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- Bender uses a 3D printer to duplicate the guitar of folk singer Silicon Red in an attempt to become a famous folk singer himself. He goes to a railroad camp and begins writing a song about a robot named Big Caboose, when strangely everything in the song begins to actually happen in reality. Because Bender has been wirelessly connected to the 3D printer the entire time, anything he writes about is printed and brought into existence. [7ACV14]
- Professor Farnsworth joins a street-racing gang. This later results in him getting into a race against Leela, where he accidentally gets them both (along with Fry and Bender) temporarily trapped in the second dimension. [7ACV15]
- President Nixon cuts off all trade with Omicron Persei 8 after the headless clone of Agnew is accidentally murdered by Lrrr's son, Jrrr, during the fourth Omicronian invasion of Earth. Meanwhile, Fry is accidentally left stranded on Omicron Persei 8, where he is looked after by Jrrr until being rescued by Bender. [7ACV16]
- Fry and Leela go on a romantic vacation together whilst Bender, Amy and Zoidberg make a delivery to the planet Simian 7, which is inhabited by primates-only. It is revealed that Fry and Leela's romantic getaway is actually a human exhibition at a zoo on Simian 7. [7ACV17]
- After Bender rescues 15 trapped miners from the solar helium mine, Mayor Poopenmeyer makes Planet Express the city's new Fire Department. However, the crew suspect Bender of committing arson at all of the locations he visits in order to put out more fires and appear more heroic. Unbeknownst to them, a being from the sun that Bender names Flamo has been starting the fires in attempt to scorch the Earth. Eventually, the mystic aldermen of the sun come to take Flamo back and trap him inside the sun. [7ACV18]
- President Nixon and the last clone of Agnew enjoy watching the show Futurama and Friends Saturday Morning Fun Pit on TV at the White House, however, they are frequently interrupted by an angry mob on the lawn who request changes to content of the show that will teach and protect their children. [7ACV19]
- Calculon is resurrected with the help of Bender and of the Professor's scientific ritual, [7ACV20] but he must then work his way up to becoming a big-time star again since most people didn't miss him or his acting after he died. [7ACV04] Later, in an unfortunate accident on the set of his old show All My Circuits, he is killed for a second time by falling ceiling lights after performing his greatest and most believable piece of acting ever. [7ACV20]
- All of Bender's body parts except for his eyes and his mouth are stolen. [7ACV21]
- Leela learns of her genetic condition of squidification and is then cured by Mom's genetic-engineering facility. [7ACV22]
- After an alien ship begins approaching Earth, the crew searches Fry's mind to find the meaning of the musical tones emitted by the ship. [7ACV23]
- The Planet Express crew goes on a team-building retreat, in which Fry and Bender kill celebrated business consultant Dan McMasters, believing him to be a vicious alien killer. [7ACV24]
- Zoidberg finally meets his girlfriend Zindy in person, but she dumps him. [7ACV25] He then starts dating a florist.
- Fry proposes to Leela before breaking the universe and marrying her. [7ACV26]
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Catherine of Alexandria
The holy and glorious Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria was the daughter of the governor of Alexandrian Egypt, Constas, during the reign of the emperor Maximinus (305-313), and she suffered for her Lord in the year 305.
Living in the capital—the centre of Hellenistic knowledge—and possessed of an uncommon beauty and intellect, Catherine received a most splendid of educations, having studied the works of the finest philosophers and teachers of antiquity. Young men from the most worthy families of the empire sought the hand of the beautiful Catherine, but none of them was chosen. She declared to her parents that she would be agreeable to enter into marriage only with someone who surpassed her in illustriousness, wealth, comeliness, and wisdom.
Catherine's mother, a secret Christian, sent her for advice to her own spiritual father—a saintly elder pursuing prayerful deeds in solitude in a cave not far from the city. Having listened to Catherine, the elder said that he knew of a youth who surpassed her in everything, such that "His beauty was more radiant than the shining of the sun, his wisdom governed all creation, his riches were spread throughout all the world—this however did not diminish but rather added to the inexpressible loftiness of his lineage." The image of the heavenly Bridegroom produced in the soul of the holy maiden an ardent desire to see him. Truth, to which her soul yearned, revealed it to her. In parting, the elder handed Catherine an icon of the Mother of God with the God-Child Jesus on her arm and bid her to pray with faith to the Queen of Heaven—the Mother of the Heavenly Bridegroom—for the bestowing of the vision of Her Son.
Catherine prayed all night and was given to see the Most Holy Virgin, who sent her divine Son to look upon the kneeling of Catherine before Them. But the Child turned his face away from her saying, that he was not able to look at her because she was ugly, of shabby lineage, beggarly and mindless like every person—not washed with the waters of holy Baptism and not sealed with the seal of the Holy Spirit. Catherine returned again to the elder deeply saddened. He lovingly received her, instructed her in the faith of Christ, admonished her to preserve her purity and integrity and to pray unceasingly; he then performed over her the mystery/sacrament of holy baptism. And again Saint Catherine had a vision of the Mother of God with her Child. Now the Lord looked tenderly at her and gave her a ring—a wondrous gift of the heavenly Bridegroom.
At this time the emperor Maximinus was himself in Alexandria for a pagan feast day. Because of this, the feast was especially splendid and crowded. The cries of the sacrificial animals, the smoke and the smell of the sacrifices, the endless blazing of fires, and the bustling crowds at the arenas filled Alexandria. Human victims also were brought—because they consigned to death in the fire the confessors in Christ, those not recanting from him under torture. The saint's love for the Christian martyrs and her fervent desire to lighten their fate impelled Catherine to go to the pagan head-priest and ruler of the empire, the emperor-persecutor Maximinus.
Introducing herself, the saint confessed her faith in the one true God and with wisdom denounced the errors of the pagans. The beauty of the maiden captivated the emperor. In order to convince her and show the superiority of pagan wisdom, the emperor gave orders to gather 50 of the most learned men (rhetoricians) of the empire, but the saint got the better of the wise men, such that they themselves came to believe in Christ. Saint Catherine shielded the martyrs with the sign of the cross, and they bravely accepted death for Christ and were burnt by order of the emperor.
Maximinus, no longer hoping to convince the saint, tried to entice her with the promise of riches and fame. Having received an angry refusal, the emperor gave orders to subject the saint to terrible tortures and then throw her in prison. The Empress Augusta, who had heard much about the saint, wanted to see her. Having prevailed upon the military-commander Porphyry to accompany her with a detachment of soldiers, Augusta went to the prison. The empress was impressed by the strong spirit of St. Catherine, whose face glowed with Divine grace. The holy martyr explained the Christian teaching to the newly-arrived, and they in believing were converted to Christ.
