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What is trans fat?
Trans fat is a fatty acid formed through a chemical process called hydrogenation. Hydrogen is added to liquid vegetable oils to reconfigure the fat molecules into solid fat. Some food manufacturers use partial hydrogenation because it increases shelf life and flavor stability. Trans fat is most commonly found in some of America's favorite processed foods: baked goods, crackers, snack foods, shortening and some margarines. Natural levels of trans fat can be found in meat and dairy products, but there is no scientific consensus to conclude that trace levels of natural trans fat causes dietary harm.
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Trans fat raises low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad" cholesterol) and reduces high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or "good" cholesterol). For more information on LDL and HDL cholesterol, please see "Cholesterol – The good, the bad, and the difference," .
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The American Heart Association recommends that we eat no more than 2g of trans fat per day. Purchasing foods labeled "0 g trans fat" is one strategy for controlling your intake of this unhealthy fat. But you should know that nutrition labels don't tell the whole story.
The FDA guidelines allow manufacturers of any food product with less than 0.5g of trans fat to list "0g" on the nutrition label. With that much leeway, it's hard to know exactly how much trans fat you're eating. For example, just two tablespoon servings of a margarine containing partially hydrogenated oils, but labeled 0g trans fats, can contain up to almost 1g of trans fat. Eat a few pieces of toast at breakfast with one of these margarines, and you're half way to the AHA daily limit by the end of breakfast.
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Los Angeles Lakers Owner Jerry Buss Dies
Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss has died. Buss had been fighting on undisclosed form of cancer, but according to Buss' assistant, Bob Steiner, the "immediate cause of death was kidney failure." He was 80.
Buss bought the Los Angeles Lakers, along with the Los Angeles Kings and the Forum, in 1979 for $67.5 million. Today, the Lakers are the second most valuable NBA franchise at $1 billion (behind the New York Knicks).
According to ESPN:
Under Buss' ownership, the Lakers won NBA titles in 1980, '82, '85, '87, '88, 2000, '01, '02, '09 and '10. Among the all-time greats who played for the Lakers during Buss' tenure were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Byron Scott, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.
Buss was credited with introducing 'Showtime' to Los Angeles, bringing entertaining basketball to the Entertainment Capital of the World. He once said his goal was to make the Lakers synonymous with Los Angeles, which had been a Dodgers town up until the time he bought the team. Most would say he succeeded.
Buss was born in Salt Lake City and was raised in Wyoming. He attended USC as a graduate student and later became a chemistry professor working for the Bureau of Mines. However, it was as a real estate investor where Buss made his fortune.
In an Associated Press report:
Few owners have ever been more beloved by their players than Buss, who always referred to the Lakers as his extended family. Working with front-office executives Jerry West and Mitch Kupchak, Buss spent lavishly to win his titles despite lacking a huge personal fortune, often running the NBA's highest payroll while also paying high-profile coaches Pat Riley and Phil Jackson.
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2017: The Year In Photos
The inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president kicked off a year rich in events, including a string of military victories over Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, antigovernment protests across Russia, and terror attacks in many countries. These images capture some of the big stories of 2017.
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Moscow's 'Little Kabul'
The Russian capital is home to a large Afghan community centered around the Soviet-era Sevastopol Hotel. Some 8,000 Afghans live in and around the complex, which has been transformed into a shopping and business center dominated by Afghan bazaars, butcher shops, and restaurants.
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Supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili freed the former Georgian president from a police van amid chaotic scenes after Ukrainian security forces stormed his apartment in Kyiv, dragged him off the roof, and detained him. Amid a dramatic standoff between officers in riot gear and hundreds of protesters who blocked streets in an effort to prevent the authorities from taking him away, Saakashvili was pulled from the van despite police resistance and called for President Petro Poroshenko's exit from power.
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Photo Gallery: Mostar, Then And Now
In 1993, The Old Bridge in Mostar, built in 1566 during the Ottoman Empire, was destroyed by shells fired by Croatian gunners amid fierce fighting with Bosnian Muslims. In 2004, nine years after the end of the conflict, a new bridge built largely from the original stones was unveiled in Mostar.


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Charles Vane wrote:Forget the tiger. panther is better in every aspect except rear/side armor
the tigers design was outdated in 43 and only was able to beat the IS 2 on Long range because of better optics and more accuracy. but then only with luck or APCR ammo on short range the tiger was nothing compared to the IS 2
panther on the other Hand had more pen and better armor then the tiger and an even more accurate gun.
panther mass production would have been much smarter then keeping the tiger design until end of 44 and then building KTs...
Even if Germany was fighting a 1-front war, that doesn't change that Soviet technology was better than German technology at the end
wait what? do you really want to argue about german tech? do you really want to compare what Germans had after fighting several nations and mention "even if" how could you know? without war in the west it may had other results. and IS 2 smashed everything? I think that a panther would disagree.
"And to top it all off, if the US couldn't get a breakthrough in France, then Germany would have been turned into a radioactive wasteland. The allies had nuclear weapons! Which, by the way, were built with GERMAN scientists that you scared away because they were Jews. The Japs put up a better fight than Germany. We were so afraid of invading Japan that we dropped an atomic bomb on them."
