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Recipe by Pille @ Nami-Nami. Above photo by Juta Kübarsepp for the October 2013 issue of Kodu ja Aed ("Home and Garden", an Estonian monthly magazine. I've been their food writer since October 2012).
Pumpkin or winter squash dessert, anyone?
There's a popular old-school dessert here in Estonia, called kohupiimavorm. It consists of curd cheese (also known as quark), sugar, (whisked) eggs, and some add-ons, usually raisins or pieces of fruit. It's not really a cake (too soft), nor a soufflé (no custard base), so after some research I've decided to translate it as pudding cake :) Pudding cake is a cake you need to eat with a spoon, and it's rather difficult to cut it into neat shapes when still warm.
Here's a version using that autumn staple, winter squash or pumpkin. For once, this is a recipe that's very versatile - if you cannot find curd cheese (try looking for 'tvorog' at your nearest Polish/Russian/international shop), you could use drier ricotta or even farmer's cheese. As for pumpkin, any yellow-fleshed winter squash would work. I like using butternut squash here, as this gives the dessert a lovely dark orange hue. Considering the amount of flour in the recipe, you could easily make this wheat-free or gluten-free by using different types of (gluten-free) flours.
You could eat it as it is, or with a dollop of thick yoghurt or sour cream on the side. It's lovely with a kissel or fruit soup (this cranberry kissel would work brilliantly here). I actually prefer this pumpkin version to the traditional version, as it's softer and moister.
Oh, and if you were wondering what those cookies on the top right corner of the photo were, you'll be pleased to know these contain pumpkin/squash as well. You'll find the recipe for those wonderful pumpkin cookies here.
Serves 6
800 g butternut squash or pumpkin (cleaned weight)
100 g caster sugar
500 g curd cheese
4 large eggs, separated
1 lemon, juiced and zested
2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
100 g dried cranberries (craisins) or seedless raisins
a pinch of salt
Pre-heat the oven to 200 C/400 F.
Peel the pumpkin, cut into large wedges. Remove the soft core and seeds, and cut the flesh into large cubes. Weigh the pumpkin cubes - you need about 800 g (just under 2 pounds). Place the cubes into a large saucepan, add a cup of water and simmer over a low heat until pumpkin is tender. Drain thoroughly, then place into a bowl and mash with a fork.
Add lemon juice and grated zest, curd cheese, flour, (c)raisins.
Separate the eggs. Whisk the egg yorks with sugar until creamy, add to the rest of the ingredients. Finally, whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks forms. Fold 1/3 of the egg whites into the rest of the ingredients, then gently fold in the remaining egg whites.
Butter a large (round) oven dish - about ∅ 26-30 cm is excellent - and sprinkle with fine breadcrumbs. Spoon the pumpkin and curd cheese mixture into the dish, smooth the top.
Bake in the pre-heated 200 C/400 F oven for about 40 minutes, until it's lovely golden brown, and just a wee bit wobbly in the middle.
Let cool either completely or serve at room temperature.
(From the recipe archives: this post was originally posted in October 2013)
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Bob "Lefty" Phillips may or may not be the oldest surfer in Huntington Beach, but according to his granddaughter Ashlee Spuhler, the title is his.
At least until someone proves otherwise.
Phillips turned 83 this week, and also got out in the water on his 10-foot Becker surfboard, part of a routine that has him out there two or three times a week, depending on the weather and conditions. It keeps him busy and active in his retirement, even though it's only been six months since he retired as an insurance inspector.
"I enjoy the exercise more than anything else," Phillips said. "And of course, it's fun to do, and you make friends with the guys you see at the beach all the time. It's just a fun sport to keep doing as long as you can."
When he isn't surfing, Phillips loves to paint, a self-taught oil-on-canvas artist whose surf-style work can be seen – and purchased – at leftyphillips.com or on eBay.
Phillips has settled into an idyllic existence near the shore, living in Huntington Beach near the Sunset Beach border, a short walk to his home break at Bolsa Chica, and an even shorter walk to one of his favorite restaurants, Captain Jack's, which was founded by legendary surfer Jack Haley.
"We weren't really friends," Phillips said of Haley, "but we talked about surfing when we'd run into each other once in a while."
Indeed, Phillips has come full circle, growing up during World War II and moving around a bit, but living mostly in Long Beach where he went to Wilson High School. He started surfing at age 20 in 1949, but stopped surfing about a year later when he was drafted into the army.
Phillips fought in the Korean War in 1951, saw combat ("more than I wanted to"), earned a Purple Heart, and after completing his military service, eventually landed in Huntington Beach in 1962.
But while the Huntington surf scene was blowing up in the 1960s, Phillips didn't pick up a surfboard. In fact, it would be about 30 years before he surfed again.
Instead, Phillips found another passion he could pursue in the ocean.
"During that period I was into racing sailboats," said Phillips, who raced out of the Seal Beach Yacht Club. "We had three different sailboats over the years and raced them, cruised Catalina and the local islands, up and down the coast."
He had fun, but eventually Phillips came to the conclusion it was a lot less expensive to surf than to race sailboats.
"They had become so pricey because of the moorings and maintenance and so on," Phillips said. "But I still loved the ocean so I thought why not get back into surfing? So I started up again."
That was in 1980 after he had turned 50, so it wasn't that easy to get a feel for it again. "It took a while," Phillips said.
But he stuck with it, and now he's been surfing regularly for the past 30-plus years. If he's not at Bolsa Chica, he might go down to Seal Beach, staying away from any big surf.
"I'm not going to do any big wave riding at my age," he said. "Those surfers today, they're incredible. I don't know how they do what they do. It's amazing the kind of surfing they do. And then there are the big wave riders. I don't know how they get up the courage to ride some of those monsters."
For Phillips, there is one thing that he loves more than surfing and his painting: his family. He's been married to Joyce Phillips for 61 years, and together they have three children, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
"There's about 10 of that group that surf," Phillips said.
Joyce, however, won't join Phillips out in the water.
"She used to be the queen of the beach, but she hardly ever goes anymore," Phillips said. "I can't get her down there."
Joyce, though, doesn't need to go watch Phillips to be impressed, even after all these years.
"Oh my gosh, I think he's amazing," Joyce said. "I think he's from another planet. For someone his age to be in such great physical condition … even to be alive! He's pretty amazing, and besides that he's just a wonderful person too — to be married to me all this time.
"We've had a great marriage, a great family; we're pretty blessed."


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The Palestinian leadership appeared increasingly unsure of itself over the past week when questioned about its unilateral statehood bid at the UN next month.
Various Western and Arabic news agencies suggested the regime of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was rethinking its plan to request membership as a sovereign nation in the UN General Assembly.
