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Mehndi ceremony is a special day for girls who are going to marry. It is a day where the feeling of every bride is on top because on the one side they have to leave her parents, brother and sisters; on the other hand she enters in a new life with her life partne.
Mostly the girls want to be simple but elegant on the day of Mehndi ceremony. Yellow, Green and orange colors are used for the Mehndi dresses but nowadays girls have become experimental. In some extent designers have solved this problem tactfully but their serving cannot be denied. On the Mehndi there are Lehnga's, Churidar's, Sharara's, Gharara's, Long shirts in embroidered, zari work, banarsi fabric etc. They use different colors in contrast for Mehndi brides. Brides are decorated with fresh flower jewellery, usually sunflower and motia is used for making the jewellery of Mehndi bride. However bangles are used by brides in addition to the flower jewellery. Instead of heel brides wear khusa's that gives traditional look to the bride.
Mehndi, ubtan and dholak is the culture of Pakistan where bride is ornamented with Mehndi on hands and feet. Girls sing and clap with dholki to celebrate the Mehndi ceremony. Mekeup is done in soft and natural colors on the day of Mehndi. Peachy Pink color is very common for lipstick and blush-on. Light base with soft color lipstick or gloss is liked by every bride on the Mehndi because on the day of Barat they want typical bridal look.


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"The uncertainty of gas prices, combined with the government-mandated increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), has most automakers preparing both small and fuel-efficient vehicles for their future lineups." –James Bell, executive market analyst, Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com
It's none-too-surprising to see "fuel efficiency" becoming the focus of not just owners and operators in the light vehicle world but of manufacturers as well for the near future. The question, however, is whether this focus is temporary or represents a more permanent shift in specification demand.
High fuel prices have much to do with this, especially on the consumer side of the equation. AAA Chicago, for example, noted that the cost of regular unleaded gasoline jumped 16 cents in Illinois during January alone, driving pump prices up to a statewide average cost of $3.22 per gallon for the month; 38 cents higher per gallon than the same period in 2010. Nationwide, gasoline prices are hovering at about a $3.12 per gallon average, AAA noted.
"Oil prices are trading at nearly $90 per barrel, which is having an enormous effect on the price of gasoline at the pump," said Beth Mosher, director of public affairs for AAA Chicago. "Unfortunately, at least in the near-term, consumers should get used to paying these high prices at the pump."
Thing is, consumers seem to be resigned to high fuel prices – which may be driving them to rank fuel-efficiency higher on the "vehicle needs" list on a more permanent basis.
According to the most recent Kelley Blue Book kkb.com Market Intelligence survey concerning gas prices, the current economic situation coupled with concern over the potential rise in gas prices is leading new and used vehicle shoppers alike to change their consideration criteria.
[You can see how fuel economy is affecting vehicle design; look for example at how General Motors described its 2010 GMC Terrain, with high fuel efficiency meshed tightly together with vehicle styling and other characteristics.]
The firm surveyed 1,127 new- and used-car shoppers via its web site from January 8 to 11 this year and turned up some interesting results. For starters, nearly three-quarters (70%) of car shoppers say that gas prices have influenced vehicle considerations, or the type of vehicle they are considering, KBB said, with almost half (43%) of car shoppers delaying the purchase of a vehicle due to economic concerns and gas prices.
Moreover, 75% of kbb.com survey respondents said they expect gas prices to rise in the next 30 days, and data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration reveals that gas prices are projected to rise throughout 2011 and into 2012.
In addition, 61% of kbb.com survey respondents say that they have changed their driving habits as a result of rising gas prices, and many indicate they are considering making trade-offs on their next vehicle choice to save money on fuel.
Furthermore, nearly half of car shoppers (48%) said they would be willing to change engine size (i.e. choosing a four-cylinder versus a V6 or V8) according to KBB's poll, with 36% saying they would change vehicle size (i.e. mid-size sedan versus large sedan), and 31% said they would change vehicle category (i.e. sedan versus SUV).
Even light vehicle manufacturers themselves recognize a much greater emphasis if being placed on fuel economy now and in the future – although in their case, government-mandated increases in corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) is forcing their hand.
According to the 12th annual global automotive survey conducted by KPMG LLP, fuel efficiency, safety innovation, and vehicle styling are going to be the three most important product issues influencing automotive consumer purchase decisions over the next five years.
[Here are some thoughts on this subject from Derrick Kuzak, group vice president-global product development for Ford Motor Co.]
When asked to rate the importance of product attributes to consumer purchase decisions over the next five years, "fuel efficiency" was most frequently cited by global automotive executives in the 2011 survey (91%), followed by safety innovation (82%), vehicle styling (77%), and environmental friendliness (75%).
KPMG interviewed 200 global executives, representing vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, from October through November last year for this survey.
When asked what vehicle categories will see global sales increases over the next five years, they said hybrid fuel vehicles (84%) topped the list, followed by electric vehicles (77%) – a new category option in the KPMG's survey this year – other alternative fuel vehicles (63%), basic or introduction cars (60%), cross-overs (56%), SUVs (51%), small pick-up trucks (45%), minivans (41%), and large pick-up trucks (27%).
[Fuel economy is also a major design parameter for engines and transmissions as well, which is not surprise, of course. Last year, Chrysler's Nick Cappa showed how the need for greater fuel efficiency is driving new design paths for these two components.]
However, it's interesting to note that the responses for hybrid vehicles dropped in 2011 compared to the 2010 survey numbers, with basic/introduction cars falling more than 20 percentage points from last year.
Still, the key inflection point for consumers (and working fleets, too) remains the price of fuel – something Kelly Blue Book winkled out from its survey. Using the "Van Westendorf" pricing model as a research strategy, the firm said that the current "optimum price point" for gasoline is $3 per gallon (with the acceptable range of pricing from $2.75 - $3.25), meaning that if prices remain around $3 per gallon, car shoppers likely will not make major changes in vehicle consideration criteria.
However, at the $3.50 per gallon price point, more than half of consumers feel that gas is so expensive that it will affect their vehicle consideration, and at $4 per gallon, 80% of consumers say their vehicle consideration will indeed be affected. At a price point of $5 per gallon, almost all car shoppers (95%) reveal that gas prices will affect vehicle consideration.
The analysis also determined that consumers can become acclimated to semi-static price points over time, but the speed and amount by which gas prices increase also affects the changes in interest of alternative-fuel vehicles. Given that the current U.S. price per gallon of regular gasoline in the is $3.12 range, KBB believes that if prices were to reach $4 per gallon by this summer, interest in alternative-fuel vehicles would double.
"It is clear from the [our] data that gas prices have a definite impact on the vehicle choices made by new-car shoppers in the U.S.," said James Bell, executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com. "It also seems that the price of gas also will help determine the success or failure of many new alternative-fuel vehicles now set for production."
Thus it looks like more "wait-and-see" is on the plate of vehicle manufacturers as to whether fuel prices rise or fall when this winter's chill finally begins to thaw.

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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
In the super-sensual world of wine, scientists tend to lurk in back rooms - in the often malodorous small labs attached to bigger wineries where they analyse what is produced and save it from disaster, or behind the high walls of academe, working on theses too abstruse for the average wine drinker to comprehend.
There is one obvious exception, however. Dr Jamie Goode is a British wine writer with a wine column in the Sunday Express, a much-visited blog and website at www.wineanorak.com (sic) and, now, a second book to his name, written with Master of Wine and winemaker Sam Harrop. Its title is surprising: Authentic Wine - Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking. As I pointed out in Naked as nature intended?, 'natural wine', the sort made without chemical additions, is a distinctly woozy, artistic concept, an increasingly fashionable cause maybe, but not one you would immediately expect a scientist to espouse.
So fashionable is it in fact that Authentic Wine is not the only second book to have been published recently on the theme of natural wine. American wine writer and celebrated eponymous blogger Alice Feiring's offering Naked Wine is a much slighter volume, less nutritious and more impressionistic, but much closer to what one would expect from a devotee of natural wine.