I think you Need a bit help in School with history hm? PM me in steam I can refresh your history knowlege a bit.
"allies won the war" weak Argument. build your own mod and give them a win button. arguments like this are in a multiplayer game where both factions have a Chance to win so damn off..
Thats true. Would have been much better producing only Panthers and Jagdpanthers, hetzers and Stugs instead ressource, working and maintanance intensive tigers and heavier Tanks.
Also Russian Tanks had been easy produced, got improved over the time (even with radio sometimes^^) but at all axis had better tanks with the Panther. Russian Tanks could have been more effective with better gunsights. ISU and Is had big guns but bad optics and very long reload times. Tiger crews had been usually the best axis tank crews and sometimes tanks even beat superior numbers of IS 2 tanks simply by better shooting, moving, teamwork, communication and faster reload. Also big russian guns had limited ammo storage.
Axis would have beat russians. Note that russian build only Fighter Airplanes, Tanks and artillery (which was a fine mix of masses, flexibility,weight, range, calibre). Nonetheless russians survived thx to large supply by western allied. up to 5000 spitfires, medium bombers, 8000 shermans M4A2, TRUCKs etc. The russian infrastructure and logisitics was basically build up by americans. Without that the trucks and other things russian artillery would have been less flexibel and also the fuel supply would have been more complicate. They also had much shorter supply lines at the turning point in 43.
In japans fought not better.... They lacked industrial and US considered Germany as the bigger threat and concentrated first on germany. Thats why japan fought longer and japan had the advantage to be not daily bombed untill US captured some islands mid-end 44 while Germany was already heavily bombed at that time at day and night. I mean japan had not even tanks except small tanks which got outmatched by stuart already. They also had no real Artillery or machinpistols etc.
The biggest advantage of USA was the huge industry and ressources. Not even russians came even close to US production capabilties.


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100,000 donated diapers stolen from warehouse in Wisconsin
FOX CROSSING, Wis. — More than 1,700 cases of donated diapers that were destined for babies from low-income families in Wisconsin were stolen recently from a warehouse, authorities said.
The theft, which apparently occurred between Jan. 3 and Feb. 13, involved 13 pallets of cases from the Fox Cities Diaper Bank, an initiative of United Way Fox Cities that gets widespread support from businesses, organizations and the community.
"That's a lot of diapers and it serves a lot of people," said Jason Weber, community liaison officer with the Fox Crossing Police Department. "This (theft) is a kick in the pants for a good program. That's the sad part."
Weber said the 1,777 cases of diapers, valued at $45,000, were taken from a warehouse in Fox Crossing. Organizers estimated that 100,000 individual diapers are now gone.
Nanci Micke, vice president of marketing and communities for United Way Fox Cities, said the Diaper Bank provides diapers to 875 babies from low-income families every month. In 2016, the program supplied 300,000 diapers to babies in the Fox Cities.
Weber said investigators are unsure whether the cases of diapers were taken in a single theft or in a series of thefts. He believes that a tow motor and truck would have been required to move the pallets out of the warehouse.
"They were there, and, all of a sudden, they weren't there," he said of the diapers.
Micke said organizers of the program "felt very sad" when they learned of the theft. Diapers are expensive, and the Diaper Bank is a valuable service to families who are hurting financially, she said.
"The main reason we all felt so terrible is they were donated diapers, and we know how important those diapers are to the families who receive them," she said. "It is a need for so many families.
"(The theft) is taking these diapers away from the families who are least able to afford them."
The investigation into the theft continues, according to Weber, who said he was taken aback by the scope of the theft.
"This is a terrible thing," he said.
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By Ldarb on Sunday, April 22, 2012Bought it used and it's an amazing car. Those who don't get good gas mileage, try resetting your average speed and fuel economy when you fill up. I've gotten 40 mpg on the highway numerous times! It's very comfortable to ride in (never rode in the back seat though). Speakers are so-so...and to be honest, it doesn't come with a spare tire and I wish it did. Instead it comes an air compressor and if you're lucky, fix a flat. So if you have a complete blow out, hello wrecker bill! The braking does take some getting used to as well as the slow acceleration at start off. I love it otherwise.
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Safe through two crashes
By James on Wednesday, February 22, 2017Plenty of reviews on looks and quality of the vehicle, so I thought Id add a different perspective. (Though I rate highly on quality, havent had any issues) Ive been involved in two incidents, one minor and one more severe. The larger wreck was on the highway, got side-swiped by a truck that lost control. We were going about 60mph at the time. The car handled well through the crash, I was actually surprised that we didnt get knocked sideways since the truck that hit us was much heavier. My wife and I were completely fine through the whole crash, nobody got injured. Im not sure what the crash ratings are on the car, but I thought it did a good job in my case.
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Crofters' village
The crofters' village is an unnamed village located in the wolfswood west of Winterfell.
