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Smothered Pork Chops
Serves 4
Beef broth gives the sauce for these chops good flavour, as do onions.
This is an example of how to reduce fat without losing the flavour of a familiar dish. The recipe is from Comfort Food Makeovers, published by America's Test Kitchen ($29.95). The fattier version would have had 630 calories per serving; the reformed recipe has only 390.
The book takes a host of familiar recipes and gives them a trim, without losing satisfying flavour. Included are such basics as chicken tetrazzini, shepherd's pie, chocolate desserts, lemon squares — you name it. An intelligent, well-produced book.
4 bone-in pork rib chops, each 8 ounces/250 g), 1/2 to 3/4 inches thick, trimmed of fat
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1 slice bacon, in 1/4-inch pieces
2 onions, halved, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons water
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups beef broth
2 bay leaves
Dry chops with paper towels and sprinkle with pepper. Cook bacon in 12-inch non-stick frying pan over medium heat until crisp, five to seven minutes, then drain on paper towels. Heat bacon fat left in pan over high heat until just smoking. Sear chops until browned on both sides, about six minutes, then transfer to a plate.
Add onions, water and one-quarter teaspoon salt to fat in pan and cook over medium heat, scraping up any browned bits, until softened, five to seven minutes.
Stir in garlic and thyme and cook for about 30 seconds, until fragrant.
Stir in flour and cook until golden, about two minutes. Whisk in broth, increase heat to medium-high and bring to a boil.
Add bay leaves, cooked bacon and chops, plus any accumulated juices.
Cover chops with onions and sauce. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer gently until pork is very tender, 30 to 35 minutes.
Transfer chops to serving platter and cover loosely with aluminum foil. Continue to simmer sauce until thickened, about five minutes.
Remove bay leaves. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon sauce over chops and serve.


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Plan for NB 6.10 Performance improvements
This is an implementation plan for performance-related work targeted for NetBeans 6.10 release. It's based on post 6.9 performance topics and NB 6.10 performance goals. It covers work done by all engineering teams, except routine bugfixing.
Milestones below show which tasks should be finished by given date. Completed tasks have the check mark.
July 26
- Oleg: Renewed Comparative dashboard
- David, Oleg: Editor typing tests - existing tests fixed + new tests suitable to test the new view hierarchy
August 9
- David, Oleg: Editor typing tests - measuring new view hierarchy (switch -J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.linewrap=true)
- Jarda: Go to Type - prototype demonstrating desired availability and performance: File:Uber-goto-type-cache.diff
- Jesse: Issue 157283 - Declaratively load lookup items for Maven packaging types
August 23
- Jarda: Dump occupied file descriptors on Unix into log
- Jarda, Tomas Stupka: VCS-FS interaction on renaming folders -- agree on solution. RefactoringFSandVCS
- Tomas Zezula: Index in memory for fast Go to Type (Issue 177274): automatically reserve part of heap permanently, rest as soft-references.
- Tomas Hurka, Jirka Sedlacek: Time line in Profiler for long CPU snapshots (especially from self-profiling). See InstantFitness.
September 6
- Jarda: FitnessViaCLITimeLine - sample any application (e.g. NetBeans startup), analyze it in a timeline.
September 20 (Feature Freeze)
- Statistics for people who turned off checking of external changes. See scanning statistic
- VCS-FS interaction on renaming folders -- do something. RefactoringFSandVCS
- Petr Nejedly, Tomas Zezula: Native file listeners
- Martin Entlicher: Fast debugger stepping
- Oleg: Measuring project's classpath modification
- Tomas Hurka: Adjusted UI to start/stop IDE self profiling
- Tomas Hurka: Integrate profiling snapshots with UI gestures, make exception reporter (statistics.netbeans.org) provide new NPSS snapshots together with the UI gestures data. (May require a new format for one file holding both the snapshot and the UI estures data.)
- All: Measuring performance of sample projects: for selected sample projects of various size measure typical performance characteristics (e.g. a subset of comparative dashboard) to give our users some reference numbers of what performance they can expect
- Tomas Zezula: Fill Go to Type results incrementally (not waiting on slow providers like JavaScript)
- Part of Java/Editor improvements


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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
And The Winner Is.
Posted by Scottish Nanna at 2:52 AM 2 comments
Friday, October 22, 2010
Mothers Cupboard Block 2.
I have finished my Block 2. thanks Fiona looking forward to Block3
Posted by Scottish Nanna at 1:46 PM 3 comments
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
I Won whispersweetly of cottages giveaway.
And this is what I won A pair of antique embroidered Pillow Slips And A craft and cook book I just Love Them I feel so Lucky. Have A closer look at one of the slips.
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One of my dear friends Del went to A garage sale and bought A box of crafting things for 7dollars in it were lots of crafting goodies and A few sewing things as she does not sew she gave me all the sewing things their were two quilting books and all these hexies all cut out and ready to sew I have never tried hexies before but I have been watching all the girls in globland doing theres and I thought I might try that some day Well that day has come This is my first try I think they look right.The books pictured behind them are the quilting books Well I am off to do some more Hexies He He He I think I am so Clever.
Posted by Scottish Nanna at 1:28 PM 4 comments
Sunday, October 10, 2010
You get one empty Mccona coffee jar fill with lollies thendress it up like this. And you have A nice snow man to sit on your xmas table.this is what I have been Making they are good as xmas gifts hope you like
Posted by Scottish Nanna at 5:49 PM 3 comments
Thursday, October 7, 2010
The old woman who lived in the shoe.
There was an old woman who lived in A shoe. She had so many children she dident know what to do.
I found this at the thrift shop someone must have spent hours sewing them they are so cute One of my grandchildren will love this.
Posted by Scottish Nanna at 9:34 PM 2 comments
Saturday, October 2, 2010
I am giving away this little bag with A hair brush and some hair ties and some more goodies to go in it.If you have A little girl somewhere that would like this at Xmas just leave your name on my blog I will Put all the names in A dish and get DH.to pick one out .I will draw it out on the 28th October Good luck everyone.
Hugs Mary.
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What can be said about rational self-maps of $\mathbb P^1$ for which all critical points are also fixed points ?
If all but one of the fixed points are critical, there is a characterization in http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411604v1 ( see Corollary 1 and the discussion just after the statement ).
Still assuming that all critical points are fixed: Is it possible to bound the degree of the rational map if all but two of the fixed points are critical ?
I think that the answer is probably no, but I would really love to hear the contrary.
Motivation. The question is motivated by a rather specific problem I like to think about from time to time. It concerns the classification of some special arrangements of lines on the projective plane. More specifically, I would like to classify arrangements of $3d$ lines(or rather hyperplanes through the origin of $\mathbb C^3$) invariant by degree $d$ homogeneous polynomial vector fields on $\mathbb C^3$. Given one arrangement like that one can produce a degree $d$ rational map having all its critical points fixed.
Update. (08/28/2013) The paper On the classification of critically fixed rational maps by Cordwell, Gilbertson, Nuechterlein, Pilgrim, and Pinella classifies rational maps for which all critical points are fixed. In particular, for every degree $d\ge 3$ there exists a rational such that all but two of the fixed points are critical.


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Digital Production
The Gnomon Workshop offers the most comprehensive set of Digital Production tutorials anywhere. The broad scope of the tutorials contained in this section range from foundational understanding of the software tools all the way to the professional application of these tools and concepts used by artists working in the film and game industries.
