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The Guild of Human Resource Professionals was founded in September 2014 to foster and promote the profession of HR, to help others into - and through - the HR profession, and to reach out to the community through charitable and pro bono HR activities. Equally, it wishes to support The Lord Mayor and the City of London, and to collaborate with the other Livery Companies.
In starting its aspirational journey to become a Livery Company, the HR Guild welcomes individuals from all disciplines within the profession ranging from generalist HR practitioners through to specialists in all HR functions. In particular, practicing and promoting diversity and inclusion will be an important element of the Guild's remit and this is a key function within the profession.
A frequently asked question is "what differentiates a guild from a professional institute?" The answer is that a professional institute is for the development of individuals and their careers, whilst a guild is about giving back to the profession through using HR skills for the benefit of others.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is in full support of the Guild and the CEO sits on the Steering Committee alongside a small number of HR heads and other professional institute leaders.

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Mapping Subjectivity film series screens rarely exhibited works of master and emerging filmmakers from the Arab world
Third Edition features 10 North American premieres, three U.S. premieres, and four New York premieres
The Museum of Modern Art presents Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part III, November 1 through 25 in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. As in the preceding editions, Mapping Subjectivity looks into the region's largely unknown heritage of auteur, personal, and sometimes experimental film, highlighting kinships in sensibilities, approaches, and poetics across generations and countries.
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The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) has spoken out against the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party's continued support for a private member's motion put forward by Member of Provincial Parliament Lisa Thompson, Huron-Bruce, that calls for a moratorium on wind energy development.
Those in favor of the wind energy moratorium claim that wind turbines have harmful effects on human health. However, some industry insiders have suggested that the wind power opposition may be politically motivated.
According to CanWEA, a moratorium on wind energy development would put thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in new investments at risk, and is not warranted based on the review of scientific evidence to date.
'We are keen to work with all political parties to ensure the responsible and sustainable development of wind energy in Ontario, but that dialogue must be based on fact and not misinformation spread by those opposed to clean and affordable wind energy," says Robert Hornung, president of CanWEA.
'We are discouraged to see the PC Party of Ontario official website displaying a petition in support of a moratorium against an industry that is operating responsibly in every province of this country and 90 countries around the world," he continues. "The wind industry here in Canada is comprised of hundreds of companies that employ thousands of people, a majority of them here in Ontario. It is disappointing to see this at a time when Ontario is being celebrated globally for ending dirty coal production and attracting clean energy investments.'
CanWEA notes that the balance of scientific and medical research to date, including a report by the province's own chief medical officer of health, has found that sound produced by wind turbines does not harm human health.
In addition, several legal proceedings have reviewed expert information on wind energy and human health, and have found no justification for halting wind energy development. Health Canada is planning a study on wind energy and human health but has not sought any moratorium while the study is undertaken.
According to CanWEA, the PC Party's website also contains incorrect information about wind energy, including the assertion that new wind development is driving up electricity rates in Ontario.
'I would encourage members of the PC Party to consult with the Ontario Energy Board, which has clearly indicated that wind energy has been only a minor contributor to recent increases in Ontario's electricity rates," Hornung says. "Looking forward, the PC Party is focused on the development of new electricity generation from sources that are more expensive than wind energy.
"The wind energy industry wants to work productively with all levels of government and stakeholders to ensure jobs, investments and affordable clean energy continue flowing," he adds. "A moratorium would prevent thousands of farmers and landowners, and dozens of municipalities, from participating in Ontario's clean energy economy, ultimately hurting rural Ontario.'


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The Squamish Farmers' Market has been active in the community since 2003. We have continued to grow, diversify and complement the sustainable development of Squamish.
We share a diversity of products that are made, baked, grown and raised by our market members.
Our Summer Farmers' Market runs every Saturday, from April to October, in Downtown Squamish.


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It is an entire belief system, a lifestyle accessory, a way of signposting that you are on a higher spiritual plane than other mortals.
This is achieved by photographing your virtuous meals, containing expensive ingredients from niche shops, posting them online and adding a wall-punchingly smug comment such as: "Such a treat to re-energise wholesomely after a great workout at the gym. #lowcarb #delicious #detox #eatclean #yum."
The clean-eating brigade lead the way in what Nigella Lawson calls "food to self-congratulate"
Meet Bella Younger, or to use her comedy character's name: Deliciously Stella.
Stella is a parody riposte to the righteous foodies, mostly (although not all) white, middle-class, attractive, privileged young women who … photograph their perfect salad lunch in their beautiful kitchen before calling themselves "blessed" and adding an insufferable hashtag such as #gettheglow.
… she deftly mimics their self-satisfied tone and terminology


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My rhubarb plants are coming along nicely outside in the garden. I have a huge planter tipped upside down over one of the plants to force it (more on this soon), and it is going to be beautiful. In the meantime, I decided it was time to clean out the freezer - so I decided to thaw out the two remaining bags of rhubarb I froze last spring.
If you are lucky enough to have outdoor space, and fortunate enough to have your own rhubarb plants, freezing it for later is easy. Simply pull the stems and discard the leaves, then was the stems, chop into 1" pieces and throw into freezer bags. I had very little time last spring to process much of the rhubarb in the backyard, so instead, I have been able to enjoy it all winter. Frozen rhubarb is easy to use in cobbler, pie, stewed or baked. It is best to allow it to thaw completely if you are going to bake with it.
I let the rhubarb thaw in a colander placed over a large bowl to catch the all the juices as the rhubarb melts. This is a combination of juice and water, but it is tasty to reserve for later use in jello, if mixed with other fruit juice.
I decided to make a recipe from one of my longtime favourite cookbooks, Classic Canadian Cooking, by Elizabeth Baird - Rhubarb Custard Meringue Pie. If you ever see this book at a garage sale, I highly recommend you pick it up, as this book is out of print. I particularly like this book because it is organised according to the seasons, and has lovely menus for different occasions, and many recipes are based on historic or traditional Upper Canadian cooking.
While the rhubarb thawed, I prepared my pie crust. You need only a bottom crust for this pie. Mix the rhubarb with the flour and sugar mixture. This recipe has a little bit of mace in it, which is a lovely, but unusual flavouring. Separate your eggs, reserving the whites. Whisk together yolks, cream and melted butter. Spread the rhubarb mixture in the prepared pie crust. Pour the egg mixture over top, and place pie in 450 degree oven. Reduce heat to 350 after 10 minutes. Bake 35- 40 minutes, or until custard is set.
While the pie is baking, whip the egg whites with vinegar and salt until they form stiff peaks. Add sugar and vanilla. Elizabeth Baird's recipe uses three egg whites, but I only used two as to not have a leftover yolk (her meringue would be higher than mine). Spread meringue over pie. Sprinkle with sugar and bake for another 4 minutes at 425 degrees until golden brown.
Et voila. Allow to cool, and serve as soon as possible. Meringue does not like to be kept waiting! It gets weepy if you're late for dinner.
Rhubarb Custard Pie, adapted from Classic Canadian Cooking: Menus for the Seasons, by Elizabeth Baird, published 1974 by James Lorimer & Company.
2 1/2 cups chopped rhubarb
1 cup white sugar (I used about 3/4 cup)
2 tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon mace
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup light cream or milk
1/4 melted butter
3 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon vinegar
1/8 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons white sugar (I used about 3 teaspoons)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon white sugar (to sprinkle on top of meringue)


