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A 2nd generation store, Bella Antiques features Meissen porcelain as well as 19th and 20th century American and European paintings.
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Categories: Asian Art | Bronze & Marble Sculpture | Chandeliers | Clocks | European Ivory | Furniture (French) | Furniture (General) | Fine Art | Glass | Jewelry | Meissen Porcelain | Silver | Russian Art | Porcelains | Objects Of Art | Pictures | Toys | Chinese Export | Boxes
14K yellow gold and diamond bracelet, approx. 6 ctw
14K yellow gold and diamond bracelet.
18K yellow gold and amethyst bracelet.
18K yellow gold Vacheron & Constantin bracelet with diamonds and rubies.
Pair of 14K yellow gold Victorian period bangles with rose cut diamonds, 19th century.
14K Yellow Gold Bracelet with approximately 6ctw Diamonds
English oil on canvas, "Rising Spring" by George Arthur Gaskell, signed and dated 1897.
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Meissen porcelain clock, depicting putti, enamel and gold decoration. First quality Meissen mark, Germany, late 19th cen...
Sevres porcelain vase and cover with hand painted scene of Napoleon, French, 19th Century.
Height: 50"
Chinese Export porcelain rose medallion bowl, with French gilt bronze mounts, 19th century.
Width handle to handle: 18...
Large carved ivory 3-tier dragon boat with figures, finely detailed, Chinese, 19th century.
Length: 46" &nb...
English wood and bronze mounted game box with complete ivory chess game, 19th century. Includes additional games. ...
A 20th century pencil and watercolor drawing of a frog.
Height: 10" Width: 6.5" without the frame.
An early 20th century pencil and watercolor drawing of a giraffe.
Height: 13" Width: 11" without the fram...
A 20th century pencil drawing of a pelican.
Large Sevres porcelain box, all hand painted with a raised gold decoration. French, 19th century.
Size: 10" x 8"...
Pair of Russian bronze dogs on malachite bases, 19th century.
Size: 3" x 4.5"
Japanese enamel box with a colorful bird, late 19th - early 20th century.
Size: 3.5" x 7" x 2"
Tiffany Studios NY bronze and glass box in the grape vine pattern.
Size: 6.5" x 4" x 2"
Pair of Tiffany Studios, New York bronze and glass frames in the grape vine pattern.
Size: 8" x 9.5"
Pair of 19th century French pedestal cabinets with gilt bronze accents.
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Superb gilt wood and bronze circular table, with hand painted Royal Vienna porcelain plaques, 19th century.
Height: 31...
Royal Vienna Art Nouveau porcelain vase and cover with ormolu mounts, Vienna, late 19th century.
Height: 29.5 i...
Pair of Meissen porcelain figure groups depicting The Good Mother and Father, German, circa 1880.
Height: 8"
Porcelain figure group of dancers around a tree, German, late 19th century.
Height 12"
Pair of amber colored Bohemian glass goblets and covers decorated with running stags, 19th century.
Height: 21....
Chinese watercolor of a farming scene, 19th century.
Length: 11" Height: 8"
French Impressionist-style painting by Japanese artist Kimoura, 1950"s.
Frame Length: 24.5 inches He...
Still life of fruit, oil on canvas, American School.
Height: 18 inches Width: 21 inches
Chinese watercolor of a river scene, 19th century.
Frame Length: 11" Height: 8"
American oil on canvas by Franklin D. Briscoe (1844-1903).
Frame height: 20 1/2" Width: 16"
Watercolor by Samuel Prout (1783-1852).
Frame Height: 25 3/4" Width: 20 1/2"
Monumental bronze eagle lectern, signed Gorham. American, circa 1880.
Height: 84 inches
Caldwell bronze and ivory clock. American, Early 20th century.
Height: 12.5 inches Length: 10 inches ...
Chinese ivory carving of a woman holding a fan and flowers, standing on a wood base, 19th century.
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French gilt bronze box with a signed hand painted enamel plaque of a woman, 19th century.
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I live in the area, but used this hotel to stay in the night before my wedding and also the night of with my new husband. I also reserved a block of rooms for guests who came from out of town. The staff were wonderful and very helpful. They handed out information packets that I had made up to my... More
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The only thing I can say about this is that we arrived at 3 pm from the airport at Santorini. We found the office closed. Called the number. No answer. We waited and even asked another hotel owner to call. Still no one arrived. We waited 3 hours, then we left to find other accomodations. Luckily, there was another hotel... More
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27.May.11 Isle of Wight hosts NatWest Island Games 2011
The clock is ticking for a major event in Britain this summer. The Island of Wight plays host to the Nat West Island Games from 25th June to 1st July. Athletics is a premier event in a programme of 14 sports competitions, involving 4000 participants from 25 islands around the world.
23.May.11 A More Active and Successful Surrey
The message was clear at this year's Surrey Sports Conference: only by working in partnership can we hope to support the 2012 Legacy of increased participation.
19.May.11 Double Clubmark for Hampshire Clubs
City of Portsmouth AC and Havant AC received their Clubmark certificates amidst a number of record breaking performances at the Hampshire AA Track and Field Championships.
18.May.11 Network Berkshire launches 365 Initiative
Saturday 14th May saw many of the senior coaches and young athlete group leads representing the clubs of Network Berkshire - a McCain Athletics Network - gather at TVAC for a seminar, practical demonstration and discussion on how, when and why to launch Athletics 365 across the clubs in the network.
16.May.11 Talent Introduction Day for coaches and athletes with a learning disability
21 athletes and 6 coaches from across the South area attended a Coach and Athlete Talent Introduction Day for athletes with a learning disability at Brunel University recently.
12.May.11 Young Camberley Volunteers Step into Sport
Three young volunteers from Surrey Heath have taken their experiences of volunteering in Sport to organise and run their own fundraising event for comic relief, and plan on helping organise the Surrey Youth Games, Playground to Podium and Race For Life.


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could anyone help?. my website is www.sewsublime.co.uk, the 6 boxes on the home page work perfect on firefox, chrome etc when you hover the drop box appears and can be selected. but when on internet explorer it all goes a bit wrong the hover works but you cannot select anything on the drop down menus. i think this is a css issue but cant find where.
It does kind of work in ie. If you select if goes off but if you hover over back it has been selected. Are you using css 3 for the hover?
The actual code is java , it seems to be an issue with the blue hover, but i dont know enough about coding to work out if it is java or css.
I think that it is line 450 of http://www.sewsublime.co.uk/uploads/10892753/File/hover/css/style.css causing the problem. Using Internet Explorer filters can often make child elements unclickable. Unfortunately, without this, you will not be able to hide the blue hovers in Internet Explorer the way your code currently works.
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The Des Moines School Board voted Wednesday to dismiss two football coaches at Lincoln High School.
Tom Mihalovich had been suspended after an incident at practice involving the discipline of a player.
A district investigation found Milhalovich did break several district policies, including bullying and harassment.
Mihalovich's legal team said it has found inconsistencies in some of the facts stated in a district report. The report was released by the player's attorney last week.
Mihalovich's attorney, Marc Ward, said the district's investigate report does not live up to past district standards.
Ward said the investigators "obviously had an agenda." He walked through each point in the report that he found to be in error.
Ward asked for the board to reinstate Mihalovich, but at a meeting Wednesday night, the board voted 4-2 to dismiss Milhalovich and Kevin Johnston from the positions.
"The mistreatment of a student, whether in a classroom or on a football field, is inappropriate in any situation," Interim Superintendent Tom Ahart said. "Des Moines Public Schools does not and will not tolerate any employee or volunteer who does not uphold the best interests of our students."
