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Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
AGP is a dedicated high-speed bus that allows the graphics controller to fetch large amounts of data directly from system memory. It uses a Graphics Address Re-Mapping Table (GART) to provide a physically-contiguous view of scattered pages in system memory for DMA transfers.
With AGP, main memory is specifically used for advanced three-dimensional features, such as textures, alpha buffers, and ZBuffer``s.
- There are two primary AGP usage models for 3D rendering that have to do with how data are partitioned and accessed, and the resultant interface data flow characteristics.
- In the DMA model, the primary graphics memory is the local memory associated with the accelerator, referred to as the local frame buffer. 3D structures are stored in system memory, but are not used (or executed) directly from this memory; rather they are copied to primary (local) memory (the DMA operation) to which the rendering engine's address generator makes its references. This implies that the traffic on the AGP tends to be long, sequential transfers, serving the purpose of bulk data transport from system memory to primary graphics (local) memory. This sort of access model is amenable to a linked list of physical addresses provided by software (similar to the operation of a disk or network I/O device), and is generally not sensitive to a non-contiguous view of the memory space.
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- In the execute model, the accelerator uses both the local memory and the system memory as primary graphics memory. From the accelerator's perspective, the two memory systems are logically equivalent; any data structure may be allocated in either memory, with performance optimization as the only criterion for selection. In general, structures in system memory space are not copied into the local memory prior to use by the accelerator, but are executed in place. This implies that the traffic on the AGP tends to be short, random accesses, which are not amenable to an access model based on software resolved lists of physical addresses. Because the accelerator generates direct references into system memory, a contiguous view of that space is essential; however, since system memory is dynamically allocated in random 4K pages, it is necessary in the execute model to provide an address mapping mechanism that maps random 4K pages into a single contiguous, physical address space.
Note: The AGP supports both the DMA and the execute model. However, since a primary motivation of the AGP is to reduce growth pressure on local memory, the execute model is the design focus.
AGP also allows to issue several access requests in a pipelined fashion while waiting for the data transfers to occur. Such pipelining of access requests results in having several read and/or write requests outstanding in the corelogic's request queue at any point in time.
- AGP Technology Home
- AGP Implementors Forum Q&A Link changed, archived version
- AGP Specification 2.0 Link changed, try this one
- AGP 3.0 v1.0 spec
Frequently Asked Questions
Why not use the existing XFree86 AGP manipulation calls?
You have to understand that the DRI functions have a different purpose than the ones in XFree86. The DRM has to know about AGP, so it talks to the AGP kernel module itself. It has to be able to protect certain regions of AGP memory from the client side 3D drivers, yet it has to export some regions of it as well. While most of this functionality (most, not all) can be accomplished with the
/dev/agpgart interface, it makes sense to use the DRM's current authentication mechanism. This means that there is less complexity on the client side. If we used
/dev/agpgart, then the client would have to open two devices, authenticate to both of them, and make half a dozen calls to agpgart, and only then care about the DRM device.
Note: As a side note, the XFree86 calls were written after the DRM functions.
Also to answer a previous question about not using XFree86 calls for memory mapping, you have to understand that under most OS's (probably Solaris as well), XFree86's functions will only work for root privileged processes. The whole point of the DRI is to allow processes that can connect to the X server to do some form of direct to hardware rendering. If we limited ourselves to using XFree86's functionality, we would not be able to do this. We don't want everyone to be root.
How do I use AGP?
You can also use this test program as a bit more documentation as to how agpgart is used.
How to allocate AGP memory?
Generally programs do the following:
- open
ioctl(INFO)to determine amount of memory for AGP
- mmap the device
ioctl(SETUP)to set the AGP mode
ioctl(ALLOCATE)a chunk o memory, specifying offset in aperture
ioctl(BIND)that same chunk o memory Every time you update the GART, you have to flush the cache and/or TLB's. This is expensive. Therefore, you allocate and bind the pages you'll use, and
mmap()just returns the right pages when needed.
Then you need to have a remap of the AGP aperture in the kernel which you can access. Use ioremap to do that.
After that you have access to the AGP memory. You probably want to make sure that there is a write-combining MTRR over the aperture. There is code in
mga_drv.c in our kernel directory that shows you how to do that.
If one has to insert pages in order to check for -EBUSY errors and loop through the entire GART, wouldn't it be better if the driver filled up ''pg_start'' of the ''agp_bind'' structure instead of the user filling it up?