Former Palestinian Authority Information Minister Nabil Amr said that is precisely what he is advising Abbas to do.
Speaking to the London-based Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Amr warned that "the Americans have not hidden their position and threats to impose sanctions not only against us, but also against those who would vote in favor of the statehood plan."
Indeed, the US Congress has threatened to cut all ties to the Palestinian Authority if it goes forward with the unilateral statehood bid, which includes asking the Security Council for official recognition. The Obama Administration has already said it will veto the Security Council vote, but can do nothing to stop a majority of the General Assembly nations from recognizing "Palestine" in a non-binding decision.
A senior Western diplomat on Wednesday reiterated to The Jerusalem Post that the Palestinian stunt at the UN next month will "make it harder for the US to have relations with the Palestinian Authority."
At risk will be direct US financial aid to the Palestinian government and American training of Palestinian security forces. While both programs are determined by the White House, Congress is unlikely to let US President Barack Obama continue supporting a Palestinian Authority that has eschewed the bilateral peace process.
Despite these warnings, and signs that the Palestinian leadership is getting scared, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat this week insisted that the UN bid is scheduled to go forward.
Erekat told the Jordan News Agency that the Palestinian Authority heirarchy has no intention of abandoning its quest for recognition of statehood at the UN.
Erekat said it was too late to take any other course of action, which he backed up by noting that just last week the Palestinian Authority rejected a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to restart peace negotiations on the basis of Palestinian border demands.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT/WYMT) - Despite being in a Republican fixture in Washington, Sen. Mitch McConnell is in a fierce uphill fight against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.
A new Bluegrass Poll – conducted for WKYT-TV, the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Louisville Courier-Journal, and WHAS-TV – found Grimes leading McConnell among registered Kentucky voters. Results show Grimes would win 46 percent of the vote compared to 42 percent for McConnell if the two face off against each other in the November general election.
McConnell's first test will be in the May 20 Republican primary when he faces Matthew Bevin. With less than four months before the primary, the poll found McConnell (55 percent) with a comfortable lead over Bevin (29 percent) and with 15 percent of the registered Republican voters who were polled undecided.
Continuing debates over government shutdowns and health care initiatives could also be taking a toll on Kentucky's senior senator's standing. Exactly half of those polled say they have an unfavorable opinion of the senator while 27 percent said they have a favorable opinion. The remaining quarter of respondents say they're neutral or have no opinion.
"This is further evidence that McConnell faces a serious challenge," said WKYT political editor Bill Bryant. "McConnell and his team will be working to determine if it's an anti-Washington scenario or if he needs to repair his relationship with Kentuckians."
McConnell's 1984 election to the U.S. Senate marked the first time a Republican won a statewide office in Kentucky since 1968. In 2006, Republicans elected him to be the their leader in the Senate.
"Often times they have a target on their backs because they serve in a leadership position," said Bryant about how being a prominent Congressional leader also comes with a price. Bryant notes former Democratic minority leader Tom Daschle's 2004 defeat -- which marked the first time in 52 years a Senate party leader lost a bid for reelection -- is evidence.
The poll also found more than a third (35 percent) of Republicans think McConnell has comprised too much with Democrats while on Capitol Hill. Thirty-two percent said McConnell's actions were just right.
In 2010, Grimes made her first step into politics by entering the race to replace former Secretary of State Trey Grayson. She went on to beat Gov. Steve Beshear's appointee to finish Grayson's term in the Democratic primary and then soundly beat the Republican businessman Bill Johnson in the general election that focused highly on requiring photo IDs in order to vote.
Before politics, Grimes was a Lexington attorney.
While the Bluegrass Poll found Grimes in the lead over either a match-up with McConnell or Bevin, nearly half of those polled say they have a neutral or no opinion of Grimes. Respondents were evenly split over whether they have a favorable (26 percent) or unfavorable (27 percent) impression of her.
"Mitch McConnell continues to be very unpopular, across the board, across different demographic groups. His numbers are bad," said The Herald-Leader political writer Sam Youngman. "The other thing that surprised me is that Alison Lundergan Grimes is an unknown right now. It's going to be a race to define who she is in the minds if Kentucky voters between her and Sen. McConnell. I think the winner of that race is the winner in November."
In the general election match-up, the poll found McConnell has the support of conservatives and Grimes has the support of liberals. But Grimes outperforms McConnell 5:3 among moderates. McConnell's strengths were also among eastern and western Kentucky voters while Grimes leads in greater Louisville and north central Kentucky.
"It's expected that conservatives would back McConnell and liberals would back Grimes," said Bryant. "The moderates are where Grimes is building up her campaign and are who might ultimately decide the election."
For the poll, SurveyUSA interviewed 1,200 adults with home phones and cell phones between January 30 and Tuesday. Of the adults, 1,082 were registered to vote in the state with 404 being registered Republicans eligible to vote in the May Republican primary. Primary questions asked only of Republicans. Other questions were asked of all registered voters.


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shmenguin wrote:pugilist13 wrote:TK>>>>Army.
The thing is, even if Armstrong=TK, why bother going down that path.
Oh yeah, forgot...TK's a better fighter also
Malkamaniac wrote:Armstrong was never the same since he boarded that guy and hurt him when he played for the Pens.
Hugo Stiglitz wrote:You mean guys had intended Army for the 3rd line???
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Hugo Stiglitz wrote:I think Army has quickly become the second coming of Morozov
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Shyster wrote:The Penguin's third line going forward is going to be much more of a pure checking line than it has been up to now. IMO Kennedy fits poorly into that picture.
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SIOUX FALLS - Sioux Falls officials plan to review safety measures at Falls Park after the recent drowning deaths of two people in the Big Sioux River.
Twenty-eight-year-old Lyle Eagle Tail, of Sioux Falls, and 16-year-old Madison Wallace, of Vermillion, died late last week when they jumped into the falls to try to rescue Wallace's 6-year-old brother Garrett, who had fallen into the water but eventually got out.
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Kearney says the goal is for the area to be as safe as possible without restricting access.
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Three graduating Hope College seniors have received highly competitive English teaching assistantships through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Michael J. Blauw of East Grand Rapids, Katelyn J. Hemmeke of Hamilton and Amber N. Rogers of Hershey, Pa., (pictured above from left to right) have all received awards to teach abroad during the coming year.
Several Hope students or recent graduates have received the awards through the years, including four each in 2008 and 2009, and two each in 2010 and 2011.
Blauw, who will be teaching in Malaysia, is completing a social studies composite-secondary education major and a political science education minor.
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Hemmeke, who will be teaching in South Korea, is majoring in English with a writing emphasis and majoring in Spanish, and minoring in French.