To judge from his online enthusiasms, Goode, counter-intuitively, is as big a fan of wines made without additives, notably sulphur, as Feiring, but between hard covers he seems markedly more circumspect. Every proposition is introduced with a rhetorical question before the arguments for and against are adduced and carefully weighed.
In each book the history of natural wine is traced back to Jules Chauvet, who pioneered winemaking without added sulphur in his native Beaujolais. But Goode and Harrop, for all their 27 pages specifically on The Natural Wine Movement, including a meticulous overview of the role of sulphur dioxide in winemaking, at no point that I could see spell out why so many of the natural winemakers I have come across started to experiment with low-sulphur wines: because they liked drinking and found that sulphured wines gave them worse hangovers.
I learnt a humbling amount from Goode and Harrop's clearly written book, however, and by no means all of it scientific. I didn't realise until they reported the fact from California hi-tech wine scientist Clark Smith that so few wine-related patents had ever been taken out: 150. I also enjoyed the comments of Foster's Australian winemaker and Master of Wine Justin Knock on quite how common it is to add sweetening (plain old sugar in Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc until 2009 when the EU insisted on grape juice concentrate) to finished wine in commercial blends - particularly from the likes of Hardys, McGuigan and Yellow Tail (whose soaraway success in the US was surely predicated on its exceptionally high sugar levels) but much less so for Jacob's Creek, McWilliams and Yalumba's wines. I am also glad to have discovered that there is a way of telling whether a wine producer has added water to their wine (stable isotope analysis, of course, silly).
Goode and Harrop, who gallop through all possible additives to, and manipulations of, wine, arguably give insufficient attention to the subject of ingredient labelling for wine. I don't see why wine should be exempt from a requirement that has long been imposed on all food manufacturers, but Goode and Harrop produce the rather puny counter-argument about the difficulties of translating the additives used into different languages for export.
Yeast, arguably the most important additive of all since without it there is no alcohol, gets a whole chapter, and one which is, surprisingly, in favour of the sort of cultured yeasts marketed by Lallemand, for whom Goode has undertaken work in the past. (His estimate of the proportion of wine made without cultured yeast at 80 per cent seems high to me.) But the book is delightfully clear about the different species of yeast and the argument for and against believing that the dominant wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is effectively a man-made creation, unlike the wild yeast so cherished by natural wine enthusiasts. The authors are also right to do their bit to dispel the myth that yeast live on grape skins.
In a particularly extensive chapter on biodynamics is a host of interesting case studies of high-profile growers who have converted to the voodoo (cow horns and lunar cycles) but at the end Goode and Harrop seem to nail their colours firmly to the much more middle-brow mast of sustainable viticulture, which makes far fewer demands on its adherents. Biodynamics consultant Monty Waldin is interviewed and quoted at length, not least on why so few Bordeaux properties have taken the biodynamic plunge - because, to paraphrase, they tend to be run for cautious shareholders anxious to maximise yields in a damp climate. (Although the most high profile BD exponent in the Médoc, Château Pontet-Canet, is flying high.) It's refreshing to have someone quoted who has clearly got his trainers dirty. 'Tractor drivers are seen as the lowest of the low', argues Waldin, 'but in fact without them 99 per cent of vineyards couldn't function.' He explains he has managed to persuade tractor crews of the virtues of the biodynamic preparations by mixing them with more conventional sprays to demonstrate how effective and benign they are. (NB: see our forum for the latest lively debate on our forum about biodynamic calendars.)
The chapter on wine's (slightly dodgy) environmental record is also welcome, but virtually ignores winery design and includes arguably too much detail on closures (two of whose manufacturers Goode has also worked for). I especially relished natural wine producer Eric Texier's quote, 'Natural wines are full of good intentions. They are full of fossil fuel too', although the comment was made about the increased costs of 'natural' viticulture rather than the amount of energy used keeping wine, especially low-sulphur wine, cool.
But whereas I suppose I was expecting a rather more passionate espousal of non-interventionist methods throughout the book, at the very end Harrop and Goode (who now says he realises that they should have explicitly stated all their commercial links with the industry in the book) seem suddenly a bit too idealistic to me. They are right that fine-wine production is at a crossroads between authentic and over-manipulated. But to call for all of the most commercial, inexpensive wine to be made in a more natural, terroir-driven manner is surely whistling in the wind.
The most user-friendly book on natural wine, a guide to those producing it, has yet to emerge - although Naked Wine has a useful list of Alice Feiring's favourite producers at the end.
In the meantime, here are some wines billed as natural that I have particularly liked, in roughly north to south geographical order.
Audrey & Christian Binner, Riesling d'Ammerschwihr 2009 Alsace
Audrey & Christian Binner, K Non-Filtré Riesling 2007 Alsace
Josmeyer, Le Kottabe Riesling 2008 Alsace
Réné Mosse 2009 Anjou Blanc
Frederik Filliatreau, Ch Fouquet 2010 Saumur Rouge
Catherine & Pierre Breton, Trinch 2010 Bourgueil
Catherine & Pierre Breton, La Dilettante 2010 Bourgueil
Dom Jean Foillard, Côte du Py 2009 Morgon
Dom Julien Sunier 2010 Morgon
Dom Marcel Lapierre 2009 Morgon (his last-ever vintage)
Dom Jean-Claude Lapalu, Vieilles Vignes 2010 Beaujolais-Villages
Ch Le Puy, Duc de Nauves 2009 Bordeaux
Causse-Marines, Les Greilles 2008 Gaillac Blanc
Bellegarde 2010 Jurançon Sec
Mas Coutelou, Ouest 2001 Coteaux du Murviel
Ferrier-Ribière Grenache Blanc 2009 Côtes Catalanes
Matassa, Three Trees Le Cayrol Blanc 2009 Côtes Catalanes
Vinci, Coyade 2006 Côtes Catalanes
Le Roc des Anges, Vieilles Vignes 2009 Pyrenées-Orientales
Panevino, Is de A'Nanti Rosso 2009 Sardegna
Panevino, Kussas Intrendu A Manu'e Manca 2009 Sardegna
I Vigneri 2008 Etna Rosso
Cornelissen, Munjebel 5, 6 and 7, Magma 7 and 8, Sicilia
COS, Rami 2010 IGT Sicilia Bianco
For stockists, see wine-searcher.com.


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As Chair of the Broward County Legislative Delegation, I am pleased to present the 2012 Annual Report of the Delegation for use by the residents and governmental officials in Broward County.
In preparation for the 2012 Legislative Session, the Delegation met at locations throughout Broward County to involve all segments of the community. We listened to a wide variety of individuals, organizations and businesses. In an effort to reach consensus on priority issues for Broward County residents, workshops were scheduled with the Broward County Board of County Commissioners, the School Board of Broward County and the Broward League of Cities. A copy of that schedule is included in this report.
This report includes contact information for the members of the Broward Delegation which includes their district and Tallahassee addresses and phone numbers, legislative committee assignments and staff. Information regarding specific legislation sponsored by the members can be found at: myfloridahouse.gov and flsenate.gov.
Over the past few years, state revenues have been in steep decline. However, the state does provide certain funding for projects and services within Broward County. The Budget Overview for Broward County government is provided as part of this report.
The overarching issue of the 2012 Legislative Session was the once a decade apportionment of the Florida legislative districts and the Congressional districts. The fact that two Constitutional amendments passed by the electorate affected the drawing of the districts requiring that they be contiguous, compact and make use of existing city, county and geographical boundaries proved challenging. The maps of the final districts for the next decade for Broward County are included in this report. While the Legislative Delegation will be reduced from twenty six members to nineteen, most of the members for the next decade will be elected primarily from Broward County.
Broward Days were held in Tallahassee on Wednesday, January 25, and Thursday, January 26, 2012. Governor Rick Scott and Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll attended the traditional luncheon at the Governor's Club. Discussion groups were scheduled following the luncheon and two of the legislative 'Hot' issues: 'Gaming: Gamble for the State of Florida?' and 'Education: Preparing for Tomorrow." Broward Days continues to be a voice to advocate for the diverse needs and concerns of the citizens and the business community.
