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For all those who want to experience the charm of old Delhi with its historical monuments, architecture, crowded streets and markets, this homestay is the place to be. Col Abhimanyu Nayar and his wife Reva are the interesting hosts of the homestay. The homestay is a part of an old residential building of Daryagunj area which is a five minutes drive from the famous Chandni Chowk market. Col. Nayar, having served in the defence services of India has traveled extensively within India. His wide range of knowledge makes him the most ideal person to make conversations on anything related to the current Indian society. Reva, on the other hand, is an interior designer who also specializes in Indian furniture designing.
The guest area includes a very spacious bed room with attached bathroom, dining and living area (also with an attached bathroom). The decor of the house is Indian contemporary. Warm and vibrant colors have been used for rugs and drapes to reflect a home-like feel. The corners of the house have been decorated mostly with glass, lamps, wooden furniture with an ethnic touch to them. The guests are sure to feel the comforts of a five star accommodation with home-like hospitality.
The cuisine served in the house is basically Indian, Punjabi and continental. The in-house staff is trained by Reva to serve delicacies as per the taste of the guests. this homestay is very closely located to the famous Chandni Chowk market. It provides for the most talked about shopping experience in the heart of the old city. One of the favorite sub markets is Chhatta Chowk, which is famous for matching jewelry with outfits. One can find wide range of semi precious stones and cheap metal to craft their jewelry or even on the spot. Other famous part of the market is 'Paranthe wali gali' where one gets to binge on Indian bread fried in clarified butter served with spicy vegetables and pickles. For sweet lovers, they can have rabri, falooda, kulfi, halwa, lassi and other sweet items. The chaos of the city and its vibrant culture excite many, come and experience it with Casa Homestay, to cherish it forever.
Yulia Grebenyuk
I truly enjoyed my stay at Casa Homestay. This was my first night in India, and I very much appreciated the welcoming attitude and patience of the hosts. The room definitely exceeded my expectations: it was beautiful and luxurious. The food was excellent.
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Mithun Banerjee
Our initial feelings were mixed, as our afternoon arrival evoked a sense of inadequate ventilation and brightness in the room (the windows open to an array of other windows, just to be precise).
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Roger Spells
London, United Kingdom
Apr 2014
A fantastic place to stay in central Delhi with wonderful hosts. A comfortable and spacious apartment in a large, historic house, tucked away in the middle of a most unlikely looking area! The hosts could not have been more welcoming or friendly and even invited us to join their family meal to celebrate Holi!
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Philip Hawkins
London, United Kingdom
Mar 2014
Feedback is based on a one night stay only. Furniture, furnishings, facilities and cleanliness are first class, with a guest breakfast / dining room with kitchenette attached to a large and comfortable bedroom with luxury en-suite. Meals in the guest dining room are served hot and fresh by the house staff from the family kitchen below. Our dinner was of the highest quality and good value, but the meal was a rather isolated experience compared with other homestays where we ate in family dining rooms. The area is clean, quiet and secure. Our hosts were flexible (accepting a very early arrival), knowledgeable and a valuable source of local advice. Minor downsides are that our room had no views and anyone with impaired mobility should be aware that the steps to the third floor are somewhat steep and narrow. A good base especially for northern Delhi. (British retired couple mid-sixties).
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Braking From The Mold For Inspiration
Car culture traditionalists might not like to admit to it, but true inspiration for new customizing ideas oftentimes doesn't come from within their ranks. An excellent example to illustrate our contention is Doug Pederson's Downs-bodied '37 Ford pickup manufactured by Lawton, Michigan's Downs Manufacturing.
Inspired by the Australian '37 Ford Ute, the Downs '37 Ford pickup made its debut at the NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1999. Although a car-based utility vehicle already existed in the lineup of U.S.-made Fords, in 1934 the Australians were first to design a Ute that didn't look like a car with a wheelbarrow stuck in its butt. In addition to their all-fiberglass rendition of the streamlined '37 Ford Ute, Downs offers a stepside bed constructed of steel as an alternative. The steel-bedded version smokes Ford's original Model 74/78 Standard Coupe With Pickup Body in the looks department.
Well, that's enough Ute history. Well-known street rod builder Jerry Beard of Springfield, Illinois completed the Downs '37 Ford pickup featured here in 2001. Doug told us that during the time Jerry was building the '37, he was in contact with Jerry and he planned on buying it. As fate would have it, when Jerry and Doug met at the NSRA Street Rod Nationals, Doug and his wife decided to buy a Downs three-window coupe Jerry had built instead. The Downs '37 went on to take top honors for PPG's Outstanding Use of Color award.
Ultimately the '37 ended up in the hands of Scott and Jeanie Perry of Frankfort, Kentucky. Doug hadn't even returned to his Texas home before remorse settled in-the truck Jerry had built was beginning to haunt him. Doug ended up buying and building another Downs '37 Ford pickup, but he couldn't get the PPG Wheatland Yellow new-age Ute out of his mind. The first time out for the '37 Downs pickup Doug built, it took Pro's Pick at the Oklahoma NSRA Nats. A guy at the Nats asked Doug how much he would take for it, and before he could decide it was a bad idea, the truck was sold. In Doug's words, "I was without my dream truck again." For about a year, Doug was without a Downs '37, but not completely sans pickup. He still had his '48 Chevy 1/2-ton…but there was just something about a Downs that reached Doug's very soul.
While speaking with Jerry Beard, Doug learned the Wheatland Yellow '37 Downs pickup might be coming up for sale. Scott Perry had traded the truck off and the guy who had it might sell. Doug called the truck's second owner and made an offer without even seeing it. The two struck a deal and the Wheatland Yellow '37 was on its way to Texas. Doug really loved the way the '37 looked when it first left Jerry's Illinois shop, but now it was time to "make it his."
