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By Mark Jewell
AP Personal Finance Writer
BOSTON (AP) -- There is no shame in being cost-conscious.
Price is often the critical factor when mutual fund companies compete for business. They want to be able to tout the lowest expense ratios for their funds. That's the figure that shows how much investors pay to cover operational costs. But it isn't the only cost you should be thinking about.
There's another significant cost that's harder to quantify, isn't disclosed, and remains largely invisible: expenses from the trades that the fund manager makes.
Three university professors tried to calculate the impact of trading costs on fund performance, and their conclusion suggests that a fund's expense ratio doesn't come close to capturing the full costs that investors pay.
The study's authors found that the typical fund's trading-related expenses take a bigger bite out of investment returns than the separate fund management costs reflected in the expense ratio. They estimate trading costs shave an average 1.44 percent from returns a year. That's substantially more than the impact from funds' posted expenses, as the average expense ratio of the funds studied was 1.19 percent.
Although the study found trading costs to be more significant, good luck to any investor hoping to calculate the impact they can have on a specific fund and its returns. There's no practical way to get a decent estimate. In contrast, fund expense ratios are easy to find and precise.
"On a practical level, given the current state of affairs, trading costs really are an invisible cost," says Roger Edelen, an associate professor of finance at the University of California-Davis.
The study by Edelen and co-authors Richard Evans of the University of Virginia and Gregory Kadlec of Virginia Tech is published in the current edition of the Financial Analysts Journal.
The Cost Analysis
The study analyzed portfolios and trading data from nearly 1,800 stock funds from 1995 through 2006. A cost was estimated for each trade based on three components of trading expenses.
The first two are brokerage commissions paid to execute transactions, and bid-ask spreads. The spreads are the time-sensitive gaps between a stock's asking price and its selling price. A significant mismatch can make a stock more expensive to buy and cheaper to sell, cutting into an investor's return.
Market Impact
The professors concluded the third component, price impact, is the most significant. When a fund makes a big stock purchase or sale, that trade can affect that stock's market price as the transaction is completed, typically to the detriment of the fund's performance.
When a fund buys a large number of shares, the stock's price is likely to rise as the transaction is carried out, resulting in a higher share purchase price. A stock that a manager considered a good investment at $100 a share might be purchased for an average of $101. Then, when the manager looks to sell later on, the opposite happens.
It's an especially important challenge for funds that specialize in stocks of small companies that aren't heavily traded.
"The real killer on trading costs is price impact," Edelen says. "The fund manager on average buys a little bit high, and sells a little bit low."
For example, if the market gains 10 percent in a year, a fund that bought stocks that performed that well on average may only generate a 9 percent return, after trading costs. Successful fund managers might be able to offset those costs if their portfolios outperform the market. But high trading costs make that challenge especially difficult, Edelen says.
Invisible Costs
Trading costs are subtracted from the fund's assets, but aren't reflected in the expense ratio. Both types of costs ultimately affect the investment return.
But the trading costs aren't disclosed or easily calculated. The brokerage component of a fund's trading costs is typically detailed in a disclosure known as a "statement of additional information." But few investors read them, and there's no information on costs from bid-ask spreads or price impacts.
Another View
John Rekenthaler, vice president of research with Morningstar, says his company's studies also have found that trading costs can significantly reduce a fund's returns. Although he didn't make any specific criticisms of the methods used by Edelen and his co-authors, Rekenthaler said the estimate of a 1.44 percent average annual impact for a typical stock fund sounds high.
The figure probably overestimates the trading impact because funds on average don't underperform market benchmarks as much as that number would suggest, he says.
What Investors Can Do
Expenses from trading vary widely among funds, and there's no standard way to calculate the costs. So most investors are stuck with considering a fund's turnover ratio as a relative gauge to indicate the potential expenses the fund may incur.
The turnover ratio shows the percentage of the stocks in the fund that have been traded within the past 12 months. Fifty percent means half of the stocks have changed hands in a year.
Edelen and his colleagues have devised an alternative that they believe better reflects a fund's trading costs, called "position-adjusted turnover," which takes into an account the relative weightings of the stocks within the fund. For now, it's best to check the traditional turnover ratio, which is widely available on fund research websites.
There's no rule about what constitutes high turnover. But generally, a ratio of 100 percent is considered a high water-mark, or 50 percent if you're especially concerned about limiting trading costs.
If a fund's turnover exceeds those levels, you may want to steer clear, unless the fund's investing style justifies frequent trading.
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Experts estimated the world's installed capacity for concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) at 23 megawatts in 2010. The market research company GTM Research expects annual demand to rise to more than a gigawatt by 2015. Gone are the days of small pilot plants. Forecasts in particular underline the increasing importance of CPV.
But a major prerequisite for building the solar panels is a supply of the required high-quality lenses. "We supplied ACRYLITE® Solar Fresnel lens parquets for over 10 MW of electricity from concentrating photovoltaics in 2011 already," says Uwe Löffler, who is responsible for the Solar Market Segment at the Acrylic Polymers Business Line of Evonik Industries. "That proved we can produce lenses for multi-megawatt projects."
ACRYLITE® is used for the primary lenses in the solar panels. These high-quality lens parquets can be supplied with an edge length in excess of one meter. Customers have confirmed the optical efficiency of over 87%. The key properties in this respect are high light transmission and the outstandingly accurate mold surface reproduction of the high-precision Fresnel structures. Added to this is the longevity of the material that retains its excellent transparency even in permanent use.
Evonik Industries is a worldwide manufacturer of PMMA products sold under the ACRYLITE® trademark in the Americas and under the trademark PLEXIGLAS® on the European, Asian, African and Australian continents.
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Evonik, the creative industrial group from Germany, is one of the world leaders
in specialty chemicals. Its activities focus on the key megatrends health, nutrition, resource efficiency and globalization. In 2010 about 80 percent of the Group's chemicals sales came from activities where it ranks among the market leaders. Evonik benefits specifically from its innovative prowess and integrated technology platforms.
Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In fiscal 2010 more than 34,000 employees generated sales of around €13.3 billion and an operating profit (EBITDA) of about €2.4 billion.
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Joakim Andersson
Munkedal Sweden
Eligible for draft:
3rd round (88th overall), 2007
205 lbs.
Prospect Talent Score
Probability of Success
Joakim Andersson is one of the most consistent young prospects to have played in the Swedish junior league during the past few years. He always comes to work and always delivers a rock-solid effort.
2007-08: Andersson centered for Boras HC, putting up 23 points (6g+17a) in 33 appearances. He jumped over to Frolunda HC (SWE-U20) for six games, scoring eight goals and two assists. He was then brought up to Frolunda's senior club, where he netted one goal in nine games. He helped Sweden earn the silver medal at the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, helping with six assists in as many games.
2008-09: Andersson spent most of the season with Frolunda in the Elitserien, scoring 6 goals, 6 assists in 49 games. He was held scoreless in 11 playoff games with Frolunda. In 4 games on loan to Boras in the Allsvenskan, he scored 2 goals with 2 assists. The center also made his North American debut, registering 1 assist in his first regular season game with the Grand Rapids Griffins in the AHL. He stuck with Grand Rapids in the playoffs and scored 1 goal and 3 points in 10 AHL playoff games. Andersson was a mainstay on Sweden's U20 teams, scoring 8 goals and 15 points in 15 international matches. Those totals include 2 goals and 4 assists in 6 games at the World Junior Championships, where Andersson served as an alternate captain and helped Sweden to a silver medal.
2009-10: Andersson spent another season in Sweden with Frolunda. In 55 Elitserien games, he scored 6 goals and 12 assists for 18 points. He skated in 7 playoff games, scoring 1 goal, 2 assists.
2010-11: Andersson spent his rookie season for the Grand Rapids Griffins honing his defensive skills and adjusting to the North American game. He was also able to put up 7 goals and 15 assists for 22 points in 79 games.
2011-12: Andersson made his NHL debut with Detroit in late December, seeing action in four games before being returned to AHL Grand Rapids, and appeared in one March game with the Red Wings. In five NHL games he was plus-one with no points or penalty minutes – averaging 6:40 minutes of ice time per game. A solid defensive forward and penalty killer for the Griffins, Andersson contributed offensively late in the season. He scored 21 goals with 30 assists and was plus-five with 34 penalty minutes in 73 games. Grand Rapids missed the AHL playoffs; finishing fourth in the North Division.
Talent Analysis
He has very good size and strength and leadership abilities, is aggressive and pretty physical, but could still play the body even more. His hockey sense is very good and playmaking ability above average. A good penalty killer and defensively the best draft-eligible Swedish forward in his draft year. The knock on Andersson is his skating and mobility. Not the slowest of skaters by any means, but his acceleration could use some work.
Had a breakthrough season offensively with Grand Rapids in 2011-12, playing himself into the mix to make the Red Wings in 2012-13. While he may not crack the opening night lineup for an already forward heavy team, he could see time as an injury call up.