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Age: 26 (Dec. 19)
5th season in pro football, third in NFL & with Eagles
Height: 6'5" Weight: 285
A consensus All-American and SEC Player of the Year as a senior in college (where he gained his nickname "The Minister of Defense"), White started his pro career in the USFL with the Memphis Showboats in 1984. In two seasons, he garnered 23.5 sacks and then left the ill-fated spring league for the Eagles, who had taken him in the first round of the '84 NFL Supplemental draft. He joined
early in the 1985 season and had
13 sacks in 13 games (between the spring USFL season and the fall NFL campaign,
he played in a total of 31 contests in '85). Quickly establishing himself as a
dominant player at his position, White had 18 sacks in 1986 and was a consensus
first-team All-Pro and was chosen for the Pro Bowl. Philadelphia
1987 Season Summary
Appeared and started in 12 of 15 games
[Bracketed numbers indicate league rank in Top 20]
Sacks – 21 [1]
Most sacks, game – 3 vs. NY Giants 11/15
Multi-sack games – 8
Interceptions – 0
Fumble recoveries – 1
Forced fumbles – 4
Tackles – 76
TDs – 1
Points – 6
Awards & Honors:
NFL Defensive Player of the Year: AP
1st team All-NFL: AP, NEA, PFWA, Pro Football Weekly, Sporting News
1st team All-NFC: UPI, Pro Football Weekly
Pro Bowl
Eagles went 7-8 to finish fourth in the NFC East in the strike-affected season (three games were played with replacement players), finishing second in the NFL in sacks (57).
Having just missed the single-season sack record in 1987, White again led the NFL in sacks with 18 in 1988. He remained with the Eagles through 1992 and was a consensus first-team All-Pro selection for six straight years and was named to seven consecutive Pro Bowls. The leader of an outstanding defensive unit, White also became a vocal critic of the team's front office and left to sign with the Green Bay Packers as a free agent in 1993. He went to seven more Pro Bowls and was a consensus All-Pro choice twice more as well as Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Year once more, in 1998 at age 37. The Packers also won two NFC titles and the Super Bowl following the '96 season. White retired for a year in 1999 but returned for one more season with the Carolina Panthers in 2000. He finished his career as the NFL's all-time leader in sacks with 198 and reached double figures in 12 seasons. White's #92 was retired by both the Eagles and Packers and he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 2006.
MVP Profiles feature players who were named MVP or Player of the Year in the NFL, AAFC (1946-49), AFL (1960-69), WFL (1974), or USFL (1983-85) by a recognized organization (Associated Press, Pro Football Writers Association, Newspaper Enterprise Association, United Press International, The Sporting News, Maxwell Club – Bert Bell Award, or the league itself). Also includes Associated Press NFL Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States. Established pursuant to Article III of the United States Constitution in 1789, it has ultimate (and largely discretionary) appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and over state court cases involving issues of federal law, plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases. In the legal system of the United States, the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of federal constitutional law, although it may only act within the context of a case in which it has jurisdiction.
The Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Once appointed, justices have life tenure unless they resign, retire, take senior status, or are removed after impeachment (though no justice has ever been removed).
- I had never before argued a Supreme Court case on my own. Since arguments in that court are thirty minutes in length per side, and since most of the time consumed in argument is taken up with responses to questions of the Court, Dean [Ringel] and I devoted most of our preparation to three overlapping issues, ones that have consumed my attention in every later Supreme Court argument as well. The first was jurisprudential in nature. What rule of law were we urging the Court to adopt? How would it apply in any future case? What would be its impact on First Amendment legal doctrine?
- Floyd Abrams, Speaking Freely (2005), p. 65, discussing his argument before the Court in Landmark Communications v. Virginia.
- In my conception of it, the primary role of the Court is to decide cases. From the decision of cases, of course, some changes develop, but to try to create or substantially change civil or criminal procedure, for example, by judicial decision is the worst possible way to do it. The Supreme Court is simply not equipped to do that job properly.
- Warren E. Burger, "Excerpts From Interview With Chief Justice Burger on Role of the Supreme Court", The New York Times (July 4, 1971).
- The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
- William O. Douglas, New York Times interview, (29 October 1973).
- The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
- William O. Douglas, Time Magazine interview, (12 November 1973).
- Nine, nine... There have been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in response to the question "How many women would be enough" [on the Supreme Court] during interview with Diane Sawyer at The Women's Conference (Long Beach, California, October 26, 2010)
- This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.
- Justice Robert H. Jackson, Douglas v. Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, 181 (1943).
- Civil liberties had their origin and must find their ultimate guaranty in the faith of the people. If that faith should be lost, five or nine men in Washington could not long supply its want.
- Justice Robert H. Jackson, Douglas v. Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, 182 (1943).
- The court is the least abstract of institutions. It is nine men, nine very human men, participating in a process that can be impressive or disturbing, grave or funny. And contrary to the general impression, the process is more visible than most of what goes on in government.
- Anthony Lewis, quoted in Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court (1979), p. viii.
- We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution -- not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 9, 1937), reported in Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (2005), p. 411.
- In the United States at the present day, the reverence which the Greeks gave to the oracles and the Middle Ages to the Pope is given to the Supreme Court. Those who have studied the working of the American Constitution know that the Supreme Court is part of the forces engaged in the protection of the plutocracy. But of the men who know this, some are on the side of the plutocracy, and therefore do nothing to weaken the traditional reverence for the Supreme court, while others are discredited in the eyes of the ordinary quiet citizens by being said to be subversive and Bolshevik.
- Bertrand Russell, Power (1937, reprinted Routledge Classics, 2004), p. 53.
- For nearly 40 years, the Supreme Court has been evading the 14th Amendment's provision of "equal protection" of the law for all, in order to let government-imposed group preferences and quotas continue, under the name of "affirmative action." Equal rights under the law have been made to vanish by saying the magic word "diversity," whose sweeping benefits are simply assumed and proclaimed endlessly, rather than demonstrated.
- Thomas Sowell, "Messing With the Constitution" (12 January 2016), Jewish World Review.
- And as I say to you, whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend, you can be sure of that.
- Harry S. Truman, reported in Truman Speaks (1960), p. 59.


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Like many business professionals, Andrew Anson has attended his share of networking events.
"I've been to a number of mixers, and one of the things that I always find is that a lot of mixers kind of fail at helping people really, really network," he said. "You eat, you drink, there's a speaker and then you're left to your own devices to try to figure out who you really need to meet in that room."
So Anson and Paras Shah decided to turn a standard mixer on its head, co-creating The Spark Plug Tournaments.
The tournaments, which are expected to take place this summer at the Queen Mary, are part elevator-pitch competition, part speed-networking events with business speakers and professional development activities in the mix.
Attendees are put in groups of 10 and do 30-second pitches to the group.
Each group picks a finalist who then pitches to all the attendees.
The winner gets a traditional and social media ad campaign based on the winning pitch.
"The tournament is more entertaining than a mixer and more efficient than a networking event," Shah said in a written statement. "Whether you're selling a service, pursuing a career goal or sharing a community cause, we want to help the `little guy or gal' broadcast their message to a larger audience."
Nationally there's been a trend in recent years to put a new spin on the traditional networking event, from speed-networking sessions to elaborately-themed mixers.
Anson, who with Michael Clements (Long Beach City Councilman James Johnson's chief of staff) created the popular Beer and Politics events in Long Beach, said the idea evolved from doing a lot of elevator pitches for startup companies seeking angel investors or investment communities.
The tournament allows attendees to get encouragement and critiques on their pitching, get to know each other and spotlight talent, Anson said.
"Part of what I want to accomplish was to create a much more rewarding experience and better benefits," he said. "I'm trying to encourage people to tap their ingenuity and share their ideas and their energy."
For more information, visit SparkPlugTournament.com.
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The Santa Clara Valley Water District has announced that this year's dry weather has left the Almaden Reservoir's water level extremely low. The reservoir feeds the Los Alamitos Creek, ensuring water for the fish in the creek.
The reservoir is less than 5 percent full; it must contain some water to prevent it from filling with sediment. The district has reduced water flows from the reservoir from 1.9 to 1.2 cubic feet per second. This will provide enough water to keep most of the creek wet and the fish alive, says Marty Grimes, program administrator for communications for the water district.
While the lower flow may keep the bed of Los Alamitos Creek moist, there may not keep the entire waterway wet through to Calero Creek, according to Grimes.
Without decreasing the water flow, the creek could have dried up by Nov. 28. The lower flow should keep the creek wet through mid-December without benefit of rain, Grimes said.