The first area of attack was the '37's profile. The traditional street rod stance with wheels and tires matching the fender's radius was dumped in favor of tucking the wheels, a styling cue lifted from mini-truckers. The 16-inch Boyd Coddington Extremes at the front and the 17-inch Extremes on the rear were booted in favor of 17-inch Boyd Coddington Shadows in the front and 20-inch Shadows on the rear. Essential to getting Doug's '37 to lay harder and guaranteeing the wheels would tuck, the Mustang II frontend was bagged and the Aldan coilovers on the rear were tossed for bags.
Doug admitted that he enjoys hitting his remote-controlled switches to lay the truck out when he parks. He didn't mention whether or not he likes to rail on people. For those of you unfamiliar with the term "railing" or "dragging," it refers to dropping the truck as low as it will go and disappearing in a wake of sparks. We know it sounds dumb, but trust us, it's fun-albeit a little destructive.
Now for the people who thought borrowing styling cues from mini-truckers was bad, get ready, because it only gets worse; the next group is bikers. When it comes to a custom paint job on a Harley-Davidson, the number one criteria by which all jobs are judged is known as edge. No matter how nice the paint job might look, if you can run your hand over it and feel the graphics, it's crap.
The award winning PPG Wheatland Yellow paint job on Doug's '37 was done by Allan Summers in his shop not far from Jerry Beards. Allan and Jerry have teamed up to produce numerous showstoppers throughout their association. For the custom paint and graphics on Doug's truck, Allan laid down the graphics first and then the Wheatland Yellow base color. This method leaves the graphics as a low spot, leveled off with clear in the final coats of paint. The last stage is to color-block sand and finish off with a wheel (buffer). The end result is a show-winning paint job without any edge whatsoever.
With a long list of really great vehicles preceding his Downs '37 Ford pickup, Doug told us it's his favorite vehicle ever. Doug added that he cruises in the pickup every chance he gets. Considering what he went through to be the '37's current caretaker, we can understand why.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mrs. Harper
Chief Justice Beverly McLaughlin and Mr. McCardle
Madame Adrienne Clarkson and Mr. John Ralston Saul
Your Excellencies
Honourable Ministers
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
Je voudrais commencer mes commentaires aujourd'hui en vous souhaitant la bienvenue dans le nouveau bâtiment de la Délégation de l'imamat ismaili à Ottawa. Nous sommes ravis que vous participiez à cette journée importante pour nous.
My warmest thanks go out to all of you for being part of this wonderful occasion. I particularly want to thank the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Stephen Harper, for the honour of his presence, at a time of immense global challenges for those who bear the responsibilities of national leadership.
Let me also express my gratitude to the former Governor General of Canada, Madame Adrienne Clarkson. She was present at the Foundation Stone Ceremony for this building – and she thoughtfully predicted then, that this edifice would not be just another monumental structure, but would, both in its unity and its transparency, represent, as she put it, "the way in which the world can work when we are all at our best."
I am also deeply grateful to the National Capital Commission and to all those who helped to design, construct and decorate this Delegation building, including all those who so generously volunteered their energies. This is the third important new Canadian building with which I will have been associated over the last five years. It affirms our intent to share, within a western setting, the best of Islamic life and heritage. This new Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, like the Ismaili Centre and the Aga Khan Museum to be built in Toronto, reflects our conviction that buildings can do more than simply house people and programmes. They can also reflect our deepest values, as great architecture captures esoteric thought in physical form.
When I invited Professor Maki, a master of form and light, to design this building, I made a suggestion to him – one that I hoped would help connect this place symbolically to the Faith of Islam. The suggestion I made focused on creating a certain mystique, centred around the beautiful mysteries of rock crystal.
Why rock crystal? Because of its translucency, its multiple planes, and the fascination of its colours – all of which present themselves differently as light moves around them. The hues of rock crystal are subtle, striking and widely varied – for they can be clear or milky, white, or rose coloured, or smoky, or golden, or black.
It is because of these qualities that rock crystal seems to be such an appropriate symbol of the profound beauty and the ever-unfolding mystery of Creation itself – and the Creator. As the Holy Quran so powerfully affirms, "Allah is the Creator and the Master of the heavens and the earth." And then it continues: "Everything in the heavens and on earth, and everything between them, and everything beneath the soil, belongs to Him."
But in Islamic thought, as in this building, beauty and mystery are not separated from intellect – in fact, the reverse is true. As we use our intellect to gain new knowledge about Creation, we come to see even more profoundly the depth and breadth of its mysteries. We explore unknown regions beneath the seas - and in outer space. We reach back over hundreds of millions of years in time. Extra-ordinary fossilised geological specimens seize our imagination - palm leaves, amethyst flowers, hedgehog quartz, sea lilies, chrysanthemum and a rich panoply of shells. Indeed, these wonders are found beneath the very soil on which we tread – in every corner of the world - and they connect us with far distant epochs and environments.
And the more we discover, the more we know, the more we penetrate just below the surface of our normal lives – the more our imagination staggers. Just think for example what might lie below the surfaces of celestial bodies all across the far flung reaches of our universe. What we feel, even as we learn, is an ever-renewed sense of wonder, indeed, a powerful sense of awe – and of Divine inspiration.
Using rock crystal's irridescent mystery as an inspiration for this building, does indeed provide an appropriate symbol of the Timelessness, the Power and the Mystery of Allah as the Lord of Creation.
What we celebrate today can thus be seen as a new creative link between the spiritual dimensions of Islam and the cultures of the West. Even more particularly, it represents another new bridge between the peoples of Islam and the peoples of Canada.
Many of you may remember that my personal involvement with Canada dates back more than three decades when, at a time of great upheaval in Uganda, many members of the Ismaili community and others found here a new home in which they could quickly re-build their lives. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and expressing habits of mind and spirit which have long been central to the Canadian character, this country provided a welcoming haven to those who had been victimised by history.
