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Well-known D developer Andrei Alexandrescu has committed the first 5112 lines of D language code to Facebook's repository — meaning that as of now, the social network giant can be said to be using D in live production. The language was developed by Dr. Dobb's blogger, Walter Bright, who previously was the main developer of the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++.
Alexandrescu confirms that the project is in what he calls "heavy daily use" at Facebook central — and, compared to the original version (which was written in C++) the team has measured "massive wins" across all elements including source code size, build speed, and runtime performance.
"D has resolutely exited C++'s shade because it is good at things C++ is not good at, in addition to being good at things C++ is good at. Also, Go would be tenuous to frame as a better C because it cannot do everything C does — e.g., unsafe memory access and manual memory management, which are needed in certain systems — and it interoperates poorly with C," said Alexandrescu.
D is touted as a general-purpose, high-level systems and applications programming language. It retains the ability to write high-performance code and interface directly with the operating system APIs and with hardware. In terms of use and usage, D is well suited to developing medium to large scale, million-line programs within team units of developers. In general terms, D is said to be easy to learn, provides many capabilities to aid the programmer, and is well suited to aggressive compiler optimization technology. In response to how D compares with other popular emerging native languages, such as Rust, Patrick Walton of the Mozilla Rust team noted: "Rust has safe manual memory management, at the cost of a learning curve. In D you must use the garbage collector if you want memory safety, but it avoids all the complexity of lifetimes and uniqueness. This difference makes the two languages feel pretty different, even if at their core they're pretty similar."
Community developers have already lauded this news and described it as the "call to arms" now happening after the language's development focus was directed towards "quality and professionalism" at the DConf conference held earlier this year. There has also been particular note made of the bug report, fix, resolution process, which has now markedly improved.
Walter Bright described this news as the "start of the first battle signalling the end of Middle Earth, and the rise of the Age of D." Other D developers, such as J. M. Davis, offered perhaps less hyperbolic assessments: "It doesn't mean that D has taken over the programming world or anything like that, but it shows that the language is maturing and that real companies are now willing to use it in the real world — and it's a pretty major company at that."


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So say the organizers of London Fashion Week, which opened Friday with a buzz of anticipation for a blockbuster season of shows — one of the event's biggest lineups yet.
For the first time, celebrity designer Tom Ford is staging a womenswear catwalk show in London, while singer Rihanna has created a stir with her debut fashion collection to be shown on Sunday.
Those are major coups for the British capital, which has devoted increasing attention to its fashion industry — a 21 billion-pound (US$33 billion) business that is getting growing global recognition.
"We've already cracked the hard part. We have the talent," said Natalie Massenet, the British Fashion Council's new chairman and the American founder of online retailer Net-A-Porter. Her job, she said, was to capitalize on that to make London "the most exciting fashion capital in the world."
While major players like Burberry, Mulberry and Vivienne Westwood still lead the British fashion scene, the most closely-watched design heroes of the moment — the ones gushed about from New York to Paris — are all under 40 years old: Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Erdem. And they are just the most recognizable names among more than a dozen ambitious, emerging talents that have put London on the international style map.
"The buyers who come to London don't go to just one or two shows — they go to nearly every show, every day. You miss the show, you miss the hot new trend," said Caroline Rush, the British Fashion Council's chief executive.
Plenty of that talent was on show on Friday. Bora Aksu, the Turkish designer based in London, showed off a collection that contrasted tough leather with romance and ethereal silhouettes.
Central St. Martins, the storied art college from which superstars like John Galliano and Alexander McQueen graduated, put on a graduate show that may not be exactly wearable, but it was one that was bursting with youthful creativity.
"It was really a breath of fresh air. At this stage you should experiment as much as you can," said Roksanda Illincic, who graduated from the college several years ago. She has gone on to dress women from Michelle Obama to actress Emma Stone.
Other notable designers showing at this season's 5-day event include L'Wren Scott, the American partner of Mick Jagger; Julien Macdonald, a celebrity favorite, who is returning after a two-season break; and Jonathan Saunders, who has wowed with his classy prints and patterns.
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Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
So far none of our computed hints have used the
:COMPUTED-HINT-REPLACEMENT feature. We now illustrate that.
:computed-hint-replacement feature can easily lead to loops.
So as you experiment with the examples in this section and your own
hints using this feature, be ready to interrupt the theorem prover
and abort!
A non-looping use of the
:computed-hint-replacement feature
would be a hint like this:
(if (certain-terms-present clause) '(:computed-hint-replacement t :in-theory (enable lemma25)) '(:computed-hint-replacement t :in-theory (disable lemma25)))In this hint, if certain terms are present in
clause, as determined
by the function with the obvious name (here undefined), then this
hint enables
lemma25 and otherwise disables it.
Lemma25 might be
a very expensive lemma, e.g., one that matches frequently and has an
expensive and rarely established hypothesis. One might wish it enabled
only under certain conditions. Recall that theories are inherited by
children. So once
lemma25 is enabled it ``stays'' enabled for the
children, until disabled; and vice versa. If the
:computed-hint-replacement feature were not present and computed
hints were always deleted after they had been used, then
would be left enabled (or disabled) for all the childen produced by the
first firing of the hint. But with the arrangement here, every subgoal
gets a theory deemed suitable by the hint, and the hint persists.
Now we will set up a toy to allow us to play with computed hints to understand them more deeply. To follow the discussion it is best to execute the following events.
(defstub wrapper (x) t) (defaxiom wrapper-axiom (wrapper x) :rule-classes nil)Now submit the following event and watch what happens.
(thm (equal u v) :hints (`(:use (:instance wrapper-axiom (x a)))))The theorem prover adds
(wrapper a) to the goal
and then abandons the proof attempt because it cannot prove the
subgoal. Since the computed hint is deleted upon use, the
hint is not applied to the subgoal (i.e., the child of the goal).
What happens if we do the following?
