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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Pedatha's Andhra Chutney Powder
I got to know thru this, that she had passed away earlier this year, and though my association with her was just this book, I did feel a loss...
I regularly try recipes from this book, but the chutneys are my favourite...I knew I just had to make something as a tribute to this very wonderful and charming woman.
I had never tried any of her dry chutney powders, so decided on making this one, a famous Andhra spicy chutney powder...
Thank you Jigyasa and Pratibha for this wonderful book. May her soul rest in peace...
Andhra Podi Chutney
Recipe Source - The vegetarian cookbook of traditional recipes "Cooking at home with Pedatha" by Jigyasa Giri and Pratibha Jain
What you need -
4 tbsp oil
2 tsps ghee
salt to taste
To be roasted without oil
1 cup bengal gram dal / chana dal
1 cup split black gram husked / urad dal
1 tbsp poppy seeds / khus khus
3/4 cup grated dry coconut / kobri
To be roasted in oil
2 cup red chillies ( I used about 20 byadgi chillies)
1/2 cup cleaned and wiped curry leave
1/2 tsp asafoetida / hing
lemon sized ball of tamamrind
1 tbsp Split black gram / urad dal
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp asafoetida / hing
What you do with it -
On a low flame, dry roast the grams, each separately to a deep brown. I use a tava to do this, given a more even heat to the grams
Dry roast poppy seeds and dry coconut each to golden brown
Heat 3 tbsp oil and roast the chillies until crisp and bright red, but not brown Remove the chillies from oil and set aside
Roast the curry leaves in oil until crisp and dark green, set aside
Dry roast the asafoetida powder
Next, roast the tamarind, Press with a ladle so it roasts well and set aside
Grind all these ingredients with salt to a coarse powder
Heat the remaining oil for tempering. Add the urad dal, as it turns golden, pop the mustard and switch off the flame. Add the asafoetida and pour this tempering into the prepared powder and mix well
Pour in the warm ghee and mix well. Cool and store in an airtight jar
9 comments:
- Manju said...
ive been wanting to get that book for a while now! I love chutney podis! this one looks so good, that I want some dosa to eat this with :)
- October 11, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Priti said...
Love the flavour n spices ...looks fab
- October 11, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Paaka Shaale said...
The chutney powder looks so tasty and fantastic. over the addition of poppy seeds :)
- October 11, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- Sharmilee! :) said...
Wow spicy and flavourful..yummy with idlis and dosas
- October 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- Nithya said...
Flavorful :) Lovely spice blend
- October 11, 2011 at 4:08 PM
- Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal said...
Yum, that chutney powder looks spicy and delicious.
- October 11, 2011 at 11:00 PM
- Aarthi said...
First time here……That is a spicy powder/..I love it...Following your blog straight away..If you have time Check out my blog too..
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- October 12, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Pratibha Jain said...
Dear Arch, what a lovely tribute...truly touched our hearts. Thank you. Indeed a delicious recipe. Glad you enjoyed it. Pls write to us at email@example.com.
- October 17, 2011 at 8:03 AM
- Anil Reddy said...
This is one of the best Indian recipes guide. Thanks for sharing. Best platform for learners for those who are trying to learn how to cook south Indian recipes.
- January 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM


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In his efforts to persuade Americans to support the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, Woodrow Wilson addressed an audience in the City Auditorium of Pueblo, Colorado, on September 25, 1919. Following are excerpts from that speech taken from The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Arthur S. Link, ed., vol. 63, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 500-513).
Following is an excerpt from the memoir of Wilson's private physician taken from The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Arthur S. Link, ed., vol. 67, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 466-670).
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1. What does Wilson say has been the "chief pleasure" of his trip? Why? What did he not like? Why?
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The Secluded Lake (part 2) On The Beach
He carries her gently to the shore, picking his way carefully past the jagged water worn rocks littering the shore. Finding a clear spot her lays her down, her butt and legs not quite clearing the cool mountain waters. She looks up at him as he brushes the wet strands of reddish hair from her face and kisses her deeply. The kiss is slow at first, a mere brushing of their lips, then intensifying. His mouth covered hers, tounge darting in and out, stoking her tounge, tasting her lips. She kisses him back greedily, threading her fingers thru his damp hair, sucking his tounge as far into her mouth as she can. Her hands move from his hair, trailing down the back of his neck, scratching lightly at the sensitive skin acrossed the tops of his shoulders before tracing down, following the line of his spine kneading the firm muscles that lie just beneath the surface.
He rolls over on to his back suddenly, pulling her with him. She kisses him harder now, faster, grinding her hips into his hard erection, feeling it grow against her soft flesh. He closes his eyes and groans softly, moving his hands down to grip her hips. She kisses her way from his lips to his jaw, from his jawline down to the side of his neck, brushing her lips against the stubble and breathing hotly. She slides her body down his, kissing as she goes, listening to his his harsh indrawn breath at the friction generated by her motions. She continues moving her lips acrossed his collar bone, and without warning bites him savagely on the shoulder before soothing the spot with her tounge. His head arches back at the sudden pain, breathing in sharply.
She moves her way down his chest with her mouth, scattering little bites here and there before sucking one of his flat, masculine nipples into her mouth. She rolls her tounge around it, thouroughly washing it before nibbling her way over to the other to give it the same attention. He arches his hips impatiently into her, grinding his throbbing erection into her soft belly in a rythmic pattern. She pays him no mind, but continues her slow measured exploration of his hard muscled chest. She finishes her assault on his nipples then continues her descent, kissing each of his ribs, one side then the other before turning her attention to his flat stomach. She runs he tounge lightly around the outside of his belly button.
By now his breath is coming in ragged gasps, his muscles tight in anticipation of the next carress, his rock hard 8 inch cock brushing the bottom of her chin. She slips her hand between his legs and gently massages his balls, rolling them back and forth in her fingers. He spreads his legs to her gentle touching, so she switches positions from straddling his legs to knealing between his thighs, then, her hand still on his sack working thier magic, she grips the base of his hard shaft in her other hand. Leaning over, she runs the tip of her tounge along the underside of his shaft from base to head, feeling it pulse under her hot tounge before taking him deeply into her mouth. Her tounge snakes back and forth along the underside as she sucks hard, drawing her mouth up the entire length, stopping to focus on the sensitve head before pulling the hot wetness of her mouth away. Then licking down the top the same as she did to the underside, she focuses her attention on the ridge licking back and forth, then down to the base and back up to the head, taking him totally into her mouth again, sucking hard and pistoning up and down with both her mouth and hand as her other hand continues to roll his balls back and forth and work the sensitive area just behind his sack.
She feels his muscles tightening as he reaches for his release, so she slows her rythm a bit waiting for some of the tension to leave his body, loving the feel of his throbbing shaft in her mouth and her total control over his body. She feels him relax and continues to pleasure him, taking him even closer to the edge this time before backing off. His breath is coming in ragged gasps by now as she works his body, dangerously close to losing control.
"Not yet lover," she whispers, pulling away suddenly, "not like that. I'm not finished with you yet," she gives him a heated gaze, looking up at him from her hands and knees position from between his thighs. He growls at her, a throaty sound more animal than human.Then, shoving her gently over backward, he takes the dominant position, pinning her arms over her head as he leans over to pull one of her nipples into his mouth and rake it over with his teeth and tounge.then, working his way quickly quickly down, he releases her arms and uses two fingers to pull back the skin covering the sensitive nub at the apex of her thighs. He sucks it into his mouth, drawing it in hard and flicking his tounge quickly over it. She pants in excitement as the pressure in her builds. He uses his other hand a little lower, sliding two fingers deep into her wet hot pussy. He moves them in and out of her feeling her muscles grip him tightly as she reaches for release. He spreads her legs wider, opening her more fully to his touch and sliding one more finger in to strech her a bit in preparation of the next penetration.As the 3rd finger enters her, she gasps then shudders, the force of her climax tearing thru her.