Since that time, Ismailis from other parts of the world have also come to Canada, contributing not only to Canadian society, but also to the diverse mosaic of the global Ismaili community.
One of the principal reasons, I believe, for the great rapport between the Ismaili and Canadian communities through the years is our shared commitment to a common ethical framework - and especially to the ideals of pluralism. By this I mean not only social pluralism, which embraces a diversity of ethnic and religious groups, but also pluralism in our thinking about government, and pluralism in our approach to other institutions. One of the reasons governments have failed in highly diverse settings around the world is that dogma has too often been enshrined at the price of more flexible, pluralistic approaches to political and economic challenges.
Within Islam itself, we can see a broad sense of pluralism, including a variety of spiritual interpretations, and a diversity of governments and social institutions.
The spirit of pluralism, at its base, is a response to the realities of diversity – a way of reconciling difference on the one hand with cooperation and common purpose on the other. It is an attitude, a way of thinking, which regards our differences not as threats but as gifts - as occasions for learning, stretching, growing - and at the same time, as occasions for appreciating anew the beauties of one's own identity.
The challenge of pluralism is particularly important for those who are called upon to lead diversified communities and to act in diversified environments. It is a challenge to which Canadians have responded nobly through the years - and it is also a challenge which has been central to our work through the Aga Khan Development Network, what we call AKDN.
The AKDN's principal focus, as you know, has been the under-served populations of Central and South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our approach has observed the principles of neutrality and pragmatism, but this has not always been an easy matter. Turbulence and discontinuity have characterised these regions, including the transition from colonial rule, the struggles of the Cold War, the tensions of the nuclear age, the rise of new nationalisms - of both the right and the left, as well as revolutions in communications and transportation which have so dramatically increased encounters among different peoples. Our Network has inevitably been drawn into a tangled variety of social and cultural contexts - including highly fragile, conflictual and post-conflictual situations. Our response has always been to focus on the pursuit of pluralistic progress.
Even against the most daunting challenges, social and economic progress can and must be a shared experience, based on a cosmopolitan ethic and nurtured by a spirit of genuine partnership.
When we have talked of development in this context over the years, we have always found responsive interlocutors in Canada. We recognise together the interdependence of economic progress on one hand and inclusive governmental structures on the other. We affirm together the centrality of communication and education in any progressive formula. We both embrace the interdependent role of various social sectors - private and governmental and voluntary - including the institutions of pluralistic civil society.
For the last quarter century, Canada, especially through CIDA, has been actively collaborating with the Aga Khan Development Network to support sustainable development in marginalised communities in Africa and in Asia. In the course of this work we have seen at first hand Canadian global leadership at its best – thoughtful, empathetic and avoiding both intellectual pretensions and dogmatic simplifications.
Our work together in northern Pakistan is one rich chapter in this story. Our newer efforts in places like Tajikistan and Afghanistan have opened further horizons. We could also point directly to early childhood programmes in Africa. Or we could speak of our projects in higher education, working with Canadian universities such as McMaster, McGill, University of Toronto, University of Alberta, and University of Calgary. The establishment of the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat represents yet another step on a long path. It will give us another platform for strengthening and extending our relationship. It will be a site for robust dialogue, intellectual exchange, and the forging of new partnerships - with government, and with the institutions of civil society and the private sector of Canada and so many other countries. To be able to site this building on Confederation Boulevard, in close proximity to your major national institutions as well as representations from abroad, is itself a symbol of the outgoing, interactive spirit which must guide our response to global challenges.
It is our prayer that the establishment of the Delegation will provide a strongly anchored, ever-expanding opportunity for rich collaboration - in the devoted service of ancient values, in the intelligent recognition of new realities, and in a common commitment to our shared dreams of a better world.
Thank you.


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A federal judge on Thursday blocked enforcement of a New York state law that subjects retailers to criminal penalties if they impose surcharges on customers who choose to pay by credit card rather than cash.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan ruled in favor of several retailers who challenged the law on various grounds, including that it violated their free speech rights by prohibiting them from alerting customers to the extra costs of paying with credit cards.
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Rakoff said the law violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, saying it "perpetuates consumer confusion by preventing sellers from using the most effective means at their disposal to educate consumers about the true costs of credit-card usage."
The law subjects retailers to a potential one-year prison sentence and $500 fine for imposing credit card surcharges. Rakoff issued a preliminary injunction blocking the law's enforcement while the case before him is pending.
Authorities including New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance had argued that the law protected shoppers by enabling them to rely on advertised prices, rather than be surprised at checkout by unexpected surcharges.
Those offices had no immediate comment.
Retailers have long complained about the cost of accepting credit cards, including the so-called interchange or "swipe" fees that they pay to card networks such as MasterCard Inc and Visa Inc .
John Gleeson, a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, is weighing approval of a $7.2 billion class-action settlement between retailers, MasterCard and Visa over swipe fees.
The Manhattan case is Expressions Hair Design et al v. Schneiderman et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 13-03775.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and David Gregorio)


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Why is it not recommended to eat the leaves of strawberries?
Q: Why not eat the green tops of strawberries? Is not more fiber better?
A: The main reason the green leaves and stems of strawberries are removed before consuming is because they possess an unfavorable flavor. If consumed, they must be washed thoroughly because pesticides used to treat the fruit tend to reside in the leaves. It is best to wash the strawberries and remove the stem and leaves before consuming.


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The Eva-Dry EDV-500-BL Scratch & Dent is a dehumidifier that does not use power, but uses specialized engineered crystallized silica gel that is odorless, non-toxic and completely safe. Once the moisture is absorbed by the dehumidifier, it cannot leak or spill.
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The Eva-Dry EDV-500-BL Scratch & Dent mini dehumidifier helps protect clothes and valuables from the damaging effects of mold, mildew and moisture rot.