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The Workshop Matera
A favored backdrop for Italian cinema,
Matera lies tucked into the hills one
hour west of Bari. It is now attracting
a host of international travelers who
want to take in the sun, enjoy a slower
pace of life and listen to the cowbells
in the valley below.
All year people have been asking me, why run a workshop in Matera? Why not Rome or Florence or Sienna? In truth I have nothing against any of the other Italian cities. Since the 1500's they have been attracting visitors who are enamored with intoxicating culinary treasures, world famous art and buildings that make modern architects look like mental patients who can only be trusted with wooden blocks. But Italy is much more than the famous Grand Tour cities which transformed artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and M.C. Escher.
Only an hour's flight from Rome, Matera feels like another planet. Over the years, I have discovered some cities that for me were slow on the uptake. Like a first date that starts with spilling wine on your date, eventually you may recover but it's no way to kick things off. On the other hand, Matera was the date where you were so excited you could not decide whether to giggle or scream. Two years ago we opted for both, when my girlfriend and I came for New Year's. We have made a pact to be nowhere near NYC for the New Year's celebration. And in 2011 we decided Matera might be a good spot to usher in 2012.
A town famous for its caves and farmers might seem like an odd place for a New Year's party, but Matera balances an old way of life with much younger wine bars and even a beer hall. Additionally, I have a family connection to the area I wanted to explore. My grandmother was born in Ferrandina, a town about twenty minutes from Matera. While I must still have some family in the area, she was the youngest of fourteen children. Her parents gave her to an aunt and uncle who were unable to have children. This meant that she spent her early years in Ferrandina and then moved to Bari on the coast. What did this mean to me in terms of Matera? Almost nothing…most of our relatives in the area would not know me from a hole in the wall and based on her stories of childhood, the outlying towns were filled with bandits and thieves. But who were we to be deterred by scant information and the Nonna's quasi-fictitious tales (mi dispiace Nonna!)
Matera is one of the most ideal places to work on your photography. The unfortunate aspect of any city is that as its popularity increases the city changes (Personally, I am torn between the exposure which helps the area and the prospect of it becoming overrun) Fortunately, as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Matera stands a good chance of preserving its way of life and keeping tight control over any growth in the historic section of town. Times Square could have used UNESCO in the 1940's because it is an architectural folly that is appalling to any New Yorker.
Some of the things I enjoy most about Matera are the following:
Continuity: The entire city is built out of one type of stone. There are no neon signs, billboards or other advertising disasters to deal with. The background possesses a unity that is very hard to find in a contemporary city.
Vertical Streets: Everyone loves tiny streets, unless of course they are dangerous, but this is not the case in Matera. I often describe the streetscape of Matera as looking like someone drove a mountain through the base of Venice. You can shoot up, down and across the entire valley. It offers an endless variety for stacking buildings, people and the landscape on top of one another. These are exactly the types of cities that influenced M.C. Escher.
Architecture: Many of the homes and hotels are built into the 11th century caves that dot the landscape. I am not sure if it is the effect of actually being in the mountainside, but I have never slept so well in my life. The structures are completely local and set Matera apart from other places around the globe.
The Food: I will save everyone from reading the adjectives and superlatives that fit with the kitchens of Matera. All I will say is that there are fresh flavors we enjoyed while there that are quite difficult to find anywhere else in the world. Some of the highlights are the sausages, cheeses (cow, sheep and goat), and the wild produce. While at dinner on the last evening, a young farmer girl (not sure what you call a female farmer) brought in wild asparagus and arugula. It came from the hills on the other side and was not farmed or cultivated. One bite of wild produce will prove that even the most ecological, organic farmers cannot compete with Mother Nature.
When we returned to Matera, I decided to take it slow. The days were warm with clear blue skies and the evenings cooled enough to wear a sweater. The camera did not leave my bag for three days. All I wanted to do was run my eyes over the city until my excitement for taking pictures was too much to restrain. While it might seem insane, I much prefer getting visually reacquainted with a place before taking a single frame. I had three luxurious days of watching pictures come and go, like waves on the coastline.
So what is a typical day like in Matera? It goes something like this: After a delightful sleep in your cave, you are awakened by the sun creeping over the sassi around 6:00am. It's just early enough to roll over for another hour before the day begins. Downstairs at our hotel Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita, Mirella has breakfast laid out on simple wooden tables inside an 11th century church. Italian breakfasts are lighter than their English or American counterparts. The sausages wait for dinner. In their place are fresh fruits, locally baked breads, cheeses ranging from ricotta drizzled with honey to scamorza, which is a lightly smoked mozzarella, are served alongside fresh tomatoes and jams. The obligatory boost of caffeine comes in every variety imaginable, from espresso to caffe corretto, which has a dash of booze if you are having that kind of morning. We feast like royalty, or at least until my girlfriend reminds me that I don't want to eat myself back to sleep.
After our heroic start, the sun is fully up and we can hear the shepherds taking the cows up the ravine. We grab our cameras and head out to explore the endless streets. Matera is large enough to walk in a day but complex enough that it will take years before I touch every corner, although it won't keep us from trying. We wander up, down, and around every staircase, balcony, and tower until lunch.
One of our favorite lunch spots was a place aptly named Soul Kitchen. While the name might sound like a Baptist BBQ, I assure you there was nothing southern about this place. Owner/chef Mimo heads up this charming spot just off of Piazza Lanfranco. As visitors to Italy will discover, there is no such thing as a little taste or a quick meal. Mimo insures that you try enough of everything, including the aglianico and homemade Limoncello. While the wheelbarrow in front might look like decoration, we discovered that it was for rolling overfed photographers home. And if you are not completely spoiled by his food, then his charming head of house Lorena will cast a spell on you that will have you there at least three times in a week (I think we actually went there four times.)
The afternoon sun that hits the city bounces off of the stone facades, opening brilliant lighting opportunities for portrait and street photography. Some of the participants opted to grab a gelato and camp out along the squares. Pictures would simply fall into their laps. And since car traffic is heavily restricted you do not need to worry about getting mowed down by a taxi cab.
Day turns into night, and the cowbells in the valley mean that it's almost dinner time. If you peek over the stone walls into the ravine, you might be lucky enough to spot a wild fox trailing behind the cows. Life in all of its forms teems through the streets and valleys of Matera. But for us, we would try to rinse the excitement off before heading out to dinner. Who could be hungry at this point?! With all the stairs and alleyways, we were all hungry come nightfall.
For five glorious days we shot to our heart's content, met some amazing people, tested the limits of our belts and had more laughs than we can remember. Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing some more of the adventures from the workshop and the follow-up days in Rome.
Until then I am getting ready for the Workshop in London at the Stephen Bartels Gallery and then the workshop in Prague. One of the photographers actually broke his ankle and needed to drop out, so there is a slot available if anyone is interested.
And if you would like to join us next year back in Matera, I will be announcing the 2014 Workshop schedule by the end of June. Drop me an email to get on the list which is bound to fill up quickly email@example.com
More soon…
9 Responses to "The Workshop Matera"
I really enjoyed reading about your recent workshop in Matera. I had never heard of the town but I've been to Bari a couple times. While flying in the US Navy and then a few years ago I flew into Bari to pickup clients for the company I fly for now.
Hi Adam,
A long article after a long time! Loved reading it. You should write more frequently. We miss you on your website!!
Hi Adam,
Really enjoy your website etc, very encouraging and helpful for me. I only just came across your post from wonderful Matera, which I visited recently. A couple of my own contributions from my visit may interest you (http://www.thenakedeye.com.au/expresso-italiano-perfecto/) . best wishes Murray