On the following day they again brought the martyr to the judgement court where, under the threat of being broken on the wheel, they urged that she recant from the Christian faith and offer sacrifice to the gods. The saint steadfastly confessed Christ and she herself approached the wheels; but an angel smashed the instruments of execution, which broke up into pieces with many pagans passing nearby. Having beheld this wonder, the empress Augusta and the imperial courtier Porphyry with 200 soldiers confessed their faith in Christ in front of everyone, and they were beheaded. Maximinus again tried to entice the holy martyr, proposing marriage to her, and again he received a refusal. St. Catherine firmly confessed her fidelity to the heavenly Bridegroom, Christ, and with a prayer to him she herself put her head on the block under the sword of the executioner.
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Egypt has announced a cease-fire agreement to end a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said the truce would take effect at 9 p.m. local time (2 p.m. EDT.) He made the announcement alongside visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the deal, saying he had agreed after consulting with President Barack Obama.
The deal is to end a week of fighting that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and five Israelis.
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There's now a $45,000 reward for information leading to those responsible for the death of a white buffalo, "considered sacred by its Lakota Sioux owner," and its mother near Greenville, Texas, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Crime Time blog.
The size of the reward has gone up ninefold in recent days and is likely headed higher, the blog adds. Donations have been coming in from around the nation.
As Crime Time reports, "Lightning Medicine Cloud and his mother, Buffalo Woman, were killed just shy of the white buffalo's first birthday. Arby Little Soldier, great-great-great grandson of Sitting Bull and owner/operator of the Lakota Ranch, said Monday that he found the calf slaughtered and skinned April 30 after returning to the North Texas town from an out-of-town trip to Oklahoma City." Buffalo Woman died a day later. Little Soldier suspects she was poisoned.
On the ranch's website, there's a post that explains the significance of a white buffalo to Native Americans. It says, in part, that:
"The Native Americans see the birth of a white buffalo calf as the most significant of prophetic signs, equivalent to the weeping statues, bleeding icons, and crosses of light that are becoming prevalent within the Christian churches today. Where the Christian faithful who visit these signs see them as a renewal of God's ongoing relationship with humanity, so do the Native Americans see the white buffalo calf as the sign to begin life's sacred hoop."
Little Soldier talks about the legend in this video.
Our colleagues at KETR-FM say this weekend's Native American Powwow at the ranch was supposed to be "a ceremony honoring the birth of a sacred white buffalo." Instead, it will "serve as a memorial for Lightning Medicine Cloud" and his mother.
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Who are we kidding? This beautiful repoussé object was most likely a snuff box.
If you must hem something, then you may as well place your needles in a sterling silver repoussé sewing safe.
Patti & Paula
Potpourri Party @ 2805
I love this post and the information about the beautiful items that hang from your chatelaine.
I always keep my eye out at auctions for one as pretty as yours, till now I haven't come across one yet.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures.
Your post get better and better each time. I look forward to them weekly. Love all the info you have for us followers. Helps me for when I go to garage sales and estate sales. Thanks for the info.
Thanks for sharing.
Happy Halloween.
Hi there my friend. This week is NOT the newbie party. I have been announcing I was hosting a magazine copy cat challenge in lieu of IT this week. See you next week. Thank you:)
I always enjoy these posts and what I learn from them. I had read about chatelaines, but I'd never seen any examples. I'd also read about dance cards and always wanted to go to a dance where they were used. (Maybe my card would have been empty, and then I wouldn't have liked that idea!) How blessed Paula is to have such keepsakes.
What a beautiful collection of treasures you have! When the garage sale season starts up again in my region I'll have to be on the lookout for some of these beautiful things :) Thank you for sharing. I found you on Seasonal Sundays at The Tablescaper. Won't you join me for a spooky Halloween tale and recipe? http://castlesandcarriages.blogspot.com/2011/10/clockmakers-caramel-popcorn.html
Bonjour Patti and Paula...what an absolutely exquisitely enchanting post today... I love each and every one of these cherished treasures and the memories that go with them... oh how I want to start a collection now... thank you for letting me borrow yours for the dance this evening... however, I shall place just a snippet of brandy in the parfum flask instead... just for medicinal purposes, you know... xoxo Julie Marie
LOL! I imagine the perfumed containers also came in handy during the summer months, as deodorants hadn't been invented yet!
This was a lovely post!
Hugs, Diane
What a beautiful post! I always enjoy reading the history behind your pretties! It is just amazing how something so beautiful could have had such utilitarian purposes! It just speaks to the elegance of people years ago! Thanks so much for sharing!!
You really show how elegantly ladies used to keep order in the small necessities of life. My favourites are vinaigrettes which come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and although they are of no practical use today, I just love collecting them.
Wonderful post. Very beautiful and interesting.
regarding inquiry about book for my white Wednesday post a couple of weeks back:
The name of the book is "Golden Links..Mother Home and Heaven."
Wonderful book.
barbara jean
ooops!!! wrong book! will get you title of one with mice. =)
barbara jean
Great post. Thanks for sharing these beautiful heirlooms, and treasures. Can't pick a fave. It's all off-the-chain.
Thanks so much for visiting and joining my blog! I am so happy to find yours! I too love vintage and Victorian treasures. Beautiful post with wonderful information and photos! ~ Diane
Wow, this is such a beautiful post! I love the items from your chatelaine! So much wonderful history!!
xoxo Denise
Your pictures are absolutely beautiful (including your header--gorgeous!). What a wonderful treat to read about these beautiful items from the past.
I live in a big, old Victorian from the 1800's that once belonged to my beloved grandparents. I am so honored to live here...
I adore anything from the Victorian period and it's always fun to find new treasures to add to my home.
Your blog is not only unique but simply beautiful... and I must say, I am HOOKED. :)
Have a beautuful week~
Bilancia Designs
What a beautiful chatelaine. I always wanted to go to a dance and have my dance card filled.
Hi Patti and Paula,
Such an enjoyable post on these enchanting pieces...so lucky you are to have some of them from your own family...loved learning the names as well as all of the practical uses for these beautiful pieces. All the best,
Hello there:)
Thanks for stopping my my blog today and leaving your lovely comment.
By the way, I love, love, love your blog. I am so a follower of it now.:)
Well now I wish I was a Victorian lady with a chatelaine of lot's of pretty silver bling items hanging from my long skirts. Very interesting post!
Patti thank you for always stopping over at my blog and leaving me such lovely comments! It's a pleasure to read you!
Carola x
Well you learn something new every day !! Thanks for such an interesting post..I love the idea of the vinaigrette ,what beautiful treasures. Thanks for visiting and following me too !!
Gail x
I love all things victorian and your blog is so pretty and informative. I love all the cases and what wonderful treasures they are. My sister gave me one of these for my B'day and its a perfect size to keep in my handbag for my credit card and drivers license, I love it. Thanks for sharing your treasures from the past. I love your blog.
