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Python is an ideal language for solving problems, especially in Linux and Unix networks. With this pragmatic book, administrators can review various tasks that often occur in the management of these systems, and learn how Python can provide a more efficient and less painful way to handle them.
Each chapter in Python for Unix and Linux System Administration presents a particular administrative issue, such as concurrency or data backup, and presents Python solutions through hands-on examples. Once you finish this book, you'll be able to develop your own set of command-line utilities with Python to tackle a wide range of problems. Discover how this language can help you:
With this book, you'll learn how to package and deploy your Python applications and libraries, and write code that runs equally well on multiple Unix platforms. You'll also learn about several Python-related technologies that will make your life much easier.
Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech, and Manning. His consulting company is Giftcs, LLC and it provides solutions for Python Development and Systems Engineering. His personal website is www.noahgift.com. Noah is also the former organizer for PyAtl, which is the Python User Group for Atlanta, GA. He has given presentations at PyCon and PyAtl. He has a Master's degree in CIS from Cal State Los Angeles, B.S. in Nutritional Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, is an Apple ACSA and LPI certified SysAdmin, as well as a Avid Certified Support Representative. He has worked at companies such as, Caltech, Disney Feature Animation, Sony Imageworks, and Turner Studios, and Weta Digital. You can see all of his film credits at IMBD. As a teenager he was a freelance television editor for ABC Network News. While at Caltech he worked for the Nobel Prize Winning President as a Mac Expert, and at Disney and Sony worked on the first feature animated films for both companies: Chicken Little, and Surf's Up, respectively. Recently he has worked on Python development projects as diverse as writing an SNMP auto-discovery system, writing a Content Management System from scratch, creating a large scale Web 2.0/Social Networking Application in Django for Turner Studios, to writing IPhone applications that talk to Google App Engine. He is also involved in a new media journalism project, Spotlight on FOSS, that had a kickoff interview of Mark Shuttleworth. He is currently co-authoring a book on Google App Engine and writing a large Google App Engine Exercise and Nutrition Tracking Application. Most recently, he works as a Python programmer for Weta Digital in New Zealand, which has one of the world's largest render farms/super computer sites. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife Leah, and their son Liam, and playing and composing piano music. He is also into exercising religiously, including running in and training for marathons, and blogging about it. When he gets a chance, he likes to write open source software. He is also interested in Artificial Intelligence research and software development.
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Jeremy Jones is a software engineer/system administrator who works for Predictix. His weapon of choice is Python but he has done plenty of shell and Perl and a touch of Java. He is the author of the open source projects Munkware, a multiproducer/multiconsumer, transactional, and persistent queuing mechanism, ediplex, an EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) parsing engine, and podgrabber a podcast downloader. All three projects were written in the Python language. Jeremy spends his spare time enjoying his family and doing a little writing. He lives in Conyers, Georgia, just east of Atlanta, with his wife, Debra and his two children, Zane and Justus.
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The image on the cover of Python for Unix and Linux System Administration is a boaconstrictor (boa constrictor). Found throughout South and Central America and some islands in the Caribbean, boa constrictors are non-venomous snakes that can thrive in a wide array of environments, from deserts to open savannas and wet tropical forests, but they prefer arid terrain over wet surroundings. They are both terrestrial and arboreal, but as they get older, they tend to spend more time on the ground.Boa constrictors have very unique markings that include diamond- and oval-like patterns. Their scales change colors depending on their habitat, allowing them to hide from the forest-dwelling animals that hunt them.In the wild, boa constrictors thrive on small- to medium-size rodents, lizards, bats,birds, mongooses, squirrels, and have even been known to feast on other mammals as large as ocelots. Being cold-blooded and slow moving, boas can go up to a week without eating after capturing large prey. They are solitary and nocturnal hunters, with heat-sensitive pads on their heads to help them hunt. Particularly fond of bats, boas will hang in trees and from the mouths of caves waiting for them to fly by, then they can grab the bats with their mouths. Not surprisingly, boa constrictors kill by constriction. The snake wraps its body around its prey in coils, tightening its grip each time the victim breathes out, eventually suffocating it to death.Boas are a common attraction in zoos, and they are even relatively common pets. In fact, thousands of dollars are made every year importing them into the U.S. In South America, they are revered as "destroyers of rodents" and are often domesticated for that reason. Boa constrictors grow quite tame in captivity and can live there as such for 20-30 years.Hunted for the exotic pet trade and their decorative markings, some boaconstrictors are endangered and have protected status. Boa constrictors are seasonal breeders. To attract males, females emit a scent from their cloacas, which is the chamber into which the intestinal and urogenital tracts discharge.Fertilization happens internally, and females can give birth to up to 60 live babies at one time. Significantly smaller than their anaconda cousins, newborn boas average 2 feet in length and can grow up to 13 feet long and weigh more than 100 pounds. Found in South America, the largest boa constrictor on record was 18 feet!
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Works for me
By Robert M. Koretsky
from Portland, Oregon
About Me Educator
Comments about oreilly Python for Unix and Linux System Administration:
Pros: All code I tested at the book website works, granted I did not test everything. Clear, articulate style of writing for a beginner, as well as an advanced NIX user. Covers a wide range of examples, both short and sweet, and long and involved. Comparison at the start to bash excellent. Overall, a very good book in an area that needs more documentation and writing on in the NIX community.Cons: I would have liked to see more of a variety of Sys Admin tasks covered with python , such as account creation and maintenance, disk maintenance, security, etc.. I don't see the value of ipython, just another fancy wrapper on top of python that you have to deal with. I use vim, sometimes emacs, and a terminal window.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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No redeeming features at all
By David Lomax
from Sweden
This book reads as if it were written for primary school children in the 5-7 age group. Lots of ego-stroking, pats on the head and 'there, good boy, well done' style phrasing which is completely inappropriate for a technical publication intended for a professional audience.Technical Content:It is fairly obvious that neither of the two authors have more than a passing familiarity with either *nix style operating systems, bash, perl or python.They give overly complicated explanations of simple tasks which *any* system administrator should be completely familiar with, e.g. Listing files and directories, and simplistic explanations of more complicated tasks.Many of the comparisons made between bash, perl and python are inappropriate or just plain wrong. A brief internet search revealed a distinct lack of originality in many of the examples.Too much time is wasted on a single interactive programming environment with little or no mention of alternatives. Particularly as most of the target audience will already have their own preferred and/or company mandated alternative.Far too many factual, spelling and grammatical errors to list.Conclusion:These guys should stick to scamming gullible self-help junkies.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Line a birdcage with the pages
By Polis
from Penobscot lake
About Me Sys Admin
Unfortunately, I cannot give zero stars or negative ones, or I would for this piece of garbage. The examples don't work half the time, with no explanation of any difficulties one might encounter. There are typos, indentation errors (that I, as a beginner, can't even begin to troubleshoot), modules to be imported that are simply not there, and again, no explanation of where to obtain them if they're not part of the standard python 2.7 distribution. I can't believe I wasted $12 on this piece of garbage(bought used). Keep your money, go spend it on sliding naked down a hill of broken glass into a pool of gin. It would be a lot less painful than this has been for me.
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Don't waste your money!
By Simon Dax
from Folkstone, UK
About Me EXPERIENCED Sys-Admin
Very strange. Reads more like a pop-psychology self-help book than a technical work.Lots of 'this is very difficult but don't worry you CAN DO IT!' style phrasing.Seemingly endless succession of typos, errors, poor explanations, bad examples and even worse english!