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US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted Tuesday of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge he faced for disclosing classified documents to Wikileaks.
He was found guilty of 19 of 22 charges for illegal release of documents, including five counts of espionage.
He could still face up to a maximum of more than 150 years in prison if the judge decides to compound the maximum sentences of the more minor charges.
Manning, 25, worked as an intelligence analyst for the Army and his leak is still the largest release of sensitive government documents in U.S. history. He was arrested in May 2011 and imprisoned since.
The massive cache included about 250,000 diplomatic cables, thousands of incident reports from Iraq and Afghanistan and videos showing U.S. airstrikes killing civilians.
In December 2012, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 lesser charges, carrying a maximum sentence of 16 years. Army Col. Denise Lind, the judge, determined in January that sentence would be reduced to a maximum 112 days, based on his treatment while imprisoned at Quantico Marine Corps Brig.
Although Manning admitted to the basic facts of the disclosures, prosecutors pressed forward with the more serious charges and tried -- and apparently failed -- to prove he released the information while knowing it would end up in the hands of al Qaeda.
The trial was carefully watched by press freedom advocates, who feared a conviction of aiding the enemy would endanger protected practices by journalists and the whistle-blowers who inform them. Even the charge, regardless of conviction, casts a long shadow: Leaking classified documents to newspapers can now be legally sufficient to merit an "aiding the enemy" charge.
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Its the day after SQLBits 8 and after a busy day at home I now have time to sit down with The Masters on in the background (come on Rory) and reflect on the last 2 days. Its been said many times before I am sure but there is no doubt in my mind that this was the best SQLBits conference yet. The superb location coupled with amazing weather for the time of year means that I'll forever remember SQLBits 8 as "the one where we ate lunch on the beach, bathed in sunshine". The view from my room was rather nice too
I presented two sessions; on Friday I showed off some of the forthcoming features from SSIS in SQL Server Denali then on Saturday I repeated my SSIS Dataflow Performance Tuning session from SQLBits 7. The denali session went well I thought and there was some clear excitement about forthcoming features like server based logging and, yes, undo. The Perf Tuning session I wasn't quite so pleased with particularly partly because one of my demos didn't go quite to plan but I still received some kind comments afterward so maybe it wasn't quite as bad as I thought.
If you have been following my tweets over the past few days you may know that I have been shooting lots of informal videos and posting them on YouTube (tagged as SQLVids), here is the full list:
Tweeting has of course been a big part of SQLBits and I have set up an archive of all tweets from SQLBits 8 (using the #SQLBits8 hashtag) at http://archivist.cloudapp.net/jamiet/10
I want to make mention of the addition of Lightning Talks sessions to the agenda; in these sessions attendees were invited to come up on stage and share a small snippet of SQL Server knowledge. I attended the first such session along with approximately 50 other people which I would count as a resounding success. We had 6 or 7 different presenters and I am looking forward to this becoming a very popular session at future SQLBits conferences.
Lastly I'd like to take this opportunity to offer a massive thank you to Simon Sabin, Christian Bolton, James Rowland-Jones, Martin Bell, Darren Green, Chris Webb, Allan Mitchell, Tim Kent and Chris Testa-O'Neill; collectively better known as the SQLBits organising committee. These guys do make a tremendous time-consuming effort on behalf of SQLBits attendees and I really can't thank them enough for the work that they put in.
Roll on SQLBits 9!
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FusionIO put on a hell of an event!
Sticking them videos into PivotViewer would look excellent!
Nice panorama and thanks for the mention, I'm glad the Lightning Talks went well but unfortunately I missed both sessions - will catch the videos at some point though.


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The Archive: Unveiling the Present
Framer Framed is proud to present an evening program that focuses on
YanukovychLeaks and Videoccupy; two artistic projects respectively from
Ukraine and Turkey. The projects are concerned with the notion of
archiving in relation to current political issues in these countries.
Tuinzaal, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, September 17, 2014, 20.30 hrs.
Rosen Dimov, manager Eastern Europe at European Alternatives, will
introduce the program by elucidating these issues. Besides his work,
Dimov is indulged by inter-faith dialogue and the arts.
Subsequently, Ukrainian journalist Vlad Lavrov will talk about the project YanukovychLeaks. After his removal as the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych fled the country in February 2014, thereby leaving his residence in the Kiev Oblast unattended. Nearly two hundred documents were found thrown in the lake near his house in order to destroy them. A group of journalists and activist have undertaken the brave task to rescue, systematize and investigate the wealth of information left by the former owner of the residence. Moreover, the former president?s art collection was found in his residence. This collection is exhibited in The National Museum of Ukraine until September this year. In this way, the former president's personal archive as well as his private collection has been disclosed.
In June 2013, the video collective Videoccupy was co-founded in Istanbul by the artist Oezge Celikaslan. The aim was to record and to collect visual material of the resistance processes between 27th of May and 31st of July 2013 in Gezi Park, Istanbul. With the establishment of the collective, an archive was created that comprises the visual material. The archive has online access and is supposed to function as a visual source for the collective memory. This evening, Celikaslan will talk about the urge to create a collective archive like Videoccupy. Furthermore, she will discuss in what way the videos can be associated with such a thing as collective memory.
Date: September 17, 2014
Location: Tuinzaal, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
Evening Program starts at 20.30 hrs
The program will be in English and will take about 90 minutes.
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What stories do these wild Colonial Spanish horses (clearly plotting something) and ghost crab (what are you running from?) have to tell?
It's the last day of 2016, so it's time for the Spin to look back on travel throughout the year for our annual "Random Places I Have Been" series. Apart from holidays in New Orleans and Montreal (featured in blog posts earlier in the year), 2016 brought me to some unique local events including a Chinese Lantern Festival and the opening of a new Mormon Temple in Philadelphia, as well as family vacations to Massachusetts (where we soaked up some history in Concord and on Walden Pond) and the Outer Banks of North Carolina (where we saw wild horses on the beach, the Wright Brothers' Memorial and took in as many sunrises, sunsets and lighthouses as the waning summer week would allow).
Work also brought me to Jacksonville, Florida (my first time in Florida!); Auburn, ME (my first time in Maine!); and Greenville, South Carolina (a homecoming of sorts, as I had interviewed for a job there nearly 15 years ago, but this was my first time back, and both the town and I have changed soooo much…for the better). However, the top-secret nature of those trips prevented me from taking any pictures (just kidding…about the top-secret stuff…not about the absence of pictures though).
The Outer Banks (and those wild horses and ghost crabs in particular) also brought about the genesis of a potential new novel, a grand over-the-top Southern gothic melodrama, one that will be a joint effort between my wife and I. If you ever do time in the Outer Banks, definitely sign up for the Corolla Wild Horse Fund guided tour…it was truly inspirational. I already wrote the first chapter shortly after our return home. Now it's my wife's turn…not that I'm putting any pressure on her or anything…


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NEW YORK — Austin Jackson was once the prize of the Yankees' farm system.
NEW YORK — Austin Jackson was once the prize of the Yankees' farm system.
He came back to haunt his old team Saturday night in the opening game of the American League Championship Series.
Jackson excelled at the plate, hitting a double and a triple in his first six at-bats. He also had a long running catch of Eric Chavez's fly ball to the warning track in right center in the eighth inning.
"He was a really good, young player a couple of years ago when he broke in," said Tigers manager Jim Leyland. "He had almost 200 hits. Then reality set in and people start making adjustments. And you make them back. He is a good player."
One of the key pieces in a three-team trade between Detroit, New York and Arizona Dec. 8, 2009, Jackson took Curtis Granderson's old job in center field at Comerica Park at the start of the 2010 season.
Jackson had 181 hits as a rookie in 2010. His batting average, however, dropped 44 points in 2011. Jackson bounced back and was an even -300 hitter in 2012, leading the AL with 10 triples.
Another piece the Tigers picked up in that deal was former Yankees reliever Phil Coke, who struggled to the tune of a 5.82 ERA after the all-star break in 2012.
Coke, however, was effective in his one inning in game one. Fifteen of the 16 pitches he threw were strikes.
Max Scherzer, acquired from the Diamondbacks in the same trade, will start game four against Yankees ace CC Sabathia.
The Yankees also gave up Ian Kennedy in the trade, who went on to win 21 games with the Diamondbacks last season.
Granderson has hit plenty of home runs since coming to the Yankees, but the Tigers are pleased with the future they have with Jackson in center field.
"He is a key for us and everybody knows that," Leyland said. "They have a pretty good key for them leading off (Jeter) and we think we have one, too."


