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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...When you travel with a group of strangers, you quickly learn about food preferences and the group's tolerance for new foods or flavors. Most people are adventurous, but I will never forget one traveler who quite unwittingly left me flabbergasted. I nearly choked when she complained, in tones far from sotto voce, that they served too much Chinese food in China. We were, of course, at a banquet in China, and whether your instinct is to laugh or cry, it was, pure and simple, one of life's "died and gone to heaven" moments. When we were in India, the people who planned our meals worked really hard to see that wouldn't happen. Western food was always included in the menu and the one dish that appeared every evening was Chicken Stroganoff. It apparently was viewed as a dish that would please both Eastern and Western sensibilities. Now, Beef Stroganoff was an enormously popular dish in the 60's and 70's, and most of us who cooked and entertained during that time had enough of it back then to last a lifetime. For that reason, I queued patiently for the exotic curries, daals and the gorgeous breads that are the hallmarks of the Indian table. There were, however, people who preferred the stroganoff and more Western fare. The Silver Fox liked the stroganoff, so once we were home I decided to make a version of it that we could both enjoy and that I could use in a pinch when had unexpected company. This is a 30 minute meal that is suitable for family, close friends and very informal gatherings. It won't make your reputation as a cook, neither will it break it. It is very easy to make and the only caution I have to share with you regards the sauce. If you make it with sour cream don't let it boil. It will curdle. I serve this dish with buttered parsley noodles or rice. Like all beige dishes, it cries for a side of bright green or red vegetables. This makes a nice meal. Those of you who try it will be pleased. Here's the recipe.
1-1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut in 1-inch pieces
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, more if needed
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, more if needed
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup minced shallots
8 ounces sliced mushrooms
1/4 cup Marsala
1 (10.5-oz.) can condensed chicken broth, undiluted
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon minced fresh tarragon, plus 6-8 sprigs for garnish
1/4 cup creme fraiche or sour cream
Optional: 1 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in 1 tablespoon water
1) Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil and butter in large saucepan over medium heat until it shimmers. Add shallots and cook, stirring, until they're a light golden color, about 3 minutes. Add mushrooms and cook until softened. Turn heat to medium-high, add the chicken pieces, and cook, stirring, until golden on the outside and almost cooked through, about 5 minutes. Transfer mixture to a plate.
2) Return pan to burner. Turn heat to high and pour in Marsala, scraping brown bits from bottom of pan with a wooden spoon. Boil until liquid is reduced by half, about 1 minute. Add chicken stock, stir, boil until the liquid begins to look syrupy, about 2 minutes. Reduce the heat and pour any juices that have accumulated on the plate underneath the chicken back into the pan. Add mustard and minced tarragon and simmer for 3 minutes.
3) Turn off heat and whisk in creme fraiche or sour cream, stirring until smooth. Turn heat to low, taste and salt/pepper more if necessary. If you would like a thicker sauce add cornstarch mixture to pan and cook until thickened.
4) Add chicken mixture to pan and gently heat over low heat until the stroganoff is warmed through; do not let boil. Serve immediately over noodles or rice. Yield: 4 servings.
You might also enjoy these recipes:
Chicken Stroganoff - Chicho's Kitchen
Kickin' Chicken Stroganoff - Ma, What's for Dinner
Not Your Mother's Fattening Stroganoff - Mother Rimmy's Cooking Light Done Right
Crockpot Chicken Stroganoff - Angie's Big Love of Food
Chicken Stroganoff with Peas and Mashed Potatoes - The Food Pornographer
Chicken Stroganoff - The Seattle Times
Classic Chicken Stroganoff with a Twist - Skinny Kitchen
Chicken Stroganoff - Mr. Food
Smokey Chicken Stroganoff - Anne's Food
Easy Chicken Stroganoff - Blissfully Domestic


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Near the back of the North YMCA in Columbus, Ohio, several men and women line up on a row of beat-up platforms. They take turns practicing the two lifts that make up Olympic weightlifting; the "Snatch," and the "Clean and Jerk."
The goal? To hoist large amounts of weight from the floor into an overhead position.
Among the lifters here is 5-foot-8 inch, 350-pound Holley Mangold. She is the epitome of power, in appearance, attitude and athletic ability.
Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be in the Olympics. I just hadn't found the sport that was going to take me there ... Now with weightlifting, I finally have found what I've been missing all those years.
Mangold, 22, has spent years trying on different sports in pursuit of her Olympic dreams. When she finally tried her hand at weightlifting, she knew she'd found her calling.
Shopping Around For The Right Fit
Women first began competing in Olympic weightlifting in the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia. While two American women won medals that year, the U.S. women's team has not brought one home since.
Marigold hopes to break that streak this summer.
Today at the North YMCA, Mangold is focusing on technique.
"Obviously, my strength isn't going anywhere. So I'm just trying to be technically together and also get my mind right."
But before "getting her mind right," Mangold spent a lifetime just trying to find the right sport.
"Honestly, ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be in the Olympics. I just hadn't found the sport that was going to take me there yet," Mangold says. "At first I thought it was gymnastics, but you know, my body wasn't really built out for that one.
"And then I thought it was swimming, and then I thought it was track and field. And now with weightlifting, I finally have found what I've been missing all those years was that passion."
If Mangold was missing any passion growing up, that fact was lost on her mom, Therese Mangold. She recalls taking Holley ice-skating and skiing at the age of 3.
"She liked to go fast [while skating]. It didn't bother her at all if she fell," Mangold says. "And skiing was like that, too. I took her skiing probably when she was 5 or 6, and I held her in between my legs as we're going down the hill.
"She was mad at me for holding on to her, and she's swatting me off, so I finally said 'Forget it,' and I let go of her."
From Football To Weightlifting
Mangold made it down that hill just fine. She then moved on to roller-skating, softball, volleyball and then football. She played football for 12 years in her hometown of Kettering, just outside Dayton, Ohio.
Mangold's inspiration was her brother Nick Mangold, a center for the New York Jets, but she was making her own mark in the sports world in no time.
She became the first girl to play on the offensive line in a high school state championship game. By the time she graduated in 2008, she held several state and national records in the strength sport of powerlifting.
"Holley is one of the strongest females I've ever met," says former world powerlifting champion Larry Pacifico. He coached her in the sport while she was still in high school.
"She went up to the state meet and set all the records that have ever been set; squatted 525 pounds, benched 225 and dead-lifted 400 pounds," Pacifico says.