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There are many costs to consider and know about when purchasing a home. Especially if it's your first one. One of those costs is Mortgage Loan Insurance. Generally speaking financial institutions offer mortgage lending up to a maximum of 80% of the value of the home or, in other words, with a 20% down payment. If you have less than 20% down payment then a 3rd party insurer has to come in to insure against the possibility of defaulting on paying the mortgage in the future. There are several providers of this insurance but the primary 2 in Canada are CMHC ( Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation) & a company called Genworth.
They both have many different kinds of programs for different situations, clients and properties but generally speaking the less you have to put as a down payment the higher the premium. It's calculated on a percentage of the Purchase Price. For example if you purchased a home for 370K and put the minimum down, which is 5%, then the insurance premium you would have to pay would be around $11,000.00 A fare chuck of change to say the least.
You do have some options, though, with paying this fee. You have the option of paying up front when you complete on the purchase of your property or you can add it to the mortgage proceeds. If you add to the mortgage proceeds, of course, you'll be paying interest on this amount of money as well. The benefit of doing this is that you don't have to come up with the additional money on top of saving for your down payment as well as closing costs which is a struggle for people already, especially considering the costs of home ownership here in the Lower Mainland. Generally speaking you should have about 1.5% of the Purchase Price put aside or available to you in credit facility, like a line of credit, to cover closing costs.
Click on the link below to check out all of CMHC's mortgage loan programs as well as the premiums associated with them:


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Saturday, 11 February 2017
Can I top up your glass?
It's mid way through our Drinks challenge at the Christmas Card Throwdown, so time for a top up.
I've gone for similar idea to my first card, but using parchment and an aperture this time.
I started by creating a stream of bubbles on parchment. I used the nested circles Groovi plate, and one of the snowflake plates which has circles on it.
I cut them out (just straight, not a picot cut) then sponged gold acrylic paint onto the back. They curled right round, so even after a couple of hours under a heavy book, I needed to hold them flat for the photo!
Carrying on with the parchment, I wrote out my sentiment on another piece, with plenty of space around it.
To back this, I cut a square of Centura Pearl hint of gold card with a die. I added circles of gold and bronze acrylic with a round blending tool.
The final piece of the puzzle is the card blank. I cut the aperture from the front using the die a size smaller than used for the piece above. To add texture, I then ran the front of the card through a Tattered Lace embossing folder.
I attached the bubbles inside the aperture with super sticky tape, on the left. I then cut a matching aperture in a piece of spare card, trimmed it to fit and attached it on the inside of the card blank front, to cover the attachment points.
I trimmed the sentiment to fit round the backing I'd made, and folded it to make a wrap, attaching on the back. I then attached this to the inside of the card blank (on the back), to line up with the aperture.
This card has the same idea and colour scheme as my first, but a lot more texture and movement.
(Sorry for the poor photo, my usual spot to take them is currently plunged into darkness as we can't get the light bulbs to fit the light there any more!)
To join in with your Drinks themed card, pop over to the Christmas Card Throwdown. You have until Friday 17th February to enter.
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Wow! This is a brilliant idea. I think the bubbles are just so clever. xxxReplyDelete
Great take on the drinks theme. I love your bubbles and the see-through window.ReplyDelete
I love this!!! It is absolutely stunning!!! And such an amazingly cool idea!!!ReplyDelete
Love the technique. Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier. FYI I have an extra cable knit embossing folder. Email me and we'll see if there's something we can trade. KellyH (at) artlover (dot) com. Creative Blessings! KellyReplyDelete
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Sam who? Samsquanch.
Have I piqued your interest? Check out my husbands blog to find out what the heck a Samsquanch is and to learn a bit about his two greatest loves: electronic music & mountain biking. He has even posted links to some of his freaking awesome tracks here near the end of the post. Not only is my husband smart, funny, handsome and athletic, he has some serious talent in the music department.
Oh and his first post caught the attention of the editor of a newspaper up in Georgian Bay; since then he has written an article based on the post and it's going to be published! Very cool!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sam who? Samsquanch.
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A question of semantics
A friend of ours asked us an interesting question last night: Is it a "recession" if there's no hope of ever bouncing back?
A friend of ours asked us an interesting question last night: Is it a "recession" if there's no hope of ever bouncing back?
Right, just like bad gums.
Good question. Much like dealing with our long term debt and current Portland City Council.
Re: "Is it a 'recession' if there's no hope of ever bouncing back?"
It's called the new equilibrium. During the Depression of the Thirties, the neo-classical economists -- Marshall and his students in particular -- kept waiting for the new equilibrium -- unemployment, interest rate, etc -- to be established as economies plummeted. Eventually, increased reliance on fiscal policy -- including, in particular, military expenditures -- reversed the US economy's decline. But the Keynesians who overthrew their predecessors and provided the model for growth that served for several decades were tossed in the '80s by the Supply Siders and Monetarists. The new equilibrium is their contribution to our want of well-being. Mr Greenspan apologized.
Here's an interesting approach to collecting taxes during a recession (PA):
Some people here go bananas whenever someone mentions James H. Kunstler, but his title, "The Long Emergency" is probably the best concise description of our situation there is.
And here's an interesting comment mentioning Kunstler's book in the comment thread to a post questioning the value of higher ed, which is constantly sold as "The Path to Higher Lifetime Earnings" (without ever correcting for the higher earnings already in the mix for people who come from families that send their kids to higher ed):
# Posted by John Rawlins , Retired physicist, astronomy & energy instructor at Whatcom Community College, Wa. state on June 3, 2010 at 6:45pm EDT #
THE BIG additional factor that will dictate how higher ed fares in the future has nothing to do with anything anybody's mentioned in this thread so far - and it's hitting the first serious limit to growth - the end of cheap and easy oil. I've been in higher ed for half my career, at all levels from directing doctoral students down to the community college level. I always advocated for far more student independence when it came to course requirements and curriculum planning, but in 2004 when I came across the topic of Peak Oil (e.g., "The Party's Over" by Richard Heinberg, who was a college instructor at the time) my song changed, dramatically.
I began reading everything I could find on the subject and ultimately became a Peak Oil messenger in northwest Wa. state, both in the college and in the public sector. If you are engaging in this debate over the future of higher ed without doing your own homework on this topic, then I'm afraid you're completely wasting your time.
Every academician should know (but is it true?) that a growth economy can only exist in a world of increasing energy use, and that the economic health of a country depends nearly linearly on energy use. Additionally, world population depends on energy availability, especially oil - the correlation between increasing world oil production and population in the 20th century is almost one (100% correlation).
We have, by all accounts, reached and passed (2005) the peak of the cheap, easy-to-extract world oil, and are now into the desperation mode of extracting expensive, extremely challenging (meaning high-risk) oil to continue trying to prop up world economies. We are now near the tail end of a plateau for total oil & liquids production, with decline due to begin in this decade. The implication - Peak Everything (another title by Heinberg). The best general description of the implications for the world is, in my opinion, a book by James Howard Kunstler titled "The Long Emergency." The world "long" here means decades, until near the end of this century.
The concept really is quite simple - that peak energy means the end of total world economic growth (although some countries will be able to grow at the expense of others), and that economic decline will be the story of the 21st century - just the opposite of the 20th century story.
By 2005 I was teaching my Physics of Energy students that what they were learning in college would have little bearing on what they would be doing for most of the rest of their lives - doing something useful for oneself and for someone else (like growing food sustainably, the nearest term need). I lobbied other instructors with this message, along with ideas for offering a curriculum that amounted to a 2-year sequence of courses preparing students to engage in what one might call holistic permaculture - with an emphasis on the science of that subject (a subject that came to be known as Agroecology). My reward was experiencing primarily deaf ears, and I retired a few years later, without having left a real mark on the system. The most idiotic reaction came from traditional Economics instructors who still believed in the absurd concept of growth forever and infinite substitutability.
In the past couple of years, I've seen exactly what I was warning about actually begin - an economic downturn preceded by a record oil price spike (made much worse by financial sector follies), declining tax receipts at all levels of government, cutbacks in all levels of education, and a mad scramble to keep on educating in the same manner with fewer people. Economists & politicians inanely (for the most part) continue talking about return to growth, and nobody deals with the obvious future - more, more, and more of what we've witnessed the past 2 years, until little is left of what was only a few years ago a pretty decent overall education system, with all its warts and inflexbility.
By 2030, the U.S. could be down to one-fifth (20%) of the oil we use today (today about 20 million barrels/day - in 2030 about 5), our economy will look more like that of today's Brazilian economy - and much the same outlook exists for other industrialized countries (except perhaps Canada). The effects of a changing climate could also be pitching in to enhance the problems of dealing with this Long Emergency (duration = 50 years?).
As I see it, educators and administrators need to begin an entirely new discussion about developing a long-range plan based on this outlook - of ever-declining funding, fewer students who can even afford college, and a huge need to educate students for a rapidly de-industrializing world (basic skills instead of a strong intellectual curriculum). The focus in our future will necessarily be on learning to live at the local scale, eating locally grown food produced without fossil fuel, wearing locally grown clothes, in houses built of locally produced material, heated by locally available energy supplies, powered by locally generated electricity, transport via foot, bicycle, scooters (many with electrical power), and a host of other implications.
Dramatic changes will occur during this steady, long-term economic contraction, and the results promise to be far worse because we have so far done nearly zero planning for the real future - and this is at least as true in the intellectual (but highly isolated from the 'real') world of higher ed as it is in our manufacturing and agricultural sectors.
George, you realize of course your initials are a by-product of oil? :-)
What is a "recession" anyway but an arbitrarily-defined term?
At some point, various economists came up with benchmarks on what they would call a recession or not a recession, but given that economic theory isn't exactly something that's cut-and-dried, the only thing "recession" actually means is that the economy is or isn't in the state economists decided to call a recession. It doesn't describe any real change, as "boil" does for something turning from liquid into vapor.
For all practical purposes they could have called it a "bleen" and it would have had the same weight.
At this point, the only thing it does is give governments the ability to point at economists and say that they've been told the economy is out of the recession.
I sure hope we bounce back from this bleen.
Bouncing back is to re-inflate the bubble and many folks in DC are attempting to do just that with popping our seed corn.
Prepare as reality driven adjustments must be made and soon.
I actually liked what Kunstler had to say when we brought him here the first time, but he also hit on me, which made me lose some ability to respect his work...that how it often roles with us "girls".
My talents, experience and livelihood - my skills were listed in the O in the top ten list - two professions that will not return following this recession. It is what I have done for the last 37 years. PR(marketing, public involvement, media relations, outreach, advertising) and graphic design (including writing, printing, paste-up, design, logo development, photography, illustration). Doomed. I tell you, I'm doomed, unless there is a reinvention in my future.
"Peak Oil"? How 1980s!!!
Then it is called stagnation and hoplessness for the un- and under-employed, to eventually be followed by Stagflation and continued hopelessness.
Mary, if you really take anything Y2Kunstler says to heart, let it be the emphasis on filthy, old school water-based heavy shipping as the foundation or at least a major cornerstone of what a global economy should be based on. As it was for a few centuries before the automobile.
A stopped clock is right twice a day, and Y2Kunstler was right about that one.
I said it 5 years ago, and I stand by my words. One day, a fortune will be made in Portland, ripping out all those hideous, unwanted condo developments and rebuilding the pollution oozing shipyards. Which, as crazy as it may sound, are the very reason your town was built in the first place.