(thm (equal u v) :hints (`(:computed-hint-replacement t :use (:instance wrapper-axiom (x a)))))One might expect this to loop forever: The hint is applied to the child and adds the hypothesis again. However, when the hint fires, nothing is actually changed, since
(wrapper a) is already in the
subgoal. The theorem prover detects this and stops. (Careful
inspection of the output will reveal that the hint actually did fire
a second time without apparent effect.)
So let's change the experiment a little. Let's make the hint
add the hypothesis
(wrapper p) where is the first literal of the
clause. This is silly but it allows us to explore the behavior of
computed hints a little more.
(thm (equal u v) :hints (`(:use (:instance wrapper-axiom (x ,(car clause))))))So in this case, the theorem prover changes the goal to
(IMPLIES (WRAPPER (EQUAL U V)) (EQUAL U V))which then simplifies to
(IMPLIES (WRAPPER NIL) (EQUAL U V))because the concluding equality can be assumed false in the hypothesis (e.g., think of the contrapositive version). Nothing else happens because the hint has been removed and so is not applicable to the child.
Now consider the following -- and be ready to interrupt it and abort!
(thm (equal u v) :hints (`(:computed-hint-replacement t :use (:instance wrapper-axiom (x ,(car clause))))))This time the hint is not removed and so is applied to the child. So from
Goal we get
Goal' (IMPLIES (WRAPPER (EQUAL U V)) (EQUAL U V))and then
Goal'' (IMPLIES (AND (WRAPPER (NOT (WRAPPER (EQUAL U V)))) (WRAPPER (EQUAL U V))) (EQUAL U V))etc.
First, note that the hint is repeatedly applied to its children.
That is because we wrote
:computed-hint-replacement t.
But second, note that
Goal' is not even being simplified
Goal'' is produced from it. If it were being simplified,
(equal u v)'s in the hypotheses would be replaced by
This is a feature. It means after a computed hint has fired, other
hints are given a chance at the result, even the hint itself unless
it is removed from the list of hints.
As an exercise, let's arrange for the hint to stay around and be applied indefinitely but with a simplification between each use of the the hint. To do this we need to pass information from one application of the hint to the next, essentially to say ``stay around but don't fire.''
First, we will define a function to use in the hint. This is more than a mere convenience; it allows the hint to ``reproduce itself'' in the replacement.
(defun wrapper-challenge (clause parity) (if parity `(:computed-hint-replacement ((wrapper-challenge clause nil)) :use (:instance wrapper-axiom (x ,(car clause)))) `(:computed-hint-replacement ((wrapper-challenge clause t)))))Note that this function is not recursive, even though it uses its own name. That is because the occurrence of its name is in a quoted constant.
Now consider the following. What will it do?
(thm (equal u v) :hints ((wrapper-challenge clause t)))
First, observe that this is a legal hint because it is a term that
mentions only the free variable
CLAUSE. When defining hint functions
you may sometimes think their only arguments are the four variables
world, and
That is not so. But in your hints you must call those functions so that
those are the only free variables. Note also that the occurrence of
clause inside the
:computed-hint-replacement is not an occurrence
of the variable clause but just a constant. Just store this note
away for a moment. We'll return to it momentarily.
Second, the basic cleverness of this hint is that every time it fires
it reproduces itself with the opposite parity. When the parity is
t it actually changes the goal by adding a hypothesis. When
the parity is
nil it doesn't change the goal and so allows
simplification to proceed -- but it swaps the parity back to
What you can see with this simply toy is that we can use the computed
hints to pass information from parent to child.
Ok, so what happens when the event above is executed? Try it. You will
see that ACL2 applied the hint the first time. It doesn't get around to
printing the output because an error is caused before it can print.
But here is a blow-by-blow description of what happens. The hint is
evaluated on
Goal with the
((equal u v)). It produces
a hint exactly as though we had typed:
("Goal" :use (:instance wrapper-axiom (x (equal u v))))which is applied to this goal. In addition, it produces the new hints argument
:hints ((wrapper-challenge clause nil)).By applying the
"Goal" hint we get the new subgoal
Goal' (implies (wrapper (equal u v)) (equal u v))but this is not printed because, before printing it, the theorem prover looks for hints to apply to it and finds
(wrapper-challenge clause nil)That is evaluated and produces a hint exactly as though we had typed:
("Goal'" )and the new hints argument:
:hints ((wrapper-challenge clause nil)).But if you supply the hint
("Goal'" ), ACL2 will signal an error
because it does not allow you to specify an empty hint!
So the definition of
wrapper-challenge above is almost correct
but fatally flawed. We need a non-empty ``no-op'' hint. One such
hint is to tell the system to expand a term that will always be expanded
anyway. So undo
wrapper-challenge, redefine it, and try
the proof again. Now remember the observation about
clause that
we asked you to ``store'' above. The new definition of
illustrates what we meant. Note that the first formal parameter of
wrapper-challenge, below, is no longer named
clause but is called
cl instead. But the ``call'' of
wrapper-challenge in the
replacements is on
clause. This may seem to violate the rule that
a function definition cannot use variables other than the formals.
But the occurrences of
clause below are not variables but constants
in an object that will eventually be treated as hint term.
:ubt wrapper-challenge
(defun wrapper-challenge (cl parity) (if parity `(:computed-hint-replacement ((wrapper-challenge clause nil)) :use (:instance wrapper-axiom (x ,(car cl)))) `(:computed-hint-replacement ((wrapper-challenge clause t)) :expand ((atom zzz)))))
(thm (equal u v) :hints ((wrapper-challenge clause t)))
This time, things go as you might have expected!
Goal' is produced
and simplified, to
Goal'' (implies (wrapper nil) (equal u v)).Simplification gets a chance because when the new hint
(wrapper-challenge clause nil) is fired it does not change the
goal. But it does change the parity in the hints argument so that
Goal'' is simplified again, the hint fires and adds the
Goal''' (IMPLIES (AND (WRAPPER (NOT (WRAPPER NIL))) (WRAPPER NIL)) (EQUAL U V)).This simplifies, replacing the first
(NOT (WRAPPER NIL)) by
(WRAPPER NIL) is known to be true here. Thus the goal
simplifies to
Goal'4' (IMPLIES (WRAPPER NIL) (EQUAL U V)).The process repeats indefinitely.