"We need about two inches of rainfall to see the inflow into Almaden Reservoir to prevent that situation," Grimes said, quoting a hydrologist.
Almaden Reservoir doesn't provide water for drinking, washing or sewers. It and Steven's Creek are the two local reservoirs in the worst shape. Guadalupe is at about 17.4 percent capacity, and neither Lexington nor Anderson reservoir is too dry, Grimes said.
"The Almaden Reservoir issue is not necessarily indicative of the bigger water picture. During wet years, we bank water with the state and store it in Kern County for a year. When we need it, we take our share back from the Delta from the Semi Tropic Water Storage District. We have 45,000 acre feet of water stored. That's more than in Anderson Reservoir now," Grimes said.
Current conditions shouldn't lead to short term conservation, he said. While San Jose has entered the rainy season, it's still early, and officials don't know what the snow pack will be next spring and whether it will be necessary to import more water.
Although there have been news reports of potential cloud seeding, Grimes said the water district hasn't tried to induce rain since 1994.
"We started seeding in 1951 and continued it on and off until 1995 because it was a wet year, " he said.


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I got into a pile of broken / reject / outdated watches and parts a while back. This was in one of the drawers...this is how it looked when I found
I had this rebuilt recently, so here is is now -
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Archive for June, 2007
- 06/04/2007 Purple frog among 24 new species found in Suriname posted in new species
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Welcome to the archives here at Frog9. Have a look around.
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Welcome to the archives here at Frog9. Have a look around.
Thomas Marent's FROG is—quite possibly—the best frog book ever. Doubt my word? Visit Thomas Marent's web site to catch a glimpse of his photographic genius. Quite wonderful. Enjoy!
Dr. Kirtland C. Peterson
Threatened Amphibians of the World is a rich—and sad—resource for those concerned about the massive decline in amphibian populations worldwide. Available from Lynx. It's well worth the $125 and long delay as it ships from Spain.
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I spent a blissful week away from all things Internet last week, and have come back from my mountain vacay with an RSS feed that, thankfully, was not as much of a drag to plow through as I'd feared. In fact, quite a few interesting articles popped up that I thought were worthy of note. And you know me, I like to share.
*Triple Canopy's latest issue has a first-person piece, Matter of Rothko, written by David Levine about his father's complicated legal and personal relationship with Mark Rothko that, oddly, manages to be dry and deeply moving at the same time.
*Art administrator, writer, and former B@S guest blogger Thea Liberty Nichols contributed a slew of really good Chicago-themed interviews to Art:21 blog last week. Read Nichols' conversations with Selina Trepp, Liz McCarthy of Roxaboxen Exhibitions, Jasmine Justice, Lilly Carré, and PictureBox Inc, along with Houston's Aurora Picture Show.
*Also on Art:21 blog, Francesca Wilmott writes on Theaster Gates' "creative rehab efforts" in Hyde Park, St. Louis.
*Hennessey Youngman aka Jayson Musson, the dude the art world is currently crushing on (okay okay, that includes me too….), will be part of The Dialogue: The MCA Chicago's Annual Conversation on Museums, Diversity and Inclusion on September 7th. Jeez, couldn't they have thought of a better title for this event? It makes it sound so dull and institutionalized….like some kind of corporate "diversity workshop" where your participation is most definitely not optional. Hopefully Youngman's participation will spice things up a bit, although I am already raising my eyebrows at the fact that Youngman is being brought to the Museum under the rubric of a "diversity" program and not as an artist in his own right. But, I will hold off on my comments until after I see the program. Tickets are $8/members and $10/non-members. Order online here. And if you haven't listened to it yet, Mr. Youngman was interviewed on Bad at Sports' Podcast a couple weeks back on Episode 306. Good stuff.
*This is fantastic: Shawnee Barton (who guest blogged over here on B@S awhile back) rejects those who wrongly rejected her. Read the letter she wrote over at Chicago Art magazine, it's a hilariously polite 'fuck you' to the organizers of Art San Diego.
*This is the opposite of fantastic: Jerusalem's Museum of Tolerance to be Built Atop a Muslim Graveyard. According to Groundswell's article, some of Edward Said's relatives are buried there, along with numerous Muslim saints and scholars, and some of the region's longest Muslim family lineages. This is the same project that Frank Gehry left in 2010, although that was apparently due to scheduling and financial reasons.
*This is a couple weeks old, but if you're a fan of our Mantras for Plants series here on the blog, you'll be into this NYT article: What's Left Behind, on scientists who are "recasting vacant lots as community assets rather than urban blight" by studying them to discover their ecological benefits.
*Would you be embarrassed to list "Winner of the Donkey Art Prize" on your CV? If not, applications are being accepted through February 2012. €30 per artwork application fee required, natch.
*Miranda July, photogenic artist extraordinaire.
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Los Angeles: Why We Love Loteria Grill's Tacos
It's hard to imagine a time when the Los Angeles Mexican food scene needed saving, let alone by a man named Jimmy Shaw. Ten years later, Shaw's flagship Loteria Grill in the bustling Farmers Market on Third and Fairfax has been credited with doing just that, and his Loteria empire keeps growing.
As a born-and-raised Mexico City native, Shaw quickly became disillusioned with the cheap and Anglicized versions of many popular food staples he'd grown up with. Where were the crisp chilaquiles for breakfast? Or the hand-formed tacos with fillings beyond "carne asada"?
Using recipes he'd culled from his mother's own hand, he opened up Loteria Grill in one of the many stalls along the interior of Los Angeles's whitewashed version of a street market.
At first, he hoped the large amount of foot traffic would help get his authentic tacos and other basic Mexican fare off the ground. Now, with outposts in Hollywood and Studio City (Santa Monica and Westlake Village are in the works), the Loteria Grill name alone is enough to bring people through the door. Well, at the flagship location in the Farmers Market, there are no doors, but that's a good thing.
The ordering line routinely inflates to a dozen or more, snaking it's way through the open-air tables. In the diminutive kitchen, the staff hustles to turn out an array of soups, stews, and specialty pork plates, but nearly everyone in line is there for the tacos.
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Hand-made flour tortillas firm up on the plancha in staggering numbers, as the orders roll in throughout the day. Albondigas en chipotle, a Mexican meatball of sorts, may be the hot item at one moment, or the slow-roasted cochinita pibil the next. All are served quickly, but with an attention to detail that has made Shaw such a beloved staple of the cheffy taco scene in Los Angeles.
Most of the $3 taco options on the menu board aren't found much around town, but that's not for lack of taste. The papa con rajas, creamy potato chunks mixed with poblano peppers, pull so much flavor from such simple ingredients that at first it's a wonder the combination hasn't taken over taco carts throughout the city. The truth is, anybody could match the ingredients list, but most people don't have Jimmy Shaw's chops.
In the tinga de pollo taco, the unbelievably moist chicken is stewed alongside ribboned slices of chipotle to deepen and mellow out their flavor, while a pureed fresh chipotle salsa brings home the heat and offers a few different layers of goodness. The carnitas, perhaps a little staid on its own, is dolloped with a thin slice of avocado and a spicy red chile morita that makes the slow-cooked meat almost a backdrop.
Other options, like the nopalitos, comprised of wet cactus chunks, are true Mexican staples, but undoubtedly less successful north of the border. Served cold, the taco is a bit vinegary and too watery for even the sturdiest handmade corn tortilla.
The misses here are few and far between, and are to be overlooked in favor of other menu staples. Glancing around the Farmers Market, you'll see a spectrum of people sitting at the battered metal tables, each enjoying their own taco selection. These aren't carne asada tacos or even al pastor—just true versions of Mexican classics, presented with a carefully honed technique. It's exactly what Jimmy Shaw wanted all along.
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Hawai'i's Most Endangered Historic Sites
The Historic Hawaii Foundation, the State Historic Preservation Division and Honolulu Magazine compile an annual list of some of our state's most endangered places.