Before the trebling stops, he has switched positions, her knees still locked over his shoulders. He lines up at her opening moistening the head of his shaft in the liquid of her passion before entering her fully with one strong thrust. She throws her head back and gasps as the full length of him penetrates her. He pushes in to her welcoming pussy, burying himself to the balls in her hot wet hole. He pauses for a minute feeling her muscles contract around him drawing him even deeper into her. Then withdrawing almost to the point of slipping out, he pushes back into her slowly, very slowly enjoying every inch of friction on the way back in as his shaft slides along her passion slick walls. She whimpers softly, rotating her hips in an effort to encourage the pace she wants. He pulls out again then drives back into her hard pulling back out again fast and watching her closely, her eyes closed tight, face strained in passion, mouth open panting labored breaths.
"please….." she whispers looking up at him, "give it to me, please dont hold back.."
Hearing all the encouragment he needs he drives into her, pace measured at first and gradually picking up speed. He watches her closly not wanting to lose the already precarious control over his body till she gave the signal he was waiting for. He feels her muscles tighten even more around him as her face contorts with her pleasure, then as she surrenders to her final orgasm, he lets go with a roar, driving into her as fast and hard as he can. He colapses beside her as all the energy leaves his body. SHe scoots over to put her head on his shoulder as they catch thier breath….strangers no more.


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Where does Vasumitra identify the *Satyasiddhi as their basic text? I thought that Vasumitra was from around the time of the Vibhasa, but the *Satyasiddhi comes a fair bit later than that. Though you are right in that some later Chinese works do identify it as such, though I'm not 100% convinced.Namdrol wrote:Both Vasumitra and Paramartha identify the Bahuśrutīya as pro-Mahāyāna, with Satyasiddhiśāstra as their basic text. Of course, Satyasiddhiśāstra identifies the present moment as ultimately real, so hardly a non-realist postion like Madhyamaka.Huifeng wrote:The status of the *Satyasiddhiśāstra is in dispute: Some Chinese took it as Mahāyāna
Also, the *Satyasiddhi does not identify the present as ultimately real, it would fit into their second category of realities, but not third and ultimate category. But still, they are not Madhyamaka.
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Another day, another celebrity split: This time Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon are believed to be heading for divorce.
They of the annual vow-renewal spectacular are living apart, according to TMZ, which reported that the divorce plans are a "done deal" on Thursday.
Cannon later confirmed that he and Carey have been living apart, telling "The Insider" that "There is trouble in paradise. We have been living in separate houses for a few months."
The Grammy-winning songstress, 44, and the "America's Got Talent" host, 33, wed in the Bahamas on April 30, 2008, weeks after they started dating. Exactly three years later, they welcomed "dem babies" -- twins Moroccan and Monroe. The pair has also performed a lavish vow renewal ceremony every year since, that is until this year. (Looks like his moon landing renewal fell through, or they just didn't tell anyone about it.)
The couple's previous ceremonies took place in the Maldives in 2009, at their Beverly Hills home in 2010, at the hospital where Carey gave birth to their twins in 2011, in Paris at the top of the Eiffel Tower in 2012 and at Disneyland in 2013.
TMZ said the pair separated in May and have been living apart in New York. Cannon, 33, has been living in hotels, People reported.
Incidentally, Cannon shut down split reports back in April and the former "American Idol" judge did the same in May, according to E! News.
Divorce lawyers are said to be negotiating property settlements and a custody agreement too -- Cannon is able to see their twins but that's about it, TMZ said.
Cannon's March radio show confession about sleeping with celebrities, specifically that he hooked up with reality star Kim Kardashian West, is reportedly what set Carey off. Other points of contention reportedly include Cannon's ubiquitous gigs, Carey's refusal to sleep with him before they wed (and his readiness to disclose that on "Howard Stern"), and Carey surrounding herself with "yes men," TMZ sources said.
"They have been living apart for a while. This is not all of a sudden. There have been issues between them for a while. They are not getting along," a Carey source told E! News. "She wants to end it and it has been in the works for months, which is why her house in the Bahamas and the house in Bel-Air are on the market."
Cannon's manager declined to comment on the reports, and reps for Carey did not respond to The Times' requests for comment.
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The old pub is seeing a new lease of life.. especially at the weekend when it attracts folk from far and wide.. Marcello the landlord had the pub refurbished and a fine Italian restaurant was added. The Grapes is a lovely old building that has changed little considering.. and the refurbishment made great use of many of the original features, like the stained glass windows and fireplaces. There's a link above which is well worth following just to read the menus.. long may the Grapes be a part of Gee Cross.


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• The Salt Lake Comic Con Fan Xperience at the Salt Palace Convention Center is expected to draw more than 100,000 fans through Saturday. The second Comic Con doubled the amount of floor space compared to last year's record-breaking Comic Con event, which drew between 70,000 and 80,000 attendees. For more information, visit www.saltlakecomiccon.com/.
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• The American Atheists Convention is in town, with up to 700 expected to attend the annual meeting at the Hilton through Sunday.
• If football is more your thing, the University of Utah's 11th annual Red-White Spring Game is set for 1 p.m. Saturday. Several events are scheduled before the game. TRAX and UTA will provide free transportation to the game on the same routes that service Rice-Eccles Stadium on regular-season game days.
• The Salt Lake City Marathon has a new course for the third straight year.
"We're going into Federal Heights, Memory Grove, Eagle Monument, South Temple, downtown," said the director of the marathon, Steve Bingham. "We're downtown much more. We're probably 80 percent downtown, where before we were 50-60 percent."
The new course highlights the historic and iconic neighborhoods in Salt Lake City, and it will finish on Library Square. In addition to the races — the marathon, half marathon and 5K — the bike tour remains, along with a kids race.
The bike tour begins at 6 a.m. Saturday, while the marathon and half-marathon both begin at 7 a.m. The 5K will start at 7:10 a.m. The kids race will be at 10:45 a.m. Last year, 7,000 people participated in the marathon.
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Gata Kamsky and Hikaru Nakamura both advanced to the final sixteen contenders at the World Cup in Tromso, Norway. Both won their matches in the classical portion and get a rest day
tomorrow, while their opponents are still undetermined, to be decided in playoff matches. Nakamura will play the winner of Daniil Dubov-Anton Korobov while Kamsky faces the victor in Shakhriyar Mamedyarov- Wei Yi.
In round three, Nakamura scored 2-0 against GM Baskaran Adhiban of India. His second round win featured a pretty exchange sacrifice, 24.Ne5, followed by invasion with king and knight.
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How do you kickstart your week? For some, it's the death of the weekend, soundtracked by silence as a three day hangover thuds in their booze-addled head. For others, Monday is all about hope and to-do list ticking; a new week met with a renewed optimism.
Last night, I asked my followers on Twitter (find me here) and 'friends' on Facebook what songs soundtrack their Monday morning. The response - as I expected - reflected the different ways people use and abuse music to wake up to a new week. Some of the requests can be found on the below 20 song playlist which, er, quickly became 40 tracks, spanning various decades, genres, moods and viewpoints.
This Spotify playlist starts with the obvious "Monday Morning Anthems", moves into blissful half-awake territory, has a mid-morning doze before the guttural screams of WAKE UP! catch anyone who might have drifted off at their desk. The second hour is an eclectic hodge-podge of requests and Monday-ishness.