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Appalling waste of my limited T/P budget
By Jonathan
from London, England
About Me Tech Services Manager
This book is very poorly structured and has a rambling, chaotic, self-congratulatory style better suited to a fashionable self-help guide that a technical publication from a respected publisher.It spends more time stroking the reader's ego than imparting information, useful or otherwise, and is overloaded with trivial, pointless warnings that even an inexperienced *nix system administrator would find difficult to stomach. It evangelizes the IPython shell exclusively without any regard for task suitability, company standards or even simple personal preference.The list of technical errors, inaccurate or inappropriate bash-perl-python comparisons, badly worded 'explanations' and plain, simple bad or inappropriate use of the English language would fill several pages.I bought three copies of this on the recommendation of my usual supplier and was absolutely appalled. These have been returned to him with a request for a full refund.
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Useful despite multiple problems
By Michael Mayer
from Undisclosed
About Me Designer, Sys Admin
Buried within this book is a good introduction to the wide variety of fields that the target audience will need. A number of the scripts would be starting points for the read.Many of the problems are identified in the reported errata:- technically significant errors in the example scripts - sentence structure leading to capitalisation errors in library & function names- problems with cross-references.The flow of the book is broken by putting an introduction to iPython as Chapter 2. This material is useful but should be in an appendix.None of these problems is major but when combined they become annoying.
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Not quite the worst book ever
By Sam the builder
from New Mexico
About Me Developer, Educator, Programmer, Sys Admin
The book has no structure, is completely anecdotal, and no one has edited the wastefully dense rambling style. There are many typos and gross inaccuracies in both text and examples. Half the book uses iPython, but often it is not clear that that shell is being used. Even a poor editor should have removed three fourths of the text which often wastes two paragraphs with warning statements. E.g.,"you will find this hard to understand" or "this will be confusing at first". A system manager will already know how to list files or directories. Most of the comparisons to bash or other languages are inept or inappropriate. The index is worse than useless. I foolishly assumed that an O'reilly book would not be as sophomoric as this one is.
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Good book with a few typos
By Eric Lake (etank)
I recently got my hands on a copy of "Python for Unix and Linux System Administration". After reading it, I felt the time I've invested in reading it was well spent. The author introduced the reader to many different situations where python would help make their lives as system administrators easier, without confusing the reader with some complex forms or statements. My feeling is that this book is aimed at people who want to use Python to solve their problems quickly and efficiently, but only have a limited experience with the language - and the books fits that purpose well with its rather superficial approach that the reader can later extend later on with various available resources. It would only be fair that I too mention some of the shortcomings that I noticed while reading this book.Pros: * The author introduces the reader to ways that Python can be used. * Most of the time there will be more than one way to accomplish a task. The author at times presents a scenario and showed the reader how to do the same task with different modules. This places the choice of which to use back where it belongs, with the reader. * The book has a website (most do these days) where the code examples can be downloaded. http://py4sa.appspot.com/Cons: * More time was spent on iPython than was really needed. * The case of a word is important in Python. For instance "import Sys" and "import sys" are two completely different things. There were quite a few occasions where a module name was used as the first word in the sentence and because of that it was capitalized. * There was once instance that I saw where a script example had no indentation at all. Trying to run it would have resulted in complete failure. * It would have been nice if the script examples were named instead of leaving it to the reader to figure it out based on the imports used in another example.When all is said and done I think I would recommend the book to others if I knew that they had at least some background with Python. And I would highly recommend that they check the addendum and errata pages.
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Great Book for SysAdmins
By Alfredo Deza
When I got this book, I was just starting to use Python as a solution to everyday problems as a Sys Admin.Although it has some advanced sections, I was able to put in place a lot of the examples right away.This is probably one of the best books I have used to solve system administration issues regarding a programming language (After the Bash Cookbook).Log files, automated configuration updates, parsing for information and even a new shell (ipython), are some of the cool stuff these guys deliver.I have even recommended the book to non system administrators as it doesn't assume you know the language inside out.
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Carl Jenkinson says the ambition in the Arsenal squad is so strong that they believe they can achieve anything this season.
Arsène Wenger's side have started the campaign well, losing just once in their opening eight games in all competitions.
Jenkinson is pleased with the team's start, and says the squad are very confident of enjoying a successful season.
"In all honesty, everyone in the changing room believes the sky is the limit," he said.
"I think we can achieve what we want to this year. We really believe in ourselves and in the ability we have got in the squad.
"We'll take one game at a time and see where it takes us."
Arsenal suffered their first loss of the season on Saturday, going down 2-1 to Chelsea at Emirates Stadium. While disappointed with the defeat, Jenkinson says the squad's focus has turned to Champions League clash against Olympiacos.
"Everyone was disappointed, mainly with the manner of the defeat - the goals we conceded were avoidable," he said.
"But we've come in and that is forgotten about. You have got to move on and we are just focusing on Olympiacos now."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source

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My WK Build Thread... Updated 8-1-11... New Wheels
Instead of recreating the wheel I've pasted all the updates from other build threads I maintain across the net... so reading may be interesting but it is in order!
First off, I'm a huge automotive nut. I've daily driven a bolt-on Buick Regal GS (mid to low 13's) for four years now and have loved every minute of it. I decided last year with the winter being so rough and I was still in college that I needed something more capable for our property in northern Michigan and for winters since I drive close to 400 miles a week all over the state in all conditions.
I'm the type of nut that can never leave anything stock whether it be a car, computer, camera, phone, bicycle, or anything else. I'm also all about functional, tasteful, reliable modding, and true to the mindset of "built not bought". I do as much of my own work as I can with the help of many friends from my multi-faceted hobby list.
For me I needed a capable, trail-ready, and reliable 4x4. I'm a huge outdoorsman and require a vehicle that I can put a dog in the back end, eventually a baby seat in the back, tow our 26' boat, and have room to fit a deer in the back when I get one. I didn't want to struggle with finding room for guns or camping gear in the back of a Wrangler.
I also wanted something that is professional looking as I am an Engineer and may visit important customers from time to time and don't want to show up in some monstrosity.
I began to research, and Jeep was my goto brand. I first investigated and planned a decent build for a WJ, however, when I started test driving them I was disappointed with the ride quality and many of the stupid little bugs they have. I then broadened my horizons and my budget and started looking higher at the WK.
As we all know the WK has very little aftermarket support. I decided to bite the bullet and started test driving them and fell in love. I decided that if I was going to build something that I was going to do it right. None of this spacer budget boost nonsense and no cutting corners for quality.
After three hard months of searching I found a black 2006 Limited with 63k for $16500. After some bitching and moaning at the dealership I got them down to $15800.
When I made the purchase I had already set goals for the build. I wanted the ability to run 32" tires with no problems, and like I said do it without any spacer lift nonsense. The first mod came only one short week later. Ordered an Addco rear swaybar with greasable bushings from Kolak, thanks Nick!
While the tails were being tinted I also received my Sanguaro front shackles and my Smittybuilt receiver shackle mount. I installed the shackles in the driveway to the body shop with the help of the shop owner. This revealed that the Carfax was in fact not clean. The front bumper is a replacement and was painted with the grille installed! WTF! Not is it a replacement but it too was broken and is bondo'd. How depressing! This install was quite easy and I strongly recommend these to other owners. Thanks Sanguaro!
