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9 Types Of Dog Exercise
Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, but that doesn't mean they can't all be fit! In this guide, we will discuss how to get any breed of dog in shape. Whether your dog is a tiny Chihuahua or a large Great Dane, we have the tips you need to help them stay healthy and active. So whether you're just starting out or you've been trying to get your dog fit for years, or for those already into coursing, Fast Cat, or Fast Dog sports, our lures will help you and your dog get in shape and chase harder and faster while having a blast, read on for the ultimate guide to getting your furry friend into shape!
Pretty simple, even if it's not for sport or competition, your dog should have at least a basic level of fitness to stay off the vets' table! You want to prolong the dog's life, and more importantly, ensure the dog has the best possible life, getting fit is also fun and rewarding for any dog, plus it means they're interacting with you or another person training them, this is critical for their mental health too.
Finally, before we get into the 9 methods to get your dog fit, make sure you are providing enough opportunities for your dog to play outside. Dogs love to run and play, so give them plenty of chances to do just that. Plus it builds a great bond and trust between you both. A healthy dog is a happy dog, and by following these tips, you can help your dog live a longer, healthier life!
So let's get into it!
1 : WALKING YOUR DOG part 1
How long should I walk my dog?
Walking is one of the easiest ways to get your dog movin'g and groovin'. All you need is a leash, some walking shoes, and plenty of time! But don't walk on hot days, and always be looking ahead for dangers such as glass or aggressive dogs off their leash.
The amount of walking exercise your dog needs will vary depending on its breed, size, and age. A good rule of thumb is to walk your dog for 15 minutes for the first few days, then build up to at least 30 minutes per day, most dogs are happy to go for 1-hour walks.
2 : WALKING YOUR DOG part 2 (walking machine)
To avoid using the weather as an excuse, indoor walking machines are a great addition to your training arsenal.
The best machines are the ones with soft start, and rubber belts. Look for walking machines with adjustable speeds, some dogs don't do well with high speed at first.
Start your dog out slow, walking them just a couple of minutes the first time. Build up their time on the machine gradually to avoid injury. Some recommend no more than 20-30 minutes per day on the walking machine.
You can also find machines that can elevate to create an incline, and also ones that force the dog into a run. Stick with the branded companies, so you're covered with any issues the machine may have, or as simple as needing to change the belt.
3 : RUNNING WITH YOUR DOG part one
If you can't justify the investment into a running machine, then running with your dog is an option. But just like people, not every dog is cut out for running for too long, so do all the previous steps first to build a good level of fitness. Also, before you lace up and head out the door, make sure that your pup has plenty of energy and isn't prone to joint pain or other health problems.
If you're both ready to start running together, take it slow at first. Start with a five-minute run and work your way up to longer distances. Always be on the lookout for dangers such as cars, bicycles, and other dogs.
4 : RUNNING WITH YOUR DOG part two
If you're looking for a more challenging workout, consider running with your dog in tow. Not all breeds can keep up with a human runner, so make sure that your pup is physically capable of completing the run.
Before you head out, train your dog to stay by your side while running. This can be done by walking them next to you and rewarding them when they stay close. Once they've mastered this skill, take them on short runs and gradually increase their distance over time.
A free gallop is a great way to let your dog just be a dog, sniffing and sprinting at will.
Finding a safe place for your dog to gallop is key. A large, fenced-in park with plenty of room to run is ideal, but make sure the area isn't too crowded and that your pup always has you within sight.
When you're first starting, keep an eye on your dog's behaviour. If they seem overwhelmed or start to chase after people or animals, it might be time to head back home.
And for greyhounds, particularly race dogs, a free gallop is a great way to break the monotony of the kennel life. Again, a large safe area to twist and turn is key. Using a ball or a football is also great to stimulate the dog, and this will also help with bonding and mental health.
Pretty much all pets won't have access to these facilities, so this is more for greyhound trainers. But for those outside of the greyhound industry, sprint lanes are generally 2 separate 100-150M x 3-5M side by side running lanes, covered in sand or sawdust or fine dirt. 1 dog is put into each lane at a time, and they run back and forth trying to outdo each other.
This is fine for gaining or maintaining general fitness, but each dog will only go as quick as the slowest of the two. We highly recommend trainers cease this type of training, and install a lure system in the middle of the lanes.
Our main reason for this, and yes, it's based on years of experience, is that you're teaching the dogs to chase each other. They need to be chasing a lure and not a tail. So at a minimum, you should be doing 80% solo with the lure and 20% with another dog without a lure, this will ensure your dogs chase properly at all times, particularly in a competition, trial or race. The same goes for whippet and lurcher trainers that use this method or similar to.
The added advantage of using a lure system in sprint lanes is the fact you'll be able to control each dog's workload, speed, tempo. As well as do focus training by stop/starting the lure to keep the focus at its peak. And by watching the one dog at a time, you'll pick up on lameness or anything related to soreness or a fresh injury, which will prevent more serious and possibly career-ending injuries in the future.
If you're lucky enough to have or to have access to a straight or slipping track, then here are some basics you can do to get fitter and chase harder.
Again, your pet or dog won't have access to these facilities, so this is more for greyhound trainers.
A straight track is a perfect place to teach your dog how to chase a lure at full speed, unlike in sprint lanes that are more stop and go. You can start by walking them down the track to get them familiar with it.
Once they're ready, start them on a short sprint on the lure system at around 200M, then increase their speed and distance gradually over time.
Eventually you'll have them over at least a short course distance for racing, but if space permits, go out as far as you can, even to 500M regardless if its a 400M dog, this isn't a race, it's building fitness and strength (condition).
In addition to fitness, you can add a starting box and practice jump outs and short 150M sprints to replicate 1st splits. Repeat it at least 3 times per session, but remember to correct the dogs box manners if need be.
This will bring them to full fitness, and if you don't have access to these facilities, then find a park, paddock, or a field to do the same thing, except you'll have to set up and pack up.
If you're near a park or have a paddock or large yard/field, then you'll really get more out of your dog!
This is great for getting your dog used to running around in open spaces. Start by walking them around the perimeter of the paddock or field. Once they've become comfortable, start them on a basic straight course with your lure system.
Then get creative to help build muscle and fitness, by setting up a course in different shapes.
And use longer distances or do more laps as the dog gets fitter, this will also increase the drive in the dog and those times will start coming down!
Walking and running dogs is the most common way to build fitness, but swimming is great for dogs with joint problems, or dogs coming back from injury.
Swimming is also a great way for dogs to get exercise without putting any strain on their joints. Not all breeds of dogs are good swimmers, so it's important to make sure that your dog knows how to doggy paddle before taking them into the pool. Some easy ways to teach your dog how to swim include walking them through shallow water and throwing toys or treats into the pool for them to fetch.
Dogs need regular exercise to stay healthy, and there are plenty of ways to provide that exercise. Whether you use a dog lure system, enroll them in canine fitness classes, or just let them play outside, your dog will thank you for it! And who knows - you might even have fun in the process!
Renegade Dog Lures offers the best products to help get any breed of dog fit while providing a lot of rewards along the way.
If you're still not sure how much exercise your dog needs, consult with your veterinarian. They will be able to help you create a personalized fitness plan for your pet based on their health and activity level.
Check us out on Facebook at Renegade Dog Lures too for more ideas!!!
Or if you'd like to discuss a training regime that involves one of our lure systems, then please contact us by phone, or email us email@example.com and we'll help create a plan for your dog.
Please comment and share if this was helpful. Thanks for reading.


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HPE outlines additional channel partner relief measures
HPE has outlined additional partner relief programs for those impacted by COVID-19.
The HPE Partner Ready program has suspended revenue target thresholds so partners can keep their eligibility for the 2021 program, as well as Aruba's Partner Ready for Networking Program.
According to HPE, this eases some of the financial pressure on partners so they can focus on business continuity.
"Our partners are at the core of HPE, so when they are facing potential challenges, it's our duty to step up and be a pillar of support," says HPE worldwide head of partner sales, Paul Hunter.
"Whether it's helping them drive business as usual, relieve financial pressure, or simply giving them peace of mind during this time, our aim is to have a thriving ecosystem better able to meet customer needs.
HPE Financial Services has also allocated $2 billion towards helping customers and partners.
Initiatives include providing liquidity for buying partners, virtual solutions for partner enablement, and hybrid IT solutions for partners and customers.
HPE aims to provide liquidity to partners, particularly in North America and Europe through early pay discount terms and factoring terms. The company has not stated whether these also apply to Asia Pacific partners.
The company has also suspended or reduced strategic development initiative targets in most geographies - however, this incentive does not apply to partners in Asia Pacific and China (APAC).
Hybrid IT solutions for partners and customers include the free-of-charge use of remote server management Integrated Lights-Out Advanced. It will be offered free for the remainder of 2020.
Additionally, HPE is working to support service provider partners by providing increased business continuity services to customers, via a centralised Spotlight page on Cloud28+.
HPE explains, "This new site provides customers with a means to quickly find the right HPE partner and cloud services capable of supporting their needs. Business continuity services could include, but are not limited to, remote working solutions, extra IT capacity, connectivity, and/or any other complementary offerings.
Partners can also use HPE GreenLake Quick Quote and targeted mid-market offers to support customers and their business challenges.
Finally, HPE expands its virtual solutions. In May, the company will launch a new sales enablement experiences called the HPE Sales Pro Learning Centre. This will assist sales leaders with developing skills needed to sell propositions and solutions.
Partners can continue to participate in exams, and virtual HPE events including the HPE Discover 2020 Digital Experience.

