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Lee Joon Ki's agency denies dating rumors with Joseon Gunman costar Jun Hye Bin
Lee Joon Ki is the latest actor caught up in dating rumors, with Korean entertainment news sites claiming that he is in a relationship with his Joseon Gunman costar Jun Hye Bin. Namoo Actors, the agency that represents both Lee Joon Ki and Jun Hye Bin, was quick to squash the rumors with an official statement.
Lee Joon Ki and Jun Hye Bin first met on the set of last year's Joseon Gunman, where she played the second female lead in love with Joon Ki's character. Then the two reportedly became close while working out at the same fitness center and spending some time hanging out together.
Namoo Actors denied the rumors unequivocally, stating, "They are only friends; they are not in a dating relationship. Also it's not just the two are close, they're close with everyone from their past drama."
On the one hand, that's a pretty direct denial. On the other hand, Lee Joon Ki is known as a private guy, and he once said this in a 2013 interview: "If I want to marry someone I like, our dating must remain a secret. I do not want to date in the public eye." Even if Lee Joon Ki did find someone to date, it's unlikely he would share it with the public until he was ready for marriage.
As one of the Joseon Gunman viewers who adored Jun Hye Bin's character and secretly wanted Yoon Kang to choose Hye Won (back before she turned all evil and stuff), I wouldn't mind if the rumors were true. What's most important, though, is giving the actors the freedom to date whomever they want without netizens getting in the way. Whether they're dating or not, let's hope they both find happiness!
Lee Joon Ki just returned to filming his upcoming vampire sageuk Scholar Who Walks the Night after breaking his nose on set and undergoing surgery. The series is set to air in July following the conclusion of Jeju Island Gatsby. Due to licensing restrictions, it will air on DramaFever with a two-week delay. You can sign up for new episode alerts HERE!
To see the onscreen chemistry between Lee Joon Ki and Jun Hye Bin, watch them together in Joseon Gunman:


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New Book Claims MLB Gave A-Rod Permission to Use PEDs in 2007 and 2008
Well, the story of MLB's crusade to rid baseball of Alex Rodriguez—er, steroids—just got a lot more complicated. In a new book called Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era, authors Tim Elfrink (the journalist who broke the Biogenesis story) and Gus Garcia Roberts claim that in 2007, Alex Rodriguez applied for and was granted a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to use steroids to treat a testosterone deficiency known as hypogonadism.
In other words, A-Rod said he had a medical condition that left him with too little testosterone. So he asked MLB for permission to take artificial testosterone, and the independent physician appointed by MLB and the MLBPA to decide such matters approved it. Then A-Roid went and hit .314/.422/.645 with 54 home runs, 156 runs batted in, and 143 runs scored, winning the 2007 AL MVP Award in a landslide.
But wait, there's more. In 2008 A-Rod applied for an exemption to use clomiphene, an estrogen blocker usually used to treat infertility in women, and human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone used to increase production of testosterone. Both substances were banned at the time, but the independent physician denied the HCG request while approving the clomiphene use.
So what does all this mean? It doesn't mean that A-Rod isn't a cheater. But it does mean that MLB let him get away with cheating.
You see, typically young healthy men don't have testosterone deficiencies, and if they do the most common cause is previous use of steroids. We already know that A-Rod used steroids in 2003 because he tested positive, and there are people out there who say he's used since high school. So it seems as though A-Rod used the side effects of his previous PED use to get a therapeutic use exemption to excuse his future PED use. And MLB was apparently so clueless as to allow it—which may be why they were particularly pissed when A-Rod's name turned up again in the Biogenesis documents, ultimately deciding to suspend him for the entire 2014 MLB season.
Want to read more? Well you can find a lengthy excerpt of the book over as SI.com. Or, you could always just buy the book. It's on sale now.

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iPhone 5 Launch To Heat Up Carrier Battles
The impending launch of the iPhone 5 should create a new battle amongst the U.S. top three wireless carriers. With Sprint entering the arena, one would suspect that sales at AT&T and Verizon Wireless would suffer, but not so fast my friends. According to AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson, they expect the iPhone 5 to do "very well". Adding that, "Anytime there's another competitor launching Apple's hit device, the expectations for what would happen to the carrier that had it before is overblown. The competitive dynamic will be no different than last time."
Too confident? I don't think so. If users were going to leave AT&T for a better option, they would be at Verizon Wireless. Maybe this version of the iPhone will only be a refresh for current iPhone owners on Verizon and AT&T, and a defect option for those current users with Android, Windows, and BlackBerry devices. All in all, there is a good chance that customers want leave their carrier. And that's still a lot of iPhone 5's sold.
Luckily, that won't stop the carriers from advertising why an iPhone 5 on their network is better. So expect a war of ads from all three carriers. Maybe a good deal will come out of it, and that makes it good for the consumers.


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Analyzing and Creating Circle Graphs
Lesson 18 of 23
Objective: The students will be able to analyze and create venn diagrams and circle graphs
Big Idea: The students will be learning through exploration on how to analyze and create circle graphs and Venn diagrams.
For the DO NOW problem, I'm going to have the students make a list of characteristics of previously learned graphs. For example, they can list all the elements in a line graph, bar graph, or line plot. (SMP 6) I will be using this for closure at the end when I have them create their Venn diagram. I'm looking for the following:
Line graph – shows change over time, x and y axis, labels, titles, connected lines and dots, can predict, equal intervals, scale starts at zero
Bar graph – shows popularity, x and y axis, labels, titles, separated bars, equal intervals, scale starts at zero, can see the mode
Line Plot – shows frequency, uses a number line and x's or dots, title, label, can see median and mode
Students can share their responses with a partner to ensure enough information is collected.
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My thoughts for the middle part of the lesson are to have the students answer questions about the graphs and discover the elements on their own. Then they will use this knowledge to create their own circle graph and venn diagram. So for this lesson, I'm going to reference the slide number and the questions I will ask to get the students to critically and mathematically think of the display shown. (SMP 1, 2, 5, 6)
Slide 4 – Favorite Color (Circle graph with recognizable portions or benchmarks)
- Ask the students what the circle graph is representing (Favorite color)How do you know (title)
- How many students were surveyed (100)
- What can you tell me about the sections of the graph? (1/2 is green, ¼ purple, ¼ orange) ask for other ways to say this (percentages or decimals) Add this data to the circle graph as they need this label
- So, if 100 students were surveyed, how many like green? (50) How many like orange? (25) and How many like purple? (25)
- What does the total circle represent? (100% or 1 whole)
Slide 5 – Favorite Pet(More sections and only a few benchmarks. Students will need to reason out the other sections)
- What is this circle graph representing? (Favorite Pets) How do you know (title)
- How many students were surveyed (100)
- What can you tell me about the sections of the graph (1/2 dog, ¼ cat, ¼ bird and snake) Ask for Percentages and decimal equivalents.
- If ¼ is a combination of bird and snake, can we tell how much each portion is worth? (estimate or we would need one of the numbers.)