All this allocation should be done by only one process. If you need memory in the GART you should be asking the X server for it (or whatever your controlling process is). Things are implemented this way so that the controlling process can know intimate details of how memory is laid out. This is very important for the I810, since you want to set tiled memory on certain regions of the aperture. If you made the kernel do the layout, then you would have to create device specific code in the kernel to make sure that the backbuffer/dcache are aligned for tiled memory. This adds complexity to the kernel that doesn't need to be there, and imposes restrictions on what you can do with AGP memory. Also, the current X server implementation (4.0) actually locks out other applications from adding to the GART. While the X server is active, the X server is the only one who can add memory. Only the controlling process may add things to the GART, and while a controlling process is active, no other application can be the controlling process.
Microsoft's VGART does things like you are describing I believe. I think it's bad design. It enforces a policy on whoever uses it, and is not flexible. When you are designing low level system routines I think it is very important to make sure your design has the minimum of policy. Otherwise when you want to do something different you have to change the interface, or create custom drivers for each application that needs to do things differently.
How does the DMA transfer mechanism works?
Here's a proposal for an zero-ioctl (best case) DMA transfer mechanism.
Let's call it 'kernel ringbuffers'. The premise is to replace the calls to the 'fire-vertex-buffer' ioctl with code to write to a client-private mapping shared by the kernel (like the current SAREA, but for each client).
Starting from the beginning:
- Each client has a private piece of AGP memory, into which it will put secure commands (typically vertices and texture data). The client may expand or shrink this region according to load.
- Each client has a shared user/kernel region of cached memory. (Per-context SAREA). This is managed like a ring, with head and tail pointers.
- The client emits vertices to AGP memory (as it currently does with DMA buffers).
- When a state change, clear, swap, flush, or other event occurs, the client:Grabs the hardware lock.Re-emits any invalidated state to the head of the ring.Emits a command to fire the portion of AGP space as vertices.Updates the head pointer in the ring.Releases the lock.
- The kernel is responsible for processing all of the rings. Several events might cause the kernel to examine active rings for commands to be dispatched: * A flush ioctl. (Called by impatient clients) * A periodic timer. (If this is low overhead?) * An interrupt previously emitted by the kernel. (If timers don't work) Additionally, for those who've been paying attention, you'll notice that some of the assumptions that we currently use to manage hardware state between multiple active contexts are broken if client commands to hardware aren't executed serially in an order which is knowable to the clients. Otherwise, a client that grabs the heavy lock doesn't know what state has been invalidated or textures swapped out by other clients.
This could be solved by keeping per-context state in the kernel and implementing a proper texture manager. That's something we need to do anyway, but it's not a requirement for this mechanism to work.
Instead, force the kernel to fire all outstanding commands on client ringbuffers whenever the heavyweight lock changes hands. This provides the same serialized semantics as the current mechanism, and also simplifies the kernel's task as it knows that only a single context has an active ring buffer (the one last to hold the lock).
An additional mechanism is required to allow clients to know which pieces of their AGP buffer is pending execution by the hardware, and which pieces of the buffer are available to be reused. This is also exactly what NVvertex_array_range_ requires.
Kernel patches
Kernel patch to get AGP 8X working on a VIA KT400. The patch is for a 2.4.21pre5 but patches, compiles and runs perfectly in a 2.4.21. This patch is needed for this chipset because it works only in 8X when you plug a 8X card.


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The highly acclaimed Noble Foundation's Profiles and Perspectives Community Enrichment Series will return Thursday night and promises to once again fill the seats.
Wyman Meinzer, self-taught plains historian and professional photographer will open the spring session by detailing the history of the famed Waggoner Ranch. The ranch was established in 1849 by Dan Waggoner and has the most contiguous acres under one fence in America.
The presentation, "Under One Fence: the Waggoner Ranch Legacy," will begin at 7 p.m. at the Ardmore Convention Center. The event is free of charge to the public.
Meinzer is described as having the eye of a 19thcentury Impressionist painter and the soul of a buffalo hunter. He has photographed and written 25 photography books and his images have appeared in Smithsonian, Time, Field and Stream and Newsweek among others. He will draw upon his photography, research and personal encounters to chronicle how the Waggoner Ranch began with six horses and 249 longhorns and has grown into a massive 525,000 acres and 12,000 head of cattle.