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Deadline: April 23, 2023
Applications are open for the IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship 2023. The Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship is a unique, transformative learning opportunity open to women and nonbinary journalists from every country around the world.
Since 2005, the IWMF has selected one Neuffer Fellow each year to complete a seven-month Fellowship focused on human rights and social justice issues. The Fellowship was created in memory of The Boston Globe correspondent and IWMF Courage in Journalism Award (1998) winner Elizabeth Neuffer, who died while reporting in Iraq on May 9, 2003.
Fellowship Details
Those selected for the Fellowship spend a semester at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Boston Globe. During their time in Cambridge, Neuffer Fellows audit a variety of classes, attend seminars and events, pursue independent research and gain newsroom experience. Neuffer Fellows are also able to audit classes at other local universities including Harvard.
After the semester, those selected for the Fellowship spend two months in New York City interning for the The New York Times. With the knowledge they gain from these academic and professional opportunities, fellows return to work as journalists in their home countries where they advance Elizabeth Neuffer's work in the fields of human rights and social justice.
- Neuffer Fellows receive a fixed monthly stipend to cover their living costs. The IWMF also arranges and covers the cost of housing in Cambridge and New York City for the fellow.
- The IWMF purchases round-trip economy airfare from the fellow's place of residence to the United States, as well as transportation between the Fellowship cities.
- The fellow receives health insurance during the program. The Fellowship does not include a salary.
- For fellows residing outside of the United States, the Fellowship also covers the costs of applying for and obtaining a U.S. visa. The fellow is fully responsible for any additional incidental expenses and other costs.
- Open to women, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming journalists whose work focuses on human rights and social justice issues.
- All applicants for the Neuffer Fellowship must be working journalists with at least three years of full-time, professional journalism experience. Internships and journalism-related work completed as a university student do not count as professional experience. Applicants may be staff or freelance journalists.
- Journalists from any country around the world are eligible to apply. However, applicants must speak, read and write English fluently in order to fully participate in and benefit from the Fellowship.
A complete application will include the following information:
- Biography
- Current résumé or CV
- Statement of interest
- Fellowship goals
- Two work samples covering human rights or social justice issues (links preferred)
- If work samples are not in English, applicants must upload their own translations along with a professional translator's assessment of their accuracy. Alternatively, applicants may have their work samples translated professionally.
- Two letters of recommendation (in English)
For more information, see FAQ and visit Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship.


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Here's the latest article from the Senior Travel site at BellaOnline.com.
Plan A Mystery Trip For A Friend
Want to do something really fun for that special gal pal? Plan a fun, and inexpensive, mystery getaway day.
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Have fun passing this message along to family and friends, because we all love free knowledge!
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On the 28th September 2017 engage2 and ANZ Smart Cities Council delivered an interactive workshop about Building Smart Communities event as part of the Open State program. The event was designed for government staff working in smart cities or smart governments who wanted to engage with people and organisations in their community to encourage smart, sustainable, resilient practices.
The focus of the event was on how Smart Cities and Smart Government's might understand, value and leverage the resources within their communities. We discussed how they might engage and work with the people and organisations that want to contribute, build connections and tap into the social networks that exist both online and offline in their communities and the social capital that is exchanged among them.
Our panel including Amelia Loye, Rebecca Rumbul (MySociety UK), Adam Beck (Smart Cities Council Aus. & NZ), Gail Fairlamb, Don Sharples, and Nigel Morris spoke to some of the way technologies were being used by governments across Australia, New Zealand, Europe and America to understand, engage and work with the communities they service.
Then participants shared their perspectives. Here is our write up of themes and tips discussed during the workshop.
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By Phil Brown
With the unpredictable appetite and wallet of a typical college student, I don't find myself planning out every meal too far in advance. When I'm on campus and I need food, I haven't always planned out my meal based on whatever food options are scheduled for that day. So when it's lunchtime and I left my brown paper bag at home, or if the urge to snack arises in between classes, I'm grateful for our UNO Food Services for providing such a wide variety of food options on both campuses and in several buildings.
But I do have one beef with UNO's campus food providers, or rather, it's an over-reliance on beef I take issue with. While the school does provide vegetarian options, and while I'm immensely grateful to the many delicious non-meaty items, they aren't consistent enough at providing those different varieties of foods, while foods containing meat are overrepresented.
That's right, I'm a vegetarian. The slightly more wishy-washy cousin of the dreaded vegan, I confess I'm only the former because I'm not brave enough to attempt vegan life in Nebraska. Having already forsworn meat, I feel like it would be tempting fate to swear off dairy as well. I would half-expect to be stoned to death by ruddy meat-filled cornhuskers at any moment as I wandered through the produce
aisles of specialty grocery stores.
Vegetarianism is a personal choice for me, but it's one I've made not based on an arbitrary taste, but for ethical and health reasons. Since it's unnecessary to eat meat to live a healthy life in our modern civilization, it appears to me that killing and eating animals is an arbitrary and destructive behavior. While I recognize my individual choice won't change entire industries centered around this behavior, it's something I've decided not to participate in on a personal scale.
I certainly don't judge those who eat meat, while I may disagree with them. In so many infinitesimal ways I participate in perpetuating the same industries that create the food they eat. There's not much difference between us in terms of our control over how many animals die for food. Choosing for myself not to directly ingest that food doesn't resuscitate a single animal.
But while I do my best not to judge meat-eaters, I should be able to expect a certain level of inclusion. There shouldn't be many barriers to a high level of vegetarian inclusion, for the simple reason that omnivores don't have moral objections to any part of a vegetarian diet, while vegetarians do hold moral or other objections to an omnivore diet. Providing for a vegetarian diet simultaneously provides for an omnivore's diet, so there's no conflict.
UNO's food providers have reached a level of inclusion that is almost great. But in my time at the university I've noticed that the vegetarian options are inconsistent between given days. One day there will be a vegetarian soup option, the next there won't. One day there'll be a black bean burger, the next I'll have to settle for a salad. It's a small quibble, but when I see my less-burdened classmates pandered to with a dizzying array of sizzling flesh, it seems the least I can ask for some consistency with my boring vegetables.


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ClariS Sings Tsukimonogatari's Ending Song With New Member
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Vol. 19 of the anime music magazine Lisani! announced on Saturday that the group ClariS is relaunching with the new member Karen. The group is returning with "border," a new single which will go on sale on January 7, 2015. It will be the ending theme song of the Tsukimonogatari television anime, which will premiere in one four-episode marathon on December 31.
The duo — Karen and continuing member Clara — will then perform at the "Lisani! Live-5" festival at Tokyo's Nippon Budōkan arena on January 25. This will be the first time that ClariS — in either incarnation — has taken part at a music festival, and only the second time they have sung in front of people in public (after this past January's "2014 New Year's Festival Hajimari no Yokan…")
Alice, a former member of ClariS, left the group to focus on her studies earlier this year. However, Clara then promised that ClariS is not disbanding.
The duo ClariS debuted in 2010 as middle-schoolers with their single "irony," which served as the opening theme to the Ore no Imōto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai TV anime. From there, they performed the theme songs for the Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV anime and films, as well as the themes for Moyashimon Returns and Nisemonogatari. ClariS also performed the theme song for the Akiba's Trip PlayStation Portable game. More recently, the duo provided two theme songs for the Nisekoi anime.
The duo had made one live performance at that New Year's Festival, but they were only visible as silhouettes behind a curtain to their fans during the concert. Instead, ClariS is normally illustrated as anime characters by various artists, including Akio Watanabe, Ume Aoki, and Hiro Kanzaki. Alice is portrayed in the color blue, while Clara is represented by the color pink. (Karen appears in the picture above with Clara.)
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SAP NetWeaver Gateway and Duet Enterprise Story Sharing from InnoJam Madrid
We just finished supporting the TechEd InnoJam in Madrid with several Gateway and Duet experts. Here are some highlights:
André Fischer introducing the NetWeaver Gateway experts and talking about how simple it is to use the Service Build to expose SAP data
Microsoft introducing Windows 8 at the InnoJam and encouraging participants to develop Windows 8 apps leveraging NetWeaver Gateway
Microsoft brought quite a few interesting looking Windows 8 devices with them to the InnoJam. They are just waiting to consume NetWeaver Gateway Odata feeds.
Several InnoJam groups used Windows 8 as the frontend technology and one team leveraged the SAP NetWeaver Gateway solution. To everyone's surprise the InnoJam had 2 winning teams:
- Team 2: WeCare – Team Caring Neighbors makes your daily life social with WeCare – carpooling, shopping, homework, barbecues, you name it
- Team 6: Park-It – Team Park-it creates the app that helps you park cheaper and find your car faster!
Outlook for Tue
We are looking forward to Tue where NetWeaver Gateway and Duet Enterprise will have several exciting sessions at SAPPHIRE and TechEd Madrid.
Also our demo pods will be open starting Tue where you can see the latest demo applications and get the first hand information from our experts.
- Gateway and Duet demo pod: D&T campus DT502
- Hana demo pod: show Gateway and Hana integration demo on D&T campus Analytics on Hana table
CD160 – SAP Netweaver Gateway development for beginners
Tue 2 – 4 PM H2, NCC
In this hands-on session Chris Whealy and Andre Fischer will guide you through the process of building an end-to-end solution that exposes SAP Business Suite data as an Open Data Protocol (OData) service which will then be consumed via a Web user interface (UI). The new SAP NetWeaver Gateway Service Builder provides both experienced and less experienced developers with an easy-to-use set of tools for creating services.
TEC107 – SAP NetWeaver Gateway Overview – Road Map and Strategy
Tue 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm L7, Hall 7
You want to learn more about the future of SAP NetWeaver Gateway. Then this session is for you. This session will be conducted by Martin Bachmann from the SAP NetWeaver Gateway solution management.