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Many of we "single women over forty" have had to get back into the workforce at a time when millions of people are looking for a job. But we cannot get discouraged – in fact, we need to do just the opposite! We have a right to get the job we want and to be happy doing it! A recent Gallup poll found that the "happiness" factor of Americans could be linked to two important criteria: living in medium-sized cities, and working in the industries that are "alive and well."
It may take a little "out of the box" thinking, but many opportunities are created by this method. This may be the first step toward (re)creating yourself , and remember, you are not alone!
Di Chapman, founder of Words to Your Advantage Speaking and Writing Service, has written an article on this topic for examiner.com. With a focus on success strategies, she posts thedailyjobhunt.wordpress.com, specializing in career management and workplace issues. Please click on the link below for more info.


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Growing your craft business portfolio: How to achieve it and maintain focus
The craft segment is growing rapidly, and only the distributors that understand how to encourage and develop the capabilities of their brewer partners will be effective in maximizing the full strength of their craft portfolio. This presentation covers proven ways to help distributors lead their craft brewer(s) down the path of mutual success. This seminar was originally offered by Jack McCraine at the NBWA 79th Annual Convention.
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Telltale Games have announced that at the end of the month, The Walking Dead A New Frontier will release to retail stores for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, letting players pick up the first two episodes, as well as granting access to the final ones when they are released.
In relation to that, they have also announced that the third episode titled, Above The Law will release towards the end of March, but more details will be announced closer to the date.
When family is all you have left... how far will you go to protect it? Years after society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier? As Javier, a young man determined to protect his family, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss. Her name is Clementine, and your fates are bound together in a story where every choice you make could be your last.


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The original name for this recipe is custard melting moments. Once the cookies are done, I taste it to find out the "melting" effect as mention in its name. I feel disappointed as the cookies are more on crispy side. The recipe name with "melting moments" is not suitable. :D The peanut butter is slightly over power the butter flavour. That's why I name it Custard Peanut Cookies. Overall these cookies are nice.
Ingredients: yield about 110 pieces
210g butter
130g icing sugar (original 160g)
2 egg yolks
150g creamy peanut butter
*I use homemade peanut butter
150g custard powder
210g plain flour
1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add in yolks and beat to combine. Follow by the peanut butter. Mix well.
2. Fold in the sifted flour from (C). Mix till well combine.
3. With a measurement spoon, scoop (I used 1 teaspoon) each portion from the dough. Roll each into rounds and press against cookie board to form pattern. Arrange on lined baking trays.
4. Bake at preheated oven 150C for 20 minutes.
I like to share this recipe in Aspiring Bakers #3: My Favourite CNY Cookie (Jan 2011).


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I am treating myself to a relaxing boat trip at the end of next week but we all know work comes before play so this week I did two classes on colorful cubes and what fun it was. I had the nicest groups of ladies in both classes and I can hardly wait to see the end results as every new combination of colors seems to be prettier than the first.
For some the class seemed too intense and they felt it should have been a 2 day course or at least calls for an all-night quilt session (I am more than willing to do this, ladies!!) but others felt they heard just enough to allow them to finish at home. Hard to please everyone but I do try.
And then there was the occasional hick-up with a strip being sewn the wrong way around leading to a gaping hole when joined or getting confused with the values and having cubes not quite looking like cubes. Getting used to the triangle ruler also caused a couple of giggles but this too is knowledge gained that no-one can take away from you. Any mistake is a valuable lesson learnt.