- So if bird was 10% of the circle, could you tell me what percentage chose snakes? (15%)
- How many people chose dog? (50) How many chose cat (25) How many chose bird? (10) and How many chose snake? (15)
Slide 6 – Favorite Pizza topping (Benchmark portions, but with 200 people surveyed)
- What does this circle graph represent (Favorite pizza toppings) How do you know (title)
- How many people were surveyed (200). How does this number relate to the color graph? (double)
- What can you tell me about the sections of the graph (1/2 cheese, ¼ pepperoni, ¼ sausage)
- So if 200 people were surveyed, how many chose cheese? (100) How many chose pepperoni (50) and How many chose sausage (50)
- What do you notice about your answers compared to the color graph (data doubled)
Slide 7
- What does this circle graph represent? (Amount of sleep)
- How many people were surveyed? (60)
- What can you tell me about the sections of the graph (1/2 sleep 8 – 9 hours, ¼ sleep 10 – 11 hours, and ¼ sleep 6 -7 hours)
- So if 60 people were surveyed, how many slept 8 – 9 hours? (30). How many slept 10 – 11 hours (15) and How many slept 6 – 7 hours?(15)
- How can we know for sure our answers are correct? (add the amount and it should equal 60)
Slide 8 Venn Diagram – 4 sided figures
- What is the diagram representing (compare/contrast 4 sided figures, 2 sets of parallels and 1 set of parallels
- How many 4 sided figures have 2 sets of parallels? (5)
- How many 4 sided figures have 1 set of parallels (2)
- How many 4 sided figures can have both (1 quadrilateral)
Slide 9 – Factors of 18 and 24
- What is the diagram representing (factors of 18 and 24)
- How many factors does 18 have? (6) What are they?
- How many factors does 24 have? (8)What are they?
- How many factors do they have in common?(4)(What are they?
Slide 10 – Favorite team (cubs and sox)
- What teams could the people survey choose from (cubs, sox, or both)
- Who likes the cubs?
- Who likes the sox?
- Who can't decide?
- How many people were surveyed.
After the notes, have the students find a partner and work on the around the room or use it with white boards for a more formal assessment. The around the room is in a power point. If using for ATR, then print out a slide per page and hang around the room. If using with white boards, then use as a power point.
Students will be working in pairs to complete 12 problems involving analyzing data in a circle graph and in a Venn Diagram.
- Have students number a paper from 1 – 12 (Leaving work space for each problem)
- Remind students to stay with their partner
- Only one group/problem.
- All problems must be discussed and agreed upon before moving to another problem.
- Problems are placed around the room for the students to work on. (I like to put the problems on index cards, construction paper or tag board so that I can use them again )
Resources (4)
The students will be using data to create their own circle graph and venn diagram. Collect this from them to show evidence of student learning.
Create your own circle graph with the following data. Out of 100 people surveyed when asked what their favorite season was…
25 chose winter
25 chose fall
50 chose summer
Create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting line graphs, line (dot) plots, or bar graphs. Choose any two. Use the information from the DO NOW.


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All I can say is that there is no real reason whatsoever to believe in the biblical stories like the flood or moses parting the red sea. In fact there is hard evidence to the contrary. That is why we shouldn´t see these tales as history, but as stories that are supposed to guide us.
Originally posted by micmerci
Not to get too far off course here but:
1. there is geological evidence of a deluge about 4000-5000 years ago
2. there are reports of chariot parts discovered at the bottom of the Red Sea (Even left-wing puppet site Snopes says "undetermined" instead of false.
3. archeological finds at site believed to be Sodom - salt pillars, brimstone embedded in rock
But these are all for another thread(s). Suffice it to say, not everything is an open and close case as your statements seem to indicate.edit on 18-4-2013 by micmerci because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by wildtimes
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We as humans have been given some authority over them but thats not without a responsibility towards their wellbeing. Especially not to hurt them unnecessarily or kill them for 'fun.'
we should show mercy to every living being if we want mercy from the All-Merciful God.
(That's a hybrid of absolutely and positively)....
I believe we are the stewards of this planet - and should treat it with the respect, nurturing and care that it deserves.
Exploitation is wrong, and cruel. Whether it's puncturing or fracturing the Earth's surface, pouring filth into her seas, allowing oil spills to contaminate her, or forcing the extinction of other species with no regard for them, or wiping out entire forests and jungles - it's all WRONG.
Without the Earth in healthy shape, we are DOOMED. It's our JOB to make sure she survives.
And when your Lord said to the
angels, I am going to place in the earth
a khalif, they said: What! wilt Thou
place in it such as shall make mischief
in it and shed blood, and we celebrate
Thy praise and extol Thy holiness? He said: Surely I know what you do not
Definition for khalif: Web definitions:
1. caliph: the civil and religious leader
of a Muslim state considered to be a
representative of Allah on earth;
I hope that I can return the favour someday. And if you´re ever in southern germany shoot me a pm
Afterall, many of my personal beliefs are fundamental leaning and I know how you feel about that bunch!


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Wonderful times this year in New Jersey, bringing folks the music of Laura (and some of my own tunes). Thank you all who came out to this unique concert. On the way, tomorrow to bring Spero Plays Nyro to Nighttown in Cleveland, Ohio! Can't wait and hope to get some good pics and video! Coming to House concert in Rhode Island on Nov 5 and Outpost in the Burbs in New Jersey on Feb 10th, 2017! More shows to come!
I was very fortunate to have attended, on March 26, 2016, a performance, at LIU Post – Long Island University's Hillwood Commons Recital Hall, of Spero Plays Nyro, this being the wonderful singer/pianist Christine Spero and her band performing songs by the late, much-lamented Laura Nyro, who died in 1997 at the absurdly young age of 49.
Growing up in the late 1960s on Long Island and listening to the AM radio of the day, I had two favorite songwriters, Jimmy Webb and Laura Nyro. I've been able to see Webb in performance several times and even met him in person, but never had the chance to see Ms. Nyro in concert. As consolation prizes go, Ms. Spero's Nyro show was quite a nice one and probably as close as I'll get to the original.
Spero presented a lovely mix of Nyro's better-known songs (having gotten that way courtesy of such performers as The Fifth Dimension, Blood, Sweat and Tears and Three Dog Night), lesser-known gems, the songwriter's own recordings that charted, and even an original Spero composition, Laura and John, about Nyro's admiration for John Coltrane.
These were all performed by Spero and her band with the wonderful longing, drive and soul that characterized Nyro's recordings. The performances were never straight-up, note-for-note recreations, but were in fact expansions of the songs inherent jazz, blues, gospel and R&B elements. In that sense, this was Nyro re-interpreted, something I suspect she may have appreciated.
The fine band was bassist Scott Petito, drummer Peter O'Brien and saxophonist/ percussionist Elliot Spero. They were solid throughout, and truly seemed to enjoy the stretching of the jazz elements in a number of the tunes that gave them solos, in which Elliot Spero was especially effective on both tenor and soprano sax. Being a lapsed (and not very good to begin with) bassist, I kept hoping the excellent Petito would take an extended solo, but alas. The steady and creative O'Brien has wonderful dynamic control.
My only wish for future performances of Spero Plays Nyro would be that Ms. Spero would speak more about Nyro herself, and the circumstances under which the songs were written. That aside, this is a marvelous, spirited show that brings the great Laura Nyro back to life as much as can be reasonably hoped for.
Sorry, I haven't written in awhile but once the holidays hit it's all a blur! We had such memorable times meeting so many Laura fans at shows last year. One woman, Esther, I believe said that she used to sing in the bathroom with Laura when they attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan.
It's so great to hear first hand stories. One man came up to me to tell me that he and his partner owned a record store in NYC. They received Eli and the Thirteenth Confession from Columbia when it had just come out. They promptly put it on and fell in love! They had been playing it a lot when one day, a girl with long dark hair and an older woman came in. They said are you the lady on this record and sure enough it was Laura and her mom, Gilda! I knew that Laura was an animal rights advocate, but this fellow told me that she told him that she would wear only plastic shoes!