So we succeeded in getting a hint to fire indefinitely but allow a
full simplification between rounds.


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Ten Fundamental Steps for Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations
Although the scope of each investigation will vary depending upon the allegations and number of parties involved, there are 10 fundamental actions every employer conducting a workplace investigation must take to ensure that it has conducted an effective investigation that not only complies with statutory requirements, but also that may be used defensively as a shield in litigation:
1. Identify all key allegations and relevant witnesses. After receiving the complaint, it is critical to prepare an agenda or outline for interviewing witnesses and, then, right away set up times to interview all relevant witnesses. In workplace investigations, it is too easy to overlook central issues and/or witnesses if interviews are conducted without careful focus.
2. Develop an "opening statement" when talking to employees and managers. Because many employees will be nervous and apprehensive in participating in workplace investigations, it is critical to lessen these fears in order to ensure a cooperative and truthful witness. At a minimum, an "opening statement" should:
• Disclose the nature of (or reason for) the interview;
• Inform either the employee or manager why he or she specifically is being interviewed;
• Remind the employee of the company's anti-retaliation policy;
• Encourage candid, frank discussion; and
• Remind employees that no conclusions will be reached until facts have been gathered
3. Listen carefully to the interviewee. Although it is important to focus on the central allegations and claims triggering the investigation, it is equally important to explore issues that come to light in the investigation, particularly if they appear to relate to the allegations or claims you are exploring.
4. Document, Document, Document. Take clear, concise notes at each interview to ensure an accurate record of the conversation and issues discussed.
5. Remain neutral. Nothing stops an investigation quicker or prevents candid disclosure than the perception of impartiality. It is critical that employers remain objective and neutral in talking with parties regardless of the particular interviewee's employment record or history.
6. Ask for specific examples when discussing the complainant's allegations. Do not accept the complainant's allegations at face value but, rather, ask them questions designed to elicit specific examples that you can explore with other witnesses.
7. Analyze the facts and reach a conclusion. Once you have concluded the investigation, you should review the information gathered shortly thereafter and, then, assess the validity of the complaining party's allegations and consult with legal counsel in determining whether the facts uncovered violate any laws.
8. Report back to the complaining party. At the conclusion of each investigation, it is critical that the complaining party be informed that:
• His or her allegations were/were not substantiated; and
• Corrective action was or will be taken (to the extent any violations were found)
9. Take appropriate corrective action, if necessary. The range of discipline could include any of the following:
a. Written warning
b. Suspension
c. Demotion
d. Placement on a performance improvement plan/corrective action plan
e. Termination
10. Consider other "lessons learned." Employers should revise or re-consider any problematic policies or practices exposed by the investigation, particularly if these issues seem to be recurring.
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Node.js solutions company StrongLoop is now providing replication and offline synchronization in its LoopBack API framework. Loopback is an open source API framework written in Node.js used to connect devices to enterprise data sources. This new functionality is available for Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and any LoopBack connector, which supports create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations.
StrongLoop software application development evangelists remind us that the ability to work offline has emerged as a requirement for almost all enterprise mobile applications that are data-driven.
According to the development team, "Up until now, developers first had to figure out how to locally store a subset of the application's data. Second, they had to implement a mechanism that could keep the data synchronized on both the client and server. The previous generation of synchronization and replication technologies that tried to address these challenges were low level and inflexible, with little variety of data sources they supported. Fine grained controls on the behavior for common use cases like change detection and conflict resolution were also lacking."
So what has StrongLoop done? Essentially, the company announced that it has developed data synchronization and replication capabilities within the LoopBack API framework that are isomorphic in design.
Dictionary.com defines isomorphic as: a one-to-one correspondence between the elements of two or more sets, such as those of Arabic and Roman numerals, and between the sums or products of the elements of one of these ets and those of the equivalent elements of the other set or sets.
This means, if StrongLoop has it right, that for the first time developers can synchronize to and from various databases without requiring constant network connectivity. LoopBack's replication also handles the complexity of moving data between devices, device to server, and server to server. This means developers can focus on the front end versus the mechanics of how to replicate data between disparate databases, like Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL, whether they be in cloud or in the datacenter.
"Our customers have been telling us that one of the biggest technical challenges they face is exposing APIs to connect to legacy data sources and giving developers an easy way to deliver offline sync in their apps," said Issac Roth, StrongLoop CEO. "With replication and offline sync now baked into the LoopBack API framework, developers get both benefits from the same toolset."


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Major Section: EVENTS
Note: This is an event! It does not print the usual event summary
but nevertheless changes the ACL2 logical world and is so
recorded. Moreover, its effect is to set the
acl2-defaults-table, and
hence its effect is
local to the book or
encapsulate form
containing it; see acl2-defaults-table.
This event sets the default
backchain-limit used when a new
rewrite or
linear rule is admitted. It must be
nil or a
non-negative integer. (See backchain-limit for details.)
:set-default-backchain-limit nil ; do not impose additional limits :set-default-backchain-limit 0 ; allow only type-reasoning for ; relieving hypotheses :set-default-backchain-limit 500 ; allow backchaining to a depth of ; no more than 500
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In addition to traditional weight loss programs, there are now an astounding number of online weight loss programs. But, do they really work? And how do they compare to traditional weight loss services?
The Appeal of Online Dieting
Online weight loss programs are convenient—easily accessible at any time from the comfort of your home. The Internet also offers anonymity. Many adults would prefer to lose weight without having to participate in a structured face-to-face program. Finally, many online programs offer tools that allow you to track your progress, such as an online food journal or a grocery list app for your smart phone. These tools may increase your motivation to stick with the program.
How Effective Are These Services?