It was a great honor to serve as Chair of the Broward Legislative Delegation. I want to thank Senator Eleanor Sobel, our Vice Chair, and the entire Broward Delegation for their help, support and cooperation. I also want to thank the staff of the Delegation – Executive Director Sandy Harris, Administrative Assistant Faith Lombardo and Delegation Attorney Eugene M. Steinfeld. Their support was instrumental in helping us achieve our goals. I also want to thank all of the citizens of Broward County for continuing to make Broward a better place to live – now, and in the future.
Sincerely, Representative Evan Jenne Chair, Broward Legislative Delegation


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Introducing Medianet Media Awareness
Using well-known network attributes like IP address or TCP/UDP port numbers for application identification and network classification is a thing of the past. More and more applications are opaque (e.g. video streams) and increasingly, applications are encrypted making network classification a real challenge for enterprises.
Introducing Media Awareness
Medianet media awareness is a suite of technologies to detect different types of endpoints, media and application types in order to deliver the best experience. The network can try to figure it out (implicit), or the network can be told by the endpoint or applications (explicit).
Implicit Mechanism
There are two implicit mechanisms:
- Network Based Application Recognition 2 (NBAR2) inspects packet headers and payload for protocol discovery. It analyzes multi-packet behavior and application signatures. NBAR2 is the next generation IOS deep packet inspection technology with advanced application classification and field extraction capabilities. It recognizes 1000+ protocols.
- Media Services Proxy (MSP) complements NBAR2 by inspecting control signaling protocols for the establishment of sessions. MSP uses light weight deep packet inspection techniques to snoop standard based signaling protocols.
The combination of inspecting packet headers, payload & control signaling protocols make a comprehensive deep packet inspection solution.
Explicit Mechanism
To complement traditional deep packet inspection solutions, Flow Metadata is the innovative explicit mechanism that is reusable across network nodes, available at every node and avoids the pitfall of data not being visible for DPI due to increasing use of encryption and obfuscation. Flow Metadata allows the application to convey information to a set of network nodes. This allows appropriate policies to be applied at each hop, end to end.
Media Awareness uses explicit & implicit signaling mechanisms to become application context aware so that appropriate polices can be applied end to end, eliminating the need for static configuration. Medianet Media Awareness fundamentally changes the way data – and especially rich media – can be handled on the network. The "Smart" endpoint/application, with embedded intelligence, works in conjunction with the "smart" network to change the way endpoints and applications interact with each other for optimal quality of experience, enhanced simplicity and agility.
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Floating Disco FeverWednesday, May 11th, 2011
Lynne asks:
Wondered if you could recommend any boats that go from Greenwich for a 3-4hr evening cruise. Looking to organise a summer works 'do' for around 80 people – exclusive hire would be too much i think, so would be looking for a joint or shared option. Preferably with the option of food and dancing. Have had a quick search but there seems to be so many companies/boats i was hoping a recommendation or two would cut down the search a bit!!
Definitely one to throw open to the floor here. Disco cruises are not my cup of tea at all, so I need your help on this. I did once have a very civilized meal on the Silver Sturgeon, and the entire Silver Fleet seems to be around the top end of the market (hence my never getting to try it again…) but you're right, there are dozens of cruises available (I didn't realise just how many until I looked just now), absolutely none of which I've tried.
The Dixie Queen with its jolly faux-riverboat brassiness is at least recogniseable, the others I can't even bring to mind. In cases like this I often fall back on Trip Advisor, which does appear to have some discussions in its forums about river cruises, though I didn't see one specifically about food and dancing.
But I know what Lynne means – getting a recommendation from a Phantophile who's been there, danced that, got the glitter ball, will be the best thing.
Or you could just get a Rover ticket on the Clipper and bring a ghetto blaster…
BTW apparently the world's largest private cruise ship, appropriately-named The World, will be docking at Greenwich between 4-8th June. The cruisers live on board for a whole year in their own apartments. Paydirt for market stallholders, then.


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Meet Phoenix, a SuicideGirl who spends her free time looking at women with their clothes off, can't live without art and thinks everything is beautiful in its own way. That's great news for us ugly guys!
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Stats: 5'4 1/4″ – 1/2 Chinese + 1/2 French/Scottish = Wabi-Sabi perfection.
Body mods: They're fairly obvious.
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Favorite Position: Doggystyle.
Fantasy: I'm living it. I make art all day and have sex at night with the man I've been searching for my whole life.
Sign: Saggitarius.
Most humbling moment: The day I saw my grandmother dying in a hospital bed.
I lost my virginity: To an ass, but I'm glad I got it over with.
Cigarettes: Nope.
Alcohol: Occasionally.
My drug use: Down the hatch.
I'm looking for: Whoever comes along.
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Pot: Nope.
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Makes me happy: Sunny days, those waking moments when ideas just come to me and I jump out of bed to get started on them and eating organic produce.
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Marion C. Marvin
October 8, 1917 – January 24, 2010
Born in Buffalo, New York, Marion C. Zollitsch lost her mother to the influenza epidemic of 1919. Her father took 2 year old Marion and her 2 older brothers back to the family home where they were cared for by12 aunts and uncles until her father remarried when Marion was 9 years old.
In 1937 Marion married the love of her life, Kenneth, and were together for 60 years.
Tired of the cold winters of New York, in 1959 they decided to begin a new adventure in life, and with their two daughters, moved to La Crescenta from Gasport, New York.
Marion made many friends in the community when she worked as a District Postal Clerk in the Verdugo City Post Office from 1965-1985.
She and Kenneth were active members of the Pioneer Club of the Foothills and enjoyed taking many trips the club organized over the years. They also enjoyed taking many other happy trips together, including traveling through the Panama Canal for their 50th wedding anniversary.
In her later years, Marion suffered from Wet Macular Degeneration which eventually took away her ability to do all of her favorite things, but her Faith in God and devotion to her church sustained her throughout the remainder of her life.
A sweet, gentle, loving woman, wife and mother, on January 24, 2011, she was reunited with her beloved husband.
Marion is survived by her daughters, Suzanne Hakhamimi and Karen Marvin; son-in-law Masoud Hakhamimi, M.D.; grandson, Aryan Hakhamimi, wife Abby and great-grandson Adrian; grandson Kamron Hakhamimi, M.D. and wife Nan; sister-in-law, June Louis of Cheektowaga, New York; and 15 nieces and nephews.
Monsignor Foley will preside over mass at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 2411 Montrose Avenue, Montrose, California on Thursday, January 27 at 10:00 a.m. Interment will be in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are being provided by Crippen Mortuary, La Crescenta, California.


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Claremont Graduate University has announced the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, given annually to a mid-career poet for a book published in the previous year. At $100,000, the Kingsley Tufts Award is one of the largest monetary poetry prizes in the United States.
The 2013 award has been given to Marianne Boruch of West Lafayette, Indiana, for her collection The Book of Hours, published by Copper Canyon Press. Heidy Steidlmayer of Vacaville, California, received the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her debut collection, Fowling Piece (Tri-Quarterly). The Kate Tufts Award is given annually for a first book by a poet.
"We are delighted to honor these poets and celebrate their achievements," said Wendy Martin, director of the Tufts Poetry Awards program and vice provost at Claremont Graduate University, in a press release. "These awards will help them gain wider recognition and will sustain their continuing commitment to writing outstanding poetry."
The winners were selected from a list of finalists for each award. Boruch's most recent books include the poetry collections Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan, 2008) and Poems: New and Selected (Oberlin, 2004), and a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler (University of Indiana, 2011). Steidlmayer's poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the 2012 Ploughshares John C. Zacharis Award.
Now in its twenty-first year, the Kingsley Tufts award was established at Claremont Graduate University by Kate Tufts to honor the memory of her husband. The award is presented for a work by a poet "who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the pinnacle of his or her career." The Kate Tufts Discovery Award was established in 1993 and is given annually for a debut collection.
The winners will be honored at a ceremony at the Garrison Theater in Claremont on Thursday, April 18. David Barber, Kate Gale, Ted Genoways, Linda Gregerson, and Carl Phillips judged.