So I'll get to more stories.
A couple reminiscences: the first time I saw Laura was in Chicago at the opera house. This was I believe 1968 or 1969. She was solo with the piano on this very large stage. Most of the girls and young women were dressed, of course, in black. There was a bit of a gasp when Laura floated out onto the stage in a gorgeous melon red dress. Heresy!? Time for a wardrobe change! At one point she, in a breathy voice, leaned into the microphone, looked out at the vast, darkened audience, and whispered " "It's all so big in here and you're all so far away". Which of course immediately shrank the room to a very intimate space. At the end she was given a dozen red roses but then burst into tears and rushed off the stage. As I look back on it and know now more about her moods I wonder whether she was in the midst of some kind of emotional turmoil that was more than just the emotions of performing. Who knows?
My other most moving memory is meeting her father at a performance of Eli's Coming at the Vineyard Theatre off Union Square (sort of West Side Story meets Nyro--great dancers). This was several years after she died. The manager of the theater said " Here's somebody you might want to meet". I was so surprised to meet Lou, such a very gentle, humble man. He talked about her with such love and affection. At one point his eyes welled up and he said "I miss her so much. And I miss her mother."
Wonderful interview with Glenn Gamboa of Newsday on April 8th, concidentally the anniversary of Laura's passing in 1997. We will be playing her beautiful music with Steve Katz of Blood, Sweat and Tears and the Blues Project as part of My Father's Place's Live Concert Series tomorrow, April 10th. Should be a moving experience with new friends and lovers of Laura's music. Thank you Laura for pouring your heart and soul out to us and leaving us with your spiritual music.
We have been playing for the most amazing crowds of Laura's fans and making new friends through her music. Thank you all for coming out and supporting our efforts and the genius of Laura Nyro. Thanks also to all of the venues who invited us to play and believe in this show. I've been hearing the greatest Laura stories from folks who knew her. I will be posting them soon.
It's been 17 years since Laura Nyro's passing and her spirit and music are still stronger than ever. I heard her first in 1969 when a friend/college djay gave me her promotional record. To have heard "Eli and the Thirteenth Confession" before most people was special and to see her live was heaven! She changed me and is one of my greatest musical influences. Our upcoming CD has a song I've written to her and want to share.
So, here's to you Laura from one of the keepers of the flame!
Happy New Year to all of our friends! We've been working on the new CD, "Spero Plays Nyro" and there have been some setbacks but it will hopefully be out in October. We're so excited for all of you to hear Laura's beautiful music again with some embellishments and twists. We've retained the integrity of her music while giving it our own kind of power.
What a great time we've had performing this fall. At the Chenango Colorscape Arts Festival both our show of original music and "Spero Plays Nyro" were welcomed by a such a warm and appreciative audience.
Oktoberfest at Hunter mountain was a blast. The crowd was so pumped up and loved our duo's renditions of all of the great pop classics. The weather was perfect and I didn't have to wear gloves! Then to top it off our show at The new Towne Crier in Beacon, NY with Steve Katz from Blood, Sweat and Tears was an incredible success. Thank you Ken, Danny and Phil for having us at your events and we look forward to doing it again.


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Expert to Expert: Meijer and Chrysanthakopoulos - Concurrency, Coordination and the CCRHi, you can try out the CCR (and DSS) for free just by downloading Microsoft Robotics Express SDK (available from www.microsoft.com/robotics).
Volume licensing will be available as well in the next month or so.
Jeffrey Richter and his AsyncEnumeratorCCR has been using almost idenctical syntax to do what Jeff is showing here for about 4 years (publicly). Jeff was even in some of our videos 3 years ago.
Various channel9 videos and PDC talk have examples...
CCR example for file read (from PDC session):
IEnumerator<ITask> CcrReadFileAsync(string file)
var result = new Port<IAsyncResult>();
using (var fs = new FileStream(file,…,FileOptions.Asynchronous))
var buf = new byte[fs.Length];
fs.BeginRead(buf, 0, buf.Length, result.Post, null);
yield return result.Receive();
var ar = (IAsyncResult)resultPort.Test();
try {
} catch { // handle exception }
Andreas Ulbrich demonstrates the Microsoft Visual Programming LanguageChadk wrote:Seems like a canned version of popfly and workflow. How does this justify that it doesnt seem to bring ALL that much new stuff to the table?
Hi, VPL 1.0 was actually released as product, last year, going beta over 14 months ago. Popfly is great and follows similar graphical model for composition although that is where the similarities end. They also target different developer segments (at least right now).
VPL produces high performance service code and is tuned towards a very specific data-flow (or data dependency scheduler) engine underneath, the CCR/DSS runtime. The underlying runtime model is a different approach to an open ended workflow engine. We are a bit more "strict" and enforce an application model (Henrik talks about our REST-based model more in a companion screen cast).
At some point things will start re-using each other, but until we all figure out what is common between all these approaches, what can run efficiently in a variety of environments, and what it means to have a common application model, its ok to have a bit of variety
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George ChrysanthakopoulosDonSch wrote:George,
I'm wondering if you could comment on the recommended use of ThreadCausalities in CCR (in my case non-DSS environment). I can see that Causalities will be transferred from the current thread to the post operation, and that they are conversely transferred from the ITask back to the executing thread, making the context available to delegates as called from Receivers, etc.
The obvious use is to provide an ExceptionPort that can take care of any unhandled exceptions that might have been thrown during events, etc. I have not really seen too many examples, nor is is clear what the appropriate patterns of use really are..
Possible example: I'm inside an iterator doing a number of yield return operations, etc, to Choices, etc. and may want that iterator to have a way to handle any unhandled exceptions during those operations, so I add a CausalityContext within that iterator.
Then perhaps one of the services that I do a yield return call to (it returning a Choice) decides that it needs a 'nested' causality, so it creates one for it's exception handling (of unhandled exceptions in the dispatcher chain).. Once that service posts back thru the Choice, it appears that the original Iterator has it's restored CausalityContext in place again.
Any insight on the appropriate usage patterns would really be appreciated. Also the intent of the CoordinationPort?
The CCR appears to be an extremely useful library for a vast number off cases and I really appreciate your time in filling in the gaps!
tnx again!
Hi Don, we actually use causalities, for exactly the same reasons you guessed Its a generalization, across threads and processors, of the nested exception handling mechanism. Much more powerfull however since it can deal with joins (two different causalities coming together in a common handler). And no, they are not transactions
Causalities are used for every single operation in the DSS runtime, our services infrastructure. They make sure that when an exception is thrown, within any logically related descendant of a Post operation, that exception can be cleanly caught and dealt with in one place.
The CoordinationPort allows anyone within a causality to post a message to the "owner" of the causlity, allowing you to implement all kinds of protocols (like N phase commit, etc)
Please post any further questions in the robotics newsgroup since thats the one we acively monitor. Soon we will have a forum in MSDN where we can talk about CCR stuff exclusively (it will be under the Robotics family of forums).
For examples, i have posted something in the past in our robotics newsgroup on this (search for Causalities, Causality)
btw we always want to know how the CCR is used and applied, especially in large scale commercial applications.
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George ChrysanthakopoulosMicrosoft Robotics Studio version 1.0 and with it the CCR library have released!
Please visit www.microsoft.com/robotics for the latest bits.