"The Waggoner Ranch is an American legacy," Mary Kate Wilson, Noble Foundation director of granting and chair of the Profiles and Perspectives Committee, said. "Mr. Meinzer's presentation will detail the rich heritage of this amazing ranch and inspire the audience with the people who have served as its stewards for more than 150 years."

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Eliza Taylor & Bob Morley Dish on 'The 100' Finale at CW Upfronts!
Eliza Taylor stops to pose while arriving at The CW Network's 2014 Upfront Presentation held at The London Hotel on Thursday morning (May 15) in New York City.
The 24-year-old actress was joined on the carpet by her The 100 co-stars Bob Morley, Thomas McDonell, and Isaiah Washington.
"With the season finale – I'm here today, which is lucky (laughs) – but the end of the finale, a lot of lives just hang in the balance, so you can never be too sure," Bob told JJ.
We can't wait to see it! The 100 airs every Wednesday night @ 9PM on The CW!
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In December 2011, W. Kamau Bell declared Louis C.K. "the current heavyweight champion of stand-up comedy." The verdict was pretty much unanimous by then: 2011 was the year of Louis. So, for that matter, was 2012. But what about 2013? C.K.'s FX show is off the air for a stretch; his most recent special, though excellent, did not grab the attention of the American public to quite the same degree as his paradigm-shifting self-distributed one from 16 months before. Perhaps, for the first time in a while, there's an opening for an ambitious comic to step up and call himself the new king.
Enter Kevin Hart. Bell ended that 2011 column with a warning to C.K. that "Hart wants a title shot," and Let Me Explain, Hart's second stand-up special to hit the big screen (after Laugh at My Pain, one of the highest-grossing indie movies of 2011), is not shy about its royal ambitions, from the cringe-inducing tag line on the poster ("Witness the Rise of a Legend") to the several-minute-long highlight reel from Hart's European tour, presented early on in the movie as proof that Kevin Hart is no "local ass bitch."
The infomercial feel of those few minutes may be more than some viewers can forgive—but I suspect most will get over it, for two reasons. First, Kevin Hart is real damn funny, and once you've laughed, hard, for an hour, you'll excuse the initial bit of self-promotion. Second, Hart's advertisements for himself betray an insecurity that feels deep-seated and sincere, and which gives emotional oomph to some of his best routines. It's what most distinguishes him from truly swaggering stand-ups like Eddie Murphy, Hart's most obvious influence.
Such moments of vulnerability are less frequent here than they were in Laugh at My Pain—which is still Hart's finest hour, and which displayed a Cosby-like capacity for creating great comic characters out of immediate family members, a talent not much utilized this time out. But there is some finely wrought confessional humor nonetheless, much of it about Hart's recent divorce—or, rather, the cheating (and the lying about the cheating) that led to that divorce. Not to mention the jealousy inspired by the cheating. Hart recounts, for instance, the time he found his wife in the trunk of his car, aiming to spy on her wayward hubby. (Exposed, she ran back to the house and bafflingly pretended it never happened.) He talks about the times she did confront him, and perfectly mimics the postures, rhetorical and otherwise, that men and women often strike in those sweaty, teary, shouted-then-whispered exchanges. Finally he describes a failed attempt at Ecstasy-fueled reconciliation, miming the love he made to a bean bag chair, having flopped with his soon-to-be ex-wife.
Throughout, Hart makes full, frenetic use of his physical talents, probably unmatched among current stand-ups. He is, maybe, a little too frenetic, too frequently at full speed. But when he gets rolling, the laugh lines come quick, one after the other, and he kills. I saw Let Me Explain in a packed screening on 34th Street in Manhattan, and one extended riff about Hart's fear that a homeless man will touch his lip and give him a "bum bump" (the whole bit is as silly as that sounds) got sustained, crescendoing, make-him-stop guffaws from nearly everyone in the audience.
It's not the most intellectual routine. And Hart is not one to stop himself and wonder if he's leaning a tad heavily on the "crazy woman" motif, or using the word bitch a bit much, or giving into gay panic when telling the story of riding behind another man on a horse and thrusting into him inadvertently with each gallop. Some people may be put off enough by these mild forays into sexism and homophobia to stop laughing. I wasn't.