Timothy Donnelly received the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Award; past winners include Robert Wrigley, Tom Sleigh, Matthea Harvey, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Chase Twichell.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said that the recent peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is enough to get a final status agreement signed, but recognized that the outgoing Israeli leader does not have the ability to implement the proposal.
"We could have peace in two days" if Olmert's offer could be implemented, Abbas told a group of Muslim clerics at the tail end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Olmert made his offer in a Rosh Hashanah interview with Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot.
In the interview, Olmert said he was ready to withdraw from 93 percent of Judea and Samaria, including nearly all of eastern Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley. Olmert offered to make up the difference by giving the Palestinians 5.5 percent of sovereign Israeli land.
The proposed deal also included a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights.
Abbas said he hopes that Olmert's proposal will form the foundation of peace talks with his successor. The Palestinian leader said he would like to view Olmert's offer as a peace "deposit."
The international community tried to make sure that will be the case when the Middle East Quartet last week insisted that all Israeli offers, no matter how tentative, be made binding.
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Author Notes: This recipe is inspired by a great soda company from Seattle called Dry Soda. They make not overly sweet sodas with interesting flavors like lavender, juniper, and rhubarb. I decided to see how celery soda might work, and was pleasantly surprised by the result. I've added a bit of lemon, black pepper, and cardamon to enhance and complement the fresh, herbaceous flavor of the celery. This is a grown-up soda that would be perfectly refreshing on a sultry summer day. —hardlikearmour
Food52 Review: Hardlikearmour has created a very cool way to use celery. This is different than every other soda. It's not overly sweet, rather it's a little spicy with a strong undercurrent of celery. It packs jsut the right amount of spice to be interesting, but still refreshing and light. I liked mine in a dilution of 6:1, but feel free to play with it to find what you like the best. —Stephanie Bourgeois
Makes: about 2 cups of syrup
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large stalks celery (about 3/4 lb) (plus inner stalks for garnish)
large lemon
tablespoon black pepper corns
green cardamom pods
1 1/4
cups water (12 oz)
cup sugar (7 oz)
seltzer water (about 2 quarts for the entire batch of syrup)
- Clean then thinly slice the celery. It should measure about 3 cups when firmly packed into a liquid measuring cup. Set aside.
- Remove the zest in strips from half of the lemon. Lightly crush the pepper corns and cardamom pods. Set aside.
- Bring water and sugar to a boil in a medium sauce pan. Once it reaches a boil, add the sliced celery and return it to a boil for about 1 minute. Stir once or twice in the process. Remove from the heat.
- Add the lemon zest, pepper, and cardamom to the celery mixture. Stir to combine, then cover the pan and allow to cool to room temperature.
- Strain the celery syrup through a fine mesh strainer into a jar or other suitable storage container. Press the celery to extract as much syrup as possible. Feel free to nibble on some of the candied celery - it's surprisingly tasty! (and if you think of any good uses for it, pass them on! I send most of it to the compost heap.)
- Juice the lemon, and add 3 tablespoons of the juice to the syrup. Stir to combine. Store covered in the refrigerator until ready to use.
- Mix syrup with seltzer water. A 1 to 4 dilution is a good starting point; adjust to your taste. Serve over ice with a tender inner celery stalk as garnish if desired.
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The second 'phase' of the grand cinematic plans of Marvel Studios has not yet begun, but head honcho Kevin Feige is already planning ahead. Feige recently spoke with MTV News about what lies beyond – Phase Three.
Feige says thinks will kick off with Edgar Wright's "Ant-Man" in November 2015:
"'Ant-Man' is definitely part of Phase Three. Like 'Iron Man 3,' it's certainly set in the Marvel Universe, but it's also through the lens of Edgar Wright – which is the only reason we're making the movie… It's very much an 'Ant-Man' origin movie from the perspective of Edgar Wright and his co-writer Joe Cornish. It will of course be firmly planted in the MCU, but a different corner than we've seen before."
The other certainty is the long-promised "Doctor Strange" movie:
"'Doctor Strange,' which I've been talking about for years, is definitely one of them. He's a great, original character, and he checks the box off this criteria that I have: he's totally different from anything else we have, just like 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' He's totally different from anything we've done before, as is 'Ant-Man,' which keeps us excited."
The second 'phase' starts with "Iron Man 3" this May and concludes with "The Avengers" sequel in May 2015. Regarding the third "Iron Man," Feige says that it will pave some roadwork towards the "Avengers" sequel, however it won't be anywhere near as obvious or prevalent as it was in the second "Iron Man" film.
"I would say that the exercise of this film [Iron Man 3] is very much standalone, more so than any 'Iron Man' film since the first one. But because we are in Phase Two and we're heading towards another 'Avengers' movie, there's certainly a road that's being paved – you just might not notice it … While you're driving on the road, not knowing where it's going, you might not realize that there are road signs and signals and lane changes that we're setting up now – they might not be readily apparent the first time you see the movie.
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text: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Donald Becker wrote: >> xmlsysd is -- I think -- very nicely hierarchically organized. It >> achieves adequate efficiency for many uses a different way -- it is only >> called on (client side) demand, so the network isn't cluttered with >> unwanted or unneeded casts (uni, multi, broad). It is "throttleable" -- >> the client controls the daemon on each host, and can basically tell it > > The very first implementation of what later became BeoStat did this. > There was only a single client, a display GUI, and it told the nodes how > and how often to report. That turned out to be a bad design. No other > tools could rely upon the reporting stream contents, and it couldn't be > used for liveness indication. Once we redesigned to a send-only > system that reported once per second it became generally useful. I opted to split off a library that facilitates the building of UIs, as well as a tool that basically unpacks certain displays (predefined clusters of reported stats) and dumps them tablewise to stdout. So anybody can get to the stream, parse it, and use it, even if they only know how to use split in perl and are clueless about the XML tools that exist for pretty much any possible programming environment. In C you can just clone the non-curses part of wulfstat hack it to fit, and it is mostly just a set of library calls. I wouldn't say my split is very good yet -- I'm learned the hard way with dieharder (and libdieharder that does all the work) that getting the library "just right" to support multiple UIs is not easy and not likely to be ideal the first couple of tries. But on the next rewrite it should be PRETTY good. The liveness issue is most definitely a problem with xmlsysd/wulfstat, because frankly TCP sucks for this specific purpose. I'd love to have what amounts to ping built into the UI, but it is a restricted socket command and I don't want to make the UI suid root. It would be trivial to recode xmlsysd to work the other way -- in fact, not too difficult to make it work BOTH ways, allow an initial straight-up TCP connection, configure the daemon to your desired set of statistics (all existing features) and then add two new commands to tell it to close the connection and begin to unicast back to host X, with frequency Y. Or better yet, leave the TCP connection open as a control interface WHILE it casts back at Y, permitting the controlling host to send synchronization feedback and drive its gathering of messages towards "simultaneity" in some narrowly confined sub-interval of time period Y, or to reconfigure the message on the fly, or to request a "snapshot" of information accessible to the daemon but not in the regular message out-of-band. I actually really like this idea -- the live TCP connection actually enables lots of things, all controlled from the client/master node side, while STILL obtaining the benefit of unicast and UDP. That would partly resolve the ping issue and let me maybe make downed host identification and reconnection as it comes back up a bit more robust -- not issues in your design but issues in mine where I have to cope with TCP timeouts and so on to decide when something is down, which can lead to poor performance on the client UI side (the nodes don't care). > For a concrete example: the GUI might not care about CPU utilization > percentages and not gather the numbers. But when we run a MPI process > mapper (a mapper is a one-off, at-this-instant layout scheduler) we don't > want to wait while those numbers are requested and reported. We want to > support both continuously-running (GUI display tools) and start-exit > (extract data, analyze, report) usage. Sure. But with a "permanent" direct connection, you just tell the daemon when you want only one small (but predefined -- this isn't about infinite user choice or a lack of design discipline) constellation of outputs, and it stops polling the parts of /proc you don't care about. If you suddenly need something -- a snapshot of running non-root processes, a complete