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Around afternoon today, thousands of protesters mostly Muslims gathered around US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur to protest against a low budget movie called ' Innocence of Muslims'. The peaceful protest was a success with memorandum presented to the necessary parties. The cause was right; no religion shall ever be insulted, what more degraded in a documentary style movie.
I hate to say this, and I didn't want to write about it. The previous topic revolved around two dumbheads who has not been loved for a long time perhaps, and just when I thought I would be able to write something informative and funny, two low-life cunts caught my attention again.
If you remember clearly, 2 years back there was a mini unrest around the country when the court ruled the word 'Allah' is not exclusive to Muslims and could be used by the Christians in their Bible. This stirred the emotions of most Muslims, because the word Allah shall not be used by any other person who is not a Muslim.
A single word and it caused so much commotion. Allah is a sacred word. It might get misinterpreted if it is found in religious text of others. Some cheap Mat Rempits decided that they should burn down some church in order to take revenge and so they did…
I certainly understand the outrage.
A few years back, Shah Kirit who was probably analed by elephants got caught when his video came out in the public. In the video, he was speaking in a closed forum ridiculously explaining and insulting Hindu religion to the core and making sexual remarks about Hindu gods. When the video came out, Shah Kirit apologized to the public, and DESPITE numerous police reports against him, this sick monkey was NEVER caught. Tell me my Muslim brothers, if someone is to insult your religion like in this video, will you ever forgive him?
But the Hindus did. I did. Malaysians did.
We forgave this predator in the name of peace.
But he's back organizing something even bigger, and bringing in a racist cunt that was banned from entering many highly developed countries like United Kingdom and Canada. Shah Kirit has this time brought in Zakir Naik, a renowned master manipulator of religious text and who claimed that every Muslim should be a terrorist (in a way).
Zakir Naik has held talks all over the world, and his job is to compare religion and make you look like a fool. Gifted with incredible skills to remember many sacred texts, he chose to utilize it the wrong way. I watched countless number of his videos, and his insensitiveness towards the faith of others is incredible.
When the Christians were accused of proselytizing Muslims around the country, people like Hasan Ali, Ibrahim Ali and many Muslims declared war against the enemies of Islam. You get outraged when someone is trying to convert a man out of Islam right?
Now listen.
Zakar Naik had successfully convinced thousands to convert to Islam over the past many years, which I don't really mind because religion is one's own choice. No one shall be making decision for you and if you feel your calling is different, then you shall embrace whatever suits you. Do you see any non-Muslims protesting against converting to Islam?
What got me raged was Zakir Naik would be holding talks all over Malaysia discussing and comparing religions. When people object, then some ask why don't we come to the forum and question this scumbag? Why must our religion be dragged in your forum? Talk all you want about your own religion, and I'm willing to come and listen about the beauty of Islam.
You say we should be matured while discussing. It seems non-Muslims must be open minded. How can we freaking be open minded when our God is being insulted clear cut like this? Why is that our religion can be discussed and we must join in and rebut the claim? Will any of the Muslims allow a talk by a Hindu or Christian discussing about Quran?
It seems the media and people tend to misunderstood and misquote him. Kotteleh misquote. You see up there , it was there in his Facebook fanpage questioning if Hindu God does exist!
All that said, I saw a 6 year old Muslim boy putting up thilak in the forehead of Lord Ganesha. While we have a full grown madman spreading hatred in the name of religion all over the world, we have a mere 6 year old pointing out to the world that religion means peace.
May peace be with all, and may those who spread hatred rot in hell.


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VBR's Latest & Greatest Finds
All right, I'm gonna just jump right into this. Enjoy and lemme know what you think. 🙂 Vegan goodies I be diggin':
Little Miss Fuzzy Head Happy Hair Fusion ($22): Calling all fuzzy heads! Yeah, how could anyone not ♥ a product with such a cutsey, ah-DORABLE name? This all-natural moisturizing creme is great for defining curlies, but if you're like me and just have dry, damaged (non-curly) hair, this works wonders too, as a leave-in conditioner. It's packed full of vitamins and moisturizing shea butter, jojoba and coconut oil.
Youth H2O ($34.99 per case—each case is a month's supply): If you're looking for a healthy energy boost sans the gak attack (aka caffeine), this stuff is wunderbar! The peeps at Youth H2O boast this as an anti-aging tonic. It contains concentrated extracts of antioxidant-rich organic super foods like maca, camu camu, and purple corn (!) that increase energy, fight the signs of aging, and boost your immune system. The taste is INTENSE, ain't gonna lie—it's a bit funky (kind of pungent, floral, and perfume-y)—but the results are SO worth it! Refrigerate it before drinking it and follow with a chaser (maybe grape juice?), because it's… an acquired taste, fo' shiz. 😉 You can order Youth H2O through Navarro.com (where it's a featured deal of the week).
Intrinsic Organics Almond and Oatmeal Vegan Sugar Scrub ($15): I'm a sugar scrub fanatic! I mostly use scrubs exclusively on my hands as a before bedtime treat. This one is super gentle, but it does an excellent job at hydrating and exfoliating my skin. It contains organic, fair trade sugar, raw shea butter and organic olive oil. These soothing oils combined with sweet, gentle sugar nourish to leave skin hydrated and renewed, and the essential oils provide a delicate aromatherapy experience.
Beija Flor Naturals Juicy Summer Fruit Oils ($12): This ultra hydrating and sweet-smelling oil blend (apricot kernel, cherry kernel and peach kernel) is not just for summer, folks. It smells hella delish and it's super versatile—can be used as a scalp oil treatment, facial moisturizer, leave-in conditioner, bath oil, or massage oil (my babe is most definitely a fan). Btw, this oil is not pink, just the bottle.
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I love Keune cooling shampoo, smells so good you want to drink it! I also have really been loving the John Master Organics citrus and neroli detangler, i use it as a leave in conditioner on my four year old son, he has super curly tangly ringlets. And Zoya's fall color line? Don't even get me started. I work at an eco-friendly salon so i am partial to the products we sell. 🙂