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The past year has been a time of belt-tightening for the state of Hawaii and many of its families, private companies and charitable organizations. The lack of funds has also had an impact on the preservation of historic places throughout the state. But when the going gets tough, the tough would be wise to find creative ways to preserve our history. In an effort to do that, the Historic Hawaii Foundation (HHF), the State Historic Preservation Division and HONOLULU Magazine have assembled this annual list of some of Hawaii's most endangered places. This year's nominations include an ancient fishpond, a historic district in a heavily touristed Maui town, a crumbling theater on the Big Island and a few highly visible downtown Honolulu buildings. All these sites are endangered due to financial fallout, whether through foreclosure, company merger or budget cuts. That reality should not overshadow that they represent important chapters in Hawaii's rich past, and contribute to our sense of place and who we are as a community.
It's important to note that making this list does not guarantee protection or preservation. Our goal is to raise awareness of the sites' vulnerability and inspire community support. In the following pages, you'll find this year's most endangered historic sites, the stories behind what's threatening them and what can be done to protect them. You'll also discover updates on last year's endangered sites, including Alekoko Pond, the Luahiwa petroglyphs and Lapakahi.
Waikalua Loko Fishpond (Kaneohe, Oahu)
What is it?
Waikalua Loko is one of the few remaining intact ancient Hawaiian fishponds in the state. Located in Kaneohe Bay, the approximately 400-year-old fishpond exemplifies the ancient Hawaiians' skillful management of natural resources. The Waikalua Loko Fishpond Preservation Society, a nonprofit organization, has managed the pond since 1995, working to eradicate invasive mangrove and maintain the pond's kuapa (wall) and makaha (gates), work done strictly by volunteers. "Since we began," says Herb Lee, executive director of the Pacific American Foundation (PAF) and one of the founders of the preservation society, "we've had tens of thousands of people come down to help."
What threatens it?
The fishpond is located on property that is part of the Bay View Golf Course, which recently went into foreclosure. "The cultural, educational and restoration activities are threatened by the uncertain priorities of new landowners who may prefer to develop the property rather than restore a fishpond," says Hal Hammatt, the president and principal investigator for Cultural Surveys Hawaii. Then there's the small matter of the proposed Kaneohe sewer upgrades project. "The fishpond itself will not be impacted by this project," says Department of Environmental Services director Tim Steinberger. "Parking associated with the fishpond, however, will be impacted during construction. The city will be working with various community organizations during preparation of the draft EIS to address the parking issue, and is already working with stakeholder agencies and representatives from the Kaneohe and Kailua areas, including the Pacific American Foundation, which oversees the fishpond." Losing the parking area for an undetermined amount of time will impact the "momentum of volunteers," says Lee, hindering the society's ability to perform much-needed regular maintenance on the pond.
What can be done?
One option is to seek subdivision of the property. According to Lee, the Pacific American Foundation, along with Windward Community College and the Hawaii Institute for Marine Biology, have applied for, and received, a HUD grant that's reserved for higher-education institutions serving Native Hawaiians and their communities. The grant identified approximately 19-plus acres, including 12 acres of water and 7 acres of surrounding land, giving the Pacific American Foundation the necessary monies to purchase the plot on which the pond resides. Unfortunately, the property is not subdivided, and the group cannot afford to purchase the golf course in its entirety. When we contacted Central Pacific Bank, the golf course's current owner, chief marketing officer Wayne Kirihara informed us that the bank had just received the title to the property and that they would "need to get their arms around all of the moving parts before a sales strategy could be developed."
Lahaina Historic District (Lahaina, Maui)
What is it?
The first capital of the kingdom of Hawaii, Lahaina was also once a bustling whaling town and plantation settlement. To recognize and preserve its rich history, two sets of historic districts have been created in Lahaina: The Lahaina Historic District, which encompasses about 1,665 acres, was added to the National Park Service's (NPS) National Historic Landmarks Program in December 1962. Maui County Historic District Boundaries 1 and 2 cover about 65 acres in Lahaina. "Historic District 1 was designated more for traditional historic sites such as the prison, the Masters' Reading Room, some of the older churches, the Seaman's Hospital," says Ann Cua, the deputy director of the Maui County Planning Department. "Historic District 2 is where you have the commercial buildings on Front Street."


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On July 7, the rapper launched a Twitter-based petition through his affiliate site, BooBooTV, against Diddy, attacking the hip-hop mogul for what 50 called an exploitation of the late Notorious B.I.G.
"Enough is enough, Biggie's name should never have become Diddy's Black Card. Just check out his latest video 'The Ghost of Christopher Wallace.' Let Diddy know to let B.I.G. rest in peace." 50 wrote in the petition, titled "R.I.P. B.I.G. – Stop @iamDiddy." "When was the last time Diddy really was 'biggin up his brother,' not biggin up his bank?"
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This blog has many articles with label "Spiritual Science". This book is also about Spiritual Science. How a renown scientist looks at religion, philosophy, spirituality. I recommend, all people - with scientific temperament - must read:
(1) "Chapter 14. Walking Over the Waves" and
(2) "Part 3 Fusion of Science and Spirituality", particularly "Chapter 19 Mind Is the Matrix of All Matter" that talks about spirituality, quantum physics etc.
The entire book has diversified interesting topics. It talks about
- various philosopher, scientists, good people of different time and places.
- big bang, solar system, universe, galaxy etc.
- statistics about BAPS, and HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj.
- India's space programme
- India's white revolution by Verghese Kurien
- Life of author A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. His native place. His teachers, relatives, other books. Also his role as president of India.
The last two pages of "chapter 20. Growing into Highly Evolved Physical and Spiritual Being" sheds light on how status quo of our own inner lives harms us: We denounce wisdom of others when it does not fit into our emotional framework. We choose to agree only with opinions of others who share our personal values and feelings...In this state of ignorance, we become subservient, we are at the mercy of the popular status quo.
It also reminds me, a story about bumblebee and an insect. A bumblebee offered ride to an insect across the beautiful garden. The insect took some of the bad smelling matter in his nose with him and could not understand, what the bumblebee was describing about different fragrance of different flowers. The bumblebee realized it and make the insects dawn into pond and take it out, so it can enjoy fragrance. Same way sometimes we are cut of – like a fortress. A Guru open a window in the fortress. Then also we need to put efforts to progress in this spiritual path. I was one of the fortunate persons, who listened to this story directly from HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj. Prior to that I read it in some book by Swami Vivekanand or Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
You will like this book, regardless of you are bright atheist or committed religionists. Here is my favorite content from the book. You may also like it. It is in context of Galileo
People who are unable to understand perfectly both scripture and science far outnumber those who do understand them perfectly. The former glancing superficially through the scriptures, could easily arrogate to themselves the authority to decide upon every question of physics on the strength of some word which they have misunderstood, and which was consciously employed by the sacred authors for some different purpose. And the smaller number of understanding men could not dam up the furious torrent of such people. These people would gain the most followers, simply because it is much more pleasant to gain a reputation for wisdom without effort or study, than to consume oneself tirelessly in the most laborious disciplines.
We all have heard famous quote from Shrimad Bhagavad Gita:
Book: Transcendence
Transcendence - 4
My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji
by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
with Arun Tiwari.
This is not a book review.
This article is just like
'key take away points' for me.
The book is divided in 4 parts. This article covers 4th part of the book.
Part 4 Evolution of Creative Leadership
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them,
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.
Six basic fears in the order of their most common appearance :
1. fear of poverty
2. fear of criticism
3. fear of ill health
4. fear of loss of someone
5. fear of old age and
6. fear of death.
Moral excellence was more a matter of divine bequest
Body has five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing.
Soul has five qualities: intuition, peace, foresight, trust and empathy.
Self-giving to God's Will
Is without fail,
A slow-ripening
But most delicious fruit
The noble man, he says, will help others even with his bones, whereas the ignoble, governed by fear and greed, is completely worthless, and in a crisis will only sell himself
How could anyone wish to fatten himself by eating fat of other beings? Butchering is disgrace; and eating meat is senseless
Liquor does not differ from poison
Ethics, virtues, righteousness and purity indeed make a human different from the beast
We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of senses. We must observe great purity in our wills, in our intentions - in all our actions.