picture of meminfo, the clock and cache size and architecture of the CPU (from different parts of /proc, in the latter case something you will need only VERY infrequently and on user demand) you just say e.g. on cpuinfo and either send to get an immediate reply via TCP or wait until the next unicast to get memory stuff added to the regular stream. Yes, talking to the socket is "bad" as it interferes with synchronicity, but then, you don't do it all the time and it is much cheaper than having to actively (re)connect to the node to make a base configuration change and restart everything. In the meantime you quietly accumulate cycle savings by NOT parsing all the process IDs unless you really need to, by NOT parsing /proc/cpuinfo or even /proc/stat unless the user wants to look at it (well, truthfully xmlsysd reads cpuinfo just once at the beginning and then just RETURNS it if requested anyway, so mostly you save a bit of bw and packet size but people only look at this sort of information for a few seconds anyway, no need to really poll it). >> Well, both of them have to be sent by the network. One can choose UDP >> or TCP for either one, and each has advantages and disadvantages (with >> -- gulp -- the same tradeoffs between reliability and robustness and >> speed). > > There are trade-offs between UDP and TCP. But UDP is the right model for > stats. I pretty much don't care about old numbers. I'll go further -- I > want to forget old numbers. If there is a problem, communication or > processing, that blocks updates for a minute, I want the numbers to > look stale. And I would rather get the new stats right away than process > and post a series of old messages. I'm not sure that this latter is an intrinsic difference/feature between UDP and TCP; wulfstat doesn't display stale stats either. That's really a UI choice in what it does when EITHER message fails to get through. UDP you either catch the message or you don't, and with large numbers of hosts replying in a DELIBERATELY small window, I'm guessing you drop a lot of the messages and hosts blink in and out (unless you cache them long enough to mask at least a round or two of missing info). With TCP dealing with per-host random delays without blocking and detecting host crashes is most definitely a pain, but not impossible. I keep telling myself, anyway...:-) And as I said above, it seems as though one could have the best of both -- it isn't really necessary to choose "only" one; both could even be accessible simultaneously within the same running daemon. You've inspired me, in the best of open source traditions, and soon I will have to Write More Code. This will let me "fix" a number of things that have annoyed me about xmlsysd (generally functional as it is). Just as soon as I have time, since I have only six ongoing projects plus two classes and two more independent study students, and dieharder is taking most of my elective time. Humans have their own scheduling woes and I've been thrashing for a decade in spite of modest upgrades in capacity...:-) There you've got an advantage in addition to your natural good looks, I guess, with people who will actually pay you to make changes and improvements to your product. I just do it out of a mix of love and for my own use. I'd rather have the money -- or perhaps would rather ALSO have the money...;-) >> Actually, from here on down -- with the exceptions of choosing to >> use xml to encapsulate the return, TCP instead of UDP, and allowing the >> client side to control and throttle the daemon so that one can tune the >> impact of the monitoring to the demands of the cluster and task, the two >> things sound very similar -- as they should be, given that they're both >> N>3 generation tools. > > The bottom line for all of this isn't "mine is better than yours". I > would like to see a common cluster state/status/statistics reporting > system. It doesn't have to look exactly like BeoStat, but I expect a good > one wouldn't be too far from the current BeoStat design. The interesting thing is that our independently arrived at designs are remarkably SIMILAR -- much more like one another than either one is like ganglia, for example. I'm guessing that our proc parsing code is quite similar on the back end, we both seem to report similar constellations from proc without reporting EVERYTHING from proc or necessarily letting a user muck around with what the tool can deliver. Outside of the functional core, you chose one way to deliver messages and configure (or not) the tool -- efficient but hard to change or debug or human read -- where I chose the other, relatively inefficient but much easier to debug or human read and controllable from a small palette of choices. Yours is tightly integrated, mine isn't really "integrated" at all. They are also "intended" to be used in different kinds of environments. xmlsysd is a standalone object -- drop it onto any linux system and it should just work, providing a connection-oriented relatively lightweight remote client controllable window into the local /proc and systems information space. beostat sounds (correct me if I'm wrong) much more like a fully integrated component of an all-or-nothing package. You wouldn't, maybe couldn't, install it on an plain old workstation and use it as part of a straight sysadmin package to keep an eye on a LAN as easily as a cluster, where sometimes I think wulfstat is MORE useful to LAN admins than it is to a "real cluster" administrator, with their stringent scaling requirements -- it certainly is designed for use on small to midsize LAN-ish clusters with stock kernels more than for 2048 node superclusters. What we really ought to do is exchange our data views (dictionary and encapsulation), kick them around, and arrive at a non-too-horrible consensus where at least one or our data views is an actual subset of the other. I "think" it would be pretty easy to add a command to xmlsysd such as "on beostat" that caused it simply do what it does now but pack the result into beostat-compatible UDP packets. If I DID leave in the "out of band" TCP control channel -- something that the overall scyld package probably accomplishes an entirely different way -- one could perhaps get the best of both worlds -- something with the operational leanness and scalability advantages of beostat but ALSO with the ease of use and debuggability of xmlsysd. EVEN on a Scyld type cluster, there might be times when it is useful to be able to just telnet into a node's xmlsysd port and tell one in human readable form "just what do you think you are doing?", and on a LAN client that might well be the dominant mode until 11 pm when you reboot (or not reboot, merely "repurpose") the LAN client into being part of a beostat-monitored-and-MPI-fronted cluster overnight. It would probably be simpler -- and more philosophically acceptable, since xmlsysd is already a "gorpier" and more general purpose tool -- to teach xmlsysd beostatish than to teach beostat to speak xmlish, but of course you are welcome to copy, grab, etc xmlsysd's GPL code and make it your own, or to otherwise steal the idea of a throttleable/remote controllable command interface if you don't already have one. The point is that if we COULD agree on data content and encapsulation -- or even offer a limited menu of choices of same, as xmlsysd already endeavors to do -- then it would be very simple to make UI and application tools that were interoperable and portable from LAN to cluster, supported by a co-provided library and API. Maybe even make it easy to build a semi-portable load balancer, scheduler, job distribution system etc, or to just build access to this block of information right into applications. Just a thought. rgb -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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Royals Birthdays – November 16
1968 – Chris Haney (Pitcher – 1992-98)
Happy Birthday!
Did You Know: Chris' dad Larry was a big league catcher from 1966-1978 playing for Orioles, Pilots, A's, Cardinals and Brewers. Chris is one of only nineteen putchers in Royals History to ever throw a two-hit complete game.
In 1999, while pitching for the Cleveland Indians, Chris gave up hit #3,000 to Wade Boggs of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. It marked the first time in major league history that a player collected his 3,000th hit with a home run.


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The AIDS Quilt Doesn't Take Manhattan
By JD Davids
August 11, 2014
I slept poorly. I woke up feeling dizzy and didn't want to leave the house. I did anyway. I went to see the AIDS Quilt.
A month ago, I read Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, Cynthia Carr's extensive and gripping biography of the artist and AIDS activist who died of AIDS in 1992.
As I was reading, part of me kept thinking that there could be a different ending. That maybe he would not die.
But, of course, he did. As did thousands around him, with the "downtown" community of queer and/or drug-using artists and lovers and families and neighbors decimated by the early years of the epidemic.
And then, time and again, their belongings were brought out to the street as trash, their surviving partners and friends were evicted from their apartments, and wealthier people we'd likely now call hipsters came in, paying ten times the rent.
You can almost see that neighborhood from the ferry to Governors Island, which is serving as host to a showing of the AIDS Quilt for two days this week as a part of the celebrity-dappled, motorcycle-powered Kiehl's LifeRide for amfAR. Almost, but not quite.
These days, lots of people visit Governors Island on the weekends. The round-trip ferry ride is two bucks, and takes 10 minutes from lower Manhattan. Despite being situated right between Manhattan and Brooklyn, fully within NYC limits, going to Governors Island is like taking a trip outside the city.
During the week, even on a beautiful day like today with its 9/11 blue sky, not so many come. The ferry had a smattering of tourists, interspersed with queers, mostly gay men, in ones and twos. One had a bag that said GOD HATES BAGS in hot pink letters. I really liked that.