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Chris Reeve Knives Nyala Classic Skinner
Chris Reeve Knives are famous around the world for their quality of design and workmanship. This new entry in the Chris Reeve lineup does not fail to live up to their reputation.
In the Chris Reeve Knives tradition of simple, elegant and functional, the Nyala is a modern version of a classic skinner.
Featuring the utility of a drop point and enough belly for skinning, this all purpose knife will prove useful in a multitude of applications. The integral handle and blade of CPM S35VN is sturdy and practical – spiral and lineal grooves in the micarta handle provide positive grip – good knife control is provided by serrations on the spine.
The high quality sheath is made of leather treated to be water resistant.
The Nyala is a Southern African antelope found in dense forested areas, and is one of Chris's favorite African animals. They are prevalent in Mkuze Game Reserve in the northern KwaZulu Natal region of South Africa – one of Chris's favorite areas. Nyala (pronounced Nn-yaal-a) is the Zulu and Swahili name for this handsome antelope.
Male Nyala are most easily recognized by their distinctive spiral horns and vertical striped bodies. The grooves on the handles of knife Nyala, are reminiscent of those distinctive spiral horns, hence the decision to borrow the name! You can see these great knives at www.knifecenter.com
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Blade Material: CPM S35VN stainless steel
Blade Hardness: 58-59 RC
Blade Length: 3.75″ (95.25 mm)
Blade Thickness: Full Tang 0.180″ (4.57 mm)
Overall Length: 8.5″ (215.9 mm)
Handle Material: Brown Canvas Micarta
Weight: 6.2 oz. (175/7 g)
Sheath: Leather made by Gfeller Casemakers
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Daren L. and Miki T. Purnell to James R. and Pat T. Cato, 1304 Grove Street, $134,000.
Bank of America to Mark S. Check, 400 Ridge Street, $152,000.
Kimberly S. Vosper to Ruth E. Guss, 1004 Druid Avenue, Belmont, $100,000
Kevin Browning to Evergreen Real Estate LLC, two units in the Corner Village condominiums, 1215 Wertland Street, gift.
Michael and Janet Webb to Pangean Properties LLC, parcel on Henry Avenue and parcel on Barbour Drive, gift.
Stanley and Judy Tatum to Ralph E. Main Jr., Trustee, lot on Malcolm Crescent, $120,000.
Joshua J. and Mary S. Yates to J. Michael and Samduk Bhutti Pittard, 405 Allen Drive, $201,000.
Debra E. T. Dillon and Carl S. Tilman to Thomas H. and Suzanne Wintner, 1611 Center Avenue, $162,900.
Nancy J. Payne to Waymon H. and Anna C. Payne, 121 Birdwood Court, $135,000.
Robert W. and Adrienne A. R. Dent to Rebecca A. Lower, 2223 Hill Street, $205,000.
Ken and Betty Jane Mori to Robert and Adrienne Dent, 104 Todd Avenue, $335,000.
James R. McCue to Lane L. Bonner, lot on 14th Street, $225,000.
Robert P. Hughes and Michael Viglione to Robert Hughes, 1113 Elliot Avenue, $15,000.
Mary L. Wyant to Walter B. Ralls, 118 North Baker Street, $135,000.
David P. Calfee to Walter and Elizabeth Girstantas, 1111 Sherwood Road, Sherwood Forest, $230,000.
VV Vermoegensverwaltungscesellschaft BfR (VVGbR), a German Partnership, to VVP LLC, 1.008 acres, the Federal Building, 255 West Main Street, no price given.
Lawrence Barnett III to Lawrence, Charles, and Minda Barnett, 1014 St. Charles Avenue, no price given.
Julius P. and Ruth L. Barclay to Spencer B. and Marit C. Gay, 1436 Grove Road, $387,500.
John M. Crafaik III to Joseph Mallory, 220 Fifth Street SW, $125,000.
Joseph Mallory to D. Asher Biemann and Dalia Rosenfeld, 220 Fifth Street SW, $259,900.
Ian F. and Karen E.S. Bosserman to Louise C. Trudel, 1426 Dairy Road, $365,000.
E.V. Echols to John W. Townsend, 815 Tanglewood Road, $172,800.
Jeanne B. and Frank N. Radcliffe Jr. to KLR Enterprises LLC, 108 Buckingham Road, $10,000.
Charles F. and Christina G. Lyons to Penelope Ward, 1624 Mason Lane, $184,500.
Shelah K. and James H. Scott Jr. to Sarah E. and James H. Scott III, 1863 Winston Road, $575,000.
Avery and Josephine A. Evans to Ian and Karen E. S. Bosserman, 1.1593 acres at 1419 Hilltop Road, $565,000.
Jennifer B. and Bryan S. Drummond to Peggy M. and Henry T. Dixon Jr., 118 Hartford Court, $137,500.
Beth Berne to Struthers H. and Frederick E. Gignoux III, 1851 Wayside Place, $635,000.
Avery J. and Josephine A. Evans to Bruce Barkley, 1.0616 acres at 1415 Hilltop Road, $230,000.
George B. Thomson Jr. to David, Melissa, and Briana M. Slutzky, 111 Observatory Avenue, $140,000.
Barbara LaChance to Patrick F. Jordan Jr. and Monica D. Brewington, 914 Marshall Street, $300,000.
Ellis J. Frazier to Anthony W. Gray and Heba F. El-Shazli, 1215 Cherry Avenue, $142,000.
Jacqueline R. Quarles to Christopher P. and Valerie J. Laury, 765 Orangedale Avenue, $83,000.
Sarah A. Scanga to Oliver K. and Doris J. Hall, unit in Charlottesville Towers condominium, First Street, $133,000.
Gregory H. and Sally M. Godfrey to Thomas A. Day, unit in Jefferson Park condominiums, $95,000.
H. Frederick and Norma A. Battle to Megan A. Sacco, 110 Locust Lane Court, Locust Meadows, $219,000.
Elizabeth E. Miller, Patricia M. Nesbit, and Benjamin M. Miller Jr. to Carey F. and Robert R. Bailey Jr., 127 Stribling Avenue, $160,800.
Gregory C. Brown to David J. Maloney and Lisa Bergeron, 115 Lodge Creek Circle, $149,900.
Alva M. Williams-Hester to Biglce LLC, 322 and 324 Berring Street, $122,000.
John L. and Abbie D. Rowlett to Granville and Jean L. Carver, 918 Rosser Lane, $575,000.
Dawn J. Schmidt to Alfred J. LaLuna, 424 Riverdale Avenue, $135,000.
Wilson W. Cropp II to PS2 Properties LLC, 19.641 at 1701 Riverside Avenue near Riverview Cemetery, $465,000.
R. Gerald and Emily N. Cummings to William N. Cummings, 1826 Yorktown Drive, $252,000.
Wilson W. Cropp II to Scott E. Jones and Mary I. Cassell, 0.138 acres at 1510 Short 18th Street, $100,000.
Margaret C. and William D. Eubank Jr. to Johnny and Sarah Simmons, 1635 Cherry Avenue, $134,000.
Andrew Boninti et al., to Breck A., Lara C., and Kirk Gastinger, 612 Wine Cellar Circle, $238,000.
Ronald D. Wiley Sr. to Mary K. Bednar, 725 Village Road, Johnson Village, $212,000.
Beaulah M. Cloney to Thomas R. Schwenk, 728 McIntire Road, $130,000.
Thomas S.M. Brannock, Trustee, to Church Hill Development Co., lot on Wine Cellar Circle, $100,000.
Walter T. and Jo O'Connor to Thomas J. and Regina L. O'Rourke, unit in Queen Charlotte condominiums, 241 East Jefferson Street, $283,000.
Patrick J. and Joan L. Crowley to Alisa K. Crowley, 602 Watson Avenue, $180,000.
Carmen I. Paris to David P. Horgan, 614 Brown Street, $156,000.
Brian M. Gravely to Nancy J. Payne, 1117 Sherwood Road, $210,000.
Faith J. Polaro to Thomas R. Moore, 610 Gillespie Avenue, $185,000.
Eddie Bee Edwards to David F. and Joann C. Mount, 1106 Myrtle Street, $149,900.
Hoopes Houses LLC to Joey E. Holler, 104 Danbury Court, $135,000.
Roger Rosenbaum et al. to Lair D. Haugh, Trustee, parcel on Orangedale Avenue, $57,000.
Carolyn B. Cox to Alberta Savonuzzi, 1614 Brandywine Drive, $357,500.
Jeffrey A. and Karen S. Kaster to Margaret B. Haupt, 937 Belmont Avenue, $272,000.
David A. and Denise G. Salzman to Gateway Property Group LLC, 817 Stonehenge Avenue, $131,000.
Richard Lang to Nicole K. and Donald E. Cherry, 526 Meade Avenue, $125,000.
Alan Maughlin, Chris Gredler and Andy Oban, Trustees, to Roy D. and Maren T. Hange, 102 Linda Court, Meadows subdivision, $169,000.
David O. and Andrea E. Bluthardt to Barbara T. Frost, 278 Stribling Avenue, $164,800.
Ellen H. Schuman to Fitz-Hugh C. and Tristan E. Morgan, 1451 Oxford Road, $300,000.
Julia C. D. Govan to Benjamin C. and John T. Elliff, 720 McIntire Road, $175,000.
Patricia S. Kusiak to Edwin E. and Ruth D. Wade, 1205 River Vista Avenue, $117,000.
Ernest D. and Amy c. Thacker to Bernard E. and Tomoko S. Marshall, 106 Hartford Court, $100,000.
Hazel K. Cole to Jared T. and Julia D. Govan, 1449 Westwood Road, $225,000.
Charles E. and Millie L. Jackson to Alexander Dotson and Debra A. Hornberger, 107 Waterbury Court, $120,000.
John E. and Allison R. Schrecengost to H. August and Martha W. Sanusi, 128 Waterbury Court, $146,100.
Panjean Properties to Roderick D. and Megan F. Watson, 934 Henry Avenue, $160,000.
JRN Inc. t/a JRN Chicken Stores Inc. to Harold and Kum Butler, 600 Cherry Avenue, $225,000.
William Gimberts, Janice McCann, and S. Smalley, Trustees, to Wendell W. Gibson and Rebecca I. Crowe, 1030 Linden Avenue, $200,000.
Rocky Road Properties LLC to Walter Meukow, 2542 Woodland Drive, $143,000.
Le deal très grand:
VV Vermoegensverwaltungscesellschaft BfR (VVGbR), a German Partnership, to VVP LLC, 1.008 acres, the Federal Building, 255 West Main Street, no price given.


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Second Half Tally Leads Rams to Victory
Farmingdale State – 1, Mount Saint Mary – 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. – Sophomore forward Jackie Messina (Smithtown, N.Y./Smithtown) connected on a pass in front by junior midfielder Trish Pickford (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Massapequa) in the 68th minute of play, the eventual game-winner, giving the Farmingdale State women's soccer team a 1-0 conference victory over Mount Saint Mary College. The Rams improve to 4-8 overall, 3-0 in the Skyline, while the Blue Knights fell to 7-3, 3-1 in the conference.
Farmingdale State freshman goalkeeper Amanda Maass (Mastic Beach, N.Y./William Floyd) made three saves in the win for her second shutout of the season, while sophomore goalkeeper Megan Cotta (Wall, N.J./St. Rose) made 12 saves in defeat.
The Rams will play again at home on Tuesday, October 7th in a non-conference game at 4:00 p.m. versus the College of Staten Island.


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Summer boating is right around the corner, and so is the deadline for renewing boat and watercraft registration decals. In Washington state, all boat registrations expire on June 30.
Don't let an expired registration spoil your day; remember to renew before you get out on the water.
Boat registrations can be renewed online at the DOL website or in person at a neighborhood vehicle licensing office. Those who choose to renew at an office should make sure to note the registration number on the bow of the boat or watercraft and take that information to the office.
Due to budget cuts, DOL discontinued paper renewal notices for boats in 2010 and instead offered boat owners the opportunity to sign up to receive email renewal reminders. It's too late to sign up for an email renewal reminder for this year, but boat owners can sign up online at dol.wa.gov to receive renewal reminders by email in the future.