I knew what I had to do to get my 32" tires under the WK, so another week later I ordered 1.5" Spidertrax wheel spacers from Kolak, again thanks Nick!
I could not stand the idea of having the stock radio antenna out on the trail with limbs knocking it all over the place and it getting all bent up. I stopped in at the local Advance Auto Parts and snagged a $7 shorty antenna and slapped her on. I use satellite radio all the time anyway. :)
Not too long after I saw a post on this forum by Carlos (AcidCold) that he wanted to trade out his Addco front swaybar for a stock bar, so I took the bait and drove to Chicago one afternoon knowing that I had to be at work at 4:30AM the next morning and had 45 minutes from home to get there and Chicago is 2 hours from home. Needless to say that I was tired at work. Good deal nonetheless, thanks Carlos!
Like I said I drive a lot in the winter and outdoors a lot where my boots and shoes will get salty and muddy. I ordered a set of Cabela's WeatherTech floor mats. Very worth the money!
I always think vehicles look better with tinted tails, however from past experiences I have learned not to cheap out on this mod. I preach as much as I can to people about this, please tint your tails the right way. I enlisted my fiancée's neighbor who owns a body shop. I paid him $100 to prep the tails with adhesion promoter and spray them with a mixture of automotive black and clear-coat. They turned out amazing.
After a couple months of stalling, I finally completed payments to Kolak for my OME lift. During my time saving Nick had been acquiring parts so the arrival time of my lift was shortest when I had fully paid him off. It took about 6 days for all the boxes to arrive after payment. Thanks once again Nick!
I finally got to install the lift last week. Let me tell you, after having done much work on cars this was my first time working on an SUV or truck and by far the most challenging task yet.
We had air tools, an electric impact, and an amazing tool chest to our disposal. The first night it took us 6 hours to do one corner of the Jeep. This was mainly because we attacked it blind, started off too fast, and were not thinking... may have been the beer too though... oh and maybe the fireworks... Anyway! The second night it only took us 4 hours to complete the remaining three corners...
A few helpful tips...
1. Use PB Blaster. We did from the get go.
2. Air tools or an electric impact are a must.
3. Take your time removing bolts and remember where you put the nuts, we could have saved a few hours if we hadn't misplaced nuts.
4. A BFH is a must have tool.
5. Just go rent good spring compressors and ditch the harbor freight $10 specials, we could have saved a good two hours here.
6. We required two jack stands and two jacks in our methods... I'd recommend the same to others.
7. The most important tip of all is to just stay calm and take your time because your experience will be much more appreciated in the end if you can.
8. Test driving your newly lifted WK through the ditch out front is a must when completed!
Next, I plan on purchasing a set of 265/70/17 Hankook Dynapro RF10's on the stock five spoke wheels. I plan on driving this a lot during the winter and don't plan on going balls to the wall at the offroad park, so MT's just don't make sense for my purpose.
In the future I'm planning on 4x front and belly skids, Superchips, some brand of intake, rock lights, 120v onboard outlets, 4300k HID fogs, 50% tint on the front windows, and more! Stay tuned!
My apologies if some of the modding is out of order. ;)
Due to the limited number of pictures allotted per post... More pictures here!
Everyone says that you should wheel your Heep stock before you mod it because it might be good enough... I agree completely!
Gotta make sure you get some good shots all the time!
Come a little farther...
In the past week I've installed a set of 3000k HID''s in my fogs. They are from DDMTuning.com, very reputable and very affordable company throughout the automotive community. I did not use a relay for the installation or the direct power harness that has a relay inline because I wanted to see if I could manage without, which I have. They are extremely bright and I cannot wait for a foggy or snowy day to experience the best of them. They are perfect.
Yesterday I had a set of 265/70/17 Hankook ATM RF10's installed. They are a 10 ply version that have gotten some amazing all around reviews from offroading and truck magazines, as well as rave reviews online. I was able to pick this model up for $187/each installed which was a deal from what I could find elsewhere, $792 OTD. I couldn't resist the urge for a quick photoshoot today, taking them offroad next weekend!
Also, found a stock Limited while at Menards today. Couldn't resist taking pictures next to it! My fiancée says,"Are you really moving to go park next to that one?" and I replied,"Yes, and I'm going to take pictures."
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|March 3rd, 2011, 11:34 AM
Oh, and how about some fall color and dirty WK pictures!?
I've been doing a lot with the Jeep since I put the tires on... How about a little picture update?
Just a little update! I installed a Laredo grille, ordered a S4xC t-case skid and 4xG belly guard. I also installed a 4xG diff guard and had the front windows tinted. This thing is basically done as far as I'm concerned... front guard eventually but I scrapped the idea of a muffler and intake for now.
We thought we would try something new and tape off the rings with pinstriping as masking leaving a chrome ring but when we peeled it off the chrome came off too. Even with painters tape the chrome was coming off. Cheap ****s!
Will post more pictures when skids come in. I also plan on undercoating this thing somehow. Whether I have to put it on a lift, scuff it myself, and rattle can bed liner it or pay to have it done professionally. Either way I want this thing to stay as rust free as possible!
|March 4th, 2011, 11:21 AM
I'm sure I'll run into you sometime. ;)
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The past few months have been interesting. I haven't had real internet since the beginning of April anticipating us moving closer to work. Other than the 4xG Belly Guard, there really haven't been any new additions to the Heep aside from the S4xC T-Case skid that is just sitting in my garage waiting for an adapter plate.
Had a nice photoshoot this spring. My buddy has the Cobalt SS/SC. I posted these in another thread but it didn't get much attention so I'm ing them here.
Forgot to mention the Cobalt runs 13.5's on street tires. There was a 13.5 run after this but its not on youtube.
Also took it out to get muddy, Really just came out with about 100lbs of grass and some sand stuck to the paint. Either way it was a good time. Probably shouldn't have hit the water as aggressively as I did... I washed it as soon as we got home though!
Then it was clean!
Also, who parks in the driveway?
Of course the Buick runs mid 13's as well. :thup2:
|August 1st, 2011, 10:22 AM
Buddy came across some nice wheels while browsing craigslist for $220! I jumped on them, and they turned out to be great. Supposedly 5.75" backspacing but when I had them installed the mechanic left my 1.5" Spidertrax spacers on but when he test fit one of the fronts without the spacer he felt the clearances were too tight.
I'm on the fence, I know that I can likely take off the spacers and be fine, but I'm really liking the look right now and I can still tuck the tire into the rear well without rubbing!
They are Ultra Goliath 223/224's in 17x8 and matte black. 5.75 Backside Setting (assume that means backspacing), and/or +30 offset.
Still tucks!
Sun washes out the black in matte...
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RALEIGH - NC State junior Lorenzo Brown has been selected as one of 12 finalists for the 2013 Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced today.
Brown leads the ACC with a 6.9 assists per game average and his 2.1 steals per game is second in the league. Brown also ranks among the conference's leading scorers with an average of 12.7 points per game (19thin the ACC) and a team-best 33.8 minutes per contest.
Brown needs six assists to become only the third player in school history to record 500 in his Wolfpack career.
He is the ACC's active assists leader with 494 - 127 more assists than Miami's Durand Scott, who ranks second. Earlier this season, Brown became the 48th player in NC State annals to score 1,000 career points.
This year, Brown has notched six double-doubles, including a 12-point, 13-assist performance in the Pack's 84-76 upset of then top-ranked Duke on Jan. 12.