Back in the day, we used to call the quilt the Death Tarp -- it served as a leading edge of our ACT UP disdain for what seemed like legitimated channels of marking the epidemic without naming those who were not taking action to end it, or whose actions exacerbated its harm and spread. But then I would see the quilt in person, and I'd find it undeniably powerful and acutely uncomfortable.
The last time I saw the AIDS Quilt in a showing of any real size was its final full showing -- on the Mall in Washington, D.C. -- where organizers vowed that it could never be fully displayed in its entirety again because it had become so large.
It was 1996, and protease inhibitors were just starting to be available. But they had yet to significantly shift the trajectory of the epidemic. I was one of the ACT UP members who organized a march from the quilt to the White House, where we threw the ashes of loved ones through the fence onto the White House lawn.
Today, as we exited the ferry, the tourists went to the left and to the right to mini golf, to bike rentals, to art. We few went to the left and then turned up a walkway, quickly accessing an interior lawn mostly out of view of the island's other attractions.
I knew it wasn't likely, but I'd imagined the quilt would pour over all available spaces, a surging presence that would somehow serve as an appropriate if symbolic substitute for the aging, let-it-never-get-out-of-control grief locked inside my body, right here above my stomach and below my heart. After all, the publicity did say it was to be the largest showing of the quilt in the city in over a decade.
It didn't. It was very ruly, with tidy paths, longitudes and latitudes well contained, with as much or more lawn uncovered as that which was quilt-covered.
It looked, um, small.
But of course it wasn't, because each panel -- coffin-sized, noted my colleague -- is a universe.
I walked around and looked and looked, and as always it was impossible to ignore its beauty and gut-punchingness. I took my well-worn path of trying to monitor and manage my feelings, this time leading with the guise of reportorial attentiveness, rather than activist anger. But plain and simple, I just felt so sad.
Volunteers and staff were laying out the final panels and testing the sound system, awaiting -- if not the masses -- the additional visitors who would come for the official amfAR/Kiehls-sponsored ceremony at 4:30 this afternoon.
Here's what I posted to Facebook today, after walking around the panels.
Last week, I finished Sarah Schulman's The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination. It's about a lot, but it centers around AIDS and New York City and capitalism and loss and injustice, with Schulman bearing witness to Wojnarowicz's neighborhood -- she is one of the few from that cohort who still lives there, in one of the city's very few surviving rent-controlled apartments.
In the Lambda Literary review of the book, Courtney Gillette notes:
It's not on Governors Island, that's for sure.
Would I have felt better if it had been there on a well-attended weekend? I don't know.
I'm still feeling sick and dizzy, and caught up in last night's bad dreams. And in this particular swirl of being not-fully-conscious, that same part of me that somehow thought the Wojnarowicz biography could have a different ending envisions this:
In the sky there's a beautiful, terrible rainbow (like the many many rainbows of the quilt panels themselves) rising up and connecting the Lower East Side and Governors Island, and it's made by the spirits of the dead coming to frolic and create and love and party and fight and fuck on the lawn above, around and below the quilt, extending to every corner and crevice of the island and overturning history and reality before heading back home to their bodies, their apartments and the world that now never can be because they are gone.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is releasing action plans developed by 16 electric utility facilities with coal ash impoundments, describing the measures the facilities are taking to make their impoundments safer.
The action plans are a response to EPA's final assessment reports on the structural integrity of these impoundments that the agency made public in February.
Since May 2009, EPA has been conducting onsite assessments of coal ash impoundments and ponds at electric utilities. The agency provides copies of the structural integrity assessment reports to each facility and requests the facilities implement the reports' recommendations and provide their plans for taking action. The action plans address recommendations from assessments of 40 impoundments at 16 facilities. Many of these facilities have already begun implementing recommendations.
EPA also is releasing assessment reports on the structural integrity of an additional 37 coal ash impoundments at 15 facilities across the country. Most of the 37 impoundments have a rating of "high" or "significant" hazard potential, indicating the potential for harm in the event of impoundment failure. A high hazard potential rating means if an impoundment fails, it can cause loss of human life. A significant hazard potential rating means impoundment failure can cause economic loss, environmental damage, or damage to infrastructure.
The assessment reports have been completed by firms, under contract to EPA, who are experts in the field of dam integrity, and reflect the best professional judgment of those engineering firms. A draft of these reports has been reviewed by the facilities and the states for factual accuracy. The comments on the draft reports are posted on EPA's Website. EPA is continuing to review the reports and technical recommendations, and is working with the facilities to ensure that the recommendations are implemented in a timely manner. Should facilities fail to take sufficient measures, the agency will take additional action, if the circumstances warrant.


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Richard Wagner, Louis de Fourcaud, and a Path for French Opera in the 1880s
Keywords: Wagnerian movement , France , French Opera
In a much-quoted interview with Richard Wagner conducted by the French critic Louis de Fourcaud in 1879, and published in different versions in 1880, 1884, and 1886, the composer allegedly advised the French to write operas drawing on their own legendary sources. Contemporary works such as d'Indy's Fervaal, Chausson's Le Roi Arthus, and Massenet's Esclarmonde suggest that Fourcaud's interview did indeed have a profound impact on the Wagnerian movement in France. However, a close examination of the sources reveals that his text owes much less to Wagner than scholars have previously assumed: in fact, evidence suggests that the most important part of the interview (that is, the advice to French composers) was added by Fourcaud himself after Wagner's death.


text: In message from "Jim Lux" <james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov> (Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:23:46 -0700): > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Vincent Diepeveen" <diep at xs4all.nl> >To: <beowulf at beowulf.org> >Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:16 AM >Subject: [Beowulf] dual core intel/amd > > >> hi, >> >> Several programs tested under which Diep at sudhian.com >> >> For diep : http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=667&pid=2543 >> >> If you ask me intel is in serious troubles with respect to beowulfs. > >I don't know that Intel seriously cares about tailoring to cluster >computing. It's a tiny, tiny fraction of their overall sales. I agree and disagree simulateosly :-) Yes, HPC market gives few percents only, and you are absolutely right ( :-( - for beowulfers)). But looking to Intel press-releases (yes, it's only words) we may find a lot of Intel attention to this area. BTW, especially w/ Itanium 2. Of course, the reason may be pure prestige (how many Intel-based clusters fit into TOP500 etc). But IMHO partially reason of this attention is that Intel must really confirm (show) that you need to upgrade your PCs to more high-performance CPUs. But most of "usual" applications don't need more high performance (see your own message below). > There may be, what, as many as 100,000 top of the line Intel >processors sold for cluster computing. >> >> The dual core opteron is just outperforming the dual core P4 so >>much. >> Partly because intel has weakened the weak L1 and L2 caches even >>more. >> <snip> > >The vast majority of Intel sales are probably for desktop and >commercial >server type applications. I suspect that Intel carefully looks a the >typical >instruction mix generated by, e.g. WinXP or Longhorn or NT2003, or, >even, >Linux, in a web server/file server/SQL backend/XML-XSLT processor >kind of >environment, and allocates on-chip resources accordingly. > >Raw, pedal to the metal computation is a tiny part of what most CPUs >are >sold for. Yes, but currently there is no hardware support for XML scan, for example, and AMD chips, I beleive, are faster for like targets. > As I type this on my old 300 MHz notebook, running >Win2000, I >notice that the CPU usage is never going above 5%. So, even for a >notoriously inefficient environment (windows, outlook, graphics >display, >etc.), the demands on the CPU are negligble. The same is probably >true of >95% of computers sold. I agree w/you. The (difficult) task of Intel is to force upgrade to new CPU models. But Intel's marketing staff works excellent. They propose some new application areas (digital home, entertainment PCs etc). HPC gives Intel some (very small) additional source for advertising. > >Even in "production servers", the rate-determining aspect is not >usually CPU >speed, but ancillary stuff like networking, disk i/o, etc. I agree, but may be there is some hope: may be for 64-bit processors some databases may fit better in RAM -then CPU may be will more important ? Yours Mikhail <skip>


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I slow-smoke, grill-roast a pork shoulder every fall. I adore an autumn day tending my grill that culminates with friends enjoying the spoils. This year, a gift of aromatic dill from neighbor Jon's garden inspires our feast. Dill sprigs flavor the brine; the moist seeds, rubbed from their pods, transform into a rub; and tender dill fronds speckle a simple slaw.