CD824 – Q&A – Road Map for SAP NetWeaver Gateway is the Q&A session that is related to our roadmap and strategy session TEC107.
Tue 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Q&A, Hall 8
For more upcoming SAPPHIRE and TechEd Madrid sessions around Duet and Gateway please check out the 2 blogs
1) SAP NetWeaver Gateway at SAP TechEd in Madrid
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You are hereDenali Climb
Denali Climb
We were now in the halls of the gods. Mt. Foraker, 17,600', loomed
ahead of us, 14,000' Mt. Hunter towered above us to the right, and up
the enormous Kahiltna Valley, in the distance, slightly to the right,
was our destination: Denali, at 20,320'. In all directions was white
and grey--there was no green in sight. We flew past Hunter, turned to
the right, and saw a few specks in the snow, and a line coming down
that fork, turning, and making its way up the main fork out into the
distance. Soon the specks were tents, and the landing strip became
apparent, and then we were on it, landing with power, going uphill.
Doug gunned the engine until we were at the top of the strip, then cut
power and turned the plane around. We still had some speed: skis don't
have brakes, so he turned sideways again, and a few bystanders came and
stopped the plane, keeping it from sliding back down the runway while
we unloaded.
While we were packing up at base camp, a journalist from the Wall Street Journal came up to us, asking questions of first-time climbers of Denali. "What do you think of the proposed climbing/rescue fee?" he asked, referring to a park service decision to charge all climbers $200 to cover rescue expenses. "Have you ever done any other major climbing expeditions?" he asked Jeff.
"Well, we've all done some smaller climbs, but nothing on this scale," answered Jeff.
"What makes you think you're ready to climb Denali?" He kept asking somewhat aggressive questions, as if we were incompetent.
"Please don't step on our rope," I interjected. It was a verbal bop on the nose that caught him off guard. We finished packing and left.
Two hours later, we were at the lowest point of the ascent, 6,600' on the main fork of the Kahiltna, each of us with 70 pounds on our backs and another 70 on the sleds dragging behind us, attached to each other with the green rope that would be our umbilical cord for the next 18 days. Only 13,720' and 19 miles to the top! I was in front, Jeff took the middle, and Fred took up the rear. In no time we reached the bottom of the South East Fork, that we had landed on. We had no desire to stay at Base Camp, with the 60 or so people hanging out there. So that evening found us at 7,200' on the main fork of the Kahiltna, enjoying a Jello Cherry cheesecake.
What was it like up there? It is hard to describe the Kahiltna to someone who has never traveled on a glacier. When I tell people what it was like to grow up in Bush Alaska, describing life without flush toilets, electricity, television, and telephones, they look at me like I came from another planet. Yet it was natural and comfortable to me at the time, not a great hardship. Imagine trying to describe rush hour and car trouble to a bush African who had only seen a car once or twice. This is the challenge I'm confronted with, trying to describe what it was like. The lower mountain was so easy, yet so overwhelming. We were in a land where humans are alien, yet small songbirds and ravens frequented our camps, and staying alive seemed easy, automatic. Get up, melt snow, cook breakfast, melt more snow. By the time most of the water bottles were full, our camp was mostly packed up. Trudge uphill for a while, drink, ski more, take a break and munch, ski some more. After maybe 6 hours on the trail, find a dug out platform, pitch the tent, and start melting snow. I'm a snow melter. What do you do?
Our third day we were tent-bound, as a blizzard howled around us. Behind our snow walls we were protected from the brunt of the wind, but as the night progressed, the tent got smaller and smaller as drifting snow packed in the walls. Every couple of hours somebody had to go out and shovel, to keep us from getting buried. That was about the coldest I got the entire trip--because it was so warm. It was right around freezing, and the snow melted on everything it touched, so everything was wet. As we went up, it got colder and drier, so that even at 17,000', when it was twenty below, we were warmer than we were in that blizzard.
Those first few days alternated between sunny and stormy, changing every couple of hours. We were caught in a blizzard as we reached 10,000', just below Kahiltna pass, and floundered around a while looking for a trail. Eventually another group passed us and we followed them, and suddenly, at 10,500', we popped out into sunshine. That evening we camped at 11,000', and it was incredible to see the end of the West Buttress and all the high peaks around us in bright sunshine, while the Kahiltna below was filled in with clouds.
Eleven was our first taste of the crowds of Denali. Since leaving Base camp, we had seen other groups, and passed many camps, but had managed to camp alone, far from other groups, with at most only one other tent for company. But Eleven, at the base of Motorcycle Hill, was a small city of 30 to 40 tents. It was the end of the leisurely ski up the glacier. From here, most teams cache their skis or snowshoes, and switch to crampons and ice-axes. It was the beginning of the climb. But since we planned to go out a different way than we were going in, we had to carry everything with us, up and over Denali Pass. Up to Eleven, we had brought everything in a single trip. Now, with our skis on our backs, we started double-carrying. One day we would carry our skis and extra food most of the way to the next camp, and go back down. The next, we would pack up our camp and move it up. The day after that, we would go back down for our cache, making an easy day.
Our trip was almost ended as we packed up camp at Eleven. We were melting snow for the last of our bottles, we had removed the stakes and fly from the tent. Jeff and Fred were stuffing things in their packs, and I was taking a leak. I looked up to see a whirlwind of snow headed right towards me. I clenched and stopped painfully midstream as the gust hit me. I turned to see it pick up the tent, lift it up over our 4 foot snow walls, and send it tumbling down the slope. Jeff and I took off after it, running as hard as we could through the soft snow, hoping there wasn't an undiscovered crevasse as we hadn't roped up.
Fortunately, about a hundred feet downhill, it tumbled right into somebody else's camp, hitting a climber on the head, but he had enough sense to grab hold before it could go any further.
As Eleven was a turning point from skiing to climbing, Fourteen was an even more distinct transition. Up to Fourteen, the trip was surprisingly easy. All it took was some basic winter camping skills, and knowing how to use the rope for crevasse rescues and the like. Only it was easier than most Alaskan winter camping trips; it was light out 24 hours a day, and warm. During our rest days, the inside of the tent reached at least 70 degrees, plenty warm enough to dry everything out and lounge in comfort. At fourteen, we could definitely feel the altitude in our shortness of breath, and mild headaches every now and then.
But now the serious, difficult part of the climb was about to begin. We had agreed at the start of the trip, that we would consider it a success if we made it as far as Fourteen; after that are too many factors beyond our control. Right behind the camp an enormous wall of snow rose up to the rocky ridge another 2,000' up. The top 600' was ice, ranging from 35 to 50 degrees steep, the infamous headwall of the West Buttress. 14,200' was in an enormous bowl, a prominent step half-way up the mountain. Above Fourteen, the climb became somewhat more technical, but far more strenuous. The altitude becomes dangerous to those who don't take the time to acclimate, and some people are physically unable to acclimate. And the weather becomes much more severe, with temperatures reaching 40 below, the massif pushing into the jet stream, and little shelter from the wind. Above fourteen, the climb turned hard-core.
This demarcation point was marked by over a hundred tents, over two hundred people camped in one section of the large bowl. The Park Service had a medical station at the far edge of camp, where volunteers lived in Weatherports. The day we arrived, they had located the second of two Koreans who had died in a storm while climbing an icewall next to the headwall--without proper clothing. The body was dangling from an ice axe, holding a radio in his free hand.
Fourteen was the most amazing place, a kaleidoscope of experiences, of people. It had the most magnificent throne, a plywood affair at the lower edge of camp. It was warm, the seat made from a blue-foam pad. The virgin white snow gradually dropped away in front of you, down a mile and a half to the Kahiltna glacier and valley, extending out in to the distance. Foraker still loomed on the other side of the valley, the only thing above the horizon, rugged ridges cloaked with snowy glaciers, the rays of the setting sun turning the north-facing slopes bright orange. Fire on the mountain. And to the left, you looked across the abyss at Hunter, at about the same height as the camp. Everything else was down.
The day after we arrived at Fourteen was the first day of good weather for a week. As we went down to our cache, our neighbors, taking a rest day, counted over a hundred people on the headwall and the snowfield leading up to it--at one time. There were Koreans, Japanese, Germans, Canadians, Swiss, French, Britons, Australians. The Americans almost seemed a minority. There were groups from Colorado, Montana, Minnesota. People in guided groups of 10 or 12, and people climbing by themselves. One solo German thought it was warm at fourteen, wandering around camp in his shorts as he washed his long underwear. The Womanclimb expedition, raising money for breast-cancer research (aka the Babes for Boobs) was there, waiting for good weather to continue. Adrian the crazy Romanian was trying to ski the Wickersham Wall, a 12,000' wall on the North side of the mountain, dropping from the top of the north peak to the Peters Glacier. but got weathered out, but Tyson and John managed to do it anyway, the first time it had ever been skied. And after two days rest at Fourteen, Tyson decided he still had energy, so he climbed up the Messner Couloir and skied back down in a single day--another 5,000' of vertical.
People moving up the headwall were ants in the distance, tiny specks. Every now and then somebody would turn off the sun. The clouds rushing by overhead covered and uncovered the sun faster than your eyes could adjust; it was just like throwing a light-switch.
