal authorities broke the law when they leased land in Monterey and Fresno counties to oil drillers without studying the possible risks of hydraulic fracturing.
The decision, made public Sunday, will probably delay fracking on four sites leased by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in 2011.
U.S. Magistrate Paul Grewal with the U.S. District Court in San Jose ruled that the bureau did not properly assess the threat that fracking could pose to water and wildlife before selling the leases, some of which lie within the Salinas River watershed. He made clear that he was not ruling on the merits of fracking itself.
"Ultimately, BLM argues that the effects of fracking on the parcels at issue are largely unknown," Grewal wrote, in a decision dated March 31. "The court agrees. But this is precisely why proper investigation was so crucial in this case."
The 2011 lease sale provoked an outcry from local landowners, environmentalists and Monterey County officials, who feared it could represent the start of a fracking boom. The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club sued the bureau, arguing that the federal agency had not performed the kind of in-depth environmental analysis required by law.
"Their default position is, 'Lease as much land as you can,' " said Brendan Cummings, senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity. "It's a recalcitrant agency that's been captured by the extractive industries."
Impact unclear
Bureau spokesman David Christy said the agency needed to study the decision before determining its next step.
"We'll be reviewing it, so we can't comment in any depth," he said.
The ruling's immediate impact on the leases in question isn't clear. Although Grewal discussed invalidating the leases or blocking activity at each site, he said he did not want to "guess" the correct remedy. He ordered the environmental groups and the bureau to meet and come up with proposals by April 15.
Cummings said his group wanted the leases tossed out. The magistrate, he said, could also leave the leases in place but forbid any drilling at each site until the bureau had conducted a proper environmental study.
"As a practical matter, the results would be the same: no fracking on these leases for the foreseeable future," Cummings said.
Two of the companies that won the leases - Vintage Production California and Lone Tree Energy & Associates - did not return calls seeking comment Monday. Another lease was purchased by Neil Ormond of Clovis (Fresno County), who said he bought it on behalf of a company he declined to name.
Oil and water
Fracking involves blasting a high-pressure blend of water, sand and chemicals deep underground to crack rocks, freeing the oil or natural gas trapped inside. The practice has revolutionized the fossil fuel industry in America, with oil and natural gas production soaring for the first time in decades. Critics accuse it of tainting water supplies and worsening air pollution.
So far, fracking has not taken off in California the way it has in North Dakota, Pennsylvania or Texas. But oil companies are trying the technique here, focusing their attention on the Monterey Shale. A massive rock formation that lies beneath much of the southern San Joaquin Valley and parts of the central coast, the Monterey Shale could hold 15 billion barrels of oil, making it the country's largest oil shale "play."
Who's responsible?
The bureau's September 2011 lease sale involved 2,700 acres of land. Some of the parcels lie in the dry, grass-covered hills southeast of Coalinga (Fresno County). Others sit close to the Salinas River and the San Antonio Reservoir.
Despite protests, the bureau concluded that the lease sale was unlikely to cause any environmental harm. According to Grewal's decision, the bureau justified that conclusion by estimating that only one oil exploration well would be drilled in the entire area to be leased. The bureau also argued that assessing the safety of fracking was outside the agency's jurisdiction. Grewal disagreed.
"Put another way, if (it's) not within BLM's jurisdiction, then whose?" he wrote.
© 2013 Hearst Communications, Inc.
This article originally appeared here.
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I am so excited for fall this year. Fall means I can finally break out my favorite leather boots and soft sweaters, drink hot chocolate, and this October, turn 25! As much as I love sweater season, though, I'm still very much inspired by summer and its brighty, sunny flavors – lime, cilantro, jalapeno and mango, to name a few.
This spiced chicken with tropical salsa by One Lovely Life, a favorite blog of mine from a sweet girl named Emily, is the perfect way to keep celebrating the beauty and bounty of fresh veggies brought on by summer.
Emily flattened and pan-fried her chicken breasts to give them a nice crust, but I marinaded and then grilled mine for maximum juiciness, so follow whichever recipe suits you best. Topped with a delicious mango-avocado salsa, this is one healthy meal that's full of vibrant flavor and color, and I know you'll just love it!
Craving more? Keep in touch on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram for new post updates and more. You can also check out my FAQ page, or contact me with any questions or inquiries!