Pork shoulder proves an economical cut for a crowd. Little coin, lots of time. Time to brine, time to dry-marinate and then time to slow-smoke on the grill. Yet consumption goes quickly. My guests hover near the cutting board to pick up "schnibs" as my dad calls them — a dangerous sport with his carving knife at work.
Most supermarkets sell pork shoulder roasts ranging from 2 pounds to whole shoulders well over 10 pounds. I find a 5- to 6-pound roast easiest to negotiate in and out of brine and on and off the grill. For a large crowd, I prefer to cook two such roasts rather than the whole shoulder. After cooking, a bone-in roast will yield about 2 servings per pound of the raw weight.
I've often written about my fondness for flavor-brining. Especially for large cuts such as shoulder. Brining adds an insurance policy against dryness; perfect for today's leaner pork that can dry easily. I change up the flavoring agents in my brines to suit the outcomes — fresh garlic, fresh herbs, citrus rind, bay leaves and hot chilies are just some of the ideas.
After brining, a dry rub continues to build flavor. A simple combination of salt, pepper and aromatic seeds or herbs works well. Here, I'm using seeds plucked from fresh dill sprigs, but dried dill seeds suffice. Other options include fennel seeds, cumin, rosemary and allspice. A few hours, or a day or two, with the roast coated with the rub proves worth the wait.
Always grill large cuts with the indirect method — that is with the heat sources on the sides of the meat rather than directly underneath. This is akin to slow-roasting in an oven, which, by the way works too — set it at 325 degrees. You'll miss some smoky flavor, but still have mouthwatering goodness. When the meat is this good, it deserves equal partners. I can't resist whipping up a batch of biscuits. Thinly sliced pork layered on fresh biscuits, topped with a spoonful of the pan juices and a heap of dilly coleslaw transports me straight to hog heaven.
Slow-smoked grilled, dilled pork shoulder
Prep: 30 minutes
Brine: 4 to 48 hours
Marinate: Several hours
Cook: 3 1/2 hours
Servings: 10 to 12
½ cup each: granulated sugar, coarse kosher salt
4 large dill sprigs
1 large (about 6 pounds) bone-in pork shoulder blade roast (aka Boston blade roast or pork butt)
Dill rub, see recipe below
2 cups hickory or applewood chips
1 cup apple cider vinegar or malt vinegar
¼ cup honey
1. Mix 1 gallon lukewarm water, sugar, salt and dill sprigs in very large nonaluminum bowl or stockpot. Stir well until the sugar and salt dissolve. Add the pork roast. Cover; refrigerate at least 4 hours or as long as 48 hours.
2. Remove pork from the brine (discard brine). Put pork into a glass dish. Coat with the dill rub. Cover; refrigerate several hours or up to 2 days.
3. Soak wood chips in a large bowl of water for at least 1 hour. Combine vinegar and honey in a small bowl.
4. Prepare a charcoal grill or heat a gas grill to medium-hot. For indirect cooking, arrange coals on two sides of the grill. (If using a gas grill, turn off burners in center.) Put the grate in place; let it heat a few minutes. An oven thermometer placed in the center of the grill should register about 325 degrees.
5. Put the pork roast in a shallow aluminum foil pan. Place in the center of the grill (not directly over the coals). Add a small handful of the wood chips to the coals. (For gas grilling, wrap the soaked chips in a foil pouch and place directly over the heat source.) Cover the grill; cook on medium, 1 hour. Check coals; add more if needed.
6. Drizzle pork generously with some of the vinegar mixture. Continue cooking, drizzling with the vinegar every 30 minutes, until a meat thermometer registers about 160 degrees, 2 to 21/2 hours more. After 3 to 31/2 hours total cooking, the roast should be a burnished golden color with some crispy edges.
7. Transfer pork to a cutting board; tent with foil. Let rest, about 20 minutes. Pour the pan juices into a small container.
8. Very thinly slice the pork. Sprinkle slices lightly with a little coarse salt if you like. Serve drizzled with the pan juices.
Dill rub:
Mix 2 tablespoons each: coarse kosher salt, coarsely ground black pepper and crushed dill seeds in a small dish.
Nutrition information:
Per serving (for 12 servings): 183 calories, 7 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 69 mg cholesterol, 7 g carbohydrates, 22 g protein, 1,137 mg sodium, 0 g fiber.
Dilly coleslaw
Prep: 15 minutes
Chill: 30 minutes
Servings: 6
Note: Double this recipe if you are feeding a crowd.
½ cup light mayonnaise
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or malt vinegar
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh dill
1 tablespoon whole grain mustard
½ teaspoon salt
1 package (12 ounces) shredded broccoli slaw or cabbage
4 ounces shredded carrots
1 large tart apple, cored, chopped
½ small onion, finely chopped, rinsed
Mix mayonnaise, vinegar, dill, mustard and salt in a large bowl. Stir in broccoli slaw, carrots, apple and onion. Mix well. Refrigerate covered, at least 1 hour.
Nutrition information:
Per serving: 120 calories, 7 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 7 mg cholesterol, 14 g carbohydrates, 1 g protein, 364 mg sodium, 3 g fiber.
Angel biscuits
Prep: 25 minutes
Chill: 4 hours or overnight
Cook: 15-20 minutes
Makes: 12 large biscuits
Note: Respectfully adapted from "My Family Table" (Andrews McMeel Publishing), by John Besh. These go fast, so I usually make a second batch while the food processor is still handy. They'll keep a day or two after baking and are best rewarmed in a hot oven for a few minutes.
1 package active dry yeast
¼ cup sugar
5 cups flour, plus more for rolling
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons salt
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, chilled, diced
2 cups lowfat buttermilk
1. Dissolve the yeast and 1 teaspoon of the sugar in 1/4 cup warm water in a small bowl; let stand a few minutes until it bubbles. Put 5 cups flour, remaining sugar, baking powder and salt into food processor. Process to mix.
2. Sprinkle the diced butter over the flour mixture. Pulse to cut the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Drizzle the buttermilk and dissolved yeast over everything. Process just long enough to moisten everything. This makes a light, fairly wet dough.
3. Sprinkle another 1/2 cup flour on the counter before you roll out the dough. Gently roll out the dough into a thin rectangle. Fold the two sides in, making a triple layer of dough. Gently roll this into a rectangle about 12-by-9-inches. Use a very sharp knife to cut the dough into 12 even pieces each about 3 inches square. Place squares on a nonstick baking sheet; cover loosely. Refrigerate, 4 hours or overnight.
4. Thirty minutes before baking, heat the oven to 400 degrees. Bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool on wire rack. Serve warm.
Nutrition information:
Per serving: 365 calories, 16 g fat, 10 g saturated fat, 42 mg cholesterol, 47 g carbohydrates, 7 g protein, 612 mg sodium, 2 g fiber.


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The check-ins came each year, the hope waning a bit each time. Sometimes Peter Chiarelli would talk to Carl Soderberg himself, sometimes to his agent. The message seemed, generally, to be the same each time: Soderberg loved hockey, wanted to play in the NHL. But not yet.
That "not yet" stretched and stretched and stretched some more, the years passing, the player — and the Swede's return to the United States — becoming a running joke between the Bruins general manager and members of the media. It had, after all, been six years. When was anyone going to see the Malmo mystery man?
It had started the way trades often do — as Chiarelli said, "a broken toy for a broken toy" — when the Bruins picked up Soderberg, a former second-round draft pick, from the St. Louis Blues for goalie Hannu Toivonen in July of 2007. Soderberg was "big and strong and skilled" at a time when the Bruins were looking to get bigger and stronger.