The reviews of Internet-based weight loss programs have been overwhelmingly positive. They can work, and in some cases have been shown to be as effective as in-person interventions.
One study looked at the effectiveness of a behavioral weight loss program delivered 3 different ways: via the Internet, in-person, or a combination of both. After half a year, the in-person group had the highest percentage of people reaching a 7% weight loss (56.3%) compared with the Internet and combination groups (37.3% and 44.4% respectively). However, the percentage of participants reaching a 5% weight loss did not differ among the 3 groups. The researchers concluded that Internet-based interventions are an effective alternative to in-person treatment and that adding occasional in-person counseling sessions may not significantly improve outcomes.
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Since the onset of these programs in the late 1990s, several studies have looked at the effectiveness of different types of Internet-based weight loss services at promoting weight loss. One study compared the use of an online behavior therapy weight loss program with the use of a weight loss education website. The participants in the behavior therapy group received 24 weekly behavioral lessons via email and had access to an online bulletin board. Every week they also emailed self-monitoring diaries, and received individualized feedback in return. The results showed that participants in the behavior therapy group lost more weight than those simply provided with access to weight loss information on the Web. This study shows that online Internet courses can provide a viable method for delivering weight loss behavior therapy.
A later study, by the same group of researchers, compared a basic Internet weight loss program with one that also offered behavioral counseling via email. Participants in the e-counseling group submitted calorie and exercise information via email and received weekly email behavioral counseling and feedback from a counselor. This study found that participants in the behavioral e-counseling group lost more weight on average than the basic Internet group.
Weight Maintenance
More research is needed to determine the long-term weight loss maintenance among Internet-based programs. However, so far most of the research suggests that Internet-based weight loss services can help with weight maintenance. In one study, 255 overweight and obese men took part in a 6-month behavioral weight control program conducted over the Internet. After this program, participants were placed into one of 3 groups (frequent in-person support, minimal in-person support, or Internet support) as part of a 12-month weight maintenance phase. The participants assigned to the Internet-based weight maintenance program lost about the same amount of weight over 18 months as those who met with counselors. This study suggests that the Internet is also a viable method for promoting weight maintenance.
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- Advertise quick weight loss. It should be a steady loss of no more than 2 pounds a week.
- Promote fad or very restrictive diets.
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- Before making a final decision, talk to your doctor. Ask if you have any dietary restrictions due to your health. This is something that an Internet-based service will likely not be able to offer.
Is Online Dieting For You?
Much of the popularity of these services rests with the privacy and convenience that they offer compared with traditional weight loss programs. If you are a regular Internet user, you may find that an online program suits you better than seeking weight loss guidance from a self-help book or traditional program. Whether you choose an online or traditional weight loss program, in the end, it is still up to you to make the weight loss happen.
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Major Section: BDD
Attempts to use BDDs (see bdd), using
bdd hints,
can fail for various reasons. Sometimes it is useful to explore
such failures. To do so, one may simply execute the form
(show-bdd)inside the ACL2 loop. The system's response is generally self-explanatory. Perhaps you have already seen
show-bdd used in
some examples (see bdd-introduction and see if*). Here we
give some details about
(Show-bdd) prints the goal to which the BDD procedure was applied
and reports the number of nodes created during the BDD
computation, followed by additional information depending on whether
or not the computation ran to completion or aborted (for reasons
explained elsewhere; see bdd-algorithm). If the computation
did abort, a backtrace is printed that should be useful in
understanding where the problem lies. Otherwise,
prints out ``falsifying constraints.'' This list of pairs
associates terms with values and suggests how to construct a
binding list for the variables in the conjecture that will falsify
the conjecture. It also prints out the term that is the result
of simplifying the input term. In each of these cases, parts
of the object may be hidden during printing, in order to avoid
creating reams of uninteresting output. If so, the user will be
queried about whether he wishes to see the entire object (alist or
term), which may be quite large. The following responses are
w-- Walk around the object with a structure editor
t-- Print the object in full
nil-- Do not print any more of the object
Show-bdd actually has four optional arguments, probably rarely
used. The general form is
(show-bdd goal-name goal-ans falsifying-ans term-ans)where
goal-name is the name of the goal on which the
hint was used (or,
nil if the system should find such a goal),
goal-ans is the answer to be used in place of the query for
whether to print the input goal in full,
falsifying-ans is the
answer to be used in place of the query for whether to print the
falsifying constraints in full, and
term-ans is the answer to be
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When I first started writing Holy Cow! almost 20 months ago, I was thinking of it as a recipe log for myself. I was always creating dishes and even if I loved something, I'd soon enough forget how I'd made it. Sometimes friends with whom I'd shared a recipe at some time or the other would serve it to me down the road and I'd go incredulously, "That's my recipe? Really? Can I have it please?"
Finally, tired of my own forgetfulness, I decided to start this, a food blog, where I could log all of my recipes as I created them. Because my blog began not long after I had become a vegan, it also turned into a diary of my views on animal rights and the world in general. I wasn't sure anyone else would be interested in what I wrote, but it was an extraordinarily liberating feeling to write anything I wanted to and put it out there for anyone who cared to see. Not least because as a journalist, I've always had an editor, often ones who don't know what they're doing, telling me what's acceptable and what's not. But here I can say anything I please without worrying about pleasing anyone.But what I came to love even more over time was that there are people out there who were interested in what I wrote, and in my recipes. Folks who shared my views on a kinder, gentler world where every living creature can co-exist. Although I haven't met most of you in person, I can honestly say I am more comfortable chatting with you than I sometimes am with people I've known for a long time.