Drew Bracken, attorney for the superintendent, said the board was not there to condemn Milhalovich as a man, but rather what happened on the football practice field.
Dick Murphy, school board president, said the board considered many issues regarding a well-liked coach, but in the end had to enforce district rules and policies.


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Course, Educator Professional Development
Seminars On Science - Online Graduate Courses for Teachers
Seminars on Science offers a series of fully online professional development courses.
Educator Professional Development
Workshops, Institutes, and Courses
Opportunities for teachers at the Museum.
School and Camp Groups
LeFrak Class of the Month Essay Contest - Whales: Giants of the Deep
The LeFrak Class of the Month Essay Contest invites New York City students in grades K-8 to submit essays about their Museum visit to the LeFrak Family Gallery, where they can experience Whales: Giants of the Deep.
Educator Professional Development
Summer Programs
Multi-day institutes offer in-depth content knowledge in science and social studies.
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Urban Advantage
Program designed to support NYC middle school student investigations.
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Educators' Evenings
Exhibition openings with curator introductions and relevant resources.
Educator Professional Development
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In each of these courses, teachers will spend time reading, reflecting and interacting in an online environment, but will also spend some time at AMNH doing hands-on work.
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Programs available for graduate credit, offering in partnership with NYC universities and colleges.
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Join our next online seminar on wildlife and climate change: September 25, 2012
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Do your students think the age of exploration is over? Show them the shocking truth: the age of exploration has barely just begun at the ocean floor! Use both units over the course of a month; or select just one or two resources to introduce your students to the incredible under water environment of the deep sea vents.
English Language Learners
An overview of a 2007-2009 collaboration between the Museum and NYC public schools in a Science Literacy Program for science educators working with English language learners (ELL) in 6th grade that capitalized on the use of "Visual Scientific Resources" to deepen knowledge of Earth science.


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then, why does Microsoft also sell Xbox?Mandrake wrote:but why buy both a games console and a Mac when you can just have a PC that does everything? This is even more true with the Windows XP Media Center PCs.
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Recently, the blog Diana: Muse posted a link to a beautiful site called Portes et Fenetres, which is dedicated entirely to photographs of doors and windows. Perusing the archives got me thinking about the magic and mystery of certain character-laden portals, and reminded me of some pictures that T and I snagged on our honeymoon in Italy nearly five (!!!) years ago. Well, I dug them up and thought I'd share my favorites:
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Balboa Park, San Diego
Balboa Park is over a 1400 acre site with historical buildings, museums, gardens, and green space. The park was created for the Panama California Exhibition of 1915/1916 with most of the buildings in the park remaining from that event. The predominant architecture is Spanish-Mexican style, low level buildings that blend in with the natural surroundings.
Balboa Park Map
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Official site:
1549 El Prado, Suite 1, San Diego, CA 92101-1619, United States
Useful tips: The Balboa Park grounds are open 24 hours a day. The Visitors Center is open 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily, and museum hours vary by institution.
Related Attractions
San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo is one of the premier zoos in America. Located in Balboa Park, it is spread out along hilly terrain, and contains a vast collection of animals, as well as plants.
San Diego Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art is located in a building designed after the 17th C University of Salamanca. The museum features a fine collection, with art from America, Europe, and Asia.
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Museum of Man
The exhibits in the Museum of Man in Balboa Park were collected by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington from the Indian Pueblos in the southwest of the United States; further excavations were made at the ruins of the Aztec and Mayan settlements in Latin America. Among other things, they illustrate the early history of the human race by portraying prehistoric man.The San Diego Museum of Man in Balboa Park is an anthropology and archeology museum with a focus primarily on cultures in the Americas, but also from around the world. Of particular note are the collections from the American Southwest and western South America, as well as Alaska, the American Northwest Coast and Central Plains, Central America, and North Africa.The museum began with the original collection from the Panama California Exhibition and has expanded over the years to what is now an extensive collection with tens of thousands of artifacts. In addition to the permanent collection the Museum of Man also features changing exhibits.The building that houses the museum is one of the most recognizable buildings in the park. Built for the 1915/16 Exhibition, this Spanish-Mexican style building has an ornate façade around the entrance and the tall California Tower that can be seen from a distance.
San Diego Air & Space Museum (formerly San Diego Aerospace Museum)
San Diego Air & Space Museum, a round building dating from 1930, houses aircraft from the earliest days right up to NASA missiles, including a replica of the "Spirit of St Louis", the aeroplane in which Charles A Lindbergh made the first solo transatlantic flight (the original is in the National Aerospace Museum in Washington). The International Aerospace Hall of Fame in the same building shows photographs and memorabilia of the pioneers of flight.The San Diego Air and Space Museum is one of the city's more popular attractions. Located in beautiful Balboa Park, the museum is centrally located and easily accessible. A visit here can be combined with other attractions in Balboa Park including the Botanical Gardens, the San Diego Zoo, and the Museum of Man among many others.The museum is laid out in chronological order and starts with man's first flight in a hot air balloon in 1783 by the Montgolfier brothers and runs right up to fighter jets and space age flight technology. One of the highlights of the museum is its extensive collection of World War II, Korean Conflict, and Vietnam War fighter jets. Planes of various size and shape can be toured and many of the rarer and delicate models are displayed effectively in action poses hung from the rafters. The museum is considered one of America's finest and is a Smithsonian affiliate.
San Diego Model Railroad Museum
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum, located in Balboa Park, is the largest operating indoor model railroad display in the world. The heritage of railroading is presented through miniature models of California railroads; the history of model railroading and educating the public regarding the many different aspects of railroading is the mission of the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. An interactive toy train gallery allows children of all ages to play locomotive engineer.The San Diego Model Railroad Museum features displays and layouts of various scenes that will inspire even those not interested in this unique hobby. Since the museum's opening in 1992 it has been very popular with millions of visitors. Staffed and run by volunteers, the Model Railroad Museum is a labor of love.Current operating trail layouts include the Tehachapi Pass, San Diego and Arizona Eastern, Pacific Desert Lines, Cabrillo Southwestern, and Toy Train Gallery. Some of the visual displays include relief maps, the Southern Pacific's Semaphore, and an exhibit detailing Railroad Women. The Model Railroad Museum is located in Balboa Park and a visit here can easily be combined with stops at other famous sights within the park.
Botanical Building (Botanical Garden)
Perhaps the most picturesque place in Balboa Park is the Botanical Building and lily pond. It is definitely worth seeing for anyone coming to the park. The Botanical Building is a very organic looking structure with a curved glass roof and walls. The arched entrance that leads into the central dome, looks out over the lily pond. Inside are all kinds of tropical plants bathing in the natural light afforded by the design.The lily pond adds a tranquil element where people can walk or sit on a nearby bench and gaze into what is often a reflecting pond with a scattering of water lilies. The lily pond was used by patients at the US Naval hospital as a swimming pool during the Second World War. Like many of the other buildings in the park the botanical building was part of the 1915/16 Exhibition.
Reuben H Fleet Theater and Science Center
The Reuben H. Fleet Theater and Science Center in San Diego is a planetarium and cinema combined which, by means of a 75ft/23m long, hemispherical dome-projector, gives you the impression that you are floating in space. In the adjoining Science Center you may handle as well as look at the items on display. The demonstrations in the Space Theater (55 mins) take place eight times a day in the summer months and seven times in winter.