The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from (his) face,
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole -
And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul !
Access to higher consciousness is the purpose of human evolution, and non-violence is the means to access the higher consciousness.
Eight measures of self realization
1. Smyak gyan: Appropriate knowledge
2. Smyak darshan: Appropriate philosophy
3. Smyak charitra: Appropriate conduct
Five great vows for appropriate conduct
4. Ahimsa: non-violence
5. Satya: truthfulness
6. Asteya: not stealing
7. Bhramacharya: abstinence
8. Aprigriha: No possessions
- English: One world family
- Sanskrit: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
- Tamil: Every country is my own and all the people are my kinsman. Purananuru Tamil poem in 300-100 BC
- Unity (tawhid) has 3 categories: Unity of God, Unity of religion and Unity of mankind, in Ahmadiya Muslim community
- "The earth is one country, and mankind its citizens" - Baha'ullah (founder og Bahai faith) in book "Tablet of Maqsud"
- Ubuntu - prominent philosophy of South Africa means 'humanness' 'humanity towards other' ' the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity'
Forgiveness is ultimately gift to ourselves. Only through forgiveness can wounds heal.
The truth is, unless you let go - unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over - you cannot move forwards
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
1. Mindfulness
2. Hope
3. Compassion
i have just three things to teach
1. simplicity
2. patience
3. compassion
These three are your greatest treasures.
Spoken Sanskrit Workshops by me
I will keep updating this list, in future.
1. Jun - July 2013 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0faGNhyuhch7jrwVDwMAJexxgGbeQuFb
2. Sept - Oct 2013 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0faGNhyuhcgle-nkBDCGVBWTxMjQlZpl
3. Feb 2014 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0faGNhyuhciJj0IxPsZQe2_VYrlblLQp
4. Feb 2016 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0faGNhyuhcivnD_xcfwIqooojUBto9l6
5. April 2017: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0faGNhyuhciSRsxC1rm4qCYRSanDVI2h
6. Feb 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0faGNhyuhcgGDlwwyKmiL40XtK3VN8mR
OSN Days 2019
- Hyperledger Telecom Special Interest Group (TCSIG) has released many white papers about usage of blockchain in telecom. https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/TCSIG/Telecom+SIG+Reading+List
- Linux Foundation Edge is focusing on various verticals by diverse set of projects: https://www.lfedge.org/projects/
- O-RAN Software Community (SC) The first two release cover plumbing of different components. Subsequent releases will focus more on end to end cases.
- Linux Foundation has Acumos project to develop AI apps. It is a platform and open source framework.
- eBPF is promising technology. The speaker claimed, its performance is as good as DPDK. With DPDK, your code need to process all packets. With eBPF, you just check and if packet is irrelevant, you can pass it back to Linux Kernel to process it. Here are important github repo Click Here Click Here
- An introductory session on OVP (OPNFV Versification Program) certification. OVP verifies (1) VNF and (2) Infrastructure for VNF. It is an initiative to help operators. OVP certifies (1) compliance (2) validation and (3) performance.
ONAP is merger of (1) ECOMP (Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management & Policy) by AT&T and (2) Open-Orchestrator (Open-O) project by Linux Foundation.
At present, only AT&T and Orange has deployed ONAP in live production environment. Many vendors have done PoC with ONAP.
- At present, ONAP is mainly for VNF. There is only one sample CNF is available to run on ONAP.
- ONAP's Dublin release has initial user cases for 5G. ONAP's Frankfurt release will have features for 5G end-to-end network slicing.
- ONAP has two components: (1) Design framework generates VNFD, NSD (2) Run-time framework is about monitoring and service assurance. K8s and ONAP can have slight overlap of functionality. E.g. Horizontal scaler of K8s
- The ONAP Orange OpenLab can be accessed by any ONAP contributor for hands-on with ONAP.
- One need to adjust BIOS settings, CPU clock, NIC card driver option, OS parameters etc to get maximum throughput.
- The counters for Bytes transmit/receive was resetting in just 3 miniutes.
- The PCIe was also bottleneck, to achieve 100 Gbps throughput.
- Here are important tools/utility/command for throughput measurement and optimisation:
- Traffic Control module of Linux Kernel.
- TRex Traffic Generator
- Testpmd
- 3GPP TS 23.502, ETSI and GSMA defines network slicing.
- NEST is Network Slicing Task Force.
- 5G network slicing characteristics (1) End to end in nature, (2) Dynamic or runtime connections (3) Multi Domain (4) Shared Resources.
- 5G network slicing has three functions (1) Communication Service function is associated with BSS domain (2) Network slice management function (3) Network slice subnet management function.
- SDC (Service Design and Creation) of ONAP defines network slice template, network slice subnet template etc.
- NSI (Network Slice Instance) and ONAP service has one to one mapping.
- Orange has contributed with Service Resolver Click Here Click Here
- Service chaining in K8s
- Tungsten Fabric and Akraino based network edges
- Four modes of Tungsten Fabric.
- MSO API in ONAP
- Tungsten Fabric and NSM
- Tungsten Fabric can configure any router that supports BGP
5. eBPF
eBPF maps can be accessed by user space
To achieve 10 Gbps, one packet gets 67.5 nano second. For 100 Gbps, 6.75 nano second.
eBPF is driver level hook to call eBPF program. That is XDP (eXpress Data Path)
XDP program can call Kernel API also.
XDP has two modes (1) native mode (no skb) (2) Generic mode (skb is allocated).
Cilium is CNI for K8s. It implements Layer 7 security policy. It uses eBPF.
Facebook uses eBPF for Layer 4 load balancer.
eBPF was discussed at recent KubeCon 2019.
Suricata is open source network threat detection engine. It uses eBPF
Netronome is about hardware offload. it uses eBPF
- There are plenty of open source projects for telecom. Mobile operators are willing to go for the one which are "popular". The "popular" can be the one which are used by most of their competitors.
- Now, the traditional marketing people have less role to influence the customer in Telecom world. If a company has more participation and contribution to
open source projects then it results in more influence in purchasing
decision of customer. It results in more business. The engineers from R&D team participates and contribute to open source projects.
Today in telecom world, there are no real gold category CNF. The VNF are just packaged as CNF. Since VNF will remain for sometime, we will see hybrid world of CNF and VNF.
Open Source is a community that never sleeps.
- Tech Mahindra and Business Finland Sign MoU for Research and Development in 5G and 6G
- O-RAN Software Community (SC) has delivered its first release, just few weeks back.