She studied at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom during the summer of 2011. She is a member of the Hope Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honorary society, and her activities at the college have also included the student-organized Dance Marathon fund-raiser held on behalf of Helen DeVos Children's Hospital and the Nykerk Cup competition. She has also been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She is a 2008 graduate of Hamilton High School, and the daughter of Kenneth and Christine Hemmeke of Hamilton.
Rogers, who will be teaching in Spain, is majoring in Spanish education and minoring in chemistry education and dance.
She studied abroad in Seville, Spain, in the fall of 2010. She is an educational coach with the Hope College TRiO Upward Bound program, and was an ESL (English as a second language) instructor through Latin Americans United for Progress in conjunction with the Spanish IV class at Hope from the fall of 2009 through the spring of 2011. Her activities have also included Sacred Dance, for which she has been the leadership manager during the current school year, and she is a member of the Sigma Omicron dance honor fraternity. She received the Servant Leadership Award through the college's Center for Faithful Leadership this past fall. She is a 2008 graduate of Hershey High School, and the daughter of Brenda Rogers of Hershey and Dr. Richard Rogers of Hershey.
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Ed Lee has been around EDA since before it was called EDA. He cut his teeth doing Public Relations with Valid, Cadence, Mentor, ECAD, VLSI, AMI and a host of others. And he has introduced more than three dozen EDA startups, ranging from the first commercial IP company to the latest statistical … More »
Riko Radojcic on 3D standards
April 11th, 2011 by Ed Lee
Liz and I sat down with Riko Radojcic of Qualcomm to hear his thoughts on how upcoming 3D design and manufacturing would affect the EDA world. Naturally, the conversation morphed into a discussion about standards that will be required to make 3D adoption pervasive.
Liz: Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to sit down with us, Riko. So let me ask you, what is the relevance or importance of standards in adopting 3D?
Riko: Well, first, let me make a general statement about standards. Sometimes some of the EDA companies view proprietary formats as a source of competitive advantage – a way of locking in a customer base. This is especially true when a given company has taken a lead with a given solution, and they fear that opening up a proprietary format would shrink their slice of the market pie. However, in general, design standards, or standard exchange formats, or standard models, tend to make the whole pie bigger, as opposed to affecting the size of any one's slice of the pie. So, in the long run, standards are good for users, like Qualcomm, and for vendors, like the EDA companies. I keep referring back to the industry experience with SPICE models and the transition from the proprietary 'Level 28' model to the open standard BSim generation of models. I think with all the brilliance of hindsight, the industry has benefited from an open standard model.
For 3D technology specifically, we are promoting the concept of standards, in order to accelerate the adoption of 3D design and manufacturing methods. We want to help to line up the supply chain behind the 3D technology. I would say that most people – users, industry observers, EDA vendors, etc. all perceive 3D technology as a disruptive change. The fear of that change is part of the barrier to adoption. Standards are the other side of this coin of fear. They bring down the feeling of fear.
Ed: Is 3D more a barrier to standards? Are we sabotaging our own efforts?
Riko: There is a lot of FUD in 3D. It is important to realize that there is 3D and then there is 3D. Some future 3D implementations – like stacking logic on logic – does require disruptive change in design tools. We will need design methodologies and tools that comprehend entirely a new dimension of parameters for this class of designs, and until these are developed, standards may even be a bit of a barrier.
On the other hand, 3D in the short term means heterogeneous stacking, like memory on top of logic. So right now, 3D is not that disruptive. We only need some minor upgrades to design logic in a smart way, to make stacking DRAM on top of it easier and lower risk. For this class of designs, standards would be extremely helpful – having a standard exchange format so that we have relevant information about die A when designing die B or vice versa would be excellent. For example designing power distribution network on die A needs to know about power demands on die B.
To accelerate and facilitate adoption, we need more design information. JEDEC for example is doing a nice job of working on the standards for memories
Liz: What is JEDEC doing?
JEDEC is defining the pin assignment and the pin array configuration required for Wide IO DRAM memories to be stacked on logic die.
Ed: What of vendors' fears that buying into this format will be giving away too much of their own design data?
Riko: We can all make an investment in a standard format that can provide the right characteristics without exposing too much information. The emphasis is on format, rather than specific content – which should be proprietary. Again I like to refer back to SPICE and BSim models – where the model format, units, etc. are standardized, but the specific coefficients in the model are proprietary information of whoever owns the process technology.
Liz: Why is this not happening now?
Riko: We are all driven by financial motives. No one feels they will make enough money out of it right now – and this is especially true for standards, which, by definition, belong to everybody. However, there could be certain advantages for someone creating a standard and then giving it away. If you make the rules, you have a better chance of winning the game.
The thing that is required is a series of standard 'exchange formats' that would communicate the necessary information about the design of the various die to be stacked, such that 3D stacking of these die is a low risk enterprise. Basically to communicate design attributes such as power demand characteristics, thermal and mechanical stress sensitivities, maybe some floorplanning restrictions, etc..
Most of the standards bodies don't have the capability to develop such standards. They have mechanisms to review a proposed standard and to manage and distribute it afterwards – but not to do the engineering required to develop one. So, there's a lack of champions willing to put in the work to develop and promote a standard. It could be an EDA company, like Apache, or it could be an institution, like IMEC, or it could be an academic entity.
There are some activities going on, though. IMEC is working with Atrenta to develop a PathFinding tool – which may also involve developing a PathFinding exchange format. Apache has taken the lead in pushing a standard power exchange format for 3D. Perhaps some of the academics could be engaged to develop standard exchange format proposals? Si2 is willing to take a role in managing the standards, but someone needs to give them something to standardize. GSA is active and willing to coordinate the discussions. But someone needs to make a proposal so the industry can say "I like it" or "I don't like it" or whatever.
Liz: So you are looking for another EDA guy to come up to the plate, and then what if someone like Cadence comes up with a competing idea? Then what?
Riko: Once a product is developed, all the EDA companies are invested in one format or another. We want to get these standards in front of the product development curve, so that it would be easier for any one company to adopt and comply with a standard, rather than making up their own format. This is where the users – such as Qualcomm – come in. We have the responsibility to demand this.
Ed: So it sounds like so far, we have a lot of discussion, but to a certain extent, some organizations are waiting for others to discuss or define a proposed set of 3D standards. Other organizations are waiting for that proposal to get adopted before implementing the 3D standards. How do we get off this merry-go-round?
Riko: I would say, let's take a stab at partitioning the effort. Qualcomm proposed this last September, at a SEMI/Sematech sponsored meeting in Taiwan. We proposed dividing the world into two buckets…one set of players and activities focused on design related standards, and another for manufacturing related standards. For each bucket of standard related activities, we proposed a suitable existing standards body, a suitable forum for discussion, and a suitable set of champions who would propose appropriate standards. In the manufacturing domain, it would make sense to use SEMI to manage the standards, and Sematech to provide the Proposals. In the design domain it would make sense to use Si2 to manage the standards, and EDA or academics that are involved with EDA to provide the proposals. That way there would be less overlap and hopefully fewer gaps
Liz: What would happen then?