Hart makes himself the butt of his jokes, and he never seems hateful. He works very hard for his laughs, and he doesn't hide his sense of accomplishment. Hence that European highlight reel—and hence, too, an earnest moment at the end of Let Me Explain, in which Hart, after his last joke, expresses his gratitude and amazement that he, the little 5-foot-5 guy from north Philly, has sold out Madison Square Garden, and in general come as far as he has. He says he doesn't want to "be a bitch," but then he goes ahead and cries anyway. It's an unlikely note to go out on, but also a reminder that Hart has always been an underdog in this fight. And even if the title isn't indisputably his—yet—there was a victory in there somewhere.


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I need to find a job or a hobby or something. I am slowly going out of my mind.
Can anyone come up with interview ideas that won't get me politely discriminated against?
Either I disclose the disabilities upfront and am told 'the position is filled' or I don't say anything and that creates a lot of problems later.


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Hi, I am 28 years old with a 3 month old daughter. Right from the start I am having milk over supply leading to engorgement and severe pain. It remains the same even in mid of third month. My daughter latches perfectly and consume milk very well. But from last two weeks, we found curdled particles in her stool. sometimes it looks really scary ( somewhat like thick paneer particles) . Since two days she looks lethargic too. Doc advised to stop breast feeding and change to formula. I really want to find a solution and keep feeding my child until she turns 2.
Please help me with some suggestions!


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How To Clean a Coffee or Spice Grinder
I use my blade grinder a lot for grinding coffee and spices, and I used to find it almost impossible to keep it clean. The oils from coffee build up into a residue that can go funky and rancid, and if you switch it up and grind some spices, well, then things can get really messy.
Then I learned a quick trick for blotting up those oils and spice fragments. It won't return your grinder to a pristine state, but it's a good method for weekly or monthly cleaning and maintenance.
Just like coffee, spices have oils that are released by toasting and grinding, and over time these can build up on the grinder, muddying tastes. Since the grinder can't be washed, I used to painstakingly wipe mine out with a damp towel, but now I do this instead! It's quick and effective, especially for cleaning out spice residue, but it also works for grinders that are used exclusively for coffee.
What You Need
1/4 cup uncooked rice, any kind
Paper towels
Blade coffee or spice grinder
1. Put a 1/4 cup of rice in your blade grinder and grind for about a minute, or until it's pulverized. Once pulverized, the oils should cling to the rice, leaving behind just a thin dusting of rice flour.
2. Dump out the rice flour.
3. Wipe out the grinder with a damp paper towel.
4. Repeat weekly or whenever your grinder looks like it needs a good cleaning.
What's your recommended way to clean a coffee or spice grinder? Do you follow this method, or do you have some other smart trick up your sleeve?


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The heartbroken son of a deceased elderly patient is seeking further legal advice after his mother fell in hospital and died days later.
A Chesterfield Coroner's Court inquest heard on Thursday, February 20, how Marjorie Wilde, 87, of Annesley Close, Hasland, Chesterfield, had been admitted to Chesterfield Royal Hospital following a fall at home.
Mrs Wilde was admitted to the stroke ward on May 19, 2011, and as she was making progress, according to the inquest, she was approved to use a Zimmer Frame by June 1, 2011.
But six days later she was found by staff fallen near a day room and toilet and her condition deteriorated during the next two weeks until she passed away on June 22.
Mr Wilde, of Grassmoor, said: "She shouldn't have been allowed out of bed unsupervised and on her own with just a Zimmer Frame. Someone should have been with her.
"I'm pursuing further legal advice but it's not about compensation I just want to make sure nothing like this happens to anyone else."
Mrs Wilde had suffered about five falls before she was admitted to hospital, according to Mr Wilde, and she had suffered a stroke in 2001.
The court heard she had been admitted to hospital with a pot on her right arm which was removed before she was allowed to use the Zimmer Frame.
Mrs Wilde also had heart problems, according to pathologist Dr Roger Start, and she was at serious risk of a cardiac death and had previously suffered a subdural haemorrhage in May.
The post mortem result stated Mrs Wilde died of an acute subdural haemorrhage after her hospital fall and Assistant Coroner for Derbyshire Paul McCandless was satisfied this was due to the hospital fall and was the cause of death.
Matron Susan Potter, at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, said a decision was made to allow Mrs Wilde to use a wheeled Zimmer Frame and it was felt she could "mobilise without assistance".
Ms Potter said: "She was a very independent lady. She was keen to get up when she first came in. She realised that in order to go home she needed to take part in an assessment.
"Four days after she had her pot off she was up at 6am, washing and dressing and making her own bed."