- NSMCon 2019 was event about Network Service Mesh
- There is an event "Open Networking and Edge Summit", scheduled by Linux Foundation in April 2020 https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-edge-summit-north-america/
- Kubernetes Forum Bengaluru on 17th Feb https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubernetes-forum-bengaluru/
IPTables Flow Chart
Reference: https://stuffphilwrites.com/2014/09/iptables-processing-flowchart/
KubeProxy IPTables
Reference :
Another relevant diagram:
Ref: https://www.stackrox.com/post/2020/01/kubernetes-networking-demystified/
K8s Security : References from Kubecon2019
Bounding Self-Labeling Kubelets: https://bit.ly/351BaFN
Choose a minimal base image https://bit.ly/37eTPzT
Run as non root! https://bit.ly/2qpUNJ7
Use resource limits https://bit.ly/37k48Tx
Use least privilege authorization https://bit.ly/2CV1INd
Restrict network access https://bit.ly/37cL9dv
Node Authorizer: https://bit.ly/33XRIPb
Node Restriction: https://bit.ly/2QkRqhk
Kubelet Static Pods: https://bit.ly/2Qj0DGL
Extended NodeRestrictions for Pods: https://bit.ly/2XdeWOF
Bounding Self-Labeling Kubelets: https://bit.ly/351BaFN
ReplicaSet deletion logic: https://bit.ly/2NQTL1O
Run as non-root using security context https://bit.ly/2qpUNJ7
Minimal base images: https://bit.ly/37eTPzT
Resource limits: https://bit.ly/37k48Tx
Least privilege: https://bit.ly/2CV1INd
GKE hardening guide: g.co/gke/hardening
GKE sandboxes: g.co/gke/sandbox
Kata containers: katacontainers.io
kubectl productivity
kubectx helps you switch between clusters back and forth:
kubens helps you switch between Kubernetes namespaces smoothly:
--namespace kube-system
- commands:
apply -f
exec -i -t
logs -f
- resources:
- flags:
- output format:
--all-namespacesdepending on the command
- output format:
- value flags (should be at the end):
eBPF, OPA, Blackbox exporter, ffwd, Heroic
1. Map application and HA architecture
2. Detect network issues
3. Identify misbehaving svc
Open Policy Agent https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa can be used to validate CRD
The blackbox exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP. https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
ffwd is a flexible metric forwarding agent. It is intended to run locally on the system and receive metrics through a wide set of protocols and then forward them to your TSDB. https://github.com/spotify/ffwd
Heroic A scalable time series database based on Bigtable, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch. https://github.com/spotify/heroic
Easily Observing Operators
- Counts of each object type
- All of the Kubernetes labels and their values attached to each object
- The creation time (as an epoch) of each object
- Some generic, object specific "info"
- Other states specific to the object in question
Kustomize plugins
kustomize plugins
Kustomize offers a plugin framework allowing people to write their own resource generators and transformers.
- gen_file.yaml
- trans_file.yaml
Let's focus on gen_file. Trans_file will be similar.
apiVersion: "apiVersion"
kind: Gen_File
name: "some name"
Now the file name "Gen_File" will be searched at path
XDG_CONFIG_HOME = $HOME/.config = /home/manish.config
Possible value for apiVersion = someteam.example.com/v1
If failed then "Gen_File.so" will be searched at same path
This file will be invoked with gen_file.yaml
Reference : https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/tree/master/docs/plugins
Built-in plugins : https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/tree/master/plugin/builtin
Plugin Development
UseCases of Kustomize
UseCase 1 : Config map generation and secreat generation
- name: myregistrykey
type: docker-registry
- docker-server=DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER
- docker-username=DOCKER_USER
- docker-password=DOCKER_PASSWORD
- docker-email=DOCKER_EMAIL
This is same as:
kubectl create secret docker-registry myregistrykey --docker-server=DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER --docker-username=DOCKER_USER --docker-password=DOCKER_PASSWORD --docker-email=DOCKER_EMAIL
Same as above configMapGenerator
- name: profile
- hello.config
We can also merge two configmaps
- name: my-configmap
behavior: merge
- plumbing.properties
- secret.properties
Configmap from literals
- name: my-configmap
- foo=bar
- baz=qux
UseCase 2 : Creating multiple variants using overlays.
Edit attributes as per specific file. Here localserv.yaml . Keyword is patchesStrategicMerge
kustomize edit add patch ocalserv.yaml
- ../../base
- localserv.yaml
Multi Variant Examples:
we can use "kustomize diff base/variant1/variant2" command to see the difference.
UseCase 3 : edit container image and tag
kustomize edit set image busybox=alpine:3.6
- name: busybox
newName: alpine
newTag: 3.6
UseCase 4 : Remote Target
kustomize build can be run on a URL.
The effect is the same as cloning the repo, checking out a particular ref (commit hash, branch name, release tag, etc.), then running kustomize build against the desired directory in the local copy.
UseCase 5 : applying a JSON patch. Replace and add
cat <
{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/rules/0/host", "value": "foo.bar.io"},
{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/rules/0/http/paths/0/backend/servicePort", "value": 8080}
You can also write the patch in YAML format. This example also shows the "add" operation:
cat <
- op: replace
path: /spec/rules/0/host
value: foo.bar.io
- op: add
path: /spec/rules/0/http/paths/-
path: '/test'
serviceName: my-test
servicePort: 8081
- target:
group: apps
version: v1
kind: Deployment
name: my-nginx
path: patch.yaml
UseCase 6 : Patch on multiple objects
JSON patch and strategic merge patch can be applied to selected resources
- path: "PatchFile"
group: "Group"
version: "Version"
kind: "Kind"
name: "Name"
namespace: "Namespace"
labelSelector: "LabelSelector"
annotationSelector: "AnnotationSelector"
UseCase 7 : Injecting k8s runtime data into containers


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The Government vs. the Committee
India recently passed an ordinance to strengthen its sexual-assault laws, but ignored some key suggestions made by a committee created to boost these laws.
On Sunday, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee signed the ordinance which is based largely on recommendations made by a three-member panel headed by former Chief Justice of India J.S. Verma.
The ordinance needs to be ratified by the parliament to become law.
The government has differed with the Verma panel on several key recommendations. For instance, the ordinance increased the maximum punishment for rape to death penalty, even though the Verma panel opposed this. Meanwhile, the ordinance has ignored some recommendations like removing barriers for trying armed forces personnel for sexual-abuse, and a suggestion to recognize marital rape.
Here we look at how the ordinance stacks up against some key recommendations of the Verma committee.
1. Death Penalty
Verma Committee: The panel categorically rejected the death penalty for an assailant, even when an act of sexual assault leads to the victim's death or pushes her into a coma. It said that such a penalty would be "regressive", at a time when 150 countries have abolished the death sentence.
Ordinance: The ordinance, however, calls for a maximum punishment of death in a situation where rape causes the victim to die or be in a "persistent vegetative state". It also provides for death sentence for "repeat offenders", or persons who have been previously convicted for rape.
Till now, the maximum penalty for rape was life imprisonment.
2. Acid Attacks
Verma Committee: It recommended making acid attacks and attempted acid attacks, criminal offenses. The panel asked for a minimum punishment of 10 years for someone "voluntarily causing grievous hurt through the use of acid." It said the perpetrator should be required to financially compensate the victim, including covering related medical expenses at the least.
Ordinance: While the ordinance makes acid attacks a criminal offense and accepted Verma panel's terms of punishment, it makes no mention of financial compensation for the victim.
3. Marital Rape
Verma Committee: India's criminal law currently doesn't recognize marital rape. According to Indian Penal Code's Section 375: "Sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under 16 years of age, is not sexual assault."
The Verma panel recommended removing this exception, saying that the law can't presume consensual sex in marriage.
Ordinance: The ordinance ignores this recommendation.
4. Breach of Command Responsibility
Verma Committee: It recommended that punishment be defined for a "public servant in command, control or supervision of the police or armed forces," who neglects or fails to take necessary measures to prevent sexual assault. For persons found guilty of this offence, the committee suggested a maximum punishment of 10 years.
Ordinance: The ordinance ignores this recommendation.
5. Rape of an Underage Person
Verma Committee: It asked that India's criminal law create a separate punishment for someone who rapes an underage person, defined as someone who is 16 years or younger. The panel called for a minimum punishment of 10 years for such a rape.
If the victim were to die, the Verma panel said the attacker should be given a minimum punishment of 20 years.
Ordinance: The ordinance ignores this recommendation.
6. Rape by the State
Verma Committee: The committee recommended amending the Armed Forces Special Powers Act , which currently requires that the central government give a sanction before armed forces personnel in Kashmir and other conflict areas, can be tried for rapes or sexual assault. The panel suggested getting rid of this clause.
Ordinance: The ordinance ignores this recommendation.
7. Sexual Assault
Verma Committee: The panel had proposed broadening what legally constitutes sexual assault, to include voyeurism, stalking, and an assault with the intent to disrobe a woman. The panel said that words, acts or gestures which "create an unwelcome threat of a sexual assault," should also be considered sexual assault.
Ordinance: The ordinance accepts this recommendation, and makes 'stalking' an offence for which the stalker can be punished for a maximum of three years.
8. Trafficking
Verma Committee: The committee asked for a separate punishment for people who engage in trafficking of women and children, with a maximum punishment of life imprisonment. It also recommended making it criminal for someone to employ a person who was trafficked.