Riko: In addition, we proposed to create a forum which would be conducive to exploring and kicking around some of the proposed standards. Standards bodies, by definition have a formal review and balloting mechanism – which tends to be slow. So, in order to accelerate the discussion a separate forum would be nice. The Sematech 3D Enablement Center is doing this already for manufacturing-oriented standards. Let's work with GSA to create a forum to discuss design-oriented standards, and if (or when) a given proposal is flushed out, give it to Si2 to create a true standard.
Liz: Your 2011 hope or wish for 3D standards?
Riko: That our industry can actually define a standard without having to fight a turf war. We can do this if we get ahead of the 3D product curve. But only if we all pitch in.. .
Riko Radojcic, who has over 25 years in the semiconductor industry, is a Director of Engineering at Qualcomm, currently leading the Design-for-Through Silicon Stacking Initiatives.
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Of Lessons Learned: My Day(s) With HIV
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September 20, 2012
How do you feel about being HIV positive? Do you feel good? Bad? Scared? Maybe you don't care ... for me, HIV is there. It's something I think about a lot, but I'm not scared of it. Not like I used to be. I used to be afraid of dying. I used to be afraid of people finding out I was positive. I used to be afraid I would pass it to someone else.
Since being diagnosed in 2002, I've learned some things (in no particular order):
This blog entry came from a desire to share with you an event that is coming up. On September 21 we will celebrate A Day With HIV. The premise is simple: Whether HIV negative or positive, we are all affected by HIV. In an effort to raise awareness and to help erase the shame and stigma of living with HIV, you grab your camera or smartphone and snap a photo of you in your everyday life. You submit that photo to email@example.com. Last year, my photo was of me on the way to work because, well, that's what I was doing on that day. Just a regular guy, headed to work. I'm asking you to participate in this with me because WE CANNOT BE FEARFUL! We must celebrate our status. Yes, celebrate! I will not be ashamed of being HIV positive. HIV is a part of who I am, but it is not who I am. For more information, visit the site at www.adaywithhiv.com. Join me on September 21. Together, we can help others feel more comfortable with being HIV positive. Together, we can make a difference.
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A disabled rights campaigner has said he has learned lessons after standing in today's Corby by election.
Adam Lotun, from Tolworth, stood for the Northamptonshire seat vacated by former Tory MP Louise Mensch.
He was representing Democracy 2015, a political party dedicated to getting ordinary members of the public elected to Parliament.
He received 35 votes, and lost his £500 deposit coming in second last place.
Labour candidate Andy Sawford won with 17,267 votes - the first time since 1997 the party had taken a seat from the Conservatives in a by-election.
Mr Lotun, a father of three, said: "I was certainly hoping for more. I've learned some lessons here.
"I've learned a few things about what I have to do differently next time and marketing myself a bit more.
"If you've got the money you can put marketing everywhere. That's what Labour did. They had the money and they flooded the place with people."
Mr Lotun was not the only candidate to lose his deposit.
Liberal Democrat hopeful Jill Hope scored just 4.96 per cent of the electorate with her 1,770 votes, missing the five per cent target needed to claim back the £500.
Mr Lotun criticised the party for calling for recounts.
He said: "The Liberal Democrats were short of their deposit, and asked for a recount.
"The recount happened, they lost another vote and made it worse. Then they started arguing for a full recount and that's when I left.
"I lost my deposit but I'm not screaming and shouting. I think Nick Clegg can afford it."


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Animal hoarding is psychological condition sometimes associated with a mental illness recognized as a variant of obsessive-compulsive disorder, rather than deliberate cruelty towards animals. Hoarding involves keeping higher than usual numbers of animals as pets without having the ability to properly house or care for them, while at the same time denying this inability. Hoarders are deeply attached to their pets and find it extremely difficult to let the pets go, since they cannot comprehend that they're harming their pets by not providing the right environment and hygine. Hoarders tend to believe that they provide the right amount of care for their pets. The ASPCA provides a "Hoarding Prevention Team", which works with hoarders to help them attain a manageable and healthy number of pets [1].
Characteristics of a hoarder Edit
An animal hoarder must be distinguished from an animal fancier (who merely keeps an unusually large number of pets, but has the ability to care for all of them) or an animal breeder (who would have a large number of pets due to the business). The distinguishing feature is that a hoarder "fails to provide the animals with adequate food, water, sanitation, and veterinary care, and … is in denial about this inability to provide adequate care." [2]
Along with other compulsive hoarding behaviours, it is linked in the DSM-IV to obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder [3] . Alternatively, animal hoarding could be related to addiction, zoophilia, dementia, or even focal delusion. [2]
Dangers of hoarding animals Edit
The presence of so many animals is dangerous both for the animals and the hoarders. At the very least, because hoarders, by definition, fail to clean up after the animals, urine and feces accumulate. The feces is a vector for a number of diseases. Ammonia from the urine rises to unhealthy concentrations in the air. OSHA set the permissible exposure limit for ammonia at 50 parts per million; 300 is life-threatening. [4] In one case, the ammonia concentration of the air in one hoarder's house, after being ventilated, was still 152 ppm. [2]
Animal hoarding is also a serious animal welfare issue, affecting up to 250,000 animals—mostly dogs and cats—in communities throughout the United States. [1] Hoarders keep abnormally large numbers of animals for which they may not provide even the most basic care. The sometimes hundreds of dogs or cats kept by a single hoarder generally show signs of abuse such as severe malnutrition, untreated medical conditions including open sores, cancers, and advanced dental and eye diseases, and severe psychological distress. In 80 percent of the cases studied, authorities found either dead or severely ill animals in hoarders' homes. [5]
Animal hoarding is also a public health threat, as hoarding creates highly unsanitary conditions on the properties of hoarders.
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- Animal hoarding behavior
- Human hoarding behavior
- Health issues in animal hoarding
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium (HARC) (2004). Commonly asked questions about hoarding.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Berry, Colin, M.S., Gary Patronek, V.M.D., Ph.D., and Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.. Long-Term Outcomes in Animal Hoarding Cases.
- ↑ Mental health issues and animal hoarding.
- ↑ Documentation for Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health Concentrations (IDLH): NIOSH Chemical Listing and Documentation of Revised IDLH Values (as of 3/1/95).
- ↑ Colin, Chris. Loving animals to death.