Spreckels Organ Pavilion
This massive open-air organ, was a gift made to the town in 1915 by the sons of Adolph Spreckels, an immigrant from Hanover in Germany, who became a multi-millionaire in America. Since then, except during the Second World War, a concert has been held every Sunday afternoon at 2 pm. The organ has some 4,400 pipes, the smallest being 1.5in./4cm and the largest almost 33ft/10m in length. When the organ is not being used it is protected by a metal curtain weighing 12 tonnes.
House of Pacific Relations
The fifteen bungalows of the House of Pacific Relations in Balboa Park, reminiscent of the Mexican colonial period, were each intended for one of the Latin-American countries participating in the exhibition. They have retained their purpose to this day. Viewing of the interiors of the houses is restricted. Folk concerts and dances are held.
San Diego Historical Society Research Library
The extensive collection housed at the Research Archives documents the people, places and events of San Diego's past. The Booth Historical Photograph Archives of the San Diego Historical Society has over two million images that date back to the 1860s. Other items of interest at the Archives include original maps, manuscripts, architectural drawings and public records.
Simon Edison Center for Performing Arts
Next to the Old Globe Theatre are two further units of the Simon Edison Center for the Performing Arts: a theatre for contemporary plays (225 seats), named after the famous 19th century Shakespeare director Cassius Clay, and the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, an open-air stage with over 600 seats, where the Shakespeare Festival is held in summer.
Spanish Village Art Center
In a number of low-built houses in the Spanish Village and Arts Center, artists and craftsmen (potters, painters, sculptors, gold and silversmiths, photographers and weavers) can be seen at work. The articles and works of art they produce are on sale. Sometimes artists erect their easels in the courtyard where you can also watch them at work.
Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden
Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden has over 2,400 rose bushes in 180 varieties. The garden is in peak bloom during April and May, although many roses are in bloom from March through December. The garden is south of the footbridge that crosses Park Boulevard near the Natural History Museum.
Mingei International Museum of Folk Art
The Mingei International Museum of Folk Art displays exhibits of traditional and contemporary folk art from around the world. Materials used include wood, leather, fiber, clay, glass metal, jewelry and bone. There are also displays of furniture, paintings and sculpture.
Museum of Photographic Arts
The Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park is housed in the arcades of the Casa de Balboa and presents exhibits of black and white, and color photographs on specific themes or by well-known photographers, as well as video and film programs from its own archives.
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum in San Diego, established more than 100 years ago, has been housed in its present building since 1932, and displays southern Californian fossils, birds, reptiles, mammals, insects, plants and marine animals. Several life-size dioramas are dedicated to the fauna and flora of the Californian desert.
Old Globe Theater
The Old Globe Theater in Balboa Park was built in 1935/1936 for the California Pacific International Exposition. It is based on Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London in the style of the 15th century, was destroyed by fire in 1978, but was rebuilt and is now the home of the San Diego Repertory Company.
San Diego Automotive Museum
The San Diego Automotive Museum is located in Balboa Park and contains some of the finest automobiles in the world. One of the most popular is the Cyclops-Eyed 1948 Tucker Torpedo, one of only 51 which were built.The museum also contains a research library with books and periodicals on the history of the car.
San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum
The San Diego Hall of Champions Sports gives visitors a selection of 40 sports including football and baseball - making it one of the few museums in the United States that combines a number of sports. The Media Center is an interactive exhibit while the theater presents sports films and lectures.
Museum of San Diego History
The Museum of San Diego History presents the history of the city from 1850. Operated by the San Diego Historical Society it has exhibits of photographs, artifacts and costumes.
Timken Museum of Art
The Timken Art Gallery, built in 1965 on the Panama Plaza, houses an important collection of Russian icons from the 16th to the 19th centuries, works by Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch painters, as well as American art from several centuries.
Japanese Friendship Garden
The Japanese Friendship Garden includes a small entry garden, the Exhibit House, a traditional sand and stone garden, and a picnic area.
San Diego Art Institute
The San Diego Art Institute is located in the House of Charm in Balboa Park and displays the work of local artists.
Starlight Musical Theatre
Starlight Musical Theatre presented its first season in 1946. It is one of the oldest continuously producing musical theatre companies in the United States.
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Building on the success of past Food Chains and the follow-up on past key findings and recommendations, Food Chain Dubai 2013 – the region's only dedicated food-related cold chain conference – is back in May with a fresh programme agenda and a more diverse mix of speakers and insights ... more »
What they said ...
- "The conference offered a unique blend of unbiased perspectives on food safety, shared news and expertise about emerging trends in cold chain management, and promoted lots of discussion on the challenges and opportunities to improve food safety along the food chain."
— Bobby Krishna T M, Senior Food Studies and Surveys Officer & Coordinator of Dubai International Food safety Conference - Food Control Department, Dubai Municipality - "I had attended Food Chain Dubai 2012 for the first time and got an opportunity to be a part of the roundtable discussion. The event was well organised, productive and exceeded my expectations. The topics were relevant to the industry issues, with special focus on food safety."
— Jean Sara Thomas, Food Safety & Hygiene Manager, Radisson Blu Hotel - "Food Chain event has offered a platform where suppliers, manufacturers, consultants, contractors and end-users can come together to discuss issues related to refrigeration and food safety. I think it offers manufacturers like us an unique opportunity to address refrigeration concerns in the entire cold chain. It gives us a better understanding of the end-user requirements in order to offer a complete solution."
— Amitesh Singh, Marketing Manager, Emerson Climate Technologies - "As a person who has dedicated most of his life to improving food safety and protecting public health I am delighted to have been involved with Food Chain Dubai 2012. Temperature control is one of the most important weapons in our armoury to prevent food poisoning, and the organisers of Food Chain Dubai, CPI Industry (Climate Control Middle East), are to be congratulated for bringing together representatives of the refrigeration industry, Dubai Municipality and food safety specialists to speak at the conference and to work together to develop new rules and guidelines to ensure consumers and food businesses in Dubai observe the best food safety practises regarding the safe delivery, storage, preparation and service of foods. Initiatives like this will reduce the risk of food poisoning and ensure that Dubai remains one of the safest places in the world to consume food."
— Richard Sprenger, Chairman, Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance - "When we made the decision to participate, we were not sure of what to expect, but what we found was significantly wonderful, useful and diverse. Finally I can say it was worth it to be with CPI Industry at the Food Chain event of 2012"
— Tawfiq M Attari, Global Sales and Technical Director, DuctSox - MENA - "I like to congratulate the team of CPI Industry for putting up such a successful event. Even though the "Cold Chain" Industry is still at an infant stage it is admirable to witness enthusiastic young people putting up so much of efforts in order to mature the Industry."
— Raymond A. E. de Graaf, Cold Chain Consultant - Absolute Consultants & Engineering Services - "Food Chain 2012 was a wonderful experience. Hearty congratulations to all of you for getting the event done in a wonderful way. Should you need my help or assistance in any matters related to the chicken and egg industry I would be more than willing to support."
— Dr Suheel Ahmed, CEO, Arabian Farms Dev Co - "I thank you for the excellent organisation of the Food Chain event. I truly enjoyed making the speech during the event and got the impression the audience was of the right quality and they were actually interested."
— Jeroen Tollenaar, Managing Director, Royal Culimer FZE - "The Food Chain conference has developed to be the most important forum in the UAE with regards to cold chain safety. We depend on the pool of experts, who attended the conference, to set the stage for ensuring safe cold chain in the UAE. Dubai Municipality is quite keen on pursing the recommendations that emerged from the forum, which will act positively to enhance food safety in Dubai, the UAE and the region at large. Regulating cold chain, especially with regards to equipment, consultants, installation and maintenance, remains an area that needs a lot of work. We are glad to see a jump start to this effort through the recommendations which came out of the forum."
