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Art Gallery: "A Portrait of Harvey Milk"
August 10, 2012 1 Comment
"Milk", approx. 18″x12″, paintmarker and acrylic on cheap prefab stretched canvas
In honor of KASEY's excellent recent series on art and queer culture, I decided to share another painting of mine loosely related to a similar subject. This portrait of Harvey Milk was done from a photograph taken of him while he was campaigning for election in San Francisco. It was done as another surprise birthday gift in dimensions allowable to be stored in carry-on luggage when I flew home recently. It seems like most of my art ends up given as gifts, does that mean I'm a cheapskate when it comes to gift-giving?
In any case, it's hard for me to capture faces on this smaller scale, so I don't feel I did the subject justice in the translation from photo to paint. The main impetus was to represent an extremely brave and admirable public figure of queer culture as a gift to an openly homosexual family member who I greatly admire and is similarly extremely brave.
The text repeated in the background and mostly obscured by Harvey's smiling face reads: "none so brave as those unafraid to love"
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The K Series Parts K-Pro package includes everything you need in one bundle! It includes a brand new PRB 6-speed ECU from Honda with K-Pro installed. Now you don't need to worry about finding a used ECU and running the risk of the ECU being bad.
Hondata KPro4 (Version 4) is a fully programmable ECU for 02-04 Acura RSX (DC5), 02-05 Honda Civic Si (EP3), and any K Swapped vehicle. K-Pro is a must have to get maximum performance out of your k-series engine.
The K-Series Programmable ECU (K-Pro) consists of a hardware modification to any K-Series ECU, plus Windows software which allows you to re-program the ECU and datalog sensors.
Version 4 Enhancements
Faster and More Powerful: The KPro4 uses a faster processor with more capability than the KPro-III. This allows the KPro4 to perform more tasks without slowing down the ECU, like live tuning, output to a dash, flex fuel and advanced protection. Calibration uploads and datalogging from a laptop are also faster.
Enhanced On Board Datalogging: The KPro4 has double the datalogging memory (64 MBit) of the KPro-III and can datalog at double the rate (100 Hz), giving an on board recording time of 10 - 220 minutes.
Faster Uploads: The upload time is 30% faster than the KPro-III, with a typical initial upload time of 7 seconds. Subsequent uploads are also faster, and live tuning can be used for instantaneous updates. Laptop datalogging is also 30% faster than the KPro-III.
Live Tuning and Autotune: Main tables can be updated in real time, without affecting the operation of the engine. This allows dyno tuning without pausing to upload. Autotune uses live tuning and a laptop to tune fuel tables as you drive.
Bluetooth: The KPro4 includes Bluetooth for laptop programming/datalogging with a USB cable, and mobile datalogging.
Ethenol Sensor Input: An ethanol sensor can be directly connected to the KPro4, allowing flex fuel operation, with adjustments to fuel & ignition tables performed automatically based on fuel ethanol content.
Speed Sensor Input: A speed sensor input can be directly connected to the KPro4 and sent to the ECU. This is configurable to any pulse based sensor and eliminates the need for a stock speed sensor.
Dash & Datalogging Outputs: The KPro4 has serial output (both TTL & RS232) and CAN output so that a dash can be driven from the KPro. The AiM MXL, Racepak & generic CAN outputs are supported.
Advanced Protection: Advanced protection options use the KPro4 analog inputs and engine information to intelligently shut down the engine when the conditions might be dangerous to the engine.
Better Wideband Support: The KPro4 can process a wideband lambda input (either analog or digital) and allow the ECU to run in closed loop from an aftermarket wideband without requiring the stock o2 sensor.
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- Engine Swaps - Must use 02-04 Engine harness and 02-04 Transmission
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- Fits inside the ECU
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- USB connection for speed and compatibility
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- Many built in calibrations for common engine combinations
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- On board datalogging memory (2 MB memory, 10-110 minutes datalogging)
- Adjustment for different sized injectors, with overall fuel trim.
- Configurable for any MAP sensor (to 5 Bar and above)
- TPS based table lookup for ITBs
- Engine protection from over boost and lean protection.
- Expanded fuel and ignition tables, both in rpm and load, to 60 lbs boost and 11,000 rpm (these are not the upper limits)
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- Supports lambda tracing from the stock wideband o2
- PWM output for boost control
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- Base maps are included only for K20A2, K20A3 (RSX Base), K20A3 (Civic SI) and K20A engines.
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- Support for the manual K20A3 engine and the secondary intake runner as used in the base model RSX and CRV.
- The Japanese PRD and PRC ECU do not support a fuel tank pressure sensor required for some US emissions tests, but will likely pass a tailpipe sniffer test if the catalytic converter is in place.
- PNF, PPA and PND ECUs for 5 speed transmissions will not operate the reverse lock solenoid on 6 speed transmissions.
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- Turn around time is usually 2 days from the time it is received.
- From previous ECU's Honda has changed from 2 dimensional tables (engine speed and engine load) to 3 dimensional tables (engine speed, engine load and cam angle). The K-Pro ECU retains these 3 dimensional tables to ensure the engine is running at optimum efficiency and power for every cam angle.
- The stock JDM and US O2 sensor is wide band and can read from 11.5:1 to 30:1 A/F ratios.
- Most OBDII features may be disabled for race vehicles.
- Error codes and the OBDII readiness status may be datalogged.
- Base tables are supplied for the RSX Type S, RSX Base, Civic SI and Integra Type R engines. These tables have been dyno tuned.
- No external programmer or other equipment is necessary. Just plug the ECU into a laptop via a USB cable.
- Tables may be map-traced in real time.
- The K-Pro ECU is not real-time updateable, however most changes to tables and settings can be uploaded in 1-2 seconds.
- The K-Pro ECU is a separate product from the s100/s200 line, and will not share the same options (e.g. 3 step) nor software (HondaLogger, RomEditor). All systems are fully programmable by the user. All K-Pro ECU systems include all features (e.g. boost, datalogging).
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- Air temperature compensation
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- On board datalogging trigger conditions
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2004162Sunday November 18th 2012, 12:13 am
Today has been pretty nuts, all over the place, leaving me reeling and disjointed. Slamming my head into pieces. Blasting wind and rain, feels a bit metaphoric for the chaos of the day. Trying to resolve website problems, good art sale, discovering the backyard fence is broken and that I can't fix it properly because the drill isn't charged, a major unresolved work crisis that I'm trying not to freak the fuck out over, surprisingly finishing a first draft of a script, catching up conversation with Trevor McCarthy about upcoming stories, thinking up a cool idea for the next two pages I have to draw… I feel like there's something else I'm missing. Can't think of it right now, my mind is fuzzy, swimming, and my feet are distractingly cold regardless of socks and slippers. So no interesting introspective musings to flesh out here for the blog, just a whirlwind.
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who would have thought of a sequence consisting add, subtract, multiply, and division of prime numbers?
The (*few?*) guys who got it rigth... : )
Would I ever remember of such a sequence!!!???well...umm..I really don't think so...
As MathsIsFun said... this was truly devilish.
...Maybe the contest's creator worships some kind of satannic cult : |
But besides that the contest is fun... You should all tryout.
Ahhh ... so it was a pattern of adding, subtracting or multiplying by the prime number sequence ... how devilish.
The pattern was:
Odd turn: (Even number: +, Odd number x)
Even turn: Even number: -, Odd number +)
Since the next prime number in the sequence was 37, and the next operation was multiply, then the answer was 1125 x 37 = 41625.
(The inherent problem with sequence questions, though, is that there can be multiple "right" answers.)]]>
I feel somehow that we have been ripped off.
So let US say that the answer is 42 and move our lives on as best we can.]]>
1) The contest is over, so unless kylekatarn and master got IM'ing and didn't come back here, they're too late.
2) The website has a little thing called the 'rerun contest', where it chooses a random puzzle from its archive and lets you solve it for points, for people like me who come in halfway through a contest to help them catch up. That means that the answer could still be valuable to puzzlers even once the contest is over. For this reason, NO ANSWER PROVIDED.
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Whether it's good or bad buzz, QR codes are always a hot topic of conversation. McDonalds is the latest brand to try its hand at the hyped technology.
The fast food brand is launching a new global packaging design that uses QR codes to let customers access their food's nutritional information. The QR codes will be featured on all carry-out bags and fountain soda cups.
With obesity being such an important health concern these days, especially in America, more and consumers are interested in nutritional information on food packaging and more and more brands are trying to align themselves with healthy lifestyles.
Using QR codes is certainly a new way of displaying nutritional information and may prove to be a useful application of the much-hyped QR code. However, it may prove to be just another annoying application of the technology, especially when nutritional information is already available on menu boards inside McDonald's restaurants. Why would people want to go out of their way to capture the QR codes on packaging and then find out nutritional information on their smartphones.
Let's face it, the track record for QR isn't very good. Can this possibly work?
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Maxx ARC MX1801i Review : Maxx has launched its new smartphone ARC MX1801i on August 2014. The Smartphone is now available to purchase at the price of Rs. 1,120 from leading shopping portals and retail outlet. The smartphone comes in two colors options which are Black and Black with Yellow. The smartphone gives competition to Nokia X Plus and LG L60i Dual.
Lets take a look at the Maxx ARC MX1801i Specifications and Features.
Maxx ARC MX1801i Specifications
Display: 1.8 Inch TFT Transmissive Screen with 262K Colors
Resolution: 128 x 160 pixels
Dimensions: 110 x 45 x 14 mm
Pixel Density: 114 ppi
Primary Camera: 0.3 MP with Autofocus and Digital Zoom
Secondary Camera: No
Video Recording: Yes VGA
Operating System: Proprietary OS
Processor: N/A
Ram: N/A
Weight: 61 gms
Dual Sim: Yes
Internal Memory: 32 MB
Expandable Memory: Upto 8 GB
Bluetooth: v2.0 with A2DP
Wifi: No
WLAN Support: No
USB Support : Yes
Sensors: Not Support
Battery Capacity: 1050 mAh Li-Ion
Total Charging Time: upto 3 Hours
Total Standby Time (2G) : Up to 180 hrs
Total Talktime (2G) : Up to 6 hrs
Network Band : GSM
Network (2G): GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 MHz
Maxx ARC MX1801i Review
The smartphone comes with 1.8 inch TFT Transmissive Screen with 262K Colors and has resolution of 128 x 160 pixels.
The Smartphone has inbuilt memory of 32 MB Which is expandable upto 8 GB via SD Card.
The smartphone has 0.3 MP of rear camera that record VGA video at the framerate of 15fps and it does not have Front Facing camera for video calling.
Operating System
Maxx ARC MX1801i runs on Proprietary OS operating system and it does support dual sim functionality.
The smartphone has good processing Speed.
The smartphone gives good battery life of 1050 mAh which gives good standby time of upto 180 hrs and talktime of upto 6 hrs.
The connectivity options include in this smartphone is Bluetooth V2.0, GPS, Micro-USB and GPRS/EDGE.
Maxx ARC MX1801i Price
The price of the smartphone according to country are given below-
Price in USA:- $ 18 Approx
Price in India: Rs 1,120 /-
Price in UK: £ 12 Approx
For more updates on the latest news on Maxx ARC MX1801i Specifications price and availability on ecommerce site stay updated to this blog.