Spiced Chicken with Tropical Salsa
Yield: Makes 2-4 servings
For the chicken:
1 lb. chicken breasts
1/4 cup brown sugar
scant Tbsp. salt
1/2 tsp. chili powder
1 1/2 tsp. paprika
1/8tsp. garlic powder
1/8tsp. onion powder
1/8 tsp. dry mustard
2 Tbsp. olive oil
For the salsa:
3 Roma tomatoes, diced
1 mango, diced
1 avocado, diced
juice of 1 lime
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
4 scallions, diced
1 tsp. white vinegar
pinch salt and pepper
1/2 small jalapeno, minced (with seeds and ribs removed)
For chicken:
In a large bowl, combine sugar, salt and all spices. Coat chicken breasts lightly in olive oil, about 1 Tbsp. for each breast. Rub mixture onto both sides of chicken breasts and return to bowl. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to absorb flavors. Grill (high heat, about 15 minutes, flipping frequently) or pan-fry (medium heat, 5 minutes per side).
Let chicken rest 1-2 minutes to allow juices to redistribute, then serve warm with salsa.
For salsa:
Combine all ingredients and toss to combine. Chill until ready to serve.
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Our Basic Family Stickers Color Accent decals have the same price and ease of ordering as our other Basic Stickers but have a pop of color! These decals are printed on white outdoor rated vinyl that will withstand the elements for several years. Decals are applied individually and if you change your mind, removal is clean and simple.
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The 300 km Nibelung-Siegfried Route goes on the trail of the Nibelung Saga, one of the oldest stories in the German language and a heroic epic containing 2,400 stanzas. It starts in Worms and continues on to Würzburg before returning to Worms. Adventure-seekers wishing to retrace the footsteps of the Nibelungs can pick up the scent in Worms.
On the approximately 300 km Nibelung-Siegfried Route that runs through the Rhine Valley between Odenwald forest and the Palatinate forest, courageous men and beautiful women alike are sure to discover something of interest: after all, the Nibelungs and the famous 13th century Nibelungenlied saga contain all the ingredients needed for a great adventure. The Nibelungenlied, which has been listed in UNESCO's Memory of the World register, tells the story of Siegfried, Kriemhild, Brunhild and Hagen and is an account of their lives, the feasts and the feuds. It is also a tale of profound and tragic love, all-consuming hatred, jealousy, honour and death.
The fascination and the riddle of the Nibelungs
The Nibelungs are virtually unrivalled in myth and legend: so many tales have been written about them. At the time of Europe's Migration Period in the depths of the Middle Ages, the Nibelungs ended their journey on the Rhine and chose Worms as their capital. But did the proud knight Siegfried of Xanten and Hagen of Tronje really exist and where in the Rhine were the treasures of the Nibelungs hidden? Was the castle of Gunther and Brunhild really to be found in Worms? These are riddles that will never be solved for certain.
The legendary Odenwald forest
It was here in the mythical Odenwald forest, in the former kingdom of Burgundy, that one of the oldest legends – the Nibelung Saga – originated. The saga tells of love, murder and jealousy, of Siegfried's fight with the dragon, the feud between Kriemhild and Brunhild and Siegfried's death at the hands of Hagen von Tronje. The Nibelungs set off from their temporary capital, Worms, on one of the two routes leading, via Würzburg, to the kingdom of the Huns to see Attila on the banks of the Danube. This journey was to prove disastrous.
Continue the journey
With its gently sloping vineyards, thick forests, enchanting rivers, old towns, splendid churches, mysterious castles, palaces and ruins, this land is one of the most beautiful and mysterious in Germany. Along this route, you'll step back in time to the Middle Ages and discover all the wonderful places through which the Nibelungs wandered and the forests in which they hunted. In this land of myths and legends, why not feel a little like a hero?
Length: approximately 300 km
Theme: the Nibelung Saga
Amorbach: Baroque city, Benedictine abbey
Auerbach: castle
Bensheim: half-timbered houses
Eberstadt: dripstone cave
Freudenberg: Freudenburg Palace
Grasellenbach: the Siegfriedbrunnen stream
Lautertal: block field
Lorsch: UNESCO World Heritage Site, abbey town, King's Hall
Michelstadt: half-timbered houses
Worms: cathedral, Nibelung Museum, Nibelung Festival
Würzburg: cathedral, residential palace, Marienberg Citadel
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Spiritual Fashion Trends
Are there fashion shows in the Spiritual World? Probably. But the latest clothing and fashions at such heavenly shows represent the most desirable and sought-after inner qualities of one's heart and mind. In other words, all clothes in the other … Continue reading


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As it turns out, software foundations can be pretty useful. There's a tipping point in open source software when all of a sudden money becomes involved and it starts to get serious. Companies are formed, trademarks are violated and all of a sudden, stuff becomes real.