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오랜동안 Csound를 놓고 있었는데 MacCsound가 업데이트 된지 몰랐네요.
2006년 이후로 개발이 중단되어 시스템이 업그레이드 되면서 더 사용하기 힘들었는데
좋은 소식입니다. 이미 아시는 분들도 계시겠지만 ^^;
다운로드 사이트 입니다.
오랜동안 Csound를 놓고 있었는데 MacCsound가 업데이트 된지 몰랐네요.
2006년 이후로 개발이 중단되어 시스템이 업그레이드 되면서 더 사용하기 힘들었는데
좋은 소식입니다. 이미 아시는 분들도 계시겠지만 ^^;
다운로드 사이트 입니다.
CECILIA for OSX,Windows & Linux (v 4.1b)
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The legendary front-end and sound production platform for the Csound language is back in an fresh new set of duds. Cecilia was first launched in 1996 to take advantage of the then emerging real-time audio capabilities of Csound. It has seen a number of iterations since then, because, well, nothing quite does what it does as well as it does. Cecilia is a complete sound production environment for the adventurous audio designer. It proposes dozens of complex and troubling sound-processing modules that invite the composer to revisit the notion of what constitutes spirited sonic matter.
Beyond these highly desirable qualities, Cecilia is also known to cause mild skin rashes and turn small dogs into pickles.
Cecilia is free. Thus you cant complain if it hurts your feelings. But, with due diligence, Cecilia will bring smiles and good cheer to the most jaded musical mind.
Download here:
The number to dial for sending flattering or disparaging remarks is:
For the Linux version, there are two precompiled version (32 and 64 bit)
for Ubuntu 10.04 and the source code too.
The source code is based on the Gnome Toolkit (GTK+) and written in C++
using the gtkmm libraries.
To compile from the source code:
1) Before to compile WinXound you need to install:
– gtkmm-2.4 (libgtkmm-2.4-dev) >= 2.12
– vte (libvte-dev)
– webkit-1.0 (libwebkit-dev)
2) To compile WinXound open the terminal window, go into the
uncompressed "winxound_gtkmm" directory and type:
3) To use WinXound without installing it:
make standalone
[Note: WinXound folder must be located in a path where you have full
read and write permission.]
4) To install WinXound:
IMPORTANT: Don't use the "make install" command, because in this beta
version it is incomplete. For the moment use WinXound in the
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Anton Yelchin
Latest 'Anton Yelchin' News
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Love, Antosha was made as a way for Anton Yelchin's parents to help keep the late actor's memory alive.
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Director Jeremy Saulnier pays special tribute to his Green Room leading man a year after Anton Yelchin passed away.
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The parents of beloved Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin have announced their intentions to sue Fiat Chrysler over the wrongful death of their son.
Zoe Saldana Pays Tribute to Star Trek Co-Star Anton Yelchin
Star Trek Beyond actress Zoe Saldana shared a heartfelt goodbye to her late co-star Anton Yelchin after his untimely passing.
Anton Yelchin's Death Spurs Lawsuit Against Jeep Manufacturer
A new lawsuit alleges that Jeep manufacturer Fiat Chrysler intentionally covered up design flaws, which may have lead to Anton Yelchin's death.
Anton Yelchin's Death Officially Ruled an Accident
Anton Yelchin's death at the age of 27 has officially been declared accidental by the coroner's office working on the case.
5 Anton Yelchin Movies That Are Still Coming Out
Though Anton Yelchin sadly passed away this weekend, the young actor still has a handful of movies that will be released over the next two years.
Anton Yelchin's Jeep Included in Recall Responsible for 41 Injuries
The Jeep involved in the untimely death of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin was involved in a 2015 Rollaway Recall
Top 5 Anton Yelchin Performances
Actor Anton Yelchin tragically passed away recently at the age of 27, but we reflect on his great career.
Hollywood Reacts to the Tragic Death of Anton Yelchin
Anton Yelchin's Star Trek co-stars and many more pay tribute after he passed away from a freak accident last night at age 27.
Anton Yelchin Dies from Freak Accident at Age 27
Star Trek Beyond star Anton Yelchin has passed away at his Los Angeles home at the age of 27 last night, after a freak car accident.
Burying the Ex Trailer Starring Ashley Greene
A guy's regrets over moving in with his girlfriend are compounded when she dies and comes back as a zombie in director Joe Dante's Burying the Ex.
Dying of the Light Clip Starring Nicolas Cage | EXCLUSIVE
Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin discuss how they will get in and out of Romania in our exclusive clip from Dying of the Light.
Dying of the Light Photos with Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin | EXCLUSIVE
A veteran CIA agent sidesteps retirement to go rogue and bring down his sworn enemy in Dying of the Light.
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Fright Night stars Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots reunite for Green Room, a thriller about a punk band who witness a murder.
Kellan Lutz, Anton Yelchin and Taryn Manning Join Experimenter
Director Michael Almereyda's Experimenter is based on the life of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, with Kellan Lutz, Anton Yelchin and Taryn Manning playing supporting roles.
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A bartender falls in love with a mysterious woman while attending his parents' funeral in this drama from director Zachary Sluser.
Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel and John Hawkes Join The Driftless Area
Ciaran Hinds and Alia Shawkat co-star in this dark comedy about a bartender who is forced to go up against a dangerous criminal.
Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene and Alexandra Daddario Join Burying the Ex
Joe Dante is directing this horror comedy about a man's ex-girlfriend who comes back from the dead. Production starts today in Los Angeles.
World of Warcraft Eyes Paul Dano and Anton Yelchin
Travis Fimmel and Anson Mount are on the short list of candidates for lead roles in Legendary Pictures' video game adaptation.