But the most incredible thing about fourteen was, like the rest of the mountain, the sheer thrill of just being there. Here we were, perched on the side of the largest mountain on the continent, in an environment totally hostile to man, yet we were able to meet all our requirements for living with the contents of our backpacks. We were 7,000' higher than where we started, more than a mile and a quarter of vertical climbing, and we were in the midst of a crowd. Yet everyone in the crowd had gotten there under their own power, had overcome the same challenges, endured the same weather. It was easy to make friends, a friendly place to be. After 5 days of carrying loads, resting, and acclimating, I was still reluctant to leave, knowing the hard part was yet to come.
My most difficult moment of the trip was trying to climb the headwall, sled attached to the back of the pack, skis towering over my head, impatient Germans passing us on the fixed line. It took us three hours just to reach the fixed lines at the bottom of the ice, some 1400' above the camp. There, two ropes were anchored to the ice, supposedly one for going up, and the other for coming down. Climbers attach themselves to the lines using an ascender, a mechanical device that slides one way on the rope, and locks up in the other direction. So as you make your way up, you keep sliding the ascender along, and then if you fall, it keeps you from going anywhere.
The problem is, you're not supposed to trust the fixed line--hundreds of people have used them, and there's no telling how many people have stepped on them with the sharp points of their crampons, or stressed the rope by falling on it already. So, essentially, you have to do the steepest part of the whole climb without being able to use one hand (the one holding the ascender). And, it being the most difficult stretch, above the most crowded camp, it forms a bottleneck through which nearly everyone climbs, so you end up waiting for people to negotiate tricky parts ahead of you, while people behind glare impatiently at you. A large group of Europeans couldn't wait, so they started passing us, unclipping and scrambling around us, then clipping in again just ahead of us, forcing us to wait for them. My hands, in my light gloves, were cold. I needed to add another layer. I was starving. I had everything I needed to solve these problems on my back, but there was no way to remove my pack on the 45 degree slope. My Walkman, clipped to my shoulder strap, decided it had had enough, so it decided to leave. It hopped off my pack, hit the ice about 10 feet below me, bounced into the air, hit the ice again, flew open ejecting the tape and batteries, and tumbled down, down, down, as the warning sounds of an oriental team below us drifted back up: "Walkaman! Walkaman! Walkaman!" I was ready to quit right there.
But it was easier to just keep on going, than to try to figure out how to inch back down with our loads. I gritted my teeth, bowed down, and grunted on, trying to ignore the tingles in my fingers and the pit in my stomach.
Finally, we reached the top of the headwall, at 16,200'. We were finally on the actual West Buttress, a ridge coming down from the summit. Fourteen was straight below us, while the other side dropped off just as steeply to the Peters Glacier. Right at the crest was a series of snow-walls where people had dug themselves in, one of the prettiest--and most exposed--camps on the mountain. Stuck in the top of one of the blocks of snow was the tape from my suicidal Walkman!
From here we would walk up the rocky ridge to the Crow's Nest, at 17,200'. That ridge was my favorite part of the ascent. It was easy, but exposed on both sides. I felt giddy walking it, like walking up the neck of a brontosaurus. After the headwall, I was totally excited, and beginning to think we might make it. By that point, I would sooner carry all our stuff over Denali pass and out the Muldrow, than take our skis back down that miserable headwall.
The Crow's Nest was the high camp for the climb, and reaching it made us feel truly privileged. It was quiet compared to Fourteen--instead of hundreds of people, there were 15-20 tents in all. The headwall turned out to be a filter that only allowed the determined through; many people never made it any further. The mood at seventeen was a mellow euphoria--it was amazing to think that we only had another 3,000' to the top. We looked across at Foraker, at about the same altitude, and down on Hunter and everything else. It was totally unbelievable, just to be there. But it was also very taxing. It was cold, it was very hard to move anywhere without becoming breathless. My head throbbed the whole first day up there, our pulses were racing. It was a workout just to climb in and out of the sleeping bag.
The day after we arrived at seventeen was beautiful: clear, calm, and cold. Knowing we may not get a better day to summit, we decided to go for it, even though we hadn't retrieved our cache at 16,200'. But as we started climbing to Denali Pass, we started seeing snow blowing through the pass, and clouds moving up from below. Other groups were coming down, saying it wasn't worth the frostbite they were sure to incur if they continued. Both Jeff and I had splitting headaches, and had to stop every fifty feet or so to gather strength. So before we even made it halfway to the pass, we turned around and went back down, collected our cache, and rested the rest of the day. The next day, the weather had moved in. It was foggy, blowing about 30 miles an hour, and snowing. The weather report called for another 3 or 4 days of the same, so half of the people up there decided to retreat back to fourteen, or quit altogether, figuring there wouldn't be another summit day that week. We had everything with us, though, and I was determined to not go back down that damned headwall, so we decided to wait.
Unexpectedly, that very night the wind died and everything cleared up. At midnight it was incredibly beautiful out--we almost left for the summit then. But we slept fitfully, deciding we would wait for daylight, and left around 10 in the morning, the earliest start of our whole trip.
It was a magical day. Foraker and Hunter were islands in a sea of clouds that stretched as far as we could see. The air was crisp, the sky bright. We packed up our skis and five days of food, and climbed the 1,000' to Denali Pass, the highest point we had to go with all our gear. At 18,200', Denali Pass is a narrow gap between the North Summit, at 19,600', and the South Summit, at 20,320'. It is the top of the Harper Glacier, which flows out to the north, down which we would descend. As we cached our stuff, we were so excited: it would now be easier to continue down the North side than to go back the way we came. At least one of our two goals was pretty much assured. Now, to make it to the top! With nearly empty packs, we started climbing the ridge to our right. It was here that Jeff had his weakest moment of the trip. Fred was strong, determined to make it to the top no matter what. I had a raging headache from the altitude, felt slightly dizzy, and almost a little nauseous. But my legs were still moving, and I wasn't about to quit this close to the top so long as I could still put one foot in front of the other. But Jeff I think was feeling so overwhelmed and amazed at just making it that far, that he felt ready to turn around. A pair of climbers passed us descending, retreating because one was practically delirious. Jeff asked to rope in with them, and at first the guide agreed, but then he changed his mind, saying he had his hands full. So we took a break, ate and drank all we could, and rested. Soon we were ready to go, and Jeff felt a lot better.
At 19,600', we crested a small rise, and arrived at the football field. It surprised all of us--here, so high on the mountain, was a huge flat plain, a quarter mile across and probably close to a mile long. And just across from us was the summit ridge, rising straight off the bottom, the final 700 feet. By this point, we were nearly screaming. We took off our packs, put on every single piece of clothing we had, and started climbing up to the ridge. Here the snow was deep and loose--it was incredibly hard work to move. I had to stop to catch my breath every other step, but with the summit in sight I knew I was going to make it eventually.
And then we were on the ridge. Temples pounding, eyeballs bursting, world lurching, I felt like I was in the middle of the world's worst hangover. Every tug on the rope sent a lance of pain through my forehead. We strolled gingerly up the ridge, the final quarter mile and 200 feet to the top. I was screaming, jumping up and down, totally excited no matter how much it made my head hurt. And at 7:00 pm, Tuesday, May 31, 1994, on the fifteenth day of our trip, we were standing on the highest point on the continent.
Nothing obstructed our view in any direction. To the south, everything was clear, but it was somewhat hazy. We could make out the Chulitna river, and the Susitna, but beyond about sixty miles we could not make out any detail. To the north, all the ridges stuck out, but every valley was filled with cloud. It was around twenty below, with a very slight breeze of less than 10 miles an hour. About as perfect a summit day as anyone could hope for.
The next day, we packed up our camp, climbed back over Denali Pass, leaving the crowds of the West Buttress for the solitude of the Muldrow route. The whole descent we saw only four other parties, spread out across 35 miles, a total of 13 people, compared to probably 600 people we had seen on the climb. From here on, the trip took on a totally different character--it was now a leisurely hike with incredibly heavy packs, our minds focused on two things: pizza and beer. We started each day between noon and 2 pm, and hiked until after midnight. The first day, we travelled the length of the Harper, down its two stairsteps, the steps of the gods, eventually reaching Brown's Tower, at the top of Karsten's Ridge. From there we caught our first glimpse of our destination, Wonder Lake, still over 30 miles away, and 12,000' below. At that point, the entire Harper glacier tumbles over a cliff, down 4,000 feet to the Muldrow glacier. To get around this icefall, we descended Karsten's ridge, a narrow spur that drops out of the sky--we descended the 4,000 feet in two miles. To our left, the ridge dropped straight down to the Muldrow, to our right, it dropped even steeper and further to the Traleika glacier. The soft, unbroken snow made it easy to descend, but going around some of the cornices was pretty frightening. On one we had to back down, and when I looked between my feet I could see rocks and ice some 6 or 7,000' below. Don't slip now!
For a while on the ridge, the fog moved in and we could see nothing but the ridge directly in front of us. We were going down a strip of marshmallow in a giant bowl of cotton.
On the Muldrow came Fred's worst moment of the trip. We were back on our skis, finally, and cruising down the glacier. We came to the Great Icefall, the first of two icefalls on the Muldrow, and as we weaved our way through giant blocks of ice, over narrow bridges crossing enormous crevasses, Fred's skis kept falling off. I thought the fury in Fred's cussing would melt the snowbridges we were standing on. But there was nothing to be done about his ancient, defective bindings but keep on moving, keep on putting the things back on.
We reached McGonagall Pass on our 18th day, leaving behind the alien environment of ice and rock, and re-entering the land of life, plants, animals, and spring. Finally, we could safely travel without being roped together. For the final 19 miles across the tundra, instead of all being within 150 feet of each other, we spread out for miles. We would go for hours without seeing each other; after 18 days of absolutely no privacy, each of us relished being alone. Upper Cache creek was incredibly beautiful, especially after the barrens we had just left. Green, everywhere. A few wildflowers were starting to emerge. The sound of water running down the creek. Warm, dry ground. The smells of the tundra, so strong we could taste it.