In fact, there was such a fantastic response I thought it might be nice to make a playlist for each day of the week. Check back each day for our suggestions for tracks which sum up and soundtrack the day, and be ready to add your suggestions or to make and submit your own playlists.
Drowned in Monday
Prince – Starfish And Coffee
Bangles – Manic Monday
New Order – Blue Monday
The Boomtown Rats – I Don't Like Mondays
Pulp – Monday Morning
Wilco – Monday
Iron & Wine – Love Vigilantes (requested by mokelly89)
The Mamas & The Papas – Monday, Monday
Lisa Germano – After Monday
The Dandy Warhols – Sleep
dEUS – Wake Me Up Before I Sleep
PJ Harvey – Working for the Man
The Postal Service – Sleeping In
Deastro – Biophelia (requested by benjoi)
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Radiohead – (Nice Dream)
The Rapture – Get Myself Into It
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
The Rakes – Just a Man With a Job (Le poinçonneur des Lilas)
Queens Of The Stone Age – Wake Up Screaming
Black Flag – Black Coffee
Rage Against The Machine – Wake Up
Korn – Wake Up
Atari Teenage Riot – Start the Riot!
Q-Tip – Gettin Up (requested by nalwor)
God Help The Girl – Come Monday Night
Tegan And Sara – Monday Monday Monday
The Go Find – Monday Morning (requested by Eardrums))
The Jam – Monday
Alabama 3 – Monday Don't Mean Anything
Dizzee Rascal – Off 2 Work
NOFX – Thank God It's Monday
A – Starbucks
Suede – Every Monday Morning Comes
Ocean Colour Scene – Hello Monday
The Boo Radleys – Wake Up Boo!
The Candyskins – Monday Morning
Garbage – Cup of Coffee
Ringo Starr – Wrack My Brain (requested by MitchellSt)
Mogwai – Wake Up And Go Beserk
Listen: "Drowned in Monday" on Spotify
For more Drowned in Sound Spotify playlists click here.
DiScuss: What are you listening to on this muggy Monday? What sort of Monday morning music best suits your view of the start of the week? What is/would be on your Monday morning playlist? Any requests for our Tuesday playlist?


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No, not objectively. Of course not. But personally.
And as I just recently finished my tenth playthrough and am starting my eleventh, I have a rather encyclopedic knowledge of the game's convoluted JRPG plot, enough to be able to finally look at all of the foreshadowing and parallels throughout the game and appreciate them. There are a lot of different thematic focuses that recur throughout the game, so I'm going to be looking at each of those in various megaposts when I'm feelin' it.
Essentially, this is an outlet for all of the essays I want to write about this game, and hopefully a conversation space for anyone else who has played it and wants to talk about it.
There are spoilers for basically the entirety of Tales of Symphonia here, so like, don't read if you haven't played this ten-year-old game, actually intend to, and haven't already had it spoiled for you? I guess?
I think one of the coolest things about Tales of Symphonia is its treatment of legends.
The game opens with a super cliche "once upon a time" creation story. The entire remainder of the game is then spent exploring the truth of that legend, and how it came into being.
There's also a passage from a book in the Tower of Mana stating that Mithos the hero helped smite and seal away the evil half-elf Desians who caused the war.Once upon a time, there existed a giant tree that was the source of mana. A war, however, caused this tree to wither away, and a hero's life was sacrificed in order to take its place. Grieving over the loss, the goddess disappeared unto the heavens. The goddess left the angels with this edict: 'You must wake me, for if I should sleep, the world shall be destroyed.' The angels bore the chosen one who headed for the tower that reached up unto the heavens. And that marked the beginning of the regeneration of the world.
Contrast that with what actually happened:
- There was a giant tree that was the source of mana.
- A war caused it to wither away.
- Mithos "the hero", bright-eyed and idealistic half-elf protag, ends the war at the holy grounds where the giant tree once stood.
- Martel, beloved sister and companion of Mithos, is killed by a racist human.
- Mithos goes ****.
- Mithos fuses Martel's soul with the Great Seed (all that remains of the Giant Kharlan Tree), splits the world in two to permanently separate the warring factions, and links the summon spirits of both worlds to allow mana to flow between them and to trap the Great Seed - preventing its germination and protecting Martel while limiting mana usage and preventing the further development of magical weapons of mass destruction.
- Yeah, a lot went down.
- Using the cruxis crystal technology developed during the war, Mithos and his companions become "lifeless beings" - souls who live on via their gems and who essentially possess their own bodies - and present themselves to the world as angels.
- (This is the same technology that allowed Martel's soul to be preserved without a body.)
- Mithos invents a doctrine naming his sister as a goddess, and uses his servants - half-elves drawn to Cruxis after experiencing discrimination, who also use cruxis crystals to look like divine angels - to spread the message, puppeteer the church of Martel, and control marriages to produce a Chosen of Mana lineage of potential vessels for his sister.
- The production of more cruxis crystals to create more angels is carried out via the "angelus project," which evolves exspheres into these gems. The desians (Cruxis's lower henchmen/pawns) work to awaken exspheres and produce cruxis crystals in their human ranches.
[I would like to add here that it's not treated as if Mithos and Cruxis have sole control over how myths and legends form: attributing the Kharlan War to half-elves and Desians is something that Mithos would never do, but is a result of the severe racial tensions in the world... ironically, those that Mithos fought so desparately against before they resulted in his sister's death. But he certainly played a major part in shaping this particular story.]
And yet, the fact that people believe in this story lends it its own sort of truth. The belief in a goddess named "Martel" is not meaningless. At the end of the game, from the spirit of the Great Tree, as well as Martel - Mithos's sister - and the hundreds/thousands of souls sacrificed (as chosen, as exspheres, etc...) in Mithos's plan to resurrect her, a new spirit named Martel is born to watch over the reborn tree. The goddess, hailed by the Church of Martel and originally made-up in the image of Mithos's sister, comes into being.
Another example of how myths and legends are complexly portrayed in this game is toward the very beginning, when you are searching for the Seal of Wind. The Town of Asgard has its own legend:
As a result of this legend, whenever the seal weakens, someone is offered as a sacrifice to quell the anger of the Summon Spirit and prevent another calamity.One of Asgard's central features is its stone dais, where Cleo III once held a ritual to offer a sacrifice to the Sumon Spirit of Wind in order to quell a storm that had raged for a week, and the altar was made for the spirit.
[This little story is also clearly meant to tie in to the central theme of sacrifice, but that's an entirely different megapost for a future day.]
Contrast, again, to what actually happened:
- Evil wind demon caused a raging storm
- Cleo III, Summoner king from Balacruf (where the actual Summon Spirit is located), forms a pact with the Summon Spirit of wind
- Cleo III uses the Summon Spirit of Wind to seal the evil wind demon into the stone dias
(...As a slight aside, even more interestingly, Balacruf has its own legend inscribed in the walls of its mausoleum -- that Cleo III became as one with the Summon Spirit of Wind when he died.)
This stuff pops up again and again. Encountering legends and learning of the historical events that birthed them. It's so interesting to me how multiple versions of one "truth" - the real people and events that really transpired, and the elevated myths and legends that hold meaning to the people who believe them - exist at the same time, and often encounter one another over the course of this game. After hearing about Mithos the Hero, savior of 4,000 years ago, you literally meet him (and kick his ass multiple times). I would argue that Mithos and his alternate self Yggdrasill embody and symbolize these two versions of his truth.