— Bashir Hassan Yousif , Food Expert, Food Control Department - Dubai Municipality
A look at legislation, warehousing and supermarket best practices in storage and handling in: -
UK, New Zealand, Sweden, France, Holland
- GCC Food Inspectors Congress
An insight into what they look for from food establishments to ensure prevention of temperature abuse. And is there homogeneity in codes and standards? - Legislation and clarity
Presentation of report on interim deliberations of technical committee looking into refrigeration aspects of food safety, including guidelines for cold storage warehouses (design, materials & equipment selection, construction and O&M) - Live consulting on design of cold storage warehouses
Understanding the correlation between microbiological control and optimum temperature. Highlighting common misperceptions and building bridges between food establishments and refrigeration consultants.
Warehousing and supermarkets
- Preventing temperature abuse and balancing economic constraints
Transport refrigeration
- Understanding ATP codes and standards
- Profiling multi-temperature trucks
- Transportation and economics: The use of special-purpose transport vehicles and the impact on cost of transportation
- Air flow in trucks carrying perishable goods: A look at Best Practices
Consumer behavior and food safety culture
- Workshop on what they need to know and look out for: Assurances on food safety and how to prevent temperature abuse while transporting food home, while storing, preparing


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Haslemere Educational Museum
Haslemere Educational Museum
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Haslemere Educational Museum is one of hte largest Natural History Museum in central southern England with over 240,000 specimens, along with over 140,000 Human History artefacts from around the world.
There are three large permanent galleries for Geology, Natural History and Human History artefacts, along with three temporary exhibition rooms, a library and a dedicated education room for people of all ages.
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Disabled access throughout the building. If disabled parking is required please ring ahead.
* Visit our extensive and newly refurbished galleries.
* Take a journey through time with our interactive displays and fascinating collections.
* Meet Arthur our 6ft Siberian bear.
* Enter an Egyptian tomb and see a real Egyptian mummy.
* Explore our Natural History collection.
* Enjoy our gardens and admire the view over the Surrey hills.
* Observe the bees at work in the beehive.
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Archaeology, Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Social History, World Cultures
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How did my doctor signature come to this? Was it a subconscious attempt to fight against the machine? Nah. It was my tired and aching fingers after writing tens of thousands of required signatures over the year. Each year the name became shorter and less legible. The first and last name morphed into squiggly marks known only to those with a keen eye for paying attention. "Who wrote that note", the nurses say. "Why, that's Dr Happy's signature, of course", they respond.
My CMS signature is now nothing more than a single stroke. It is a first and last name combined into that beastly mess seen below. I am not proud of myself by any means, except to say at least I'm not one of those people at the grocery store that signs their check with their first, middle and last name, in calligraphy while twenty people wait patiently to get home to their families. Seriously people. Is that really necessary? Who uses checks these days anyway?
How do I get away with such a ghastly signature? How does Medicare allow physicians to get paid for their illegible scribbles known only to a select few nurses with dedicated handwriting deciphering skills? I'm glad you asked. In fact, Medicare actually has very detailed rules to stay in compliance with Medicare signature requirements. Here is the link to the official August, 2012 Medicare Learning Network publication detailing the rules. I have summarized the requirements below for quick review.
- What is required for a valid signature by CMS?
- Services that are provided or ordered must be authenticated by the ordering practitioner
- Signatures are handwritten or electronic (stamped signatures are not acceptable). Several exceptions are detailed here, including facsimiles of original written or electronic signatures to certify terminal illness for hospice.
- Signatures are legible.
- What if the signature is not legible?
- The physician may submit a signature log or attestation statement to support their identity. If a printed signature is present below the illegible signature, that may be accepted
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Lot 41
* Chanel Allure Homme Sport eau de toilette, 20ml, with two 20ml refills.
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Buyers Premium 15%.
Payment and collection by 5pm Friday 30th March.
Timed Online Auction - Champagnes, Spirits and Designer Fragrances
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- Ends 22 Mar 2012 from 12pm
On the instructions of Airport Authorities and a Government Agency, BCVA are offering for sale by Timed Online Auction Champagnes, Spirits and Designer Fragrances.
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Article Free Passagricultural technology, application of techniques to control the growth and harvesting of animal and vegetable products.
Soil preparation
Mechanical processing of soil so that it is in the proper physical condition for planting is usually referred to as tilling; adding nutrients and trace elements is called fertilizing. Both processes are important in agricultural operations.
Tillage is the manipulation of the soil into a desired condition by mechanical means; tools are employed to achieve some desired effect (such as pulverization, cutting, or movement). Soil is tilled to change its structure, to kill weeds, and to manage crop residues. Soil-structure modification is often necessary to facilitate the intake, storage, and transmission of water and to provide a good environment for seeds and roots. Elimination of weeds is important, because they compete for water, nutrients, and light. Crop residues on the surface must be managed in order to provide conditions suitable for seeding and cultivating a crop.
Generally speaking, if the size of the soil aggregates or particles is satisfactory, preparation of the seedbed will consist only of removing weeds and the management of residues. Unfortunately, the practices associated with planting, cultivating, and harvesting usually cause destruction of soil structure. This leaves preparation of the seedbed as the best opportunity to create desirable structure, in which large and stable pores extend from the soil surface to the water table or drains, ensuring rapid infiltration and drainage of excess or free water and promoting aeration of the subsoil. When these large pores are interspersed with small ones, the soil will retain and store moisture also.
Seedbed-preparation procedures depend on soil texture and the desired change in size of aggregates. In soils of coarse texture, tillage will increase aggregate size, provided it is done when only the small pores are just filled with water; tillage at other than this ideal moisture will make for smaller aggregates. By contrast, fine-textured soils form clods; these require breakage into smaller units by weathering or by machines. If too wet or too dry, the power requirements for shattering dry clods or cutting wet ones are prohibitive when using tillage alone. Thus, the farmer usually attempts tillage of such soils only after a slow rain has moistened the clods and made them friable.
Some soils require deepening of the root zone to permit increased rate of water intake and improved storage. Unfavourable aeration in zones of poor drainage also limits root development and inhibits use of water in the subsoil.
Tillage, particularly conventional plowing, may create a hardpan, or plow sole; that is, a compacted layer just below the zone disturbed by tillage. Such layers are more prevalent with increasing levels of mechanization; they reduce crop yields and must be shattered, allowing water to be stored in and below the shattered zone for later crops.


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7.5 4 |
7 7 |
6.7 10 |
7.3 14 |
7.6 11 |
7.2 46 |
Women: Votes: |
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7.4 25 |
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A bit too much on explicit language and sex, but an entertaining movie. Liked by both husband and myself.
7/10 | book.boss@ - 39 reviews 1.7.2012 - age: 50+ |
I can't believe I haven't seen it in theatre. It was the perfect combination: action, humor, good looking people and love. The chemistry between the actors was amazing. It has been a while since I have seen a good movie. Thank you.
8/10 | tiby_8019@ - 9 reviews 12.6.2012 - age: 26-35 |
If you turn your brain off it'll be fun, just don't expect anything too intellectual, and to overlook glaring plot holes.
7/10 | pam@ - 18 reviews 3.6.2012 - age: 18-25 |
This was a good movie, lots of laughs. Worth checking out. Good entertainment for the money.
7/10 | topjimmy@ - 11 reviews 21.5.2012 - age: 36-49 |
Average movie. I thought it was too comedic to be taken like a serious action/thriller. Worthwhile as a DVD rental but that's it.