Note on the licensing: CCR, which is part of the MSRS runtime is covered by the same license as the robotics runtime. For non-commercial use (please read the license for more details) its use is free. For commercial use however there is a fee (good news is that with one MSRS license you get permission for multiple runtime instances)
For any questions please refer to the license and also feel free to post to the newsgroups.
thanks to all for all the great feedback
Microsoft Robotics StudioHi everyone, V1 is now released! Please visit www.microsoft.com/robotics for the latest bits, news.
Thank you to all for the great feedback here and the newsgroups
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George Chrysanthakopoulosdtspence wrote:George,
Thanks for the reply. Your suggestion worked great. I have another related question.
Could you explain what the runtime does with the return type of IEnumerator<ITask> a little? The runtime seemed to execute the first task, but not the others.
The C# compliler re-writes all functions that return IENumerator to look like a heap allocated class that implements a state machine. Every time you yield, the state machine is updated, and the CCR uses that to do MoveNext when the constraint (for a example a receive occuring) is satisfied. Basically the CCR figured out how to use iterator for async scheduling.
Now, for all this to happen, you must implement the proper Task which can support linked iterators. This is what choice, Receive, Join etc have to do. Its not enough to just derive from task, since you cant yield to a simple task: Its not clear when a task is "done". To do this, you will need to support the LinkedIterator property plus some other fields.
Its a bit of an advanced subject that i think should be covered by a new article or even book on the ccr
Microsoft Robotics Studioabhishekworld wrote:how to make a bot compatable with robotics studio like boe-bot.....please help
Hi we already talk to the boe bot and we have sample code for it. Please download our CTP and review the samples\platforms\parallax. Instructions are on the parallax site in terms of hardware configuration and they are being updated to match our latest CTP
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George Chrysanthakopouloskroki wrote:George,
Can you refer me to a library with similar functionality as the CCR, though for unmanaged C++?
Thanks in advance,
Hi i am not aware of any such library. A CCR C++ version would be nice but its not in our plans at this point.
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George Chrysanthakopoulosdtspence wrote:
I am trying to create an alternate receiver that would send a message to all predicates and applicable handlers, versus stopping on a single Predicate match.
There is a problem with my implementation not getting a second pass through the EvaluatorAggregateTask's Execute method after the first yield return. I also tried to return an alternate IEnumerator<> from a List<> and received the same behavior.
I was able to get all the EvaluatorTask<> enqueued by calling the DispatchQueue.Enqueue, not sure if this is correct. Do you know if the framework should be executing all of the tasks returned back in the enumerator? Also please mention anything I look at doing differently.
Code snippets as follows:
public class TestReceiver<T>
: Receiver
public TestReceiver(bool persist, IPortReceive port,
params Tuple<Predicate<T>, Handler<T>>[] tuples)
: base(true, port, new EvaluatorAggregateTask<T>(tuples))
// no code
internal class EvaluatorAggregateTask<V>
: ITask
public IEnumerator<ITask> Execute()
foreach (Tuple<Predicate<V>, Handler<V>> tuple in this.tuples)
Predicate<V> predicate = (Predicate<V>)tuple.Item0;
Handler<V> handler = (Handler<V>)tuple.Item1;
yield return new EvaluatorTask<V>((PortElement<V>)this[0],
handler, predicate);
[Rest of ITask implementation here ... ]
internal class EvaluatorTask<V>
: ITask
public IEnumerator<ITask> Execute()
if (this.predicate(this.param.TypedItem) == true)
return null;
[Rest of ITask implementation here ... ]
Hi Tasks never get their execute method called more than once. Persistent receivers even, will clone the task that runs the handler, and call it once for each message.
To achieve what you want, there is a different approach. Create the alternate receiver, just like you did. In the receiver's Evaluate method (override it) take the IPortElement.Value contents, and essentially broad cast to any other port or handlers you want. Make sure you return true from the Evaluate, so the port does not keep the message in its queue
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George ChrysanthakopoulosAn update on the FIFO issue and Interleave that was raised by staceyw in this forum. I have found and fixed the issue causing this and it turns out interleave should have worked FIFO for exclusive receivers all along.
See more details here:
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George Chrysanthakopoulosenelson wrote:Hi George,
Dan is a coworker of mine and posted this after I commented about that.
We don't necessarily have a situation where we NEED the ability to have different settings, but we do have a situation where changing the value could affect code in different libraries, and I felt that was a Bad Thing (tm).
Basically, CCR has caught on like wildfire around here, so we have multiple libraries in the same AppDomain using it simultaneously. I personally have a component based service where the service itself has a Dispatcher for message distribution and then one the components has its own for part of its message processing tasks.
Since I happen to have written both the service and this component, it's not much of a concern. But other developers will be writing components for the service, and it feels programmatically rude to change that static value and have it affect their instantiations. It's not a huge deal to save the old value and change it back, but it is kind of ugly
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Yes, indeed it does feel wierd to have a static for this. However remember that the background thread setting only makes sense if its global: If its not, its effect on application shutdown is eliminated. Even one dispatcher with foreground threads would keep the app from exiting.
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Disruptive and Threatening Student Behavior Guidelines
Occasionally, the University of Southern California experiences threatening and disruptive behavior on the part of some students, a trend paralleled nationally at other campuses. You as a faculty or staff member may find yourself having to contend with a disruptive or emotionally disturbed student at some point during your career.
Student behaviors that you may encounter range from simple disruptions in class, to ongoing harassment, to verbal and physical threats.
The guidelines in this booklet are designed to: 1) assist your department in thinking through its response to situations in which students may behave in unusual or unpredictable ways; 2) help you handle an actual threat; and 3) assist you with referral and protocol procedures. When your department has prepared its faculty and staff adequately for such situations, the chances of serious disruption may be lessened.
Students may exhibit disruptive behaviors in a classroom, department, or office. Faculty or staff members may find themselves on the receiving end of a student's anger or frustration. Often the behavior in question constitutes a violation of USC's Student Conduct Code, and can be addressed in accordance with Student Conduct procedures (as described in SCampus). However, it is rarely enough to simply hand a situation over to Student Judicial Affairs when a student has caused significant disruption within a department. The department or office involved may also need to address issues related to the perceived safety of its faculty and staff, as well as the wellbeing of other students.
Note: A separate policy and protocol exists for handling violence in the workplace. When an employee is threatening or intimidating another, assistance should be sought from the Department of Public Safety or from the threat management team at the Risk Management Office.
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Eder Frayre and Ulises Castillo continue their racing campaign after the Pan American Championships with a stage-race in Mexico. Following the race we checked in with Eder, who won both stages and the overall, to hear about the race and what is next for him this season.
KHS: You joined teammate Ulises Castillo this past weekend for a stage-race. Tell us about the event.
Eder Frayre: The name of the race is the ISB Sola Basic Tour in Baja California Mexico. It was a 2-day event over May 28-29. We were excited to race there because we have never done this race before.
KHS: The week prior, you and Ulises raced the Pan American Championship Road Race in Venezuela, which featured very poor weather conditions with a lot of rain and wind. Were the conditions in Baja better, and were you able to recover after the big race?
EF: The race in Venezuela was very hard. It rained a lot, but it was not cold – the temperature was pefect! We both found it difficult to recover fast after Pan-Ams because the travel to my house was very long. So this week after the race in Baja, I have taken 2 days off the bike to rest, and 2 days just riding easy for 2 hours.
KHS: Saturday was the first stage of the tour and it was a circuit race. Did you and Ule get away early or was it a sprint for the finish?