He recorded every assist in the game, marking the only the third time since 1996-97 that a team tallied more than 10 assists with every one credited to the same player.
Starting at 1 p.m. (EST) on Thursday, Feb. 7, fans can go towww.cousyaward.com and vote for Brown.
The player receiving the most fan votes will get one vote toward the final committee vote.
The fan balloting will last a month (Feb. 7-March 7).
The annual honor is named for Boston Celtic Hall of Famer Bob Cousy. The original list of 80 players was trimmed down to 12 finalists by a national panel of voters.
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Kirsten's first berth was exposed to the relentless wind.
The weather in the past few months did not just seem hostileit was hostile. Strong northeasters were dropping more rain, snow, and cold temperatures on the region than normal for this time of year.
My catboat Kirsten showed wear and tear from the winds. Her slip was fully exposed to the northeast, and the strong winds punished her with wave after wave slapping her hull. The stern line came loose one night, and only the spring line kept her from banging into the opposite finger pier. Before the stern line came undone, the chafing gear had been displaced and the bare line had burned a deep groove into the newly varnished toe rail. The stern line was nearly worn through where it had rubbed against the underside of the dock cleat, and the line had to be replaced. Last fall, Kirsten had safely ridden out the busy hurricane season in the same slip using these same lines.
The bad weather was frustrating. In late March, during breaks from varnishing Kirsten's land-bound spars, I had watched enviously from shore as the clammers hit the water with their long rakes. Now the varnishing and other commissioning chores were complete, the mast was stepped, and the sail was laced to the spars. All that was lacking was some cooperation from the weather, a day with winds somewhere between dead calm and a half-gale.
Sometimes, checking the docklines for chafe is more prudent than getting underway.
The peaceful feeling was short-lived. Looking upward to where the halyards for Kirsten's gaff rig ran through the blocks, I saw that the lines were twisted. I hadn't reeved the lines correctly through the blocks at the top of the mast.
A lull in the wind gave way to a fresh breeze from another quarter, and I could see the new blanket of dark clouds moving in. I headed back, wondering if there was a way to fix the halyards without unstepping the mast.
A week later, the marina solved the problem by lashing two planks across the forks of the forklift. I was going to ride it up to re-reeve the halyard until I sat down on the planks and my eyes tracked the mast skywardsudden change of plans. One of the marina workers took my place on the planks and handled the blocks on the mast for the peak and throat halyards while I followed the rigging diagram from the deck reeving the lines through the blocks on the gaff.
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Then, with the sun breaking through the cloud cover, and a nice breeze coming in from the south, I headed out into the bay for a short sail. The halyards looked right and worked right, and Kirsten glided downwind with all the grace and serenity I remembered from last season.
The centerboard, however, which I'd lowered just enough to warn of shoals, was skipping and hopping over solid ground where there should have been plenty of water. The shoals had shifted and built up over the winter. The private channel markers had not been set out yet, but seagulls helpfully stood on the shoals that were covered by just inches of water.
It was a good, although brief, sail. But neither that sail, nor the quick sail stolen between storm systems, could be counted as the first sail of the season. Instead, I categorized those two sails as "shake-down" and "trouble-shooting" sails. Adding to the disqualifiers were the battens I'd forgotten to put into the sail. And my wife Julie had not yet been along.
Catboats are notorious for weather helm but seldom stay pointed into the wind.
But Saturday morning showed whitecaps and breaking waves, with a wind far stiffer than had been forecast. Still the sky was clear, and the sun was strong, raising the temperature well into the sixties.
Reefing the sail was in order. Julie and I moved Kirsten behind the dock to a slip sheltered from the waves of the bay, and positioned Kirsten's bow into the wind. This made it easier to raise the sail enough to slide the battens into their pockets and rig the reefing lines. I would have liked to have the more sheltered slip as a new home for Kirsten. That slip, however, was taken and I would have to pick another if I was going to move Kirsten permanently to a calmer area of the marina. We found one at the last dock, deep into the neck of the bay.
|"Getting to it, however, was not a simple task. I had to back out, avoid being blown onto the nearby shore, and power into the wind to come around to the dock."
We set up the new dock lines, tied down the second set of reef points, and headed out for our first sail. The NOAA broadcasts seemed OK, but the sudden change to clear skies instead of the forecast storms left me in doubt as to what to expect.
Julie took the helm and we motored out until we were safely into deep water among the waves and wind. I hoisted the sail, and we slowly fell off the wind to a beam reach, headed southeast, and barely plugged along under the shortened sail. A single reef would have been plenty.
The wind was clocking around to head us, so we tacked north. We plodded along, jouncing over the waves. The cool breeze overcame the bright sun's warmth, and we pulled on jackets. We tried out different points of sail so Julie could get a feel for the relationships between the wind, course, and sail position.
Soon it was time to tack away from the shore. We had so little way on that we had to fall off to a run before working up enough steam to tack. If we had tied in the first set of reefing points before putting in the second, we could have shaken out the second and continued under the first set, giving us more power. As it was, we began a slow reach back to the marina.
After we lunched at a diner and returned home, we settled in to watch the Weather Channel and see what had happened to the forecast for a stormy afternoon. The barometer was still falling, but the worst of the low-pressure system had moved offshore. Now the forecast showed clear skies until Tuesday.
The warm sun enticed me back to the marina, where I busied myself sewing on new chafing gear and other chores until late afternoon, all the while keeping an eye on the wind and listening to the NOAA broadcasts.
It looked good for a sunset cruise. I shook out the reef points and headed out again, enjoying a light breeze from the south. I followed the red buoys marking the eastward channel through Flanders Bay into Great Peconic Bay, and noted that the wind and chop picked up as I neared the entrance of the larger bay. Power cruisers coming in from the bay were making sharp turns around the buoy to head north to a sheltered marina. It was hard to tell if a line of waves up ahead was their wakes, or surf over the shoal off Red Cedar Point.
Deciding to leave any discoveries of new shoals until another day, I came about and sauntered homeward under a sky that was beginning to gather the colors of twilight on the horizon. Rounding the last point before the bay where my marina is located, the wind came onto Kirsten's nose. I turned on the engine and began to drop sail.
With the halyards set right, Kirsten glided with grace and serenity again.
After tying down the sail and spars, I began motoring to the marina. A roaring sound made me look back, and I found a large power cruiser, stern down and bow up, speeding through the water on a course that would soon bring it alongside as we neared the narrow marina entrance. I reduced my speed and was just turning away from the expected wake when the first wave lofted Kirsten's stern into the air and set us to hobby horsing.
After the wake had passed and the cruiser had turned into the marina, I resumed speed and course, and putt-putted up to the new slip. The power cruiser, a new neighbor, was still tying up. By the time I'd fastened on the sail cover and hosed down the deck, the power boaters were gone. It was nearly dark, and I was alone except for an egret stalking the shore.
The snafus and odd set of short sails hardly added up to a smooth start of the sailing season. But as I was walking along the dock back to my car, there was a satisfying feeling that, finally, the season was underway.