6/10 | sacoca_@ - 656 reviews 19.5.2012 - age: 26-35 |
It was funny and exciting. A sweet story with lots off predictable scenes. A fun movie thou.
8/10 | shazjoao@ - 1748 reviews 9.5.2012 |
The protagonist has been dumped and she continues to run into her ex. At first you sympathize with her in the struggle to find a new partner, though by the end of the movie you realize why she was dumped. Pointless and shallow film lightly topped with empty espionage action.
3/10 | photosundown@ - 25 reviews 6.5.2012 - age: 26-35 |
Not what I expected. However, It's a good movie that is worth seeing...
7/10 | j-sergenina@ - 229 reviews 29.4.2012 - age: 50+ |
Okay, so it's a bit predictable and yes the story line was a bit weak, and I'm not sure Reese Witherspoon fits the role but it's also zany and goofy and at times laugh out loud trying to stifle giggles kind of funny. The two male protagonists look like they had a whale of a time making this movie; I had a whale of a time watching it. Lots there for guys to like; mine thought it was great. So, a movie with humor and charm and wide appeal; a winner in MHO!!
8/10 | jmc123@ - first review 22.4.2012 - age: 50+ |
I must admit, I was expecting a weaker film with corny humour and was pleasantly surprised, even found myself laughing out loud more than once. A date movie in the truest sense as a RomCom. The action and humour is well done for the guys and the ladies have Chris Pine and Tom Hardy (need I say more) A bit predictable and a standard order of cheesy in places. I would tighten up the editing a bit where it got thin and may not have had Reece Witherspoon as the Pivotal Love Interest but certainly better than expected.
7/10 | roy.vanluven@ - 9 reviews 8.4.2012 - age: 50+ |
Quite a bit of fun. And also has a bit of heart. Highly Recommended.
8/10 | northboy691@ - 3 reviews 6.4.2012 - age: 36-49 |
This movie well worth seeing... a few good laughs for sure. I would recommend it.
7/10 | clramjam1@ - 7 reviews 3.4.2012 - age: 36-49 |
Good movie. Funnier then expected. I went with my boyfriend and a friend and we all enjoyed it.
7/10 | reem.s13@ - 18 reviews 29.3.2012 - age: 18-25 |
It was so good, I didn't even want to leave to go to the rest room. It's an amazing movie to see with your friends.
9/10 | pinknation@ - first review 25.3.2012 - age: 18-25 |
Lmfaooo soo good must see, it's really funny and overall a great movie :D
9/10 | saoirse3@ - first review 23.3.2012 - age: 13-17 |
Had some funny moments, just seemed a little scattered and silly at times. Kind of a lunch bag letdown.
6/10 | harveypeter@ - 20 reviews 17.3.2012 - age: 36-49 |
Plot is somewhat superficial but it was entertaining. I wanted something light and there it was.
7/10 | lacartearlequin@ - 20 reviews 17.3.2012 - age: 50+ |
Funny and romantic, pretty good, but I would only see it once.
8/10 | jordanmahdi@ - 44 reviews 17.3.2012 - age: 13-17 |
There are some okay action scenes in this movie, there are some good character moments between all three of the leads. There are some cute and a few very funny scenes. But, the plot is predictable and thin in spots. Also, there are multiple scenes in this movie that could have been condensed into a couple of better scenes. So certainly not the worst movie in the world but as others have said, maybe wait till it hits a cheaper theater or even DVD.
6/10 | acvideocreator@ - 6 reviews 17.3.2012 - age: 36-49 |
Oh God... Chris Pine... need I say more here? No. It was awesome... I really liked it! Very funny.. no long moments where you think to yourself "what the hell am I doing here or... I paid for THAT".. overall... 9.5 :)
9/10 | volturi29@ - first review 16.3.2012 - age: 18-25 |
The movie was funny and entertaining. The actors were also great.
8/10 | charlene_biron@ - first review 16.3.2012 - age: 36-49 |
It made me laugh so much, it kept me excited to see what happens next... seriously GO SEE IT!!! It has a funny full of action plot line.
10/10 | alnawa@ - first review 15.3.2012 - age: 18-25 |
I laughed out loud throughout this whole movie! I watched it with my daughter and son-in-law. There was action throughout, romance, comedy all rolled into one movie. A must see! I love Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon. Chris Pine... I can do without. I will definitely buy this move when it comes out on DVD.
10/10 | myheroscooby@ - 2 reviews 14.3.2012 - age: 36-49 |
This movie was very predictable and although some of the action was ok it just didn't work for me. Wait until it's in the cheapy theater.
6/10 | ggriff1959@ - 35 reviews 14.3.2012 - age: 50+ |
Not as good as I thought it would be. A guy flick, but only Tom Hardy's character is really likeable or interesting. The other guy is boring and forgettable. Reese Witherspoon very underused in this film, odd choice for the director and/or producer.
5/10 | damedenise@ - 11 reviews 14.3.2012 - age: 50+ |
I really enjoyed watching this movie. I loved it from the beginning to the end :) A good movie :)
9/10 | johannenkirk@ - 15 reviews 13.3.2012 - age: 36-49 |
Definitely a chick flick. Laughs all the way. Loved it!
9/10 | xl_truong@ - 16 reviews 13.3.2012 - age: 26-35 |
It was actually really funny, and not corny. The action scenes were great and it was all around entertaining. This is one everybody can enjoy. Don't mind the "Reese" factor - this isn't really a romantic comedy.
9/10 | gacar017@ - 62 reviews 13.3.2012 - age: 26-35 |
This is a comedy and as a comedy it is funny, unreal, predictable and full of bad jokes... I laughed as never before.
10/10 | polomontreal@ - 2 reviews 13.3.2012 - age: 36-49 |
Other than the very first few minutes the entire movie was absurd, who wrote this crap, I could have come up with a more believable and less predicable movie. This is by far the least interesting movie I think I have seen in years. I saw The Vow last week, go see it instead. The best part was the credits.
3/10 | tmmols@ - first review 13.3.2012 - age: 50+ |
It is more of a chick flick. Not what I expected.
4/10 | dennis.stdenis@ - first review 13.3.2012 - age: 36-49 |
Nothing special, funny parts are in the previews.
6/10 | tara.gizmo@ - first review 12.3.2012 - age: 26-35 |
It was hilarious start to finish. Not to mention it has the whole package, action/romance/comedy. Pretty much all the actors did a great job. I haven't watched a movie in a while that was romance/comedy that got this much of a rise out of me. I was laughing aloud quite often, along with my mother and the whole entire theater. It also had just enough action to make this definitely one of a kind, rather than follow the trend of stereotypical romance comedies. Just brilliant, absolutely hysterical and a thrill to watch!
10/10 | endless_illusion@ - 10 reviews 12.3.2012 - age: 18-25 |
Based on the description I was really excited... Movie is really cute and well done for the most part. The ending was kind of cheesy, but well worth the watch. All in all, in the spy comedy genre I place it well behind such classics as Grosse Point Blanke, but still worth watching.
7/10 | james@ - 3 reviews 11.3.2012 - age: 26-35 |
No chemistry between the leads. Stupid story. I like romcoms but this was rubbish. A total waste of time and money.
2/10 | deborahflood@ - first review 11.3.2012 - age: 26-35 |
I thought this movie was hilarious! I haven't laughed this much at a movie in a long time. And the action scenes were great too.