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Live Action films just released a new video featuring Planned Parenthood employees lying about pre-natal development and encouraging a young woman to obtain an abortion because "women die having babies."
In an undercover video, filmed in an Appleton, WI, Planned Parenthood abortion facility, a counselor says that a 10-week old unborn child has no heart beat, only "heart tones," which she says begin at 7 weeks. In fact, heartbeats begin at roughly 3 weeks.
"They will do or say anything in order to sell more abortions to more women, whether it is covering up sexual abuse or lying to women about medical facts," says Rose. "Our team has visited dozens of Planned Parenthood clinics undercover. Planned Parenthood, while claiming to support patient self-determination, operates with an 'abortion-first mentality.'"
In the movie, both the counselor and an abortionist use a variety of circumlocutions to avoid referring to an unborn child as a baby, referring to the baby variously as a "fetus," "what's in the uterus right now," "the embryo that's developing inside," "something growing inside your uterus." They continually assure the woman, whom they believe to be pregnant, that the pre-born child is not a baby and variously tell her that it only becomes a baby at 6-7 months of pregnancy or at birth.
The doctor also tells her that she should not wait, "because the sooner you do an abortion the easier it is and the quicker it is."
The video is the first in Live Action's newly launched "Rosa Acuna Project," which will covertly document Planned Parenthood's abortion counseling techniques. Other Live Action films have revealed Planned Parenthood employees accepting money earmarked to kill "a black baby," lying about other issues, and being willing to cover-up statutory rape.
"Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar organization with nearly $350 million of government funding, and stands to gain hundreds of millions more from national health care," says Rose. "Do we really want to subsidize an organization that gives women in need atrocious misinformation and predatory abortion practices?"


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Walden Institute to Offer the Web's First Real-time Synchronous Learning Program
Bonita Springs, FL – Walden Institute, a leader in providing online certificate and professional development programs in technology, business and management, is now offering the first Certified Synchronous Instructor (CSI) Program conducted completely online. The eight-week CSI Program will teach corporate and academic instructors to design and deliver live Web-based instruction and presentations.
In Walden's synchronous online courses, individuals learn together, via "live" online events such as Web conferences and interactive presentations. Learners benefit from group interaction and participate individually from their own computers rather than in a traditional classroom setting.
Through a series of design projects and live online events, the CSI program teaches practical applications and techniques that can be implemented using any synchronous software.
"Once again, Walden is leading the way when it comes to offering online programs that instruct trainers in how to maximize the impact of their online course offerings," said Jeff Konzak, President of Walden Institute. "We were the first in the e-learning industry to offer a certification program for online instruction and we are the first with a Certified Synchronous Instructor Program. Equally important, is the live format of the program which allows learners to interact with their instructors in real-time."
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The Hugos Are Upon Us!
Hi everyone. As the co-hosts of Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans, we spend most of our time on the show interviewing, analyzing and discussing the work of other people in the speculative fiction field. But now, we're asking for something a little different. Nominations for the 2013 Hugo Awards are being accepted now, and although we're not big fans of shameless self-promotion, we figure if we didn't ask, you might not know that we are eligible to be nominated in the Hugo's Best Fancast category.
If you are an attending or supporting member of LoneStarCon3, the Worldcon coming up this August, an attending or supporting member of Chicon, last year's Worldcon, or an attending or supporting member of LonCon3, next year's Worldcon, you're eligible to nominate for any or all of the Hugo Awards. And it's easy–simply go to the nomination page (http://www.lonestarcon3.org/hugo-awards/hugo-nom.html), type in your name and the PIN sent to you by LonestarCon, and nominate for as many of the awards as you like–including, we hope, Speculate! in the Best Fancast category.
We do this show because we love talking about the field in which we write and study, speculative fiction; interviewing authors, artists, and editors, and getting to analyze the work they produce, is a great thrill for us. But the main reason we enjoy doing the show is it gives us a chance to communicate with all of you—to present our show to a lively and ever-growing audience.
Getting nominated for a Hugo—to say nothing of winning one!—would allow us to broaden that reach and communicate with even more fans of one of the most fascinating genres of literature we have. So we would greatly appreciate it if you could nominate Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans by heading over to the nomination page.
The deadline is Sunday, March 10, 2013, which is coming soon–so please do it as soon as you can! And thanks from both Greg and Brad to all of you for your feedback, enthusiastic support, and of course listening to the show! We look forward to giving you some great ones in the year ahead.
Thanks for tuning in, and of course for nominating!