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need advice with newly purchased small block
hoping for some advice... long story short, got a call from a buddy said he got a built 350 and equally built th350 trans from his grandpa for sale for $400... went and looked and sure as hell it was a fresh never fired small block chevy. looking a little close i noticed the cyl heads were aftermarket (and also new as the rest of the engine was as it turns out),upon getting it home and pulling the heads and running some numbers heres what i ended up with... 1511 casting 1971 400cid, fresh .030 bore (making it a 406cid) new forged flat tops, new bearings through out, new cam, heads are world sportsmans with 200cc runners and 54cc chambers, stainless valves, roller rockers, double row timing set, hv oil pump, stainless long tube headers ( i believe they are 2 inch primarys), and a fresh rebuilt th350 built to handle the engine.. now where i need some help is, im needing an intake and wondering what anyone thinks might work well with this engine. ive got my eye on a team g but i dont know if thats too much or?? i should also mention i will be using a 4 speed manual behind this... i was thinking also maybe a performer rpm but i dont think the ports will be large enough to match the heads... any knowledge as to if this is true or not would be really helpful.. also wondering what the compression might be with forged flat tops ( they have fairly deep valve reliefs) and the 54cc chambers.. also any advice on how i can id the cam and maybe what kinda roundabout horsepower numbers i can look forward to from this build.... any advice greatly appreciated, and sorry i dont know much more about this, he didnt have a clue what he had and for $400 i couldnt turn it down
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Flat-tops and 54cc chambers should give you somewhere in the neighborhood of 12:1
Hopefully, it has a huge cam with plenty of overlap to cut down on your static compression ratio. I'd go wit an air gap single-plane intake and an 850 cfm carb and expect about 500 or so h.p.
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I love the perfomer rpm air gap,I've seen huge performence increases by getting rid of a big open plane intake,on most small blocks.I guess it depends on what you putting the motor in,are you going to be in the upper rpm range of your motor most of the time?maybe you want a team G,victor,or strip dominator.If you will be doing anything more then racing,I like the rpm air gap.
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Sounds like a nice find. Sportsman II heads came in either a 64 or a 72 chamber (most that I have measured are bigger than advertised). I doubt they could even go to 54 with angle milling. How do you know they are 54? Best thing to do would be to remove a head so you can see exactly what you have. Do the pistons have 2 or 4 valve reliefs? I would also remove the cam so you can hopefully get a part number off it and seee what you have there as well. If the headers are 2" sell them and get some
1 5/8" or 1 3/4", 2" is way to big, it will be way down on tq.
The air-gap would be a great intake for this motor, depending on how much cam and compression you have it should be just over 400 hp.
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Sounds like you scored a sweet deal. If you are unfamiliar with small block 400 then you need to look into the crank to see if it is the stock unbalanced (ie externally balanced needing a special damper and flywheel or flexplate) or an aftermarket internally balanced crank. Did the heads have the small steam holes between each pair of cylinders to match the block?
You may also want to check the stroke since it was common to destroke a 400 with a 350 crank and special main bearing inserts (or a custom ground crank)
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A legal challenge to Australia's asylum seeker processing centre on Manus Island by the Papua New Guinea opposition leader ''smacks of politics,'' according to Labor MP Mark Dreyfus.
PNG Opposition Leader Belden Namah launched the challenge with the National Court last Friday, saying he believed the processing centre was unconstitutional and that detainees were being held illegally.
''The ministers of the O'Neill-Dion government have now received a summons to appear and defend their conduct in the National Court,'' he said in a statement.
''We will take this matter as far as necessary to ensure that the values of our nation's constitution are upheld.''
Mr Dreyfus, who is the federal cabinet secretary as well as a QC, said the Labor government had reached an agreement on regional processing with the PNG government.
''I think when you've got the opposition leader in Papua New Guinea bringing a proceeding in the Supreme Court [in] Papua New Guinea, it does smack of politics to me,'' he told Sky News on Monday.
The memorandum of understanding [MOU] between Australia and Papua New Guinea states that transfers of people to PNG's Manus Island, and the running of the centre, will be run in accordance with both countries' laws.
''The government of Australia will conduct all activities in respect of this MOU in accordance with its constitution and all relevant domestic laws [and] the government of Papua New Guinea will conduct all activities in respect of this MOU in accordance with its constitution and all relevant domestic laws,'' it states.
It is this aspect of the constitution that the PNG opposition is challenging in court.
Mr Namah said the court challenge asked the courts to declare that the MOU is unlawful because it allows Australia to force asylum seekers to enter PNG territory, and allows the PNG government to deprive those asylum seekers of their liberty as soon as they enter Papua New Guinea.
In a statement, Mr Namah said: ''Our claim, that the asylum seekers detention scheme is unconstitutional and that the detainees on Manus are held illegally in PNG, has never been legitimately addressed by the government and must now be answered in our highest courts.''
Mr Namah said the legal challenge also attempted to ''remedy the many abuses of PNG law and of ministerial powers which have given rise to the situation on Manus''.
He said the opposition challenged the right of the government to force people seeking refugee status in Australia to enter PNG, where they were being held ''illegally and indefinitely under inhumane conditions''.
''We challenge the right of the government to make this arrangement with the government of a foreign nation, again in contravention of our constitution,'' he added.
The injunction seeks to have the current detainees released and to prevent the government from receiving or detaining any more asylum seekers from Australia.
''I am confident that our justice system will succeed in upholding this truth, where our government has so regrettably failed,'' Mr Namah said.
Mr Dreyfus said he would not comment further on the challenge's chances of success under the PNG constitution.
A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's said: ''We have a binding MOU with the PNG government and that is working well. We are not going to comment on politics or court matters in another country.''
He said it was unclear whether Australia would be required to have a role in the court case.
The MOU between the Australian and PNG governments says that, in the event of a dispute, ''Any dispute arising with respect to the interpretation or implementation of this arrangement will be settled amicably through consultation between the participants.''
PNG's The National newspaper reported that lawyer Loani Henao had filed court proceedings at the Waigani National Court on Friday.
"The basis of that (the court proceeding) is that the asylum seekers have no interest in coming to PNG," Mr Henao told The National. "The moment they entered PNG, they were detained."
Henao told the newspaper that under section 42 of the Constitution, all persons, including foreigners, had personal liberties that were protected under PNG law.
"They never entered this country on their own accord."
Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre principal David Manne said Australian refugee lawyers would be watching the case with interest.
Acting opposition immigration spokesman Michael Keenan said, "ultimately it's a matter for PNG, but it smacks of this government not doing its homework".
Labor's 'failed border protection policies'
Coalition MP Steven Ciobo told Sky News the challenge was a consequences of Labor's ''failed border protection policies''.
''[The PNG Opposition] realise what a massive problem Australia has . . . You've got the opposition saying we have real concerns,'' Mr Ciobo said.
Mr Ciobo said while Manus Island was used by the the Coalition during Howard years ''the contrast could not be more stark''.
'Reasonable' prospect of success
Mr Namah's legal challenge has "reasonable" prospect of succeeding, according to an Australian lawyer who works in PNG.
The lawyer, who asked not to be named, told The National Times that the PNG Constitution had a very strong bill of rights. He said that some rights applied only to citizens but others - such as "liberty of the person" - applied to non-citizens, too.
While liberty could be deprived to prevent a person's unlawful entry into PNG or for extraditions and expulsions, the lawyer said that entry by asylum seekers was not unlawful if they'd arrived under an agreement with the PNG government.
The National Times understands that the Manus Island processing centre is not a "really big issue" in PNG, but there are still undercurrents of resentment towards Australia where PNG's sovereignty is perceived to be compromised.
"The Leader of the Opposition is taking [the challenge] up mainly to embarrass the [O'Neill] Government," the lawyer said.