Six to eight ounces of moisture is absorbed depending on the humidity levels and this process should take about four to eight weeks. The crystals should be active for ten years if used correctly.
The moisture meter crystals change from blue (when dry) to pink (when wet) to indicate when the unit needs to be renewed. The unit takes about 12-14 hours to completely renew.
No batteries or electricity is needed for this small dehumidifier, making it cost efficient!
This product is classified as a "Scratch & Dent" product. Scratch & Dent products are fully functional items that operate the same as a brand new appliance, but will have varying degrees of external cosmetic damage, ranging from minor to severe. We are unable to provide additional photos or details about the specific damage on the unit and make no warranty or guarantee as to the condition of the product you may receive. These products are sold "As Is" but are covered by a 90-day warranty.
- Model: EDV-500-BL
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- Product Dimensions: L: 2.50" x W: 8.00" x H: 5.50"
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- Application: Ideal for dehumidifying bathrooms, closets and other small areas using no electricity
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text: White House officials are pressing US lawmakers to ratify a treaty designed to improve the treatment of disabled people around the world. But after two years of trying, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is still going nowhere in Washington. VOA's Jeff Seldin reports on the effort to turn that around.


text: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Charlie Peck wrote: > I think clusters like the one Eric wants to build have /significant/ > educational value, both in the building and the use. How else does one learn > to do parallel/distributed programming if not on a cluster, even a "toy" one? > Sure the single AMD64 will be more powerful but it won't provide an > opportunity to learn about message passing, speedup, efficiency, problem > decomposition, etc. Oh I agree, but I do think it is fair to point out the $1/watt/year problem. That's enough to at least open up the possibility of e.g. a four node AMD64 cluster with modern CPUs, memory, NICs instead with the money you save. It's a trade-off -- a smaller, but much faster cluster doesn't demonstrate scaling over as long a range and so on, but it does MUCH more actual computation per second if there is any chance that he's building a cluster to eventually try to do some real work. But then, clustering is always about trade-offs;-) > There are a couple of issues when ganging multiple power supplies, most > having to do with the lines in the ATX standard where the board sends a > signal back to the power supply. I believe the site that RGB is referring to > is http://joule.bu.edu/~hazen/LinuxCluster. If this isn't enough get in > touch, we have worked through these same problems for our portable clusters, > see http://cs.earlham.edu/little-fe Yeah, that looks like it. Kinda cute in its own way. And you don't "have" to buy stock aluminum or steel and cut and bend it into shelf trays for the motherboards, BTW -- there was a design somewhere that mounted the motherboards onto cookie sheets and "racked" them in a standard cookie-sheet rack, or a rack like the ones they use in cafeterias. Slide in, slide out. rgb > > charlie > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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New Flavors! Garden Lites Soufflés - If you haven't yet tried Garden Lites' line of frozen veggie soufflés, now is SO the time to do it. The latest varieties are completely unique: Southwestern, Pizza (THE BESTEST), and Carrot Raisin. Each 7-oz. soufflé has 180 - 200 calories, 0 - 4g fat, 230 - 650mg sodium, 30 - 42g carbs, 3 - 5g fiber, 4 - 26g sugars, and 9 - 12g protein (PointsPlus® value 4 - 5*). Click here and track down the freezer case nearest you that stocks 'em. Kozy Shack Lactose Free Puddings - Having tried some lackluster lactose-free items, we weren't super-excited about these... until we tasted 'em. They are GREAT, whether you're a lactose-avoider or not! In Chocolate, Rice, and Tapioca varieties, each 4-oz. snack cup has 120 - 130 calories, 3 - 3.5g fat, 130 - 140mg sodium, 20 - 22g carbs, 0 - 1g fiber, 13 - 17g sugars, and 3 - 4g protein (PointsPlus® value 3 - 4*). These are rolling out now, so look for them with the refrigerated pudding snacks. New Varieties! Pace Restaurant Style Salsas - Every now and then, Pace throws a few new flavors at us. Some stick around; some fade away (R.I.P. Triple Pepper). The new crop in the Restaurant Style Salsa lineup features Garden Pepper, Garlic & Lime Verde, and Southwest Chipotle. Each 2-tbsp. serving has 10 calories, 0g fat, 130 - 140mg sodium, 2g carbs, 0g fiber, 1g sugars, and 0g protein (PointsPlus® value 0*). Grab some from your local supermarket -- don't forget some cut veggies for guilt-free dipping!
You may have heard about the new menu options at BK, but we're dishing the scoop on the stats. Read up! First of all, Burger King has added three exciting Garden Fresh salads to its menu: Chicken BLT, Chicken Caesar, and Chicken, Apple & Cranberry. The good news is that you can choose either Tendercrisp (fried) chicken or Tendergrill chicken for each salad. The shockingly bad news is that each one comes with around 200 calories' worth of fatty dressing! We're talking nearly 20g fat from salad dressing, people. Skip those heavy dressings, and go Tendergrill -- then each salad will have 310 - 340 calories and 8 - 16g fat (PointsPlus® value 8 - 9*). Ask for the Lite Honey Balsamic (120 calories, 7g fat -- PointsPlus® value 3*), and only use half the packet; it's WAY more dressing than you need. As for the other new offerings, they're pretty direct rip-offs of McD's menu items... with no apparent improvements! While the BK bigwigs boast that their snack wraps each have under 400 calories and feature "seven premium lettuces" and "all white meat chicken," we don't find that too impressive for a tiny fried-chicken rollup... especially one that packs 21g fat (and a PointsPlus® value of 10*). And as much as we enjoy seeing David Beckham's glorious mug in the new commercials, we're not falling for the smoothies... especially those oversized options. Up to 450 calories and as much as 85 grams of sugar = TOO MUCH. The frappés are even worse, with 410 - 600 calories and no less than 19 grams of fat per drink... Not worth it! Bottom line: Special order the salads, but skip the crispy chicken and calorie-packed beverages!