The French Hutch
Oh how beautiful these pieces are & how wonderful that you have them! Thank you for sharing!!
What gorgeous pieces! I can't decide which ones I like the most! And such interesting history, you guys always provide such great background to your collections. Eve better that some of the pieces are family heirlooms ~ love that! Have a great week.
Hi ladies! Thanks for your nice comment on our recent post. It is a pleasure to make your virtual acquaintance. (: Found your post really interesting. I love the Victorian period. Such attention to detail. Come visit us again soon. xo
I loved this post. It is beautiful and informative.
I, too, enjoy the history of the pieces you show. Manners and customs were so formal back in those days. A lady's good reputation was always at stake. There is much to be said for that still. Thanks for sharing such pretty pieces.
Such a lovely post. Thank you for sharing such personal history!
Thanks for sharing those beautiful things and its history behind them. Look forward to another great post....
As always a visual feast my friends! What a fabulous collection! I have long tried to collect a few chatelaine items but they're bloomin' expensive! Especially the wonderful little sewing sets in silver *sighs* And I still think a vinegrette would come in handy quite often *winks* Loved everything! Vanna
Wow, those are so pretty, with some interesting facts I didn't know. The vinaignette was my favorite because I thought it was so unique looking. The Victorian ladies were so charming, and it is an era that I have always loved. Thank you for an interesting and wonderful post.
~Sheri at Red Rose Alley
What a Beautiful Collection and so informative! Thank you for coming by my Post-Halloween Post. I'm thinking perhaps Families might have chosen Events over door-to-door Trick-Or-Treating? My G-Kids were fortunate to be able to do both.
Blessings from the Arizona Desert... Dawn... The Bohemian
Bonjour Patti (and Paula),
Thank you so much for visiting me! How wonderful, for now I have discovered your gorgeous blog!
This post is fabulous, all of these chatelaine beauties. And I love the vintage photographs. What treasures.
I, too, began blogging last May. When the creativity asks to be released, there really is no choice, is there?:)
Merci and blessings to you..
- Irina
Facinating!!! Wow, those items are absolutely beautiful and I learned something I didn't know!!! What a wonderful post! Hope you girls are doing well!!
Wow - the ladies really did have style then!! love the sewing and pencil cases and the fancy snuff box is just adorable, but I'm thinking when that thing came out, the fancy lady using it was hiding behind the velvet draperies!
I have always loved the old chatelaines and when I didn't want one they were at all the quilt shows in Kentucky.
I made myself one and showed it on my blog when I first started my blog. I went back to see it and a lot of my pictures are gone? I tell you what i don't understand this blogger site (any help)
mine is not near as ornate as yours but it hangs in my kitchen on a mirror with a charm necklace with a baby spoon on it
It is so nice to have family treasures
I have always loved the old chatelaines and when I didn't want one they were at all the quilt shows in Kentucky.
I made myself one and showed it on my blog when I first started my blog. I went back to see it and a lot of my pictures are gone? I tell you what i don't understand this blogger site (any help)
mine is not near as ornate as yours but it hangs in my kitchen on a mirror with a charm necklace with a baby spoon on it
It is so nice to have family treasures
What awesome treasures you have. I enjoyed seeing them all and learning some of the history.
I learned so much from your post! All of these pieces are lovely and just another example of vintage, utilitarian pieces being beautiful treasures today. Thanks for all of the great photos and info. ~ Sue
Chere Paula,
So kind of you to stop by! That yummy post has brought out some great comments :) So fun!
You blog is so beautiful..
Thank you for your compliment regarding creativity, and I return the compliment!!
Merci, and a splendid day to you,
Hi Ladies, I have always loved sterling vanity items and chatelaines. You have a fabulous collection. Thanks for sharing this at the Open House Party.
I enjoyed reading this informative post. I had heard of chatelaines, but I don't think I've actually seen one. I love how you give the history behind your wonderful objects.
Hi Patti! Oh, these beautiful items are amazing! I don't know if I have ever heard of them before. You're so informative. I enjoyed seeing the sweet photos too!
Thanks so much for popping in to see my little Carter!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Hi Patti this post was really off the chain :)
I love the post and its wealth of information. My grandmother had one and I as a little girl loved playing with it, I felt so grown up with it on and the coins she would place inside for me to buy a penny candy at the candy shop.
Thank you for your beautiful comment while you visited, I am honored that you would take the time to take such notice of my art and the passion put into it making it a piece with a Nordic calm to it.
Have a inspiring calm weekend
WOW! I love this post! What a history lesson, plus all the beautiful old "things". Who knew? You are absolutely right, what more could a lady ask for. You girls ROCK!! Loved it... Have a great evening.
What a very interesting post! I feel like I've learned something I didn't know before. It was nice to hear about the history and then actually see the objects you're referring to. Just think how every single thing had to be kept small and attractive in those days. Now, we can just throw it in our purse and no one will even see it!
So interesting...I've seen elements of the chatelaine (dance card, compact, pill box, etc), but I've never heard that word before or knew that they hung the items from a chain. We need one of these for our cell phones and credit cards so we don't need a purse! Great pictures and love learning something new. Thanks for stopping by my blog (sewing machine drawers). Take care and have a great weekend.
That is such an amazingly informative post...thank you! I took a class on the Vikings a year or so ago and remember reading about the Viking women having a similar "belt" around their waist that was both practical and symbolic. They would hang a key or scissors or whatever from it and not only did it serve to keep her "stuff" handy, but it also symbolized that she was the keeper of the home. Love it!
I would like to invite you to my weekend linkup. It involves anything related to homemaking: recipes, sewing, decorating, crafts, DIY, a story about what you did today, etc! There's a button at the top of my sidebar you can grab to help you to remember to come back each week. This week's link up will be posted shortly after midnight tonight PST!
Hope you have a lovely weekend!
Hi Patti & Paula!
Thank you so much for stopping by to visit with me. I have thoroughly enjoyed your post on Chatelaines... I've recently become intrigued by them and loved your grandmother's beautiful pieces.
I'm thrilled to have found you too and will be back regularly. You are beautiful ladies!
Hugs & blessings, Sherry
Hi there...what an interesting post, I have learnt so much...Dzintra xo
Hi Patti & Paula....
What a wonderful post and one that talks to me since I collect chatelaines but mainly for the sewing tools. I had to laugh at your comment about the ladies actually carrying "snuff", ok then...lol. Lovely post and thank you for stopping by my blog.
Enjoy your weekend!
I think this item needs to be resurrected! I actually have a little thimble and a very cleverly diguised cocktail stirrer that belong on a chatelaine. Beautiful post.