The village is inhabited by crofters and consists of a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower by the lakeshore, as the village is located between two lakes.[2] The larger lake is dotted with small wooded islands, one of which has an ancient weirwood heart tree growing on it. The longhall has space to comfortably seat fifty men.[3]
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Slowed by a blizzard while traveling through the wolfswood from Deepwood Motte to Winterfell, the army of Stannis Baratheon stops at the crofters' village. They find it abandoned, a mean and meagre place.[2] They make camp there, but the snowstorm buries the huts below mounds of dirty snow.[3]
While Benjicot Branch thought they were about three days away from Winterfell,[2] the blizzard immobilizes Stannis's army. They have limited success ice-fishing from the frozen lakes. On the nineteenth day the queen's men build a pinewood pyre on the village green to burn four soldiers from House Peasebury who were caught eating human flesh.[3]
Stannis's army is bolstered by the arrival of Arnolf Karstark, although Arnolf only brings enough supplies for his own men. Six ironborn and two brothers of the Night's Watch bring Tycho Nestoris and Theon Greyjoy to the village, much to the surprise of Theon's sister, Asha.[3]
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Theon is kept prisoner by Stannis inside the watchtower. Informed by a letter from Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, that Arnolf plots betrayal, Stannis has the Karstarks taken into custody. Rather than have Theon burned as a sacrifice to the Lord of Light, Asha suggests to Stannis that he instead have Theon beheaded at the island's weirwood as a sacrifice to the old gods.[4]
I know them lakes. You been on them like maggots on a corpse, hundreds o' you. Cut so many holes in the ice it's a bloody wonder more haven't fallen through. Out by the island, there's places look like a cheese the rats been at. Lakes are done. You fished them out.[3]—Ned Woods to the queen's men
- ↑ The Lands of Ice and Fire, Journeys, Theon's route.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 42, The King's Prize.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 62, The Sacrifice.
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So I try to send a tweet from hootsuite about this really nice beer I had. It was a nice beer, and a nice tweet, and nothing weird about it at the time.
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The message send KEEPS failing -- even though I've posted other messages from Hootsuite to Twitter since then. The message keeps trying to resend (and fail) every few minutes [no idea of actual frequency, but if I dismiss the message, it reappears sooner or later].


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Wine: Recommended bottles of the week
Classic Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon should feature flavors of blackberries and currants and -- increasingly rare -- a minty quality that tastes cool, for lack of a better word. Too many today taste only of wood, tannin and alcohol; in other words, hot flavors.
Unfortunately, Napa Valley cabernet of any quality will not be cheap. The cost of vineyard land averages $180,000 per acre and climbs as high as $300,000, according to the Napa Valley Vintners trade association. No wines made on such land can be priced inexpensively.
These Napa Valley cabernets represent the old style. Most can trace a history back to Napa in the 1960s, while one represents a European interpretation of California terroir.
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis 2010
Three stars
Napa Valley, Calif., $60
This is the entry-level cabernet from the winery founded by Warren Winiarski in 1970. Blended from grapes grown throughout Napa Valley, it shows classic flavors of black fruit, mint and earth. Lovely.
Republic National.
Antica Cabernet Sauvignon 2009/2010
Three stars
Napa Valley, Calif., $55
Piero Antinori, the famed Tuscan wine producer, makes this cabernet from grapes grown in the higher-altitude vineyards of the Atlas Peak area of Napa Valley. It shows great structure, dark fruit and a mineral finish that doesn't want to quit. You might still be able to find the 2009, which benefits from more bottle age and shows how well a restrained style of winemaking works in a riper vintage.
Republic National.
Chateau Montelena Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
Three stars
Napa Valley, Calif.,$55
From a pioneering winery that has never surrendered to trends toward greater ripeness and alcohol levels, this wine shows delicious fruit and elegance, balanced throughout with acidity and earthiness on the long finish.
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Frog's Leap Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
Three stars
Napa Valley, Calif., $45
Frog's Leap wines always impress me with their focus, their fruit and a quality I can best describe as grounded. With this wine, you taste not only California's fruit and sun, but also its earth.
Republic National in D.C.; Bacchus in Maryland; Country Vintner in Virginia.
Heritance Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
Two and a half stars
Napa Valley, Calif., $38
Bernard Portet's new venture produces this stylish cabernet that echoes the early wines of Clos du Val.
Country Vintner.
Oberon Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
GREAT VALUE Two stars
From Michael Mondavi Family Wines, this cabernet shows the classic fruit and balance of Napa Valley in an accessible style. And it plays well with food.
Three stars Exceptional, two stars Excellent, one star Very Good
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Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck/
A journalist recounts an encounter with an alien entity that appears throughout human history, a woman creates a creature from her own blood and spit in a can, and a man falls in love with an airship. These are just a couple of the tales to be found in Swedish author Karin Tidbeck's collection of short fiction, Jagannath. The collection has received considerable critical acclaim in the past couple of months, from Tor.com to NPR, and it's easy to see that the attention is well deserved: it's a brilliant book, full of stories that linger long after the words have been read, and the book replaced on the bookshelf.
Jagannath is by far one of the best books that I've picked up this year, a collection of short stories that left me utterly breathless and at the edge of my seat while reading it. More than once, I found myself at the end of a story, only to turn back and begin rereading it immediately. Each story in this short book is a gem, wonderfully crafted and constructed, each leaving me with a shiver of dread and thrill.