Holley's dream to compete in the Olympics propelled her from powerlifting — a non-Olympic sport — to weight lifting.
The media spotlight followed. She appeared on an episode of MTV's True Life, and she's been featured prominently on ESPN and other media outlets.
Long Odds, But Holding Strong
Mark Cannella, president of the Columbus Weightlifting Club, has been coaching Mangold at the North YMCA for the past year and a half. Initially, he planned to prepare Mangold for the 2016 Olympics — but the young weightlifter got better fast.
"The way she progressed, and the way she was moving with the weights, we knew right then that she had a shot at 2012," Cannella says.
Mangold is also trying to keep her expectations for London in check. She says gold is out of the question. The top two international competitors are lifting about 66 pounds more than their closest counterparts.
While setting a personal record may be Mangold's most obtainable goal, she still wants a medal.
"I really would like to medal at the Olympics," she says. "I'd like to get bronze, and that's what I'm shooting for.
"Are my goals going to happen? I don't know. But I'm still gonna shoot for them."
If Mangold doesn't medal, she's still got time. At only 22, there's still the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games to look forward to.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sunday Sweets: Cake Journal
Sunday, September 21, 2008
The sprinkles! The cherry! I love everything about this cake, from the colors to the cartoony angles. (If you check out her site, this is the cake used for her logo, too.)
This cake won the audience vote for Best Novelty Cake at this year's Scandinavian Cake Show. It is absolute perfection; you should go to her site to see the close-ups.
Louise, thanks for all the inspiration!
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- V. Nicharico said...
They're both beautiful!! The first one makes me think of Dr.Seuss (but that's a good thing!)
- September 21, 2008 at 9:08 AM
- Natalie, the Chickenblogger said...
Elegant and whimsical doesn't always translate in cakes, but these are exceptionally well executed. Very sweet.
- September 21, 2008 at 9:10 AM
- Bethany Scott said...
Good enough to eat! :) The top one is absolutely my favourite. Less CakeWrecks; than CakewROCKS!!
xXx - September 21, 2008 at 9:13 AM
Her site is an absolute must-see!! - September 21, 2008 at 9:18 AM
- Baughn said...
Are you sure that first cake is *real*?
It looks like something made in povray, without randomization to make it look even halfway realistic - September 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM
- Zitny Clan said...
Ahhhh, what sweet relief! I was beginning to think that it was impossible to find a decent looking cake in this world! Yum :)
- September 21, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- Kristin Weaver said...
Oh wow! Those are gorgeous cakes. I'm new to the blog. Just wanted to say how much I love the site.
- September 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM
- Laura ~Peach~ said...
I absolutely LOVE that first cake it is just whimsical and oh so cute... the second is beautiful and looks like it is begging to let you have a taste :)
- September 21, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Now THAT is what cake should look like!
- September 21, 2008 at 9:40 AM
I, cannot, for the life of me (and my computer) get her site to load.... I love beautiful cakes - and wrecks!
- September 21, 2008 at 9:47 AM
- Laura said...
Wow that first one is perfection.
- September 21, 2008 at 9:55 AM
- Kopperhead said...
Both are wonderful, I'm going to visit her site.
- September 21, 2008 at 10:07 AM
WOW. Beautiful. That second cake, THAT is what a 'cupcake cake' should look like.
- September 21, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Unknown said...
Yum! They look like cartoon cakes from Toontown. I wouldn't mind one of these!
- September 21, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- mamagotcha said...
Maybe you're not as down on cupcakes as you thought you were...
- September 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- April said...
I love the first cake! How fun is that. Going to check out the site right now...
- September 21, 2008 at 10:38 AM
- Lisa said...
I was expecting a wreck. I kept looking thinking "Now WHAT can she say about THESE CAKES!" lol I didn't know you featured nicely done cakes as well.
What is it we love about a cake that pretends to be a...cake? (in this case an ovesized cupcake. :-) ) Very well executed...yes...to perfection. Going to look at her site now. - September 21, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- Artfulife said...
Those are darling! I saw a book in the bargain section of Barnes & Noble last night. It is a how to book for making "darling" kids birthday cakes. I thought to myself, this book would be great to send your way. The cakes were awful! I don't know how it ever got published. Maybe thats why it was in the bargain section.
- September 21, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- sheree said...
wow! Very impressive ;)
- September 21, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- writtenwyrdd said...
Caketastic! I am glad you do occasionally branch out to include the lovely and non-cakewrecky cakes.
- September 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM
- Jennifer Love said...
GORGEOUS! I'm pretty sure I need these. hee!
- September 21, 2008 at 12:48 PM
- sues2u2 said...
Wow! How adorable are those cakes?! She's done a great job w/ the colors & the whole scheme. What kid or "older" kid wouldn't love those?
- September 21, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Wow, these are amazing! The first one doesn't even look real - it looks ceramic or something. Gorgeous.
- September 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM
I dunno...don't these qualify as CUPCAKE CAKES?
KIDDING! :) - September 21, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- Jen said...
I would love to see the before and after if someone were to take a photo of that amazing first cake to their local grocery store and say "I want you to re-create this". A new wreck would be born.
- September 21, 2008 at 1:32 PM
What a breath of fresh air! Stunning!
- September 21, 2008 at 1:46 PM
- Leslie said...
Oh wow! Beautiful!
My problem with such amazing cakes is that I wouldn't want to cut into it!! I made a castle cake for one of my daughter's 4th birthday. I'm not great at decorating, so when this turned out like I imagined I was so impressed with myself. I almost cried when we had to cut it and serve it to the little girls :( - September 21, 2008 at 1:53 PM
- ~Jenn ODonnell Danza~ said...
Now those are beautiful cakes!
- September 21, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- fuzzandfuzzlet said...
I have one problem with these cakes.
How the heck do you eat something so beautiful? - September 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Those are terrific!
- September 21, 2008 at 3:51 PM
the first one made my mouth water.. and that's saying something D:
- September 21, 2008 at 4:19 PM
- Red Flashlight said...
These cakes look nice but they scream 'fondant!' I don't really like the taste of fondant - I'd rather save my calories for the cake inside. I sometimes wonder whether these cakes taste as good as they look.
- September 21, 2008 at 5:21 PM
- Eris said...
I guess you're ok with cakes that look like cupcakes - but not cupcakes that try to look like cakes. Is that a double standard or just a high standard?
Those cakes are beautiful. I'd be almost too sad to eat them.... almost. - September 21, 2008 at 5:22 PM
- SolaMommy said...