Ms Potter explained a bed sensor alarm had been present but there was no documentation indicating it had been removed.
Occupational therapist Wendy Elliott said Mrs Wilde had progressed in hospital with a Zimmer Frame even though she had been disorientated during a home assessment and had misused the frame.
Mr McCandless felt the falls risks and personal handling assessments were focussed and proportionate.
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Lost in Space Classic TV Show
Irwin Allen's depiction of the Robinson Family journey on Jupiter 2; America's first colonization mission to Alpha Centauri. A spy sneaks on board and the ship hits problems making them all lost in space...
Lost in Space Fan Tributes13 Julie Albright from San Fransisco, CA: Angela Cartwright was a cute girl in Lost in Space. I liked Lost in Space when I was a little girl. I loved Lost in Space when I was a girl. I am now 22 and I can watch Lost in Space on the computer. Angela Cartwright is a good woman. Now I'm a full-grown woman.
12 Laura McCollum from Germantown, MD: I loved this show when I was in fifth grade. I loved this show when I was two in 1989. Now I am 22 and I can watch it on Hulu. I had a "Lost in Space" picture in a Newsweek magazine. "Lost in Space" lasted from 1965-1968.
11 G. Barthold from Bethlehem, PA, USA: Lost in Space has always been my favorite show since it first aired in 1965 when I was only 10.
I especially liked the robot and Dr. Smith. Now in my 50's and still enjoy it as much as I did in my childhood years. I still enjoy watching it using my DVD player. "That computes!"
10 Kenneth O'Pray from Coram, New York: I have loved this show since I was a kid, I am now 47 and I can honestly say I have enjoyed all the episodes. You get a differant perspective as you get older. As a child my favorite episodes were - Trip through the Robot - Space Destructors - My friend Mr. Nobody and I believe there is one or two more. As an adult I would narrow it down to the Deadly Games of Gamma Six - Princess of Space - Castles in Space and all of the first season. There is a lot of comedy that you do not pick up as a child as well as the seriousness of John taking care of the family as seen in the deadly games of gamma six when he tries to avoid a fight even though his son does not understand why. When he is pushed to the limits, he does what he has to do. It is this show that prompted me to try acting and like most I was unsuccessful however I did make it on to the set of Law and Order as an extra. Anyway, Lost in Space will live in the hearts of all the fans that love it! I am glad there is such a site for this memory.
9 Ron Dominic from Virginia: My favorite memory is when robby the robot was
found by will. He repaired
him and the the jupiter 2
robot felt neglected, later to find out that the robot was evil!!
8 Jaime from Lackawanna, New York: I adored this show since i was 5 (in 1967) and i had a childhood crush on Don & John. I love all the episodes but my favorite is Visit to a Hostile Planet, 2nd in line: The Anti-Matter Man, and 3rd: Wait...i'm still working on that!
7 Tim from Warren, Pa.: My favorite episode is the intergalactic hillbillies that raise man eating plants and one of them is a werewolf.
6 John from Mahanoy City, Pa: Thanks for including it. Again, it's a shame they don't do a TV remake, especially no since TV has really gotten bad!!
5 John Beard from SE Penna: I still think Lost in Space was one of the better TV shows on CBS. However, there are alot of pin-heads out there who have neither an imagination or intelligence.
It's only ashame that some of the show's writers also had a limited imagination, or science knowledge because some of the episodes reflected that. It's also ashame that now on including Mr. B Mumy hasn't worked to get it back on the air. Keep in touch.
4 Tommy from Michigan: Wow..Not too many fans of a great show...Also has the best theme song, ever...Both versions
3 Daniel Baisa from San Jose Ca: I like the junk man when he tried. To take over the jupiter 2 which he did but not for long.
2 Martha Boltares from Tucson Arizona: I forgot to mention another famous guest star from CHIPS fame also, Robert Pine. He was in the episode where the Robinsons go back in time 50 years. The Earth people were calling them Voltones.
1 martha boltares from tucson, arizona: I loved j-5 from the episode the haunted lighthouse. You should have included him in your list of famous guest stars since he was a star of CHIPS. He was also a Planet of the Apes star.
Lost in Space
Genre: Sci-fi
Year: 1965-68
Guy Williams is Professor John Robinson
June Lockhart is Maureen Robinson
Mark Goddard is Don West
Marta Kristen is Judy Robinson
Billy Mumy is Will Robinson
Angela Cartwright is Penny Robinson
Jonathan Harris is Dr. Zachary Smith
Bob May is the Robot
1914-11-06: Jonathan Harris was born in New York.