External linksEdit
- The Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium
- Making Light, "Collecting Bug"
- Animal Legal Defense Fund
- A Blog on Animal Hoarding
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H.G. Wells
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H. G. Wells was born Herbert George in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometimes shopkeeper, his mother a former lady's maid. Although "Bertie" left school at fourteen to become a draper's apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher's salary. His other "scientific romances"—The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)—won him the distinction as the father of science fiction. Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase "the war that will end war" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me."


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Combine all the spices in a bowl, mix well. Pat the spice rub onto the meat, making sure to heavily season the entire surface area. Cover or wrap the pork and let it sit at room temperature while getting the smoker or charcoal grill fired up. Do not leave at room temperature for longer than 1 hour.
The grill is ready when the charcoal has burned to a white ash. If using a grill instead of a smoker, arrange the coals on 1 side of the grill, leaving an area large enough for the pork to cook indirectly with no coals directly underneath the meat.
When the grill has reached 200 to 225 degrees F, scatter 1/4 of the wood chips over the coals, close the grate, put the pork on the grill and close the lid.
Maintain a 200 to 225 degree F cooking temperature inside the grill, adding coals every 2 hours or as necessary. Add wood chips and spray the pork with apple juice every time you add new coals. Try not to lift the lid of the cooker at any other time.
When the pork reaches an internal temperature of 165 to 170 degrees F on an instant read meat thermometer (after about 4 to 5 hours), remove it from the grill and double wrap in aluminum foil to keep the juices from leaking out. Return pork to the grill (or smoker) The pork is finished cooking when it pulls apart easily and reaches an internal temperature of 190 to 195 degrees F, about another 1 to 2 hours. Let rest for 1 hour, then unwrap the pork butt and pull the bone out. "Pull" the pork by hand, shredding it and discarding any large pieces of fat. Serve with your favorite BBQ sauce.
This recipe was provided by a chef, restaurant or culinary professional. It has not been tested for home use.
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I haven't seen too many Macromedia Flash discussions on AO, but if there is anyone out there that can help me, I would really appreciate it.
I am a novice in Flash, but I love it and am learning tons about it. My questions:
I made a cool preloader, went to put it on my website, then realized that I had no idea how and where to embed the HTML to load BEFORE my page loaded. And continue looping until my page (HTML and swf) and completely loaded.
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unfortunately lead some fanatical restorers to raise drivetrains up to the body with the front sheetmetal already installed following your instruction to the letter... 100% correct for an LA car but laughable for a Norwood car.I mean to tell you some Guys actually did this type of restoration and it was 100% wrong for a NOR build.
Why haven't the Norwood guys and gals chimed in...in the past or now? Especially in the past if procedures were not expressed to there recollection?
Tom, I didn't realize that GM sanded and filled the subframes, then painted them with a Polyurethane paint system, as your car was. What part of a proper "restoration" document was that posted in? Your car is VERY nice, much nicer than mine, and probably way nicer than it was when it rolled out the door 46 years ago, but if we're going to start the proper restoration discusiions, why don't we start there. What is an acceptable deviation from "factory" before a restoration becomes a restificaton? I know mine falls into the second, not because there is anything non stock about it, but because of how its been repainted, options added that it didn't have originally, etc.Phil, how did the enamel paint testing go, any of the retirees remember painting the 03C cars that way?Note these are not attacks, (unless some part of them are not true) just questions about the process.


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A new study, in partnership with Oxford University, highlights that millennials are not connecting with banks as they plan for the long term.
The life insurance industry is failing to connect with millennials at a time when they need the industry more than ever. To gain a deeper understanding of what millennials really think, BNY Mellon commissioned a team of undergraduates from Oxford University's Saïd Business School to survey millennials about their saving priorities, their views on retirement planning, and their expectations of different types of financial institutions.
Increased longevity and reduced state and employer provision mean millennials – those born after 1980 – will have to save more of their earnings than their parents, and do so over a longer period. Despite this, the study found that few of this generation are saving for themselves. The techniques insurers use to engage with baby-boomers do not always work with millennials, so if insurers are serious about connecting with this group, new thinking is needed. "It is important for BNY Mellon, as a service provider to many of the world's insurers, to understand the challenges the industry faces. I hope you find this paper to be illuminating and thought-provoking. Particular thanks must go to the youthful band of millennials that made up the Oxford University research team." Paul Traynor, Head of Insurance International, BNY Mellon.
The key findings of the report include:
Millennials in developed countries are far more likely to seek advice on financial planning from their parents than from any other source, perceiving them as trusted and experienced in an unknown world.
'Rank these sources of financial advice, in order of which you would approach first'
For millennials in emerging markets, where retirement products haven't been widely available, their parents are perceived as less useful as they have less experience.
'Rank these sources of financial advice, in order of which you would approach first'
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Persuading people to put away money today to fund a retirement several decades away is arguably the biggest challenge faced by both pension providers and those shaping pensions policy. Research in the field of behavioral finance has demonstrated that human beings are hard-wired to prioritize a benefit they will enjoy in the near future to one in the distant future – the phenomenon known as hyperbolic discounting. Pension policy and marketing needs to find new ways to overcome this tendency.
Our research suggests that a new generation of pension products is needed, operating in conjunction with these existing methods, that can enable millennials to connect the present to the future. Millennials might respond better to a lifetime savings pot structure that offers some form of limited withdrawals or early access to part of the fund.
New types of savings products are essential to establishing the savings culture that will be so important to millennials' long-term financial wellbeing. We recommend insurers investigate ways pension products can be structured to deliver limited early access to at least part of the funds held within them. For example, access could be linked to funding specific items of expenditure such as clearing student debt or a deposit for a home.
Our research found that around half of millennials do not believe they know how pensions work. This number increases to 61% amongst those under the age of 23. Millennials in Brazil, China and the US stand out as most uncertain about how pensions work, while Australian millennials are most informed.
Additionally, our research also found that millennials do not prioritize retirement saving. As well as being attracted towards spending on things they can enjoy today, they also face other calls on their finances, such as student loans and saving for a deposit to buy a home, that were less challenging for young adults 20 years or more ago.
While it is still important to have a social media presence, millennials do not want financial institutions to use this as a primary communication channel.
Less than 1% of millennials say they want contact with financial services providers through social media.
The findings from the qualitative research suggest millennials think current marketing strategies adopted by financial services providers fail to hit the mark.
The research indicates that millennials want marketing to them to deliver the information they need in order to understand how they should be saving for their retirement. But they also say advertising campaigns need to be more impactful if they are to succeed.
Millennials understand they are on their own when it comes to funding their retirement – they do not understand why insurers are not prepared to be candid with them. When positioning themselves towards millennials, insurers have to walk a fine line between being perceived as boring whilst appearing credible, reliable and solid. At the same time they need to deliver marketing messages that are sufficiently hard-hitting to break through the media noise surrounding young adults.