Pardon the terrible wordplay, but we've sampled some TEA-RIFIC sips recently. You truly must try them! Lipton Tea & Honey To Go Packets - If you're not 100 percent on Team Tea, this is an excellent way to acquire some team pride. This line of fruity drink mixes is packed with flavor but not a ton of sugary calories. Only 5 calories per half-packet serving (8 oz. prepared), and it features amazing varieties like Black Currant Raspberry Iced Black Tea, Mango Pineapple Iced Green Tea, Peach Apricot Iced Black Tea, and Strawberry Acai Decaffeinated Iced Green Tea. Totally refreshing! Brew Over Ice K-Cups - Is waiting for your freshly brewed tea to chill too tedious for you? Check this out. Just pop a Celestial Seasonings Perfect Iced Tea pod into your Keurig machine, follow the directions, and BOOM. Perfect iced tea. Flavors include Southern Sweet, Half and Half, Sweet Raspberry, and more. Each of the perfectly and naturally sweetened varieties has 54 - 70 calories (PointsPlus® value 1 - 2*); the Unsweetened Black Tea is calorie-free. Pssst... There are also a couple of Green Mountain iced coffee options for java lovers! Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice Herbal Tea - Time to get spicy, but not too spicy. This is like a sweet 'n mild take on chai tea -- one that even people who think they don't like chai will enjoy. Desserty and delicious, comforting and caramel-y... plus it's caffeine-free (and calorie-free too). What are you doing still reading this? Get to the tea aisle of your local grocery store!
The buzz has been hot around Ben & Jerry's new Greek Frozen Yogurt, but check the stats before you dig in -- some flavors are higher in fat and calories than you might expect. At the "Scoop Shop" locations, the vanilla option is the best pick with 150 calories and 4g fat per scoop (PointsPlus® value 4*) -- the other flavors have around twice the fat. The packed pints have 180 - 210 calories and 5 - 8g fat per half-cup serving (PointsPlus® value 5 - 6*), but it can be hard to stick with just half a cup. Our at-home suggestion? The single-serve containers! ***Those ice-cream-loving hippies aren't the only dudes changing things up. Larry, the friendly face of Quaker Oats, has gotten a makeover -- the changes are subtle, but his hair is a bit shorter, his chin and cheeks look slimmer, and he appears a tad more youthful. Lookin' good, Larry! It must be the oats... ***Didn't get enough tea news in our Tea Time story above? Here's some more for you to savor... All this month at Dunkin' Donuts, you can get a freshly brewed iced tea -- any size -- for just 99 cents. A 16-oz. unsweetened tea has just 5 calories -- add Peach or Raspberry flavor for just 10 extra calories. Sweet! ***Many of us are familiar with the concept of "eating our emotions" when we're feeling blue, but a new study suggests consuming fast food could actually increase the risk of depression. Eeeks. Spare yourself some potential sadness and skip the drive-thru this week... or at least order smart when you're there (click for tips)! ***White-chocolate lovers, listen up! You must check out 5 Sparrows Sugar Free Coffee House White Chocolate drink mix. With just 35 calories per sugar-free serving, this decadent sweetened-with-stevia powdered mix is AMAZING and TOTALLY worth ordering online. It's a new staple here at the HG HQ. Click for the 411! That's all we've got. HG out!
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Gender equality is an integral part of the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, including the secretariat activities.
The BRS Gender Action Plan was developed to ensure that the principles of gender equality are firmly embedded in activities undertaken by the BRS Secretariat in line with applicable United Nations and UNEP gender policies. To achieve this vision, the Gender Action Plan highlights a number of areas for action, including to:
The Gender Action Plan was developed in 2013 and updated in 2016. The updated Plan identifies specific actions to be implemented in the short to medium term (2016-17) which will enable the Secretariat to assess whether its activities impact men and women differently and if so, to take steps to rectify the situation.
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text: Vincent, Your questions related to the actual cost (in terms of processor overhead) of achieving the latency numbers that are posted by the network vendors are very interesting and have important aspects, which are often overlooked or paid little attention to. Warning: This posting is long and may be boring. The ping-pong tests that are often used for measuring the communication latency (from user level) are an extreme and often unrealistic mode of operation of the parallel system. Sending bytes across the software layers and over the network is a fundamental factor for contributing to fast computation but without looking at the cost and the likelihood (as Patrick mentioned "crossing the fingers") of producing the best quoted latencies, you don't usually get the whole picture. Besides the network hardware/firmware, the implementation (and use) of the low-level network messaging layer (GM, ELAN, VERBS, etc) and the MPI library are also of a big importance. The design space of parallel applications is quite large (size of messages, frequency of messages, regularity in space and time, synchrony, communication pattern, etc) in order to hope that any single mode of the entire system would be always optimal. In this regard, the ping-pong latency test, exercising only one of these modes, obviously gives you insufficient information on how to predict the behavior of the communication sub-system in realistic scenarios. In order to address this issue, our MPI/Pro implementation (plug!) has long had different modes of using the network and the low-level messaging layer for all major high-speed networks as well as for TCP/IP communication. We usually support at least 2 modes - one that optimizes short message latency (as many of the other MPI implementations do), at the expense of increased CPU overhead, and one that trades some latency (communication overhead) for low CPU overhead, higher predictability, and much better opportunity for overlapping and pipelining. We have carried out studies for quantifying the degree of overlapping that these different modes can achieve (using only our MPI implementation, e.g., comparing apples to apples) and we have obtained some interesting results. When you combine all of the complexities of the communication sub-system (network hardware/firmware, messaging layer, MPI library), the application, and the OS (let's only take the virtual memory system, process/thread scheduling, and interrupt/signal handling) you get a highly probabilistic system, which is hard to quantify and predict by a single ping-pong latency number. Our experiments