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Cohen and Folsen's Routine Activity Theory of Crime, appeals to me at an intellectual level to understand the increasing rate of crime in Indian society. However, it contradicts my personal philosophy about human beings. The theory presumes that every human being basically has a criminal tendency and is capable of crime. I believe that human beings are inherently good and each human being irrespective of the crimes they have committed is capable of good deeds. Hence, I will try to discuss the theory without bias and balance the two opposing views. If I sound partial towards my philosophy, then forgive me from the goodness of your heart.
1. Introduction
The theory was based on analysis of US crime data of 1947-1974. During this period the average income of families increased, number of people below poverty line decreased, education levels improved, and unemployment levels decreased. However, the rate of violent crime in urban areas increased – rape (174%), assault (164%), robbery (263%) and homicide (188%).
The Indian urban society is showing similar trends since liberalization in 1990s. While growth, income, economy, facilities, education etc. has significantly improved in urban areas, the rate of crime has increased exponentially. Before, in 1960s and 1970s, others would ostracize a middle class person if he were publicly involved in criminal activity. Now, nearly every second person is involved in a corrupt and unethical activity openly. Though we blame it on deteriorating social values, this theory helps us understand why we compromise the values and participate in a crime.
2. Concept
The theory states that "structural changes in routine activity patterns can influence crime rates by affecting the convergence in space and time of three minimal elements of direct contact predatory violations: (1) motivated offenders, (2) suitable targets, and (3) the absence of capable guardians against a violation". Lack of any one of these reduces crime. However, the level of control exercised by the guardians has a direct impact on crime. Even if motivated offenders and suitable targets remain the same, if control reduces, crime increases. The theory states that income of the offender does not have any impact on his desire to commit crime and contradicts the popular notion that people with less income have a higher propensity to commit crime.
Now this can be understood in Indian context. The number of people living away from their traditional homeland has increased as more people are living in nuclear families or as singles in different cities. The change in social behavior has changed the routine activity of people as social controls of family and community have decreased. These aspects reduce the worry of motivated offenders on how their community will judge them if they participate in unethical behavior. Secondly, the same aspect makes suitable targets more vulnerable to crime as protective layers have reduced. Hence, due to this changing social structure, motivated offenders and suitable targets have both increased. With it, the corruption in law enforcement agencies has reduced control. The sum total of it all has increased the crime rates in Indian urban areas.
3. Effect
Then the theory states that motivated offenders cooperate to strengthen their efficiency in criminal activities. On the other hand, the potential victims join hands to gain collective strength to protect themselves from the attack. The challenge becomes bigger for potential victims when high-net worth individuals undertake criminal activities. The potential victims risk of victimization increases.
From the Indian context, the driver for change in social values has been the thirst for money and power. The higher level of ambition for being powerful and materialistically successful has motivated people to break the traditional social norms and move towards corruption and crime. Previously, the lack of a good criminal justice system was compensated by strict controls from family and community. Now all the three guardians have decreased control and the value of rewards gained from criminal activity is high. The other factor to consider is that voluntary help groups and social support groups are less in India; hence, the potential victims do not get the desired protection. As Cohen said – "it is ironic that the very factors which increase an opportunity to enjoy the benefits of life may also increase the opportunities for predatory violations". Crime has become the by-product of freedom and prosperity as it has enmeshed itself in routine activities of daily life in Indian urban society.
Closing Thoughts
My personal belief is that for every action, especially criminal or unethical activity, a person needs to ask whether they need to involve themselves in it. When one accepts rewards for the wrong reasons, one cannot avoid punishment for the wrong reasons also. Hence, why go for the wrong rewards in the first place; and if one has received them, why not return them? When one is in a financially strong position and survival does not depend on income from criminal activity, why not refuse to undertake that activity. No one can involve another in a criminal activity if the participants do not wish for any monetary benefits. Hence, to enjoy the benefits of life, say no to crime and unethical activities.
Routine activity theory – Crime Prevention Division – By Cohen and Folsen


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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Four members of the University of Maryland men's lacrosse team were named first team USILA All-Americans and another was selected to the second team, which were announced Thursday.
Senior goalie Niko Amato, senior midfielder Mike Chanenchuk, senior long stick midfielder Michael Ehrhardt and junior defender Goran Murray all earned first team honors, while junior faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa was a second team selection.
Amato, a native of Conshohocken, Pa., earns his third All-America award after ranking fourth in the nation with a 7.23 goals against average and eighth with a .566 save percentage. The 2014 ACC Defensive Player of the Year and the first goalie to ever be a four-time All-ACC selection, Amato is just the second Maryland goalie to guide his team to three Final Four berths and has started all 66 games of his collegiate career. He is also just the fifth goalie in Maryland history to earn All-America honors three times during his career and is the first during the NCAA tournament era.
Chanenchuk, a native of Poquott, N.Y., earns his third overall All-America award and second as a Terp after leading the team in goals for the second straight season and also leading the team in points and assists. The senior, who has 13 points in the Terps two NCAA tournament games this season, is also tied for the team lead with three game-winning goals this year.
Ehrhardt, a native of Westbury, N.Y., earns his second All-America honor after leading the Maryland defense to a No. 1 national ranking in scoring defense, allowing just 7.0 goals per game. Ehrhardt ranks second overall and first among non-faceoff men on the team with 64 groundballs and leads the squad with 28 caused turnovers. Ehrhardt has also been a factor in Maryland's transition offense, scoring two goals and adding two assists. This is Ehrhardt's first All-America honor as a long pole. He earned second team honors in 2013 as a close defenseman.
Murray, a native of Merion Station, Pa., earns his third All-America honor after helping the Terrapin defense rank No. 1 nationally in scoring defense. He has 17 groundballs and 10 caused turnovers for the season. Murray is just the 10th defender in the 89-season history of Maryland men's lacrosse to earn All-America honors three times.
Raffa, a native of Syosset, N.Y., earns his first All-America honor after posting one of the finest seasons ever for a Maryland faceoff man. Raffa ranks second in the nation with a .678 faceoff winning percentage and is 11th in the country in groundballs per game at 7.71. He has totaled 108 groundballs heading into the NCAA semifinals, which is the sixth-most groundballs in a single season for a Terp since 1981 when groundballs were first officially kept. Raffa has also scored five goals and added one assist this season.
The four first team selections mark the most for a Terrapin team since 1976 when Mike Farrell, Ed Mullen, Roger Tuck and Frank Urso were first team honorees.
The No. 7-seeded Terps face No. 6 seed Notre Dame on Saturday, May 24, in the Final Four in Baltimore. The Terps/Fighting Irish match-up will be the second game of the Saturday doubleheader that features No. 1 Duke meeting No. 5 Denver in the first game at 1 p.m.


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RALEIGH, N.C. — Think rush hour is bad enough? What if a three-foot python were part of the drive home? The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that biochemical engineer Marika Suominen-Yeh got the surprise of her life last week when a motorist flagged her down after seeing a snake drop from beneath her minivan.
Danny Markadakis, a former snake owner, waited for a lull in traffic, then scooped up the snake and took it home.
Markadakis took the three-foot ball python to Avian & Exotic Animal Care, where it was treated for a mild abdominal burns and adopted this past weekend.
Suominen-Yeh doesn't know where the snake came from, but she said she now checks around her van before getting in.
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Thanks for the great feedback on HTML5 functionality.Regarding the problem you are encountering above can you help with some additional information? Is it possible for you to send us the map so we can have a look at possible causes?I have created a case for you and will send you an email shortly. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of the issue for you.
Mindjet Support
For Firefox users regarding support of quicktime format videos (.mov)
Sometime around 2015 Mozilla chose to discontinue support for quicktime format videos. They offered no alternative or official workaround.
This solution below allows me to choose another media player rather than automatically loading an embedded player and playing the mov file without sound. If I don't have control over the hosted content then this is a good workaround. However, in my case I do have control over the content and will convert my mov files to mp4 using Camtasia which eliminates the compatibility problem.
I do not currently see a surgical way for users to work around this change. A brute force workaround is to turn off Firefox's decoding of MP4 media, forcing Firefox to use a plugin. Here's how:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste mp4 and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the media.mp4.enabled preference to switch it from true to false
I hear Mindjet support is currently working on the trouble I reported with HTM5 exported maps not loading in Chrome.
I was not able to replicate the issue you are describing.
Is it happening with particular map or particular Browser?
Following is the link showing the steps i took to reproduce the issue.
I did more testing and found out that this is an issue with Roll up tasks only.
We are looking into it and hope to have a fix soon.
Currently HTML5 viewer files are not supported on Mobile devices.
Thanks for your feedback.
Following is the link to our MindManager 17 release which highlights elements supported for HTML5 export.
Sorry, don't know where to start: (using Windows10 on an intel i7, 8 GB Notebook); the mindmap has 6000 nodes in 6 main branches;
"I am totally disappointed"
the big map takes several minutes to load;
it shows the whole map (6000 branches) instead of the view at export-time or the 1st-level-branches; the Botton (in German) "Map anpassen" that shriks to 1st-level-view takes very long (about 30 seconds)
works not at all on Chrome and Firefox; only on iE and Edge
After having diveded the whole Map to 6 Submaps (although this is not usable for my production-version, since the numerous internal links are no longer working then, aren't they) ; many maps are simply screwed: all branches on top of each other ; or a single branch, that is not supposed to be seperate) overlays the main root-node ...;
I would need this tool so urgently, but this is absolutely not usable.....
the idea is brilliant. If working, it would fulfil my needs totally if it worked on iPhone, iPad, and Android too.
I can send the .mmap to the support, if you want me to.
I have created a case # 00400452 for your issue and will send you an email shortly.
I would like you to send me the map file by replying to the email.
Where can I find an overview of which file formats are supported as attachments for HTML5 export?
Etienne, I don't think the relative links work this way; I'm pretty sure that any files linked to a map have to have URLs in the first place to be available from the map after HTML5 export.
Have you tried the following steps:
- Exporting the target PDF file to the website;
- Linking to the exported PDF file from the map;
- Saving the map and exporting it as an HTML5 map?
Actually, I now found a way to make it work as I want:
- go to File --> Informations --> Properties (my Mindmanager is in French, I am not sure about the translations)
- Go to the "Summary" tab
- At "Root link" (last edit box) I wrote the local path to my map C:\folder\folder\
- Keep the access paths "relativ"
May this help other users...
What I see so far is what I have been waiting for. Just a beginning, but happy (for now) at what is provided.
I am not certain if that is a problem with the link to the picture (relative or absolute).
So, export worked, background not visible.
Background images are supported, so if you are having problems with them, please reach out to our customer support team so they can further understand and troubleshoot your issue.
Release notes are here:
Which version of the export do you have? You can check this by opening your exported map and pressing CTRL + M.
I've exported a organisation chart from the top going down. But when I open the html starting from the second level everything goes back up..
That looks like a bug we may have fixed recently. Which version of the export do you have? You can check this by opening your exported map and pressing CTRL + M.
The html export is Version: 1.2.103
MindManager version 17.1.178
"An error occured while sending the request.
The remote name could not be resolved: 'cloud.mindmanager.com'"
yes i can open the link in my browser. I am was just wonder how i can share the link with people outside my network - is that even possible :)
Thank you for your support
You are correct that this can occur when switching from 32 to 64. The fix for this can be found here: http://kb.mindjet.com/articles/en_US/Knowledge_Article/Spelling-Checker-Failure-error-when-loading-M...
If I use a url with a questionmark in it, in the html5 export the questionmark is gone, so the url doesn't work.
Hello Ary,
I'm using an enterprise version 2017, unfortunately, it is not up to me to upgrade.
I did find out that it's fine when I choose this option: convert link to webpage link
another thing is that each export it's trying to update, it fails and then I can do a local export. would like to prevent it from trying to update, or prevent the error on updating.
This means your company organisation has the right to get and use the latest version.
So Please contact your System Admin and urge them to give you the latest ( and the best sofar ) version. It is already available since 4 months. So they should have done that already.
The other questions will have gone once you are up-to-the-latest-standard.
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I'm trying to embed some program into another using the plug and socket mechanism. From the examples which I have found on the Internet all the widgets of program A are placed into the plug and then the plug is connect into the socket of program B and then A appears inside B.
I'm trying to make the same as with A in Glade (program for designing gtk gui) so it would embed into some IDE, does it means I need to create a plug and move all of it's window's widgets into the plug?
Here is the original code in Glade where I want to create the plug:
glade_window_init (GladeWindow *window)
So from the original code you can see that Vbox is created inside the Window and theCode:{ GladeWindowPrivate *priv; GtkWidget *vbox; GtkWidget *hpaned1; GtkWidget *hpaned2; GtkWidget *vpaned; GtkWidget *menubar; GtkWidget *palette; GtkWidget *dockitem; GtkWidget *widget; GtkWidget *sep; GtkAction *undo_action, *redo_action; GtkAccelGroup *accel_group; window->priv = priv = GLADE_WINDOW_GET_PRIVATE (window); priv->default_path = NULL; priv->app = glade_app_new (); vbox = gtk_vbox_new (FALSE, 0); gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), vbox); ..................... ..................... }
rest of the widgets are created inside the Vbox.
Now, I need to create a plug so I can embed this program to another.
So I have looked on a few examples to do so and they all look similar to this:
The Vbox is added inside the plug and all other widget are inside the Vbox.Code:GtkWidget *plug; plug = gtk_plug_new (win_id_of_socket); gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (plug), vbox); gtk_widget_show ( plug );
this code is working great but I don't know how to modify Glade's code to work like this.
The problem is that in Glade's code there is a Window widget, all of Glade's code depends on it to be a Window, so I can't put the Vbox inside the plug.
Maybe some one could help me with this?