What impressed me the most is how utterly normal and natural a vast majority of the stories felt while reading them: normal people encountering something that's just slightly off from what is typically natural. A woman comes out of the woods and marries into a family - supernatural elements may or may not be at play, while a suicidal friend in Rebecka may or may not be insane, or tormented by divine intervention. Other stories are more fantastic, but still utterly grounded, such as the strange call center in Who is Arvid Pekon?, the timeless fairy world in Augusta Prima or the historical encounters with some sort of creature in Pyret. Still others are way out there, such as in Aunts or the title story, Jagannath. In a lot of ways, she does Lovecraft better than Lovecraft ever did himself.
Location figures into this: I've come across several articles and interviews where Tidbeck highlights her home in Sweden, with its long winters as an inspiration for some of the strange occurrences that she's written about. Coming from New England, with its dark geography and short summers, I can certainly relate to the dark atmosphere that has been injected into these stories.
Tidbeck's stories are uniformly haunting, surreal and sublime, and the collection as a whole is a wonder to behold. There's little surprise to see that the book is recommended by such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin and China Miéville, and Jagannath easily falls into the Weird subgenre, as easily as it can be classified into any genre. The stories are a bit odd, and should place Tidbeck on every reader's must-read list from here on out. I for one, can't wait to see what she has coming up next.


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TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology scored three runs in the fifth inning to rally from a 4-2 deficit and top Anderson University 7-4 in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball action on Tuesday night.
The Fightin' Engineers took advantage of three walks to bring the score within 4-3, before sophomore Evan Witsken (Granger, Ind./South Bend St. Joseph) brought home two runners with the key at bat of the game. With the bases loaded, Witsken slapped a sharply hit ground ball through Anderson's Andrew Eiler to plate two runs and give Rose-Hulman the lead for good.
Seniors Hank Akard (Indianapolis/Ben Davis) and Andrew Benitez (Mililani, Hawaii/Mililani) led the offense with two singles each. Akard also became Rose-Hulman's career school record holder with 40 stolen bases by taking a base in the eighth inning.
Freshman Zach Trusk (Planfield, Ill./North) took advantage of three walks and one hit by pitch to score three runs in the game, while junior Josh Hoeing (Rushville, Ind.) added a single and an RBI.
The offensive effort made a winner of senior Kevin Farley (Centennial, Colo./Littleton), who improved to 4-0 on the season. Farley allowed six hits and three earned runs with four strikeouts in the effort. Junior John Krasich (Westfield) added 1.1 scoreless inning, before sophomore Alec McNally (Geneva, Ill./Wheaton Academy) pitched a scoreless ninth for his single-season school record tying seventh save.
Zack Hufferd led the Anderson offense with a bases loaded triple to plate three Anderson runs in the third inning. Connor Morris joined Huffered with two hits in the contest.
Rose-Hulman improved to 13-7 on the season and 8-3 in conference play, while Anderson dropped to 14-7 and 7-4 in conference games. The Fightin' Engineers host Illinois Tech in non-conference action on Thursday at 6 p.m.


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"Shame on you!" A chant heard in Colorado and now in Tampa
What do the Republican National Convention and Colorado's civil-unions bill have in common? Frustrated folks chanting, "Shame on you!"
At the RNC in Tampa, delegates on Tuesday chanted "Shame on you!" after a rules change intended to stop future insurgent presidential candidates from amassing delegates at the GOP conventions. Supporters of insurgent Ron Paul were particularly incensed, but other delegates and alternates were also unhappy with what was perceived as an establishment power play.
In Colorado in May, supporters of civil unions chanted "Shame on you!" from the third-floor gallery when it became clear the bill was not going to be heard in the House on the second to last night of the session, thus ensuring its death. At least 30 other bills were the victims of friendly fire in one of the most dramatic moments in legislative history.


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The Taliban have welcomed news from Washington that the US might withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan next year, saying the American public was pressing for an end to "this aimless war".
The comment came ahead of a crucial meeting between President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House on Friday that is expected to focus on how many American soldiers will remain in Afghanistan.
The US and its NATO allies have long planned to withdraw their combat troops by the end of 2014, although it has been widely expected that Washington will leave a force to train, advise and assist the Afghan army and police.
But Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, told reporters Tuesday that Obama would not rule out any ideas, including the so-called zero option -- pulling out all the remaining 66,000 US troops.
US military officers privately said comments about a total withdrawal were primarily designed as a tactic in negotiations with Kabul over a security agreement, which includes immunity for American troops remaining behind.
Taliban insurgents, however, seized on Rhodes' comments as a sign that the administration was under pressure from the American people to pull out completely from the nation's longest war.
"We appreciate this step of the American public and all those societies who pressurise their government in the issue of Afghanistan as to bring this aimless war to an end and to evacuate all their troops," the Taliban said in a statement on their website.
Opinion polls for several years have shown that the US public is tired of the human and financial cost of the Afghanistan war, initially launched after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.


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Jeanette – White Woman with Crutches
19 cut out images of Jeanette, a white woman, using crutches. These crutches are they type used by people with permanent disabilities. With multiple poses and angles, you can quickly tell a visual story in your eLearning course or presentation. Additionally, if you need more expressions, you can use the complementary able-body pack of this same character.


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Pate necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 4 diseños de 2 diseñadores freelance.