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2.7qt vitaquick Pressure Skillet 22cm
Fissler vitaquick pressure cookers are the perfect solution for healthy, flavorful, and time-saving meals. The 2.7qt (2.5L) skillet is constructed of 18/10 stainless steel and has upgraded features, perfect technology and attractive modern design. UL-listed with multiple, patented safety mechanisms for worry-free, efficient pressure cooking including an automatic pressure valve and upgraded auto-locking handle which indicates a secure, locked lid closure with both an audible click and a color display in the handle. This pressure skillet doubles as the ultimate frying pan with the patented novogrill bottom: a unique honeycomb texture perfect for low-oil grilling, searing and frying- creating a healthy indoor grill.
vitaquick pressure cookers feature a cooking indicator that uses two convenient markings for either gentle or speed cooking, preparing foods of all kinds in a healthy, gentle, nutritious manner. Dishwasher safe for easy cleanup.
MSRP $179.99Download User Manual
Not Only Fast, but Also Economical
The pressure cooker lives up to its reputation. All of the ingredients that were tested were on the table much faster than with a conventional pot. Carrots need only 11 rather than 16 minutes, for broccoli it saves almost half of the cooking time, and for potatoes even a little more than half the time (see figure on page 5). As a rule, between 20 and 50% of the usual cooking time can be saved. The record of even 70% time savings can be achieved with dishes that generally need to cook for a long time – such as stews, goulash or roulades.
Time and Energy
Additionally, the pressure cooker saves more than time. The scientists also ascertained that it consumes less energy than a conventional cooking pot. To be exact: 20 to 50% less energy. So these fast pots help both the environment and the household budget. This effect is even stronger in what we call multi-level cooking, when several components of a meal are cooked in the pressure cooker at the same time. While, for example, a piece of meat is braising in broth, the vegetables and potatoes are gently cooking in the steamer inset one level above. In this way an entire meal can be prepared on a single burner.
Save the Goodness
Fresh vegetables are full of valuable vitamins and minerals that are good for us. Selecting the right cooking method will ensure that as many as possible will land on our plates. The scientists discovered that nutrients are optimally preserved by pressure cooking. Carrots, broccoli and potatoes come out of the pressure cooker with almost the same amount of minerals as they had when they were put into it. In a conventional pot, on the other hand, 15% to more than 25% of the minerals will become lost during cooking (see figure on far left).
The same holds true for vitamin C. While approximately 90% of this valuable vitamin is preserved by pressure cooking, being cooked in water destroys it to a great extent – up to 50% in the case of carrots (see figure on the left). Even the thiamine – better known as vitamin B – in potatoes profits from the fast cooking method in steam. It preserves 90% of this vitamin, which is so important for the nervous system. Conventional cooking preserves only about 70%.
Thiamine and Vitamin A
With provitamin A something special happens in the pressure cooker. During pressure cooking, it is freed from the plant cells, so that its quantity in the vegetable doubles. This means that carrots and broccoli are even healthier after they are cooked than beforehand. It is true that this also happens in a conventional cooking pot, but the increase in provitamin A in this case is only a bit more than half (see figure on far right).
Sensor System
So the pressure cooker wins points for speed and as a safe deposit box for vitamins and minerals. But what about flavor? After all, isn't it most important for a good meal to taste good, too? Gourmets need not worry: What emerges from the pressure cooker is a pleasure to both the taste buds and the eyes. The scientists evaluated broccoli, carrots and potatoes in four categories: color, form, flavor and texture.
- Cooking indicator with two white rings shows when the correct pressure has been reached for either gentle or speed cooking – Eliminates ambiguity regarding cooking temperature.
- Built in safety mechanisms for worry-free operation include: Safety Lid with Positioning Aid for secure fit and easy, one-hand operation; Auto-Interlocking Lid with Audio and Visual Indicator "clicks" and turns from red to green when the lid is properly positioned ensuring safe operating mode; Main Valve Automatic Steam Release decreases pressure automatically if the temperature and pressure are too high; Euromatic Safety Valve ensures a safe build-up of pressure and prevents the lid from opening until pressure is released.
- Patented "Cookstar" all stove base - Optimal heat absorption, retention and distribution for energy efficient cooking across all stove types
- Integrated measuring scale - Practical measurements of recipe ingredients
- Rivet free interior – Smooth interior surface does not retain food particles resulting in easier cleanup and healthier cooking
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Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi
Shri G M Rao, the group Chairman of GMR Group
M Tech, B.Tech, BBA, MBA, LLB, PhD
A majestic ceremony of the 12th Convocation of the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun was organized at the Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. Shri G M Rao, the group Chairman of GMR Group delivered the Convocation address. In his Convocation address, Mr Rao said "UPES' progressive vision of creating specialized professionals in the core sectors that can contribute in the economic growth of the country is highly admirable. Today, with the rapid development of the country especially in core sectors like Infrastructure, Transportation, Aviation, our nation needs enormous skilled manpower to sustain the growth and I am so glad to know that UPES is the first Indian University to offer 77 specialization programs across Oil & Gas, Power, Transportation, Infrastructure, Logistics and Supply Chain. UPES in true sense is providing the fuel to the economic engine to our country."
A total of 1620 students were awarded the Degrees out of which 10 students were awarded Gold Medals by Shri G M Rao, the group Chairman of GMR. In addition, 33 Silver medals were awarded to meritorious students in different courses. Cairn Laureate Scholarship was awarded to Aamir Lokhandwala and Shivam Saxena. L&T Scholarship was awarded to Lakshmi Narsiman B and Siddharth G.
In addition, under the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE), PhD degrees were also awarded. A total of 16 PhD degrees were awarded to working professionals and faculty/ staff of UPES.
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THE Uttarakhand police on Monday arrested two persons for allegedly providing logistics support to the gangsters involved in the Nabha jailbreak case as the manhunt for five of the six inmates who escaped and armed men who carried out the sensational jailbreak continued.
The Punjab police said it had shared relevant details and inputs regarding the accused in the jailbreak case to neighbouring states.
The Dehradun police identified the two arrested on Monday as Jeeta and Binny. The duo had allegedly helped the gangsters get SIM cards for the mobiles on fake documents. "They provided fake Aadhar cards and voter identity cards for SIM cards used by the gangsters involved in Nabha jailbreak case. A printer used to make fake Aadhar cards and voter cards has also been recovered from them. They have been arrested for providing logistics to those involved in Nabha case," said Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Sadanand Shankar Rao.
WATCH VIDEO: Khalistani Militant Harminder Singh Mintoo Arrested: Find Out More
The Punjab police suspect that the inmates who escaped and the armed men who facilitated the escape were in touch with each other over phone.
The duo was arrested from a house in Sehajdhara colony located in jurisdiction of Raipur police station in Dehradun. According to Uttar Pradesh police, Palwinder who was arrested in Shamli in UP had planned to go to Dehradun and hide at their place.
Dehradun SSP Rao said interrogation of the two was on and they hailed from "Punjab or Haryana".
The interrogation of Palwinder by UP police revealed that the Toyota Fortuner that was used in Nabha jailbreak case and which ferried the inmates, including Mintoo Singh who as arrested by the Delhi police Monday, was stolen from Ludhiana on September 17 by
the gangsters.
UP Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order) Daljit Singh Chaudhary said Palwinder told police that the Fortuner was snatched from Ludhiana around two months ago. Chaudhary also said that Palwinder was a "drug addict" and heroin was recovered from his possession. He added that Palwinder also revealed that he was also involved in a case where two and a half kg of gold and Rs 10 lakh in cash was looted from Ludhiana nearly two months ago.
Ludhiana police commissioner Jatinder Singh Aulakh confirmed that a Toyota Fortuner was snatched from a person who had come for a walk at Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana on September 17. Aulakh said the gold and cash was looted from a house in Ludhiana about a month and half ago and "six to seven persons" were named in that case.
Chaudhary said Palwinder told police that the gangster had planned to meet after 10 days after they fanned out to different directions on entering Haryana. They were to get in touch with each other through the phones they were carrying, Chaudhary said.
A Punjab police officer said the vehicles in which the gangsters helped inmates flee jumped a police check post near Keorak in Kaithal district of Haryana and fanned out to different directions from Dhand, some 18 km from Keorak. Mintoo and another inmate, Kashmir Singh, were dropped at Dhand by the gangsters from the Fortuner in which they were travelling.
A team of Punjab police has also reached Uttar Pradesh. Palwinder is likely to be brought to Punjab on production warrant on Tuesday, said a police officer.