EF: The circuit race was only 60 minutes and it was on a short, flat course. Ule and I started the race very hard and made an early break away of 5 riders. In the last 20 minutes of the race, we started attacking the group. We got away, just Ule and me, and we finished together in 1st & 2nd place.
KHS: You were able to win both stages and the overall, which is great! How did the road race on Sunday unfold?
EF: I don't get the chance to race a lot in my country, so winning in Mexico is great. Ule and I had very good team work in both races. The Sunday road race was much like day 1. We both got in a breakaway and finished 1st and 2nd place again. It was a great event, with many fans and everyone supporting us. We were even interviewed for TV after the race!
KHS: What is next race for you and what is your goal?
EF: My principle is to do well at the Mexican National Road Race next month, beacuse whoever wins will go to the Olympics Games In Rio, Brazil to represent Mexico.
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Meet Pope Francis, First South American Pontiff
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, is the new pope and leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He took the name of Francis, for the saint devoted to the poor. At 76, he has become the first Jesuit and the first Latin American pope.
Upon landing from Mexico last week, I noticed that the first news story on my iPhone was "Habemus Papam." Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had just been announced as the new Pope Francis. I knew nothing about him, just like I knew nothing about the super vast majority of the cardinals; yet, a sense of peace reigned in my heart.
As soon as I got home I turned on the TV and saw the joy and tears reflected in the faces of so many people, not just in the Vatican where hundreds of thousands had congregated to hear the news, but also throughout the world, most especially in Latin America. I felt that we, Catholics, were ready to embrace a new beginning. Yes, tears rolled down my eyes too.
I, like so many Catholics in the United States, am exhausted if not outright detached. I live in the Los Angeles area, where for the last decade we have been inundated with the devastating news of the sexual abuses perpetrated by so many priests within our diocese. Thus, the selection of Pope Francis represents a welcome and uncontaminated healing.
As the selected Vicar of Christ, Pope Francis comes to us in a moment of tremendous need — and not just spiritual. The world needs a leader that is humble, that cares deeply for the less fortunate and has the wisdom and strength to stand up for the most sacred values of our Church. Our new Pope's background is full of examples of his humility, of his profound devotion to the poor and of his standing for our Church's doctrines.
I am so heartened by this selection in so many ways. Pope Francis, the son of an Italian immigrant family to Argentina is able to understand the plight of immigrants across the world. In addition, he embodies the conservative values of the vast majority of Latino families: faith in God, strength of the family unit and respect and dignity for all human beings.
In a world so needy of true leadership, he is a beacon of hope to all of us who yearn for people in authority to look beyond the immediacy of elections and personal political advancement. He offers a different way: a life devoid of the accouterments of high power, a life with a serenity that is etched in the soul through personal sacrifice. A glimpse into his life reveals a giving of himself in the purest of ways for the benefit of those in greater need. He is a great example of true public service — a calling that all of us must heed.
Maybe through his sheer example he will move other world leaders including those in the United States to reflect and follow his ways. Maybe those actions will lead our world to one that is more compassionate and understanding.
It is no coincidence that he chose his name after St. Francis of Assisi whose prayer is one of my favorites. I pray that God uses him as an instrument of His peace and that where there is hatred he sows love and where there is despair he sows hope.
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Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously open affair with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that ultimately led to his demise.
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Houston rap legends Geto Boys (currently Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill) haven't made an album together in ten years. Since 2005's The Foundation, all three rappers have gone their separate ways — with one-off reunions and even a tour in between — but now the trio are finally ready to release new music together, with an album called Habeas Corpus. And like many acts from their era (most recently, TLC and De La Soul), they've turned to Kickstarter in lieu of a record label to protect their creative control. "We're gonna go the fuck off on the new album. If it scared David Geffen back in 1990, it's gonna ruffle a few feathers in 2015," Willie D tells Rolling Stone, referencing the group's famously political and graphic songs.
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The past academic year saw a new interdisciplinary program in the Rhodes catalogue with the introduction of Political Economy, a major that explores important ideas that are the foundations of economic and political systems throughout the world. It is, basically, the study of economics without the math. It brings a more philosophical approach to how and why markets work—or don't work.
Political Economy is the perfect storm of five different departments coming together: Economics, Political Science, History, Philosophy and International Studies. Others, such as Psychology and Greek and Roman Studies, contribute courses as well. According to the catalogue, "The program and the associated major will study the many ways that politics, principles and economics interact in the formation of policy choices and actual policies. It will further look at the impact of political and economic choices on the prosperity and well-being of those who organize their society under various systems."
The program is supported by program founders Thomas Garrott, chairman and CEO emeritus of National Commerce Bancorporation; Fred Smith, president and CEO of FedEx Corporation; and founder of AutoZone, J.R. (Pitt) Hyde III.
There were already a number of professors from Economics and Political Science in place sharing an interest in the intersection of economics, philosophy and institutions. So when program visionary, Thomas Garrott, agreed to help secure the funding to support the development of the program, Teresa Beckham Gramm, program chair, said, "We jumped on it." A program proposal, along with a Political Economy major, was developed and put in front of the faculty at large for approval, and eventual acceptance, in fall 2010.
A Political Economy major is one who is "interested in coming at economics from a direction that was much truer to the field's original existence, which is political economy, and of coming at it from the institutional, political, philosophical side as opposed to the mathematical side," says Gramm.
One such student is senior Ian Engdahl, who switched from a Political Science major because "something about it just didn't feel right," he says. He gave one last look through the Rhodes catalogue, stumbled upon Political Economy and reorganized his plan. "It looked like a really good synthesis of the kinds of courses I like to take … Econ, Political Science, International Studies courses; and they all fit into my major."
Engdahl also takes History courses and is on a History track within his major of Political Economy. He relishes the challenge for "not just number crunching, but how we organize society efficiently, and we look at the moral questions under economic analysis."
The program, at inception, hit the ground running by welcoming respected speakers to campus such as Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, and Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon Wood, professor emeritus of History at Brown University and author of Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, among others. These are lectures that have been very well attended, Gramm says, because "this is a very interdisciplinary field where we've been able to draw quite a number of speakers from individual departments."
Adam Smith, the 18th-century social philosopher and author (The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations) from Scotland, is regarded as a founder of political economy. He is taught and read widely in many disciplines, and studied extensively within the Political Economy program. His writings and teaching set the foundations for what would be free market economics. "The Political Economy program is broad and, at the same time, ideologically open to the idea that market economies are very effective at making people better off," says John Murray, the first Joseph R. Hyde III Professor of Political Economy. "Economic growth is really the only way to make poor people better off, and that's a big issue."
Murray moved here last year from the University of Toledo in Ohio to take the position, and has found "a real community" at Rhodes. He made the decision to come here because of this sense of community, and because he believes so strongly in the philosophy and vision behind the new program.
"One thing I really want to see is students coming out of the Political Economy program familiar with the notion that, not just people and not just firms, but also governments act in their own best interests as well," he says in explaining the sort of philosophical thought carried on within his classroom. He is quick to point out that government is a neutral arbiter in judicial settings, but that "the executive and legislative functions of governments often are motivated by people who want to get the government to act in their own self-interest or their agency's self-interest. So I would define the government's self-interest more broadly. That's the political aspect that I would want to introduce into a study of economics."
"We try to get into some of the deeper questions than in Economics, where ethical, moral questions aren't always central to class discussion," Gramm says. "I think the Political Economy major will ask, 'What is the morality of capitalism? What are the ethics involved in some of these institutions that we have, or that we lack?' Those questions are going to be more central to the Political Economy program."