Unique new affiliate site - NEEDS A GREAT DESIGNER
This project consists of creating 2 web pages (PSD Only) to promote various affiliate offerings in the credit industry. Offers for credit reports, credit cards, identity theft products etc – will be promoted.
We are creating a small affiliate network based on the offers that we are promoting. This site will be replicated and made available to a network of affiliates that will be promoting these offers to the end users.
The site must have a modern web 2.0ish look and feel. The site should incorporate some basic RSS feeds from various online networks, like mint.com, money.com, etc. so it's constantly updated with some fresh articles etc.
The title of the site must be created so it's easily changed based on the choice of the affiliate.
The main page will promote multiple offers, while the secondary page needs to be designed to be the "product page" describing the specific details on the offers, and a clear call to action.
The main page should be designed to promote the call to action of "sign-up" or "apply now" for the various offers- but have a "more info" link to bring to the product specific page if they want more info.
Each of the offers should have a thumbnail, product title, description, and a "Star Rating"
The offers must be cleanly separated so our CMS can display the chosen offers based on the affiliates settings.
The following will be the initial offers to start the site:
1. Hutton Chase (http://www.huttonchase.com)
Offer Title: Hutton Chase – Online Catalog – Easy Credit Approval
Description: Hutton Chase is an online catalog, that offers a variety of merchandise. There is an option to finance your purchase with Hutton Chases "E-Z Pay option". Application for credit is fast and easy with Hutton Chase, and approvals are made online instantly. Credit lines are approved from $500 -$1500 instantly, and you can use your credit line immediately for purchases on the website. This account is great for anyone looking to establish credit.
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Thread Synchronization (C# and Visual Basic)
The following sections describe features and classes that can be used to synchronize access to resources in multithreaded applications.
One of the benefits of using multiple threads in an application is that each thread executes asynchronously. For Windows applications, this allows time-consuming tasks to be performed in the background while the application window and controls remain responsive. For server applications, multithreading provides the ability to handle each incoming request with a different thread. Otherwise, each new request would not get serviced until the previous request had been fully satisfied.
However, the asynchronous nature of threads means that access to resources such as file handles, network connections, and memory must be coordinated. Otherwise, two or more threads could access the same resource at the same time, each unaware of the other's actions. The result is unpredictable data corruption.
For simple operations on integral numeric data types, synchronizing threads can be accomplished with members of the Interlocked class. For all other data types and non thread-safe resources, multithreading can only be safely performed using the constructs in this topic.
For background information on multithreaded programming, see:
The lock and SyncLock Keywords
The lock (C#) and SyncLock (Visual Basic) statements can be used to ensure that a block of code runs to completion without interruption by other threads. This is accomplished by obtaining a mutual-exclusion lock for a given object for the duration of the code block.
A lock or SyncLock statement is given an object as an argument, and is followed by a code block that is to be executed by only one thread at a time. For example:
Public Class TestThreading
Dim lockThis As New Object
Public Sub Process()
SyncLock lockThis
' Access thread-sensitive resources.
End SyncLock
End Sub
End Class
public class TestThreading
private System.Object lockThis = new System.Object();
public void Process()
lock (lockThis)
// Access thread-sensitive resources.
The argument provided to the lock keyword must be an object based on a reference type, and is used to define the scope of the lock. In the example above, the lock scope is limited to this function because no references to the object lockThis exist outside the function. If such a reference did exist, lock scope would extend to that object. Strictly speaking, the object provided is used solely to uniquely identify the resource being shared among multiple threads, so it can be an arbitrary class instance. In practice, however, this object usually represents the resource for which thread synchronization is necessary. For example, if a container object is to be used by multiple threads, then the container can be passed to lock, and the synchronized code block following the lock would access the container. As long as other threads locks on the same contain before accessing it, then access to the object is safely synchronized.
Generally, it is best to avoid locking on a public type, or on object instances beyond the control of your application. For example, lock(this) can be problematic if the instance can be accessed publicly, because code beyond your control may lock on the object as well. This could create deadlock situations where two or more threads wait for the release of the same object. Locking on a public data type, as opposed to an object, can cause problems for the same reason. Locking on literal strings is especially risky because literal strings are interned by the common language runtime (CLR). This means that there is one instance of any given string literal for the entire program, the exact same object represents the literal in all running application domains, on all threads. As a result, a lock placed on a string with the same contents anywhere in the application process locks all instances of that string in the application. As a result, it is best to lock a private or protected member that is not interned. Some classes provide members specifically for locking. The Array type, for example, provides SyncRoot. Many collection types provide a SyncRoot member as well.
For more information about the lock and SyncLock statements, see the following topics:
Like the lock and SyncLock keywords, monitors prevent blocks of code from simultaneous execution by multiple threads. The Enter method allows one and only one thread to proceed into the following statements; all other threads are blocked until the executing thread calls Exit. This is just like using the lock keyword. For example:
SyncLock x
End SyncLock
lock (x)
This is equivalent to:
Dim obj As Object = CType(x, Object)
End Try
System.Object obj = (System.Object)x;
Using the lock (C#) or SyncLock (Visual Basic) keyword is generally preferred over using the Monitor class directly, both because lock or SyncLock is more concise, and because lock or SyncLock insures that the underlying monitor is released, even if the protected code throws an exception. This is accomplished with the finally keyword, which executes its associated code block regardless of whether an exception is thrown.