About 10 years ago I was around when Plone went from a small project to a "starting to get serious project". Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan had the foresight right there and then to realise that they needed a foundation, someone to hold the IP and trademarks of Plone. This got it away from being controlled by individuals or companies and instead placed in the community.
The Plone Foundation was formed in 2004 and one of the issues was that a company had been formed, Plone Solutions. in Norway to provide consulting. Having a company with the projects name in the title was a trademark violation. It also leads to confusion within the project and implies a relationship between the company and the project that doesn't exist. The foundation and the company talked and the company amicably changed its name to Jarn instead. Although Jarn is no longer around, Plone is still going strong and so is the Plone Foundation.
As another example, recently the Python Software Foundation had to fight for the Python trademark in Europe when a hosting company tried to trademark Python. The company backed down when the Python community stepped up to help the foundation fight that and proceed with its own trademark.
The Mozilla foundation, not the Mozilla corporation, holds the trademark and intellectual property for Mozilla projects. To commit to a Mozilla project, you have to agree to the committers agreement. Like other foundations it fights against people abusing trademarks. For example, taking Firefox, bundling it up with malware and then distributing it under the Firefox trademark.
In all these cases it's not a company holding trademarks and any intellectual property (depending on the foundation and the software license). Instead a foundation is created by the developers and maintained by the development community. It is the foundations job to act on behalf of the projects software community to maintain and improve it.
And I think Node.js is finding out why it needs one.
Note: I was on the Plone Foundation board, I'm currently the secretary of the Django Software Foundation and I work at Mozilla Corporation (not the Mozilla Foundation)


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Walking: Morning, Noon or Night!
Categories: Active Living
Make the most of your walk any time
There's no one right time of day to get moving. Follow these tips whether you walk morning, noon or night.
Like to walk as soon as your feet hit the floor?
Congratulations! You're getting your day started right.
- The night before, get your walking clothes and shoes ready so it's easy to put them on and head out the door.
- An iPod or other portable music device programmed with up tempo music or set to your favorite radio station can keep you moving at a brisk pace. Just make sure you can still hear traffic.
- Stretch your calves and hamstrings at the end of your walk. Watching a morning news show or check your email while stretching.
- If it's dark, wear clothing with reflective strips so motorists can see you.
Would you rather eat and run?
- Schedule your lunchtime walk in Out¬look or your work calendar. Think of it as an important appointment.
- Keep everything you'll need for walking at work. This way you won't find yourself saying "I forgot my shoes. I can't go."
- Recruit some colleagues to join you. You can keep each other on track.
- Depending on your walking pace, the weather and how much you sweat, you may be able to wear your work clothes and switch to athletic shoes. Or you may prefer to slip on a T-shirt. In cooler weather, you might need a jacket, hat or gloves. If you're walking briskly, you'll heat up after about 10 minutes, so don't overdress.
- Bring a healthy lunch or pick a route where you can grab a sandwich at the end of your walk.
Is walking after work more your thing?
- Have a light snack around 4 p.m. so you don't experience a late-day energy dip and talk yourself out of walking. Try yogurt and a handful of almonds or an apple and an ounce of cheese.
- Pick an area that's not heavily trafficked since rush hour can increase air pollutants.
- Walk tall and do some backward shoulder rolls to relieve stress.
- If it's dark, wear clothing with reflective strips so motorists can see you.
Article adapted from the American Heart Association.


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Bronx Eats: For Your New Year's Hangover, Homemade Cotechino on Arthur Avenue
Cotechino, a speciality of the Emilia-Romagna region, is difficult to find across much of the United States. You'd be hard pressed to find this fresh pork sausage in much of New York, though it can be found at Eataly, where it has appeared on the menu of their rooftop beer garden.
But you can find it on Arthur Avenue. During the holiday season, precooked imported cotechino can be found at Casa della Mozzarella, Mike's Deli ($19.50 for 1.25 to 1.5 lb), and Teitel Brothers ($5.99/lb). But why bother when you can find get locally produced links at one of the neighborhood's revered butchers? Those looking for good fortune in 2013, though, may want to pick up a link or two before they disappear. Once the holidays pass, so too will the cotechino.