9/10 | juanitacao@ - 9 reviews 9.3.2012 - age: 50+ |
I took my 70ish mother to see this film and we were both pleasantly surprised at the plot, the chemistry between the three actors and the dialogue. The fight scenes were fast paced and well executed. The relationship between the two guys was terrific and the only (slightly) off note was the wooden acting from Chelsea Handler. She was awful. Not funny, either. I thought Reese's character was credible (not a wayward girl like an earlier review unkindly stated) and refreshing. I laughed out loud throughout the film at the antics the two guys got up to. I believed in their relationship. The music was terrific, too. There is something here for women AND the men they drag to see the film. A well-executed romantic comedy (and I haven't seen one as intelligent as this since "When Harry Met Sally")
9/10 | chartworks@ - 6 reviews 7.3.2012 - age: 50+ |
This movie is a gift to every guy who's going to the movies with his girl. I loved it. There are only so many romcoms in this world for me, I'm sure many guys can relate, but this one is chalk full of great action sequences, fights and gunfights and good, cheeky gags. The actors are great, Pine has now been a riot for me twice, thinking back to his turn as Kirk in Star Trek, Hardy played a charming guy's guy to a tee, and Reese Witherspoon was cute as ever, and excellent as I generally always find her to be. It's not a masterpiece by any means, but as I mentioned, it stands out among romcoms quite noticeably for me.
8/10 | robert-kralj@ - 186 reviews 7.3.2012 - age: 36-49 |


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For sometime we have been looking at mechanisms for improving the availability of larger allocations under load. One of the options we have explored is the capturing of pages freed under direct reclaim in order to increase the chances of free pages coelescing before they are subject to reallocation by racing allocators. Following this email is a patch stack implementing page capture during direct reclaim. It consits of four patches. The first two simply pull out existing code into helpers for reuse. The third makes buddy's use of struct page explicit. The fourth contains the meat of the changes, and its leader contains a much fuller description of the feature. This update represents a rebase to -mm and incorporates feedback from KOSAKI Motohiro. It also incorporates an accounting fix which was preventing some captures. I have done a lot of comparitive testing with and without this patch set and in broad brush I am seeing improvements in hugepage allocations (worst case size) success on all of my test systems. These tests consist of placing a constant stream of high order allocations on the system, at varying rates. The results for these various runs are then averaged to give an overall improvement. Absolute Effective x86-64 2.48% 4.58% powerpc 5.55% 25.22% x86-64 has a relatively small huge page size and so is always much more effective at allocating huge pages. Even there we get a measurable improvement. On powerpc the huge pages are much larger and much harder to recover. Here we see a full 25% increase in page recovery. It should be noted that these are worst case testing, and very agressive taking every possible page in the system. It would be helpful to get wider testing in -mm. Against: 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 Andrew, please consider for -mm. -apw Changes since V3: - Incorporates an anon vma fix pointed out by MinChan Kim - switch to using a pagevec for page capture collection Changes since V2: - Incorporates review feedback from ...
Explicitly define the struct page fields which buddy uses when it owns pages. Defines a new anonymous struct to allow additional fields to be defined in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <email@example.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <firstname.lastname@example.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <email@example.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <firstname.lastname@example.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <firstname.lastname@example.com> --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 3 +++ mm/internal.h | 2 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 995c588..906d8e0 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ struct page { #endif struct kmem_cache *slab; /* SLUB: Pointer to slab */ struct page *first_page; /* Compound tail pages */ + struct { + unsigned long buddy_order; /* buddy: free page order */ + }; }; union { pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */ diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index c0e4859..fcedcd0 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ extern void __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order); static inline unsigned long page_order(struct page *page) { VM_BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page)); - return page_private(page); + return page->buddy_order; } extern int mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 921c435..3a646e3 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static inline void prep_zero_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp_flags) static inline void set_page_order(struct page *page, int order) { - set_page_private(page, order); + page->buddy_order = order; __SetPageBuddy(page); #ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER page->order = -1; @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static inline void set_page_order(struct page *page, int ...
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:31:00 +0100 Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <email@example.com> --
When allocating we need to confirm that the zone we are about to allocate from is acceptable to the CPUSET we are in, and that it does not violate the zone watermarks. Pull these checks out so we can reuse them in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <email@example.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <email@example.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <firstname.lastname@example.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <email@example.com> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 55d8d9b..921c435 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1271,6 +1271,44 @@ int zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark, return 1; } +/* + * Return 1 if this zone is an acceptable source given the cpuset + * constraints. + */ +static inline int zone_cpuset_permits(struct zone *zone, + int alloc_flags, gfp_t gfp_mask) +{ + if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_CPUSET) && + !cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, gfp_mask)) + return 0; + return 1; +} + +/* + * Return 1 if this zone is within the watermarks specified by the + * allocation flags. + */ +static inline int zone_watermark_permits(struct zone *zone, int order, + int classzone_idx, int alloc_flags, gfp_t gfp_mask) +{ + if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS)) { + unsigned long mark; + if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MIN) + mark = zone->pages_min; + else if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) + mark = zone->pages_low; + else + mark = zone->pages_high; + if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark, + classzone_idx, alloc_flags)) { + if (!zone_reclaim_mode || + !zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order)) + return 0; + } + } + return 1; +} + #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA /* * zlc_setup - Setup for "zonelist cache". Uses cached zone data to @@ -1424,25 +1462,11 @@ zonelist_scan: if (NUMA_BUILD && zlc_active && ...
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:30:59 +0100 Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <firstname.lastname@example.com> --
When we are about to release a page we perform a number of actions on that page. We clear down any anonymous mappings, confirm that the page is safe to release, check for freeing locks, before mapping the page should that be required. Pull this processing out into a helper function for reuse in a later patch. Note that we do not convert the similar cleardown in free_hot_cold_page() as the optimiser is unable to squash the loops during the inline. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <firstname.lastname@example.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <email@example.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <email@example.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <firstname.lastname@example.com> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index f52fcf1..55d8d9b 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -489,6 +489,32 @@ static inline int free_pages_check(struct page *page) } /* + * Prepare this page for release to the buddy. Sanity check the page. + * Returns 1 if the page is safe to free. + */ +static inline int free_page_prepare(struct page *page, int order) +{ + int i; + int reserved = 0; + + for (i = 0 ; i < (1 << order) ; ++i) + reserved += free_pages_check(page + i); + if (reserved) + return 0; + + if (!PageHighMem(page)) { + debug_check_no_locks_freed(page_address(page), + PAGE_SIZE << order); + debug_check_no_obj_freed(page_address(page), + PAGE_SIZE << order); + } + arch_free_page(page, order); + kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 0); + + return 1; +} + +/* * Frees a list of pages. * Assumes all pages on list are in same zone, and of same order. * count is the number of pages to free. @@ -529,22 +555,10 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int order) static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order) { unsigned long flags; - int i; - int reserved = 0; - for (i = 0 ; i < (1 ...
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:30:58 +0100 Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <email@example.com> --
When a process enters direct reclaim it will expend effort identifying and releasing pages in the hope of obtaining a page. However as these pages are released asynchronously there is every possibility that the pages will have been consumed by other allocators before the reclaimer gets a look in. This is particularly problematic where the reclaimer is attempting to allocate a higher order page. It is highly likely that a parallel allocation will consume lower order constituent pages as we release them preventing them coelescing into the higher order page the reclaimer desires. This patch set attempts to address this for allocations above ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER by temporarily collecting the pages we are releasing onto a local free list. Instead of freeing them to the main buddy lists, pages are collected and coelesced on this per direct reclaimer free list. Pages which are freed by other processes are also considered, where they coelesce with a page already under capture they will be moved to the capture list. When pressure has been applied to a zone we then consult the capture list and if there is an appropriatly sized page available it is taken immediatly and the remainder returned to the free pool. Capture is only enabled when the reclaimer's allocation order exceeds ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER as free pages below this order should naturally occur in large numbers following regular reclaim. Thanks go to Mel Gorman for numerous discussions during the development of this patch and for his repeated reviews. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <email@example.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <firstname.lastname@example.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <firstname.lastname@example.com> --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 1 + include/linux/page-flags.h | 4 + include/linux/pagevec.h | 1 + mm/internal.h | 5 ++ mm/page_alloc.c | 159 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- mm/vmscan.c | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 6 files changed, 267 ...