Cakes with fondant may be cute, but they look plastic and inedible :(
- September 21, 2008 at 5:41 PM
- Sheri said...
GOR-geous! Nice to see some beautiful work for a change instead of wrecks; but then, the wrecks are so so wrecktastic!
- September 21, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- skatej said...
I can't get the site to load either. Thought it was me but I think all the cakewreck fans have overloaded the server!
- September 21, 2008 at 8:00 PM
- Amy Ellen said...
Oh my those are darling. Okay now I just need an occasion to make that for, LOL. Way too cute.
Amy - September 21, 2008 at 8:15 PM
- Helen Ann said...
Well, see SHE used a cupcake and no one got upset..I sense a double standard!! ;) :) :) :)
Those are cool cakes! - September 21, 2008 at 9:01 PM
- Pam said...
The first one looks like it might be found in "Whoville"! Very cool cakes + I love your site...always makes me smile!
- September 21, 2008 at 9:42 PM
- Duane said...
Those cakes are so beautiful, I would be the last person to want to actually destroy the beauty and eat that cake! Wow!
- September 21, 2008 at 11:06 PM
They are so sweet looking !
- September 21, 2008 at 11:08 PM
- pika23 said...
I am REALLY super duper interested in learning how to make these types of cakes...I wonder if any craft stores or grocery chains host classes...it would be like an intro to fondant cakes I guess? How are they done exactly? You mix up the fondant mix or whatever, but do you pour it out onto a flat surface? and then put it on the cake like a sheet? I see it done on Ace of Cakes and food network challenge...but was'nt paying attention during the application of the fondant covering. I want to try and make something for my Nephews 5th Birthday...He likes the movie Cars.
I was going to do like a pound cake for the car body...like cut the pound cake in layers lengthwise and use filling...stick it back together .... then cup cake tops for the wheels...i dunno. hmmm - September 21, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Just discovered your blog, (it was a link on a friend's blog) I love it. This is so entertaining, and I'm sure brings a smile to many people's faces. My friend has cancer and is unable to update her blog as often as she would like due to her chemotherapy treatments, so has directed her readers here untl she is able to write again. Well done, I know you made my friend smile during this difficult time in her life, so Thank you. Kirsten J.
- September 22, 2008 at 4:51 AM
- Schmei said...
These truly artistic cakes help me realize just how wrecktacular the wrecks are - it's a nice juxtaposition.
- September 22, 2008 at 10:36 AM
- Sabina E. said...
now I'm really hungry. Daaaamn.
- September 22, 2008 at 11:30 AM
pika23, fondant must be kneaded like bread, and then rolled out on a flat surface. It is then draped over the cake, and you must work quickly to smooth it completely. Then you just cut off the excess with a pizza cutter and have at the decorations.
One thing to keep in mind, though, it hardens pretty...well...hard. In fact, a Scottish fiddler I once knew wrote a new tune about his wedding cake. As he started each pass on the tune, he did a longer, more tortured scrape of the bow across the strings because when they tried to cut through the fondant, it took several tries before the bride actually broke her wrist and had to spend the wedding night in the emergency room.
Makes for a darn pretty cake, though.
These are spectacular work. - September 22, 2008 at 11:31 AM
- Momma J said...
- September 22, 2008 at 12:49 PM
- Jennifer Good said...
This is beautiful! I wish I could decorate cakes that perfectly!
- September 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM
- Ronnica said...
That first one looks so some yummily delicious!
- September 22, 2008 at 5:23 PM
- KT said...
That first cake is AWESOME!
- September 22, 2008 at 9:01 PM
- Kelly said...
That top one is the most fun and amazing edible item I've seen!
- September 22, 2008 at 10:52 PM
- LindaBudz said...
- September 22, 2008 at 11:14 PM
I saw that cake at the Scandinavian Cake show!!! It was two cakes away from mine! Yea, it's a pretty cool cake. The pics don't do it justice. :)
- September 23, 2008 at 3:32 PM
wow, those are gorgeous. and i love that what could have been truly zany (and maybe a bit much) is toned down by her use of color. keeps it from being a little too 'cat in the hat'...
and that is how a cupcake cake should be done. (not those wretched how-many-cupcakes-can-you-fit-together conncoctions!) - September 23, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- Ginny said...
Those are gorgeous! That first one looks like it is made of paper, just perfect.
{I'm a scrapbooker & have seen others crafters make things like that out of paper just in case you are wondering why that was my first though, lol} - September 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM
These cakes are stunning! I will definitely check out her site.
- Julie
CakesAndKids.com - September 24, 2008 at 7:47 PM
That cupcake cake is AMAZING! I want one!
- September 25, 2008 at 11:55 PM
What is with all of the wopper-jawed (half sideways) cakes??? Is every baker drinking the vanilla extract for the alcohol content or what? This baffles me.
- September 26, 2008 at 6:51 PM
My son just said "What's wrong with the Homer Simpson Cake". . .my answer: "nothing"
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Whatever the ultimate casualty count at Sandy Hook Elementary School, every student there Friday was a victim. These kids—10 years old, 5 years old—had been through an experience ghastlier than most adults have ever survived.
Minutes after they made it to safety outside the school, having heard and seen unspeakable things, cable, network and local TV crews were waiting to interview them, live on camera, about things a kid should never have to talk about. Flanked by their parents, boys and girls too young to see an R-rated movie described being hustled to safety as bullets whizzed by them in the halls of their school.
It was arresting. It was heartbreaking. And it was rash, unnecessary and wrong. There is no good journalistic reason to put a child at a mass-murder scene on live TV, permission of the parents or not. There's not even a bad-but-practical reason to do it, beyond getting buzz and adding "color" to a story. No one learned anything they couldn't have from talking to people off-camera and privately.
(PHOTOS: Connecticut Elementary School Copes After Shooting)
Yes, reporting tragedy is terrible business, awful and necessary. Unspeakable things have happened, and it's a journalist's job to find out about them and tell the world. This happens in war, natural disasters and murders; it's a sad fact of the news. Sometimes that means interviewing victims and traumatized witnesses; sometimes that even means interviewing kids.
But there are much better ways to do this. The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, for instance, offers guidelines for journalists interviewing children in tragedies: "Avoid interviewing children at the scene. They are very likely in shock and need comfort, not questioning… find a quiet place to talk away from the chaos of emergency personnel and other victims." Also: "Be willing to wait until the parents and child are ready to talk, even if that is weeks or months after the crisis. You will likely get a much better interview." Above all: "Traumatized people often make poor decisions. Be prepared for adults or children to change their minds once the interview is complete. If this happens, don't use the material."