One of the sausage's defining characteristics, which also gives it its name, is the incorporation of rind (cotica) from the snout and jowl. Alongside the rind go shoulder and neck meat, salt, and spices such as black pepper, nutmeg, and cloves. Ratios are not strictly observed. In its homeland, cotechino is traditionally served with lentils, symbolic of money, on New Year's Day as an omen of good luck.
My introduction was less deliberate, an unwitting foray into Casa della Mozarella for prosciutto. You know how it goes: one cured meat leads to another. I was excited by promise of something new and elusive, but sadly the cotechino there is not produced in-house. The flavor was restrained, if unremarkable; muted much like the link's earthy hue. But prospects improve with just turn around the corner.
What's New On Serious Eats
At Vincent's ($7.50/lb), you'll find a beautifully ruby red cotechino that is less rotund than others I have spotted Stateside. Marcella Hazan lamented that "what sausage-makers outside Italy produce is leaner, drier, and saltier than the Modenese archetype," but in the Bronx the home team wins. Imported cotechino must be precooked, dulling both the color and the flavor.
Here, the sausage is hung for two weeks. Once let loose, the sausage perfumes the room without overwhelming the senses. Its aroma hints at the underlying sweetness of pork, calling forth Calabria's sopressata, and was enough to get my dog* all kinds of excited—he's always been more of pizza crust and peanut butter kind of guy. This is cotechino we can get excited about.
* I've been looking for an excuse to include my dog Bogart in this column since its inception, and when he sprung for the cotechino, I knew my chance had arrived. Naturally, being the ruffian he is, he gave the link his absolute focus for the following 20 minutes, allowing me ample time to snap some shots.
What of the flavor? I have extolled the virtues of Calabria's sopresatta frequently in this column (and too often to remember in conversation) and while Vincent's cotechino does not quite compete it is a worthy contender. Some call it hearty and heavy, so I say this is all the better on a winter morning. The warm spices, nutmeg and cloves, are less weighty in this rendition; while the aroma suggests a heavy hand with the chili flakes, the flavor is rich and mild with an emphasis on fatty pork goodness. The texture is soft, not at like the tough skin of salami to which its often compared, and as tender as expected when cooked.
I have yet to find an adequate explanation for why cotechino is served on New Year's Day aside from traditional slaughter practices, but who are we to ask questions when dealing with such absurd levels of delicious-ness? One may wish, yes, that it were traditional to eat the dish every morning. But its scarcity will make your foggy-headed New Years Day all the more special. Just imagine that those lentils instead symbolize the many brain cells you sacrificed to the party gods! You'll be needing them at the office.
Vincent's Meat Market
2374 Arthur Avenue, The Bronx, NY 10458 (map) 718-295-9048
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Managing Your Digital Information (for the Faculty of Education) NewSpecial
You will learn how to manage digital information, which includes quantitative data, interview transcripts, observations, the results of searches, and more. The content is focused on practical solutions and tools available at the University of Cambridge. By the end of the session, you will be in a better position to organise the information well, share it safely and preserve it for the future. You will possess all the knowledge needed to create a solid data management plan.
Venue: DMB GS1
- Reseachers
- PhD students
- Know how to store and share sensitive data
- Understand how data can be kept safe in the short and long term
- Understand how to organise data effectively
- Appreciate the benefits of making some data public
- Be aware of tools to organise and share data
Presentation, activities, discussions
When you attend an event run by the OSC, we add you to our mailing list to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments and opportunities in the field of open research. We send one Open Research newsletter per month. You are welcome to unsubscribe from this list at any point if you feel the information is not relevant to you.
One 90 minutes session
- Open Research at the University of Cambridge (for the Faculty of Education)
- Copyright issues in academia (for the Faculty of Education)
- Peer-reviewed journals: what you need to know about publishing (for the Faculty of Education)
- Publishing a book: what, where, when and how? (for the Faculty of Education)
- Disseminating your research for greater impact (for the Faculty of Education)
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Experimenting with textures, bumpmaps and materials. While Curvy is primarily a modeller, it is fun to play with these sometimes.
Also some teeny tiny boolean cuts to make the grooves on the screws.
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