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Continuing its wave of expansion, The Tile Shop has opened its first retail locations in Connecticut: one in Danbury and one in Norwalk.
The Tile Shop has announced its plans to open its first-ever super store in San Antonio.
This entails a 31,200-sq.ft. space -- its biggest in the country -- which compares with its usual average of 23,000-sq.-ft. retail locations. The super store will feature a selection of 4,500 stone and tile products.
Carl Randazzo, SVP retail for The Tile Shop, said that the additional square footage allows for an expansion of the retailer's product presentation.
The Tile Shop has opened a new retail location in North Plainfield, N.J., marking its fifth store in the state as well as the 17th new store out of a planned 20 for the year.
The Tile Shop is opening a new store in Tulsa, which will mark its first retail location in the state of Oklahoma.
"Tulsa homeowners take great pride in their homes," said Carl Randazzo, SVP of retail for The Tile Shop. "They want to surround themselves with natural beauty. We make the process of discovering the stone and tile that's right for your home as easy as possible with beautiful products incredibly presented, sold by sales associates who are trained to carefully listen to our homeowner customers."


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One of my favorite phones last year was the BlackBerry Pearl. It's a beautiful phone that brings the BlackBerry experience, with all its seamless e-mail service, to a whole new consumer-oriented audience. I can't tell you how many of these I've seen in the hands of regular people, not the business elite that Research in Motion is used to selling to.
Well, Research in Motion isn't done. Today, it annouced the BlackBerry Curve 8300, a successor to the Pearl, but this time with a full QWERTY keyboard. The device is wider than the Pearl and slightly thicker but still much more svelte, light and curvy (hence the name) than anything else RIM has in its product line. The Curve matches and surpasses the Pearl in consumer-friendly features in a form factor that should still appeal to text- and e-mail-hungry users. And of course, it has the Pearl's iconic trackball navigation tool, which is just about the easiest way to tool around your phone.
I got a chance to try one out for the last couple weeks and it's been a joy. The phone is great with a nice-sounding speaker phone. It seems a bit better than the Pearl in that regard. The Curve also has noise-cancelling technology that makes voice calls even clearer.
But you don't get a Pearl just for voice calls, you get it for e-mail and texting. And just as you'd imagine, the Curve is rock-solid. First, setting up e-mail accounts is as easy as ever. You can sign up multiple accounts and be up and running within 20 minutes. It's all part of RIM's push e-mail service, so everything gets sent to you in real time. No lag, no fuss.
Compared with the flagship 8800 series, the Curve has a smaller keyboard and is a bit harder to type with. But you get the hang of things easily. It's about the same as typing on a Palm Treo. For people who liked the Pearl but balked at its SureType system, where one button shares two letters, this is a good step up.
The phone features a bigger 2-megapixel camera, an improved media player and a mapping application that can provide maps and directions in an instant. The screen is brilliant and really shows off pictures and videos well. About the only complaint is the fact that you can't shoot video with the Curve, same as with the Pearl. Well, that and the fact that it doesn't come with true 3G data access, instead settling for Edge.
The Curve has a battery life of four hours of talk time and is also quad-band, meaning it's good to go in Europe and elsewhere. It's set to debut with AT&T sometime this spring at an undisclosed price.
You've got to like what RIM is doing these days. It has proven its business credentials and now it's shown remarkable success in moving down the food chain to consumers. It's also had good timing, waiting just as texting and mobile e-mail is catching on with the masses. At this rate, I'm curious to see what comes next.


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Thanks for that tip! At this point, I'm thinking we'll have anywhere between 30-50 guests- probably on the lower end though. Is there no other indoor location for a private reception?
Indoor reception options:
1) Spoon- they section off an area within the restaurant with curtains. (maximum I think was about 60 people)
2) There are 2 ballrooms located in the main lobby building. Both are very plain hotel ballrooms. The one towards the front does have a lovely balcony where your guests can step out for fresh air (or a smoke) (both would handle up to a 100 guests or more)
3) Zoloco Terrace is a covered area- it is not actually indoors. It faces the ocean and they have very large blinds(?) which get lowered when it's super windy to help block the wind. Maximum is about 35-40 people.
4) the Italian restaurant has a small private function room. But I think the maximum is 12 people.
That's all the spots I am aware of. Hope that helps.


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Ireland may cite Argentine hooker Mario Ledesma after an incident which saw lock Gary Longwell taken to hospital with a shoulder injury.
The Ireland management were incensed after Ledesma appeared to slide into Longwell with his knee while the big Ulsterman was lying on ground in the 26th minute.
However, the horrendous swampy conditions at Lansdowne Road on Saturday may have contributed to the situation.
Longwell was taken to the nearby St Vincent's hospital, but after X-rays the injury is not as bad as first feared.
Speaking to BBC Sport Online, Longwell claimed that the initial pain was as severe as he had ever felt.
''Thankfully there are no broken bones,'' he said.
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''When he hit me, I felt a searing pain.
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Federal help welcome on gun crimes in Port Arthur
Published 12:00 am, Saturday, October 10, 2009
If there is one thing that all sides in the gun debate should be able to agree upon, it is this: If you use a gun to commit a crime, you should be punished. If you use that gun to commit an especially heinous crime, you should be punished more.
Finally, this philosophy will be applied to more crimes in Port Arthur. Port Arthur Police Chief Mark Blanton and U.S. Attorney Malcolm Bales are joining forces to allow more prosecution of gun crimes in the federal system.
Bales' plan - called Operation Time Machine - will place two specially trained federal prosecutors in the Port Arthur police department. The program has already produced five indictments and two arrests.
Federal penalties for many violent crimes are often more serious than state penalties. The federal prison system also has no parole and fewer options for early release.
Previously, many criminals were going through a "revolving door" in the state system and returning to Port Arthur to commit more crimes.
That's a shortcoming in the state system that should be addressed, such as with tougher mandatory minimum sentences. For now, the federal option at least provides some relief to beleaguered communities like Port Arthur.
This effort also shows that public officials don't always need new laws to fight old problems. This option was always available. It has worked well in other cities and has potential in Port Arthur and other parts of the region.
When crime rates increase, law enforcement must respond accordingly. If it doesn't, the problem only grows worse.
That's unacceptable, of course. People who obey the laws should not live in fear of those who don't. This initiative will help restore that natural balance.