have shown that using a different MPI/Pro mode on the same application code, executed on the same parallel system, can yield sometimes substantially different performance results. This shows that the implementation and the use of the middleware alone can have a substantial impact on your performance and scalability. Further, the application code can be written (not always but often) to take advantage of asynchrony, pipelining, and overlapping. Implementing these mechanisms in your code (using MPI) often doesn't cost much, but can speed up your application quite a bit on many parallel systems (running middleware with the right design) and in the worst case give you no benefit (on systems that don't provide adequate support for these mechanisms). So, if you really want to optimize the use of your cluster resources, in addition to the network and compute nodes, you will need to also consider the communication middleware and the design of your application and how they all work together. -- Rossen Dimitrov Verari Systems Software, Inc. http://www.verarisoft.com Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > At 21:27 5-2-2005 -0500, Patrick Geoffray wrote: > >>Hi Vincent, >> >>Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>>>CPU's are 100% busy and after i know how many times a second the network >>>>>can handle in theory requests i will do more probes per second to the >>>>>hashtable. The more probes i can do the better for the game tree search. >>>> >>>>With a gigE network that sounds like 40us or so. With Myrinet or IB >>>>it's in the 4-6us range. If you bought dual opterons with the special >>> >>> >>>At the quadrics and dolphin homepage they both claim 12+ us for Myrinet. >> >>Seriously, here are MPI latencies with MX on F cards on Opteron (PCI-X), >>that includes fibers and a switch in the middle: >> >> Length Latency(us) Bandwidth(MB/s) >> 0 2.684 0.000 >> 1 2.874 0.336 >> 2 2.898 0.690 >> 4 2.978 1.343 >> 8 2.965 2.699 >> 16 2.993 5.347 >> 32 3.409 9.388 >> 64 3.563 17.960 >> 128 3.977 32.185 >> 256 5.699 44.916 >> >>Quadrics would be lower by a 1.5 us, I don't know about Dolphin, I >>didn't hear about noticeable SCI clusters in a long time. >> >> >>>I am very impressed by the quadrics and dolphin cards. Probably by >>>infinipath too when i check them out. Will do. >>> >>>I'm not so impressed yet by myrinet actually, but if cluster builders can >>>earn a couple of hundreds of dollars more on each node i'm sure they'll > > do it. > >>I don't think Myrinet would be the cheapest, I am sure you can get a >>better deal from desperate interconnect vendors. >> >>What does not impress you in Myrinet ? > > > Thanks for your kind answer Patrick, > > Obviously i mentionned that number because i read it elsewhere. > > Well a number of points bother my mind from which majority is true for > others as well. But first let me note that i'm not against myrinet in > general. I am just trying to solve a very specific case. For that specific > case i'm not so impressed. > > Note that so far i didn't find any desperate vendor. For sure quadrics > doesn't look desperate to me, they aren't even selling old cards anymore > though they must have still thousands of them lying at home from returned > upgraded networks. Finding second hand highend cards seems to be very seldom. > > First of all i'm interested in how quick i can get 4-64 bytes from remote > memory. So not from some kind of network card cache, as myrinet doesn't > have some megabytes on chip, but just a few tens of kilobytes. The memory > has to come therefore from the remote nodes main memory, at a random adress > in the main memory. No streaming at all happens. that 400 ns extra that the > TLB gives is definitely not the problem i guess. > > The problem for me is to understand: "how do you get that memory at a > cluster?" > > A latency on paper says of course nothing when you can't actually get it > within that time. > > "Paper supports everything." > Arturo Ochoa (Caracas, Venezuela) > > I hope everyone realizes that an important consequence from beowulf > clusters is that you actually want to *use* all those cpu's you have to > your avail. > > So every cpu has a program running that eats 100% system time. Because if > it wouldn't use 100% system time, you wouldn't need a cluster! > >>From that 100% system time obviously you must be prepared to give away some > to serve other nodes as quickly as possible doing a read. > > All latencies i see quoted at all hardware sites, it is very hard to figure > for me out whether that's a latency that is supported by paper, or whether > it's a practical latency i can take into account as a programmer with all > software layers overhead when each cpu is 100% running a program. > > Secondly, but as i'm not a cluster expert i don't know how to avoid that, > it's of course a big LOSS in sequential speed if my program each few > instructions must check whether there is some MPI message to get handled. > If i check a lot that will slow down my program 20 times. If i don't check > a lot, other cpu's will have to wait longer and that defeats the purpose of > a fast network card. > > Factor 20 is about the slowdown of the average 'old' supercomputer > chessprograms which use MPI type solutions. Zugzwang (Paderborn-Siemens), > P.Conners (Paderborn-Siemens), cilkchess (MIT). I've been playing with my > own eyes against those programs in world champs and despite that it has > happened that i played at the same hardware with a similar amount of cpu's > and a program having factor 100 more chessknowledge (which slows down the > program *considerable*), the actual speed at which the program searches > nodes was up to factor 5-10 faster. > > Now a few years ago this was not a major problem because for example > Cilkchess which obviously ran factor 20-40 times slower than it could, used > 1800 processors for example in world champs 1995 (Hong kong) and 512 > processors in world champs 1999 (Paderborn). Of course because 1 processor > was real real fast compared to the speed of 1 pc processor in those days, > they practical were searching a lot deeper than pc programs (and both > played excellent for its days, especially Don Dailey needs to get a big > compliment for that). > > However if i show up with 2 pc's and 2 network cards, then it sure matters > when i lose a lot of speed. > > Obviously for embarassingly parallel software this is no issue, but usually > for embarrassingly parallel software all you need is gigabit ethernet. > > There is so many MPI applications which are not exactly embarassingly > parallel from which you see that a decent programmer single cpu would be > doing that 20 times faster. Or to quote someone who has been doing such > rewriting work for some physical applications that run here and there: "I > didn't blink my eyes when i managed to speedup an application factor 