But our packs were the packs from hell. Loaded with skis, sleds, ropes, crampons, ice axes, tents, bags, and all our winter camping gear, each must have weighed over a hundred pounds, towering over our heads, bigger than we were. I couldn't even put mine on without the assistance of another person, or a ledge or tree branch. Our hips and shoulders became extremely tender and bruised. Jeff developed huge blisters on the bottoms of his feet, due to the plastic climbing boots that do not flex as you walk. We were walking through paradise while moving in agony.
The McKinley river was our final obstacle, but proved to be an easy crossing, not getting much deeper than our knees. The glacier-cold water felt great when it seeped into our hot, pain-inflicting boots. Once across the half-dozen or so channels, we only had a two mile hike up to Wonder Lake.
That last two miles was the worst two miles of the trip. It was hot, and extremely buggy. Halfway through, I lost the trail, and started bush-whacking through the alder and willow, getting eaten alive, my skis catching on every tree. Jeff, a quarter mile behind, saw me and followed, the wrong way. And Fred was so far behind he didn't know which way to go.
Finally, after a half-hour of straining, sweating, and cursing, I stumbled out to the road--not 50 feet from the trailhead. I dropped the pack from hell, ran back along the trail, and collected everybody. Whew! We had done it!
Our twenty day trip was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, but also perhaps the most rewarding. When I look up at Denali now, I still can barely believe that I stood up there, right on the very top. I feel very fortunate to have made it, when so many others do not, just because the weather didn't cooperate. Our trip was charmed from the start. No frostbite, no injuries, not even any really close calls. Just bruises, blisters, and a new sense of confidence, of determination.
After the trip, I didn't wear shoes or socks for a whole week.
-- John Locke


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By Rail
The train journey from London, Liverpool Street station to the city of Chelmsford takes about 40 minutes, with 3-4 trains running per hour.
You can then get a taxi or catch a bus:
First , number C4 - to Writtle Village Green which is approximately 10 minutes' walk from the main campus.
By Car
We are 15 minutes drive from the M25 with ample parking on site for students and visitors.
Route map (PDF)
By Air
London Stansted, London's third airport, is only a 35 minute drive from Writtle with cheap flights to many EU destinations. Heathrow and Gatwick are also easily accessible via the M25 (90 minute drive).
By Coach
A regular coach service is available to the city of Chelmsford bus station from London and all three major London airports (Stansted, Heathrow & Gatwick).
Writtle Village
Writtle is one of the most attractive villages in Essex. Set around a quiet village green, there are specialist shops, traditional pubs and period houses which all contribute to its picturesque image.
Just 3 km / 2 miles from the University College lies the city of Chelmsford and the county town of Essex. There has been a market town here since the 12th century, and the city has continued to grow in size resulting today in a population of over 155,000. Just 40 minutes into London by train, Chelmsford is a busy commercial and shopping centre. All the major high street chains are present plus a variety of speciality shops. As well as a vast range of pubs, eating places and leisure facilities.
Other attractions include an ice skating rink and leisure centre, three museums, a multi-screen cinema and two theatres, not to mention the Cathedral, the home ground of Essex County Cricket Club, city centre parks and riverside walks. With the 500 acre Hylands Park and House just outside the city, there's something for everyone!
To find out more about Chelmsford, visit the Borough Council website at: www.chelmsfordgov.uk
The ancient county of Essex is a place of towns and villages, seaside resorts, sailing centres, river walks and commercial ports. The landscape has provided the inspiration for many famous artists, including the celebrated painters John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and Francis Bacon. Rural Essex is a place of quiet country lanes, historic castles, period houses and ancient woodlands.
Throughout the year visitors can enjoy a range of interesting events or visit one of the permanent attractions. In particular between May and July the 'Essex Festival of the Countryside' brings together a whole host of events including steam train rallies, flower festivals, open air concerts and fetes. For more information about what Essex has to offer see the Essex County Council website at: www.essex.gov.uk
The Campus
Writtle University College is 50 km / 30 miles north-east of central London. We are situated 3 km west of Chelmsford, the county town of Essex, in an attractive estate of approximately 150 hectares in the historic village of Writtle.


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Automating Tracing Functions with PowerShell
At times, it may be advantageous for you to automate certain Message Analyzer functions that enable you to do the following:
Utilize enhancements to the manner in which you start and stop traces, for example, with various types of triggers such as a time trigger or process trigger.
Gain control over the type of trace that you run, for example, a linear or circular trace.
Run traces while you are focusing on other high-priority issues.
To enable these scenarios, Message Analyzer provides you with the capability to automate the capture of network messages through PowerShell scripting. Message Analyzer makes this feature available by providing PowerShell commandlets (cmdlets) that programmatically expose PEF message tracing functionality in the PowerShell scripting environment. Other supporting configuration capabilities are also provided in the PowerShell environment to facilitate some basic Trace Session configuration, including automation triggers that define how and when Trace Sessions are started and stopped.
What You Will Learn
In the topics of this section that are listed below, you will learn about the PowerShell automation features that are available for Message Analyzer.
Encapsulating Tracing Functionality — learn what types of tracing functions you an automate with PowerShell.
Using PowerShell Cmdlets — review the functions of the PowerShell cmdlets that can work with Message Analyzer.
Examining a PowerShell Script Example — look over the code for a PowerShell script example that does the following:
Creates a trace session object that is configured for circular capture mode.
Specifies a message provider that will capture the data.
Adds a TCP trace filter that is applied 150 seconds after the trace session starts.
Creates a time trigger that defines when the session will start and a keyboard key stroke that defines how the session will stop.
Specifies a file name and path where trace data is stored when the session is stopped.
Accessing PowerShell Cmdlets and Help — learn how to obtain the latest version of PEF cmdlet Help.
Before you run any PEF PowerShell cmdlets, ensure that you update the PEF PowerShell cmdlet help for Message Analyzer, as described in Accessing PowerShell Cmdlets and Help.
Encapsulating Tracing Functionality
The pre-configured PowerShell commandlets (cmdlets) that are available for Message Analyzer enable you to do the following:
Configure new Trace Sessions.
Specify a message provider for your Trace Session.
Run Trace Sessions in circular capture mode.
Apply a Trace Filter to your Trace Session configuration by specifying a predefined or custom filter expression.
Specify the following types of triggers that can start and stop a Message Analyzer Trace Session, or perform other functions:
Event Log
Win32 Events
Receive notification when a particular condition is met, for example, when an event triggers Message Analyzer to start a Trace Session or when a Trace Session stops.
Save a message data collection in the file system.
Using PowerShell Cmdlets
The following PowerShell cmdlets automate several Message Analyzer functions so that you can streamline your network problem solving tasks, gain more control over tracing functions, and achieve better time management. The cmdlets enable you to configure, start, stop, and save data for Trace Sessions and to specify trigger events that invoke or respond to these actions, as described below.
Action scripts:
Invoke-PefCustomAction — enables you to run a PowerShell script block that invokes PEF actions. You must specify the script block you want to run and a trigger for the actions it invokes. When the trigger occurs, such as a specified date-time to start or stop a Trace Session, the specified script block is invoked. The script block can contain any custom script necessary to perform custom PEF actions, for example, a script that stops a Trace Session and sends an email at that time. To learn more about script blocks, you can invoke
Get-Help about_script_blocksat the PowerShell command line.
Save-PefDataCollection — enables you to save a collection of messages from a Trace Session. You must specify the session you want to save and the file path for the data. You can also specify a trigger that activates the save action when a Trace Session completes, so that you can save all messages currently contained in the session. You can also save a specified number of bytes so that you can analyze the data without stopping the Trace Session.
Set-PefTraceFilter — enables you to override the Trace Filter that you specified in a Trace Session object that you originally created with the New-PefTraceSession cmdlet. You can specify a string value for the Trace Filter and the target Trace Session as parameters of the Set-PefTraceFilter cmdlet. If you use the Set-PefTraceFilter to specify a Trace Filter, it will override any filtering value that you specified with the Filter parameter of the New-PefTraceSession cmdlet. If you do not specify a trigger for the override action, the Trace Filter that you specify will take effect immediately. However, if you do specify a trigger, you can control the point in time at which the Trace Filter is applied in the Trace Session. For example, you can set the Filter parameter of the New-PefTraceSession cmdlet to a specific value and then use the New-PefTimeSpanTrigger cmdlet to specify a time span after which a Trace Filter configured by the Set-PefTraceFilter cmdlet is inserted into the PEF Runtime component parsing and filtering processes.
When you start a Trace Session with the Start-PefTraceSession cmdlet, the Trace Filter that you specify with the Set-PefTraceFilter cmdlet functions the same way as any other Trace Filter configured in the Message Analyzer UI. The Set-PefTraceFilter cmdlet also returns the target session to enable pipelining.
If you specify a file-based data source (such as a log file) as the message provider when creating a Trace Session with the New-PefTraceSession cmdlet, any filter that you specify with the Set-PefTraceFilter cmdlet will act as a Trace Filter.
Start-PefTraceSession — enables you to start a Message Analyzer Trace Session and to specify a trigger for the startup action. Start-PefTraceSession acts as an entry point for message processing. If you do not specify a trigger, Start-PefTraceSession initiates a processing loop where no other PowerShell cmdlets or functions are executed until the loop ends. If the Start-PefTraceSession cmdlet has a trigger, it will start a message processing loop only when that trigger is fired. When a message processing loop terminates, all active Trace Sessions are stopped. You can stop a Trace Session by invoking the Stop-PefTraceSession cmdlet, which causes Start-PefTraceSession to exit the processing loop. This cmdlet also returns the target session to enable pipelining.