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ONJava 2004 in Review: Editor's Choiceby Chris Adamson, ONJava Editor
The previous installment of "ONJava 2004 in Review" took a look back at some of the most popular feature articles to appear on the site this year. This second part presents an "Editor's Choice" list of some impressive writing that deserves a second look before closing the books on the year.
Measuring up Tomcat
Srini Penchikala has focused on Tomcat clustering this year, both explaining the concepts and assessing how well Tomcat performs under various configurations and approaches. In "Clustering and Load Balancing in Tomcat 5" (part one and part two), he illustrates how to install, configure, and bring up a clustered web application. In "Session Replication in Tomcat 5 Clusters" (part one and part two), he covers the concepts of session replication and how it's presented by Tomcat, and then experiments with different configurations to show how the choice of session managers, replication mode, and the size of the data to be replicated affects the performance of the cluster.
Speeding up NIO
Java developers are often looking for further performance improvements. The NIO package introduced in Java 1.4 helped accelerate I/O, but Nuno Santos wanted even more, so that his SMS router could support 3,000 simultaneous connections. In "Building Highly Scalable Servers with Java NIO," he describes how his team built an event-driven I/O architecture, strongly influenced by Swing, and then experimented to get the threading model just right to deliver the highest performance with the fewest synchronization headaches. It's an interesting study of taking the core libraries further and optimizing them for your application.
AOP, Meet Attributes
Another type of article that we really like running is one that uses a library or language feature for non-trivial, non-intuitive purposes. For example, by this point, everyone has seen aspect-oriented programming demonstrated by inserting logging messages into arbitrary cut-points in an existing program. But Bill Burke took a different tack with aspects--he combined them with attributes, essentially declaring new Java syntax with the attributes and delivering its implementation with aspects. The result is "Aspect-Oriented Annotations," in which a "launch-and-forget thread" can be represented as a single attribute,
The Security Tour
Denis Pilupchuk's series comparing the security architectures of Java/J2EE and .NET was one of our longer-running series, due to the vast amount of material Denis had to cover. It started in late 2003, continued through spring 2004, and wrapped up this summer with an epilogue that looked at where the two platforms were headed with their upcoming releases (J2SE 5.0 and .NET's "Whidbey" release). One of the things I really admire about this series is the objectivity that Denis brought to his analysis and the obvious fact he is well-versed in both, making him ideally suited to consider the strengths and flaws of each. The articles in the series were:
- "Java Versus .NET Security, Part 1"
- "Java Versus .NET Security, Part 2"
- "Java Versus .NET Security, Part 3"
- "Java Versus .NET Security, Part 4"
- "Java Versus .NET Security: Epilogue"
The series was also compiled as the eDocument Java vs. .NET Security, available for purchase on the O'Reilly web site.
Gotta Have My Tunes
The site tends towards J2EE material--application servers, enterprise middleware, etc.--so it's always a treat to be able to run some fun client-side content. In "Extend JavaSound to Play MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and More," the JavaZOOM team showed off how they used the JavaSound Service Provider Interfaces (SPIs) to bring MP3 audio playback to JavaSound, a core Java library as of Java 1.3. Since JavaSound is meant to be extended via SPIs, the ideas in this article can be used for supporting other formats, and in the article's resources, you'll find links to JavaSound-compliant implementations of Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio, and more.
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It's Memorial Day and we think of those who once were a great part of our lives and are now in God's Next Room. And right with those thoughts come the thoughts that it's a Pathway that every one of us will someday take.
Some of you will remember LaRee Pehrson who contributed so much to the 'Ole Green Sheet' newspapers from Magna, and who gifted me with a book on thoughts of death, and they are so good that on this day, I'm sharing some of them with you. And those of us who think our thoughts of Death come mostly in the A.D. period of time, just might be surprised at what The Ancients thought about it all, too.
So———–fasten your seat belts and come along with me:
"Birth and Death are one, in exactly the same way that the river and the sea are one." Kahill Gibran 1934
"In reality there is no birth or is there Death, it is simply being at one time visible, and at another time, invisible. "Apollonius of Tyana 70 A. D.
Thoreau , less then two months before his death, said he was enjoying life, which was different, but his life had changed several times before, and he had enjoyed every change, and had no regrets. . A member of his family asked him if he had made his peace with God, and only Thoreau could have answered as he did. That he was not aware that he and God had ever quarreled.
Look upon Death as Going Home. Chinese Proverb
I cannot think of Death as being anything more than stepping from one room into another. William Blake 1826
To die is when we begin to really live. Sophocles, 495 B.C, at the time of his execution. (And why was he executed? For his bold thinking?)
I stand at the seashore, where a ship spreads her white sails to the breeze and moves into the wide ocean, an object of beauty and strength. I stay and watch until she is only a ribbon of white cloud where the sea and sky come to mingle, and I sigh, "Oh, my! She is gone!" But someone at my side asks, Gone where? Gone only from our sight, for she is just as large in mast, spar and hull as when she left our side, and just as able to bear her load to the place of destination. All diminishment in size is in us, not her. And just at the moment when you say "Oh, look, she is gone", other voices, on the other side, are taking up the glad shout of, "Oh, look. Here she comes". And that is what we call dying. Anonymous
Death, to a philosopher is the final fulfillment, much to be desired, because it opens the door to true knowledge. The Soul, freed from its bonds to the body, at last achieves undimmed and celestial vision. Socrates, on his last day of life.
We are not snuffed out at Death, but absorbed into a greater Flame. Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1973
When you were born, you cried, but your whole world rejoiced. Live so that when you die, your world will cry, but you will rejoice. Writer unknown but came to me through Dr. Ushurbad Arya. Bless him, for he gave so much, and to so many.
"Here lies food for worms only, But the work shall not be lost, for it will, as he believed, appear again in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author." Benjamin Franklin, epitaph. Written at age 22, and decades later, his own words were engraved upon his gravestone.
Michelangelo did some of his best painting when past 80 years. Goethe continued to write when long past 80. Edison was still inventing at 93. Franklin Lloyd Wright, when 90 was named as being the world's most creative architect. Shaw was still writing at 90. Grandma Moses didn't begin painting until 79, (until then she was too busy raising her family and grand kids), and Winston Churchill was over 74 when he became the catalyst that stopped Hitler from victory over all of Europe in WW 11.
Years may wrinkle your skin, but lack of enthusiasm will wrinkle your very Soul. General Douglas MacArthur, 1950
It's a tragedy that most of us die long before we ever really start to Live. Erich Fromm
Old wine, old leather, old wood and old people all improve with time. Anonymous
Nothing must be postponed. Eternity can be found in every moment, and the wise ones seek for it. David Thoreau, 1855
Who knows if this experience we call dying is not really living, and if living is not really dying? Who knows if to be alive is not really to die, and if dying does not count, in the nether world, as being alive? Euripides 454 B. C.
But then, as tne song we all know. says——–
"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
You'll smile at me just as you always do
Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds all away.
Please say hello to the folks that we know
Tell them I won't be long.
They'll be happy to know,
That as you saw me go,
I was singing this song.
We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day."