Soo pretty! I always love learning the history behind your items ladies!! Thanx for coming to the party!
Y'all find some of the best treasures. The tiny compacts must have held just enough powder to "powder one's nose". :) and vinaigrette's are always so interesting.I have a fondness for tussie mussie holders, too.
Wonderfully informative post.
I just love reading your post, and the pictures are always so pretty!
Could you imagine if we used those today? Considering how much many of us carry in our purses!
Your post is fabulous! I'd love to be sporting one of the chatelaines right now. :-)
Hi Patti and Paula,
You guys have the absolute BEST collections! I only recently found out about Chatelaines, though I have had a sterling mechanical pencil for decades! It has a loop for attaching it to the chain. Thanks for sharing and teaching us a few things!
What a neat and informative post.
You have such beautiful pieces!
Enjoy the weekend.
Your family has some of the most fantastic treasures. Your post are amazing, almost like being transported back in time...I love that!!! Have a fantastic weekend.
What a great post! I love all of the information and LOVE those pieces.
Have a great day.
Thanks for stopping by to visit me!
As you can imagine, I love your silver pieces and so many are family pieces, how marvelous!
What beautiful items, and to have something like that from someone so special from your life. It is nice that you give a little history into each item. I love your blog, and for sure I've learned so much. Makes me wonder also about how they put on their powder back then with such little powder puffs.
I love your post, history and beautiful pics, thanks for sharing!
A beautiful as well as very interesting post.
Dearest Patti,
First of all, I find you to be an exquisite writer; your comment on my post was beautifully written. How important it is to know both dimensions; the dimension of the larger, unseen picture, but also the reality of how our small but IMPORTANT part in the whole matter really DOES MATTER. AND NOW FOR THIS GLORIOUS POST!!!!!!!!!!!! I Love to visit places like this where keen attention to the history of such a beautiful object are presented with such spectacular photos and prose. My goodness, leave it to the French to come up with such fantastic beauty for every day objects. LA JOIE DE VIVRE, par excellence!
Have a wonderful week my dearest! Anita
That was such a lovely informative post! It is lovely to have family treasures especially.
I guess the Victorian era's idea of a fanny pack?? Just kidding wink wink!!! Of course who could resist such beauty!? I love the history you've shared! Such pretty items! Thanks so much for being a part of Pearls and Lace Thursday...this post was a perfect addition!
blessing, Doni
Hey Patti, thank you for the lovely comment on my blog.
I am your new follower :)))
Love from Belgium,
What a fascinating post – so much detail and information – I had no idea. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Great post. I have one of those pencils that I made into a pin. It's neat to be able to use such a treasure. Great to have your post be a part of Seasonal Sundays.
- The Tablescaper
Patti and Paula, I enjoy your blog so much. I love the history lesson that goes with the beautiful vignettes. I'd love to go antiquing with you two!
What a wonderful treasure. I have seen these before. Such fun to admire and to imagine how they were used. Thank you for linking it up with Home Sweet Home!
Hi! Just wanted to thank you so much for linking up with my homemaking weekend link-up! Each week, I feature a couple of posts that I thought were exceptionally awesome...Would you be interested in allowing me to feature this post this coming weekend? If so, would you give me permission to use one of your photos in that post? If so, please let me know and indicate which photo I have permission to post.
Have a lovely week and I hope to see you back this weekend for the link-up!
what an incredible post! so educational and so beautiful. you two are amazing. thank you for this blog. much love, michele


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A development blog of what Con Kolivas is doing with code at the moment with the emphasis on linux kernel, MuQSS, BFS and -ck.
Tuesday 7 May 2013
BFS 0.430, -ck1 for linux-3.9.x
Full ck patch:
BFS only patch:
The full set of incremental patches is here:
The changes to BFS include a resync from BFS 0.428, updated to work with changes from the latest mainline kernel, and numerous CPU accounting improvements courtesy of Olivier Langlois (thanks again!).
For those who tried the -ck1 release candidate patch I posted, this patch is unchanged. The only issue that showed up was a mostly cosmetic quirk with not being able to change the CPU accounting type, even though it appears you should be able to. BFS mandates high res IRQ accounting so there is no point trying to change it.
Lately my VPS provider (rapidxen) has been nothing short of appalling with incredible amounts of downtime, packet loss and IP changes without notification. They also repeatedly send me abuse complaints that I have to respond to for my software being (falsely) tagged as viruses. Luckily I have a move planned in the near future - including where and how - when time permits, but if you find my server doesn't respond, apologies.
EDIT: There were some fairly dramatic CPU offline code changes to mainline (YET AGAIN!) and the changes to BFS to make it work were fairly significant so there may once again be issues with power off/reboot/suspend/hibernate. It gets tiresome watching the same code being rehashed in many different ways... "because this time we'll do it right".
42 comments:
- Anonymous7 May 2013 at 22:06
thanks! now waiting for graysky's "official" benchmark before applying the patch :)
ReplyDeleteReplies- Anonymous8 May 2013 at 11:59
quick q.
I see in your tests you are compiling with -j9, isn't the i7-3770 an 8 core cpu and doesn't Con recommend compiling with -j(num of cores) with bfs?
Also I can't post on your blog as you don't allow anon. You are a very astute reader. I edited my blog post with the following explanation as well as unlocked it to anonymous posters (here comes the spam).
"Note for those of you really paying attention: Both benchmarks used `make -j9 ...` even though the 3770k is a quad (4 physical + 4 virtual=8). I am aware that it is recommended NOT to use the x+1 formula for kernels running the BFS but felt that in order to fairly compare both schedulers, this needed to be held constant. That said, I have done some experiments where I varied the make flags (8, 9, 10) and found that there was no statistically significant difference on the BFS."
- Anonymous7 May 2013 at 22:19
The release candidate ran for days without issues on my MacMini.
Also I don't have any time accounting issues any more as with previous BFS patch releases. But this could have been a bug of 'make oldconfig': I just learned this method is broken when upgrading major kernel releases!
A big warning: Use 'make defconfig' instead after a major kernel release! Greetings and many thanks from Hamburg, Germany
Ralph Ulrich Con, graysky has found out that increasing tick rate from 300 Hz to 1 kHz eliminates hanging on reboot. Could that be useful for fixing the issue properly and could you explain why it behaves so… unpredictably?
ReplyDeleteRepliesThat's hardly a fix if it depends on a certain Hz value being plugged in. I can't think of a reason offhand.
That is the first bug report to my knowledge that shows this behavior without the BFS patched kernel. Would be really interesting to see if his/her problem goes away by increasing the tick rate...Graysky that is MOST interesting - assuming he really is running a vanilla kernel. As has been the case before, BFS may simply be more likely to bring out mainline bugs due to its design expressing race conditions more easily.