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What will happen next year?
Well, according to http://psychics.co.uk/blog/predictions/ this is going to happen:
- Denmark and Italy pull out of EU as Euro crashes. 2017 sees Italy in serious economic problems.
- Britain escapes the worst of the international economic troubles and is seen as a safe economic haven. Britain, India and Australia form an economic alliance.USA experiences a serious drought during the summer of 2017 while Europe has floods.
- Large fire at the UK Houses of Parliament
- New War spills into Afghanistan as revolution erupts in Uzbekistan
- Terrorists make toxic or biological attack on school in Europe.
For me, 2017 is a year of change. My daughter is leaving the house in 2017 and for the first time in 22 years Wanita and I will be alone again. That is exciting. It is scary. This thing actually has a name the empty nest syndrome. Now I don't like syndromes in general, but this one I don't like at all. Men are supposed to suffer less of this syndrome (don't know why, only because many women have menopause as well seems not a good reason).
Anyway, I like it that she is becoming independent. Her home is adjusted to her needs, she has a two room apartment with a double sized bed. My girl thinks ahead. Her kitchen sink can go high (at standing height) or low (at wheelchair height). It really blows your mind if you see it (like this one).
It took us a month to paint and decorate it, but half January it is finished.
How will Wanita and I cope? Will we grow more close or just the opposite? Will our play increase or be different or not?
We cannot change the world events. We can however, strive to be happy. May your days be happy, all of them.


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The Center for American Progress has released Chemical Security 101: What You Don't Have Can't Leak, or Be Blown Up by Terrorists. Whatever the awkwardness of the title, the report is excellent, identifying the 100+ most hazardous chemical facilities in the U.S. and listing specific actions they could take to change their operations to eliminate the hazard, rather than treating the problem as one for gates and guards. I'm familiar with the report because I spent a significant amount of time crunching numbers for part of it.
If and when I get through global warming databases on this blog, I'll write about chemical accident ones. The database used for this report, the Risk Management Plan database, has a particularly interesting history. The chemical industry and the Bush administration crippled what was supposed to be a publicly accessible database by restricting access to it to reading rooms where you could only get information on ten facilities at a time. Otherwise, they said, terrorists would use the data for targeting, even though all the actual incidents so far have been straightforward industrial accidents. And then they proceeded to block one law after another that would have required industry to actually do anything to protect people from these hazards. Computer people like to talk about Security Through Obscurity -- well, this was year after year of Security Theater For Obscurity.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Chemical security report released
Posted by Rich Puchalsky at 8:40 PM
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Crate coaster [−] [src]
Provides a simple and unified API to run fast and highly parallel computations on different devices such as CPUs and GPUs, accross different computation languages such as OpenCL and CUDA and allows you to swap your backend on run-time.
Coaster was started at Autumn to create an easy and performant abstraction over different backends for the Machine Intelligence Framework Leaf, with no hard dependency on any driver or libraries so that it can easily be used without the need for a long and painful build process.
Code often is executed on the native CPU, but could be executed on other devices such as GPUs and Accelerators as well. These devices are accessable through frameworks like OpenCL and CUDA but have a more complicated interfaces than your every-day native CPU which makes the use of these devices a painful experience. Some of the pain points, when writing such device code, are:
- non-portable: frameworks have different interfaces, devices support different versions and machines might have different hardware - all this leads to code that will be executable only on a very specific set of machines and platforms.
- steep learning curve: executing code on a device through a framework is quite different to running code on the native CPU and comes with a lot of hurdles. OpenCLs 1.2 specification for example has close to 400 pages.
- custom code: integrating support for devices into your project, requires the need for writing a lot of custom code e.g. kernels, memory management, genereal business logic.
But writing code for devices would often be a good choice as these devices can execute many operations a lot faster than the native CPUs. GPUs for example can execute operations roughly one to two orders of magnitudes faster, thanks to better support of parallelizing operations. OpenCL and CUDA make parallelizing operations super easy.
With Coaster we eleminate the pain points of writing device code, so you can run your code like any other Rust code, don't need to learn about kernels, events, or memory synchronization, and can deploy your code with ease to servers, desktops or mobiles and your code will make full use of the underlying hardware.
The single entry point of Coaster is a Backend. A Backend is agnostic over the Device it runs Operations on. In order to be agnostic over the Device, such as native host CPU, GPUs, Accelerators or other types of Hardware, the Backend needs to be agnostic over the Framework as well. A Framework is a computation language such as OpenCL, Cuda or the native programming language. The Framework is important, as it provides us with the interface to turn Hardware into Devices and therefore, among other things, execute Operations on the created Device. With a Framework, we get access to Hardware as long as the Hardware supports the Framework. As different vendors of Hardware use different Frameworks, it becomes important that the Backend is agnostic over the Framework. This allows us to run computations on any machine such as servers, desktops and mobiles without the need to worry about what Hardware is available on the machine. That gives us the freedom to write code once and deploy it on different machines where it will execute on the most potent Hardware by default.
Operations get introduced by a Plugin. A Plugin extends your Backend with ready-to-execute Operations.
All you need to do is provide these Coaster Plugin crates alongside the Coaster crate in your Cargo
file. Your Backend will then be extended with the operations provided by the Plugin. The interface is just common
Rust e.g. to execute the dot product operation of the Coaster-BLAS Plugin,
we can simply call
backend.dot(...). Whether or not the dot Operation is executed on, e.g.
one or many GPUs or CPUs, depends solely on how you configured the Backend. If you did not further specify which
Framework and Hardware to use, it depends solely on the machine you execute the dot Operation on. The concept of Operations
has one more component - the Binary. As opposed to executing code on the native CPU - devices need
to compile and build the Operation manually at run-time, which makes up a significant part of a Framework. We need
an initializable instance for holding the state and compiled Operations, wich the Binary is good for.
The last piece of Coaster is the Memory. A Operation happens over data, but this data needs to be accessable by the device on which the Operation is executed. The process is occurs often, that memory space needs to be allocated on the device and then in a later step, synced from the host to the device or from the device back to the host. Thanks to Tensor we do not have to care about memory management between devices for the execution of Operations. Tensor tracks and automatically manages data and it's memory accross devices, which is often the host and the Device. But it can also be passed around to different Backends. Operations take Tensors as arguments and handle the synchronization and allocation for you.
This example requires the Coaster NN Plugin, for Neural Network related operations, to work.
extern crate coaster as co; extern crate coaster_nn as nn; use co::prelude::*; use nn::*; fn write_to_memory<T: Copy>(mem: &mut MemoryType, data: &[T]) { if let &mut MemoryType::Native(ref mut mem) = mem { let mut mem_buffer = mem.as_mut_slice::<T>(); for (index, datum) in data.iter().enumerate() { mem_buffer[index] = *datum; } } } fn main() { // Initialize a CUDA Backend. let backend = Backend::<Cuda>::default().unwrap(); // Initialize two SharedTensors. let mut x = SharedTensor::<f32>::new(backend.device(), &(1, 1, 3)).unwrap(); let mut result = SharedTensor::<f32>::new(backend.device(), &(1, 1, 3)).unwrap(); // Fill `x` with some data. let payload: &[f32] = &::std::iter::repeat(1f32).take(x.capacity()).collect::<Vec<f32>>(); let native = Backend::<Native>::default().unwrap(); x.add_device(native.device()).unwrap(); // Add native host memory x.sync(native.device()).unwrap(); // Sync to native host memory write_to_memory(x.get_mut(native.device()).unwrap(), payload); // Write to native host memory. x.sync(backend.device()).unwrap(); // Sync the data to the CUDA device. // Run the sigmoid operation, provided by the NN Plugin, on your CUDA enabled GPU. backend.sigmoid(&mut x, &mut result).unwrap(); // See the result. result.add_device(native.device()).unwrap(); // Add native host memory result.sync(native.device()).unwrap(); // Sync the result to host memory. println!("{:?}", result.get(native.device()).unwrap().as_native().unwrap().as_slice::<f32>()); }
At the moment Coaster itself will provide Rust APIs for the important frameworks - OpenCL and CUDA. One step we are looking out for is to seperate OpenCL and CUDA into their own crate. Something similar to Glium.
Every operation exposed via a Plugin and implemented on the backend, should take as the last argument an
Option<OperationConfig> to specify custom parallelisation behaviour and tracking the operation via events.
When initializing a new Backend from a BackendConfig you might not want to specify the Framework, which is currently mandatory. Leaving it blank, the Backend would try to use the most potent Framework given the underlying hardware, which would be probably in this order Cuda -> OpenCL -> Native. The setup might take longer, as every framework needs to be checked, and devices be loaded in order to identify the best setup. But this would allow, that you really could deploy a Coaster-backed application to almost any hardware - server, desktops, mobiles.
pub use backend::*;
pub use device::IDevice;
pub use device::IMemory;
pub use hardware::IHardware;
pub use hardware::HardwareType;
pub use framework::IFramework;
pub use tensor::SharedTensor;
pub use tensor::TensorDesc;
pub use tensor::ITensorDesc;
pub use tensor::IntoTensorDesc;
pub use frameworks::Native;
pub use frameworks::Cuda;
pub use frameworks::OpenCL;
pub use error::Error;
Provides the interface for running parallel computations on one ore many devices.
Provides the generic functionality for a backend-specific implementation of a library.
Provides a representation for one or many ready to use hardwares.
Defines the general set of error types in Coaster.
Provides the generic functionality of a hardware supporting frameworks such as native CPU, OpenCL, CUDA, etc..
Exposes the specific Framework implementations.
Provides a representation for a collection of available compute units e.g. CPUs or GPUs.
Provides the generic functionality for backend-agnostic operations.
Provides helpers for explicit implementations of Backend Operations.
A module meant to be glob imported when using Coaster.
Provides the functionality for memory management across devices.