There's no changing your mind before a live camera, however gentle and respectful the interviewer. A non-recorded interview—as many print outlets were also running today—is a delicate enough thing to handle. But you can at least do it cautiously, take time, and give kids and parents an opportunity to rethink their decision to talk.
For that matter, a reporter off-camera can take a minute to ask some questions: "Do I need this? Is this adding to anyone's understanding of the story? Would I want my own child asked this? Is this decent?" (Not to mention: is there a consenting adult I could be talking to instead?)
An 8-year-old kid is not a media-savvy spokesperson under the best circumstances. Under the worst circumstances talking to them live on camera, when they're still processing a nightmare and are speaking words they can't edit or take back—is unconscionable. This is true even with a parent's permission, even if the kid is willing, even if he or she "seems fine." You do not know how fine that kid is. No one knows how badly affected a child is moments after surviving a mass murder: not a psychologist, not a parent, certainly not the stressed-out reporter sticking out a microphone.
It's difficult enough after a tragedy like this to answer how we can protect kids from violence in a safe place. We at least know how we can protect them from being exploited in the moments afterward. Turn the cameras away.


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Now, on to the business at hand. I hope you haven't felt there's too much of a lapse in Lady Grey posts. I've kind of been figuring out this sew-along gig as I go along! Thanks for your patience, dears. Today I want to tackle the subject of the tailoring supplies you'll need, as well as pre-shrinking your fabric. Tomorrow, I'll talk about making your muslin. Then I thought we could give ourselves the whole of next week to work out fit issues (make sure to upload muslin pics to the Flickr pool for feedback!) and then we'll begin sewing in earnest on Monday, the 27th. Sound good?
Okay, on to today's topics.
1. First, now's the time to get around to pre-shrinking your coat fabric (and your lining fabric, if necessary). I'm using a wool tweed, and I took mine to the cleaner to have it steam pressed. This is somewhat pricey (around $20, I believe), but convenient. Free, but kind of a pain, is stream pressing your fabric on your own. Some sources recommend getting the fabric damp with a spray bottle, and then pressing with a silk organza press cloth. Press section by section and allow the fabric to thoroughly dry before moving onto the next section. Update: also check out this tutorial, which comes highly recommended. It involves throwing your wool into the dryer with a couple wet towels and it looks fast, easy, and efficient.
Of course, if your fabric is machine-washable (like cotton), you'll want to put it through the wash once to pre-shrink.
As for lining, again, it depends on your fiber and the way you plan to launder the garment. I'm planning on a silk charmeuse lining, and it will be dry cleaned. I've never had a problem with shrinkage this way, but I'll probably give it a steam with a press cloth just to be on the safe side.
2. Gather your tailoring supplies. First, let me say that I'm telling you the supplies you'll need to do a more tailored version of the coat, one that involves things like padstitching and a back stay. Don't feel you have to follow this route. You can follow the pattern recommendations, which are simpler, for a perfectly lovely result. Okay, end of disclaimer. Here's what you'll need:
*Note: this is assuming that you have all the regular stuff needed for sewing, including hand sewing needles, pins, scissors, a tailor's ham, tailor's chalk, etc.
-thread for your coat
-your two buttons
-sew-in interfacing; Hair canvas and hymo are great for tailored wool garments. Check out the selection here.
-Optional: it's not a bad idea to have some fusible interfacing on hand as well, if you decide you want it for the front facing (rather than sew-in) and for the hem. Weft insertion is great for woolens.
-silk thread for padstitching (match it to your fashion fabric)
-beeswax for your thread
-a thimble, if you like to use one
-several yards of 1/4" twill tape (to tape the roll line, etc.)
-pre-shrunk muslin for the back stay (about 1/2 yard)
-Interlining fabric, if using. (Note: this is only if you want to add an extra layer of warmth to your coat. Otherwise, skip this.) Lambswool or cotton flannel (make sure you pre-shrink it) are great. You need the same amount as your lining fabric.
-shoulder pads and sleeve heads, if using. (It's always nice to have some around to test out as you're constructing your coat.)
-If doing bound buttonholes: a small piece of silk organza to match your fashion fabric (1/4 yard is fine)
Okay, I'm almost positive that's it. (Let me know if I've missed anything!)
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Knowshon Moreno (Image: Jim Hipple)
ESPN's Mark Schlabach just posted an article stating that multiple sources have confirmed to him that Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno will declare their intentions to enter the NFL draft early at a press conference today.
For all of those folks who think, Stafford "isn't ready yet," I would ask you...."Who is MORE prepared for the NFL right now than Matthew Stafford? Sam Bradford? Ok. I'll give you that one.
Who else? Colt McCoy? During the Fiesta Bowl, I'd wager that McCoy only attempted about 3 passes longer than 15 yards of his 55 or so attempts. Tebow's mechanics are a total mess. Graham Harrell is a system QB who primarily throws dink and dump passes in a non-analogous NFL offense. So, who is more ready? The only way I see Stafford falling out of the Top 5 picks of the draft would be if the Lions or Chiefs sign Matt Cassell as a free agent AND if the other team drafted Bradford over Stafford.
Could he have benefited from another year in college? Probably. But that's not the same as saying "He's not ready, yet."
Good luck to both of them. They've both performed at elite levels for Georgia, and they were both instrumental to our success. Without Stafford and Moreno, there's no #2 ranking last year, and this team would've easily been an 8-5 or worse squad without them.
I'm watching the press conference. They are both gone, and they are saying all the right things. Richt said that Joe Cox is our #1 as of right now, and one of the other guys will "have to knock him out of the box."


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It makes me really angry to NEVER be able to finish my challenges before the deadline. I always promise myself to start early, yet I am by no means able to commit to it. So, this is the reason why I consistently embark on my baking adventure at the very last minute and put myself under a lot of stress. I've come to the conclusion that it is the way I function. Unfortunately, stress will everlastingly be a part of my personality...
The January 2011 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Astheroshe of the blog "Accro". She chose to challenge everyone to make a "Biscuit Joconde Imprime" to wrap around an "Entremets" dessert.
This cold ornate dessert usually has many different layers of cake, mousse (Bavarian cream mousse or simple mousse) and is decorated with either jelly, whipped cream or a fruit coulis. It is one of my favorite sweet courses especially when it is of the chocolaty or fruity (lime, lemon, passionfruit, mango, raspberry, etc...) kind. I particularly like the dainty looks, elaborate details, freshness, lightness and exquisiteness of "Entremets".