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Poetry is, in a very real sense, a luxury; to be able to write, you have to have the financial means and the time to do so. If all of your time is dedicated to simply helping your family survive (say by subsistence agriculture), you likely won't have as much time to craft poems. As America is (despite the recession and very high unemployment) still among the wealthiest nations, it's no surprise that we have many, many poets. (In this respect, the whole "there are too many poets writing bad work" could fairly be called a first-world problem.)
That point aside, there's a flip side to the "there are too many writers" argument. If there are too many writers, yes, you'll have a lot of schlock (most of writing produced will be middling or bad). Nevertheless, if you have a glut of writers, you'll also, by definition, have an excess of good writing.
-- Brett, at Bark
On the other hand -
There are far too many poets trying to make a name for themselves, to get their work read and loved, and this is likely one of the reasons for the factory-like system of mass-submitting adopted by many younger poets. There's just too much damn noise, and one way many younger poets combat that noise is to make an ample amount of it themselves, to yell over the din. But ultimately, this only adds to the problem; the supper conversation gets louder and louder until nobody can hear anybody else. How this problem will resolve itself remains to be seen.
--Sean Bishop at VQR
Maybe all this cancels itself out.
Addendum: Ray DiPalma writes in with the following quotation from Yeats:
"I had now met all those who were to make the nineties of the last
century tragic in the history of literature, but as yet we were
all seemingly equal, whether in talent or in luck, and scarce even
personalities to one another. I remember saying one night at the
Cheshire Cheese, when more poets than usual had come, 'None of us
can say who will succeed, or even who has or has not talent. The
only thing certain about us is that we are too many.'"


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President-elect Donald Trump's positions on Middle East issues, if carried out, could bring yet more volatility to the world's most combustible region.
Besides vowing to rip up the international nuclear deal with Iran, Trump says he will ramp up the war on Islamic State militants; he could make the Palestinians more desperate by siding with Israel's hard-line right wing. He also seems set to end the Obama administration's cold shoulder toward authoritarians like Egypt's Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Trump has most often been vague and sometimes outright contradictory about plans in the Mideast. And his stances could change. His call for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. worried many in the region, but he has since watered down that stance, and many opinion-makers in the Gulf at least call it simply campaign rhetoric.
Overall, Trump has shown a focus on fighting Islamic militants and favoring strongmen who do so. He's shown less concern with human rights or the complicated minutiae of the Mideast's many factions and interests.
That is a simpler, black-and-white stance in the eyes of some, but it can also bring a backlash.
Islamic State, Iraq and Syria
Trump pledged repeatedly to intensify the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, saying crushing the group is his main priority.
What is less clear is how — and what impact it would have on the conflicts in both countries and the complex alliances that the Obama administration has tried to balance. Trump has given little policy or vision on the wars beyond the vows to defeat IS.
In Syria, the rebels may be the biggest losers.
In contrast to the Obama administration's support for the opposition — equivocal as it may have been — Trump said the rebels may be "worse" than President Bashar Assad and that defeating the Islamic State group is more important than removing the Syrian leader. That suggests he could drop any backing. Moreover, he says he wants more and better cooperation against IS with Russia, Assad's main ally.
Trump says he will step up airstrikes, vowing to "bomb the hell" out of the militants.
He has criticized the slow pace of the fight and at one point called for up to 30,000 U.S. troops to be deployed in Iraq — six times the current level. He later seemed to back down, saying "few troops" would be needed.
More intensified bombing, however, risks a backlash if it brings more civilian casualties. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has already come under fire from political rivals over the presence of a few thousand U.S. troops in Iraq.
IS may already be broken in Iraq and cornered in Syria before Trump takes office in January. Over the past year, the Obama administration's campaign of airstrikes, along with training on the ground, has succeeded in helping Iraqi and Kurdish forces take back most territory IS captured in 2014. They are currently assaulting the group's last main Iraqi stronghold, Mosul.
In Syria, if Trump allies with Russia against IS, it could also bring a major shift away from U.S. support of the rebels.
The Obama administration's attempts to work closer with Russia fell apart because of Moscow's bombardment of rebels; Trump appears likely to drop any U.S. complaints over the Russian campaign.
Like Obama, Trump views the Syria war mainly through the lens of fighting IS. But the conflicts are intertwined. Turning away from the opposition could anger Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have vowed to oust Assad and back the rebels — and are potential spoilers in any conflict.
Trump will also face the same struggle Obama has: Balancing between Turkey and its bitter rival, the Syrian Kurds, who have been the main U.S.-backed ground force fighting IS. Turkish and Kurdish forces battled earlier this year in northern Syria — a flare-up that was put down by U.S. mediation.
Israel and the Palestinians
Trump appears much more sympathetic to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than to the Palestinians. That bodes poorly for the Palestinian dream of gaining independence after 50 years of Israeli occupation, and has led to some warnings that they might grow so desperate as to turn to a full-fledged violent uprising.
While Netanyahu spent the past eight years clashing with Obama over Israeli settlement construction and the deadlock in peace efforts, Trump has expressed great affinity for Netanyahu and called Obama a "disaster" for the Jewish state.
He has vowed not to impose any solutions on Israel and promised to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, a step that would undercut the Palestinian claims to the eastern part of the city. His opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran and promises to veto anti-Israel resolutions at the U.N. also resonate in Jerusalem.
In addition, he has surrounded himself with advisers close to Israel's hard-line right wing. Among them are Newt Gingrich; former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani; the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton; and conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a close friend of Netanyahu's.
Gingrich has called the Palestinians an "invented" people. Giuliani recently recommended that Trump abandon the U.S. goal of establishing a Palestinian state as part of a peace accord. The Republican platform makes no mention of Palestinian statehood, an idea even Netanyahu has endorsed.
The pro-settler politicians who dominate Netanyahu's Cabinet have warmly welcomed Trump's win. Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett called it an opportunity to drop the idea of Palestinian statehood.
Still, the unpredictable Trump also raised some concerns in Israel during the campaign by suggesting he would stay "neutral" on the conflict and that Israel should repay the billions of dollars of military aid it receives from the U.S.
The Palestinians are taking a wait-and-see attitude.
Officials had been hoping that if Clinton had won, Obama would have used his final months in office to deliver a policy statement or promote a U.N. resolution setting the stage for his successor to press ahead with peace efforts. With Trump's victory, the chances seem remote.
Foreign Minister Riad Malki said the Palestinians "still don't know the policies of President-elect Trump" but hoped "he will push to realize the two-state solution."
Trump and Egypt's el-Sissi have already shown a bond. Trump said there was "good chemistry" when they met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in September. El-Sissi said Trump "without a doubt" would make a strong leader.
It's clear where the common ground is. El-Sissi has painted himself as a leader in the fight against Islamic militancy, a stance that echoes Trump's priorities.
The result could be closer ties after the chill between el-Sissi and Obama.
As commander of the military, el-Sissi led the 2013 ouster of Egypt's first freely elected president, Islamist Mohammed Morsi, amid widespread protests against him and his Muslim Brotherhood. The Obama administration voiced some criticism of the ouster and briefly suspended some aid. It has kept its distance ever since, especially as el-Sissi's government has cracked down heavily on its opponents.
Trump is less likely to take Egypt to task over human rights. Instead, he could throw el-Sissi political support as the Egyptian leader battles IS-linked militants in Sinai and Libya.
Egypt's pro-government media have often railed against Obama, accusing the U.S. of supporting the Brotherhood and activist groups. They now were cheering Trump's victory.
"There will be a big shift in the Egyptian-American relations under this man's era. You will see," said one pro-el-Sissi TV host, Ahmed Moussa.
Associated Press writers Sarah El Deeb in Beirut; Susannah George in Irbil, Iraq; George Jahn in Vienna; Josef Federman in Jerusalem; and Hamza Hendawi and Maggie Michael in Cairo contributed to this report.