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Below are recently submitted Planning Applications in the Chorlton area. You can find out more information about any of the proposals on the City Council's Planning Portal at http://tinyurl.com/yv6lex or by contacting the South Area Planning Group Manager - Roger Hall; Tel: (0161) 234 4536; email: firstname.lastname@example.com . You can also make a Planning representation (in support or opposition) to Mr Hall or the designated planning officer for each application. Please feel free to contact me on (07947383740; email@example.com) if you wish to discuss any application and please also send me a copy of any representation you make.
099136/FH/2012/S1 9 Bolesworth Close Chorlton Manchester M21 9BE
Erection of single storey side and rear extension to provide additional living
100089/FO/2012/S1 Wrea Bank 20 Edge Lane Chorlton Manchester M21 9JF
Erection of single storey conservatory to rear
100102/LE/2012/S1 127 Manchester Road Chorlton Manchester M21 9PG
Certificate of Lawful Development for existing decking area to frontage of bar
100179/TPO/2012/S1 Churchfield 8 Edge Lane Chorlton Manchester M21 1JF
Works to various trees
100075/FO/2012/S1 Foxbench Walk Chorlton Manchester M21 7RE
Creation of new road and environmental improvements including provision of outdoor gym
100132/FO/2012/S1 Mersey Bank Community Centre 23 Mersey Bank Avenue Chorlton Manchester
Erection of three storey building to form community centre at ground floor with 9no. two bedroom flats and 4no. one bedroom flats (13 flats in total) above, together with creation of two separate car parking areas and associated landscaping, following demolition of existing community centre
100169/NMC/2012/S1 36 Floyd Avenue Chorlton Manchester M21 7NB
Non Material Amendment for the increase in width and height of extension approved
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100185/FO/2012/S1 91 St. Werburghs Road Chorlton Manchester M21 8UJ
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Influential British imam Shakeel Begg, who sued the BBC after being accused as an 'extremist' by its 'Sunday Politics show' host Andrew Neil, has lost his libel case in the high court.
In its ruling on Friday (28 October), Justice Haddon-Cave dismissed the claim and stated that the BBC had been correct in asserting that Shakeel Begg held extremist views and had encouraged religious violence.
The Court said Begg was "something of a 'Jekyll and Hyde' character" who presented one face to the local community and another "to receptive Muslim audiences on chosen occasions" when "he has shed the cloak of respectability and revealed the horns of extremism".
Shakeel Begg is the chief imam at Lewisham Islamic Centre (LIC). He is an influential figure among the British Muslim community, especially the youth. Previously he has called for Isis to release hostages and said the killing of British soldier Lee Rigby was against Islamic teaching.
In an episode of Sunday Politics broadcast in 2013, host Andrew Neil named Imam Shakeel Begg as someone who "hailed jihad as 'the greatest of deeds'" in a speech at the East London Mosque.
In support of its defense, BBC provided a number of incidents including speeches and posts over the last decade that it said proved its assertions about Begg. Although it admitted that it had got the location and timing of the comments wrong, but claimed that neither were significant and the substance of its allegation against Begg were true.
In the ruling, Justice Haddon-Cave, who said he had read a number of texts about Islam, including the Koran, to make his judgment, said that that a single speech in 2009 would have on its own been enough to justify the BBC's position. In the speech, the judgment said, Begg "encouraged his audience to rise from their seats and take up arms to wage aggressive jihad against the enemies of Islam, including the Jews in Palestine, and thereby they would thereby get closer to Allah".
The judge mentioned that Begg's reputation for respectability "is likely to have made his (extremist) messages all the more compelling and seductive to his audiences".
A spokesman for the BBC welcomed the ruling against Imam Begg who now faces a significant legal bill.Sources close to Imam Begg told that the judge had merely regurgitated what the BBC's "expert" Dr Matthew Wilkinson said, who has been frequently used by the CPS in anti-terrorism cases.
Read the summary judgment of Shakeel Begg vs. BBC [2016] EWHC 2688 (QB)


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This is Birch Polypore or Razor Strop fungus which as you might guess, grows on Birch trees.
It is called razor Strop fungus because historically slices of the fungus were cut and used to strop razors and knives when sharpening them.
A thin layer on the underside of the fungus can be removed and used as a self-adhesive plaster.
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Pathfinders from around the Columbia Union Conference will gather at the Sckuykill County Fairground October 6 - October 9 for the union camporee themed "Fearless."
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We at the Weymouth Club, a small group (6-8 swimmers) outside of Boston, enjoyed the following workout this morning, which calls for both swimming and singing (and, yes, we did sing):
200 swim
200 kick
200 pull
The following with :30 rest between each verse (set), during which all together sing On the [insert, e.g., twelfth] Day of Christmas my true love sent to me [insert, e.g. 12 Drummers Drumming].
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10 Lords a Leaping
10x25 fly with fins on :30
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7 Swans a Swimming
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So today is my birthday and I feel nothing special about it just like, every other years, yay.
So this post might be the continuation from last blog post (about camping), but I am going to rant about another thing (or so it seems)
So you guys must be familiar with these things:
Yes, Yes, Pine Cones. Ever stepped on it? Oh you sure have stepped on it once in your lifetime, WITH footwear. My case? Nope. The pain. THE PAIN. IMAGINE STEPPING ON THAT BAREFOOTED. ASDASZHCLZJXHQW.
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