At home we regularly ate those refined treats. My mother was not the type of hobby-baker who enjoyed preparing complex goods, she was more a person who liked to keep things uncomplicated. Baking like a pâtissier was never one of her aims. She didn't want to wander out of her comfort zone and wasn't as curious food-wise as me. Luckily for us my father happened to work just a few meters away from a very good "pâtisserie-boulagerie" (how convenients LOL) and came back home at least once a week (before he retired, he was one of their most faithful customers and also bought croissants on a daily basis) with luscious confections which we goobbled voraciously.
The day before his buying spree my father made sure to ask us what we wanted in order for him to place an order early the next morning. I remember that the prospect of eating Confiserie Ducret's amazing creations filled me with the highest joy. I can't recall how many times I ordered their gorgeous millefeuilles filled with three rich chocolate truffle mousses (black, milk & white) and their ambrosial mango or raspberry mini "Entremets". Heavenly and dreamlike, unless you remember that this might have been one of the reasons why you weren't exactly the thinnest girl at school (thankfully, I have lost those extra pounds now)...
Well, although I was looking forward to devour my "Lemon & Passionfruit Entremet", I somehow was not too excited at the prospect of putting it together as even if I'm an audacious person in the kitchen, I'm not exactly the kind of girl who is passionate about all things technical. This challenge's difficulties were concentrated on our ability to draw patterns with the cocoa paste, have measuring abilities and cut our cake with extreme precision. That is exactly everything I hate to do. It makes me panic as I know that I'm not the best in that domain and have no patience for such exercizes!
Anyway, apart from slightly burning my joconde cake (the recipe had certain flaws - the baking temperature and the amount of time during which the cake has to stay in the oven are wrong) which resulted in a not very flexible cake wrappers that tended to break every time I tried to line the mold, the whole process wasn't really as complicated as I imagined. I started baking at 7pm and ended the challenge by 9h30pm. Not a bad timing considering the fact that it was the first time that I baked an "Entremet" and had to continually wash the dishes, pans and make space in my kitchen since it is as small as a rat's hole.
What intense physical activity and mental pressure! I can tell you that after those hours of strainous spinning around the place like a wheel, working like a mad woman on speed and praying the gods of success to not let me down I was wrecked and not capable of funtioning anymore.
Thankfully, the heavens above didn't let me down nor did my "Lemon & Passionfruit Entremet" which turned out to look surprisingly presentable even if it had a few tears here and there. Overall I was satisfied with my creation as not only was it an eyepleaser, but also a delight for the tastebuds.
This "Lemon & Passionfruit Entremet" has a blissfull texture and taste. The joconde cake is pleasantly spongy and nutty, the mousse filling is mindblowingly airy, light and intensely lemony, and the passionfruit jelly topping is constrastingly firm and exhaliratingly fragrant. A combination that cannot fail to bring a smile on the saddest of faces or to uplift the most depressed of souls!
~ Lemon & Passionfruit Entremet ~
Recipe by Chef John O. from The International Culinary School in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
Yields 1x 15cm diameter entremet .
Preparation time:
It takes about 2h30 to 3h30 (2h for the joconde and 30min - 1h30 for the filling).
Equipment required:
. Silpat
. 1/2 Baking sheets or a 13" x 18" jelly roll sheet (rimmed baking sheet)
. Mixer (optional)
. Bowls
. Knives
. Offset spatula
. Regular spatula
. Pastry comb (optional)
. Rulers
. Spring form pan
. Biscuit cutter (or ring mold, or cut PVC pipe, or whatever else you can think of to use as a mold for individual desserts)
. Torte/entremets mold/Springform pan/ Trifle dish (for larger desserts)
. Cling wrap . Parchment paper
. Gel, paste or liquid food coloring (optional)
For one 33x46cm (13inchx8inch) jelly roll pan.
3/4 Cup (3oz/85g) Almond flour/meal (You can also use hazelnut flour, just omit the butter) 1/2 Cup + 2 Tbs (2 2/3oz/75g) Confectioners' sugar
1/4 Cup (1 oz/25g) Cake flour
3 Large Eggs (about 5 1/3oz/150g)
3 Large Egg whites (about 3oz 90g)
2 1/2 Tsp (1/3oz/10g) White granulated/castor sugar or superfine sugar
2 Tbs (1oz/30g) Unsalted butter, melted
1. In a clean mixing bowl whip the egg whites and white granulated sugar to firm, glossy peeks. 2. Reserve in a separate clean bowl to use later.
3. Sift almond flour, confectioner's sugar, cake flour. (This can be done into your dirty egg white bowl.)
4. On medium speed, add the eggs a little at a time. Mix well after each addition. Mix until smooth and light. (If using a stand mixer use blade attachment. If hand held a whisk attachment is fine, or by hand. )
5. Fold in one third reserved whipped egg whites to almond mixture to lighten the batter. Fold in remaining whipped egg whites. Do not over mix.
6. Fold in melted butter.
7. Reserve batter to be used later.
Yields one 33x46cm (13inchx8inch) jelly roll pan (I made the half).
7 Tbs (3.5oz/100g) Unsalted butter, softened
3/4 Cups + 3/4 Tbs (3.5oz/100g) Confectioners' sugar
3.5 Large Egg whites (about 3.5oz/100g)
5/4 Cup (3.8oz/110g) Cake flour
Food coloring gel, paste or liquid
COCOA Décor Paste Variation:
Reduce cake flour to 3oz/85g.
Add 1oz/30g cocoa powder.
Sift the flour and cocoa powder together before adding to creamed mixture.
1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. (Use stand mixer with blade, hand held mixer, or by hand.)
2. Gradually add egg whites. Beat continuously.
3. Fold in sifted flour.
4. Tint batter with coloring to desired color, if not making cocoa variation.
1. Use a piping bag. Pipe letters, or polka dots, or a piped design. If you do not have a piping bag. Fill a ziplock bag and snip off corner for a homemade version of one piping bag.
2. Slide the baking sheet with paste into the freezer. Freeze hard. Approx 15 minutes.
3. Remove from freezer. Quickly pour the Joconde batter over the design. Spread evenly to completely cover the pattern of the Décor paste.
4. Bake at 400ºF /200ºC until the joconde bounces back when slightly pressed, approx. 10-15 minutes. You can bake it as is on the upside down pan. Yes, it is a very quick bake, so watch carefully
5. Cool. Do not leave too long, or you will have difficulty removing it from mat.
6. Flip cooled cake on to a powdered sugared parchment paper. Remove silpat. Cake should be right side up, and pattern showing! (The powdered sugar helps the cake from sticking when cutting.)