Deleteck, This is totally the case.
Remember the problem that I mention to you
With BFS, you get the problem with less than 50 iterations while with vanilla kernel, it is much rarer. It took over 3000 iterations to fail.
Con, another bugreport.
After hibernating-resuming cycle I get strange vmstat output:
[pf@spock]:[~][0]% vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
4294967295 0 0 12262312 51716 1016868 0 0 23 25 269 296
8 1 91 0
As you see 4294967295 value is abnormal. Same report came from another user:
There is a problem though, now after hibernate-resume vmstat often displays
4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) as the first value (The number of runnable processes),
in addition to normal values like 0, 1, etc.. So the kernel gives wrong
process statistics. (I couldn't catch this bogus value in /proc/stat where it
supposedly comes from, though. Probably because each time I looked at the file
the process that I used for this was counted as runnable by the kernel, thus
resetting the number of runnable processes to zero.)
I definitely don't observe this behaviour before hibernation. And I don't
remember having this issue at the times of older kernels (3.5? 3.2?) when
hibernation was usable to me.
Observe that with bare -ck. How can I help to get that fixed?RepliesRight about now, about the only thing that would help me is another coder since I'm having trouble scheduling in time for BFS due primarily to real life commitments and less so other code distractions. I keep hoping for more time but it seems I only have less time with each kernel release.
Delete- Anonymous28 May 2013 at 02:15
Some time ago there was at least one skilled coder by the name Chen (RIFS patch), and also others who posted unofficial bfs ports or patches... Are you still around, guys? Can you lend a hand?
- Anonymous28 May 2013 at 17:47
Hello, I try to compile kernel 3.9.4 in ubuntu 12.10 with ck patchset and BFQ but get this error http://pastebin.com/rJSitgZb. Someonbe can help me? Thanks
ReplyDelete - Anonymous1 June 2013 at 09:02
I don't like seeing you dropping patches. But when you're on the run...
The following sub-patches seem to harm performance/ interactivity on my old computer:
I'm making heavy use of /dev/shm that gets partially swapped out, as I use it as a ramdisk.
4GB swap (on 2nd disk)
3GB /dev/shm
(Read the other setup from my previous postings, please.)
With your 2 patches mentioned above, I'd get glitches and stuttering in video-playback while using /dev/shm with swapping in parallel.
Maybe, I'm the last Unicorn you have, to test your patches with an old machine.
Best regards,
ManuelReplies- Anonymous2 June 2013 at 20:47
Hi Manuel
I think these special patches target special use cases (battery life etc). I myself don't use them but use my own optimizations:
rcu boost up
no no-hertz
300 ticks instead of thousand ticks.
Greetings from Hamburg, from where in sunshine I can see the flooding bad weather in the east.
Ralph Ulrich - Anonymous3 June 2013 at 03:49
Hi Ralph,
nice reading you again!
What does the 300 ticks vs. 1000 (=BFS default) better?
Regarding the RCU boosting, I've made good experiences with the following:
[CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU=y is appropriate for my uniprocessor/-core system, btw.]
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO=99 <-- making it realtime
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_DELAY=331 <-- using a prime number to avoid reoccurrences, smaller than default=500
Manuel - Anonymous3 June 2013 at 19:58
NO_HZ is proposed to spare energy: When idle do no more irq wakeups. But I do instead:
- no NO_HZ
- CONFIG_HZ_1000 down to CONFIG_HZ_300
This also safes energy when idle 70 percentage and without the problems of NO_HZ set. And - unsure about - it provides a better throughput on highload, because the less irq context switches !?
Isn't a possible intervention of 300 times a second enough for me as user? I mean, even case of playing games? The unreasonable high 1000 Hz was introduced because of worst case experience of waiting times of over a second. But this prevents BFS as the scheduler!
I set CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO=18 , which results a process rcub/0 with prio -19. I need this lower abs number than the process irq/21-b43 with prio -51, because I have seen my wify connection got unreliable otherwise. Manuel, htop shows with push F6 and select sorting column your system priorities.
Ralph Ulrich - Anonymous4 June 2013 at 08:17
thanks for remembering me of CONFIG_HZ_300. I know, you've proposed this some months or even a year or more ago. Dunno, why I've abandonned that setting. But what I definitely remember is I got better scores in WCG (www.worldcommunitygrid.org) with CONFIG_HZ_300.
I completely don't understand your second paragraph beginning with "Isn't a possible...".
But currently I'm running a 3.9.4 with my optimizations and your 300 Hz. Let's see.
BTW: My htop (openSUSE 12.3) seems to have problems, that top doesn't show up: Orphaned processes that display, but that really aren't running any more. Maybe htop is dead? Or at least unusable?!
Manuel - Anonymous5 June 2013 at 18:45
I thought 1000 + nohz was better for responsivity? Is 300 better for bfs on recent mobile cpus?
Delete - Anonymous7 June 2013 at 08:18
It's the old give some and get some topic. Interactivity for throughput in I/O or vice versa. The 300 Hz don't make ALL things better on my old system, it stays old. The same is valid for the BFQ I/O scheduler. You need to test it for yourself.
For now we even don't have a 'Responsiveness-Benchmark' so far, what is a real shame!
Manuel Responsiveness-Benchmark? Try this one: https://github.com/pfactum/kernelat/
Delete- Anonymous10 June 2013 at 07:45
Thank you for providing your work to us. Can you, please, provide a more detailed description of what it does before I use it (on the page and in a in-tree readme) and why you call it "silly".
Manuel It's silly because I guess it's better to use perf subsystem.
kernelat launches child process and measures time from calling system() to entering child's main(). Launching more children at the same time can give us some responsiveness value.
- Anonymous8 June 2013 at 03:48
Just to let you know that I tested your BFS patch v0.430 during a couple of weeks, but had to revert to a vanilla kernel because BFS causes mencoder to deadlock when using multiple cores to encode some videos (about 1 in 3 videos)...
Thierry. - Anonymous11 June 2013 at 03:59
No, no log message, just mencoder stopping dead in its encoding and sitting there, using 0% CPU forever. It was always during the second pass of a 2 passes encoding (VBR).
And no, I'm not using any other kernel patch, just the vanilla Linux kernel...
Thierry. - Anonymous13 June 2013 at 17:33
I was reading about some power-efficiency scheduler patches who haven't been merged in mainline yet (at http://lwn.net/Articles/546664/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/552885/)
I wonder if BFS needs something like this too and how does it compare in terms of power usage with cfs? - Anonymous16 June 2013 at 04:33
For those of you also using the BFQ I/O scheduler...
they've brought out a new release: "v6r2 for 2.6.38 - 3.9.0" containing quite a bunch of fixes
Announcement: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/bfq-iosched/BcT3HBmQO5M
Patches: http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/3.9.0-v6r2/
(for older kernels browse the parent directory)
Best regards, Manuel - Anonymous27 June 2013 at 10:15
I second that:
would be nice to know, yeah
CFS is significantly less efficient than BFS and there are regularly from time to time small interruptions in e.g. audio playback - even when heavily tuned ...
thanks ! thanks for sharing the article. i had been looking for this!