The financial services sector must re-engineer the more traditional approach to reaching new customers. This will involve the design of less complex products, education and resources and sales practices that effectively resonate with millennials' buying behaviors. The financial services sector also has enormous amounts of data that can be mined to better target individuals with specific interests, demographic groups or far narrower individual profiles. However, as the survey points out, millennials are skeptical of and lack trust in the financial services sector, posing a unique set of challenges for the industry in its ability to design effective products, inform and educate the market and grow.
Increased longevity and reduced state and employer provision mean millennials – those born after 1980 – will have to save more of their earnings than their parents, and do so over a longer period. Yet, as the findings of our research demonstrate, the techniques used by insurers to engage with baby-boomers do not always work with millennials. If insurers are serious about connecting with millennials, new thinking is needed.
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Mexico has the potential to increase its imports of distiller's dried grains (DDGS) with solubles by four-fold, according to Julio Hernandez, U.S. Grains Council director in Mexico and Central America, speaking at the Council's International Distillers Grains Conference in Indianapolis, Ind.
Mexico currently is the No. 1 purchaser of U.S. DDGS, a co-product of ethanol production, importing 708,000 metric tons in the 2007 calendar year. Canada follows with 317,580 tons last year.
In the first eight months of 2008, Mexico has already imported nearly 699,000 tons. Hernandez said his native country is not near its maximum utilization of the co-product. He said Mexico has the potential in the foreseeable future to import as much as 4 million tons of distiller's grains.
"This is a very realistic potential," Hernandez said. "However, the current financial crisis will represent a slowing in growth of Mexico's livestock and poultry industries, but we are confident this will not last long."
The poultry industry is the strongest sector in Mexico, demanding the greatest amount of feed ingredients. An increase in broiler capacity has occurred in the last three years and a steady continuation of this trend is anticipated. Hernandez calculates Mexico's poultry sector to eventually import 1.1 million tons of DDGS.
Meanwhile, the beef sector has the potential to use 1 million tons; dairy 890,000 tons; and swine 788,000 tons. Hernandex said the Council will also explore promoting distiller's grains beyond the livestock and poultry industries in an effort to maximize profitability for agribusinesses and U.S. farmers.
"We see great potential for DDGS outside the typical markets. The aquaculture and pet food industries are two examples of sectors that have great potential in terms of incorporating DDGS," he said. "The Council is currently conducting a study to better understand these businesses. Mexico has a lot of room for growth. Don't rule us out yet."


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In my invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014, I picked the topic "Resolutions", clearly to play on the new year. The only thing I have right now that could count as a New Year's resolution is the RTFM365 project…it's certainly going to take some stick-to-it-iveness to finish out a year of reading from BOL every day. The rest of what I have are just ongoing life goals. So why did I pick "Resolutions", then, if I have nothing to say?
The invitation blog gave a few brief suggestions of what to write about, but the interesting thing is how many different ways you can run with the word. When I looked at the Merriam-Webster entry for resolution, a few of the definitions stuck out as a sort of common theme:
1) the act or process of resolving: as
- a : the act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones …
- e : the separating of a chemical compound or mixture into its constituents
- f (1) : the division of a prosodic element into its component parts (2) : the substitution in Greek or Latin prosody of two short syllables for a long syllable g : the analysis of a vector into two or more vectors of which it is the sum
- …[and a bunch more.]
Analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones. Hmm, why does that sound familiar? Familiar in a kind of SQL Servery way….
"Hey, let's throw together a database to track our sales conferences!" Uh, sure boss…that simple statement has the mass and temperament of 400 angry gorillas at a monster truck rally. In an earthquake.
My job is now to take this complex idea and break it down into its simpler pieces - the data we need to store, the rules that hold the data together, the procedures that we need to run on it. Once that's done, everything should be oh so simple!
But of course, it's not.
"Hey, can you get me a list of the people that've attended any of the conferences in the last three years? Not counting the webconferences. Or HR personnel. And we'll need their company and contact info."
Again, with the "simple"-complex requests. And again, I can't necessarily just sit down and bang out a query. Depending on the database architecture and the request, I might need to start with two or three queries to get different sets of data, and figure out how to link them together:
- I'll get the set of all conferences in the last three years. If I can, I'll limit that to non-webconferences here…alternately, I can get a list of webconference IDs and do a
SELECT conference
WHERE ID NOT IN (SELECT ID from Webconferences)….
(That's fairly lousy pseudocode, but I'm assuming you'll go with me on this.)
- I'll also pull a list of individuals (with related info) and filter based on their job category.
- Aaaaand then link these together.
There. Database: designed. Ability to break a request into logical chunks: achieved. Now it's easy street!
Oh, ya think so, do ya?
"Okay, Jane." [My name's Jen, sir.] "Could you get us a report for Bob? He needs numbers on attendance over time, categories, that kind of thing."
Well, first of all, it's time to go talk to Bob. What will he be using this for? Is this something he's going to sort and calculate on himself, or feed into something else? Well then, Excel or CSV. Something presentable? Well then, PDF or Word.
And what questions is he trying to answer with this report? That'll really drive the data and the presentation. In the end, we might have broken this down to something like this:
- Needs something in a handout format
- Prefers graphics – pie and line charts – over lists of numbers.
- Wants attendance by company (not individual) over time – that is, how many events attended per company per month, over the last five years.
Etc etc.
What this all boils down to is something I've heard Itzik Ben-Gan (blog) say more than once: a given problem breaks down into smaller, simpler, often reusable parts. And now we've learned a word for that, boys and girls: Resolution!
Happy T-SQL Tuesday!
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Lamar State on the Path to Powerhouse Status
Oh, what a season it was.
The Lamar State Seahawks completed one of the most magical and improbable runs in JUCO history this season after a 1-2 finish in the JUCO National Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas last week. The Seahawks lost their first game to Monroe College out of the Bronx, 70-52, wound up beating then-#1 ranked Missouri State 69-62 in the next game before narrow 66-63 loss to Cape Fear Community College out of North Carolina.
Sure, the season didn't end with a National Championship like Head Coach Matt Cross and his team were gunning for when they did the unthinkable and won the Region 14 Conference Tournament in Tyler earlier this month to earn the bid to Kansas.
But this team, which Cross will tell you, had the pieces to do what it did this season, still went out and shocked the JUCO landscape with its 26-11 finish, by far the best season in the short three year history of the program playing Division I JUCO basketball.
"To be honest with you, winning a Region 14 conference tournament is like winning a National Championship," said Cross, never one to mince words. "It may actually be more difficult to win the Region 14 than the National Championship. The 12 teams that made it to Tyler are better, overall, top to bottom, than the 16 teams that made it to Hutch."