1. A biscuit cutter/ cookie cutter- using cling wrap pulled tightly as the base and the cling covering the outside of the mold, placed on a parchment lined very flat baking sheet.
2. Line the inside with a curled piece of parchment paper overlapping.
3. Decide how thick you want your "Joconde wrapper". Traditionally, it is 1/2 the height of your mold. This is done so more layers of the plated dessert can be shown. However, you can make it the full height.
4. Once your height is measured, then you can cut the cake into equal strips, of height and length. (Use a very sharp paring knife and ruler.)
5. Make sure your strips are cut cleanly and ends are cut perfectly straight. Press the cake strips inside of the mold, decorative side facing out. Once wrapped inside the mold, overlap your ends slightly. You want your Joconde to fit very tightly pressed up to the sides of the mold. Then gently push and press the ends to meet together to make a seamless cake. The cake is very flexible so you can push it into place. You can use more than one piece to "wrap "your mold, if one cut piece is not long enough. (I I lined the base of my entremet with Joconde cake.)
6. The mold is done, and ready to fill.
If not ready to use. Lay cake kept whole or already cut into strips, on a flat surface, wrap in parchment and several layers of cling wrap and freeze.
I filled my entremet with 1 quantity "Lemon Mousse" and added a layer of "Passionfruit Jelly" that I made with 4 passionfruits (emptied), 2 Tbs lemon juice, 2 Tbs castor sugar (mix all three ingredients together) and 2 sheets jelly (softened in cold water, strained, melted over very low heat and added to the fruit mixture which you can leave pour over the mousse - refrigerate the entremet in order to solidify the jelly).
Etant donné que je suis en vacance et que je n'ai pas beaucoup de temps pour bloguer, je n'ai malheureusement pas pu faire une traduction française de ce billet et je m'en excuse auprès de tous mes amis lecteurs et blogueurs francophones!
C'est pourquoi je vous suggère de vous rendre sur le blog mentionné ci-dessous. Vous y trouverez cette recette en version française.
Chez Isa de "Les Gourmandises d'Isa" (Canada)


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The lauly thoughts that both my daughters are having these days also pushed me to be done with all lau recipes for this year.
Couple days back, I was home with LS. The big sis was in school and we were supposed to go and drop off something at her school.
On the way to school LS said : Ami Didi ke shobcheye bhalobashi(I love Didi most)
Me, with a flutter in my heart: Ar amake ? (And Me?)
LS confidently : Tomake Medium !!
I did not dare to ask her to elaborate on this further. It was only a month back that she suggested that I live in a separate house and she would come and visit me only in the evenings. She had tried to assure me that it would be just fine and she would play hide and seek when she came by. You might be wondering about my maternal traits and what I do to that child but trust me I am okay and not really all that bad.
Honestly reading a lot of Mom blogs I often have futile hopes that the girls will spout niceties about me which I can put on proud display here. That apparently is not happening.
But I will keep at it for looks like there is hope lurking somewhere.
Big Sis did have something nice to say about me by the way. For their Back to School night they were to write an autobiography. And on that night, we, the parents, were supposed to read it. Big Sis had "smart, nice and hard working" for her Dad and for me the adjectives were "nice" and "luminous". Now clearly I had expected something more than just plain nice; I love words like fabulous, awesome etc. as adjectives.But it was the luminous that actually threw me off.
Me: Why do you think I am luminous ?
BS: Errr...because you are bright.
Ahem. With the scarcity of compliments around here I will grab anything that comes my way.
Now to the Moog Dal Chora diye Lau which is very different from Lau diye Moog Dal.
Confused ? Con-foo-sed ?
Well in the latter, that is in Lau diye Moog dal, the dal plays the main role and the bottle gourd is just an add on. The recipe for that kind of dal is almost similar to the Tetor Dal , yellow moong dal cooked with bitter gourd and lauki, in our home.
In the former it is the bottlegourd--the lauki--which makes the dish with the dal complementing it. The Moog Dal er Chora means a sprinkle of Moog Dal which accentuates the dish but you can really call it by any other name and increase or decrease the proportion of lentils. Some homes use very little moog dal, literally a sprinkle and cook it along with the gourd while my Mother makes it this way. My Ma makes both of these very often and we like the Moog Dal Chora diye Lau a lot around our home.
Wash and peel lau/lauki/bottlegourd. Chop in thin cubes. I had almost 4-5 cups of chopped, cubed lau
Roast 1/4 cup of Yellow Moong dal for couple of minutes till 50% of the lentil turns brown. You will know with the warm nutty smell that it is done. Careful and don't burn the dal.
Cook the dal with about double the water in a pressure cooker. 3 minutes on full pressure.
If cooking in a pan start with 1 cup of water but you might need to add more later. It takes almost 25-30 mins to cook the dal on stove top. The dal should be almost cooked with the lentils separate and a little bite remaining. Also the sabzi is a dry one so the cooked dal should not have any water.
While the dal is cooking start with the bottlegourd.
Heat 1 tbsp Vegetable oil in a kadhai/saute pan.
Temper the Oil with
a slim 2" cinnamon stick,
2 green elaichi,
4 clove,
1 tej patta,
2 dry red chili
When the whole spices starts popping add 1/2 tbsp of freshly grated ginger. Follow soon with a paste of
2 tbsp of pureed tomato or half of a tomato chopped
2 tsp of Cumin Powder
1 tsp Coriander Powder
Fry the masala for 4-5 minutes and then add the chopped lau aka bottlegourd.
Add about 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder and mix well with the masala.
Add salt to taste.
Add a couple of green chili slit through.
Let the bottlegourd cook. It will release a lot of water but don't panic, let it cook with some quick stirs in between.
When the bottle gourd is almost done check the dal. The Dal should be almost done now. Add the dal sans any water to the gourd. Mix well and let it cook together.
Check and adjust for salt. Add about 1/2 tsp of sugar and a touch of ghee. When both the lau and the dal is fully cooked switch off the heat and garnish with chopped fresh coriander leaves.
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Applications and libraries/Linguistics
Portals and other huge resources
Peter Ljunglöf's many publications on natural language processing, parsing, formal semantics. Many of them use Haskell, and there are downloadable Haskell sources too.