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Bonds: 747, just as we get word that the BALCO investigation could be winding down soon...
I'm really ticked about this NCAA baseball/Louisville blogger thing, so I'm going to go off for a minute. If you aren't interested, feel free to scroll down past this...
NCAA vs. Bloggers: I cannot stress this enough – the NCAA couldn't have been MORE wrong for ejecting a reporter from a college newspaper who was blogging about a baseball super-regional from the press box.
There are lots of angles, but tis is the part I am going to focus on: It showed a complete tone-deafness to the realities of sports-media production and consumption.
To not realize that live-blogging has become THE most effective and most efficient form of reporting and analysis of sports events exposes the NCAA's ignorance.
I love the fact that the reporter could have been at home, live-blogging the game on TV, without incident. But because he chose to – y'know, actually get off his ass and report from the game, too – he gets punished for it.
The reality of the newspaper sports reporter is this: You better be able to file your game coverage for the actual newspaper edition... AND the newspaper's online edition... AND live-blog, when necessary.
Particularly during the day, when fans are at work and looking for the freshest content, live-blogging is a great way to build an audience and credibility. And it's a huge value to the consumers, too.
Meanwhile, for the NCAA, why would you try to tamp down on something that is promoting your product? So: It's OK for reporters to cover the game in the newspaper the next day, but not OK for the game to be covered online in real time? Apparently.
What twisted logic, particularly for a sport (college baseball) that can use all the media traction it can get. It's not like it's March Madness. Do they really think that fans reading this reporter's live-blog are going to NOT tune in to the game because of it?
If anything, the reporter is appealing to fans who are already inclined to enjoy and follow college baseball. This type of coverage enhances their interest... ultimately, that's GREAT for the NCAA, not a threat.
(The real threat is having the universe of sports bloggers rally around this cause, ripping the NBA in the process. Hmm: I wonder if the mainstream media would have picked this up as their cause, too, if it has been an indie sports-blogger and not a traditional newspaper reporter who happened to be blogging.)
The NCAA needs to do a 180 on this policy now, if only because it makes the most sense for their business.
Eric McErlain has a must-read on this topic.
John Daly saga takes wild turn: His wife Sherrie claims that he assaulted HER, then scratched HIMSELF to try to cover it up, claiming that she attacked him with a steak knife. Yes, it just got weirder...
NBA Finals: Game 3 tonight, the first-ever NBA Finals game for the city of
The Finals were over before they even began. And, while a win tonight would only put the Spurs up 3-0 (and not clinch the series outright), it would effectively end the Finals.
Here's the question: Without the Sopranos finale to use as an excuse, will the NBA get anyone (outside of
MLB Stud: Raul Ibanez, who had 2 2-run HR, and the Mariners won their fourth game in a row (8/9).
MLB: Harold Reynolds is reinventing himself as an online presence, with a new deal to blog and do online-video for MLB.com. I get the sense he would rather be on TV, but if it helps, Harold, I think you're making the right move by going online-only. Tons more upside.
NFL: McNabb practices, ahead of schedule. That just means that the fans' impatience with him will be a few weeks ahead of schedule, too.
More NBA: Kudos the Magic for offering a refund to any fan who bought season tickets off the Billy Donovan signing... Kobe Bryant has the No. 1-selling jersey in the NBA. Really?... the Pistons won't fire Flip Saunders. Why?...
This J.R. Smith story just got a lot worse: The passenger riding with Smith died. This could get much more complicated for him.
WNBA: Remember when Chamique Holdsclaw was going to be the WNBA's Michael Jordan? Never happened. She retired, MJ-like potential left unfulfilled.
Hot Blogger Bracket, Round 2! Don't forget to vote. I'm in a tight battle with Signal to Noise. (Meanwhile, check out the drama in the NL West Region, where top-seeded Will Leitch of Deadspin is being hammered by Matt Jones of KentuckySportsBlog.)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Looks like Target Corp. will be feeling the financial pain for a while from the theft of credit card numbers and other information from millions of its customers.
The nation's second largest discounter said Wednesday that its profit in the fourth quarter fell 46 percent on a revenue decline of 5.3 percent as the breach scared off customers worried about the security of their private data.
While Target said sales have been recovering since the breach was disclosed in mid-December, the company expects business to be muted for some time: It issued a profit outlook for the current quarter and full year that was below Wall Street estimates.
The results come more than two months after Target disclosed that personal credit card data from millions of Target customers was stolen by hackers who targeted credit card terminals in its stores.
During a conference call with investors on Wednesday, Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel said the retailer has been updating shoppers early and often on the facts of its ongoing investigation, offering free credit card monitoring to any customer shopping at a Target store and working on equipping its locations with more secure technology.
"We are committed to making things right," he said.
Target's business has been affected by the breach in a number of ways. During the quarter, the number of transactions fell 5.5 percent, in part because of shoppers leery of buying at Target following the breach.
The company also has faced costs related to the breach. Target said it can't yet estimate how much the data breach will cost it in total.
But in the fourth quarter, it said the breach resulted in $17 million of net expenses, with $61 million of total expenses partially offset by the recognition of a $44 million insurance receivable.
Target said expenses may include payments to card networks to cover losses and expenses for reissuing cards, lawsuits, government investigations and enforcement proceedings. The costs could hurt the company's first-quarter and full-year earnings, it said.
Target, which based in Minneapolis, earned $520 million, or 81 cents per share, for the three months that ended on Feb. 1. That compares with a profit of $961 million, or $1.47 per share, a year earlier.
Revenue fell to $21.5 billion from $22.7 billion. Revenue at stores open at least a year, an important retail measurement, fell 2.5 percent.
In addition to the breach, Target's results were hurt by stumbles in its expansion into Canada, its first foray outside the U.S.
Analysts had expected a profit of 80 cents on revenue of 21.5 billion, according to FactSet estimates.
Investors sent shares of Target up more than 7 percent, or $3.98 to $60.49 on Wednesday as the earnings beat Wall Street estimates by a penny and met analysts' sales estimates. The increase comes as Target's stock had fallen 11 percent since the company disclosed the breach in mid-December. The stock is now down 5 percent since the theft was disclosed.
Still, Target has much work to do to bring back customers who are still scared to shop there.