Stop-PefTraceSession — provides the means to define how you will stop a specified Trace Session. When the session is stopped, it is terminated and the PEF Runtime state is cleaned up. You can also use this cmdlet to define the trigger action that stops a specified Trace Session, which you configure prior to starting the Trace Session. To store the data retrieved in the Trace Session, you can specify values for the
SaveOnStopparameter when creating a Trace Session with the New-PefTraceSession cmdlet, or you can use the Save-PefDataCollection cmdlet to specify where to store retrieved data.
When you write a PowerShell script, you typically specify the Stop_PefTraceSession cmdlet before the Start-PefTraceSession cmdlet, because the Trace Session will start as soon as you hit return at the PowerShell command line after specifying the Start-PefTraceSession cmdlet.
Trigger scripts:
New-PefDateTimeTrigger — enables you to create a date-time trigger that you can use to start a Trace Session, stop a Trace Session, or inject a Trace Filter into the Trace Session at a specific time. When you associate a date-time trigger with a PEF action, the computer where the Trace Session will run sets a timer that triggers the specified PEF action when the trigger is activated.
New-PefKeyDownTrigger — enables you to create a trigger action based on keyboard input, by pressing a key that you specify with the
–Keyparameter. Note that the
Ctl+Ckeyboard combination is no longer supported as a trigger for this cmdlet. You can use a specified keystroke trigger to start or stop a Trace session. When you associate this trigger with a PEF action, the PEF action occurs when the trigger fires on the computer where the Trace Session is running.
New-PefMessageTrigger — provides the means to create a message trigger that you can use to start, stop, save, or filter a PEF Trace Session, for example, based on a captured message type. When you associate this trigger with a PEF action, the PEF action occurs when the trigger fires on the computer where the Trace Session is running.
New-PefProcessTrigger — enables you to create a process trigger that starts a Trace Session when a process exits. For example, you might start a Trace Session after a started executable process has finished running. When you associate this trigger with a PEF action, the PEF action occurs when the trigger fires on the computer where the Trace Session is running.
New-PefTimeSpanTrigger — enables you to create a timer trigger that fires after a specified time span. You can use this timer trigger to start, stop, or add a Trace Filter to a Trace Session when a specified interval of time elapses.
New-PefEventLogTrigger — enables you to create a trigger that fires when an entry is created in the Windows Event Log.
New-PefWin32EventTrigger — enables you to create a trigger that fires when a Win32 Event object is set.
Miscellaneous scripts:
Add-PefMessageProvider — enables you to add one or more message providers to a specified Trace Session object that you create with the New-PefTraceSession cmdlet. A message provider can be a PEF message provider such as the Microsoft-Pef-WFP-MessageProvider, a system ETW provider, or even a file-based message source such as a log file.
Add-PefMessageSource — enables you to add various message sources to a PEF Trace Session. You can specify any of the following types of message sources for this cmdlet:
A saved file as a message source in a Data Retrieval Session, for example, a .cap or .matp file.
A log file as a message source in a Data Retrieval Session, for example, an event log (.etl) or a text log (.log) file.
When specifying a text log as input to a Data Retrieval Session, you can also specify a text log configuration file for parsing the log.
Manifest-based PEF message providers such as the Microsoft-PEF-WFP-MessageProvider or Microsoft-PEF-NDIS-PacketCapture provider, as a message source in a Live Trace Session.
Manifest-based system ETW providers such as the Microsoft-Windows-Dhcp-Client as a message source in a Live Trace Session.
The object created by the Add-PefProviderConfig cmdlet can also serve as input to the Add-PefMessageSource cmdlet.
Add-PefProviderConfig — enables you to add a provider to the configuration of a Live Trace Session that targets a remote host, by specifying the friendly provider name (not a GUID).
The provider configuration is accessible by using the object that this cmdlet creates, from where you can configure provider error levels, event keywords, filters, and other provider-specific options for providers such as the Microsoft-Windows-NDIS-PacketCapture, Microsoft-Pef-WebProxy, and Microsoft-Pef-WFP-MessageProvider.
New-PefTraceSession — enables you to create a Trace Session object that captures live data or retrieves stored messages, for example, from a log file. You can specify whether to capture data in circular or linear mode to control how much data is held in the Trace Session. You can also configure a Trace Filter to focus the data retrieval action on messages that meet specific filtering criteria. If you want to save the data to a file after the Trace Session is stopped, you can do so by specifying the SaveOnStop parameter. For each Trace Session that you configure, you must add the message provider you want to use, such as the Microsoft-Pef-NDIS-PacketCapture or Microsoft-Pef-WFP-MessageProvider, by specifying it with the Add-PefMessageProvider cmdlet. To start and stop the Trace Session, you can use the Start-PefTraceSession and Stop-PefTraceSession, respectively, along with configuring any triggers that facilitate such actions.
New-PefTargetHost — enables you to create a target host object that you specify as a target computer for remote tracing in a Live Trace Session. You can target and add multiple computers to a Live Trace Session with this cmdlet. Use the object that this cmdlet creates as input to the Add-PefProviderConfig cmdlet. Note that this cmdlet uses the current user credentials by default, although you can provide other credentials by specifying the -Credentials parameter.
This cmdlet uses the Microsoft-PEF-WFP-MessageProvider, which is now enabled for remote tracing. You can use this provider to capture remote traffic, but on a remote Windows 10 host only, and while running on a Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, or Windows 10 computer only.
On the Windows 10 client operating system, you can capture traffic locally or remotely in promiscuous mode (p-mode) by using the Add-NetEventNetworkAdapter and the Add-NetEventPacketCaptureProvider PowerShell cmdlets. With the Add-NetEventNetworkAdapter cmdlet, you can specify the –PromiscuousMode parameter for a supporting network adapter that you are adding as a filter on a remote packet capture provider. With the Add-NetEventPacketCaptureProvider cmdlet, you can specify the Windows-NDIS-PacketCapture provider to capture remote traffic and save a *.etl file locally on the remote computer. Note that you can import this file into Message Analyzer from the Files tab of the New Session dialog to retrieve the data for analysis. In a future Message Analyzer release, you may have the option to capture in the promiscuous mode directly from the user interface.
To learn more, see the Add-NetEventNetworkAdapter and Add-NetEventPacketCaptureProvider cmdlets on TechNet.
Examining a PowerShell Script Example
To automate Message Analyzer network trace functionality with PowerShell, you will need to string together PowerShell cmdlets to achieve a desired result. The base cmdlet upon which all other cmdlet functionality depends is the New-PefTraceSession cmdlet. For example, you must use this cmdlet first to create a trace session object and then use other cmdlets to include additional configurations, such as adding the provider to use in the Trace Session, specifying an override filter, adding data saving functions, and configuring trigger actions.
The following example uses the
New-PefTraceSession cmdlet to create a Trace Session object that is stored in the variable
$TraceSession01 and is configured for the circular capture mode. The script then uses the
Add-PefMessageProvider cmdlet to specify the provider that Message Analyzer should use to capture data and associates the provider specification with
$TraceSession01. Next, the
Set-PefTraceFilter configures a "TCP" Trace Filter that will be applied to the trace 150 seconds after the Trace Session starts, as specified by the variable
$Trigger01, which is configured with the
New-PefTimeSpanTrigger cmdlet. The script then specifies two more triggers;
$Trigger02, which configures the time at which the Trace Session will start, and
$Trigger03, which specifies the PEF action that stops the Trace Session, which in this case is a keyboard key that is specified by the
-Key parameter. These triggers are then associated with the
Stop-PefTraceSession and
Start-PefTraceSession cmdlets, respectively. Lastly, the
Save-PefDataCollection cmdlet specifies the trace file type (.matu) and the file name and full path where the Trace Session data will be stored at the time
$Trigger03 occurs. The
Force parameter in this cmdlet causes the data of any existing file of the same name to be overwritten. The
Start-PefTraceSession cmdlet then begins the session when
$Trigger02 fires.
The syntax for this functionality is specified as follows:
$TraceSession01 = New-PefTraceSession -Mode Circular
Add-PefMessageProvider -PEFSession $TraceSession01 –Provider "Microsoft-PEF-WFP-MessageProvider"
$Trigger01 = New-PefTimeSpanTrigger -TimeSpan (New-TimeSpan -Seconds 150)
Set-PefTraceFilter -PEFSession $TraceSession01 –Filter "TCP" -Trigger $Trigger01
$Trigger02 = New-PefDateTimeTrigger -DateTime "9/30/2013 7:00 AM"
$Trigger03 = New-PefKeyDownTrigger –Key S
Stop-PefTraceSession -PEFSession $TraceSession01 -Trigger $Trigger03
Save-PefDataCollection -PEFSession $TraceSession01 -Path <"fullTracePath\myTrace.matu"> -Force -Trigger $Trigger03
Start-PefTraceSession -PEFSession $TraceSession01 –Trigger $Trigger02
More Information
To learn more about writing Trace Filters and other Filter Expressions, see the Writing Filter Expressions topic in this Operating Guide. Note that a Trace Filter in a PowerShell script performs a function that is identical to a Session Filter in the Message Analyzer user interface.