1924-01-14: Guy Williams (Prof. John Robinson) was born in New York.
1925-06-25: June Luckhart (Maureen Robinson) was born in New York.
1936-07-24: Mark Goddard was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.
1945-02-26: Marta Kristen was born in Norway.
1952-09-09: Angela Cartwright was born in Altrincham, Cheshire.
1954-02-01: Bill Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California.
1989-05-07: Guy Williams (Prof. John Robinson) sadly passed away in Buenos Aires from a brain aneurysm.
2002-11-03: Jonathan Harris sadly passed away in Encino California from a blood clot.
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Simon, 2E0HTS, has a very interesting and well illustrated blog about his radio activities, which includes a number of videos. I have particularly enjoyed the ones showing satellite contacts being made.
Simon also recently created an online gallery of all his eQSLs. It certainly beats printing them all out and sticking them on the wall! I wouldn't have the patience to download them all and then upload them again to a gallery. Perhaps the eQSL folks could add a gallery feature to their site, that members could link to.


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Kaleidora® is a collection of innovative games that combine visual stimulation with our own Audio Illusion Technology (AIT). In the game, various objects move in space, colliding with each other and forming a brilliant kaleidoscopic display as well as musical tones at each collision. As you play the game, you will hear a random sequence of musical tones, and the AIT processing helps your brain continuously assemble them into what seem like musical phrases and melodies. This active involvement of the brain in processing audio information develops the power of concentration and promotes Yogic Tranquility of the mind.
The Lite Version starts you out with a basic collection of presets. Or, get the expanded Full Version or the Deluxe Version.
Begin training your mind and attain Yogic Tranquility!
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At Novant Health, we support the nationwide effort to ensure that patients coming into the hospital with specific conditions receive recommended care. These recommendations are based on years of research on interventions that have been proven to improve outcomes for these conditions.
Vancomycin-resistant enteroccocci (VRE) bacteria can cause infections in patients who are in a weakened state. This could include patients undergoing chemotherapy, patients who recently had a complicated surgery or are using invasive devices such as a catheter. Like MRSA, this bacteria has become resistant to common antibiotics.


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Kite speed board?
Anybody in the bay area has a speed board to try out?
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Underground makes one. Try Live 2 kite? I will have a few later in the Spring getting a few custom made. Lets practice together. I have an interest in this as well and know some flat safe spots to train at! PM me.
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To inquire about or access maps of any of Missouri's ten byways, please reference Missouri Byways Contact Information. To inquire about the national byways, please reference byways.org.
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Hot Buttered Rum Recipe
Let's start the weekend right--with a cocktail recipe from Paul Clarke (The Cocktail Chronicles). Need more than one? Hit up the archives. Cheers!
Until very recently, I found the concept of hot-buttered rum more appealing than the reality hot-buttered rum.
While I like each of the components named in the drink—heat (which is especially welcome in early January), butter, of course, and rum (what's not to like)—the idea of mixing them together into a warm, boozy drink topped with a slick of butterfat always deterred me from actually making it.
But this recent holiday season, while needing something warm but wanting something out of my usual rotation, I gave the drink a spin and discovered that with a little TLC, the hot-buttered rum in your mug can turn out as good as the one in your imagination.
While you can purchase hot-buttered rum batter in a supermarket, as a general rule I'd suggest you try making your own.
I wound up trying several versions, as well as reviewing a number of recipes, some of which call for as few ingredients as rum, hot water, butter and sugar, while others were more replete with spices, flavorings and other ingredients such as vanilla ice cream (and some like to mix things up by using black tea instead of the boiling water).
I'm not much of one for dessert drinks, so this recipe hews closer to the middle of the range, with the requisite butter and sugar but with a little spice to help liven things up. By creaming the butter with the sugar and spices you can also better avoid that dreaded oil slick appearance, and when choosing a rum, go for something big and rich.
The Demerara rums from El Dorado work wonders, as does a robust Jamaican rum like Coruba, or something dark and mellow like Zaya or Zacapa. This recipe makes enough batter for several drinks and keeps well in the fridge. Or better yet, on this chilly winter weekend, invite some friends over and mix up enough to keep the crowd warm.