Target disclosed on Dec. 19 data breach compromised 40 million credit and debit card accounts between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15. Then on Jan. 10 it said hackers also stole personal information – including names, phone numbers as well as email and mailing addresses – from as many as 70 million customers.
When the final tally is in, Target's breach may eclipse the biggest known data breach at a retailer, one disclosed in 2007 at the parent company of TJ Maxx that affected 90 million records.
Target says it's taking steps to sure up its business. Company executives told investors on the call that it wants to make the store "irresistible" to shoppers with trendy merchandise and discounts.
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Bold if you've read, italicize ones you fully intend to read, underline if it's a book/series you've read part but not all of. Strikethrough if you never plan to read the book or hated it.
1. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
5. A Song of Ice and Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984, by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
10. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman 12. The Wheel Of Time Series, by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm, by George Orwell 14. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
15. Watchmen, by Alan Moore
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
22. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
23. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
24. The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King
25. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
26. The Stand, by Stephen King
27. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
28. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
29. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
31. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
32. Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
33. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
38. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keys
39. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad, by David Eddings
42. The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. The Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld, by Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact, by Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z, by Max Brooks
55. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword of Truth, by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
66. The Riftwar Saga, by Raymond E. Feist67. The Shannara Trilogy, by Terry Brooks68. The Conan the Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
73. The Legend of Drizzt Series, by R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War, by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age, by Neil Stephenson
76. Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series, by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series, by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series, by Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series, by Jim Butcher
87. The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldon
90. The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis
I must say that of those I haven't read (or series I haven't finished) the only ones that really appeal are The Princess Bride and Something Wicked This Way Comes. But feel free to convince me otherwise in comments.


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A Stiletto, A Lamppost And The Soul Of Berlin
Something horrible has happened in Berlin.
You won't see it on TV or in the newspaper, but I know about it. So do my neighbors.
That's because there's a lamppost on our street, festooned with a note that reads, "A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT HAS HAPPENED." And naturally, once you see a note like that, you have to find out more.
As it turns out, the note was written by 29-year-old Maira Becke. But before I reveal her calamity, I must first explain the significance of lamp posts here in Berlin.
In this pulsating city, lampposts matter. They're virtual totem poles of information. From top to toe, they bristle with stickers and notes about all sorts of stuff.
These notes, fliers and posters are so densely packed that many lampposts have their own geology. Some, like the post on which Becke tacked her note, have grown a thick crust of paper, like a tree ring.
And every night across Berlin, thousands of fresh notes appear.
The Soul Of A City ...
A trendy neighborhood, Mitte, was once in Soviet-controlled East Berlin. The buildings that loom here are austere and imposing. You can practically feel the distant echo of an authoritarian state.
Yet, at eye level, the people have taken over the public space and are filling it with their fliers and notes.
Many of these notes are no different from those you see in cities everywhere: apartments to rent, missing cats, underground gigs, art shows and crazy night clubs.
But some fall into an entirely different category.
"They in some way allow a deep insight of the soul of the city," says Berliner Joab Nist. "These are real treasures that need to be documented, because it's part of our everyday life culture."
Nist collects these notes, which he has turned into a book and posts on a blog. And, he says, they play a remarkable role in the emotional life of this big city. Berliners use notes to complain about noisy neighbors, for example, to send romantic messages to strangers they've seen on a train.
And just to rant.
"Would the [expletive] who stole my bicycle last night kindly bring it back immediately?" says one note in Nist's collection. "Didn't you notice, the bike's barely roadworthy? More love has been poured into that bike than you have brains in your head!"
Nist says scrawling out these notes is a good form of anger management — and a far better outlet than more high-tech forums.
"That's the way you can deal with problems that instantly arise," Nist says. "If you think about a way to get rid of your anger, it's therapy, and if you think about many other topics it's just more useful that the Internet."
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And what of Becke's "horrible accident"?
Do you remember how much you loved your first really good pair of shoes? That's how Becke felt about her black 6-inch stilettos.
"This was the first very good shoe that I had," Becke says. "And it was part of my confidence."
Becke is a model from Brazil. Shoes — and confidence — are important. Her special pair are made by Christian Louboutin. They cost her 800 euros, about $1,100. Quite a bit of money to pay for shoes.
The other day Becke lost one in the street on her way to work. The left shoe fell out of her backpack, she says, and she hasn't got it back.
With such a hefty price tag, "you can understand my sorrow about it," Becke says. "I was disappointed. Frustrated. Mad, angry," she says. "Everything together."
But as she went around town pinning up notes, Becke felt sure the many readers of Berlin's lampposts will look out for it.
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In disgust, Squeak gazes out the window for some relief from chaos.
A natural still life waiting.
Finally Squeak chastises me,
"Why R U SUCH a mess?!"
Ultimately he gives up and goes to sleep.
Making watercolor 'messes' in London and Paris is a good way to warm up.
Doing warmups can be fun - except when you thought they weren't going to be just a 'warm-up'.
Enfin, not a warm-up, but an Angelina I'm happy with.
Back home the mess continues minus Tom the cat.
I wonder if Squeak makes house calls?
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When your child is about 16, start thinking about where he or she will live as an adult. In most states, people with special needs are 21 or 22 years old when they become ineligible for education services through the local public school system. So start thinking: Will your child remain living with you? If so, will support personnel be needed during the day when he or she used to be at school? Are day programs for adults with special needs available in your area? If independent living is the goal, start investigating options in your community such as shared living, group homes, or apartments. Once you find a place you like, get on the waiting list if there is one.
8. Apply for Guardianship or Power of Attorney
Once children turn 18, they're considered adults in the eyes of the law. This gives your child the right to make medical and financial decisions. If he or she is not capable of this or needs your guidance, consider assuming legal guardianship or the less-restrictive power of attorney and health care proxy for his or her financial, legal, and health care affairs. This way you maintain the same supervision and control you had over these as you did when your daughter or son was younger. Hire an attorney to help with this process. This will ensure that you have all the powers you would need to assume control of your adult child's health care in the event of an emergency. If your child cannot or won't consent to you assuming power of attorney, the matter will likely be decided before a probate court judge.
9. Educate Family Members
Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other loved ones might want to help out with expenses. But explain to them the importance of not putting anything in your child's name. Have a family meeting and explain why grandpa can't leave anything to your child in his will or name your child beneficiary on his life insurance policy. The same goes for gifts of savings bonds, stocks, or cash: nothing should ever be in your child's name. And if your son or daughter will not attend college, there is no need for a 529 savings plan. Those funds can only be used for post-secondary education, not private schools, tutoring, or therapies needed before age 18. If loved ones want to leave something to your child, they can. But tell them to name the special needs trust as the beneficiary to ensure that your child holds no assets of his or her own.
10. Find an Advisor
If all of this is too overwhelming, a Certified Financial Planner™ or special needs financial planner can help.