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On page 23 of the sketchbook, I was playing around with another look at the Foot ninja -- this drawing incorporates elements of the "scary face" masks shown in previous sketches, as well as some new weapons. The notes I made on this page read:
"Ice bullet guns
The assassin's choice:
No ballistic evidence!
Need to wear heavy gloves - cold protection"
I think I was inspired by some crime show I saw in years past which posited the possibility of making a bullet out of frozen water -- ice -- so that when someone is shot by it, the bullet eventually melts, thus preventing any ballistics evidence from being collected. I'm not sure if it would work, technically -- could a bullet made of ice survive the stresses of being fired out of a gun? -- but it's an intriguing idea, nonetheless, and I thought it might be appropriately stealthy for ninja assassins like the Foot. -- PL


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I don't think she's putting on an African accent for that line at all. I think you're choosing to hear that based on what you already know and the things you've decided about her.That said.... I find this music very fake and forced. The video makes me a little sick, it seems very 90s arthouse and it's not fresh at all... it sounds like Bobby McFerrin.
Musee Mecanique - "Sleeping In Our Clothes"I mostly love the intro, about 0:00-1:50. But what a mesmerizing and masterful intro it is.


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More Americans than ever before are supporting their local food markets, and it's not just because they believe the food is fresher and tastes better.
America's welfare state is quietly evolving from needs-based to an employment-based safety net that rewards working families and fuels dreams of a better life, indicates a new study led by a Michigan State University (MSU) scholar.
The major reason: the little-known Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a $65 billion federal tax-relief program for poor, working families. The program has been expanded dramatically during the past 25 years, while cash welfare has been sharply curtailed.
Some 9 million American families lost their homes to foreclosure during the late 2000s housing bust, driving many to economic ruin and in search of new residences. Hardest hit were black, Latino, and racially integrated neighborhoods, according to a new Cornell University analysis of the crisis.
Led by demographer Matthew Hall, researchers estimate racial segregation grew between Latinos and whites by nearly 50 percent and between blacks and whites by about 20 percent as whites abandoned and minorities moved into areas most heavily distressed by foreclosures.
People whose sexual identities changed toward same-sex attraction in early adulthood reported more symptoms of depression in a nationwide survey than those whose sexual orientations did not change or changed in the opposite direction, according to a new study by a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) sociologist.
A new study finds that many U.S. adults — roughly one in five — are deeply religious, know a lot about science, and support many practical uses of science and technology in everyday life, but reject scientific explanations of creation and evolution.
"Why doesn't she just leave?" is a timeworn question about women trapped in relationships with men who physically and/or emotionally abuse them. Economic dependence is clearly part of the story — many women lack the financial means to leave and find themselves trapped by both poverty and abuse.
Putting the lie to "digital dualism" in an essay on the inseparability of online and offline selves.
Multiple chronic conditions (i.e., multimorbidity) increase a person's depressive symptoms more than having one chronic condition. Little is known regarding whether multimorbidity similarly increases the depressive symptoms of one's spouse and whether this depends on type of condition, gender, or both spouses' health status. Analysis of multiple waves of the Health and Retirement Study reveals husband's number of chronic conditions is positively related to wife's depressive symptoms when both spouses are chronically ill.
Although both China and Russia have experienced several decades of market reform, initial evidence suggests that this structural change has compromised mental and physical health among the Russian population but not the Chinese population. Using data from the World Health Organization Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (2007–2010), this study examines the factors associated with the disparity in depression between older adults in China and their Russian counterparts, all of whom experienced market transition in the prime of their lives (N = 10,896).
In this article, I share some thoughts about how we might extend the study of mental health inequalities by drawing from key insights in sociology and sociological social psychology about the nature of inequality and the processes through which it is produced, maintained, and resisted. I suggest several questions from sociological research on stratification that could help us understand unexpected patterns of mental health inequalities.


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Lets face it: the behavior section of this forum can be a scary place. There are definitely some threads here that have kept me up at night. After all, people dont really ask questions when their dog is behaving well...
I thought it might be fun to tell stories about the times our dogs made us really proud of them. It could be something major, like passing the CGC, or something seemingly minor like choosing to be cooperative at a time you really werent expecting them to.
Saturday, I was sitting at the table eating leftover pizza. The boys love when I eat pizza because they know that they are definitely going to get the crust. Halfway through my first slice, something got my attention and lured me away from the table for a moment. I came back to the table to find two dogs lying on the floor, and a plate full of pizza on the table. They could easily have taken the opportunity to steal my food, and they chose not to. Im pretty proud of them.
Okay, now I want to hear your stories!


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The insurance industry is undergoing fundamental change, with significant consequences for the risk function. Disruptive forces—from medical breakthroughs to technological innovations—are reshaping society, business and the way insurers operate.
There can scarcely have been a more exciting time than right now to be in the insurance industry, and in the risk function in particular. But in this world of opportunities, complexities and uncertainties, what simple but powerful actions are available for CROs and their teams in the near term?
With the world in flux, some leaders are tempted to put their businesses into wait-and-see mode. This amounts to holding back major change while trying to assess the impact of technology disruption, new competitors, and complex threats and complications—such as economic protectionism, ransomware, persistently low oil prices and geopolitical risk from all corners of the world.
But the problem with the wait-and-see mode is that the risk of doing nothing could be greater than the risk of taking action—even when the best course is not certain. In our Accenture 2017 Global Risk Management Study: Insurance Report, we have identified six steps for all risk leaders to consider taking:
Actively leverage internal knowledge
Work to give risk professionals the time and freedom to achieve more, by automating drudgery and strongly defending the right initiatives. The function should continually challenge the company, and risk leaders should continually challenge the risk practice itself.
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Create and continually develop a dedicated emerging-risk working group that can identify and evaluate the nature of emerging risks and their potential impacts.
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Introduce confident generalists, experienced divisional leaders, and specialists from other fields into the risk function to create a more blended interdisciplinary team. Greater diversity—particularly of gender, age and nationality—can also add valuable new perspectives and strengthen the team.
Report to the top
Whether risk is officially part of finance or any other department, risk leaders need a channel through which they can routinely engage directly with the CEO and other members of the C-suite as necessary. This allows risk to have suitable influence, builds trust and facilitates integration with the business.
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Increase the rigor of operational risk management and create a more effective and impactful operational risk committee that includes IT, compliance, legal, audit and vendor members.
Get closer to the business
Position risk as a trusted partner and get the function involved in decision-making instead of just being informed afterwards. Drive and campaign for better links between the company's risk appetite and the risks managed by the function, and provide an overall risk perspective.
Be cool-headed, but be bold
Risk should set an example for the rest of the firm by taking cool-headed actions despite swirling uncertainty and frequent surprises. Whether it is a case of being more proactive about hedging equities or just carrying out more experiments to test impacts on the risk profile, the risk function should be active, bold and unafraid to innovate. Doing nothing can create the biggest risk of all.