The idea was that Soderberg would come to the Bruins that fall, likely to play for Providence of the AHL. That didn't happen, nor the following year, nor the year after that. Chiarelli considered trading him. But, as he recalled, "I said, 'Well, let's just wait a little longer,' because every time the kid said he wanted to play in the NHL."
It wasn't until last spring, when Chiarelli picked Soderberg up at the airport in Boston that the Bruins saw their long-ago investment outside of Sweden. And it wasn't until this past month that the Bruins finally saw a return on that investment, as Soderberg has become a key component of a revamped third line along with Reilly Smith and Chris Kelly.
The reasons for that delay have their beginnings in that year before the Bruins acquired Soderberg, in a difficult adjustment to the United States as a 20-year-old, in a severe eye injury sustained the spring before the trade, and in a player whose mental readiness and physical readiness for the NHL took years to align.
A rough beginning
When Soderberg arrived in the United States, he didn't talk much. He doesn't talk much now, either. But then it was worse, the unhappiness drawing him away from teammates and potential friends, feeding his reservations.
He hadn't listened to himself, hadn't trusted his instincts, as the voices of others crowded out everything he knew he wanted. So there he was, 4,547 miles from his home in Malmo, silent and suffering.
It was September of 2006, he was 20, and training camps had just opened across the NHL. Soderberg had come to join the Blues, having been drafted two years prior. It was time to start his North American hockey career. But, he said, his heart wasn't in it.
"I was too young," Soderberg said this week. "I wasn't ready for it at that point. I should wait maybe one, two years more.
"From the first day I came over I wanted to go home. So I didn't give it a shot. Now afterwards I can say that, but at that point I wasn't ready. I was young. I wanted to go home. I was just thinking about going home, not playing hockey. And I learned a lesson, to never listen to what others think — do what yourself wants to do. Otherwise it doesn't work."
The days were a slog of hockey and homesickness, the desire to be back in Sweden a constant tug. He didn't last long. When the Blues attempted to assign him to their American Hockey League affiliate, he bolted back to Malmo.
As Chiarelli said, "When you hear about a player, that's on your checklist. Like, OK, didn't want to apprentice. So it's a little bit of a mark against a player."
Soderberg says now that he wouldn't have stayed, no matter what. He says that he was so unhappy, so mentally unprepared, that even the prospect of playing for the Blues wouldn't have kept him here, though that doesn't exactly match up with reports at the time.
"I was by myself a lot," he said. "That was a mistake. I should have tried to give it a shot, hang out with the guys. But if you don't want something, sometimes you don't try.
"If I would wait one year or two years, I would probably have become an NHL player way earlier in my career, but that's easy to say now. I'm really happy with my career, what I have done before in Sweden and now I have a future here."
Vision is damaged
That future, though, was nearly wiped away.
Soderberg had returned to Malmo and the Redhawks, after his failed bid in the US. He was playing some of the best hockey of his career, albeit in the Swedish second division, the Allsvenskan League, with 30 points in 31 games in 2006-07. Then he took a high stick to the left eye, suffering a detached retina.
"The first weeks after it happened, my injury, I was really scared," Soderberg said. "What about if I don't see? Am I going to be blind? Stuff like that. But then you have to accept it, and then it's no problem anymore."
Soderberg was left, officially, with 20/80 vision in his left eye. But asked how his sight is, he says, "Actually, I don't see much at all." He has described his sight out of the eye to teammates as only shadows.
"But that's the thing you learn after a couple years," Soderberg said. "You can live with it."
So could Chiarelli, who had experience with a player with a detached retina, like the one Soderberg had suffered and described this week as "dead." Dany Heatley twice had scored more than 50 goals for Chiarelli's Ottawa Senators.
"We did a lot of research into the eye injury," Chiarelli said. "They're tremendous athletes and they end up kind of synching up their vision. So we knew that was recoverable. We didn't know if he would recover from that, but we knew that was recoverable."
It took the better part of a year for Soderberg to return to the ice, and multiple seasons after that to regain his game and his strength, after coming back out of shape and out of practice, but he adapted to his new reality. With his sight greatly diminished in the eye, he had to figure out ways to compensate, further delaying his readiness to play in the NHL.
But he worked and he developed and, as he did, he noticed things he didn't notice before.
"You start to – you can feel if someone is there," Soderberg said. "You don't see them, but you can feel someone is coming. Other senses become better. You hear better. I'm pretty sure I can feel a lot better than other guys because I have to."
He appreciates the efforts of his linemates to be more vocal on the ice, something he's found is much more prevalent in the North American game than it was in Sweden, where on-ice communication is rare.
Still, it wasn't something he told his Bruins teammates immediately. Smith said it took weeks to learn about his left wing's eyesight.
"It's something you wouldn't guess," Smith said. "You can't really notice at all. I picked his brain just to know what he sees – it's pretty remarkable that he's able to play with that kind of injury and [others don't] really notice a difference."
Since learning, Smith has made a few adjustments. When Soderberg gets stuck on Smith's side of the ice, the right wing tries to relieve him as quickly as possible, knowing Soderberg is lost there. Because while he could play either center or left wing – he is a natural center – the injury has left Soderberg unable to play on the right side.
"If you watch him sometimes take pucks on his left, he bobbles them more than he does on his right because of his left eye," Chiarelli said. "But not very often.
"We followed him while he was playing in Malmo and I'd always ask guys, 'How is he taking pucks on the left?' And for a while there he wasn't taking them very well. But he just grew up and he became a professional and he just got stronger."
Making the effort
It is now more than seven years after Soderberg first came to the US, more than six after the Bruins got his rights, and his career is just now beginning in the NHL at 28 years old.
He is still quiet, still keeps to himself, still talks in a whisper, as Smith put it recently.
But he is making an effort, trying to engage with his teammates of late, especially his linemates. He acknowledges that while his English is good, he isn't a native speaker and that hampers him, even in a dressing room with other non-native speakers.
Loui Eriksson has helped; a word in Swedish when needed is a comfort. So too is the fact that Soderberg now wants to be here, unlike that long-ago training camp.
"It was much more different because this time I really wanted this," said Soderberg, who has 12 points (3 goals, 9 assists) in 21 games. "I really wanted a shot to live here and play here. I've done everything I could to have a career here. So this time it's much more easy."
Chiarelli could tell immediately. "He sacrificed a lot to come over here, and he's ready," Chiarelli said. "When I picked him up at the airport, he said, 'Peter, I'm ready.' So he was right."
He no longer feels out of place, no longer like a rookie. He is more secure every day – in his English, in his place in the NHL, in his decisions seven years ago. So, even as he starts over at 28, Soderberg isn't worried about what he's missed. He appreciated his time at home, in Malmo. He appreciated taking the slow road, developing at his pace, making sure he was ready. And now, here he is, finally in Boston.
"I don't regret anything in my career or my life," he said. "Everything that happened to this point is part of my life, and has made me into the person I am and the player I am. I'm really satisfied with it."Amalie Benjamin can be reached at email@example.com.


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Headband handmade by me - Choker Ghost of Harlem - Mesh top SheIn - Belt Zaful - Skirt Sammydress - Tights Céduire - Boots Tuk
Another total black look but this time more gothic and light thanks to the gorgeous mesh and tulle items, they're perfect for this season even if summer is arriving and I'm melting just breathing ahah! The skirt is so amazing, I already wore it a lot and it fits so many different tops I can't feel bored while wearing it, I really like the sheer part 'cause you can see my tights, they are so soft, I never had something like this in my collection, they're so special! I also got in my hands this belt you can see almost everywhere on Instagram or Tumblr, but I couldn't resist 'cause it's so 90's :D but for a change I decided to add it to the skirt instead of the usual pants and I really like how it fits!


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The Lanyard Bed
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We've selected a range of fabrics and colours which we feel work really well with the Lanyard Bed (see our Colour Selector with Bute and Romo fabrics above), but if you have something else in mind, we can upholster the bed in a material of your own choice. Just give us a call on 01392 877 247 and we can talk you through the options.
- Filled with locally sourced organic lambswool
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- Available in Bute and Romo fabrics
- Headboard/Total Height: 124cm
- Base Height: 33cm