Ordinance: The ordinance accepts all recommendations on redefining and punishing the offence of trafficking. The sentence for employing a trafficked child would range from five to seven years.
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Third Drawer Down are privileged to present an exclusive addition to their product range – a collection of textiles and homewares featuring patterns designed by celebrated artist and founding member of Memphis Group, Nathalie Du Pasquier.
Throughout the 1980s the acclaimed Memphis Group changed the face of design using uncoventional materials, historic forms, kitsch motifs and gaudy colours. Launched at the 1981 Salone del Mobile, Milan, their unconventional approach to architecture, furniture design and art challenged trends of the time and resulted in what was coined as the "New International Style". Nathalie Du Pasquier was one of the founding members of the group and from their outset her playful textile designs formed a key component of their work; they helped to define not only the aesthetic of the Memphis-Milano Movement, but also the quintessential post-modern aesthetic of the decade.
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appropriate use of electronic devices outside the school day for students participating in extra-curricular
activities while on school property or while attending school-sponsored or school-related activities on or
off school property.
Teachers and administrators may confiscate electronic devices used in violation of this policy. Students who repeatedly violate this policy may be subject to established disciplinary measures.
Principals may designate a time and day of the week to return cell phones and other electronic devices
that have been confiscated during the previous seven days. The school will keep a log of all confiscated
devices and will receipt each return. All fees collected are designated to be used for security hardware
on the campus.
At the end of the school year, principals shall designate a period of time for unclaimed devices to be
picked up. A $15.00 fee may be charged to return each device. If the $15.00 fee is not paid and the
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Is there a site that offers a "look inside" preview of the book "The New Best Recipe"? I checked both Amazon and Google Books, but I couldn't preview it in either.
The approach of the book sounds interesting, but before ordering, I'd like to see for myself how the recipes are laid out and how much explanation is given for why a particular recipe worked out the best. Also, I'd like to check that it contains enough recipes suitable for vegetarians to be useful to me.
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I have quite a few questions, so I'll try not to ramble on for too long...if someone knows the answer to one of my questions but not all, feel free to give me some partial help. I'm fairly new to security, so I've been trying to teach myself a lot of stuff, but these are some questions that I haven't been able to find definitive answers to.
I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium, running Norton.
Okay, so my basic situation is: Despite the fact that I'm 19, my dad has decided to monitor everything I do on my laptop (I'm currently in college, but living at home). So I'm trying to set up a general package of security measures that will prevent him from keeping track of what I do (honestly I'm not doing anything that bad, I just have issues with him invading my privacy). He has my laptop password, so he has the ability to install software and stuff on my laptop without me knowing. Here's what I have set up so far: I've used Spybot Search & Destroy, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and a little program called kl-detect which claims to detect keyloggers - all came up clean. I access the internet with Google Chrome in Incognito mode, and use the Tor Project for anonymity. Every week or so, I use BleachBit to wipe temporary files, mru lists, etc. and then wipe my free disk space to remove any traces of deleted files. So my first question is: are there any holes in this protection scheme? What else should I be doing to ensure my privacy?
Now some more specific questions:
1. I know there are a lot of security problems with the Tor Project, particularly at the exit nodes. Should I be okay as long as I am careful to use SSL for sensitive information?
And on that subject, when I log into Facebook the default is http, however I read that you can use https just by changing the web address, if the website supports it. The problem is that I have https on the login page, but when I login it takes me to an unsecured page. So are my username and password sent using SSL, or not?
2. My dad doesn't have them set up yet, but he's planning on putting parental controls on our router (maybe on my computer too, I don't know). People seem to think that the Tor Project or a proxy server will circumvent these, but I'm not sure I understand why. If the parental controls are based on a block list, it seems like it should work. If they scan the content of a page to determine whether to block it, how can a proxy overcome this? Really shouldn't the router be able to see everything that comes through it, even if it doesn't know where it came from? For example, even though the router can't tell I'm getting a page from google.com, can't it see an HTML file that looks like google.com come through? And is it possible for someone to view these pages?
3. Everyone says that Flash is a major vulnerability in Tor - since I use youtube a lot, this is a bit of a problem. I always assumed that youtube sent me an swf file over the same connection as everything else. But it sounds like Flash establishes its own direct connection between youtube and me? Am I understanding this correctly? Is there any way to overcome this problem?
In general, I'm primarily concerned with the security of my own computer and the ability to hide my internet traffic within my house - I'm not doing anything illegal, so it doesn't matter if my ISP or people can keep track of what I'm doing. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
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November 14, 2013
By Kenneth D. Miller
Assistant Managing Editor
The City of Hawthorne elected its first Black mayor in 91 years on Nov. 5 when relatively unknown and political novice Chris Brown defeated embattled incumbent Daniel "Danny" Juarez and Jose Gutierrez winning 39.48 percent to 30.93 percent to 29.60 percent, respectively.
Brown, 32, represents a bold new generation of young public servants following in the mold of Compton Mayor Aja L. Brown (not related), Lynwood City Councilmember Jose Solache and leading Assembly candidate Sebastain Ridley-Thomas.
"I think the residents are looking for leadership, they are looking for young fresh ideas and young bright passionate and exuberant leadership that is being reflective throughout America," stated Assemblymember Isadore Hall III who mentored the new Hawthorne mayor.
The Los Angeles native, Brown was graduated from Fairfax High School where he was a member of the football team and is a product of a single family home.
His mother Zina Willingham is a breast cancer survivor who raised him and brother Kidy Willingham, a pastor in Houston, Texas, on welfare.
At a very early age, Brown remembers having to go out and secure work to help his mother and the early labor was instrumental in leading to a BA degree in sociology from National University and successful account executive careers at both AT&T and Nextel.
"My mom was a single mom who raised two boys. My mom pretty much took two young men under her wings and made things happen. I started working at a young age and I knew that I had to help my mom because she couldn't do everything on her own," said the Mayor-elect.
Brown says that his mother is everything to him. He lost an aunt and his grandmother to cancer and it has been their influence, which he credits with making him the family man and person he is today. Married and the father of a three-year old son his family lives in Hawthorne.
The delegate for President Obama in 2012 who is small real estate business owner, he had no idea that one day he would be making history himself.
However, there he was seven days following the election speaking to the Sentinel and basking in his own bit of history.
"It's starting to settle (the historical fact of becoming the first Black mayor) since going out into the community I am pretty much attached to the situation. The city is starting to understand the changes of being out of old leadership and are happy for new leadership," he stated.
Brown becomes the second Black mayor in the South Bay joining Inglewood Mayor James Butts and he anticipates the two cities working together down the road for the betterment of Hawthorne.
"I will have to lean towards mayor James Butts obviously because he has a lot of development in his city right now. We are neighboring cities and I think that it's important that we share ideas that can be beneficial to us," he added.
Hawthorne has a population of 87,000 residents with Latinos making up the majority 52 percent and Blacks second at 26 percent, a consistent demographic that mirrors surrounding cities.
"I think it's exciting to know that some young leadership is taking fold. Chris Brown is the right person at the right time to be mayor of Hawthorne. We need more Black and Latino leaders," explained Lynwood Councilman Solache who is 33.
Much of the credit of the shepherding in the new young leadership goes to Assemblymember Hall who was also responsible for Solache and Aja L. Brown in Compton.
"Isadore is unique. Isadore is a leader that believes in young leadership. He gave individuals like myself an opportunity to make a difference so this is really an important step in moving our society and our generation forward to bring in the new,' mentioned Brown.
Compton Mayor Aja L. Brown also praised the political wisdom of Assemblymember Hall.
"Assemblymember Isadore Hall has a track record of being an effective leader, focused on impact and influence. His foresight in focusing on the next generation of leaders is inspiring. His strong support of Mayor-elect Chris Brown of Hawthorne is evident that he believes in building and supporting the next generation of policymakers. I have enjoyed a great working relationship with Assembly member Hall and look forward to working on issues that impact the City of Compton."