One of my favorite instances of discerning "truth" from myths is when Botta is expositioning the **** out of the Great Seed. The party expresses disbelief, believing that the Great Seed is a legend, not actually real. Botta explains that it does exist, and Genis asks if it's the same as the Great Seed described as the soul of Mithos. Botta laughs, stating "now THAT is a fairy tale."
Myths and legends may be different from their historical origins, but ToS argues a compelling case that this doesn't make them any less real. When the Tower of Salvation disappears because Cruxis has a malfunction when things start going to ****, Kratos brushes it off because he knows it's just a visual malfunction, and therefore it's not a big deal. But Raine points out that it /is/ a huge deal because the Tower is a symbol of hope and salvation for the people of Sylvarant. Its disappearance has political consequences. The symbol holds real power and meaning, regardless of the intention behind its creation.
Given this as a recurring topic in the game, I think it's incredibly interesting that the events you play - Lloyd's journey, and the rebirth of the tree (which Lloyd names Yggdrasill) - are undoubtedly going to be the subject of legends in the distant future. The creation of the Yggdrasill Tree, which will certainly be a subject of both historical and religious study for the denizens of the united world, is something you experience as a current event. After seeing time and again how mythological figures are based on real people and events that have been changed and elevated over time, and encountering the world's most beloved ancient hero in the flesh and learning what his story really was… you get to witness Lloyd's story as it happens, leaving you to wonder how it will live on in public memory. Because it surely will.
As will Mithos Yggdrasill... he will live on, not as the tyrannical leader of Cruxis, nor as the hero who smited the half-elves... but as the tree, a symbol for a united world and the protection of those who face discrimination.
[Ranty, somewhat-related conclusion: that's why I think the tree's name is so important. It allows Mithos and Martel to both exist together as beloved symbols of protection and acceptance. It gives them a role in the world they fought for but weren't privileged enough to claim. Lloyd naming the tree protected by Martel "Yggdrasill" was one of the most meaningful things he did over the course of the game. So I'M KINDA PISSY THEY DON'T SAY IT OUTRIGHT AND YOU HAVE TO INFER IT FROM TALES OF PHANTASIA]
In ACTUAL conclusion -- I really love how the game opens with a mythological story based on Mithos's journey, elevated beyond its historical truth, and ends with the player experiencing the rebirth of the tree featured in the original myth. It really drives home the parallels between Mithos and Lloyd, and emphasizes how those who are immortalized as heroes and legends lived real lives as real people.
~~~~~~~tune in next time for Treatise 2: On Life and Lifeless Beings! (maybe)~~~~~~


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Even though I am only twenty-nine years old, in professional snowboarding years that's like seventy-five. It's kind of like dog years. I haven't quite figured out the conversion rate, or what happens once you die, but I think instead of being put to sleep you get to move to California and work in marketing or something. (I am trying to make my 100th birthday–in snow years–so it'll be a little while before I can tell you.) I've always known that there was a certain age limit to physical ability but lately I started wondering why the actual culture of snowboarding doesn't really seem to mature. Do we have to accept that we're growing out of it at some point? Or is it simply so young that there's barely a full generation of riders to leave Peter Pan's target group? I spoke to Jake Burton Carpenter about the culture's youthfulness, the mainstream and modern-day snowboard parks. The interview is an excerpt from my upcoming book, entitled "Current State: Snowboarding".
– David Benedek
David Benedek: You're one of the few people that have been with snowboarding literally from the beginning. Was there ever a moment when you thought: Shit, now we've hit the mainstream? A moment when you thought it might grow beyond what's healthy?
Jake Burton: There was never really a time when I just woke up and thought, "How did that happen?" But a lot of people ask me at what moment did I know it was "on?" From a product perspective everything happened so slowly, you know. It's been 30 years.
DB: Which isn't a bad thing. Sustainable growth usually doesn't happen overnight.
JB: Exactly. I mean, I was really concerned with the Olympics thing and the FIS getting involved. Watching riders like Martin Freinademetz blow up their career because they were so passionate about politics–that sucked. That was sort of scary. And some weird stuff that came with the size of the sport. Like, you'd hear that Dan Quayle–this weird Republican guy that didn't really have a great image–that he was snowboarding; that was a little strange. But you know, I've never been one that misses the old days. I am not that guy. I am not interested in going to a vintage snowboard race or any of that. For me it's, the newer the better. I think the sport is in a really good place right now, the emphasis is on fun. And even looking at the top pros, like Kevin Pearce for instance. You know, they simply love to ride.
DB: Do you think there's any danger or threat of the tourism aspect, the normalization aspect, kind of like skiing?
JB: Well, if riders started looking like Nascar drivers, with 50 different patches on their body, you know, that would be terrible–if it got so commercial like that. But it is in the hands of the riders. As long as it stays in the hands of the riders and people who care about it and do it for two-hundred days a year, then I think we'll be fine. But yeah, it's always risky.
DB: I heard something interesting the other day…it's obviously way beyond something I could have experienced, which is why I am curious if you'd agree: In the early 60's skiing was supposedly this really rebellious, lifestyle-heavy thing, which then obviously got totally commodified through tourism and everything.
JB: Yeah, I skied as a kid. And it was pretty rad. I used to learn to ski in leather boots, really soft, and you had so much feel, less precision, just a much more looser ride than today–and then, when they started making those plastic boots it just got so performance-driven. The whole thing (skiing) got very elitist, too. Suddenly it was more about the ten best roof racks for your BMW. And with snowboarding, one thing is, we've really kept it youth-oriented. As long as it's youth driven…[it's on the right track]. And the kids are the most important market.
DB: Do you think there's a threat within that as well? Keeping it youth-driven? That already implies that the generator of content is not necessarily congruent with the content because it's "made for youth?" It doesn't feel too authentic thinking about forty year-olds creating content for 14 year olds.
JB: Yeah, but I just think everybody wants to be young. And the older you get, the more you want to be young (laughs). I mean, I can tell you from experience. And snowboarding gives you that. Kids (in general), I think they are just so much more pure, in so many ways. In how they think about stuff, in the way they look at the world, I think adults can learn more from kids than vice versa. So I don't think that's a negative thing, snowboarding being youth-driven. I mean, it's not the fountain of youth, but it's got a little bit of that. You do like to jib stuff and have a personality and be irreverent, that's definitely part of the sport. And I know for me, I don't ever want to lose that. I'll really regret the day when I am just a conservative old man, I don't ever want to go there. I think snowboarding's a way to keep people's lives fresh and entertaining.
DB: I am just saying: I am 28 now and I can already tell there's hardly any content that's directed toward me. It feels like you're being bombarded with marketing messages until you're 25 and then it's like, you're free to go.
JB: Yeah, I think that's definitely just because snowboarding is so young. And as far as content geared toward an older crowd: I think it'll happen. Some of the (more mature) magazines had a tough time, too, Frequency and Snowboard Journal. And even when we've made product, marketed product for the sort of in-between (age), it just doesn't seem to do much.
DB: I think the problem with the Journal was more that they positioned themselves as this magazine for old men, which is pretty exclusive I think. I don't really feel old, you know (laughs). I am really into reading about pros and all that, so it's not the actual content that I feel needs to change as you get older, but rather the maturity level.
JB: Yeah, I think that's a good point. It probably just needs some time. You know, the sport changes so quick. It used to be so small, everybody knew everybody. And look now, so many companies have gone public…
DB: …how do you feel about that? Do you think that's a threat?
JB: Yeah, I don't think it's good–at all. You can't live up to the expectations of those bankers, they'll be on your case. They just want you to make more and more money. I could never do that and I don't think it's great for the sport.
DB: Are you content with a certain size of company or are you still looking for growth?