1000". > > So it is very interesting for us all and me especially to understand how > *fast* you can get that memory under full load of all the logical cpu's. > > Third each pc has 2 cheapo k7 processors which are a lot slower than opterons. > > Second problem i have is that i can get easily dual k7 pc's from > chessplayers and they can get bought cheap still. Dual k7 is practical same > speed like a dual xeon 3.06Ghz Northwood with all memory slots filled with > 2-2-2 DIMMS for DIEP. So just compare the price of such a system with a > cheapo dual k7 with registered cas3 RAM. > > Those dual k7's have 64 bits 66Mhz slots, not pci-x as far as i know and > also those who do have A64's or P4's usually don't have pci-x onboard > either. Sure there is boards that have them and i'm sure that if you make a > network > > Dolphin can deliver 'bytes' they say at their homepage in 3.3 us at MPX > mainboards and claim somewhere a paper latency of 1.x us. > > What is the achieved read speed to remote memory myrinet gets at 64 bits / > 66Mhz in software, so ready to use 4-64 bytes for applications? > > I'm not asking it to be accurate within 400ns, as that's the delay you'll > have from TLB trashing the remote node. But accuracy within 1.5 us would be > quite nice. > > First of all for integer intensive applications i'm doing fastest processor > is opteron, k7 comes second and P4 comes third. Exception is a P4 machine > equipped with the most expensive stuff (2-2-2 ram and all banks filled) > good mainboard and northwoods and overclocked at the mainboard. However for > that price a dual opteron can get bought and it just blows away that P4 > bigtime. > > Every year that new software gets released of course that P4 gets slower, > because newer software only gets more and more complex with more options > and will fit less perfectly in P4's small tiny caches, let alone when we > get a lot of 64 bits programs. They won't fit at all in those tiny slow > caches. > > So until the dual core opterons arrive at low cost, obviously you can make > dual k7 nodes for just a few hundreds of dollar a node. > > When adding new nodes which in the future no doubt are dual opteron, you > still run further with those dual k7 nodes and want to mix them obviously > with dual opterons. Is that possible? > > > > >>Patrick >>-- >> >>Patrick Geoffray >>Myricom, Inc. >>http://www.myri.com >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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The start of 2014 also meant the expiration of 55 separate tax provisions that many of us have become accustomed to taking, and the inaction on Capitol Hill is leaving many of us in limbo.
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Losing deductions is a common occurrence, and some years they may be cut off only to be revived again a few years later. Or perhaps the limitations or rules behind the provision change over the years. For example, only within the last few years have homeowners had the option to deduct premiums paid for private mortgage insurance (PMI). Now that deduction sits on the shelf with the other 55 tax extenders awaiting a decision for 2014 and beyond.
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And that's for the next five or ten years, no matter how successful you are.
Now this sounds great if you aren't making much money at all—but the model sets a percentage of income per funding amount, regardless of success.
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The subcommand imqcmd pause bkr pauses a broker, suspending its connection service threads and causing it to stop listening on the connection ports:
imqcmd pause bkr [-b hostName:portNumber]
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imqcmd pause bkr -b myhost:1588 -u admin
Because its connection service threads are suspended, a paused broker is unable to accept new connections, receive messages, or dispatch messages. The admin connection service is not suspended, allowing you to continue performing administrative tasks needed to regulate the flow of messages to the broker. Pausing a broker also does not suspend the cluster connection service; however, since message delivery within a cluster depends on the delivery functions performed by the different brokers in the cluster, pausing a broker in a cluster may result in a slowing of some message traffic.
You can also pause individual connection services and physical destinations. For more information, see Pausing and Resuming a Connection Service and Pausing and Resuming a Physical Destination.
The subcommand imqcmd resume bkr reactivates a broker's service threads, causing it to resume listening on the ports:
imqcmd resume bkr [-b hostName:portNumber]
For example, the following command resumes the default broker (host localhost at port 7676):
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If you've ever wanted to know any wrestler's drug secrets or his, ahem, size, then dig right into Missy Hyatt's YouShoot interview from Kayfabe Commentaries. Evidently, she's been around the block again and again -- and again.
You'll also get the dirt on which women in the industry have real or fake breasts. And yes, some women ACTUALLY have real bosoms - who knew? Missy Hyatt, that's apparently who.
What makes this shoot interview unique is that it's the first in the YouShoot series to be conducted by the fans and Missy answers emails from the general public, quite willingly as well.
Kayfabe Commentaries co-owner Sean Oliver * said this shoot was a new venture for his company, but one well worth it in the end.
"We've decided to expand on the flexibility of the format of 'YouShoot' and add some fun and games to it," Oliver said. "I think it adds an outrageous, comedic element to the series, in the same spirit as a Howard Stern Show or something of that nature. But you put that setting in the world of pro wrestling, then turn it over to the public, and you've got something never before seen in the shoot interview arena."
Missy gabs about the controversial comments made in the past by New Jack and Sunny
Tammy Sytch about her and also discusses cosmetic surgery and even dogs. As in pooches. Missy's willingness to not hold anything back makes this DVD one to have, even if you are just a pervert and hope she flashes the camera.
"Missy has been referred to as the walking train wreck," Oliver added. "But I'd say it's more like a succession of near-misses. You can't believe your eyes and ears, over and over."
Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly also gets a mention, albeit a negative one, in the DVD. Don't ask.
The cover of the YouShoot case has in big, black, bold letters "Intended For Mature Audiences." That's an understatement. This chick has stories, and she seems legit in telling them, and some may make you cringe and some may make you think, "Yeah, that's obvious."