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Rhizome Editor-at-Large Picks Top 10 for 2011
Looking back at and consolidating the year in exhibitions is one of the more challenging tasks an art writer faces. Tracking trips to shows throughout the year, and more importantly, the evolution of your feelings about them, is a daunting, sometimes insurmountable task. While in Europe this spring and summer, I was lucky enough to view some of the exhibitions I found more momentous and personally resonant. Starting in Italy with the 54th Venice Biennale, I traveled up to Switzerland through Geneva and Basel, heading next to the UK and landing finally in Berlin. The list below reflects both personal favorites and those that I felt to be important in the confluence of art and technology.
Josephine Pryde, "Embryos and Estate Agents: L'Arte de Vivre" at Chisenhale, London
British artist Josephine Pryde bears the unique ability to successfully navigate both photography and sculpture, two mediums which seem almost diametrically opposed. Up until this year I'd only been familiar with Pryde's sculptures of half-finished baskets precariously suspended by butcher hooks, shown at Galerie Neu in Berlin last year; as well as her strange, oversized macro photographs of fabric, featured at Reena Spaulings in 2009. For her presentation at Chisenhale, "Embryos and Estate Agents: L'Arte de Vivre," Pryde presented two sets of photographs. The first takes medical images of fetuses, superimposing them in Photoshop against barren desert landscapes; the second stages stock photography-style portraits of young, alternative-looking women contemplating whether or not they're pregnant. Beyond Pryde's fascinating material practice is her confrontation of oft-taboo, extremely personal, female-specific issues generally elided in contemporary art discourse.
Cory Arcangel at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Arcangel Fever spread around early spring 2011 as his Whitney retrospective drew near, the artist being asked by a vertiginous number of New York media outlets to grace them with pre-opening press. The show sparked some lukewarm reviews
Review: Jack Strange at Tanya Bonakdar
Jack Strange, "Deep Down"
Tanya Bonakdar through Dec 22
Normally, if one were to ask whether it's possible to successfully create art by smearing your own blood on a gallery wall, and to evade coming off like a desperate emo teenager, I would respond with an unequivocal "absolutely not." Blood is one of those materials that you not only want to avoid hanging out with, but also, in an art context, it comes with the most exaggerated eye rolls and "what-the-hell-were-they-thinking"s imaginable. Yet, in his latest exhibition British artist Jack Strange reveals a trick or two to convince us that bloodbathing a white cube, among other head-shakers, may in fact be a right step in considering the art of the present.
Jack Strange's second solo show at Tanya Bonakdar, "Deep Down," peregrinates through various media. The show coheres by way of an overarching curiosity for the slippery human consciousness, and the all-too-common instances in which we as people project our image onto dumb objects and animals in order to better understand ourselves. Beginning with the aforementioned over-the-top cloudy smear of his own blood (replete with HA HA HA's inscribed in pencil), the show meanders through overly slick Neo-Dada assemblages of fruit pits suspended in vitrines fitted with earbuds, to cutesy cross-sectioned vegetables seemingly springing off the wall, and perhaps even less predictably, a curiously dry sound installation that may have well as been made in the 60's. Strange also dabbles with some "new media," encasing an iPod Touch in a ceiling-hung plastic bag, which houses another plastic bag filled with water. The works, titled "All Fish," "All Sharks," etc., play cartoon aquatic animals on the encased iPods, the animations originally created for an e-card. The e-card animation is then programmed to utter its stream of ...
Klaus Gallery Builds a "New Wall" for Online Art
Michelle Ceja's Wet Code opened earlier this month in Klaus von Nichtssagend's Lower East Side venue, an installation marking the launch of the gallery's new online exhibition space. Initially shown as a browser-based collage of gifs, Quicktime video, MP3s, and HTML, Wet Code also existed as a one-night installation of projections bearing a similar aesthetic. Klausgallery.net will see rotating two-week online exhibitions curated by artist Duncan Malashock, with periodic in-real-life installations by artists in Klaus Gallery proper. "We wanted to accommodate artists whose practices wouldn't ordinarily fit into a physical exhibition space," says Sam Wilson, co-owner of Klaus von Nichtssagend, "Now it's kind of like we have another wall in our space specifically made for this kind of work." Adds fellow co-owner Rob Hult, "It was also a way to satiate a growing curiosity about artists working with the medium. I saw Duncan speak on the history of internet-related art practices at Nurture Art and felt compelled to ask him to work with us on an online project."
Many conversations later brought Klausgallery.net, which developed from a more modest singular art project to a full-blown online exhibition space.
As it stands, the artist line-up may seem like a who's-who in a current internet social sphere to some, building on the web-specific dynamic of building one's practice in tandem with and through a community of peers. Though many included in Malashock's participant list are connected socially via the internet, specifically via Facebook or through the surf club Computers Club, it also ranges widely in geographic location and practice, from established Dutch artists Constant Dullaart and Harm van den Dorpel to more emerging Stateside artists Bea Fremderman, Sara Ludy, and Billy Rennekamp. Presciently, Malashock has chosen many artists whose work successfully navigates ...
Nett ist die kleiner Schwester von Scheiße: A Little Snapshot of Berlin
Ed Ruscha Things Oriental (2011) - Juliette Bonneviot
It has been said that one can see the best and worst art of the entire world side-by-side in Berlin: due to its liberation from more explicitly market-driven cares, art in Berlin can be seen as simultaneously less competitive and less desperate—in essence, it strains itself less to reach a hungry market. Berlin's excess art becomes, well, excessive, and the practice of finding good work becomes a sport more rigorous than that of New York.
Wealth in Berlin and the art collections it begets articulates itself exceedingly differently than the more overt wealth in western Germany, New York or London. While to some Berlin may be an antidote for a more market-driven art world, to others, the eastern German city may just be overrun with mediocre art, or plain old boring.
This list of artists is just a snapshot of a small part of a diverse but interconnected scene, with affiliated peoples coming from nations such as Norway, the Netherlands, Greece, Iceland, France, Poland, Finland, Switzerland, Canada, the United States, and more. Although this "scene" has warped and changed significantly since I first began spending extended periods of time in Berlin a few years ago, a number of the key players — AIDS 3D, Rafael Rozendaal, Oliver Laric, Aleksandra Domanovic — remain as integral parts. Perhaps the newest phenomenon connecting this group of artists is the new Neukölln bar "Times", owned and operated by American artists Calla Henkel, Max Pitegoff, and Lindsay Lawson. The three undoubtedly deserve recognition in their own right, not only for bringing a community of expat artists, curators, and writers together from all over the world, but also for their own work.
London Calling
Over the past few years it's become a widely-held principle that the internet-related art communities of New York and Berlin commingle with each other far more fluently and regularly than either do with that of London. Why, you may ask? Though the answer remains to seen, one could gather that the cost of living in London far surpasses that of Berlin or the more affordable boroughs of New York City, which are clearly more friendly to artists who make no money from their work; or that importantly, the American social networking platforms acting as a catalyst to internet related art communities only recently gained traction in London, though they've been long popular with New Yorkers and ex-pat Berliners. Regardless of these conjectures, this perceived lack of communication with Londoners in such a globalized phenomenon was enough of an impetus to pull me down from a vacation in Glasgow to scope out the city's scene.
Greeting me upon my arrival was the venerable Ben Vickers, a colleague and friend I met on my last trip to London, at his warehouse in Manor House, perhaps the Bushwick equivalent of North London. I'd been in touch with Vickers since he curated an exhibition with some internet art "usual suspects" for a gallery in Peckham—Jon Rafman, Parker Ito, etc. —which, at the time, seemed an anomalous locale for these buzz names. Although I've written previously about Vickers' work with the now-defunct duo Sopping Granite, it feels strange to write about him now. Not only has he become more of a friend than a professional contact, but I wonder how much he would even care that I write about him, or how useful it would be to him, or if he would consider this as a flag in the journey of his burgeoning practice, as most artists likely would. This is all indicative of Vickers' "practice," if you could call it that...