The reclaim problem is due to the pcp queueing right? Could we disable pcp queueing during reclaim? pcp processing is not necessarily a gain, so temporarily disabling it should not be a problem. At the beginning of reclaim just flush all pcp pages and then do not allow pcp refills again until reclaim is finished? --
Not entirely, some pages could get trapped there for sure. But it is parallel allocations we are trying to guard against. Plus we already flush the pcp during reclaim for higher orders. -apw --
So we just would need to forbid refilling the pcp. Parallel allocations are less a problem if the freed order 0 pages get merged immediately into the order 1 freelist. Of course that will only work 50% of the time but it will have a similar effect to this patch. --
Ah, Right. Could we hear why you like pcp disabling than Andy's patch? Honestly, I think pcp has some problem. But I avoid to change pcp because I don't understand its design. Maybe, we should discuss currect pcp behavior? --
pcps are a particular problem on NUMA because the lists are replicated per In the worst case we see that pcps cause a 5% performance drop (sequential alloc w/o free followed by sequential free w/o allocs). See my page allocator pcps need improvement. The performance issues with the page allocator fastpath are likely due to bloating of the fastpaths (antifrag did not do much good on that level). Plus current crops of processors are sensitive to cache footprint issues (seems that the tbench regression in the network stack also are due to the same effect). Doubly linked lists are not good today because they touch multiple cachelines. --
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:31:01 +0100 Hmm.. is this routine better than mm/memory_hotplug.c::do_migrate_range(start_pfn, end_pfn) ? Thanks, -Kame --
Are you suggesting that it might be more adventageous to try and migrate things out of this area as part of reclaim? If so then I tend to agree, though that would be a good idea generally with or without capture. /me adds it to his todo list to test that out. -apw --
I just remember I did the same kind of work to offline pages. Sorry for noise. I just have an idea to support following kind of interface via memory hotplug This makes all pages in the section to be hugepage. #echo huge > /sys/device/system/memory/memoryXXX/state (memory hotplug interface supports online/offline here.) But no patches yet... Thanks, -Kame --
Hi, Andy. I tested your patch in my desktop. The test is just kernel compile with single thread. My system environment is as follows. model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz MemTotal: 2065856 kB When I tested vanilla, compile time is as follows. 2433.53user 187.96system 42:05.99elapsed 103%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 588752inputs+4503408outputs (127major+55456246minor)pagefaults 0swaps When I tested your patch, as follows. 2489.63user 202.41system 44:47.71elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 538608inputs+4503928outputs (130major+55531561minor)pagefaults 0swaps Regresstion almost is above 2 minutes. Do you think It is a trivial? I know your patch is good to allocate hugepage. But, I think many users don't need it, including embedded system and desktop users yet. So I suggest you made it enable optionally. -- Kinds regards, MinChan Kim --
Hmmm. I would not expect to see any significant impact for this kind of workload as we should not be triggering capture for the lower order allocations at all. Something screwey must be occuring. I will go and reproduce this here and see if I can figure out just what causes this. -apw --
yup. I also think this is significant regression. if this is reproduced, that patch shouldn't be merged to -mm, IMHO. --
Ooops. No. if the patch has this significant regression, nobody turn on its option. We should fix that. --
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:48 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro I have been tested it. But I can't reproduce such as regression. I don't know why such regression happed at that time. Sorry for confusing. Please ignore my test result at that time. This is new test result. before 2346.24user 191.44system 42:07.28elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 458624inputs+4262728outputs (183major+52299730minor)pagefaults 0swaps after 2349.75user 195.72system 42:16.36elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 475632inputs+4265208outputs (183major+52308969minor)pagefaults 0swaps I think we can ignore some time gap. Sometime, after is faster than before. I could conclude it doesn't have any regressions in my desktop machine. Tested-by: MinChan Kim <firstname.lastname@example.com> -- Kinds regards, MinChan Kim --
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:30:57 +0100 Hmm, can't we use "MIGRATE_ISOLATE" pageblock type for this purpose ? The page allocater skips pageblock marked as MIGRATE_ISOLATE at allocation. (pageblock-size is equal to HUGEPAGE size in general.) Of course, "where should be isolated" is a problem. Thanks, -Kame --


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I couldn't bring myself to do that. People expect darker things then that from me lol
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I couldn't bring myself to do that. People expect darker things then that from me lol
Re: SOUL CATCHERGot a lot done today but pics will have to wait. My laptops down so I'm having to post from my kindle
Re: SOUL CATCHERHaving lots of fun with this I'm actually building 2 bikes right now. I'm building soul catcher and turtle lady (wife's bike) at the sametime
Re: SOUL CATCHERCool concept, I look forward to seeing what you build.
Re: SOUL CATCHERPaint check
mockup check Rideable check now time for the fun stuff
Re: SOUL CATCHERFinally snagged the wifes laptop (since mine died) to post some pics of the soul catcher build
almost left it this color this aint for what you might think, im seeing something evil in it frame with nirve single speed rim front rim paint with rustoleum red paint, look how close it matches the nirve rim and the paint holds up better too sawblade heres test fitting all the parts up to this point not really feeling the kc light on it but its all i got to this point. still have a long way before im finished stay tuned
Re: SOUL CATCHERCool start, is the triple tree fork still strong enough without the top plate?
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Re: SOUL CATCHERIts off a mountain bike, not sure but its a welded bottom mount time will tell. Ive seen where someone had done one and just added a piece at the top so i might do that to just be safe
Re: SOUL CATCHERThe rest has to do with Barn wood, copper, crosses, wheel chair wheels a different headlight (thinking a bullet taillight from either a bike or a old truck.
Re: SOUL CATCHERLookin' good Man That looks like the same fork I used last year on my trike.Please trust me:you're gunna want the top clamp on the steer tube.Or a sufficient bracket.Especially if you mount a front brake for hauling around a pile of souls. Just a suggestion...
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thanks for the input. Got an idea in mind for it.
Re: SOUL CATCHERIt was nice out so I decided to bring it out and get a good pic of the bike, it looks about like i planned just need it do the finishing touches
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Thanks, this frame style is like what I had when I was a kid so its always been my favorite
Re: SOUL CATCHERLooks good, what are you going to do to bring some red up high in the front? Grips? Stem cap? It's just missing some red up there.
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A forum where duels are held! Bring your best deck and fight for glory!
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it was at 700 because dark flare dragon isn't a fairy monster and non fairy type monsters lose 500 atk and def
then i activate skill drain and by paying 1000 life points i can negate all monster effects on the field Lp 2000
Fine. Do you end turn?
Galaxy eyes photon dragon attacks you directly 3900-3000=900
end battle phase
now i overly the Level 8 Splendid venus, The level 8 Master Hyperion, and The level 8 galaxy eyes photon dragon
To XYZ SUMMON Neo galaxy Eyes photon dragon Atk 4500 Def 3000
Now i end my turn
now skill drain is negated because galaxy eyes photon dragon is apart of neo galaxy eyes photon dragon and can negate all face up cards on the field and your card trader and my sanctuary in the sky are also negated
no skill drain is all ready active, and neos ability activates, skill drain chains immeditly negating neo galaxay.