They are questions with local, national and international implications, certainly, and Rhodes draws on a worldwide view and student body to delve into such thinking. Sameer Warraich is a senior from Islamabad, Pakistan, who was on a track for a degree in Economics when, as a sophomore, he proposed a major called Public Policy and Economics, which was ultimately not approved. "Even though I was studying Economics at that time, I was still inclined toward public policy and how politics interacts with economics in general," he says. Warraich, it seemed, was a natural for the program that would come about a year later.
The shift from the hard numbers of Economics into studying the philosophies of Aristotle, John Rawls and Karl Marx as they apply to the field has been a satisfying approach to Warraich's interests. This approach, coupled with the work he's done in banking in Pakistan and with the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago, may well lead him to a career in public policy after graduation.
The interdisciplinary nature of Political Economy may be where the success will lie for the program. By working together, departments will ensure their students gain the well-rounded education that a liberal arts institution promises. As Marshall Gramm, department chair of Economics says, "Part of our goal, and part of our charge, with the Political Economy program and the funding we received was to increase economic literacy at Rhodes and across Memphis."


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By Joe Haggerty
BOSTON Zdeno Chara was given a day off on Thursday after his man-sized Game 3 against the Flyers that featured a pair of goals and 28-plus minutes of punishing defensive hockey. Adam McQuaid was also absent from the TD Garden practice ice for the second straight day after suffering a strained neck against Philadelphia in Game 2 of their playoff series, but everybody else was on the ice practicing for the Black and Gold.Steve Kampfer practiced with the Bruins for the first time on Thursday in a no-contact session, and is still some time away from being ready for game action. I think right now he just started skating yesterday for the first time, Coach Claude Julien said. He felt good enough to skate with us today. We had no contact in our drills, so it was a good skate for him. Were moving forward as were being told by our medical staff. Hes looking better every day, so we just have to stay with it. But hes not ready.With McQuaid still day-to-day and off the practice ice, that means itll probably be Shane Hnidy again on Friday night for Game 4 after he played only 2:38 of ice time while the other five defensemen basically rotated with one another. The real talk of the day was obviously about the Bs being up 3-0 in the series against the Flyers, and sitting on the precipice of an Eastern Conference Finals berth just as they were last season before the roof caved in on them. The Bs coach and his players are all holding firm to turning the page on last year and focusing on winning one more game to put down a Philly team thats proven they wont quit.Right now I like where we are, said Julien. The biggest think will be putting the past aside and thinking about the present. Living in the moment. Thats what has enabled us to stay focused. There was a report in the Boston Herald two days ago that Marc Savard would be attending Games 3 and 4 at the Garden in his first visit back to Boston since announcing he was going to sit out the rest of the season. A team source checked in with CSNNE.com on Wednesday and informed that Savard was A) not in Boston and B) not coming down for either of the games. The Bs center is still battling the post-concussion syndrome symptoms that have plagued him since his latest head injury suffered in Colorado, but hopeful he can make it to Boston during this postseason run if the team keeps on winning. Hnidy played less than three minutes in Game 3, and Julien said that the power plays and special teams time never got to the point where using his sixth defenseman was a necessity. With McQuaid very unlikely to play on Friday, count on Hnidy to play at least a slightly bigger role in the Bs defensemen corps.He was ready to go and he still is ready to go, Julien said. We have confidence in him, but we also understand the fact that he hasnt played much this year. Right now the guys we have in our lineup are capable of sharing our ice time.
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- 3 minutes from Paraparaumu Airport, 65 minutes from Wellington Airport.
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- Bus stop that connects to train from Wellington 100metre from departure point.
- Proximidad con el pueblo:
- 5km to State Highway 1 Paraparaumu
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|$75.00 - $85.00
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|645 sq. ft.
|Property type
|Minimum Stay
|3 - 5 nights
Our newly built apartments are situated just outside the center of Dalyan. Only a five minute walk from the restaurants and bars, but in a quiet neighbourhood.
In our 600 m2 garden full of trees and flowers, you find the 70m2 swimming pool, children's pool, terrace and bar for lunches and drinks and several nice and shady corners where you can lounge in the afternoon.
Our facilities are perfectly suitable for families and couples who seek to be in comfortable and tranquil environment.
We are Ahmet and Anna, a Turkish-Dutch couple. We met many years ago during a holiday in Turkey and have been together ever since. We always had a dream of running our own small scale hotel one day and in 2015, this dream came true!
We have travelled a lot through Turkey over the years and stayed in Dalyan on many occasions. For us, the combination of the beautiful nature, beach, history and the cosy atmosphere of the village, is a perfect mixture for a lovely holiday.
Ahmet has over 20 years experience in tourism and restaurants, Anna has studied anthropology and archeology and did her Master's research in Dalyan. With our mutual talents and interests, we will make sure you have a special holiday in this special place.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Safak Apart Hotel!
Ahmet Apul purchased this apartment in 2015
Dalyan is a unique place, because of several reasons.
First of all, the nature and environment is very special. Not only because of the Caretta Caretta that breeds on the beach, but there are many species, both animals as well as plants and trees, that find their home here.
Secondly, the place has a rich history, with many interesting sites to visit.
Last but not least, the village has not yet fallen in the hands of mass tourism. Therefore, you can still watch and enjoy a Turkish Mediterranean lifestyle during your holiday.
In short: we think Dalyan is the perfect place to discover the natural, historical and cultural beauty of Turkey, while having a totally relaxing holiday at the same time!
Our hotel consists of eight 2-bedroom apartments and three double rooms.
While the majority of the apartments in Dalyan are being sold as self-catering, we offer you the comfort and space of an apartment, with the service of a hotel.
Room cleaning and use of airconditioning and wifi are included in our prices. An extensive, fresh Turkish breakfast can be booked.
The apartments are perfect for families, groups of friends, or for couples who are just looking for a comfortable way to spend their holiday.
The double rooms are spacious and have a private sitting area as well.
While staying with us, don't miss the chance of enjoying one of Ahmet's home cooked dinners. Four times a week, there is the possibility of booking an evening meal with us.
It's a real treat that will complete your Turkish holiday experience!
This is our 2nd visit to Safak in Dalyan, I never go back to the same place twice so for me this place is really special. The grounds and apartments are spotless, the food is reasonably priced and really good and Ahmet and Anna are welcoming and friendly. It's a 10min walk into the town which has loads of choice or bars, shops and restaurants, the people are nice and it's not as pushy as some of the larger resorts in Turkey. Ahmet and Anna were amazing at organising trips, car hire and outings for us.
We'll be going back hopefully in 2017
Ahmet and Anna are the perfect hosts for an amazing holiday in beautiful Dalyan. Nothing was too much trouble - they arranged our transport from the airport and various trips in and around Dalyan; the apartments are kept spotlessly clean by the lovely Saira and Gul who delighted us with her amazing towel art! Make sure you join in with the homemade meals prepared by Anna and Ahmet for a true taste of Turkey. There were 7 of us in two apartments for a 3 week holiday and ranged in age from 8 to 62 - there was something for everyone, we highly recommend the Safak Apartments.