Jan van Eijck's page contains a huge amount of materials on logic and language:
- computational linguistics
- logics (e.g. dynamic epistemic modelling)
The Haskell NLP projects provides a mailing list for Haskellers doing NLP work, as well as a community wiki and darcs repository. Come join us!
Natural Language Processing for The Working Programmer is a book that provides an introduction to Haskell and NLP.
There are many Haskell resources, too.
Tools and libraries
- Cypher is one of the first software program available which generates the metadata representation of natural language input. Cypher produces RDF graph and SeRQL query representations of sentences, clauses, phrases and questions. The Cypher framework provides a set of robust definition languages, which can be used to extend and create grammars and lexicons. Cypher programming is fun to learn and easy to use, and the specifications are designed to allow a novice to quickly and easily build transcoders for processing highly complex sentences and phrases of any natural language, and to cover any vocabulary
- GenI is a surface realiser for Tree Adjoining Grammars. Surface realisation can be seen as the last stage in a natural language generation pipeline. GenI in particular takes an FB-LTAG grammar and an input semantics (a conjunction of first order terms), and produces the set of sentences associated to the input semantics by the grammar. See also Eric Kow's recent publications on it.
- Grammatical Framework (GF) is a compiler and grammatical programming environment written entirely in Haskell, with an interactive interpreter and two GUI interfaces, one written in Fudgets and another written in Java. GF grammars are written in a subset of Haskell and compile into an internal GF format that may be used as embedded parsers in Haskell, parsers in Java (with an embedded Java interpreter gfc2java.jar) and subsequently converted to applets (Gramlets). (GF-Haskell to Java translation is performed through an Open Agent Architecture--the original .NET, see GF OAA.) The GF grammatical formalism handles linguistic entities (morphemes, etc.) using type theory: an approach especially suited to machine translation of controlled natural languages. The Grammar Resource Library, a set of basic grammars for Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish, is available as a separate download. GF has been used to translate a fragment of C code to JVM (see GFCC (PDF document)).
- Functional Morphology - a toolkit for morphology development. Has been used for Swedish, Spanish, Urdu and more.
- Saxophone is a fun translator from German to the Saxon dialect. It is part of the ParallelWeb project which aims at translating Web pages including all of their links.
Data interfaces
- HWordNet - A Haskell interface to WordNet by Hal Daumé III.
- penn-treebank parser
- nlp-scores provides scoring functions commonly used for evaluation in NLP and IR
- brillig is an incomplete implementation of Brill's transformation rule tagger (see also the chapter in Haskell NLP for the Working Programmer)
- morfette is a tool for supervised learning of inflectional morphology (tags and lemmas); see also delta-h and watch the prolific author's page at http://grzegorz.chrupala.me/#section3
- hiera implements an agglomerative/hierarchical word class clustering algorithm
- HaLeX is a library of datatypes and functions implemented in Haskell that allows us to model, manipulate and animate regular languages as finite state machines (originally for educational purposes)
- bytestring-trie is an efficient and fast way of storing and looking up strings as keys, assigned to values of some arbitrary type
Learning algorithms
- sequor is a sequence labeler based on Collins's sequence perceptron, useful for Part-of-Speech tagging
- progressive is a multilabel classification model which learns sequentially (online)
- lda is an Online Gibbs sampler for Latent Dirichlet Allocation, useful for probabilistic soft word class induction, see also colada
- vowpal-utils is a wrapper around vw (Utilities for interpreting models produced by Vowpal Wabbit)
- grenade is a dependently typed, practical, and pretty quick neural network library for concise and precise specifications of complex networks in Haskell (using lapack)
- tensorflow has Haskell bindings (Tensorflow is a library by Google for numerical computation using data flow graphs)
Machine translation
- hs-gizapp is a wrapper around GIZA++
- Grammatical Framework is used for machine translation, among many other things
Natural language processing and combinatory logic
Combinatory logic contributed to develop powerful theories in linguistics..
Applicative universal grammar
Now it has got its own HaskellWiki page.
Categorial grammar
A general summary of modern semantic theories developed in the century is provided by Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics: an introduction.
Gary Hardegree's portal-rich page provides a lot of materials on logic and linguistics, among them
- The Axiomatic Theory of Truth grasping concepts like truth, quotations, paradoxes, liar's paradox
- Courses ranging from the introductory level to developed topics, e.g. Basic Categorial Grammar.
The Combinatory Categorial Grammar Site contains links, papers (both introductory and developed) and software (OpenNLP open source projects, related to natural language processing, and OpenCCG)
On natural languages relating to combinatory logic, see also
- Mark Steedman's Does Grammar Make Use of Bound Variables?
- Mark Hepple: The Grammar and Processing of Order and Dependency: a Categorial Approach
Type-Logical Grammar
Matteo Capelletti's home page contains a parser based on the Non-associative Lambek calculus. It supports hypothetical reasoning and Montague style semantics.
Tree Adjoining Grammar
- See GenI, mentioned above.
Game theoretic semantics
Game theoretic semantics presents an interesting concept of truth -- in another way than that of Tarski. Its connections to computer science and computer languages is described in Wikipedia's Game semantics article. Merlijn Sevenster's Game theoretical semantics and -logic is a good introductory material too.
Chiaki Ohkura's The Semantics of Metaphor in the Game Theoretic Semantics with at Least Two Coordination Equilibria article tries to catch the concept of metaphor.
Relatedness to linear logic
The Wikipedia article mentions also the relatedness of game theoretic semantics to linear logic. Philip Wadler's page on linear logic describes the topic and its relatedness to many concepts concerning Haskell. A taste of linear logic can serve as an introductory article.
Parsing natural languages
Parsing Natural Language with X-SAIGA parser
The goal of the X-SAIGA project is to create algorithms and implementations which enable the construction of language processors (recognizers, parsers, interpreters, translators, etc.) to be constructed as modular and efficient embedded executable specifications of grammars. The syntax analysis is done with a set of parser combinators by overcoming some long standing limitations -
- the simple implementations of parser combinators require exponential time and space when parsing an ambiguous context free grammar.
- like any top-down recursive descent parsing, the conventional parser combinators won't terminate while processing a left-recursive grammar (i.e.
s ::= s *> s *> term 'x'|empty
As a part of the X-SAIGA project's syntax analysis, a recognition algorithm that accommodates ambiguous grammars with direct left-recursive rules is described by Frost and Hafiz in 2006. The algorithm curtails the otherwise ever-growing left-recursive parse by imposing depth restrictions. That algorithm was extended to a complete parsing algorithm to accommodate indirect as well as direct left-recursion in polynomial time, and to generate compact polynomial-size representations of the potentially-exponential number of parse trees for highly-ambiguous grammars by Frost, Hafiz and Callaghan in 2007. This extended algorithm accommodates indirect left-recursion by comparing its 'computed-context' with 'current-context'. The same authors also described their implementation of a set of parser combinators written in the Haskell programming language based on the same algorithm in PADL 08. The X-SAIGA site has more about the algorithms, implementation details experimental results.