So in appreciation of the joy you bring to me, I wanted to share with you this– one of my most prized recipes ever and one I am prouder of than almost anything else I've ever created. My Mango Cheesecake.I've always been a cheesecake fan, and the availability of vegan cream cheese and sour cream like the Tofutti brand(I even find it in my local Giant supermarket) makes it really, really easy to have my vegan cheesecake and eat it too.I use mango pulp that I buy in cans online or at the Indian grocery store. If you live in an urban area, you are almost certain to have an Indian grocery store somewhere near you where you can find mango pulp. It's important to use this because the sweetness and flavor of the Indian mango is vastly different from the flavor of the mangoes you find here in the United States and it makes all the difference.I use only one spice in this cheesecake and it is a perfect match for mango: cardamom. Mango and cardamom are, like rosemary and potatoes or basil and tomatoes, a match made in tastebud heaven. Together, they take this cheesecake from simply delicious to absolutely sublime.You can leave out the vegan sour cream topping, but I think it adds that final wow! to an already amazing cake.I made this cheesecake for friends who came over for dinner this past weekend and didn't have a chance to take a picture before we cut in, so I don't have any pictures of the full cake.
Desi, who's quite likely my worst critic when it comes to my cooking, is not a cheesecake fan despite his sweet tooth. But even he can't have enough of this cheesecake, and says it's the best he's ever tasted.
Good enough for me!
Mango Cheesecake, Vegan
- For the nut crust:
- 2 cups walnuts (can use pecans)
- 2 tbsp vegan "butter" like Earth Balance
- 2 tbsp canola or other vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp sugar
- A pinch of salt
- For the mango filling:
- 16 ounces vegan "cream cheese" (I used Tofutti's Better-than-cream-cheese)
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cardamom powder
- 12 ounces of silken firm tofu
- 3 tsp egg replacer powder
- 1 cup canned mango puree (I used the Kesar brand)
- For the topping:
- 1 cup vegan sour cream (again, I used Tofutti)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- Make the crust:
- In a food processor, process the nuts until they resemble crumbs. Add the "butter", oil, sugar and salt and process briefly until the mixture comes together.
- Pat the crust into the bottom of a 9- or 10-inch springform pan.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake the crust for 10 minutes until it starts to brown and becomes quite firm. Set aside to cool completely. It will be soft to the touch when you pull it out of the oven but will firm up as it cools.
- Make the mango filling:
- In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the sugar and cardamom and beat until everything's well-blended.
- Whip the tofu and egg replacer in a food processor or blender.
- Add the tofu to the cream cheese in three portions, beating well after each addition.
- Add the mango puree and mix everything well.
- Pour the filling into the crust.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place a loaf pan or any other pan filled with water in the oven.
- Slide the springform pan on a baking sheet and place in the oven.
- Bake the cheesecake for 30 minutes.
- Turn the heat down to 325 degrees F and continue baking for another 30 minutes.
- When the cheesecake is done, the sides will be set and puffy but the center will still jiggle when tapped.
- Make the topping:
- Whip the topping ingredients together until just blended.
- Pour on the cheesecake as soon as it comes out of the oven, and tilt the pan slightly to make sure it coats the top of the cake evenly.
- Place the cheesecake back in the oven and bake another 15 minutes.
- Remove the cheesecake to a rack and cool completely. Unmold by running a knife around the edge, and then release the springform top.
- Chill the cheesecake thoroughly before serving.


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Heirlooms are one of those things that I just really love about WoW. I love to collect them, I love to enchant them, and I love to blog about them. As I do my bi-weekly check on my blog stats, I see that I'm not alone in this either.
This week during my slow moments at work, I've been looking at other blogs and sites since the brace I'm wearing for my carpal tunnel makes writing my own blog posts (like this one) rather irritating and inconvenient to write (not to mention painful). So you're getting a one-handed blog post today.
What is Best-in-Slot
Best-in-Slot (or BiS) refers to individual pieces of gear which are the "best" in their respective slots. The weapon that deals the most damage combined with the best stats for your class would be the BiS weapon for example. BiS is typically used to describe items used at the level cap, though it doesn't have to be the game's level cap, it can be an activity's level cap. For instance, a level 19 twink will use BiS gear for the level cap of 19, a level 60 PvE raiding twink would use the best gear available to level 60 toons, a raider would use level 85 gear, and so on.
Most of your equipment slots are armor pieces, so BiS most often refers to the best grouping of stats, taking into account gem slots and available enchants as well. The BiS weapons are usually a bit harder to decide on, depending on your class, since you'll have to balance both the damage that it deals and the stats, gems and enchants that it has to offer.
Best-in-Slot While Leveling (PvE)
Heirlooms tend to shine most in PvE because your level changes so much which constantly increases the stats on your heirlooms. Because heirloom stats are determined by your level, it's possible to find an item that is an upgrade now, that in a level or two will once again be less powerful than the heirloom. This effect is what makes heirlooms especially strong while you're leveling, even if you do happen to stumble onto an upgrade, you'll be ready to re-replace it within a few levels.
For some item slots (especially trinkets, shoulders, helms and cloaks), the heirlooms tend to be BiS basically from the moment you equip them to the moment you reach their maximum level (which is level 80 for all but the helms and cloaks right now). Trinkets can be a little hard to blanket like that since sometimes you'll find trinkets with a great on-use ability which can make them better for the duration of their buffs, but you'll have to decide with those whether you want a big buff every now and then or a steady buff all the time. For leveling, I tend to skip the on-use trinkets because they're so unnecessary that I rarely bother using their effects.
The strength of heirloom weapons are the ones that change the most while you're leveling. For most casters that's not too big of an issue because of what I mentioned before with heirlooms typically overpowering an upgrade within a few levels. For melee DPS though, your performance is tied directly to your weapon. In PvE you don't always see that difference, and in fact you will often find that people wearing full heirlooms doing higher DPS than those without them when you queue for a random dungeon. The question here isn't whether or not you can perform well with heirlooms, it's whether or not you could perform better without them. When it comes to weapons in particular, heirlooms aren't always the right answer.
Best-in-Slot While Leveling (PvP)
As I mentioned in the PvE section above, for the majority of your armor slots heirlooms do tend to be BiS.