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On the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal Tragedy: Victims and survivors of the pesticide industry worldwide gather for historic tribunal
Around 200 people gathered today in Bangalore, India for the first day of the Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations (TNCs). Farmers and farmworkers, families of victims, environmental and health advocates, scientists, and lawyers have all their hopes pinned high on the outcome of the PPT, an international opinion tribunal that aims to indict the "Big Six" of the pesticide industry for human rights violations.
Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dupont, Dow Chemical, and BASF are being indicted for violations related to the manufacture and sale of hazardous pesticides and technologies that have disastrous impacts on human life, the environment, and livelihoods.
The PPT coincides with the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal Tragedy, which most clearly illustrates the lack of accountability of agrochemical TNCs. Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International, organisers of the PPT, expresses its support to the protest actions led today by the people of Bhopal, who have vowed to stop trains and mobilize by the thousands in order to highlight their demand for justice.
"In remembering Bhopal, the frustration of the people is that the poisoning continues. Thousands continue to suffer each day, while the company responsible continues to profit because internationally, there is no framework to make them accountable. The parent company cannot be sued, that's why Dow Chemical got away scot-free and only paid meager compensation. Today, the Bhopal Tragedy continues in different forms, through different ways of control by agrochemical TNCs on people, their lives, land, food and resources," said Irene Fernandez, chairperson of PAN Asia Pacific and a technical witness for the PPT.
Witnesses from around the world will present cases of human rights violations by the Big Six before a distinguished international panel of jurors. Jurors for the PPT include the Indian legal scholar Upendra Baxi, British scientist Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, African environmental lawyer Ibrahima Ly, Japanese professor Masayoshi Tarui, German economist Elmar Altvater, Italian professor Paolo Ramazotti, and PPT Secretary General Dr. Gianni Togoni.
These cases include Bayer's endosulfan poisoning in Kasargod village, Syngenta's paraquat poisoning of Malaysian palm oil plantation workers, and child labour and pesticide poisoning in Indian cotton plantations. Doctors and a victim from Kasargod, a Malaysian plantation worker, and an Indian child labourer will testify.
Also to be presented is the death of the child Silvino Talavera by poisoning of Monsanto's Round-up Ready, which is widely used on genetically-engineered (GE) soybeans in Latin America. Silvino's mother Petrona Villasboa will testify.
Meanwhile, U.S. farmer Dave Runyon will testify on the contamination of fields by Monsanto's GE crops and how the company has sued aggrieved farmers. British beekeeper Graham White will serve as a witness on the worldwide death of bees caused by Bayer's neonicotinoid pesticides. U.S. scientist Tyrone Hayes will speak on Syngenta's harassment and attempts to supress studies on the dangers of atrazine.
The killing of a Brazilian farm worker in Syngenta's fields, pesticide stockpiles in Africa, and poisoning of the Arctic region by persistent organic pollutants produced by the Big 6 throughout the decades, will be presented as well.
"Today, people from all corners of the world have come together to indict these agrochemical TNCs, which have caused massive harm to people and the environment by trampling on the most basic human rights to life, health, and livelihood. This Tribunal highlights the need to have mechanisms to hold agrochemical corporations accountable," said Javier Souza, chair of PAN International and coordinator for PAN Latin America.
The PPT, founded in 1979 in Italy, looks into complaints of human rights violations submitted by communities. Borne out of the tribunals on the Vietnam War and Latin American dictatorships, the PPT has held 35 sessions so far using the rigorous conventional court format. While its verdicts are not legally binding, these can set precedent for future legal actions against defendants, which in this case are agrochemical TNCs. Defendants in this Tribunal also include the governments of the companies' home states (U.S., Switzerland, and Germany), and the International Monetary Fund-World Bank and World Trade Organization.
"This Tribunal is a recourse to justice for those who have found none under the current legal mechanisms at the national and international level. We hope that the result of this PPT will serve as a reminder to governments and institutions of their responsibility to safeguard the rights of the people against corporate aggression and impunity. Human rights will continue to be violated as long as companies are allowed to get away with it. As long as agriculture, the heart of the world's food system, is controlled by companies that value profit over life, more tragedies such as Bhopal are bound to happen," said Sarojeni Rengam, executive director of PAN AP.
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Sunbathing, swimming and snorkelling can lift your mood without posing much risk to the environment, according to a new survey.
Scientists from Plymouth University asked coastal experts and visitors to rocky shores about the effects of common seaside pursuits on both their mood and the environment.
The results, published in the journal of Ocean & Coastal Management, suggest that wildlife-watching and paddling can also lift your spirits without posing much of a threat to local ecology.
At the other end of the spectrum, scoring poorly on the environment and doing less for your mood, are dog-walking, fishing and having a picnic.
Of all the activities put to participants, rock pooling was thought to pose the biggest potential threat, but it's also seen to have uplifting qualities.
The team, led by Kayleigh Wyles, hope the research can help those charged with managing the coastline to strike a better balance between environmental risks and the personal wellbeing of visitors to the coastline.
'Most of the research in this area has focussed on one activity and looked at its effect on one aspect of the environment,' says Wyles. 'But that doesn't give you the full picture.'
'This research is a first step towards understanding the overall risk that recreational activities pose to the environment, and the benefits that they bring to visitors.'
'It's no good just banning these things because they could be bad for the environment; you have to consider their effect on people as well.'
Wyles suggests that, in many cases, education could hold the key.
'We need to use management tools that allow people to enjoy the environment, but minimise the damage,' she says.
'With rock pooling for example, it's only damaging if it's done in the wrong way. If you were to put a sign up asking people to turn the rocks back as they found them, and to leave the animals in the water, then you might get the benefits to the person without the risk to the environment.'
The survey was carried out on 25 coastal experts, working for conservation charities as wardens or educators, and 97 coastal users. The results were broadly consistent between the two groups.
A similar questionnaire was filled out by 44 academics at an international conference of marine ecologists. Here, the results differed slightly, with fishing seen as the most environmentally risky activity, while dog walking and picnicking performed better on both measures.
Wyles and the team will now focus their research on harder measurements, to build a more robust picture of the pros and cons of seaside pursuits.
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Wyles KJ, Pahl S, Thompson RC. "Perceived risks and benefits of recreational visits to the marine environment: Integrating impacts on the environment and impacts on the visitor." Ocean and Coastal Management, 2013. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2013.10.005


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Cool weather conjures thoughts of homemade chili, cozy cat
Published 7:00 pm, Monday, September 21, 2009
Today's cool weather on the first day of fall is reason to celebrate. At least for those of us weary of summer heat.
With the National Weather Service forecasting a high of 63 today and temperatures dipping into the mid-40s tonight, it's time to start thinking about cool weather comfort food like chili, gumbo and chicken and dumplings.
If you've ever been a chili cookoff judge, you know these cooks take their secret recipes quite seriously, and competitions can be fierce.
True to the infamous political reputation of the state to the immediate east of us, bribery of judges and other chili cookoff corruption has been known to happen. But there is honor in Texas, and no shortage of chili enthusiasts.
My recipe — if you can even call it that, since it doesn't exist on paper — calls for venison, lean ground beef and just a bit of pork combined with traditional seasonings with garlic and onions. Then there's the top secret ingredient not for publication. Of course most chili cooks have such an ingredient.
On the first nippy night of the season, I usually stop off at the grocery store on my way home and get the fixings for homemade chili. Last year most of Midland apparently had the same idea because the butcher said they had sold out of chili meat early in the day.
And who wants to eat chili out of a can?
Maybe I'll get there Monday night and be a day ahead of the chili rush.
About as cozy as it gets
Speaking of excitement with a new season upon us, there's plenty of other fall cheer in the air. The arrival of brilliantly colorful autumn mums and smell of fresh cords of wood are clear indications sweater weather is near.
Even cats respond to the new season.
Gracie Kitty, the once-homeless animal who arrived at my doorstep one frosty night nearly six years ago, likes to nest and self-nurture once the temperatures drop.
She cozily buries her front paws beneath her forearms on the sofa and becomes hypnotized by the fireplace glow. Instead of sneaking into my closet where she is not allowed, and sometimes accidently gets trapped, cool months also bring new behavior for her.
That's when Gracie prefers to sink deep beneath the bed covers and hybernate until time for the much-anticipated opening of her nightly can.
She purrs more often, snuggles more closely and actually seems to appreciate her home.
Maybe she remembers that day when a heartless man moved away and left her clawless to fend for herself, and the frigid nights she endured without a place to roost. But that was his loss.
Because petting an especially affectionate cat on a cold night with a warm bowl of homemade chili is about as cozy as it gets.