Monadic Compositional Parsing
Gordon J. Pace: Monadic Compositional Parsing with Context Using Maltese as a Case Study, see its context too.
- A Survey on the Use of Haskell in Natural-Language Processing (Report by Richard A. Frost). It is also a part of Haskell Communities and Activities Report, Eleventh edition – November 30, 2006.
- A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class (2007) has a section (11.5 on page 40) with material contributed by Paul Callaghan on applications of Haskell to natural-language processing. Perhaps, there are some projects mentioned there which are not (yet) listed here on this page; so take a look.
- From Aarne Ranta's homepage
- Natural Language Technology, with (among others) online course slides. They give huge insights, for example, see the slide example which discusses the concept of dependent type and Curry Howard isomorphism in lingustical context.
- The Zen Computational Linguistics Toolkit has tools for efficiently processing linguistic data structures, like trees and automata. It's written in Literate O'Caml, though a Haskell port shouldn't be very hard to do.
- The natural language processing blog written by Hal Daume III.
Specific topics
Lojban, an artificial language (see a separate HaskellWiki page on it with references.) "Lojban was not designed primarily to be an international language, however, but rather as a linguistic tool for studying and understanding language. Its linguistic and computer applications make Lojban unique among international languages..." (NC:WhLoj, page 15 par 1)
Continuations in natural languages
Some phenomena in natural languages can be grasped with the notion of continuation. For details, see Chris Barker's paper Continuations in Natural Language. It is quite accessible to non-linguists.
- barker2004cnl
- Barker, Chris: Continuations in Natural Language (pdf), 2004
- nicholas2003wl
- Nicholas, Nick and Cowan, John (ed.): What is Lojban? Logical Language Group, 2003. Available also online.
- frost2006rnl
- Frost, Richard: Realization of natural language interfaces using lazy functional programming (pdf), 2006
- frost2008pal
- Frost, Richard; Hafiz, Rahmatullah and Callaghan, Paul: Parser Combinators for Ambiguous Left-Recursive Grammars. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL), ACM-SIGPLAN. January 2008, San Francisco, USA.
- xsaiga2008exg
- Frost, Richard; Hafiz, Rahmatullah and Callaghan, Paul: X-SAIGA website - eXecutable SpecificAtIons of GrAmmars.


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pool can be used to run a set of Erlang nodes as a pool of computational processors. It is organized as a master and a set of slave nodes and includes the following features:
- The slave nodes send regular reports to the master about their current load.
- Queries can be sent to the master to determine which node will have the least load.
The BIF statistics(run_queue) is used for estimating future loads. It returns the length of the queue of ready to run processes in the Erlang runtime system.
The slave nodes are started with the slave module. This effects, tty IO, file IO, and code loading.
If the master node fails, the entire pool will exit.
start(Name) -> Nodes
start(Name, Args) -> Nodes
Starts a new pool. The file .hosts.erlang is read to find host names where the pool nodes can be started. See section Files below. The start-up procedure fails if the file is not found.
The slave nodes are started with slave:start/2,3, passing along Name and, if provided, Args. Name is used as the first part of the node names, Args is used to specify command line arguments. See slave(3).
Access rights must be set so that all nodes in the pool have the authority to access each other.
The function is synchronous and all the nodes, as well as all the system servers, are running when it returns a value.
attach(Node) -> already_attached | attached
This function ensures that a pool master is running and includes Node in the pool master's pool of nodes.
Stops the pool and kills all the slave nodes.
Returns a list of the current member nodes of the pool.
pspawn(Mod, Fun, Args) -> pid()
Spawns a process on the pool node which is expected to have the lowest future load.
pspawn_link(Mod, Fun, Args) -> pid()
Spawn links a process on the pool node which is expected to have the lowest future load.
Returns the node with the expected lowest future load.
.hosts.erlang is used to pick hosts where nodes can be started. See net_adm(3) for information about format and location of this file.
$HOME/.erlang.slave.out.HOST is used for all additional IO that may come from the slave nodes on standard IO. If the start-up procedure does not work, this file may indicate the reason.


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On Thursday evening, Koregan Quintanilla celebrated his recent birthday by meeting Arlington firefighter Wesley Keck, riding on a fire truck and touring the station.
Koregan was left at the station in 2002 under Texas' Baby Moses law, which allows a parent to leave an unharmed infant up to 60 days old at a fire station or hospital with no questions asked. Child Protective Services then takes custody of the babies. All states have similar laws, but Texas was the first to create one, signing it into law in 1999. It took effect in 2001.
Keck said he was excited about seeing the boy for the first time since finding a baby carrier outside the station on a cold November morning. He did a "double take" before rushing outside. He moved aside the blanket and saw a sleeping baby, then gently picked up the carrier and walked inside to tell his colleagues the shocking news, he said.
"I announced that somebody had left us a gift," Keck said Thursday. "I checked him out, and he seemed fine. I don't remember him crying. I held him, and he slept a lot.
"I have four kids, and some of the other firefighters are fathers, so taking care of babies wasn't new to us."
Koregan's mother, Rebecca Quintanilla, said the 10-year-old has always known he's adopted and for years has watched TV news footage from when he was found at the fire station.
This year, when his teacher asked students where they wanted to go more than anywhere else in the world, Koregan said "my fire station," his mother said. So, she tracked down the firefighter and planned a reunion.
"He's a very good kid, kind, shy, and he's always giving things away to people," Quintanilla said. "After talking to Mr. Keck, I think he's like that. I do believe Koregan has some traits from Mr. Keck, although he just spent a few hours with him."
Since 2009, 43 babies have been dropped off at fire stations and hospitals in Texas, the most recent figures available, said Marissa Gonzales, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
Quintanilla, who has five other children, all adopted, said she is grateful for the Baby Moses law.
"It's amazing, because there are terrified women who have no idea what to do," she said. "There's a window of time when they can make a choice."
Keck, a firefighter for 26 years, agreed.
"I'm happy the way it turned out," he said. "I didn't do anything special. I happened to be in the right place at the right time."