- Batter:
- 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 8 ounces brown sugar or Demerara sugar (Sugar in the Raw)
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp fresh-grated nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground allspice
- For each drink:
- 2 tablespoons batter, to taste
- 2 ounces dark rum
- 4 ounces boiling water
- Ground nutmeg, for garnish
Cream the butter with the sugar in a stand mixer (or by hand with a wooden spoon) and add the spices. Keep refrigerated.
Add batter to a warm mug and pour in 2 ounces of boiling water. Stir to mix, add rum and the rest of the water, stir again. Garnish with fresh nutmeg.
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For myself, the most appealing solution is 'Christ really meant that the day
and hour was not known, and some of the disciples were mistaken about this.'
Simple, straightforward, reasonable. The context of Luke in particular
doesn't strike me as referring to the second coming, whereas the issue with
Mark has already been covered.
The attempt to divine a timeline with Daniel/Rev doesn't persuade me, partly
because of the difference in theme (For Christians in just about any
tradition, the idea is to live life with the continued expectation of
Christ's return), partly due to reasons already mentioned here. Again, it's
a view I can respect - I just think there's too much strength for the 'not
yet' view, based on Christ's teachings, how the disciples lived and behaved,
the uncertainty expressed, etc.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Jack Syme <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Apply Occam's Razor to this.
> Which solution is more appealing.
> The prophetic statements by Christ that clearly anticipate a first century
> fulfillment of his work, (meaning the end of the age, judgment on Israel,
> the resurrection of the dead, his return in a theophany,) was correctly
> fulfilled during the Roman war against the Jews from 67 to 70 AD.
> Or, Christ meant something other than what generation usually means, (to
> say nothing of telling his disciples that some of them will not die before
> these events occur) but we don't really know what it means it could mean
> the Church, or Israel, but it clearly couldn't have actually meant that
> literal generation because it obviously wasn't fulfilled; and we have too
> many other problems with Christ being mistaken about this so that cant
> possibly be correct either.
> ;)
> That is what I mean by simple. The plainest reading of the text, (the
> meaning that those hearing the words would have understood) is by far the
> simplest. Of course that doesnt mean it is the correct interpretation, but
> I for one was persuaded that preterism is true, in part because it makes
> sense of a lot of things.
> Now let me give another example that puts a time limit on when Christ, and
> others, expected these events to occur.
> The very last chapter of the Bible, Revelation 22 beginning in verse 7.
> Starts with the words of Christ: "Behold, I am coming soon! blessed is he
> who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book." Then John: I, John, am
> the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them,
> I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to
> me. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and
> with your brothers the prophets and of all who keep the words of this book.
> Worship God!" Then he told me, *"Do not seal up the words of the prophecy
> of this book, because the time is near."*
> Of course it does not say what "near" means, but it cant mean more than a
> couple of hundred years.
> Why?
> The last chapter of Daniel, he is speaking here of the same end times that
> John is talking about in Revelation (the same end times that Christ is
> referring to), and Daniel says in Chapter 12. "There will be a time of
> distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then.
> But at that time your people, everyone whose name is found written in the
> book, will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will
> awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
> Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those
> who lead many to righteousness, like stars for ever and ever. *But you
> Daniel, close up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the
> end. "*
> **
> So the angel tells Daniel that the events are far enough in the future (600
> years?) that he should seal up the prophecy until the time of the end, but
> the angel tells John to keep the book open because the time is near! If
> the time was at least 600 years for Daniel and he should close the book, how
> can the time be 2000 years or more from John if he is to keep the book open?
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* David Opderbeck <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> *To:* Jack Syme <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> *Cc:* Schwarzwald <email@example.com> ; email@example.com
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:29 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [asa] A theology question (imminent return of Christ)
> It's not that simple, Jack.
> All the passages you cite, except the two in Matthew and Luke, are simply
> references to imminence, not to time. Again, "imminent" does not
> necessarily mean "immediate."