"It was great playing in March, because a lot of teams don't have that opportunity," said Vonn Jones, the team's floor leader for the past two seasons who is ready to take his game to the Division I level.
Jones said the team thoroughly enjoyed the experience of playing in Kansas with some of the best JUCO teams in the nation. "I'm just glad we had a chance to play in Kansas and compete in national tournament."
Roman Vaughn, the Southeast Texas product who came on this season and had a major impact, agreed that he enjoyed the experience of playing for a National Title, but there's some question of what if for him considering he was sick the first game against Monroe and did not play well, certainly not to the level he played at throughout the season.
Plus the team was tight to start the game and played that way throughout.
"We weren't fully loose and we just didn't get going," he said. Vaughn, like Jones, is ready to take his game to the next level, maybe even Lamar, but it's still very early in the process and most of the team is kicking back, relaxing and getting caught back up with school work as they work with Cross to determine their basketball futures.
As for Cross, the 27-year-old coaching superstar who is a hot name right now considering the school just north of Lamar State, Lamar University, is looking for a head coach and Cross' name has been in heavy rotation since before Steve Roccaforte was let go.
Cross has applied for the job at Lamar, and unless he gets the job there, or a major Division I school comes calling and a coach that Cross respects wants to add the coaching phenom to his staff, the Louisiana native said he plans on staying at Lamar State.
"I'm staying here, and I say that comfortably," Cross said. "Even if were fortunate enough to become a Division I head coach or become an assistant coach at the right place, I will always try to make sure that what we started at Lamar gets to the next level and becomes a junior college powerhouse."
So in the meantime, Cross, who said he wants to do some things inside the Carl Parker Center, spruce the place up a bit, maybe add some graphics to the court, give it a more Seahawk-like feel to it, has his work cut out for him because the team has only two players who played last year returning, David Duncan and Jordan Walker, and only Duncan saw meaningful game time.
He maintains he has no concerns about picking up next season where this last season left off, going as far as to say that his team next season – with 10 open spots – will be better than last year's team. And while recruiting is a never-ending part of coaching, Cross, who lost five players mid-season this year because of either getting kicked off the team or leaving the team, has no plans to change the way he goes and gets his players.
"I'm not worried about how many spots we have open, I'm going to go find the ten best JUCO basketball players in the country no matter where they're at, I'll find 'em," the never lost-for-confidence Cross said. "I'm crazy when it comes to recruiting. I'm persistent. I never take no for an answer."


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- 1988
Welcome, Robyn Rihanna
Monica, an accountant, and Ronald, a warehouse supervisor, welcome daughter Robyn Rihanna Fenton. Her childhood on the Caribbean island of Barbados is deeply affected by her father's addiction to crack cocaine and parent's rocky marriage, which ends when she's 14. The shy kid finds an outlet through singing.
- 2003
A Barbados Discovery
After forming a girl group with two classmates, Rihanna, 15, auditions for veteran producer Evan Rogers, who tells Entertainment Weekly, "The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't exist." She eventually moves to Connecticut to live with Rogers and his wife, while cutting a four-song demo. "When I left Barbados, I didn't look back," Rihanna adds. "I wanted to do what I had to do, even it meant moving to America."
- 2004
Auditioning for Jay-Z
Rihanna's demo makes its way to Def Jam and the budding star is invited to audition for rapper turned Def Jam president Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. "I was in the lobby just shaking," Rihanna, who sings Whitney Houston's "For the Love of You," tells Rolling Stone. "I signed her in one day," Jay-Z adds. "It took me two minutes to see she was a star."
- 2005
Rihanna's Debut
Rihanna releases her first single, "Pon de Replay," kicking off her debut album, Music of the Sun, and it peaks at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100. The Barbados beauty tours with Gwen Stefani to promote her album, which sells more than 2 million copies worldwide. Rolling Stone calls the album "a seductive mix of big-voiced R&B and souped-up island riddims – what Beyoncé might have sounded like if she had grown up in the West Indies and skipped the whole Destiny's Child thing."
- 2006
A New Disc Among Rumors
Eight months after the release of her debut album, Rihanna releases her sophomore album, A Girl Like Me. The album boasts Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers "S.O.S." and "Unfaithful," and earns her four Billboard Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year. But the success is paired with gossip that Rihanna is romantically involved with her mentor Jay-Z, who is dating pop star Beyoncé. "At first I was like, 'Ha ha, it's funny,'" Rihanna tells the AP. "Now I just ignore it and I'm numb to it...You cannot stop people from saying what they want to say."
- 2007
An Edgier Look & Sound
Rihanna follows the likes of Janet Jackson and Christina Aguilera when she sheds her innocent image for an edgier look and sound. She releases the single, "Umbrella," which reaches the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100 in June and kicks off her upcoming third album, Good Girl Gone Bad. "It shows such growth for her as an artist," Jay-Z tells the AP." "If you listen to the lyrics to that song, you know the depth and how far she's come."
A Natural Beauty
After becoming the face of Cover Girl cosmetics, Rihanna appears in PEOPLE's Most Beautiful issue sans makeup. "The best thing about going without makeup is that it takes a lot less time to get ready," Rihanna tells PEOPLE. "You feel comfortable and free." The glowing singer is also listed at No. 8 on Maxim's Hot 100 and No. 59 on EW's 100 Stars We Love, among such up-and-comers as Hayden Panettiere and Shia LaBeouf.
Good Girl Gone Bad
Rihanna's latest disc, Good Girl Gone Bad, debuts at No. 2 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart. It features songs produced by Timbaland, cameos by Jay-Z and has a track, "Rehab," written for her by Justin Timberlake. "'Good Girl Gone Bad' was an expression of where I am at this point in my life, where I am in my career. It just represents my rebelliousness," she tells EW.
Winning Big at VMAs
Rihanna cleans up at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, taking home two of the evening's most prestigious trophies for her smash hit "Umbrella": Video of the Year and Monster Single of the Year. The singer was nominated for five awards, including Female Artist of the Year.
- 2008
Rihanna's First Grammy!
After making a splash with an even shorter do, Rihanna performs "Umbrella" and "Don't Stop the Music" at the 2008 Grammy Awards. The 19-year-old singer also goes home with her first Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with Jay-Z for her hit "Umbrella." During her acceptance speech, Rihanna says, "Dad, I know I promised you I'd give you my first Grammy, but we're going to have to fight for this one!"