With PvP though, weapons become much more chaotic in shifting back and forth between being BiS or not, and in some cases the heirloom isn't just number 2 or 3 on the list – sometimes they're not even in the top 10. Again, you'll find this more commonly an issue for non-casters, mostly because of the shifting nature of heirlooms, but also because non-casters value items for more than just their stats. Non-casters have to look at a weapon's minimum/maximum damage, average DPS, attack speed and stats in order to determine if one weapon is better than another.
In the 19 bracket heirloom weapons are truly exceptional and very powerful. The main reason for that is the weapon damage. Very few non-heirloom weapons can match the raw DPS output of heirlooms at low level. I'm not sure if that's an oversight by Blizzard, or if that's part of their enticement to get you to purchase heirlooms. Whatever the reason may be, you can generally count on heirlooms to be more powerful the lower your level actually is, where the higher you get the less appealing they become if you're seriously looking for BiS gear.
You also have to consider, especially once you pass the 29 bracket, that secondary stats become more important, and turning down a weapon that has a lower +Strength value isn't always a great idea when it offers more than enough secondary stats to make up for it.
If you do decide to twink then it's a good idea to find out what the value of all of those attributes is so that you don't miss out on an upgrade simply because it wasn't obvious. By locking your experience at a single level it's also easier to judge whether the heirloom is the BiS or not because it's not going to change it's power from that point until you turn your experience back on.
Where does Heirloom Armor Stand
For the most part, heirloom armor pieces remain BiS during the leveling process. There are a few exceptions to that though. Remember that BiS has to have some form of level cap in order to actually apply. For the most part I'm considering the levels ending with a 9 as the cap for each level range, looking at blocks of 10 (10-19, 20-29, etc).
Ring The heirloom ring, the only one that's actually in the game at this point, is really pretty weak. The main benefit that it provides for leveling is the experience bonus. Otherwise it's just too watered down with low values of various stats to really make it stand out. It's not a bad ring to use, but there are plenty of other, better options.
Chest Chest pieces start to flounder back and forth when you get to your mid-to-high 30's for most classes. That's when you start finding upgrades here and there, most of which come from quest rewards in the newly redone zones and when you start pushing into Outlands content. This is one of those slots that can change frequently, though, so looking at any given level could show it as BiS or not, it all comes down to your character level with this one.
Helm If you're an engineer then you'll have upgrades for your helm from the time you get to your upper-50's and beyond. Engineering helms get a big boost in power once you get to Outland levels and the heirloom helms just can't keep up. Granted, you will miss out on the experience bonus from them, so if you're using them for that then you'll probably want to skip the goggles, but if you're looking for BiS then Engineering is the answer you're looking for.
The big kicker on heirloom armor comes at levels 60 and 70 in the form of PvP gear. The same applies to level 80, but at that point you're better off saving the honor that you would use to purchase the level 80 upgrades and spending it instead on the level 85 PvP gear. The PvP gear takes a jump in power versus a lot of other gear because during it's golden age it was the best you could get. That jump in power also exists when you reach levels 58, 68, and 77 when items from sequential expansions become available for use because a similar power boost exists with each expansion as they make you stronger to face the harder content.
Where do Heirloom Weapons Stand
As I said above, non-casters are the most impacted by the stats that are one a weapon, because the attribute bonuses aren't the only thing they have to look at. Hunters and spell casters might treat their melee weapons as "stat sticks", but the melee classes/specs have to look at the entire package from stats to damage values and attack speed.
Of all the melee classes, Rogues and Shamans are the most impacted by this because they value stats that the other specs do not because their attack stat is based on Agility. However, they still benefit from Strength for it's Attack Power as well, where Strength-based melee classes put very little, if any, value on Agility.
For example, if we look at the Rogue: the Venerable Dal'Rend's Sacred Charge (Combat spec) and Balanced Heartseeker (Assassin/Sub specs) are the best heirloom main hand weapons. The Sacred Charge is only the BiS weapon for a Rogue until level 19, though, and it doesn't catch up to other weapons available to the Rogue until you get to Northrend at 68 where it's still not #1 but at least it's back in the top 3. The Heartseeker on the other hand, is not the actual BiS main hand dagger for a Rogue from level 11 on, and it never really gets close to being BiS again.
Switching over to their off-hand, the Sharpened Scarlet Kris stays pretty close to BiS until the mid-30's and then falls quite a bit behind until you get to Outland at 58, and stays pretty close to the top until level 70 where PvP gear takes charge and it falls further and further behind.
Rogues are better off sticking to PvP weapons which can be purchases at levels 28, 38, 48, and 58 from the Warsong Gulch vendor. While they aren't always BiS, they are better than the heirlooms from that point on, at least for their level.
Shamans are similar to Rogues in which weapon stats they value, but unfortunately Blizzard wasn't thinking about low level Shamans being able to dual wield when they stocked the Warsong vendors, so the good weapons are swords which they can't use and daggers which are too fast to be of real value. For that reason, the Shaman gets much more use out of the heirlooms than the Rogue does until Outlands quest rewards and level 60 PvP gear become available.
Warriors, Paladins and Death Knights who use two-handed weapons actually do get to use their heirlooms for quite a while. They do fall out of the top slot once Outlands and level 60 PvP gear becomes available, but the two-handed Strength heirlooms remain near the top better than most other classes.
Warriors, Paladins and Death Knights who use one-handed weapons will similarly find the Warsong PvP weapons better than the Bloodsoaked Skullforge Reaver from 28+ save for the five or so levels before each new version of the PvP weapons become available to put it back in its place. Once Outlands gear and level 60 PvP gear becomes available, the contest is over and this heirloom is put to rest as far as the title of BiS is concerned.
Hunters are a bit better off than Rogues and Shamans, even though they're an Agility-based class as well, because Hunters get no real benefit from Strength where the other two do. For ranged weapons the Charmed Ancient Bone Bow heirloom manages to maintain its power until level 60 PvP gear shows up. While you can find other ranged weapons from quest rewards or dungeon drops that deal higher base damage, low level ranged weapons are notorious for having almost no stat modifiers on them at all, so the heirloom bow keeps pulling ahead.