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Finally, after much delay, we are happy to announce that the 340-ton megalith that is to be part of Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass will begin its journey to LACMA. (Our thanks go to Hanjin Shipping for generously sponsoring the transportation.) It will start moving this Tuesday, February 28, and will arrive to LACMA (very) early in the morning on Saturday, March 10.
Megalith slated to become part of Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass, prepared for transport to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012, © 2012 Michael Heizer, photo by Tom Vinetz
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Megalith slated to become part of Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass, prepared for transport to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012 (detail), © 2012 Michael Heizer, photo by Tom Vinetz
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I'm back from the warm, sunny and fast paced Dubai. After a lovely 2 week vacation with my parents I come back home to a cold Germany! But it's good to be home and my head is already spinning around with many new ideas and recipes I'd like to present and realize.
Before I left though, I did manage to squeeze in this month's Daring Bakers challenge. It was just too scrumptious not to!
Our lovely hostess this month was Mary of one of my fave blogs Alpineberry. Mary chose a wonderful recipe for us this month. It was straight forward but still challenging enough to tickle our baking fetishes. She chose a Bostini Cream Pie.
A Bostini Cream Pie is a take on the Boston Cream Pie, which basically is a vanilla layer cake filled with cream and topped with chocolate glaze. The Bostini Cream Pie has been adjusted to give you a gorgeous vanilla bean custard cream, topped with an orange chiffon cake and then drizzled with a rich chocolate glaze. Sounds wonderful doesn't it? Now you know why I did not want to miss out on this.
I decided to invite a few friends over for a kind of pre-vacation dinner. I mean if I was going to be making someting so rich and delicious, I might as well share it with friends - right?
As it is the case with each challenge, we were allowed a few modifications. For this challenge the modifications were:
- We could replace the large volume of orange juice in the cake recipe and did not have to use orange for the flavoring. The flavor could be substituted with a flavor that we thought complements the other components as long as the chiffon cake was kept "light colored". Nothing "dark" like chocolate or coffee/espresso.
- As the serving size was quite large, we were free to half the recipe. However no guarantees were given that the recipes for the chiffon cake and custard would scale down successfully without affecting the final product.
- We could make as much or as little glaze as we liked. Scaling is straightforward since it's 1 part chocolate to 1 part butter.
- We could play around with the "size" of the dessert.
- High altitude modifications were allowed as long as we stayed "true" to the recipe.
- Conversion for certain dietary restrictions like gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan etc. was also allowed.
- Recipe ingredient exception allowed only if allergy or an ingredient not available or cost prohibitive in our region.
Today you will be seeing a lot of these fantastic treats. Our group as sky-rocketed to over 200 members! So my one word of advice is to eat before you start surfing the blogs today!
Printable version here.
180 ml (3/4 cup) whole milk
30g (2 3/4 tablespoons) cornstarch
1 whole egg - beaten
9 egg yolks - beaten
895 g (3 3/4 cups) heavy whipping cream
1/2 vanilla bean - you can also use vanilla extract if you do not have a bean on hand
95 g (1/2 cup) + 1 tablespoon sugar
Chiffon Cake:
150 g (1 1/2 cups) cake flour
145 g (3/4 cup) superfine sugar
1 1/3 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 teaspoon salt
80 ml (1/3 cup) canola oil
3 to 4 (1/3 cup) egg yolks - beaten
180 ml (3/4 cup) fresh orange juice
10 g (1 1/2 tablespoons) grated orange zest
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
8(1 cup)large egg whites
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
Chocolate Glaze:
8 ounces semi or bittersweet chocolate
8 ounces unsalted butter
To prepare the custard:
Combine the milk and cornstarch in a bowl and blend until smooth. Whisk in the whole egg and yolks, beating until smooth. Combine the cream, vanilla bean and sugar in a saucepan and carefully bring to a boil. When the mixture just boils, whisk a ladleful into the egg mixture to temper it, then whisk this back into the cream mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Strain the custard and pour into 8 large custard cups or ramekin forms. I poured my custard in 6 flat oven-proof dishes. Refrigerate to chill.
To prepare the chiffon cakes:
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C (325 F). Spray or grease 8 ramekin molds with nonstick cooking spray or oil. You may use 7-ounce custard cups, oven proof wide mugs or even large foil cups.
Sift the cake flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add the oil, egg yolks, orange juice, zest and vanilla. Stir until smooth, but do not over-beat.
Beat the egg whites until frothy. Add the cream of tartar and beat until soft peaks form. Gently fold the beaten whites into the orange batter. Fill the greased molds nearly to the top with the batter.
Bake approximately 25 minutes, until the cakes bounce back when lightly pressed with your fingertip. Do not over-bake. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack. When completely cool, remove the cakes from the molds. Cover the cakes to keep them moist.
To prepare the glaze:
Chop the chocolate into small pieces. Place the butter in a saucepan and heat until it is just about to bubble. Remove from the heat and add the chocolate. Stir to melt. Pour through a strainer and keep warm.
To assemble:
Cut a thin slice from the top of each cake to create a flat surface. Place a cake flat-side down on top of the custard. Cover the tops with warm chocolate glaze. Serve immediately.
This was incredibly smooth and rich. The consistency of the cake was wonderfully smooth - just like chiffon. Paired with the thick custard and the rich chocolate sauce the dessert was simply delicious. My guests were simply bowled over by this dessert. It is everything one loves about a dessert - sweet custard with moist cake and a splash of decadent chocolate. Soeren loved the thick creamy custard and wanted extras on the cake. Tom enjoyed the lovely texture of the cake and as for me I loved every bite of the Bostini Cream Pie - custard, cake and chocolate, right down to the last spoonful.
Would I make this again?
I certainly will. I love the way this was quite easy to whip up offering maximum taste. It's the type of dessert that fits perfectly into a fancy dinner party as you can make this a day ahead. For me it was a brilliant way to offer my guests an extravagant finale to a simpler meal. And I am sure in the two weeks I was away they certainly did not forget me and my desserts ;-)
What did I learn from this challenge?
I learned that fancy desserts and cakes do not have to take too long to make. I also learned that it takes a whole lotta eggs to make a sinfully good custard LOL!
Thanks to Mary for this fantastic challenge. It was fun and I was glad that it was easy enough to follow so that I was able to fit it into by busy schedule just before leaving to Dubai.
You'll find a list of all the scrumptious recipes I created since I joined the awesome group here. Have a browse through and dare to give some a try!
Now I am back and look forward to spoiling you all with a lot of great new recipes, ideas and photographs. And also stay tuned for my tales and stories about Dubai.
For more Bostini Cream Pies surf on through the wonderful list of talented Daring Bakers located on the blogroll.
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