Synchronization Events and Wait Handles
Using a lock or monitor is useful for preventing the simultaneous execution of thread-sensitive blocks of code, but these constructs do not allow one thread to communicate an event to another. This requires synchronization events, which are objects that have one of two states, signaled and un-signaled, that can be used to activate and suspend threads. Threads can be suspended by being made to wait on a synchronization event that is unsignaled, and can be activated by changing the event state to signaled. If a thread attempts to wait on an event that is already signaled, then the thread continues to execute without delay.
There are two kinds of synchronization events: AutoResetEvent, and ManualResetEvent. They differ only in that AutoResetEvent changes from signaled to unsignaled automatically any time it activates a thread. Conversely, a ManualResetEvent allows any number of threads to be activated by its signaled state, and will only revert to an unsignaled state when its Reset method is called.
Threads can be made to wait on events by calling one of the wait methods, such as WaitOne, WaitAny, or WaitAll. WaitHandleWaitOne causes the thread to wait until a single event becomes signaled, WaitHandleWaitAny blocks a thread until one or more indicated events become signaled, and WaitHandleWaitAll blocks the thread until all of the indicated events become signaled. An event becomes signaled when its Set method is called.
In the following example, a thread is created and started by the Main function. The new thread waits on an event using the WaitOne method. The thread is suspended until the event becomes signaled by the primary thread that is executing the Main function. Once the event becomes signaled, the auxiliary thread returns. In this case, because the event is only used for one thread activation, either the AutoResetEvent or ManualResetEvent classes could be used.
Imports System.Threading
Module Module1
Dim autoEvent As AutoResetEvent
Sub DoWork()
Console.WriteLine(" worker thread started, now waiting on event...")
Console.WriteLine(" worker thread reactivated, now exiting...")
End Sub
Sub Main()
autoEvent = New AutoResetEvent(False)
Console.WriteLine("main thread starting worker thread...")
Dim t As New Thread(AddressOf DoWork)
Console.WriteLine("main thread sleeping for 1 second...")
Console.WriteLine("main thread signaling worker thread...")
End Sub
End Module
using System;
using System.Threading;
class ThreadingExample
static AutoResetEvent autoEvent;
static void DoWork()
Console.WriteLine(" worker thread started, now waiting on event...");
Console.WriteLine(" worker thread reactivated, now exiting...");
static void Main()
autoEvent = new AutoResetEvent(false);
Console.WriteLine("main thread starting worker thread...");
Thread t = new Thread(DoWork);
Console.WriteLine("main thread sleeping for 1 second...");
Console.WriteLine("main thread signaling worker thread...");
Mutex Object
A mutex is similar to a monitor; it prevents the simultaneous execution of a block of code by more than one thread at a time. In fact, the name "mutex" is a shortened form of the term "mutually exclusive." Unlike monitors, however, a mutex can be used to synchronize threads across processes. A mutex is represented by the Mutex class.
When used for inter-process synchronization, a mutex is called a named mutex because it is to be used in another application, and therefore it cannot be shared by means of a global or static variable. It must be given a name so that both applications can access the same mutex object.
Although a mutex can be used for intra-process thread synchronization, using Monitor is generally preferred, because monitors were designed specifically for the .NET Framework and therefore make better use of resources. In contrast, the Mutex class is a wrapper to a Win32 construct. While it is more powerful than a monitor, a mutex requires interop transitions that are more computationally expensive than those required by the Monitor class. For an example of using a mutex, see Mutexes.
Interlocked Class
You can use the methods of the Interlocked class to prevent problems that can occur when multiple threads attempt to simultaneously update or compare the same value. The methods of this class let you safely increment, decrement, exchange, and compare values from any thread.
ReaderWriter Locks
In some cases, you may want to lock a resource only when data is being written and permit multiple clients to simultaneously read data when data is not being updated. The ReaderWriterLock class enforces exclusive access to a resource while a thread is modifying the resource, but it allows non-exclusive access when reading the resource. ReaderWriter locks are a useful alternative to exclusive locks, which cause other threads to wait, even when those threads do not need to update data.
Thread synchronization is invaluable in multithreaded applications, but there is always the danger of creating a deadlock, where multiple threads are waiting for each other and the application comes to a halt. A deadlock is analogous to a situation in which cars are stopped at a four-way stop and each person is waiting for the other to go. Avoiding deadlocks is important; the key is careful planning. You can often predict deadlock situations by diagramming multithreaded applications before you start coding.
Related Sections
How to: Use a Thread Pool (C# and Visual Basic)
HOW TO: Synchronize Access to a Shared Resource in a Multithreading Environment by Using Visual C# .NET
HOW TO: Create a Thread by Using Visual C# .NET
HOW TO: Submit a Work Item to the Thread Pool by Using Visual C# .NET
HOW TO: Synchronize Access to a Shared Resource in a Multithreading Environment by Using Visual C# .NET
See Also
Multithreaded Applications (C# and Visual Basic)
Synchronizing Data for Multithreading
Other Resources
Implementing the CLR Asynchronous Programming Model
HOW TO: Synchronize Access to a Shared Resource in a Multithreading Environment by Using Visual C# .NET


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A panel of experts, chaired by The AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman and invited by Comar, discuss the thorny issues of indoor air quality and building performance
Revisions to Part L are due to go into effect in October 2013. The changes will address new dwellings, non-domestic buildings, retrofit of existing buildings and performance compliance. For new dwellings, the proposed regulations require a mandatory fabric performance standard and related changes to SAP and SBEM calculations. For non-domestic buildings, an aggregate approach means that the fabric target will vary according to building type.