Spell casters will find the heirloom staff blows the competition away at almost any level. The Dignified Headmaster's Charge is just that good. Its combination of both Intellect and Spellpower put it head and shoulders above almost all other weapons throughout the leveling process. It's only real competition in most cases is the heirloom caster mace paired with Inscription-crafted off-hand items or shields. As with every rule, there's always an exception – there will be some items that are BiS at some levels, knocking even this bad boy aside for a short while, but none of those lasts long until you reach Cataclysm-level items.
Are Heirlooms Worth It?
This is a bit of a vague question with a lot of wiggle room since there are so many different classes, specs and stat priorities. There are a lot of reasons why you might purchase and use heirlooms, and those reasons play a part in the answer to this question as well.
If you're looking to get rid of the hassle of worrying about upgrades, then heirlooms are fantastic because of their scaling design. They might not be the best items you can get, but they're always good and perfectly acceptable.
If you want to get as much bonus experience as you can because you don't like leveling or because you love to level and the faster the better, then the heirloom armor is a great investment.
If you want to twink your character, then it's time to take a very close look at the items available to you. In general, you can count on the armor pieces being strong options if not necessarily the best. As for weapons, that's really going to depend on your class, but melee DPS can usually assume that the heirloom weapons aren't the best choice.
The short and sweet of it is, heirlooms are a wonderful addition to the game that provide a number of benefits. They do have some drawbacks as well, both direct (allowing only low level enchants) and indirect (enabling people who feel like being dicks). How valuable they are or aren't depends entirely on how you personally assign value to them.
Purchasing Heirlooms
If you don't already have a collection of heirlooms laying around, then here's some of the best advice I can give you concerning heirloom purchases –
- Start with armor pieces (Back, Helm, Shoulder, Trinket, Chest)
- Move on to weapons after armor (Caster > Ranged > Melee)
- PvP = cheap upgrades
- Expansion = Explosion
Armor pieces hold their value better and longer than most of the weapons, so if you don't already have your collection, that's the place to start. I listed them off in order of their longevity according to the bit of research I did.
If you're only looking to get heirlooms for a single character, then you can of course grab a weapon at any point in the purchasing of them. If you want to buy full sets though, start with the armor sets first and then move on to the weapons. The one exception to that "rule" is if you don't like PvP and you're doing a melee class. While there are a lot of melee upgrades better than heirlooms, weapons are so crucial to your performance that you might want to get the weapons first regardless. Casters can make great use of the heirloom staff, but casters are also by design quite powerful even without them.
Low level PvP weapons from the Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin vendors can make for some really good upgrades if you don't have heirloom weapons. So if you find yourself using a weapon that's 15 levels lower than your character level, and you don't mind doing a few battlegrounds, then you might want to take a trip over there to see if you can get yourself a new weapon. Armor upgrades exist at these vendors as well, though they don't have items for every slot early on. Once you get to levels 60 and 70 then you can get full suits of PvP armor as well as weapons that will often be some of the best gear you can get your hands on for the next several levels.
Each time you reach a level that opens up a new expansion's content or gear (58 for Burning Crusade, 68 for Wrath, 77 for Cataclysm), there are going to be upgrades available that far surpass the other gear you've had access to up to that point. Since expansions offer content that's more powerful than the high level stuff from the previous expansion, the gear upgrades spike so that you can handle that new, more powerful content. These upgrades might only surpass your heirlooms for a few levels, but often times they are actually better than the heirlooms themselves and you might want to decide whether you'd like a small experience boost from your heirloom armor or if you would rather go with the more powerful gear. Decisions like this are more likely to happen near Wrath-level content, but in some cases (like the daggers I mentioned for the Rogue) it can be permanent pretty early on.
What Can We Take Away From This, Psyn?
The reason I wanted to write this was because I started to notice a trend in certain items as I was looking for upgrades for the healers I'm leveling. Something caught my interest there so I looked at some other classes which then prompted me to look at others, so I decided to share my results here.
This blog isn't aimed at just new players or veteran players. I'm here to help people level their toons no matter what stage of experience the players themselves might be at. Since heirlooms are very closely associated with leveling, I like to focus on them a bit from time to time as well, and part of helping as far as heirlooms are concerned is purchasing them.
A lot of people have been debating lately (again?) the value of heirlooms and whether or not in today's world they're too good. Some of those arguments are from a power standpoint, that having them makes you too powerful. Other arguments say they make you level too fast in an expansion that's already been slimmed down and really designed to help you level quickly on its own, making the combination of the two force you to level so ridiculously fast that you can't even enjoy the content.
The question of them being too powerful is one of perspective. A lot of people enchant their heirlooms which makes them even more powerful than normal, so they really do seem like they're almost "too powerful". The reality of it is, most of them aren't all that much more powerful than other items the game has to offer at that very same level, especially if you were to enchant those items as well.
The question of leveling speed is certainly a valid one, but it's a matter of personal preference as well. If you don't want to level quickly, then skipping the armor is the best thing you can do for yourself. You don't need to feel like you're missing out on more powerful gear though. The truth of it is, yeah you would be missing out on some powerful gear, but that doesn't mean you can't get by just fine without them. If you feel obligated to use heirlooms because you spent the badges/points/whatever to buy them, then just consider all the different tiers of gear that you've purchased over the years as well. Do you still feel obligated to quest in your ICC gear just because you spent points on it? Do you still run Cataclysm dungeons in your old Naxx 60 gear? Upgrades happen, they're part of the game. Pieces get replaced and become obsolete, all you can do is grab the new shinies and move on.