Accessing PowerShell Cmdlets and Help
To take advantage of the functionality provided in the previously described Using PowerShell Cmdlets for Message Analyzer, you must have PowerShell v3.0 installed. PowerShell v3.0 installs automatically with Windows 8 and later operating systems; however, if you are running Windows 7, you will need to install the Windows Management Framework 3.0 to obtain a PowerShell v3.0 installation. After you have a PowerShell v3.0 installation in place on your Windows 7 machine, you will need to run the following command to import the PEF PowerShell module into your PowerShell session:
Import-Module PEF
Then, to update the help, run the following command to download the latest cmdlet Help content from TechNet:
Update-Help -Module PEF -Force –Verbose
PowerShell cmdlet help documentation is available at the PowerShell command line and also in the TechNet Library on the Message Analyzer Cmdlets site. For complete command-line syntax, parameter specifications, and usage examples, see these locations. If you want to view help at the PowerShell command line for a particular cmdlet, specify the following command string:
get-help <cmdletname>
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Catch Some Sensible Information About Dentists in Gainesville VA
Every individual would like to have a lovely visual appearance and smile. Having said that, this can only be done if you go with the best Dentist in Gainesville VA . Picking the proper professional can be hard as every clinician in the dentistry field claims they are the best. You can follow these tips to choose an experienced and reputable dental practitioner.
Referrals are a fantastic way of becoming a dental practitioner who is good at what they do. This is because the people who propose them have implemented them in the past. Ask your workmates, loved ones or even close friends to refer a few clinicians. Enquire about the outcome of the techniques and whether they would use the dental practitioners again. Their authorities may be a superb fit for you. The most well-known association is the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. Affiliation in such a body shows that specialist is serious about his or her work because of the motivation to spend in membership. Additionally, this society offers to coach and organizes seminars for their members. It is essential for you to confirm the licensing documents of the expert. This is because even with specified postgraduate training, the dental practitioner must be licensed by the State.
There are many good Dentist in Gainesville VA, but you have to make sure the person is reliable. There are several factors you can consider when choosing the right Dentist in Gainesville VA.
Look for Someone Qualified in Your Area
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Dentist in Gainesville VA with good academic background knows dental conditions and their corresponding relief. They have a good grasp of the concepts and applicable knowledge. Find someone with good academic background and experience within your area. It is important that the dental clinic is near your place of work or residence.
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You have to check the price of the dentist. Similar to accessibility, you cannot benefit from the person's expertise is you cannot pay for the services. There are always dentists with good services for rates you can afford. This will help you figure out the range of price different services should be offered. You can also see if one dentist has overpriced treatments.
The ideal dentist should make you feel comfortable.Feeling at ease during consultation says a lot of what your future experiences will be.If you have a specific dental condition, find out the corresponding professional for that.
A perfect smile is something that everyone dreams about and when you want to make sure that you have the most perfect smile that you can have, a dentist is the perfect person to pay a visit too.You can guarantee that you look your best when you are consulting and booking appointment. There are some good habits that can help as well like flossing and brushing your teeth and you will learn more information when you seek the services of Dentist in Gainesville VA.


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Green benefits, savings potential in palletising and other advantages
Having an optimal material strategy for palletising can enable you to enhance your green profile and reduce the costs of disposing of transport packaging. These are the experiences of Palcut, a specialist in palletising solutions. The company believes that many companies in the food and beverages sector have not yet made use of the savings opportunities.
The starting point for the disposal of transport packaging is the EU's directive on waste management. This is interpreted differently in different countries, which may result in different rates. But in all circumstances, there are savings to be expected in optimising waste strategies.
In Germany, in accordance with Article 4 of VerpackV, the disposal of transport packaging is mandatory by law. Major retail chains in the UK require that suppliers must pay to have cardboard and other packaging materials removed from pallets, and suppliers in Italy have to make a payment to the State body CONAI for every tonne of cardboard, stretch film, wood, aluminium, or steel used in palletising.
"Our experience tells us that retail suppliers can achieve significant reductions in the use of packaging, if only they choose the right materials for palletising," says Lars Østergaard Jonasen, Product Manager at Palcut.
Palcut is a specialist in interlayer sheets for automated palletising that has supplied several hundred systems to the food and beverages industry all over Europe. The sheets are loaded between product layers during palletising, and they are made of paper with a special coating for a good non-slip effect. This enables the customer to use thinner interlayer sheets, which offers a number of benefits.
Cash benefits to be achieved
If food manufacturers replace corrugated cardboard with a thinner paper quality, such as Antim from Palcut, they can reduce the amount of packaging by 30-40 per cent, which can result in even bigger cost reductions. There is a rule of thumb in Germany to the effect that the cost of disposal in the food area can comprise 0.25-0.30 per cent of a product's price.
"A major German mineral water producer, which delivers 66,000 pallets a year, would be able to reduce annual consumption by 57 tonnes of cardboard to a current level of 85 tonnes of paper – a reduction of no less than 40 per cent. This could save the manufacturer around 6,500 euros a year under the VerpackV regulation, which is the German version of the EU directive on the disposal of waste," explains Lars Østergaard Jonasen.
Savings of 90 per cent
It can be expensive to use corrugated cardboard as interlayer sheets for palletising if you are supplying the UK retail sector. This is because they can demand a fee from suppliers for the disposal of excess materials used in palletising.
Halewood International, the UK's biggest independent beverage producer, distributes 100,000 pallets to the UK retail sector every year. They have saved 70 tonnes of cardboard a year by replacing interlayer sheets of corrugated cardboard with interlayer sheets of anti-slip paper. The paper solution weighs only 180 gsm compared with 400 gsm for corrugated cardboard.
This reduction in cardboard consumption means that Halewood has reduced the cost of disposing of packaging materials by up to 90 per cent, because they now pay charges to the UK retail sector at a far lower rate.
Stretch film expensive to dispose of
The amount of stretch film used to wrap pallets may seem small, but it is surprising how much can be saved by reducing this amount. In the example of the mineral water producer, they would normally wrap 30 layers around the pallet to create a stable structure, but the number of layers can be reduced.
"A 20 per cent reduction in stretch film is absolutely realistic," says Lars Jonasen. "In this case, it corresponds to an annual reduction of 4.5 tonnes of PE film, which corresponds to a saving of 3,200 euros, as the cost of disposing of PE film is around 730 euros/tonne in Germany."
"You can't reduce the amount of stretch film without using something else instead," says Lars Jonasen. According to him, the solution is to use Antim interlayer sheets with a anti-slip coating. This means that the goods are far more stable on the pallet, because they are virtually locked into place. This paves way for reducing the volume of stretch film compared with traditional, smooth interlayer sheets.
Another example is the Italian company Fratelli Beretta, one of the major Italian producers of delicatessen products. They save six tonnes of PE stretch film a year in connection with palletising 35,000 pallets.
EU savings and green benefits
All EU countries have implemented the EU regulation on the disposal of transport packaging, and even if it is interpreted differently, as mentioned previously there are significant benefits in reducing the volume of cardboard and PE stretch film, when the disposal of PE film in the Netherlands, for example, costs 620 euros/tonne, 280 euros/tonne in France and 188 euros/tonne in Italy.
There are also other benefits in using a solution such as Palcut's automated sheet dispenser for palletising lines together with Antim interlayer sheets. Lars Jonasen emphasises the potential for reduced capital tied up and less space required for sheets and stretch film. Furthermore, fewer pallet breakdowns can be expected during transport, as well as less expensive downtime during palletising.
"The Palcut solutions reduce the volume of cardboard and stretch film needed for palletising, and this helps the food industry to reduce the volume of packaging that has to be disposed of at the retail level. This will benefit both the business and our green profile," concludes Lars Østergaard Jonasen.


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Starting a business in Belarus
With simplified registration procedures, it now takes just a day to establish a business in Belarus. When registration is based on documents from Poland, no additional legalisation is required.
In recent years, Belarus has become more attractive to foreign investment, thanks to creation of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, introduction of numerous tax incentives, simplified administrative procedures, and establishment of numerous special economic zones and technology parks. According to the World Bank report Doing Business 2013, Belarus is now 9th in the world in the speed of setting up a business (where, by comparison, Poland ranks 124th) and 58th in the overall ease of doing business (Poland ranks 55th).
Business may be conducted in Belarus in such legal forms as
- Registered partnership
- Limited partnership
- Limited-liability company
- Added-liability company
- Open joint-stock company
- Closed joint-stock company
- Production cooperative
- Uniform private enterprise
- Agricultural enterprise.
There are also separate subtypes—"joint venture" and "foreign" companies—but participation in a given company by a foreign entity does not necessarily mean that the company becomes a "joint venture" or "foreign" company.
A company is established through a resolution of the founders, recorded in a protocol.
Each entity operates under a name that includes one of the foregoing organisational designations. The company name must be approved by the local field office of the Ministry of Justice, but in practice approval is provided on the spot in just a few minutes, or in two business days if the application is submitted by post. If the company is founded by foreign entities, they must submit certified copies of the commercial register from their home jurisdiction and identity documents for the individuals representing the founders (with a Russian or Belarusian translation). Such documents generally also require legalisation, but this requirement is waived under the legal assistance treaty with Poland. Upon review of the documents, written approval of the company name is issued, valid for three months.
Before filing the registration documents, the statute of the company must be drawn up and the registered office selected. Under Belarusian law, the registered office of a company is the same as the location of its permanent executive body (the management board). The statute must contain the full and abbreviated name of the company, the address, the business purposes, and the structure of the management board. Additional information may also be required, depending on the legal form.
The amount of the company's share capital may be freely set by the founders, with certain exceptions. For example, the minimum share capital for a closed joint-stock company is currently about EUR 900 and for an open joint-stock company about EUR 3,500, and "joint venture" and "foreign" companies require a minimum foreign investment of USD 20,000. The share capital stated in the statute must be paid within 12 months from registration of the company if not otherwise provided in the statute, but this period is longer in the case of "joint venture" and "foreign" companies.