As it is a constitutional issue, the legal challenge is expected to be referred from the National Court, which has one judge, up to the Supreme Court, where there are up to 5 judges.
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Junior Garrett Cortright picked up his second win of the season, allowing two runs, one earned, in 6.2 innings. Cortright allowed eight hits and struck out four. Junior Jon Fitzsimmons got the final out of the seventh for his first save of the season.
Game Two - UNC Asheville 6, Canisius 4
Canisius built a 3-1 lead in the second game as sophomore Mike Krische led off with a single, moved to second on a wild pitch and eventually scored after a UNC Asheville throwing error. A sacrifice fly from Kelso scored Zimmer later in the inning. After the Bulldogs scored once in the bottom of the first, the Griffs answered with a run in the top of the second. Siddall led off with a double, moved to third on a ground out and scored on a wild pitch.
UNC Asheville (2-3) scored three runs in the third, including a two-run homer from Ian Graham to go up 4-3. The Griffs tied the game at 4-4 in the top of the fourth, which started with Siddall reaching on an error and Siddall being hit by a pitch. After a sacrifice bunt from sophomore Mike Booth, a sacrifice fly from freshman Anthony Massicci scored Siddall to tie the game.
The Bulldogs used the long ball again in the fifth inning to take a lead they wouldn't relinquish. Robert McIntosh hit a two-run homer to put UNC Asheville up 6-4. Canisius got the tying run to third base in the top of the seventh, but Gruarin lined out to second base to end the game.
Rohn Pierce (1-1) took the loss for
the Griffs, allowing six runs, five earned, in five-plus innings. Senior Jason Rubenstein threw a scoreless
inning of relief. UNC Asheville used six pitchers in the game after starter Elliot
Criss left after the first batter of the day. Nick Schavone picked up the win
by throwing a scoreless 1.1 innings.
Canisius and UNC Asheville are scheduled to wrap up their series on Sunday, with another doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for noon.


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UW will not retain Track & Field coach; Yentes Era comes to an end in Laramie
Laramie, Wyo. — University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman announced Monday that the head coach of the track and field/cross country programs Don Yentes will not be retained. Burman said that a national search for a successor will begin immediately.
"We appreciate the 15 years of service by Don Yentes to the University of Wyoming. We wish him the best in the future," said Burman. "We look forward to the future of the Wyoming Track and Field/Cross Country programs. There has been a significant amount of resources invested into the Hager-LeBar Track at War Memorial Fieldhouse and the Louis S. Madrid Complex, which positions us to be more competitive. We will undertake a national search to find the next coach to lead the program."
In 2012, Yentes finished his 12th season overseeing the Wyoming track and field/cross country programs. Prior to taking over the program, he was an assistant coach with the Wyoming program in charge of sprints, jumps and hurdles from 1997-2000. He was hired as Wyoming's head track and field/cross country coach on June 30, 2000.


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Webb most likely an in-season reinforcement
The Texas Rangers are optimistic that right-hander Brandon Webb, two years removed from shoulder surgery, will be able to pitch out of their starting rotation this season.
They also are realistic that in all likelihood Webb will be an in-season addition to the rotation, not a season-opening member.OPENING DAY COUNTDOWN Get the scoop on your favorite teams
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While the Rangers opened their exhibition season on Sunday, Webb was throwing off the mound for the first time this spring. Given the battle he has had to get healthy the last two years, it is difficult to see how he could get the necessary arm strength to be ready to pitch in the big leagues on Opening Day.
More likely, he will be building up arm strength at the minor-league level.
"We will see how it plays out going along," said Rangers manager Ron Washington. "He will let us know (by how he responds) where he is.
"If he is ready opening day, great. If he is not ready it is no big deal. … I would rather him as Brandon Webb, whatever date that is."
A three-time All-Star, who was the NL Cy Young winner in 2006 and went 22-7 in 2008, Webb was 87-62 with a 3.24 ERA in his first six big-league seasons. In the last two seasons, however, he has been limited to one four-inning appearance — on Opening Day in 2009 — because of the shoulder problems, which finally resulted in right shoulder surgery in August of that season.
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Amerks sale just needs OK (Rochester D&C)
Archives for April 2008
Wednesday's Rochester Coverage
Miller is tabbed for study
'In addition to Miller, the other members of the group are goalies Martin Brodeur of New Jersey and Rick DiPietro of the New York Islanders, forwards Dany Heatley of Ottawa and Mike Cammalleri of Los Angeles, and general managers Doug Risebrough of Minnesota, Garth Snow of the Islanders, Jim Rutherford of Carolina and Brett Hull of Dallas (co-GM).'
Gerbe's signing a must for Sabres' image
'If the Sabres let Gerbe get into his senior season, look out. His stock has already jumped exponentially, and if Buffalo fails to tie him up this summer, expect him to flirt with the idea of holding out until next August, when he can become an unrestricted free agent.'
Buffalo connection helps USA to exhibition win
'They got off to a good start Sunday, winning their lone exhibition before the worlds start Friday in Canada. Team USA beat Sweden, 5-1, in the Cumberland County Civic Center. Buffalo connections played large parts in the victory.'
Pominville's happy just to be wanted
'The United States came to him and said it really wanted him. That made the decision easy. Pominville is now and forever shall be part of USA Hockey, and he makes his debut tonight when the Americans face Sweden in a tuneup for the world championships.'
No love lost for Philadelphia duo
'These two steadfast friends – former teammates with the Buffalo Sabres – might come to be known as Philadelphia's "Phrench" Connection. A chance to be reunited with Biron, traded to Philadelphia at the 2007 trade deadline, is the reason Briere spurned Montreal's free-agent offer last summer before signing an eight-year, $52 million (U.S.) deal with Philly on July 1. And he is paying the price with the venom directed at him, not just for rejecting Montreal but also for being the Flyers' top playoff scorer.'
Pominville nominated for Lady Byng Award
'Forty-two of Pominville's points came in the final 34 games after the All-Star break, ranking him fourth in the league over the span.'
NHL coaches defy odds
'"We don't have big egos," he said of himself and Ruff. "I just surround myself with really good people. I give a lot of responsibility to a lot of people in our organization. I can be front and centre a lot, but I don't need to. I recognize the players can tune you out."'
Pominville is up for Lady Byng
'"The recognition he is getting is something that probably is late in coming, but now he is getting recognition for the type of player he is."'
Ruff, Trotz rarities in NHL coaching fraternity
'Ruff said he's developed strong relationships with others in the organization, which has paid off over the years. "I think there has to be a certain amount of trust that everybody is working hard to get the job done and understands in some ways that all our roles are different but we're all trying to get the same thing accomplished and that's to try to build a winning team and try to get a Stanley Cup," he said.'
Datsyuk, Pominville, St. Louis named finalists for Lady Byng
'Pominville set a career-high with 80 points (27 goals, 53 assists) in his second full NHL season, 42 of them coming in his final 34 games. Of his 27 goals, 24 came at even strength and one short-handed.'