We fell in love with this place on our visit last August. Everything was so relaxing. The beautiful pool and terrace the delicious breakfasts and the hospitality of our hosts Ahmed and Anna who were so helpful with their advise on trips and restaurants in the area. We loved the trips they organised for us which were like wonderful adventures with other guests and we made some lovely friends. A short stroll into town also and some cute little restaurants and bars to chill out in . Great bargains too at the Saturday market . In all we loved everything about this place and can't wait to go back
The second time at this family run hotel and already booked for 2017. Anna and Ahmet the perfect hosts. Spotlessly clean , tasty breakfast and only 10 minutes walk into beautiful dalyan. Wouldn't stay anywhere else
My husband and I have been to Dalyan many times, but this was our first stay at Safak Apartments. We chose to stay here after walking past them several times and commenting how lovely the pool looked. We were not disappointed. Our apartment was clean, had great air-con, and 2 balconies to sit out on. It probably had one of the best showers we have experienced in Turkey! The whole site was really clean and well-maintained, and the pool was lovely. The owners were really friendly and helpful. There was always someone there if we needed them. They also arranged our airport transfers for us at a good price. I have always recommended Dalyan to our friends and I would certainly recommend Safak Apartments as well. Beautifully maintained and a great location. We had a great holiday
This was our first trip to Dalyan and we found the area to be very beautiful. The apartments were very clean and the owners were accommodating and very friendly. Lots of restaurants and shops are in close proximity to the apartments where you can find everything you need. The owners and family were very helpful with advice about the best excursions to take and we would definitely re-visit.
Iztuzu beach (Caretta Caretta Turtle Beach) is 11 kms away from Dalyan Town Center and from our hotel. There are two ways to get there. You can use the public boats that depart from the town center every few minutes and after 30 min of beautiful ride through the reed beds in Dalyan river you arrive at Iztuzu Beach. Another way would be to go by minibus, that also depart from the town center. After a 20 minutes drive, you arrive at the opposite side of the Iztuzu Beach, where you can visit the Turtle Rescue Center.
Dalaman Airport - 30 km.
We can arrange airport transfers and car hire.
If you are planning to just relax and enjoy the pool, beach and town, a car is not essential. If you would like to explore the area, it would be very convenient to hire a car.
Kaunos (archeaological site) 2 km.
Sarigerme (beach) 22 km.
Köcegiz town 24 km.
Fethiye (town with great weekly market and shops) 60 km.
|No additional mandatory fees
Booking Notes:
We require 25% deposit of total accommodation cost upon reservation. Remaining may be paid upon arrival.
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Vegan Cauliflower Steaks with Romesco Sauce is a hearty, yet light. complete vegan entree that can be partially prepared in advance. Elegant and delicious and simple to make. Serve alongside a simple caesar or arugula salad for a beautiful presentation.
Vegan Cauliflower Steaks with Romesco Sauce
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Author: Maria Baldwin
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Vegan
Serves: 4 servings
- ⅓ Cup Olive Oil
- 1 Clove Garlic, sliced
- ½ teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes
- ¼ Cup Blanched Almonds
- 1 Slice Good Quality Bread, cubed
- 1 Medium Tomato - roasted
- 1 Medium Red Pepper, roasted and peeled
- 1 Dried Ancho Chili - toasted and soaked
- 1 Tablespoon Red Wine Vinegar
- ¼ Cup Water
- 1 Head of Cauliflower, cut into 4 1inch thick steaks
- Place the tomato and red pepper into the oven in a heavy baking dish and roast under the broiler until the skin is dark and blistering - about 10 minutes. When adequately toasted, remove both from the oven and peel and chop the tomato. Add to the bowl of your food processor.
- Sweat the roasted pepper in a paper bag or a covered bowl to loosen the skin and then peel and discard seeds and membranes. Add the roasted red pepper meat to the food processor.
- Simmer the dried ancho chili in the olive oil in a cast iron skillet on medium until tender and brightly colored. Remove from the oil with a slotted spoon and drain on a paper towel. Discard the seeds and stem. Add the bread cubes, almonds and garlic to the warm oil and simmer until bread is lightly colored.
- Add all ingredients to the food processor bowl and pulse together to form a slurry-like sauce. Add the water and red wine vinegar, salt and pepper to taste, continuing to process until the smooth consistency of the sauce is reached. It can be served slightly chunky or processed to very smooth.
- Slather the cauliflower steaks with olive oil and grill on a griddle or heavy bottomed cast iron type skillet - about 5 minutes on each side until tender and browned. Season with salt and white pepper as you remove from the pan and serve atop the romesco sauce. Cauliflower steaks can be held in a warm oven until it is time to serve your entree.
- Enjoy!
This recipe is low in saturated fats and offers a healthy portion of omega 3's and 6's AND it is delicious with no cholesterol! Simple to prepare with a smoky depth of flavor from the roasted peppers in the sauce. A fabulous seasonal meal for the cool months.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 167 g Calories: 320 Fat: 26.2 g Saturated fat: 3.4 g Unsaturated fat: 21.9 g Trans fat: 0 g Carbohydrates: 18 g Sugar: 2 g Sodium: 449 mg Fiber: 4 g Protein: 6.3 g Cholesterol: 0 mg


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To complete the Christmas assignments, Mom got the kids "out of the house." Sled riding and snow-football were options; however, a freezing rain-snow-mix meant indoor boredom. When I was eight-years-old and my little brother Kevin was five, we found plenty of things-to-do. Playing "cars," Lincoln logs or the Erector Set were options. Looking out the window sometimes found a fight or an arrest across the street at the Kennard's house. Circular streamers were used to decorate the Christmas trees. Today they resemble a "crepe paper lei" and noticing a garland streamer, dangling from the tree, I tied it to Kevin's ankle. From an adjacent room I yelled, "Yo, Kev, Santa brought us an early gift, a puppy!" He barreled after me dragging a decorated ten-foot tree. Fastcast: Warmer
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"Congratulations on deciding to dive!" said my instructor Doris, dumping a heavy textbook on my desk at the Oman Dive Centre, on a narrow inlet half an hour from Muscat. "Diving will change your life!" Doris raised a family and worked as a personal assistant in Zurich before she discovered diving, so it certainly changed hers.
"I can't believe I'm actually going to dive," said my classmate Ilona, a flight attendant. The three-day PADI Open Water Diver course was a present from her pilot boyfriend, who went out for a dive while Ilona and I enjoyed three hours of videos and multiple choice tests in the classroom. Time passed quickly, and by lunchtime Ilona and I knew a lot more about the undersea world and its secret language of acronyms, jargon and hand signals. After wrestling with regulators, first and second stages, and the importance of maintaining airway control, we had formulas to learn for the complicated relationship between dive depth and duration, surface intervals and blood nitrogen.
On a more accessible note, we knew we had to walk backwards in fins (never say flippers) and smear toothpaste on our masks to keep them fog-free, a tip I could have done with on an Austrian alp many years ago.
After a break for fried fish and a snooze on the beach in the balmy November heat, it was time to put our new knowledge to the test in the ODC's dive pool, with a lead belt to make us sink and an inflatable life-jacket – sorry, BCD (Buoyancy Control Device) – to bring us up again. Neutral buoyancy is the name of the game.
After supper I met up with Derek and Pauline, a typical diving holiday couple: a hard-core addict (him) with a new partner willing to give diving a try or face a lifetime of holiday boredom (her). Having done a weekend course at her local public baths, Pauline had a 24-hour start on me and after her first day of open water diving, she was enjoying the beauty of the Arabian night, lounging on the sand in the warm moonlight, among uplit palms lapped by wavelets sparkling with phosphorescence. What was it like out there, I wondered. "Wonderful," Pauline replied dreamily. "We saw lots of nemos and one of them nibbled Ahmed's hair." Ahmed was her instructor, with smouldering brown eyes like Omar Sharif.