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I'm sitting here recalling my conversation last night with an old friend about our many hikes in Washington State's wilderness areas and national forests--set aside by legislation for their environmental value, including for hikers like us. My location in eco-critical thought and work is surely influenced by my decades of experiences as a city boy backpacking in those Washington wilds. "Let 'em be," I say, for the critters, the trees, the hikers, and the tourists. Does this view simply fall into the trap of seeing nature as something apart from, and as best purified of, human being? "Only if one ignores the park signs, the required permits, and the maintained trails," one might quip. As I love to say to my students, "There's nothing more cultural than 'Nature,'" and yet, although our conceptions of nature, like our basic conceptions of time and space, etc., are culturally and linguistically shaped, that doesn't mean there is no nature; only that what we find is always already something we've conceived and delimited. Humans have divided, protected, exploited, named, studied, and mythologized the natural world we behold as "outside" human civilization and settlement—with "protecting" vs. "exploiting" nature being to some extent two sides of the same eco-coin—although our concoction of "nature" might be news to the deer, marmots, and bears living in Washington's North Cascades. As a way of pondering these matters more, in this my last entry in Romantic Circles' eco-blog, I'd like both to circle back to some ideas from my first blog entry and to consider a few of the many thought-provoking ideas and observations of my two fellow bloggers, Tim Morton and Ashton Nichols. Let me say what a pleasure it has been to participate in this eco-critical triumvirate, and let me extend my thanks to Ron Broglio for so kindly inviting me into the blog.
As this eco-blog's inspiring entries by Tim and Ashton amply attest, eco-criticism is doing very much what it should in thinking more deeply and broadly about the conceptions—including the economics, politics, and metaphysics—of "nature" and "preservation" as well as about notions of "green" or less green discourses. But that doesn't mean all that such eco-criticism discovers or articulates will be useful to ameliorating the current global crises of habitat preservation, climate change, limiting waste of many kinds, and so forth. New, radical conceptions like "ecology without nature," "urbanature," the "material sublime," and (much further down the long list) "outlandish dwelling" may just as easily, and may very easily, become tools for opponents of land and species preservation. "We're nature, so we can do as we like!" "Extinction IS nature." "To hell with biodiversity. Cities are nature, too, and the world's purpose is to be transformed!" Narrow-minded views, no doubt, and far afield, one may say, of the theories offered on and off this blog. But more generally, will our deconstructing of the nature/culture, animal/human opposition lead to more or to less respect for other species and their encroached-upon habitats? Perhaps seeing ourselves as animals will diminish our sense of entitled hegemony. But might it also lessen our sense of responsibility and of a (problem-fraught) feeling of stewardship? It all reminds me of non- or even anti-vegetarian acquaintances of mine who opine, like Ben Franklin, "Animals eat animals, and I'm an animal." The modus ponens logic (or carnologocentrism?) feels inescapable yet sorely limited.
"We are more like them [animals] than they are like us," Ashton holds. I'm sympathetic to that provocative view, as I also am to Elizabeth Bennett's implicit query, "What are men to rocks and mountains"? But from what vantages are such conclusions reached? Human language may ultimately derive, as Freud suspected, from animal utterances, but that doesn't mean we cross the expanse when we surmise that original fact. What does it mean for humans to be, genetically, 98% chimpanzee? Precious little, Richard Marks has argued, given our complex human culture, our language, etc. Scientists "find" such human-animal connections and analogies—common genes as well as common social or psychological "memes"— and market the species similarities to broaden the audience and attract funding. But we're not chimps, nor are we snails or amoeba, whatever the genetic commonalities. We must therefore proceed cautiously down such paths toward human/animal similarity and (human-animal) origins, even or especially when they're our "own." We're not not animals, and yet we're also not quite fully animals, either, chiefly because it is we who define "animal" and who wield such conceptual and technological power. A dose of Lacan or Derrida goes a long way here, with salutary effect.
"Beyond concept, Nature is," Tim states, only to reject this Yoda-sounding phrase as "the ultimate chastity." Yet, to some extent, is not nature (à la the material or immaterial sublime) indeed that which is beyond conceptualization, however much that "nature" is always already conceptualized? The Other is always beyond, and (or as) that which survives me. Perhaps we need, then, to devise (chart) a course between "chastity" and profligacy: between preserving only to preserve and viewing the natural world as mere material to be transformed to Geist or to dust or sublimity. Do wilderness areas repeat a phobia of intimacy, whereby one is commanded to leave no mark and to think of nature as that which is without a human trace or face? Such chastity speaks to our separation, as symptom and as ethical outcome, from the natural world and from ourselves as a species (qua resemblance?) in that world. That doesn't mean we must make the natural world make room for us. Quite the opposite. "Where are the asphalt walks and the RV hook-ups? People are animals, too!" Is this vantage an outcome of a naïve, photo-op "love" of nature rather than of a more sober, more interdependent, and more cooperative, cohabitative ecology? Ashton provocatively remarks, "The new [ecological] ethic needs to see skyscrapers, superhighways, jumbo-jets, and genetic research labs as parts of our 'new' nature, no less natural because they were crafted by members of the human species." But when all is "natural" there is no "nature," not even "urbanature"—and perhaps not even "ecology"--eh?
At this end, I remain convinced that the concept of nature, for all its concocted status and its distortions, is still useful as a way of locating and preserving what is wild (and less wild). Respect, and even eco-utility, requires a concept, a "looking back," regard. "Nature" arises from a false opposition, but that doesn't mean the opposition isn't still useful or that, within our oppositional thinking, it has no validity as a domain where thought meets its limits (sublime or otherwise) and where the human finds itself challenged. Better, perhaps, to employ an oppositional term one knows to be a metaphor and to entail effects and risks, than to supplant it with a newer and truer one? Here I find myself more a Wordsworthian than a Blakean (Blake never hiked), although I'd also point out that Blake sees the imprint of the animal on the human, not just the human on or within the animal. And who's to say that that radical idealist wouldn't hold up a sign calling to clean up the Thames or to preserve a wilderness, even-, or because, he knew that place to be one humanly conceived and abused? As Tim declares, "Ecology may be without nature. But it is not without us." True enough, with or without a "nature" beyond our ecological conceiving and dreams.
Thanks again Tim, Ashton, and Ron.