Datsyuk, St. Louis, Pominville are Lady Byng nominees
'The Sabres' right wing gains League-wide respect every season and could very well end up as Buffalo's captain next season. While that remains to be seen, there's no doubting that Pominville has fast become one of the League's top skilled gentlemen.'
eEx' factor looms large
'Chris Drury scored the series-clinching goal for the Rangers over the Devils, a fact that shouldn't surprise anybody in these parts. Daniel Briere set up the series-clinching overtime goal for the Flyers over the Capitals in Game Seven. Briere is leading the NHL in playoff scoring with six goals and 11 points. His 1.57 points-per-game was fourth. Not bad after all the groaning around here about him failing to show up for the playoffs, even though he led the Sabres in postseason scoring two straight years. Martin Biron was the winning goalie for the Flyers. Sharks defenseman Brian Campbell set up the go-ahead goal in a Game Seven victory over the Flames. As if that wasn't enough, another former Sabres captain, Stu Barnes, scored the series-clincher for the Stars over the Ducks. Yeeeah! Or. . . Noooo!'
Biron, Briere prove they can win in playoffs
'Flyers coach John Stevens said he could not have asked for more from the former Buffalo tandem. "Danny was terrific the whole way," Stevens said. "And the questions about Marty not playing in the playoffs and his lack of success in back-to-backs, well he answered those in a big way. He reached a level of intensity where he was in complete control. He challenged shooters when he needed to challenge and held pucks when they needed to be held."'
Miller joins committee
'Miller, Campbell (now with San Jose), Anaheim's Mathieu Schneider, Ottawa's Jason Spezza and Tampa Bay's Jeff Halpern were selected to begin two-year terms as representatives of the NHL Players' Association. The competition committee, which consists of up to 10 voting members, evaluates matters relating to the game and the way the game is played and makes recommendations to the NHLPA's executive board and the NHL's board of governors. The next committee meeting is June 13 in Toronto.'


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FW: More Snacks Made From Brown Rice, Vegetables, Legumes Aim to Satisfy the Craving for 'Permissible Indulgence' - WSJ.com
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More Snacks Made From Brown Rice, Vegetables, Legumes Aim to Satisfy the Craving for 'Permissible Indulgence'
Triscuits, Green Giant Join Niche Brands Like Snapea Crisps and Annie Chun's to Feed the Three-Snacks-a-Day CrowdIs a seaweed flake the new potato chip?
Hoping to elevate snack foods out of junk territory and into a healthier zone, more companies are offering munchables made from ingredients with ironclad nutritional credentials, including black beans, brown rice, seaweed and parsnips.
Never mind that recommended serving sizes in many cases are minuscule, or that calorie, fat or sodium profiles can rival or exceed those of old-school pretzels and potato chips.
"Consumers are looking for 'permissible indulgence'—that's the big buzzword," says Lu Ann Williams, head of research at Netherlands-based Innova Market Insights.
The snack-food aisle's neon-colored bags contain cheesy, spicy fare designed mainly for guys in their teens and 20s. The new munchies are directed at a potentially larger group—consumers who want to eat better but also love salty chips.The proportion of consumers reporting that they eat three to four snacks a day in addition to meals rose to 31% in 2013, up from 19% in 2010, according to Chicago market research firm IRI.
Salty SnacksBrown Rice Crackers: Traditional Triscuits now come in brown rice, red bean and vegetable varieties.
Dried Kale Leaves: One of the trendiest foods is dehydrated with ingredients like bell peppers, sunflower seeds and cashews for a chip-like crunch.
Crispy Pea Snacks: Shaped like a peapod—or is it a french fry?—this snack is made from whole peas and rice.
Kimchi Tortilla Chips: A tangy-cabbage chip from General Mills Inc. is close in calories to regular nacho cheese chips: 140calories, 7 grams of fat and 180 mg of sodium per serving.
Black Bean Chips: Beanitos' Original Black Bean with Sea Salt boasts that it is 'corn free,' with five grams of fiber.
Spiced Dried Chickpeas: Saffron Road Foods says it likes its Crunchy Chickpeas sold next to kale and other alternative snacks, not potato chips.
Roasted Seaweed Snacks: In the first half of the year, companies introduced 16 new seaweed-containing snacks.
To help people feel better about snacking amid concerns over childhood obesity, many companies have been working to eliminate trans fats and reduce saturated fats in products.
PepsiCo Inc.'s Frito-Lay unit announced in late 2010 that it would eliminate artificial and synthetic ingredients, and monosodium glutamate, from much of its snack lineup, and says since then it has made "many changes."
The percentage of U.S. snack foods making at least one health claim rose to 71% in the first half of 2013, up from 56% two years earlier, according to Innova.
Seaweed is a mainstay in permissible indulgence, with 16 new seaweed-containing snacks introduced in the first half of the year, up from three in the same period last year, Innova says. There were 51 new snacks containing beans and legumes, up from 28 a year earlier.
Seaweed snacks are papery sheets of roasted seaweed whose hand-held size and salty taste satisfy some consumers' potato-chip craving. Kimberly Hyman, a 32-year-old Belvedere, Calif., mother, says seaweed is her new go-to midday snack, sometimes replacing fruit or yogurt. She keeps a stash seaweed snacks in the diaper bag and shares them with her 18-month-old, Jake. He recognizes the packs now," she says. "He screams for them."
Last year, CJ Foods Inc., of Commerce, Calif., the parent company of Annie Chun's Roasted Seaweed Snacks, doubled the flavor offerings in its lineup, adding Brown Sugar and Sea Salt, and Cracked Pepper and Herbs, to Wasabi and Sesame.
Beans, not corn, are the basis for tortilla chips from Beanitos Inc., of Austin, Texas, founded by veteran snack entrepreneur Doug Foreman, who also started the Guiltless Gourmet low-fat line in 1989.
Mr. Foreman says while on a diet he became intrigued with beans' "low glycemic" virtues and asked himself, "I wonder if I could make a chip out of this?" Texas supermarkets began selling Beanitos' black bean and pinto bean chips in 2010 and now the brand is in 15,000 stores nationwide.
The brand promotes its "high fiber" content—as much as six grams per serving—and four grams of protein, versus just one gram of fiber and two grams of protein for standard nacho cheese tortilla chips.
Good-for-you, of course, doesn't equal all-you-can-eat. "If calories and grams of fat and levels of sodium are what you are concerned with, then there aren't huge differences" between many commercial snacks and the better-for-you niche brands, says Barbara Davis, director of medical and scientific affairs for PL Thomas and Co., a Morristown, N.J., natural-ingredients supplier.
A one-ounce serving of nacho cheese tortilla chips has 146 calories, seven grams of fat and 174 milligrams of sodium, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Nutrient Database. That isn't very far from 140 calories, seven grams of fat and 140 milligrams of sodium for a one-ounce serving of Beanitos Nacho Cheese tortilla chips. "You have to really adhere to a serving size," Dr. Davis says.
Serving sizes for alternative snacks can be just as unrealistic as they are for regular snacks. A serving of Annie Chun's sesame-flavored seaweed snacks has just 30 calories, 2.5 grams of fat and 70 milligrams of sodium. But a serving size is 5 grams, equivalent to about 10 sheets—and a fraction of the 28-gram serving size (or about 1 ounce, with 150 calories) for pretzels, chips and crackers.
Japanese snack food maker Calbee Inc. relaunched Snapea Crisps, pea-based snacks with a french fry shape in the U.S. in April. Sales have grown 60%, says Steve Kneepkens, vice president of sales and marketing.Some of these snacks have the risk of sticker shock. Brad Gruno, founder of Brad's Raw Kale Chips, in Pipersville, Pa., says his product's relatively steep price tag—approaching $8 for a 2.5-ounce package—is due to the labor-intensive process of preparing and dehydrating vegetables, which takes up to 15 hours.