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See significant pressure on Indian economy going forward: Naval Bir Kumar, IDFC
Nikunj Dalmia: There is lot of optimistic chorus on the street that Indian economy ha`s bottomed out, rupee is sitting at 11-month low and markets have pretty much given away everything they have accumulated this year.
Naval Bir Kumar: In our belief, we do not still believe the markets have necessarily bottomed out or growth has necessarily bottomed out. We still think there is significant pressure on the Indian economy looking forward. The bigger concerns are from the external sector which is driven mainly from your current account deficit and you mentioned rupee hitting lows and the second is the twin deficits, both the current account deficit and high inflation which runs along with that.
There are policy issues and the direction of the fiscal deficit which is not only high but is directionally at social spending. So those remain concerns in the Indian economy and as long as they remain, we think growth continues to weaken.
Nikunj Dalmia: So you are not of the view that GDP has bottomed out and inflation has peaked up?
Naval Bir Kumar: There is no clear indication that tells us that GDP has bottomed out. The fact that inflation has peaked could be right because you are seeing commodity prices ease globally to some extent. They are not rising anymore and you are clearly seeing pricing capacity in the manufacturing sector in India erode. Hence manufacturing inflation is coming down. So inflationary pressures are easing, but consumer prices are still high.
Nikunj Dalmia: Many experts are of the view that worst of the macro is behind us because globally commodity prices have corrected. If they will correct further, it is fantastic news for a macro?
Naval Bir Kumar: You are right in the sense that growth in India is driven predominantly by the investment economy. Having said that over the last five years as the size of the middle class has grown, consumption is now starting to add to the GDP growth rate and the current driver for growth is the consumption sector. For the investment economy to restart, you need two things. One is you need capital efficiency to improve. So assets that were put on the ground in the last investment cycle have to become productive. So a lot of issues around coal, land and environment need to be cleared. Second, you need cost of production to come down. Thus, for the next wave of investment to happen, you need land prices, cost of money, commodities and cost of labour to ease and frankly the liquidity in the environment created by the developed economies is ensuring that asset prices are remaining fairly firm.
Nikunj Dalmia: Do you think the real investment cycle will only start after the outcome of general election?
Naval Bir Kumar: Foreign capital flowing into India is not really a concern. Foreign capital is still fairly robust which is why we are being able to fund a very large current account deficit. It keeps RBI nervous, quite correctly, but at least it is being funded.
Nikunj Dalmia: So are you making a case that we are currently stuck between rock and hard surface? On one side you got consumption which is slowing down, on the other side you have got capital formation which is at its lowest level in last 10 years?
Naval Bir Kumar: Yes, because RBI says it quite well when they say that you have got an untenable position with high inflation, a high current account deficit, you are hostage to capital flows and the directional spend on fiscal deficit is incorrect because it further fuels inflationary pressures in the economy and does nothing to meet the supply side requirements. It is not increasing supply. It is not bringing factors of production into play, so it is not unlocking value for growth in the future. So direct transfers of cash, all they do, lead to consumption and they really do not have an impact on improving growth.
Nikunj Dalmia: Many experts argue that the free fall in Indian rupee of late is a function of strength in the dollar index. Do you concur that view?
Naval Bir Kumar: It is two-fold and clearly it is an element of dollar strengthening, but also it is an element of high current account deficit. So like I said we are hostage to capital flows. We have done well in being able to attract large amounts of debt capital into the Indian economy, but itself puts you on a treadmill. So a lot is short dated debt and hence you have to continue to be able to raise additional capital to fund redemptions and to bridge the current account deficit. So the rupee remains under pressure unless we get a trade account in control.
Nikunj Dalmia: Value is not making money, consumer stocks are making money but consumer stocks are expensive, markets are getting polarised, everybody wants to be with the clutch of 10-15 stocks. If you are in that stock, you are making money; if you are not owning those stocks, you are suffering.
Naval Bir Kumar: This is true. So at this point of time, conviction will come from individual stock ideas. Therefore, sectors that are doing well are consumption sectors which are beginning to slow, price has grown much faster than earnings and hence you always keep wondering as to how much price can continue to run up, but if you are not in those sectors and you are not in the stocks, you do not participate in the rally but everyday that stock rallies, you get worried because it becomes that much more expensive.
Nikunj Dalmia: As a house the consumption trade has worked for you. Do you think it is too early to buy into quality industrials because unfortunately ground reality is completely different?
Naval Bir Kumar: Yes. It is switch like we are doing gradually, like I said price risk has its own challenges because corrections can be much steeper and quicker. On the other hand, you are clearly confronted with earning risks and with over leveraged balance sheets. So the question is how quickly will debt capital get cannibalised in favour of equity capital in deep cyclicals? When will companies get significant write offs on debt and hence enterprise value will get re-built out of equity it is very hard to say. So, while there is a movement towards making that transition, it is a gradual transition and is driven like I said because of the two reasons, you got price risk, but you got continued momentum. On the other hand, you still do not have clarity on the deep cyclicals.
Nikunj Dalmia: We have discussed some ideas in the past and every time we interact you give me new ideas. Why there was a case to buy an FMCG, poultry company? So what are the key themes you think are worth chasing now?
Naval Bir Kumar: Basically we are a secular thematic fund manager, right, that is our core focus. We have tried to look at trends so in fact the trend that we picked up and we launched a new fund in April was on the small cap fund but it was of a limited size because these companies are small, their ability to absorb capital is limited. So we believe that trade made a lot of sense because we had seen clear destruction in valuations and we had seen the bottoming out of net profit margins. So that sector is exceedingly volatile and it tends to sort of expand faster than the economy and contract much faster than the economy. There is only limited marginal earnings risk left in the stock and it is a three-year product idea. So we think it does well.
Nikunj Dalmia: Cycle will reverse?
Naval Bir Kumar: Cycle will reverse, downside risk is limited. So secularly we saw value there and secularly you are seeing limited value in certain other directional plays, but it is limited value and like I said it gets expensive pretty rapidly when other people catch on.
Nikunj Dalmia: It were MNC stocks in 1994-1995, largely IT in 1999-2000, again largely investment-oriented stocks in 2004 to 2007. Do you think rather than criticising expensive valuations of consumer stocks, we should consider this as an opportunity?
Naval Bir Kumar: See when you are looking at any stock, you look at not only its price earning ratio, but you look at its PEG. So if earnings growth is keeping pace with the price earning ratio, it gives you that much level of comfort. So you are happy to a buy a company that is trading 30 times if its earnings are also growing 30 times, but what is concerning right now is that there is a gap that is opening up between earnings growth and the multiples at which the FMCG stocks are currently trading at. We still believe that the consumption trade plays out. We are clearly seeing a change in consumption patterns in India because of a much more vibrant middle class and its ability to consume and its need to consume which is driving growth, but at this stage we are seeing widening in that gap. So if there was no widening in that gap, it would not concern us.