Hattie Hartman Thank you for coming everyone and a particular thank you to Comar for hosting us. I'm going to turn over to Lynne Sullivan for a few minutes, who is chairing the committee that is looking at revisions to Part L, and she's going to give us an overview and highlights of possible things coming down the pipeline.
Lynne Sullivan So there are two aspects really, which is 1) the standard and 2) a new methodology. We decided on this Aggregated approach; which is basically to set a target for different types of buildings. The Part L timescale is more relaxed, so generally what we were putting forward was going to be less contentious because it's a fairly modest increase and, as you facade guys know, technology is moving on. For the designer, a modest increase in performance is becoming easier to achieve because of the products in the marketplace. One of the big issues is ventilation: as you get more energy efficient in the fabric, then you have to consider ventilation. Admittedly that's more of an issue in domestic buildings, but the same principles apply in non-domestic buildings. As you get more airtight, you have to be really careful to get the right air change rates.
Tom Kyle We recently did some work with the Technology Strategy Board, which did a year-long study of a housing scheme that we built. Only about half of the houses used their mechanical ventilation systems correctly. It was a failing on the part of installers to put them in properly, the sales team who didn't know how they worked and the tenants who didn't know how they were supposed to be used. Nobody cleaned the filters and so the whole process, from beginning to end, just didn't work. All the residents were either getting mould in their homes or they were opening windows and the whole thing wasn't working. So clearly there's a huge amount of education to be done.
Paul Hinkin With all of this, it comes down to user-centred design. The problem is that we get so fixated on the tech and so fixated on the performance parameters and everything falls down because nothing is simple enough, transparent enough and focused on how it will be used by the average Joe or Josephine! The performance gap is in the way we design solutions for users.
Tom Kyle With increasing airtightness, if you have moisture management problems and you've got mould all over your walls, it's quite obvious; whereas if you turn your heating on and open all your windows, nobody knows, there's no way of measuring that unless you've got some way of metering or you get a huge energy bill.
LS Actually, it's in schools that there's some really good evidence, where the air quality's been shown to be really poor and they've recognised it because they've realised that students aren't performing well or people are falling asleep.
Marc Levinson That's quite prevalent in healthcare as well. How many hospitals do you walk in and it's baking hot, freezing cold, or all the lights are on because nobody's tasked with turning them off? We recently looked at a building (not one of ours) that is only about three years old and the energy consumption is already double what the design targets were. There are all sorts of reasons for that – a lot of it to do with some of the procurement routes as well, about who's paying the utility bills and how tenders are evaluated. We should be looking at lifecycle costing, but of course capital cost is still dominant in the public sector, even though that's not the official line.
Hari Phillips Having the opportunity to go back to your buildings and see how they're performing in practice isn't something we get many opportunities to do. But, the education of people that inhabit the buildings is critical as well. We provide the Home Manual as part of the Code and we assume that people have read and understood it.
Marion Baeli There are some architects who do a put all the utility and ventilation on one board and it's really diagrammatic; how you get hot air, cold air, hot water. It's so simple and I think the wall-mounted A1 board or even A3, has to be the solution because when everybody's gone out, they have the property, there's nobody to ask any questions and you don't need to dig it out from under the boiler.
Tom Dollard That's something that Part L could stipulate; it could say one year down the line, two years down the line; you go and do the tests and check that the MVHR is working and that's how you get your Building Regs sign-off. Compliance should be based on the later stage and not at the design stage.
Alison Davey We would welcome something like that. I've not heard of any facades in a single project where Building Control have said, 'Sorry, this is not compliant. Go back to the drawing board.' When we go >> through the tender process we work closely with architects throughout the country with value engineering, and we try and achieve the new U-value that's requested and then somebody comes out of nowhere with a ridiculous price and you know that they're saying, 'Yes, Y achieves X'. We know it doesn't but they go with the cheaper option, and that's a big issue which should concern Building Control.
LS Actually, Tom, you raised a really interesting issue. In terms of Building Control's inspection regime, everything stops at practical completion and hand-over point. That said, the move to soft landings and the realisation about the importance of the commissioning process suggests that real completion is later. As far as I know, there are no precedents. Although, again, in the context of the Building Regs Advisory Committee, I know this has been something we've banged on for years about. What it means is a whole new raft of responsibility for building inspectors to come back later and recognise that a lot could have changed in a year of occupation, so it would mean a major overhaul of the Building Act. That's not impossible: the MP Andrew Stunell brought in a piece of primary legislation under a private members bill, the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act. It did allow for Building Regulations to be made for the purposes of sustainability, so it wouldn't require primary legislation to do that.