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The surface of the Earth is made up of rigid plates that move at a rate of a few centimetres per year.
When they collide, one plate can be pushed beneath another. As the plate sinks it heats up and dehydrates: water is released from minerals and cracks in the sinking plate. This water is hotter than the surrounding rocks and rises up into the mantle. The addition of these hot fluids lowers the pressure and causes the mantle rocks to melt. This molten rock then rises and erupts on the surface building up a volcano.
Volcanoes also form when plates move apart. Magma rises up and erupts on the surface as lava where the plates separate, for example, along the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
This is why we see volcanoes along plate edges, for example all around the Pacific plate; North and South America, Japan and the Philippines. Sometimes volcanoes can form in the middle of a plate like Hawaii. Hawaii is there because of a hot mantle plume which rises up from very deep in the mantle, bringing hot magma to the surface. Different types of volcanoes form at different tectonic settings.
There are over 1500 named volcanoes in the world. To learn more about them, visit volcanoes of the world.
The BGS studies volcanoes all over the world, including volcanoes on Iceland and on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. We are also studying the volcanic activity in the Afar Region of Ethiopia where the tectonic plates are moving rapidly apart.
The BGS managed the Montserrat Volcanic Observatory from 1997 to 2008. The scientist's work included: seismic, deformation, environmental and volcanological monitoring. Volcano observatories use real-time and close to real-time data from observations, sampling and monitoring equipment to draw conclusions about the state of a volcano and forecast likely short-term behaviour, often quite successfully if monitoring networks are good. Long-term forecasts tend to rely on the past behaviour of the volcano and are based on historical and geological evidence.


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When NCSE started its climate change program just over two years ago, we encountered a lot of skepticism–but not from the usual suspects. We expected the climate change denial folks to argue that there was limited science behind climate change, so how could we advocate teaching of it? We also anticipated some concern among our faithful followers regarding our choice to expand beyond our original topic of evolution.
But some of the most unexpected questions actually came from the climate change community–folks who supported the science behind climate change. How could we waste time focusing on kids when there were politicians who needed arm-twisting and media outlets that needed fact-checking? Education takes too long, we were told, we need action now–and it wasn't going to come from anyone under the age of 18.
This, of course, is nonsense. Groups such as the Alliance for Climate Education, the Will Steger Foundation, NASA, NOAA and many others, have demonstrated that an educated youth can be a powerful force of nature. But it's often difficult to get education on the table when there are adults in the room. There is sometimes fear that the ideas will be too complex, the implications too terrifying, the results too depressing to address with students.
So when my NCSE colleague Mark McCaffrey was invited to the White House for the May 6 rollout of the National Climate Assessment (NCA), we could not say "no". With Mark's invitation, students and educators were being invited to come to the table to talk about climate change, discuss opportunities, and figure out how the NCA can be used to create an educated population of adults–and future adults.
The NCA is an amazing treasure trove of information that some folks might find overwhelming at first. It has information on agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and even regional chapters. Almost any question you might pose about how climate change is impacting your region of the United States are answered by the NCA. But with each answer comes another question–and this is the best possible question to pose to kids–what can we do about it?
Rather than presenting climate change information in doomsday fashion, it can be brought to the classroom as an "opening of opportunities". The NCA has a section on adaptation, another on mitigation, and any number of chances to connect scientific findings to engineering and ecosystem analyses.
The NCA's rollout may be the end of many months of work for those who wrote it, but for educators across the country it is the start of something that could be extremely powerful. As Mark said at the White House panel, there are many educational opportunities ahead but it'll take a lot of work to get there. It's no longer just a question of who will stand up for the science–we need people to stand up for the students as well. NCSE is ready and willing. Are you?


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Go ahead, have a drink on New Year's Eve. But don't think it has to have booze in it. "If you make them right, they taste like the real thing. Some of them taste even better," Mike Parkes, owner and bartender at the Brewhaus, said of nonalcoholic cocktails.
Go ahead, have a drink on New Year's Eve. But don't think it has to have booze in it. "If you make them right, they taste like the real thing. Some of them taste even better," Mike Parkes, owner and bartender at the Brewhaus, said of nonalcoholic cocktails. Sometimes called mocktails, or virgin cocktails, the drinks are strikingly similar to alcoholic bar drinks, even down to the color, glass shape and garnish. "Once you come up with a master drink, you can change it up and play around with it," Parkes said. Mocktails are popular with pregnant women, designated drivers and nondrinking revelers who want something more elegant in their hand than a glass of soda pop. "Start with sparkling water and add fruit juice," advised Judith Dern of Seattle-based AllRecipes.com. Finish with a garnish that either indicates what's in the drink (mint in a mojito) or brings out a flavor in the drink (a salty rim on a tart margarita). For fruity or sweet drinks, Dern recommends garnishing with maraschino cherries, pineapple wedges, candy canes, mint leaves, fruit skewers, ice cubes imbedded with berries, strips of citrus peel, shaved fresh coconut, whipped cream, ice cream or colored sherbet. When garnishing salty or savory mocktails, consider slices or curls of cucumber, carrot or radish; fresh herb leaves or sprigs; celery stalks; stuffed olives; green onions with the ends fringed; cocktail onions; or pickled asparagus. Another elegant touch is frosting the rim of the glass. Moisten the edge with water or a wedge of lemon, lime or orange. Dip the glass into a shallow dish filled with the garnish — such as sugar, salt, coconut or finely ground coffee beans mixed with sweetened cocoa powder. Carefully pour the liquid in the glass. Some specialty kitchen stores carry flavored sugars, called "cocktail frosters" that come in flavors such as lemon, apple and cranberry. Depending on the drink, Parkes likes to swirl chocolate or strawberry syrup around the inside of the glass. Although a big ta-da is made about the hard stuff on New Year's Eve, taverns sell a lot of virgin cocktails on Dec. 31 as well. If you're staying in that evening, here are some mocktail recipes to try. Fiesta Tea Spritzer (From Nestea) 4 cups sparkling mineral water 3 cups sweetened lemon-flavored tea 3 tablespoons honey Lemon juice Granulated sugar Crushed ice cubes Lemon and lime slices Place sparkling water, tea and honey in large pitcher. Stir until combined. Moisten rims of margarita glasses with lemon juice. Put enough sugar on small plate or dish to coat rims. Dip rims into sugar. Add crushed ice to glasses. Carefully pour liquid into glasses. Perch citrus slices onto rim of glasses. Makes 8. Iceberg (From Perrier) 2 scoops lemon sorbet 5 ounces lemon-flavored sparkling water Mix 1 scoop sorbet with sparkling water in a cocktail shaker. Shake well and pour into a glass. Add a small scoop of sorbet, letting it float on top like an iceberg. Serve immediately. Makes 1. Mock Champagne (From AllRecipes.com) 2 (2-liter) bottles ginger ale, chilled 1 (46-ounce) can pineapple juice, chilled 1 (64-ounce) bottle white grape juice, chilled Combine ingredients and pour into champagne flutes. Makes 40 (4-ounce) servings. Spiced Tomato Juice From AllRecipes.com 2 (32-ounce) bottles tomato juice 1/2 cup lemon juice 1/4 cup lime juice 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon hot pepper sauce 8 medium celery ribs with leaves In a large pitcher, combine the first seven ingredients; stir well. Pour into glasses. Garnish with celery. Serve immediately. Makes 8. Lusty Lime Virgin (From AllRecipes.com) 1 (6--ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate 1 cup diet cola 1 cup orange juice 1 cup water 10 cubes ice Combine the limeade concentrate, cola, orange juice, water and ice in the container of a blender. Cover, and blend until slushy. Pour into cocktail glasses. Makes 4. Cherry Fizz (From AllRecipes.com) 1/2 cup frozen cherry juice concentrate, thawed 1/2 cup ginger ale Place cherry concentrate in a glass. Slowly stir in ginger ale. Makes 1. Banana Bonkers (From AllRecipes.com) 3 bananas 3 cups fresh grapefruit juice 2 cups lemon sherbet 1 cup crushed ice Puree bananas in blender or food processor. In a gallon pitcher, combine pureed bananas, grapefruit juice, lemon sherbet and crushed ice. Stir and pour into cocktail glasses. Makes 6. Virgin Pina Colada (From AllRecipes.com) 1 cup ice 1 1/4 cups pineapple juice 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons sugar In electric blender, blend all ingredients. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses. Makes 2. Kathryn Rem can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Ace Hard Pumpkin Cider Review
Bottled Seasonal Flavor That's Not a Beer
There are hard-core beer drinkers, and those who prefer sweeter fizzy stuff — hard apple cider, that is. Cider fans who want the added bonus of a seasonal flavor: look no further than Ace Hard Pumpkin Cider ($10 for a six-pack). Ace Ciders has been around for 15 years, brewing next door to its wine-making neighbors in Sonoma County.
The fermented apple cider tastes more of green apple than it does of pumpkin, but allspice shines through, offering a hint of Fall flavor. Big, bold beer fans thought the cider was "too sweet," but others loved the cider for its syrupy sugar content. A few tasters described the flavor as "unexpected" and could imagine the cider used in a cocktail or a Halloween punch. If you are gluten-free, don't like beer, or are a sucker for sweet alcoholic beverages, then Ace Hard Pumpkin Cider is the bottle for you.