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The product has a following among health-conscious shoppers and in just over three years distribution has expanded from Philadelphia-area farmers markets to 7,000 stores nationwide. Mr. Gruno says he is looking at cauliflower and collard greens, following the launch of Brad's Raw Onion Rings earlier this year.
Wonderfully Raw Gourmet, of Watsonville, Calif., recently launched dehydrated parsnips called Snip Chips (in Cheezy Herb Truffle, Chipotle Lime Cilantro, and Dill Pickle varieties) and dehydrated Brussels sprouts called Brussel Bytes, in Tamarind Apple Crunch and Chili Pumpkin Seed Crunch.
Kings Food Markets, a chain of 25 stores in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, says it has created "healthy snacks" displays within the produce section. "Customers are looking for 'healthy' in healthy departments versus it being lost in the snack aisle," says Paul Kneeland, vice president of the produce, floral, seafood and meat departments.
"Consumers are shifting away from three square meals a day and increasingly snacking," says Jimmy Wu, senior brand manager for Mondelez International Inc., whose Triscuit crackers now come in several brown-rice varieties. "They are looking for real food values and real food ingredients. . .that they traditionally found in regular meals."
Finding wide acceptance is the big challenge. Stephen Broad, co-founder of seaweed snack company GimMe Health Foods, of San Rafael, Calif., says flavors like Cheddar Cheese and Honey Dijon have been a "sort of training wheel" for skeptical consumers.
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Love how like all internet threads this go off topic soon as it leaves the first page... and now we have giant albino penguin's.
Don't really have anything particularly profound to add that hasn't been said... sharing ones life with another person can bring some of the greatest joy and worst pain a person can experience. But its a journey and we all go through it.. we have all felt that pain at one point or another and the most important thing all be it also the hardest thing is to get back up and keep an open mind when you get knocked down.
For me I broke up with a girl I really cared about.. it was messy and I was a total wreck.. and I delt with it rather poorly I ended up just picking up any attractive girl that caught my eye but was never really available so they were 'fun' but I never gave the girls a chance. After a few of those girls I decided to swear off women for a while because in my opinion they were just too much effort but a friend asked me to go with him to a Halloween party because he knew absolutely no one. Not being a bad wingman I went with him though I wasn't in the mood to really be there.. ended up spending alot of the night just hanging around a fire pit around back of this place and a girl started to crush on me ( may have something to do with the fact I prevented her from catching on fire lol ). Despite shutting this girl down ( I think she tried to give me her number but I gave her mine instead and said if she wanted to talk she could call me... lol like I said wasn't in the mood ) she persisted and now we have been married for 5 years.
Moral of the story being the same tired but true thing that relationships happen when you least expect and sometimes you have to go through some bad before you get to the good so just keep your head up.. it will happen I promise =)
Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
I hear you.
Hell yes, if i could go back in time I wouldnt meet the fucktards and liars I have met.
If only I knew...
'When you find something worth fighting for, you never give up'
I think you one are one of those weird people, I know a guy like that
We rent a gym at the community center for badminton and every time one dude ask if we wanna do something after we all think he is weird. Don't be like that
i like to meet and have sex. and then things may end, if i dont like the sex, or if she doesnt like the sex. also people change once they get into a deep passionate relationship. the changes are what ends a great relationship most of the time.
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What is the point of some people meeting just later to have it end? I'm talking about when you meet someone you truly care for, open your heart and soul, fall in love, and for what? Just to have it end in pain and sadness?
Why do we meet someone just to have it end? What is the point of it all? How many of you wish could go back in time and stop your self from meeting that someone?
.....because people have hope and longing. They hope and long for something that will never end, even if it is guaranteed that it will. They will tell themselves that although it is fated to end in tears, that maybe they can overcome fate anyway. If there is a billion to one chance, and even no chance, the desire (and need) and drive for human affection is powerful. Even in infancy, without human affection, even if the baby is physically cared for, the baby has a high chance of dying. If the baby survives the emotional neglect, it faces a lifetime of mental and possibly physical illness, and cognitive disabilities. I'm sorry to say that studies on this were actually done on not only animal subjects, but human ones as well. Sometimes science can be a cold-hearted b*tch.
Watching K-dramas instead of sleeping....;D
After my fair share of heartbreak, and a long time of recovery, I've found that, although I have lingering memories of my past relationships, I view life that much richer. I appreciate things a lot more, and not take things for granted. After a lot of soul searching, I've finally realized that I'm truly happy with myself, with all my faults and flaws, and that I am a whole individual, capable of functioning well on my own. If...in the future...I find someone else, I would not treat that special someone the same way I treated my past girlfriends. Rather, I'd view myself as a whole, and view her as a whole, and we would compliment each other in this way. And if things don't work out, I can bounce back, knowing it was Just that. Things don't work out. Every story has an end, and it only clears a path for the next story. The spice of life.
The truth is a gale force waiting to shatter straw houses of deception.
I was hoping the albino penguin would've killed this thread.. Oh well..
I apologize in advance for late responses and dropped conversations.
demongurrl13 wrote:
I was hoping the albino penguin would've killed this thread.. Oh well..
Try a different albino animal. One of them is bound to work.
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demongurrl13 wrote:
I was hoping the albino penguin would've killed this thread.. Oh well..
Try a different albino animal. One of them is bound to work.
He's right. Try an albino Moa.
Everything changes and everything ends at some point in this life.Love is the best thing life has to offer.Would I go back and erase the pain? No way-the love would go with it.Even if something ended badly and it is gone, the love that was cannot be undone or taken from you.I wouldn't change anything-I'll keep the pleasure and the pain.
I think i'm stuck in a time loop
I wouldn't mind dying now. :P
That means no more pain suffering etc anymore.
Someone needs to give me a reason to live.
I would never go back and wish that a past relationship never happened, even the abusive ones. Through those relationships you are able to grow and mature and understand the world more, you are able to learn how to love. And even in the bad relationships there are good times and good memories.
The way I look at it is each failed relationship brings you closer to the one that is right for you, the one that will last. And by learning from your failed relationships you will be able to recognize the right one when it comes and you will also have learned how to love that person and care for them, you will also have learned how to truly appreciate that person. So every failed or bad relationship in a way is a gift, because it will help you understand how to keep and nurture the good one when it comes around and they also help you to mature as a person.
The thing is, the world is different when you meet someone you love. Even if they are no longer with you, the world will remain changed because you met them. Is it worth it, to live in this changed world? that's up to the individual. Personally, I believe that you can only be as happy as you have ever been sad. How can you truly appreciate your own happiness if you have never known sorrow?
The choice is simple. You can either never truly feel anything, or feel things so vibrantly for the greater part of your life that you can also appreciate that feeling when you lose it, and those who bring it back to life, if only for a few moments. To me, the chance to have that is worth all of the hardship. When I find that one, I will struggle with them, I will dislike them at times. but in the end, I will have given my everything to this person, and in return, I hope that they will give me their everything. After that, I will want nothing, and anything else I get will be it's own blessing. After that, I can die in peace, knowing I have known the full range of emotion, and everything that there is to being human.
I apologize in advance for late responses and dropped conversations.
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How about this?
Albino snakes are too pretty....
Ooh, that's gorgeous.
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A win is a win. And come playoff time, the points the Sabres are getting now may be weightier than they imagined. But with those two points, wouldn't it be nice to have some icing on the cake? A shutout
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