At one point, Oliver, who moderates the shoot, holds up a syringe and asks Missy who that reminds her of.
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"Lex Luger."
The two-plus hours spent with Missy give a realistic insight to wrestling and wrestlers, but much of it isn't relevant. Like, do we really need to know (and why would she brag?) about the number of wrestlers she's, um, orally serviced?
This DVD is definitely edgy and one for all the pervs out there, or if you're just curious and want to know how "big" Virgil is or whose junk "curves to the left." If all else fails, kill a sixer of Labatt Blue and pop this in with your buddies. That should be a Saturday night well spent.
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DENVER – May 14, 2013 – National Jewish Health has renamed its free kindergarten through eighth grade school for 90 chronically ill children to recognize the long-time support and commitment to education and health on campus by John and Carrie Morgridge and the Morgridge Family Foundation. The renaming also honors their recent $15 million donation to National Jewish Health. The Kunsberg School on the main National Jewish Health campus is now named the Morgridge Academy.
"Our gifts combine two causes we feel passionate about – education and National Jewish Health," said Carrie Morgridge, Vice President of the Foundation.
The Morgridge Family Foundation, a leader in educational philanthropy throughout the nation, has for several years been a generous supporter of both National Jewish Health and the unique school that it operates. In recent years, the foundation has contributed Promethean white boards, a Reading First literacy program, Scholastic Book Fair gift certificates for every student, and funding for a pilot summer camp program in 2012.
The Foundation was a presenting sponsor of the National Jewish Health Beaux Arts Ball from 2010 to 2013. Carrie and John Morgridge also served as Grand Marshals of the Ball in 2011. The $15 million gift exceeds the previous largest gift to National Jewish Health, a $10 million gift from the fantasy author David Eddings in 2009.
"Carrie and John Morgridge and the Morgridge Family Foundation have stepped up time and again to support the patient care, research and educational missions of National Jewish Health," said Michael Salem, MD, president and CEO of National Jewish Health. "With this tremendous gift, they are assuring that the tradition of excellence at National Jewish Health will continue for decades to come."
The Morgridge Academy is the only school of its kind in the country, a free kindergarten through eighth grade school on the main National Jewish Health campus that serves about 90 chronically ill children whose medical problems have caused frequent absences from regular school. The majority of the children are from low-income and minority neighborhoods in Denver. Improved medical and social support at the school lead to better attendance and better academic performance, with many students successfully returning to their neighborhood schools within two to three years.
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Charlie the Tuna Now Pouched, With Less Sodium
Pittsburgh-based StarKist introduces two new shelf-stable tuna products. StarKist Low Sodium Tuna Pouch (available in both Chunk Light and Albacore White,) claims to be the first low-sodium tuna pouch on the market. StarKist Yellowfin Tuna in Extra Virgin Olive Oil Pouch is the first pouch on the market containing yellowfin tuna and packed in extra virgin olive oil. Both are in 2.6-oz pouches and require no mixing or draining. They're the perfect size for sandwiches.
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Almost 40 men from the Men's Shed movement in Brisbane have helped 'clean up' Mundubbera, three weeks after the devastating Australia Day floods.
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All it took was a few phone calls here, and some text messages there for word to get out amongst the Shed Movement through contacts of ABC Radio's Shed Happens show. Within a week a contingent of men from Beenleigh, Oxley, Annerley, Samford, Murrumba Downs and Petrie were piled into a few trucks headed for Mundubbera after work on Friday evening.
ABC Radio presenter Phil Smith said the youngest was ten and the oldest wouldn't say!
"There was an electrician and a song writer, a cabinet maker and a general practitioner."
Pastor Fay Barton of Mundubbera realised the little towns of the north Burnett didn't make the headlines in the same way Bundaberg and Brisbane did when the Australia Day floods swept through a large chunk of Central and Southern Queensland.
The damage to farms and homes in Eidsvold, Gayndah, Mundubbera, Mount Perry left locals stunned: many not knowing how to start a clean up so big it will take many months. Paper work to satisfy the government bureaucracy, downed power and communications, all added up to a terrible sense of loneliness.
ABC Radio's Saturday Breakfast presenters Rick Whittle and Phil Smith broadcast from the Mundubbera country markets before a barbecue breakfast brought together what would be a working bee for the people who had homes and farms damaged in the deluge.
Pastor Barton connected the motley crew with the Blaze Aid organisation as individuals and organisations joined together to work repairing pumps, chipping asparagus, cleaning citrus and nut trees and gutting houses.
The blokes brought some tools, but the home baked slices and cakes they left in each household was perhaps the icing on the cake for families who have lost everything.
"You have no idea how this has cheered the locals," BlazeAid coordinator Vicki Kelly said.
"Forty blokes for two days may be only a drop in the bucket, but it has encouraged people to make a start on tasks that seemed overwhelming."
Blaze Aid is a straightforward way of volunteering: A base camp is established in a large council shed, with showers, toilets and kitchen, and plenty of room to unroll a swag or park a caravan. Volunteers sign one form that provides insurance, basic equipment and daily meals. They can stay a weekend or a month, and the local communities would dearly love to see more groups and churches send teams in the weeks ahead.
Many of the shed men went to church with congregations on Sunday, where there were tears and hugs as locals and visitors released a lot of emotion.
Pastor Barton pointed to the enormous recovery effort ahead.
"You have given us a rest, a chance to catch our breath," she said. "You would be welcome any time during the next six months or more."
For the shed men there was a new understanding of grace and trust.
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Nice work! So...the M1 was the last delivery? In the other caps, they were walking north on Smetanovo Nabrezi.
Wasn't there a detour task in Lisbon (or Portugal) some seasons back where teams had to deliver boxes of wine to three different bars? IIRC a team had an accident with their vehicle during the task. I mention that because requiring the team to go to three bars along a course makes sense, and it is evil as a possible speed bump task.
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