After adopting the resolution on establishment of the company, obtaining approval for the company name and specifying the business location, the founders need to register the company. This is done on a "one-stop shop" basis at the local registry office for the registered address of the company. In practice, registration takes a couple of hours. The founders or proxies must appear in person to file the application for registration together with the statute (two copies and an electronic version). If the founders are foreign legal persons, they must present a legalised copy from the commercial register in their home jurisdiction or equivalent (in the case of Polish companies, the National Court Register transcript, which does not require legalisation), or if they are foreign individuals, a copy of their identity documents—in either case with a Russian or Belarusian translation. The filing fee is about EUR 30.
A stamp is placed on the company statute to confirm registration and the company is then entered in the commercial register (known as the Uniform State Register of Business Entities of Individuals and Legal Persons). Registration is effective upon placement of the stamp on the company statute.
Examples of major Polish investments in Belarus include Inco-Food, Idea Bank, construction materials company Tajfun, furniture manufacturer Black Red White, and food producer Mispol.
Polish investors take advantage of numerous Belarusian projects offering favourable investment conditions, particularly tax advantages, such as special economic zones, Hi-Tech Park Belarus, and the China-Belarus Industrial Park. An additional factor stimulating Polish investment in Belarus is the tax treaty between the two countries, enabling favourable tax treatment for implementing projects in Belarus, as we discuss in more detail in a separate article.
Alina Kalinowska of the Minsk Bar
Przemysław Szymczyk, Real Estate & Construction Practice, Wardyński & Partners


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10+ Instant Pot Apple Dessert Recipes
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Here are all of the best instant pot apple dessert recipes in one place! From apple crisp to apple cheesecake, there is an instant pot dessert recipe for you on this list!
This list of instant pot apple dessert recipes is a combination of recipes from me, Aileen Cooks, and a few of my blogger friends who also work hard to develop instant pot recipes on a regular basis. This post is full of delicious tried-and-true recipes that are written specifically for cooking in a pressure cooker.
Once you find an instant pot apple dessert recipe you want to try, just click on the name of the recipe and it will take you straight to the post with the full recipe. Make sure you save this on Pinterest or as a bookmark for future reference. Also, you may want to check out my new Instant Pot Cookbook, available for pre-order now.
Instant Pot Apple Dessert Recipes
Instant Pot Apple Crisp from Aileen Cooks
This instant pot apple crisp is so good! It's a quick and easy instant pot apple dessert recipe that tastes amazing! You need this recipe in your life.
Instant Pot Apple Cheesecake from Moore or Less Cooking
Instant Pot Apple Cheesecake is the perfect mix of creamy crunchy, sweet, spiced autumn dessert perfection!
Instant Pot Apple Dumplings from Aileen Cooks
Whip up these easy and tasty instant pot apple dumplings tonight! This instant pot apple dessert tastes like apple pie without all of the work.
Instant Pot Baked Apples from Sweet and Savory Meals
Instant Pot Baked Apples are sweet, tasty, and perfectly cooked in the pressure cooker in just a few minutes. You will never cook apples any other way once you try this recipe!
Instant Pot Applesauce from Aileen Cooks
Instant Pot Applesauce is so easy to make and tastes great! Just throw together some apples and spices and come back to a perfectly sweet fall treat!
Instant Pot Apple Pecan Streusel Muffins from Awe Filled Homemaker
Did you know you can make bakery-style muffins in your Instant Pot? These Instant Pot Apple Pecan Streusel Muffins are the perfect sweet compliment for fall.
Instant Pot Cinnamon Apples from Ginger Casa
Instant Pot Cinnamon Apples is a quick and easy recipe! Makes a great breakfast, snack, or dessert!
Instant Pot Apple Butter from Aileen Cooks
Make this creamy and rich instant pot apple butter in under an hour! We show you how easy it is to make this special fall treat with our no-peel method!
Instant Pot Apple Dumplings from Tastes of Lizzy T
Instant Pot Apple Dumplings are ready in under 30 minutes! This easy apple dumpling recipe uses crescent rolls and a brown sugar, cinnamon, apple cider syrup to make a quick dessert that tastes like fall.
Pressure Cooker Dannon Dutch Apple Yogurt Compote from This Old Gal
Pressure Cooker Dannon Dutch Apple Yogurt Compote is a blast from the past. The Dutch Apple Compote can be used on top of yogurt and ice cream.
Instant Pot Strawberry Applesauce from Aileen Cooks
Part dessert and part snack this instant pot strawberry applesauce is a total crowd-pleaser.
Instant Pot Apple Cake from Two Sleevers
Here's a cake that looks so elegant—but is super easy to make. Instant Pot Apple Cake starts with a box cake mix and ends up with a gorgeous cake.
Instant Pot Apple Cider from Aileen Cooks
This tasty instant pot apple cider is so easy to make in your pressure cooker! Homemade apple cider is made with green and red apples, an orange, cinnamon sticks, and cloves.
Instant Pot Apple Pie Filling from My Flourless Kitchen
This Apple pie filling is made quickly and easily in the slow cooker or Instant Pot! Who needs a crust?
We hope you found what you were searching for in this list of instant pot apple dessert recipes. Looking for something different? Leave us a comment with your recipe request and you might just see it as a future recipe on Aileen Cooks!


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- These 'overdyed' threads are beautifully designed to create subtle variations in colour without having to change threads.
- Each skein has a blend of soft multi-colors that flow seamlessly into one another along the length of the thread.
- Each skein is a combination of DMC colours, with 4 inches of every colour corresponding to the 117 Floss colours, so you can coordinate Colour Variations with DMC Embroidery Floss to stitch beautiful designs with colours that compliment one another.
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SFERRA Fine Linens have enlivened society homes, graced the tables at White House state dinners, and been selected for use in the sleeping quarters at the Vatican. A company rich in history with roots in Italy, SFERRA appeals to consumers who aspire to all levels of luxury by offering premier linen collections with thread counts ranging from 200 to 1,020 ,each of which possess SFERRA's signature style and quality.Some best sellers include Milos, Millesimo, Giotto, Diamante, and Celeste, but take the time to look through the full line-all of the Sferra products are something special.


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Food Articles
Stew: Warming Comfort Food
Beef Stew
Stew is the most enduring of dishes. For millenia, cooks the world over have slow-cooked bits of meat or fish in broth with whatever vegetables and spices were handy. It made a lot of sense to do so, since early cooks figured out that a puny "catch of the day" could be stretched to satisfy the appetites and, done well, delight the palates of a hungry brood. It still makes sense today.
We may no longer be out in the wilds bagging our dinner, thank goodness, but modern cooks are often faced with the same challenge -- how to stretch a food budget -- when feeding their families.
But stew has even more to recommend it. Stew has the additional advantage of convenience. It makes great leftovers, freezes well, and there's that "one pot" feature that makes cleaning up so easy.
It would be a disservice to this wonderful dish, however, to make it sound like some prescription for budgetary ills or kitchen efficiency. Stew endures, more than anything else, because it's warm, satisfying and delicious.
Stew RecipesThe recipes in this article feature five savory stews made with beef, chicken and venison. Sunday Beef Stew is precisely that: a dish you'd be proud to serve the preacher, should you ever have a preacher at your table. Green Chile Stew is pure southwestern in flavor with its mix of beef, chiles, hominy and pinto beans. Our savory Venison Stew is full of garden vegetables, while the Chicken Stew has a creamy base. No article about stew on Texas Cooking would be complete, however, without Son of a Gun stew, and it is included. You may enjoy reading the recipe, but it is doubtful that you will make it. For most of us, this is a dish from another era.
Sunday Beef Stew
Add the beef stock and stir until heated. Return the beef to the pan, along with the remaining ingredients. Lower heat and simmer, covered, for 45 minutes. Set pan lid slightly ajar and cook an additional 15 minutes.
Check seasonings and add salt and pepper, if desired. Remove bay leaves before serving. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Green Chile Stew
Toss the beef with the flour to coat. Over medium-low heat, slowly brown the beef in the oil. Add the onion and garlic and simmer, stirring frequently, for 4 or 5 minutes or until onion is transparent.
Add the remaining ingredients, cover, and simmer at very low heat for 2 hours or until meat is tender. Check seasonings and add salt and pepper, if desired. Makes 8 servings.
Venison Stew
Add the tomato sauce, bouillon and red wine. Lower heat and simmer, covered, for 1 hour.
Add the canned tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, bay leaves, salt and pepper. Cover and cook for 30 minutes or until potatoes and carrots are tender. Check seasonings and add salt and pepper, if desired. Remove bay leaves before serving. Makes 6 servings. We may no longer be out in the wilds bagging our dinner, thank goodness.
Chicken Stew
Add the potatoes, chicken stock, salt, white pepper and bay leaf, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes.
Add the corn and chicken, cover, and simmer for 25 minutes. Stir in half-and-half and simmer just until heated through, about 3 minutes. Remove and discard bay leaf. Sprinkle with paprika just before serving.
Check seasonings and add salt and pepper, if desired. Makes about 6 servings.
Son of a Gun Stew
Stir the tomato paste into the beef broth and add to pot. Bring to a simmer for 10 minutes. Check seasonings and add salt and pepper, if desired. Makes 8 servings.
Note: Marrow gut, by the way, is not part of the intestine. It is a milk-secreting tract found in calves. Your butcher should know but, like I say, you won't make this.
Take advantage of hot stew to combat cooler weather. Home-cooked stews can be hearty and nutritious. Even if the weather is warm, there is little excuse not to reach for some simmering stew.
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