I draw
I activate card traders effect.
negated due to neo galaxy eyes photon dragon
ok and it took me 3 and a half hours just to deal damage to you
Oh I can't.
you can't use card trader because when neo galaxy eyes is summoned and galaxy eyes is matereal, it negates all face up cards on the field including my cards
sorry but card trader is negated
wait a second let me check somthing
Oh well. I surrender. You win.
thats was a hard duel, you are a worthy oppoent . were you expecting neo galaxy eyes photon dragon? and me using your galaxy eyes photon dragon as matereal?
Probaly the most longest duel ever but two hours ago when you had asmodeus on the field you couldve attacked me then.
yeah but wasn't going to take the chance
Really I didn't expect it neo galaxy eyeswasa big surprise. Now I want to try and find it. And your a great duelist to. Had no idea you were going to spring master Hyperion on me.
took a long time to get an agent card into my hand, would have use my other rank 8 monster instead
If I had few diffrent monsters I may have won. Thanks for the duel.
If you ever want to duel again just ask it was really good.
np and btw, not trying to be stalkerish in any way but how old are you, i want to know the age of people i duel so i can see how long you have been playing yu-gi-oh if thats ok, you don't have to answer the question if you don't want to?
honestly, i've been dueling for 11 years so i know alot about this game
I'm fourteen and I started whin the show first started but then my first deck got destroyed in the washing machine so I didn't start doing it again until I was eleven so about three years I've been following yugioh.
sorry about your first deck, did it have any good cards in it?
and i have a hieratic sun dragon overlord of helioplis i didn't want to get until the tins came out
Ugh I can't really remember it was the first ever Kiba deck so it had blue eyes in which was good.
oh boy, that was a hard loss
anyway i have to go now since i've been on this for 4 hours and i feel drained
Hahaha weak, okay see ya, and thank you.
Oh, stewardsean, I'm 16 and tell techgenusmaster that my neo galaxy eyes photon dragon is waiting for him
I WANT HIM. ill crush him tho.
you still probaly won, but skill drain was already active, and neo gala doesnt negate that, he gets negated.
Actually I don't know who that is.
mine is east nc
9:00 am your time.
hey techgenusmaster do you want to finish our duel
srry but chors cam fiest.
chore came first.
INzektor exa beetle. equipped with orb and beast. atk2700 dragon fly attk 100eqwith centi dragon fly 2nd def mode def 2600 eq with weevil.
srry shougn
you have lost 2200 ive lost 1000
how bout we say you won that and start over this is to confusing
ill go second.
u lost so u choose.
ok draw. first i set 2 cards facedown, then i activate shiens dojo, then i normal summon kizan, and send dojo to grave for squire then synchro for shi en. your go.


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Ethiopian Knights: Sweet electric funk – in a very trippy style! Before Donald Byrd hooked up with Larry Mizell and started recording his smooth fusion grooves of the mid 70's, he recorded this gem – kind of ... read more Jazz (LP) 9.99 |
Magnificent Trombone Of Curtis Fuller: A rare album by one of the great geniuses of the jazz trombone (forget JJ and Kai, we love Curtis Fuller!) Tight hard group, with a distinct modern edge, and a striking front line of trombone, guitar, ... read more Jazz (LP) 7.99 | ||||
Nubians Of Plutonia: An excellent Sun Ra session from 1959! Ra and the Arkestra are playing in a fine mix of straight jazz and spacey styles, with Ra on electric piano throughout the entire set. A few tracks have some great ... read more Jazz (LP) 9.99 |
Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy: One of the greatest Saturn albums! This one has Ra playing clavioline and echoey "cosmic side drums" with a great spacey sound that was probably arrived at through some primitive reverb and ... read more Jazz (LP) 9.99 | ||||
Soultrane: A bold early statement from a young John Coltrane – and an album that really has him expanding his talents as a tenor soloist! Coltrane's working here in open-ended quartet format – with backing ... read more Jazz (LP) 9.99 |


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Warriors' first victory over the Tigers since March 2006 looked likely for large parts of a gripping encounter.
But Leicester prevailed, courtesy of two second-half penalty tries, the second one being awarded in the final minute by referee JP Doyle.
Worcester wing David Lemi scored an early try and three Andy Goode penalties against his former club ensured Warriors occupied the driving seat.
Leicester, though, mounted a fightback either side of Goode being sin-binned, with wing Scott Hamilton touching down before Tigers claimed an opening penalty try that England international Toby Flood converted.
Flood also missed three penalties, but he added the extras to Tigers' late clincher and Worcester were denied as Leicester went top above long-time league leaders Harlequins.
And their night was made doubly sweet by England flanker Tom Croft making an impressive 50-minute contribution on his first appearance since suffering a neck injury last April.
Croft's return was among 12 changes to the Leicester side that accounted for Gloucester last weekend, with England trio Manu Tuilagi, Tom Youngs and Geoff Parling all rested from a team captained by lock Louis Deacon.
Worcester boss Richard Hill, meanwhile, made six switches following the defeat against Premiership relegation favourites Sale Sharks last time out, including a start for scrum-half Jonny Arr instead of jaw injury victim Paul Hodgson.
England head coach Stuart Lancaster was among a capacity Sixways crowd of just over 12,000, and Worcester made all the running as they established an 8-0 lead inside the opening 16 minutes.
Goode landed a penalty when Tigers infringed in front of the posts 35 metres out, then slick work by centre Jon Clarke and full-back Chris Pennell created Lemi's fifth Premiership try this season.
Leicester were rocked back on their heels, unable to establish a territorial foothold, and Goode extended Worcester's advantage through another penalty when Tigers prop Martin Castrogiovanni infringed.
There was no stopping Worcester, with Goode completing his penalty hat-trick shortly after Martin Castrogiovanni was yellow-carded by Doyle for an illegal tackle.
Leicester, despite fielding 10 internationals, had no answer to Worcester's accuracy and verve, with Warriors retaining a vice-like grip on the contest as half-time approached.
Wing Josh Drauniniu had a couple of chances to test the Leicester defence, but Tigers gave themselves a lifeline deep into injury time.
Flood and full-back Mathew Tait combined to send Hamilton over in the corner, yet there was more grief for Worcester when Goode became Warriors' 11th Premiership sin-binning this season for dropping his knee on the New Zealander as he touched down.
It was dreadful indiscipline by Goode, but Flood missed the conversion and then a penalty from halfway, and Worcester trooped off 14-5 ahead.
With Goode still off, Pennell took over goalkicking duties, but he missed two chances in as many minutes before Goode returned.
Leicester, though, now had momentum, and with international props Dan Cole and Marcos Ayerza appearing off the bench, there was no let-up for Worcester as Doyle punished them for collapsing a scrum by awarding Tigers a penalty try.
Flood slotted the conversion, which cut Worcester's advantage to just two points, but Warriors regained their composure with Goode once again pulling the strings.
Despite Goode missing a 67th-minute penalty, Worcester were again asking Leicester questions, and the visitors needed to regroup as they targeted a sixth successive victory in all competitions.
Leicester laid siege inside Worcester's 22 as the clock ticked down, and their pressure was rewarded with another penalty try when Warriors' scrum capitulated.
Tigers then had a mere 10 seconds to hold on from the restart, and Worcester - not for the first time this season - were left to fret about a game that got away.
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