JB: No, you gotta grow. You know, it's so weird, that whole thing. When I was younger I used to think: Why is everybody so obsessed with growth? I used to have this debate in my head, and then I just sort of ultimately said: Just go for it. Just grow, that's what everybody wants. What makes the world go 'round. So I sort of just sold out on that regard. And fully, you know.
DB: Do you think that's just natural, sort of from the animal instinct of getting to the top of the pack?
JB: Yes. Business. That's just how it works. It's funny, I just sort of bought into it. It's just sort of like I threw in the towel. And you know, so much of what you do is driven by the people that work for you. You want to hire ambitious people. And those people will want to make more money and if everybody in the company wants to make more money there's just one way that's going to happen. You will have to grow. But with what's happening in the economy right now, who knows what that's telling us?
DB: Whatever happens, I think in a general sense it doesn't really hurt the cultural model if all of business is getting smaller. Is there anything specific that you feel is a really good development in snowboarding?
JB: Yeah, big ones. You know The Stash runs we have out there? For me, that is so important. I am really scared of parks becoming these standardized training facilities. You know, jump here, rail here. Bigger and bigger tabletops and kids start getting hurt, I don't think that's what it should all be about. For the events and competitions, stuff being huge and watching people do twelves is awesome. But I'd like mountains to just be like a climbing wall, with all these different options on every run, enabling people to use the whole mountain in a totally freestyle spirit. And just being able to ride together on one big playground. Maybe you're going thirty feet off something while there's also a small hip or something I can hit. I mean, losing that (social) character of riding just scares me…
DB: I think competitions and the type of riding you are talking about can and should actually be fused. If you had ten options to ride a course…
JB: …and you could capture that…yeah, that would be sick. And that's what snowboarding is. You've got to have an eye.
Current State: Snowboarding is a limited edition book by David Benedek featuring some of the most influential individuals of the past 2 decades. It will be released in the fall of 2010. To reserve a copy and for more info, go to almostanything.com
This content was originally published in SNOWBOARDER's August 2009 issue.
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Send Up A Flare, Mystery Bride Identified! - Mystery Monday
Sophie was the daughter of Antonina and Josef Choronzak, the couple who died during the flu pandemic leaving seven children orphaned. Sophie's grand-daughter remembers my aunt Helen Bulak, and I learned that Sophie worked at my aunt's store, Helen's, on Millbury St. in Worcester for many years. Sophie's grand-daughter said she Googled "Antonina Choronzak" one night and was more that a little surprised to find her great-grandparents name pop up on my blog. She was even more surprised to find her grandparents wedding picture on my blog! What's even more amazing? She has the same photograph in a frame above her computer at home!
We started a nice little e-mail correspondence over the weekend. Maybe together we can learn a little more about Sophie, Antonina, and our respective families. She said she suspects that between her and her mom, they can help me to identify many of the mystery photos in my collection. Sophie's grand-daughter's final comment to me was so poignant. She said, "I'm so glad that Antonina brought us together. Their remarkable story continues..." Indeed it does.
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11 comments:
- Kristin said...
That's wonderful! How lovely to be found by someone with information to share. For both parties!
- May 2, 2011 at 9:06 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
You are right, Kristin! I think we'll both learn from this! Thank you for your comment.
- May 2, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Susan (Nolichucky Roots) said...
I am in a hyper-emotional mood today, but this brought me to tears. A joyful result.
- May 2, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Dorene from Ohio said...
What a wonderful blessing! Awesome!
- May 2, 2011 at 9:50 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
Wonderful!! Every paragraph got better, it's better than made up. Maybe some of the other mystery brides are siblings. Wow, you have a lot to think about. How did this person happen to come across your post, esp. since you didn't have the bride's name. Way to go Cindy.
- May 3, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- Amy Coffin, MLIS said...
I love it when a mystery gets solved. Congrats on the connection!
- May 3, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Thank you all for your comments! I really am thrilled about this, and so is Sophie's grand-daughter.
Barbara - You are so right! The more I do genealogy and family history, the more I believe that real life IS more interesting than fiction!
- May 3, 2011 at 6:16 PM
- Greta Koehl said...
This is great news, and the fact that your contact may be able to help you with other photos is even better news! It's like finding something dear that you had lost.
- May 3, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Another example of the best part of blogging...making terrific connections. Congrats!
- May 6, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Debi Austen said...
Amazing! Congratulations on solving the mystery. And I can't wait to hear if more of your photos are identified.
- May 6, 2011 at 11:21 AM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Thank you all for your comments!
Connecting with Sophie's grand-daughter has been amazing. I'm hopeful that between the two of us, we can put some names to some of the faces in my mystery collection. She has quite a story to tell as well.
- May 6, 2011 at 4:55 PM


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"We almost doubled just today the number of planets known to humanity," said NASA planetary scientist Jack Lissauer in a teleconference, calling it "the big mother lode."
Although Wednesday's announcements were about big numbers, they also were about implications for life behind those big numbers.
The new planets are in systems like ours where multiple planets circle a star. The 715 planets came from looking at just 305 stars. They were nearly all in size closer to Earth than gigantic Jupiter. Four of those exoplanets orbit their stars in "habitable zones" where it is not too hot or not too cold for liquid water, which is crucial for life to exist.


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My father in law is an old Navy salt and he goes on and on about the Portugese bread he used to get while stationed in New Jersey. I would love to re create the bread for him, but have been unable here in Alabama to find a good recipe. I tried the King Arthur flour recipe but it wasn't quite right. I am in love with the whole bread making world, and am so happy that I finally found this web site. It has been comforting to find out that others also have this yeast obsession! If anyone from up Jersey way could help I ( and my Pop) would really appreciate it! I just got a hot loaf of Challah out of the oven from the favorite recipes section, and it turned out fantastic! Here in the Deep South, I doubt many people have even heard of Challah! But we will enjoy it anyway! Happy Baking!


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Sept. 25, 2004
The Bulldogs got goals from Jake Miller and Alex Munns, but it was not enough to overcome No. 15 Southern Methodist University, as the Elis fell 5-2 to the Mustangs in Tulsa, Okla. SMU improved to 5-2 on the season with the victory, while the Bulldogs fell to 0-5.
The Mustangs earned the first goal of the game just over 14 minutes into play when Jake Jackson converted an Alex Smith assist. The Bulldogs tied the game with less than three minutes to play before halftime, with Shannon Brooks taking a corner kick that was headed by Jake Miller past SMU goaltender TJ Tomasso.
The Elis were unable to preserve the tie going into halftime, allowing Duke Hashimoto to score his first of three goals with just 20 seconds remaining in the half. The goal set off a run of four unanswered goals by SMU, the last coming at 69:25 when Hashimoto scored on a rebound to earn his hat trick.
With just under three minutes remaining in the game, the Elis scored their second goal of the night when captain Ryan Raybould and Andrew Dealy set up Alex Munns off a free kick. The score changed the final tally to 5-2 in favor of SMU.
The Bulldogs were outshot 20-15 by the Golden Hurricanes. Yale goaltender Matt Aleksinas stopped two SMU shots, while TJ Tomasso got behind five Bulldog attempts.
Yale will remain in Tulsa to play University of Tulsa on Sunday at 3:30 pm.