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Ok, so I've got nothing to do sitting at home alone tonight so as I'm flipping I decided to watch "Deal or No Deal." I had seen some ads for this show before, but never watched it. I was surprised as hell when they said the freaky looking bald guy host was Howie Mandel. My question is:
When did Howie Mandel lose his 80s style long curly hair in exchange for the Mr. Clean look?
Actually, he is one of those germaphobes (spelling?). He has a severe phobia of germs and will not even shake hands with anyone. Watch the show and you'll notice he NEVER shakes hands. Anyway, he said in an interview that having his head shaved makes him feel clean and it tends to ease his phobia of all the germs.
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What kind of roll are you talking about? Did he trade it for a dinner roll or something? Or are you able to bet your hair when playing Craps these days? Either way, this guy must be really be hard up if he's resorting to using his hair as currency...
Just look at the mullet he had.. it was disgusting. His barber told him to stop looking like and a$$hole and cut the mullet!!
Damn, Fats, you caught me. But you can rest easy, friend, because I temporarily suspended my policy of not reading posts that contain spelling or grammatical errors, in order to edit my post to display the proper homonym. Now everyone who hasn't yet seen the thread can waste time figuring out what the hell we're writing about.Originally Posted by Fats Schindee
Don't worry about it, man... I'm just fukking with you. I just have nothing meaningful to say, so the only way I can contribute to this board is by pointing out others' spelling and grammar errors. That way I can feel that I'm doing something useful and positive with my life... (if I didn't become a pilot I was going to be a spelling teacher!).
I would hope others would correct me if I'm wrong, too (although I know many of you don't give rat's ass whether your posts are correct or not, and furthermore wouldn't waste your time correcting anyone else, since you don't bother getting your own right). That way we can all learn from each others mistakes... kinda like aviation and the "regs written from blood", so to speak. Except that when you spell something wrong or use the wrong word or grammar, you don't die... you just look like an uneducated idiot. So I'm (and some other peeps on here are) a spelling nazi; it's for the betterment of our pilot group.
Except that some of you just never learn...
...the word is LOSE... not LOOSE... GOSH!!!
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Book of the week Polpo, a Venetian cookbook by Russell Norman (Bloomsbury, £25). The inspiration for Russell Norman's quartet of Italian bar/restaurants strung out like beads between Soho and Covent Garden is Venetian bacaros, tiny backstreet wine bars serving cicchetti – little plates of food to go with your evening drink. The idea was transplanted brilliantly to London, resulting in Polpo, a glam mix between a Venetian cafe and a New York bar, situated in Beak Street, followed swiftly by Da Polpo, Polpetto and Spuntino. Getting in is almost impossible because Polpo doesn't take advance bookings. You have to queue. Which makes the appearance of Polpo the book something of a relief. You no longer have to go to the restaurant to eat delicious cicchetti, you can make your own – all 140 of them, such as burrata with lentils and basil oil, broad bean, ricotta and mint bruschetta, olive and white anchovy pizzetta. Smoked salmon wraps are great for drinks or parties.
Smoked salmon, ricotta and dill wraps
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300g soft ricotta
the zest and juice of 1 lemon
a handful of dill, chopped, plus extra to serve
16 thin slices of smoked salmon
Combine the ricotta, lemon zest and dill. Mix and season. Place a teaspoon of the mixture on to a thin slice of salmon and roll up. Skewer with a wooden toothpick. Repeat for the rest of the salmon and arrange on a plate. Before serving squeeze over a few drops of lemon juice and garnish with dill.


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Hi, While I have the opportunity, I thought I'd put together some use cases from my own experience. Hope to talk to you all on Thursday, Jeni --- Multi-Step Transformation ------------------------- Overall transformation is from EXPRESS schema (text format) to XSD schema. This involves two major steps: 1. transforming the EXPRESS schema to a rep schema by: a. basic parsing (Java code) b. partial parsing (parse_express.xsl) c. merging with other schemas (merge_parsed_express.xsl) each of which needs to go through steps 1.a. and 1.b. d. creating an artifact schema by: i. expanding local names (resolve_names.xsl) ii. resolving explicit interfaces (resolve_explicit_interfaces.xsl) iii. resolving implicit interfaces (resolve_implicit_interfaces.xsl) iv. resolving name clashes (resolve_name_clashes.xsl) e. adding a csvIndex attribute (add_csv_index.xsl) f. resolving inherited attributes (resolve_attributes.xsl) g. identifying complex entities by: i. expanding subtype constraints (expand_subtype_constraints.xsl) ii. annotating complex entities (annotate_complex_entities.xsl) h. creating a rep schema (construct_rep_schema.xsl) 3. transforming the rep schema to XSD schema (generate_xsd_schema.xsl) This is a simple pipeline in that the output of each step is the input for the next. The only moderately interesting features are: - the first step works on text to produce XML - some of the steps are made up of sub-steps - step 1.c. pulls together multiple files (identified in the primary input to the pipeline) which themselves have to be transformed using steps 1.a. and 1.b. Running XSLT Unit Tests ----------------------- Overall transformation is from an XSLT stylesheet to a report on the success/failure of the unit tests embedded in the XSLT styelesheet. The transformation is best summarised in a diagram: XSLT stylesheet | v generate_tests.xsl -> (XSLT) | v test stylesheet -> (XSLT) | v XML test report | v format_report.xsl -> (XSLT) | v HTML test report Of interest here is the fact that the first step the *stylesheet* (rather than the source document) for the second step (which in fact doesn't have a source document, but is initiated via a named template). Paginating Transformation ------------------------- Overall transformation is from a XMLised MIF file to a number of HTML documents. This involves the following: 1. stripping the MIF-XML to its fundamentals (mif2html-strip.xsl) 2. identifying pages in the MIF (mif2html-paginate.xsl) 3. splitting the MIF into several documents (mif2html-split.xsl) 4. transforming each document generated from step 3 into HTML The stylesheet used for step 4 is itself auto-generated via mif2html-gen.xsl from a simple templating language (i.e. creating via "tangling" in a literate programming approach). The main point of interest is that step 4 has to operate on all the files generated from step 3, but there's no way to know in advance how many of these documents there are going to be. Processing Indexed Documents ---------------------------- Overall transformation is from a collection of CamML documents to HTML documents. A list of the CamML documents is kept in an index which is both the main input for the process and which is passed as a parameter to each individual transformation as well. As with the previous use case, the processing needs to loop over a number of documents, but this time these documents are simply listed within the main input for the process. -- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/Received on Monday, 12 December 2005 15:54:52 UTC
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The last thing Vanderbilt wanted to do was fall to 0-2 in Southeastern Conference play.
For more than 20 minutes on Sunday, the 24th-ranked Commodores' play on the floor mirrored their mindset. They played timid and tight.
With only a four-point lead at halftime over a freshman and sophomore-laden Ole Miss, Vanderbilt coach Melanie Balcomb said she didn't want to add more stress by ripping into her team. Instead, she needed them to loosen up.
They finally pulled away midway through the second half for a 68-52 victory in front of 4,003 at Memorial Gymnasium and bounced back from a loss in their SEC opener at South Carolina on Thursday.
"We're not in there at halftime ranting and raving and yelling at them to play harder. That wasn't the issue," Balcomb said. "They were playing not to lose and didn't want to be 0-2 and didn't want to lose a game at home. They knew how important it is and it's hard to play that way. They made the adjustment of playing in the moment and focusing on each other, trusting each other and they brought each other's strengths out."
After 14 turnovers in the first half, Vanderbilt (13-2, 1-1 SEC) committed just seven over the final 20 minutes and began to assert itself inside – mainly by getting the ball inside to Tiffany Clarke.
The 6-foot junior came off the bench and scored 13 of her 19 points in the second half as she matched season-highs in points and rebounds (10). She also collected her 10th career double-double and the third this season.
"I definitely love playing at the higher level of competition," Clarke said. "It is more aggressive and more physical and that brings more aggression and strength in me."
Ole Miss (10-6, 0-3) now has lost 15 in a row on the road to Vanderbilt, dating back to 1989, but the Rebels kept it interesting on Sunday.
They pulled within one point less than a minute into the second half and the teams traded baskets for the next six minutes. The Commodores finally pulled away after Ole Miss forward Nikki Boyd picked up her fourth foul with 12:56 remaining. Vanderbilt went on an 11-0 run, scoring nine in the two-minute span that Byrd sat on the bench.
The Rebels' offense sputtered as they couldn't rely on the 6-foot-4 Byrd to alter shots defensively and corral offensive misses to set up second-chance opportunities. The senior finished with 15 points on 13 rebounds.
"It kills you," Ole Miss coach Renee Ladner said of Byrd's brief absence. "That was the difference."
During that stretch Vanderbilt guard Christina Foggie finally made some shots after missing 10 of her first 11 shots. She scored seven straight points during the spurt and capped it off with two free throws for a 45-33 lead with 11:07 remaining.
Foggie, the team's leading scorer with 17.7 points per game, scored nine of her 11 points after halftime. Her backcourt counterpart, Jasmine Lister, had 15 points and six assists.
"I was a little rushed on my shots," Foggie said. "The second half I came out and played better defensively. That kind of calms me down on the offensive end and we started hitting more shots in the second half. It was just a matter of slowing down."
The Commodores raced out to a 17-8 lead and appeared to be in control. But they went scoreless over the next 6:45 as they missed easy layups, misfired on jumpers and 3-pointers and committed six turnovers. This was after a season-high 26 turnovers at South Carolina.
Ole Miss, which shot 22.2 percent in the first half and 28.4 percent for the game, battled back, grabbing a two-point lead.
Clarke's layup in transition ended the drought and tied the game at 19 with 2:45 before halftime. The basket sparked an 8-0 run, with four free throws from Jordan Coleman, as Vanderbilt took a 25-21 lead into halftime.
"That was the only time defensively we didn't do a good job," Balcomb said. "It is hard to miss layups you normally make and miss shots you normally make and not go down and have that carry over into your defense. I think that is what was happening mentally. I thought other than those seven minutes we controlled the game."