Twelve hours later it was my turn to wade out to the dive boat and take my place among the air bottles and rubber-clad PADIs, a mixture of ODC inmates and day trippers from Muscat's burgeoning crop of tourist hotels. "Stay at 12 metres, and you may see the barracuda," said dive leader Stella from Hawaii, as we chugged out of the bay. "Yesterday we saw a leopard shark, so you never know…"
Doris let the others disappear beneath the swell before checking my clips and valves and giving me clearance to roll backwards into the water, trying not to lose my mask.
The first dive was all about building confidence, and it worked. Within moments we were looking down on a turtle. There were lionfish galore, and banks of soft purple coral waving like flowers on a breezy hillside. Honeycomb morays poked their heads out of rocky crevices and, best of all, there were no barracuda and no sharks.
All too soon it was time for a surface interval: half an hour on a deserted beach for coffee and cigarettes while exchanging holiday notes. In Egypt the water is much clearer, all agree, but there is not so much to see, the dive sites are crowded and the whole experience is more like a production line.
"Everything you see here is big," said Stella. "We saw three kinds of ray yesterday, all bigger than I had ever seen. The only problem is the visibility. If you want clear water in Oman, you have to come in summer."
But then, time spent out of the water might not be so pleasant, and no one comes to Oman just for the diving. There's the rocky desert to explore, leopards and oryx to seek out, and the traditional culture of an old country that is just waking up to tourism.
A few minutes into our second dive I began to suffer from toothpaste fatigue. With a foggy lens it was difficult to keep Doris in sight, let alone understand her hand signals. No longer could I put off a manoeuvre I had failed to master in the pool: let some water in to the mask, swish it around, and expel it with a short sharp blow of the nose. All I achieved was a serious loss of airway control – water in the lungs, and a coughing fit. Now it was my turn to bolt for the surface, breaking all the rules about ascending slowly in stages.
"Sorry – I panicked," I spluttered when Doris popped up. "This was a controlled panic," she said kindly. "It is good experience. Too much confidence is dangerous."
Once you abort a dive there is no going back down, so we swam around practising surface drills until the dive boat came to pick us up for a high-speed return to base. "Isn't it beautiful?" Doris screamed in my ear, as miles of empty beach sped past, against a backdrop of bare mountains and a fertile coastal strip. "But they're building a road, and in five years it will be nothing but five-star resorts, golf courses, marinas and dive centres."
While our fellow divers made for the bar, Doris and I had work to do in the pool. Within the reassuring embrace of its mosaic walls, I finally cleared my mask, and earned an underwater high-five from my teacher.
Later , I caught up with Pauline, and found a diver transformed in 24 hours. "Yes, I qualified," she said wearily. "And no, it was not fun. I nearly stepped on a scorpion fish and I kept thinking, I'm a long way down. It's not natural, is it?"
Pauline's words came back to me the next day, 10 fathoms down, as I battled with earache, cramp and a succession of fiendish problem-solving manoeuvres. Then it was back to the classroom for a written test, and a nervous wait while Doris, who had given no feedback all day, marked my paper. She returned with a diver's log book and a plastic card – my PADI certificate. "Well done!" she said. "I recommend a Nitrox course for you next. It's a more healthy way to dive. And don't forget to keep up your log book, or you will have to qualify all over again."
Thank you, Doris, I'll bear that in mind. But right now dry land feels good, and the Nitrox course can wait. I need some fresh air.
Regaldive (01353 659 999; www.regaldive.co.uk) offers a week at the dive-focused Nabucco Extra Divers Resort outside Muscat from £1,074 per person, including return flight from Heathrow, transfers, seven nights' half-board and five days' boat diving. Alternatively, you can stay at the five-star Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa from £1,523 per person on a b&b basis with five days' boat diving.


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Goddess Alexandra Snow – Am I Beautiful When I Cut You to Pieces?
You're completely entranced by my beauty, but you must also accept my cruelty. The closer you get to me, the more aggressive I become in reducing you to the tiniest pieces imaginable. I want to shred your ego into nothing more than a pile of ribbons, all the while making you glad that my beautiful mouth is framing those words. I am deliciously cruel with my humiliation today, making you feel so pathetic in a matter of moments. It hurts so much, but you have my attention for just a few minutes..
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By Ishaan . January 15, 2012 . 9:02pm
Sony released the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection as a retail game last year, but this week, you'll be able to buy the HD versions of both games separately on the PlayStation Network in North America.
Additionally, Crysis 2 is being released as a download game over PlayStation Network this week as well, along with Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.


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Head Over Heels
Monica's Story
The shabby history of the United States in the last year can be laid at the door of three unsavory citizens. President Clinton: shallow, reckless, a blushing trimmer; Monica Lewinsky, aggressive, rouge-lipped exhibitionist; Judge Kenneth Starr, pale, obsessive Pharisee. There was collusion among back-country elected ayatollahs stoning the adulterers in the public square while intoning the satanic verses of the Constitution. And washed up on the banks of the Potomac, the burrowing otters, Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg.
Humiliation, resonant, aching word, near to the sacred, fell at its worst upon the nation as a whole, as a conception, a nation among nations, enlightened despite the wish of some for a premillennial accounting in the wings. Humiliation has at the first dawn fled from Monica Lewinsky; with Judge Starr, many a stumbling perceived, with many to catch his arm before a fall; Clinton, the president, not a sports announcer or a political "adviser" set up for exposure in a Washington hotel, for him the awful moment, or moments, of surrender; the bad dream, to follow him to the grave, of being nude in the streets. Or to lower the tone in an obscurely derived current idiom: He's toast.
Move on, move on, friends and enemies say. Put the nation in a Santini Van, wrap its underwear in brown paper, and, horn honking, move on. That's the word for a country of road hogs, for the proper business of the state, for that woman, Miss Lewinsky, for Judge Starr, who seems to threaten to stand in place, still tapping away.
The sad, sad sin of location. As the reigning Head of State, a celebrity with his Marine band and honor guard, he has certain restrictions based upon his high, none higher, recognition factor. So it cannot be a Rooms-by-the-Day Motel, but the Oval Office of the White House, its bathroom or some private corner, whatever, wherever. The President has his oddities of practice coming forth to us from his partner and other deponents going back through the years. Looking over his Police Gazette profile, starting in Arkansas, we can say he is having bad luck due to the Zeitgeist, the historical moment for girls, or women. Previously they were somewhat restrained by self-protection, by not wanting mother, family, children, or job supervisor to know what was going on in the back seat of the car, in the after-hours office. Now there is the book, the lawsuit, the settlement, the chance to join the others on file which gives a jog to old unhealthy memories.
We are told that Monica Lewinsky early on, after her belief that the President had in a crowd cast lustful eye-beams her way, went home to read Gennifer Flowers's memoir called Sleeping with the President.1 Monica's bleak "sensual" engagement to come will in no way match Miss Flowers's hot twelve-year affair, albeit off and on, with the Attorney…
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Oct 31, 2013
Puzzle & Dragons, a famous match-three/RPG mix, is getting yet another update – and it's nothing but surprising. All of a sudden, the world of Puzzle & Dragons is filled with various characters from both sides of the iconic comic and gaming franchise, Batman: Arkham Origins, from Robin to Joker, battling it out in the dragon world. Puzzle & Dragons can be downloaded for free from here: Puzzle & Dragons on Google Play.