text: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Bruno Coutinho<coutinho at dcc.ufmg.br> wrote: > Nehalem and Barcelona have the following cache architecture: > > L1 cache: 64KB (32kb data, 32kb instruction), per core > L2 cache: Barcelona :512kb, Nehalem: 256kb, per core > L3 cache: Barcelona: 2MB, Nehalem: 8MB , shared among all cores. > > > Both in Barcelona and Nehalem, the "uncore" (everything outside a core, like > L3 and memory controllers) runs at lower speed than the cores and all cores > communicate through L3, so it must handle some coherence signals too. > This makes impossible to L3 feed all cores at full speed if L2 caches have > big miss ratios. > > So, what is happening with your program is something like: > > Working set fits Barcelona 512kb L2 cache, so it has 10% miss rate, > but is doesn't fits Nehalem 256km L2 cache, so it has 50% miss rate. > So in Nehelem the shared L3 cache has to handle much more requests from all > cores than Barcelona, becoming a big bottleneck. Thanks Bruno! That makes a lot of sense now. Assuming that is what is happening is there any way of still using the Nehalems fruitfully for this code? Any smart tricks / hacks? The reason is that the Nehalems seem to scale and perform beautifully for my other codes. The only other option is to relapse back to the AMDs. I believe the Shanghai would be a choice or an Instanbul. I assume the cache structure there is as good as the Barcelona if not better! Any experiences with these chips on the group? Funnily, I haven't heard of any such Nehalem (-ive) stories anywhere else. Am I the first one to hit this cache bottleneck? I doubt it. Any other cache heavy users? -- Rahul


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Sunday I headed over to the HobbyTown USA HobbyPlex in Omaha, NE for the final day of tour stop #5 of the 2012 Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour. This is the second year of this unique series which features traditional stock and modified classes, plus three spec classes. Traxxas sponsored a 2WD Slash and 4×4 Slash spec class where all entries consisted of Traxxas 2WD and 4×4 Slashes. Losi also sponsored a SCB (Short Course Buggy) spec class which consisted entirely of Losi SCBs. This new vehicle class was added to the tour for 2012 after it debuted as an exhibition class last year.
That morning there was one more round of qualifying and then a short break before all the mains. Since they were using a rocket round qualifying format many TQs from the previous rounds on Saturday fell as the track got faster for racers. The most competitive classes that weekend were the Stock 2WD, Modified 2WD, and Modified 4X4 short course truck classes. After all the dust had settled JConcepts / Team Associated driver Dave Duncan came away with the top qualifier spot in the Stock 2WD class.
Team Losi Racing dominated qualifying in the modified classes as local hero Alex Sturgeon was the top qualifier in Modified 2WD, and Arizona native Billy Fischer secured the top position in the Modified 4X4 class.
After qualifying had concluded it was time for the racer door prizes, and thanks to the many great sponsors the racers walked away with a ton of great gear! Once your ticket number was called you got to pick one item of your choice from the table, but you only have 5 seconds to decide.
When young novice drivers had their ticket number called, it was like watching an episode of The Price Is Right as the crowd cheered them on to choose the Traxxas T-Maxx pillow over the $350 2.4Ghz radio system. 🙂
Sunday was also a special day for Team Associated young gun Jason Hills as he celebrated his 11th birthday. Racers were treated to free birthday cake in honor of Jason, and since they just walked away with some great door prizes, this truly was the icing on the cake!
Next they held the 1st spectator raffle of the day. This is an unique feature of this tour since they give away door prizes to spectators too. One of the main goals of the Short Course Showdown is to help bring new people into the hobby and what a better way than to hook them up with a free RTR short course truck!
This lucky spectator walked away with a nice Team Associated RTR SC10RS.
Many manufacturers were in attendance with product displays like Traxxas, Horizon Hobby, JConcepts, and Novak so I stopped to check out the latest gear.
At the Traxxas booth Factory drivers were running their new red anodized upgrades for the Slash 4×4. Previously only offered in blue these new option parts are made from 6061-T6 aluminum and add custom style while increasing the durability of your truck. Read more about these new upgrades here: http://www.rccaraction.com/blog/2012/07/30/traxxas-red-anodized-upgrades-for-slash-4×4-stampede-4×4-summit-and-revo-models/
Next at the Novak booth I spotted their new Impact brushless speed control. This new ESC has an extremely small footprint and is equipped with Novak's new Super Tuner interface which allows you to fine tune your speedo without the need for an external device like a laptop or programming card. Read more about it here: http://www.rccaraction.com/blog/2012/04/27/novak-impact-racing-brushless-esc-with-x-drive/
We started up the mains and with 132 entries it was a great day of racing. The top 2 finishers in the lower mains bumped up into the next main, and each A Main was 7 minutes long expect for the Novice class which was only 4 minutes. Before they ran each Traxxas Spec A Main there was a special drawing for all the A Main finalists of their respective classes. One lucky driver from the 2WD Slash top 10 won a Traxxas Greg Adler Edition Slash XVL, and in the Slash 4×4 group one racer won a Traxxas Jerry Whelchel Edition Slash 4×4.
There were some great battles on the track and we saw some intense racing since drivers only had one shot at bringing home the hardware in the A Mains. The top 3 from each class are listed below this race report.
After all the mains had concluded they held one last spectator raffle that day. One lucky person walked away with a Losi RTR TEN-SCTE, and the other a Traxxas RTR Kyle Busch Slash.
After that all the awards were handed out bringing an end to another successful showdown. Next stop on the tour is September 14th-16th at 702 Raceway in Las Vegas, NV. For more info please visit http://www.shortcourseshowdown.com/
1. Cole Henriksen (TQ)
2. Chrystian Dutton
3. Bryson Pavel
Losi SCB
1. Mike Garrison (TQ)
2. Tim Ski
3. Josh Duncan
Traxxas Stock Spec 2WD Slash
1. Will Brinton
2. Cole Henriksen
3. Thomas Kreuser (TQ)
Modified 2WD SCT
1. Brian Kinwald
2. Alex Sturgeon (TQ)
3. Billy Fischer
Traxxas Spec Slash 4×4
1. Travis Reitz
2. Nate Pechacek
3. Zeke Pullen (TQ)
Stock 2WD SCT
1. Dave Duncan (TQ)
2. Jason Hills
3. Christian Blake
Modified 4WD SCT
1. Billy Fischer (TQ)
2. Taylor Timmerman
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Nokia Revival Hopes Fade as Analysts Cut Targets
Analysts cut their price targets on Nokia to little more than the value of its cash and patents on Friday as hopes fade that phones using new Microsoft software can revive the ailing mobile company anytime soon.
The launch of new Lumia smartphones, expected to start in September, has turned into a make-or-break event for Nokia boss Stephen Elop, the architect of a tie-up with Microsoft which has so far done little to resurrect the firm's challenge to the dominance of Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy models.
But confidence is low after Nokia reported a thumping quarterly loss on Thursday and warned of another big splash of red ink for its phone business in the third quarter.
On Friday, credit ratings agency Fitch downgraded Nokia, having previously warned it would do so if it was not convinced the firm could stabilize revenue declines and revive margins.
"The release of Nokia's Q2 results indicate that the company is currently not near this position and Fitch is not convinced that this can be attained anytime soon," it said.
Nokia's shares, down about 80 percent since February 2011 when Elop announced the shift to the largely untried Microsoft Windows phone operating system, jumped 12 percent on Thursday as investors breathed a sigh of relief that the Finnish group was not burning through its cash pile as quickly as feared.
But the stock fell back 5 percent on Friday, as analysts mostly took a more cautious view on a recovery plan being implemented amid economic uncertainty and stiff competition.
Many set their price targets for the shares at around 1-3 euros, at best little more than the estimated value of its cash and patent portfolio.
Nokia's net cash position at the end of the year is seen at around 3 billion euros, or about 0.80 euro per share, compared with the 1.12 euros per share it had at the end of June.
The patent portfolio, one of the largest in the mobile industry, is estimated to be worth 0.5-1.0 euro per share.