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Witt is a modular, geometric take on the traditional chandelier. Glowing, pearl-like luminaires are framed by the graphic outlines of hollow cubes, which, like building blocks, allow for endless compositions.
We've always been a fan of platonic solids, which you can see in Witt, a geometric chandelier designed in collaboration with architect David Rockwell earlier this year. Composed solely of simple metal frames and pearl-like luminaires, the Witt system is modular and starkly minimal, lending itself to a wide range of use.


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Turpin's girls lacrosse team improved their record to 3-1 with a win over Milford on April 16. The Spartans defeated the Eagles 7-6 with a goal in the last few minutes of the match. See all the great photos from the match.
Claudia Reynolds got the Lady Spartans on the board first with a goal in the first minute of the game. Milford answered with three goals of their own to take a 3-1 lead. Claudia Reynolds scored again to make it 3-2, but Milford added one late to take a 4-2 lead at halftime. Milford started the second half with two more goals and led the Lady Spartans 6-2 with 10 minutes to play.
The Lady Spartans made a furious comeback on goals from Taylor Nimmo, Claudia Reynolds and Maggie Argus to cut the lead to 6-5. Maryellen Tully scored to tie the game at 6 with 2:30 to go in the contest. Claudia Reynolds capped the comeback with the game winner with 1:35 remaining. Goal were scored by: Claudia Reynolds (4), Mayellen Tully, Taylor Nimmo and Maggie Argus.
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Time for Indian youngsters to prove a point
Bangladesh tour is a great platform for youngsters to cement their places in the side, says India's stand-in skipper Suresh Raina
Dhaka: India's fringe players will have a chance to impress the selectors in the build-up to next year's cricket World Cup today when they begin a short one-day series tour to Bangladesh.
Suresh Raina (left) and Ajinkya Rahane have a laugh during a practice session in Dhaka on Saturday. Pic/AFP
The visitors are without eight regulars, including captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the prolific Virat Kohli, for the three day-night matches, which will all be played at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in the capital Dhaka and led by Suresh Raina.
'India isn't weak'
When asked whether India were weakened by the absence of its top players, Raina said: "I don't think so."
"The young Indian team is coming up. They have done well in the IPL and first-class and so you need to give a chance to youngsters as the World Cup is coming up," Raina told reporters in Dhaka on Saturday.
"It's a great platform for them to cement their places in the Indian team," he said.
Just four members of the squad — Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Stuart Binny and Wriddhiman Saha — will fly to England later in the month for a marquee tour comprising five Tests, five ODIs and one Twenty20.
The series offers the likes of Pujara, who has six Test centuries but has played in just two one-dayers, a chance to stake their claims to a place in the squad for next year's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
"It is a good opportunity for all the young players who are part of this tour," Pujara, 26, said after being named for the Bangladesh series.
"Playing against Bangladesh in their home conditions won't be that easy. Bangladesh is a good team. We have a young side so it will be competitive."
For Bangladesh, it will be their first series under new coach Chandika Hathurusinghe, who has been handed a two-year contract following the recent departure of Australian Shane Jurgensen.
Hathurusinghe would be keen to start off on a winning note and turn around the fortunes of the perennial whipping boys of international cricket.
The other two matches are on June 17 and 19.
Suresh Raina's winning percentage as ODI captain. He has led India in nine ODIs


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Hey all,hope you had a super Sweet weekend :) I managed to get caught back up on my rows (see the previous post) and get in a little Christmas sewing too!
Here are three sets of 4 Christmas coasters made from Charms out of a Blitzen Charm Pack,that I picked up while on vacation this summer! The plan was to get four sets done,however since someone had to cook dinner,and make cookies.....
Instead of just having a plain ole charm square coaster,I decided to cut out a small tree shape and machine applique it to the front of each coaster :) They look pretty modern,if I do say so myself! On the back side (sorry forgot to take a photo) you can see the cute shape of the tree.
All stacked up and ready to go! Where you ask? Well first,they are off to Clare's Craftroom to hang out at the Under the Christmas Tree Linky party,from there they will be going over to the Linky Party Sew Darn Crafty Lastly they will be listed in my etsy shop (which you can visit via the button on my side bar).
Speaking of party's I am off to visit some party links and see what everyone has been up to! Have a great week ahead :)
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Christmas Coasters
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These coasters look great! I love the little applique and the gray shades do make them look very modern.ReplyDelete
Your Christmas coasters are sooo cute! The little applique is the perfect touch.ReplyDelete
Your coasters are delightful!ReplyDelete
Cute! Sad to say, but I usually just take a hankerchief and fold it into 4's! I really have to make some - yours are really nice!ReplyDelete
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This photoshoot was SO much fun to plan and style! We had such a great team working together this year and are excited to feature these pieces at our 2017 show!
Photography: Studio 623 Photography
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Rentals: Little Red Wagon Rentals
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