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BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Slaven Vlasic/Abaca; Marion Curtis/Startraks; Ramey; Jen Lowery/Startraks; Courtesy of Island Def Jam; Steven Willaims; amazon.com; Jordan Strauss/WireImage; Kevin Winter/Getty
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- Real Name
- Robyn Rihanna Fenty
- Birth Date
- February 20, 1988
- Birth Place
- St. Michael, Barbados
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An easy numerical handling of time-dependent problems with complicated geometries, free moving boundaries and interfaces, or oscillating solutions is of great importance for many applications, e.g., in fluid dynamics (free surface and multiphase flows, fluid-structure interactions [22, 18, 24]), failure mechanics (crack growth and propagation [4]), magnetohydrodynamics (accretion disks, jets and cloud simulation [6]), biophysics and -chemistry. Appropriate discretizations, so-called mesh-less methods, have been developed during the last decades to meet these challenging demands and to relieve the burden of remeshing and successive mesh generation being faced by the conventional mesh-based methods, [16, 10, 3]. The prearranged mesh is an artificial constraint to ensure compatibility of the mesh-based interpolant schemes, that often conflicts with the real physical conditions of the continuum model. Then, remeshing becomes inevitable, which is not only extremely time- and storage consuming but also the source for numerical errors and hence the gradual loss of computational accuracy. Apart from this advantage, mesh-less methods also lead to fundamentally better approximations regarding aspects, such as smoothness, nonlocal interpolation character, flexible connectivity, refinement and enrichment procedures, [16]. The common idea of mesh-less methods is the discretization of the domain of interest by a finite set of independent, randomly distributed particles moving with a characteristic velocity of the problem. Location and distribution of the particles then account for the time-dependent description of the geometry, data and solution. Thereby, the global solution is linearly superposed from the local information carried by the particles. In classical particle methods [20, 21], the respective weight functions are Dirac distributions which yield solutions in a distributional sense.
This contribution presents a model reduction method for nonlinear problems in structural mechanics. Emanating from a Finite Element model of the structure, a subspace and a lookup table are generated which do not require a linearisation of the equations. The method is applied to a model created with commercial FEM software. In this case, the terms describing geometrical and material nonlinearities are not explicitly known.
This work deals with the optimal control of a free surface Stokes flow which responds to an applied outer pressure. Typical applications are fiber spinning or thin film manufacturing. We present and discuss two adjoint-based optimization approaches that differ in the treatment of the free boundary as either state or control variable. In both cases the free boundary is modeled as the graph of a function. The PDE-constrained optimization problems are numerically solved by the BFGS method, where the gradient of the reduced cost function is expressed in terms of adjoint variables. Numerical results for both strategies are finally compared with respect to accuracy and efficiency.


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As kids across the country are starting a fresh new semester in school; it is time for us to conclude our educational video mini-series Better Brewing with Dr. Brew too. Over the past few months, Dr. Brew has provided educational videos explaining:
The last educational lesson in the series will discuss coffee roasts and grind size. You are only one video away from flipping your tassel towards a better brew education.
Do you enjoy a light roast coffee? Or is a dark roast more your style? Are you confused as what really is the difference in coffee roast profiles? To understand coffee roast you first need to know a little about roasting. Roasting is a process that green coffee beans go through to bring the oil to the surface of the bean and unlock different flavor nuances. As Dr. Brew explains in the video, roasting coffee beans can do a couple of different things; it can roast flavors in by roasting the coffees darker to caramelize more sugars; or it can roast flavors out by roasting a coffee bean lighter. Roast masters use the roasting process to create different flavor profiles.
To help illustrate how coffee roasts differ Dr. Brew compares the different roasts to the different steak preferences. A light roast coffee is comparable to a medium rare steak, where it is lightly roasted on the outside. A dark roast coffee is comparable to a well done steak where it is charred on the exterior.
So what are the overall flavor profiles in these different roasts? While roast color does have an effect on the flavor of the coffee it is not the only determining factor. Origin of the coffee bean can make a difference in flavor as well. Therefore, a light roast coffee from Ethiopia is going to taste different than a light roast coffee from Guatemala. However, as general rule of thumb when it comes to roast and taste:
The type of roast you select to brew and enjoy is based on personal preference, and the formula for brewing great coffee does not change based on your selection. You do not need to use more coffee just because you are brewing a light roast, or fewer grounds when brewing a dark roast. Your roast selection should not affect how much coffee you use when brewing a pot. As Dr. Brew explains you wouldn't use half the amount of ingredients when making a chocolate cake, just because it is darker than a vanilla cake. The same is true for roasts of coffees. The formula for the amount of coffee you use remains the same regardless of the roast as long as you are using the correct grind.
So how should you grind the different roasts of coffee? Coffee should be ground based on the speed of the brewer, not based on the roast of the coffee. Brewers that brew in less than 4 minutes should be ideally using a fine grind. A fine grind will have a texture similar to table salt. A drip grind should be used in brewers that take between 4-6 minutes to brew. A drip grind, or medium grind, has a texture similar to coarse black pepper. Brewers that take longer than 8 minutes to brew should be using a coarse grind. French press and plunge method often use a coarse grind to reduce the amount of coffee fines coming through the beverage. *Note: Darker roast coffees can produce fine grinds. To help combat this adjust your grind setting a little coarser to achieve the right grind size for your brewer.
To learn more about coffee roast and grind watch the fourth and last video in the Better Brewing with Dr Brew series.
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text: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Alan Ward wrote: > I have been reading the ongoing discussion on network usage with some > interest, mainly because in all (admittedly very small, 4 to 8 node) > clusters we have set up so far, we have always gone with doubling the > network. Nowadays we mostly run a 100 MBit/s "el cheapo" FastEthernet > for control, NFS and monitoring, while the faster Gigabit is exclusively > for MPI. Applications are CFD, with various levels of granularity. We are running a 1Gb network that has 10Gb connections to the head node and fileservers as well. We also have a 100Mb network that is seperate for management and BMC traffic. Since our systems have two ethernet ports on the motherboard, the only cost was the switches and cables. For the price, I think it is very worthwhile. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use.


text: Chris <chris.colemansmith at gmail.com> writes: > As a student hiding in the corners and under the stairs on this list i was > wondering why you guys would want to be connecting things to your marvelous > clusters with RS-232 type ports. i mean there's many other ways to interface > right? Serial connections tend to just work (once you've got them wired correctly), and need no fancy-schmancy OS level custom drivers. And almost every piece of equipment tends to come with a serial port for management and monitoring. Computers, switches, RAID controllers, environment sensors, UPS:es... -- Leif Nixon - Systems expert ------------------------------------------------------------ National Supercomputer Centre - Linkoping University ------------------------------------------------------------


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POV-Ray: The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality,
totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics.
The author of POV-Ray asks users who build their own binaries to
include their name and e-mail in the final result.
The included SlackBuild offers this possibility by entering the
information on the command line like this:
# POVRAY_BUILDER="your name <email@address>" ./povray.SlackBuild
If you leave this variable empty, it will be supplied by the
SlackBuild script as "`whoami` on `hostname`"
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