In the second quarter, Nokia used its strength in patents to boost its cash, booking a 400-million-euro prepayment from a licensing deal. It refused to say who made the payment, but analysts and patent experts say it came either from Apple or Microsoft.
Sales of Nokia's Lumia phones, which run the Microsoft software, have yet to grab share back from Apple and Samsung Electronics smartphones in the most profitable part of the mobile market.
The Microsoft platform had only a 2 percent market share in the first quarter of 2012, compared with 23 percent for Apple and 56 percent for Google's Android platform, which is used by multiple mobile phone firms including Samsung.
Some analysts think new Lumia models using Windows Phone 8 (WP8) software could still change that, with local banks Nordea and Pohjola upgrading Nokia shares to "buy" on Friday.
But for most, the jury is out.
"Nokia's recovery story has paused ... We conclude that the next phase of improvement requires the launch of the Windows Phone 8 units. Nokia's story remains theoretical pending consumer adoption of WP8," Barclays analysts said.
Nomura analyst Stuart Jeffrey said Microsoft's Windows 8 software for computers - which will have a similar look and feel to the Windows version for smartphones - might eventually help Nokia, but it would take time.
"We thus believe that Nokia's traction may prove muted in H1 2013 even if the Windows Phone does take off, with H2 perhaps showing greater strength," he said in a note.
Some investors said patience may soon run out. Juha Varis, who holds Nokia shares as part of the Danske Invest Finnish Equity Fund, said Elop was likely to come under pressure if there was no breakthrough by the end of the year.
"If Windows Phones stay at current levels, I think they have to do a Plan B. They would need to do something drastic, and I think the view is that Elop is not that guy," he said on Thursday as he read through the results.
Nokia remained defiant in the face of the Fitch downgrade.
"We have a strong focus on cash conservation as we continue our transition," a spokesman said.


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Rackspace is making a conscious effort to align its products to mission-critical enterprise deployments with this week's launch of its Cloud Connect offering and a new Critical Sites service level offering. While Cloud Connect is designed to offer customers a seamless integration option when using the Rackspace cloud in a dedicated hosting environment, the new Critical Sites service level is billed as a means to providing advanced monitoring for customers who rely on their websites and applications as mission critical components of their business.
The company says that Cloud Connect reinforces the strength of Rackspace's portfolio of services by allowing customers to combine the scalability and cost benefits of the cloud with the security and configurability of dedicated managed hosting. Cloud Connect, which was released from beta at the beginning of November, is (according to Rackspace) the first service to seamlessly link cloud computing and traditional hosting, together with enhanced user control and security.
Also fresh out of the wrapper this week is the previously mentioned Rackspace Critical Sites service. An extension of Rackspace's jauntily named "Fanatical Support," this service drills into the application layer to deliver mission-critical support for clients' most important websites and applications. Critical Sites customers receive access to a suite of performance management tools built to gain real-time visibility of the end user experience. The tools are designed to increase peak application performance and availability and ensure that the infrastructure functions at the optimal level to support the business.
"Critical Sites is specifically designed for clients who are dependent upon an online presence to drive customer acquisition/retention, revenue generation, customer service and the building of brand equity. This new service level offers the technical expertise and enterprise tools to help maximize infrastructure performance, proactively identify issues before they affect the end user experience and quickly address any problems that do occur," said John Engates, chief technology officer for Rackspace.


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GEOSS Workshop XLIII: Sharing Climate Information and Knowledge
The workshop will be held at NCAR Center Green in Boulder, Colorado.
At this workshop, key representatives from industry, academia, and government will provide invited talks focused on key issues, tools and techniques now available to improve interdisciplinary discovery and use of climate modeling results. The workshop will take place a few days after the FOSS4G conference in Denver and immediately following the OGC TC meeting in Boulder.
The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS, see earthobservations.org) is a complex international system of sensors, communication devices, storage systems, computational and other devices used to observe the Earth and to gather the data needed for a better understanding of the Earth's processes. In addition, GEOSS includes models and processes to create information from the observational data.
With the highly coupled nature of the earth system and the need to understand global environmental processes and their regional linkages, it is increasingly important to allow and enable disparate organizations around the world to access, process and share climate data and model results now being compiled for the next assessment report (AR5) by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Regional downscaling and ensemble applications, using common standards for exchange and encoding, are of particular interest for the coming year, as the next phase of global modeling results become available. It is also crucial to long-term and interdisciplinary use of climate data to develop methods for collection, understanding, and preservation of data quality and other provenance metadata. At this workshop in Boulder, we will emphasize tools and techniques now available to improve interdisciplinary discovery and use of climate modeling results.
GEOSS is a project of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The OGC is a Participating Organization in GEO, and the OGC leads the multi-year GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP). The AIP is leading the incorporation of contributed components consistent with the GEOSS Architecture using a GEOSS Web Portal and a GEOSS Clearinghouse search facility to access services through GEOSS Interoperability Arrangements.
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Woody Anderson says the National Cotton Council intends to try to make sure Congress honors its "Contract with Agriculture" when it considers the fiscal 2005 budget later this year.
"Most farmers think that Congress made a commitment to them in the 2002 farm bill," said Anderson, a farmer from Colorado City, Texas, and the new chairman of the Cotton Council. "We will work with our friends in Congress to make sure Congress honors that commitment.
Making a play on words with the Republican Party's Contract with America in 1994, Anderson said the Council is hopeful congressional leaders will have a similar follow-through in its "Contract with Agriculture."
"In 2003, the Council worked very hard to address the ongoing priorities of defending the U.S. cotton program and attaining sound trade policy," said Anderson in comments to farmers attending the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in Memphis, Tenn.
"The U.S. cotton program faced continuous attack from our foreign competitors, from some members of Congress, and from many in the media. Many of us shared the same sense of frustration as one media outlet after another unjustly blamed our cotton program for driving down world prices and for the plight of poor African farmers.
"Incredibly, many of these same voices alleged that farm programs foster terrorism and even contribute toward obesity.
In Congress, the Council defended the farm bill throughout the budget debate and the appropriations process. "We joined others who shared our views in testimony before the Payment Limit Commission about the tremendous damage that will accompany any additional program benefit restrictions."
As the cotton industry develops strategy for 2004 and beyond, defense of the U.S. farm program and influencing the outcome of trade negotiations will continue to be at the top of the Council's priority list, said Anderson.
"This year's budget and appropriations measures will be crafted in a partisan environment, and election year politics will dominate debate on every issue considered by Congress," he said.
"The cotton industry is very fortunate to have members of Congress who understand our industry and are willing to address key issues. But we must also be prepared to change with several pending retirements in the Senate and re-districting issues in the House.
Anderson said growing budget deficits will generate pressure for change in 2004. "When Congress begins debating the new budget, there will be proposals to save money by modifying programs or reducing benefits. Others in Congress will work to cut funds from production agriculture in favor of more politically attractive programs."
The Council will continue to work with all agriculture and allied organizations to effectively defend commodity programs and other key provisions of the farm law, he noted, and will help build and maintain coalitions that remind Congress that the current farm law is balanced in its approach to funding for production, conservation and nutrition programs.
"Our trade agenda this year stands virtually shoulder-to-shoulder with farm policy in determining the ultimate success of the cotton industry," Anderson said. "In response to our government's recent efforts to jumpstart WTO talks, the Council will continue discussions with USTR to ensure that negotiations concerning the U.S. cotton program will be conducted in the context of the overall agricultural negotiations and not singled out from the discussions on other commodities."
The Council has continually stated that a good Central America Free Trade Agreement is essential to preserving a viable U.S. cotton and textile industry, according to Anderson.