PH In our project for the Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD), we tried to set a rule about simplifying technology to the lowest possible level. We now go back there once every six weeks, either to show it off to potential clients or to see how they're doing. Because we all think that we're going to deliver this perfect solution and it never works, it's always sub-optimal. Somehow we need to find a way of being able to refine the bits that are sub-optimal, or accept the fact that all we do is roll out a standard product, which is like a car that's been designed and is just replicated across the country regardless of context and I don't think that's the right answer. But those are really the two paradigms; choose one of those two.
PH What you could do is, you could just make a call tomorrow that every building has to have a great big sign outside it, which is changed once a year, that says how much energy it used in the previous year. I mean, that's all that needs to happen because then the pressure of shame will cause change. The pension funds have probably had the most significant influence on what gets built in the UK since the second world war and nobody ever shines a light on them and says, 'What are you doing?' So the first thing is to actually just shine that light and say, 'You're investing our money, we've seen what's happened, these assets have to be safe and secure and therefore you have to demand a level of performance from the people who are building them for you.' They have to demonstrate that the performance criteria that were set at the design are being achieved.
LS The Cabinet Office are now introducing Soft Landings, which I think could be quite a game changer. Anyone who's building buildings that they might want to lease to government offices or public offices – and that's 40 per cent of non-domestic buildings – they're likely to have to use Soft Landings. Soft Landings will be mandatory for the entire public estate from 2016.
HH It's a good first step.
PH The 'starchitect' sphere defines so much of how the profession sees itself and how it behaves and even what gets built: expert clients take the view that they want to buy an iconic piece because it will get them planning permission, even if it is poorly performing design.
ML We're talking as though they're mutually exclusive; a choice between a really nice building or a high performing one. Maybe that's part of the problem.
PH We should be demanding that our leadership [RIBA] spends money on building a body of knowledge to allow us to demonstrate to clients that we add value. Until we do, our profession will continue to become less and less relevant, less well paid and less well respected. If the environment you build can help achieve efficiency gains, like 10 to 15 per cent reduced absenteeism in passively conditioned versus actively conditioned offices, then apply that across hospitals, schools, everything, then there's a massive leap in the performance of UK plc and a body of knowledge we can take abroad and sell – and we desperately need some products to go and sell abroad.
MB In a paper I presented at the Passivhaus conference a few weeks ago, I compared three houses; the retrofit, the Passivhaus and the Decent Home Plus; one with insulation and one single-glazed Victorian, same street, same layout, same everything. We monitored the houses for a whole year, so we have accurate comparative data. The non-retrofitted house, with the income of a two person household on £14,000 per year, which is pretty much the average (in 2009, anyway), will hit fuel poverty in 2020. The Decent Home will hit it in 2030, the passive house, never. This is where we're heading. Before we leave this issue of the performance gap, this is the one that just keeps nagging away.
HH Marion mentioned the idea of coming back a year later and tying that in. Are there any specifics about how to build that into the process?
AD I think they need to have a test case that goes forward legally, where the building hasn't achieved what was proposed. That would be a key driver because we are a country of lawyers, aren't we? Once that happens, it gives us a story to tell to the contractor when we try to maintain a specification.
HH We've talked about building performance. What about airtightness and indoor air quality, which relates to what we're saying here in terms of creating better places. Any observations on indoor air quality?
MB I was speaking to an RSL who owns nearly 5,000 properties and he said their number one issue to resolve is condensation and humidity, because they've changed all the windows to double-glazed. Even if they have trickle vents, everybody shuts them off or blocks them up. Condensation is a very big issue!
PH It's going to be the next wide-scale building failure, isn't it? It's going to be the next scandal.
George Legg It's very tricky. The architectural profession and building physicists don't know enough about the heat and moisture movement through the building envelope, especially with internal insulation. Brick is not a sealed envelope, it's a permeable material, so you've got moisture coming from the outside and you've potentially got moisture coming from the inside too.
HH Does anyone else have any other issues they'd like to raise?
TD We have accredited construction details and we have the standards of Class E acoustics robust detail exactly. I was wondering whether there's any demand for good thermal bridge details and almost standardised levels of detail that can be rolled out in some way or at least a handbook, that is compliant with the Building Regs, that builders and other contractors can get their head around, so the whole construction industry can get up to speed with these details and start building.
LS In the 2010 Building Regs it was suggested that this is the way forward; that we could have these standard details. But the Department for Communities and Local Government has moved away from them. There's a revival of interest at the moment, focusing on this performance gap, so I think you make a really good point. Working with robust details is not something that has destroyed design innovation for architects. When we're doing Passivhaus, we more or less have to work out those junctions ourselves. If we don't have them as defaults, we have to work them out. We're working with critical details in mind from the earliest moment, so it's not a big constraint on architecture, it's just another tool in the tool box. But it would be good for architects not to feel threatened by this potential new world.
TK Well, it's already here. The Energy Saving Trust did accredited and enhanced details back in 2006 which we still use, although you can't roll it across all projects and there aren't steel-framed details. You have to take it off in the concrete and there are all sorts of problems with them, but it just needs an upgrade. Do the same again, it's still there and have it signed off on site. That's how you're meant to do it: you've got the diagram, you give that to the builder. Then they sign off that they've done this and, again, it would help architects and take it right the way through the site.
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