"A good CAFTA assures that the benefits accrue to the signatory countries and denies unnecessary benefits to non-signatory countries," he noted. "The Council's board adopted a resolution stating that the Council opposes the CAFTA in its current form and urges Congress to defer consideration of CAFTA until such time as the textile provisions are thoroughly reviewed and significantly improved.
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When firefighters search a building for people who need rescue the smoke and flames make it very hard to see. Although they use infrared cameras, the lenses can be blinded by intense fire. Italian researchers have created a system that uses an
to penetrate areas of thick smoke and flames. The laser beam reflects off any objects or people within the area. Then an imager decodes the data to create a 3D image of everything inside the room, even people who may be moving. This holographic image effectively allows firefighters to see through the smoke and flames that previously blinded them. The next challenge is to make the system portable. Yes, portable would be a real advantage.
LIVELY FINGERS: In the TV shows the bad guys cheerfully cut off a person's finger to use it on the fingerprint scanner to open the safe. In future though they may need the whole, live person. A test device in Rapid City in the US checks haemoglobin in the finger to make sure the owner is still alive. The machine not only identifies a fingerprint but also checks that blood is pulsing beneath it. Take that, TV villains: in future you'll have to kill the guard after the fingerprint scan instead of before.
THE WIRELESS BRAIN: There have been some useful developments in hooking people up to computers with an interface wired into their brain. It usually involves a large chunk of the device sticking out of the top of their head and connected to wires though. Now neuroengineers at Brown University have created a wireless, broadband neural sensing device that can relay signals from up to 100 neurons in someone who's freely moving around. The low power devices have been working in animals for a year already. One tiny part of the device is implanted on the cortex. From there it sends signals through a wire to a larger can that does all the work. The device transmits data at 24 Mbps via 3.2 and 3.8 Ghz microwave frequencies to an external receiver. Induction charging makes 6 hours of operation possible. The device still needs a lot of work before it can be tested in humans. So long as the control goes only one way: the wearer of the device controls external objects and can't be controlled themself.
PLASTIC TREES: Petroleum-based plastics are a menace in the environment, but what say they could be broken down by microbes at the end of their useful life? Researchers at the University of South Carolina believe they can make plastic from the sap of evergreen trees. The rosin and turpentine derived from trees is rich in hydrocarbons similar to those in petroleum. Now they're working on developing polymers from trees to create useful products. Aha, another reason to chop down trees.
SEEING DOUBLE: We all know you need two lenses to capture a 3D image, but it seems no-one told Panasonic. Their new 2.1-Mpixel CMOS image sensor combines a lenticular lens and mirror elements separate out light into two streams. A processor then combines them again into a 3D image. It can apply this 3D imaging technique to images within around 1 metre of the lens. That could redefine a one-eyed view.
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Actor Christian Slater is engaged.
The actor announced he is set to wed his longtime girlfriend Brittany Lopez during an appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday.
After confirming the news, Slater described his first meeting with Lopez in Florida, saying, "I went down to Miami a couple years ago, stayed at this little place (resort) called Little Palm Island … and this girl came walking along with another lady, a slightly older lady. I was sitting in my usual spot, eating my oatmeal that morning … and this spot was famous for people proposing to each other… and next thing I know she gets down on one knee and proposes to this older lady…
"I thought I had just witnessed a nice lesbian engagement, so I was coming over to say congratulations, but it turns out it was her aunt and she was just trying to help her aunt capture the beauty and the romance of the moment. She was making a joke, and I witnessed it, and it intrigued me, and the next thing I know we were hanging out in the Everglades."
This will be Slater's second marriage – he divorced Ryan Haddon, the mother of his two children, in 2007.


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|Biotechnology is the application of recent developments in technology to manipulate the genetic and biochemical characteristics of an organism so that the organism or its metabolites can be economically produced for our benefit. In practice it requires the selection and genetic improvement of an organism for a specific purpose. Organisms may be used to synthesize a desirable product or degrade unwanted materials. The industrialization of this technology is dependent on the development of methods for scaling up processes developed in the laboratory.
Students interested in biotechnology could find careers in a wide variety of industrial applications. Examples of the types of industries that use biotechnology are antibiotic and pharmaceutical; food; energy; agricultural pesticides; herbicides; fertilizers; growth chemicals and breeding programs; industrial chemicals; biocatalysts; and diagnostics. The biotechnologist works with research scientists on the development of processes in the laboratory and with engineers to transfer and scale up laboratory processes for large scale production required by industry.
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Application forms are available in the College Advising Center, Trafton C-125.
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Microsoft technologies keep getting better but they do so on the expense of adding one more abstraction layer every time. In the early stages we used to play with C# code and SQL procedures to perform CRUD operations. Then generics came along with ADO.NET, DataSets, Entities. Next, LINQ came offering LINQ to SQL, to XML, to Entities, to Objects. To get more easier and more confusing, EF 4.1 came. C# just kept evolving and adding new abstractions layers again and again.
The end result is that I am so confused that I don't know which one is which and when to use which one. When I try to follow books, some teach EF while some are stuck with ADO.NET. Seriously I have no clue whatsoever why we have evolved so much for data manipulation
To be honest, all I know is the C# syntax and some basic stuff. Data manipulation is out of the window and so are the advanced features.
- Is there a unified manner to learn C# ? I don't want to use Entity Framework and LINQ when I don't understand them or what they offer. I just want to have a thorough understanding from Level 0 to Level 10.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth's tropical belt is expanding much faster than expected, and that could bring more storms to the temperate zone and drier weather to parts of the world that are already dry, climate scientists reported on Sunday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth's tropical belt is expanding much faster than expected, and that could bring more storms to the temperate zone and drier weather to parts of the world that are already dry, climate scientists reported on Sunday.
"Remarkably, the tropics appear to have already expanded -- during only the last few decades of the 20th century -- by at least the same margin as models predict for this century," the scientists said in the current edition of Nature Geoscience.
Scientists forecast the tropic belt would spread by about 2 degrees of latitude north and south of the Equator by the end of the 21st century. That amount of tropical expansion has already occurred, and was confirmed by five independent ways of measuring it, the report found.!ADVERTISEMENT!
For mapmakers and astronomers, there is no question about where the tropic zone ends: it is at 23.5 degrees north and south of the Equator at the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, boundaries determined by Earth's tilt on its axis. These tropical borders are the furthest point from the Equator where the sun shines directly overhead at the summer solstice.
But climate scientists define the tropic band by what happens on the land, in the water and in the air, and that is what is changing, the study said.
Tropical temperatures are warm, and it rains a lot, with little seasonal or day-to-day change. The subtropics, by contrast, are generally dry. If the warm, wet tropical climate is spreading poleward, the dry subtropic climate may head for the poles too.
Those dry subtropical bands could include some of the most heavily populated places on Earth, the scientists said: the Mediterranean, the U.S. Southwest, northern Mexico, southern Australia, southern Africa and parts of South America.
"Shifts in precipitation patterns would have obvious implications for agriculture and water resources and could present serious hardships in marginal areas," the authors wrote.
For those who live in the middle latitudes, like most U.S., European and Asian residents, the change could affect the storm tracks that largely determines weather in these areas, said co-author Dian Seidel of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"Those storm tracks are linked with the position of the jet stream, which is one way we use to delineate the width of the tropics," Seidel said by telephone from NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory outside Washington. "The jet streams are moving poleward, and so, presumably, would the storm tracks."
This poleward migration of storm tracks is in line with predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This worldwide panel of scientists and policymakers is convening in Bali, Indonesia this week to determine how to deal with climate change.
(Editing by Vicki Allen)


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