> The Matthew and Luke passages are the most difficult. It seems unlikely,
> however, that Matthew Luke would have preserved a plainly wrong teaching and
> that the church would have continued to circulate it as canonical after the
> twelve had died (i.e., after the immediate "generation" to which it was
> addressed). A number of solutions have been proposed. Some involve
> understanding "genea" ("generation") in a sense that involves the nation of
> Israel or the whole of the Church. Another involves seeing "genea" as the
> generation alive at the final "end times." Another involves an
> "already-not-yet" sense: the generation alive at the time of Christ would
> see the inauguration of the Kingdom in Christ's death and resurrection and
> in the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost. This latter view is probably the
> best view if one wants to avoid the serious Christological and Trinitarian
> problem of having Jesus wrongly making explicit predictions about the time
> of the second coming. It also seems to harmonize better with the
> already-not-yet sense that is clear in the epistolary and apocalyptic
> literature in the NT. (Another alternative of course is full preterism, but
> I respectfully don't buy into that). A good discussion of the Lukan passage
> is found in Darrel Bock's Baker Exegetical Commentary on Luke, Vol. 2, pp.
> 1688-1692.
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Jack Syme <email@example.com> wrote:
>> I mean no disrespect, but it is simple.
>> Here is a collection of some of Christ's time statements regarding his
>> return. It is very clear reading these passages that he expects his return
>> to be within the lifetime of the disciples he was speaking too. You have to
>> read this within the context of who he was speaking too and when. If you
>> were in their shoes how else would you interpret these words? Even when he
>> says he doesnt know the day he tells them to stay alert, and do not sleep
>> because the time is soon!
>> This is very straightforward, Christ predicted his return within 30 years
>> (give or take a few) of when he spoke these words, and the disciples
>> understood it that way as well. The testimony to this is the other time
>> statements throughout the epistles. But here I am concentrating on the
>> words of Christ alone. Remember also that Christ was speaking these words
>> to men that he knew he was going to be leaving soon. And after he leaves he
>> wants them to remain vigilant, to remain alert, and not to get discouraged
>> by those who Christ knew were going to scoff about his return not happening
>> yet.
>> "For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father
>> with His angels, and then he will reward each according
>> to his works. Assuredly, I say to you, there are some
>> standing here, who shall not taste death till they see
>> the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." (Matthew 16:27-28,
>> Luke. 9:26-27).
>> "I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until
>> all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my
>> words will never pass away. Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down
>> with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will
>> close on you unexpectedly like a trap. For it will come upon all those who
>> live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch, and pray that
>> you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be
>> able to stand before the Son of Man." (Luke 21:32-37)
>> "Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the
>> prophycy of this book" "He who testifies to these things says, 'Yes, I am
>> coming soon.' Amen. Come, Lord Jesus." (Rev. 22:7,20)
>> *"*Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is
>> coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what
>> part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would
>> not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready,
>> for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. * *Who then is
>> the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his
>> household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that
>> servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.* *Truly, I say
>> to you, he will set him over all his possessions.* *But if that wicked
>> servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,'* *and begins to beat his
>> fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards,* *the master of that
>> servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he
>> does not know" (Matthew 24:42-50)
>> *" *Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour." (Matthew
>> 25:13)
>> *" *"But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the
>> angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard, keep
>> awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man
>> going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge,
>> each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. * *Therefore
>> stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in
>> the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the
>> morning—* *lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. * *And what I say
>> to you I say to all: Stay awake." (Mark13:32-37)
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Schwarzwald <email@example.com>
>> *To:* firstname.lastname@example.com
>> *Sent:* Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:53 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [asa] A theology question (imminent return of Christ)
>> Heya, Jack.
>> Respectfully, I don't think this is being made "more complicated than it
>> is". I think there's a danger in oversimplifying as well, especially when -
>> frankly - there's little to go on with regards to Christ Himself. We do see
>> Christ saying clearly that the hour and day is not known. The only
>> mitigation against that uncertainty is a reference to 'this generation' -
>> and what a generation meant in such a context is its own issue. Paul talking
>> about not everyone sleeping but being changed doesn't read to me (and I
>> would guess many others) the way it does to you.
>> For myself, I'm not advocating preterism, partial-preterism, or any other
>> variant. But I do disagree with the view Bernie was advancing with apparent
>> certainty, while I can respect (and am interested in) other religious
>> readings and understandings.
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Jack Syme <email@example.com> wrote:
>>> Yes Jesus did not know the day and the hour. But he knew that it was
>>> going to be within several months to several years.
>>> This is very clear, "this generation" and "some here shall not sleep"
>>> are very clear time statements that Christ expected the fulfillment of his
>>> work, (his return, the end of the age, the beginning of the age to come)
>>> within a lifetime of when he made those statements.
>>> Dont make this more complicated than it is.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "gordon brown"
>>> <email@example.com>
>>> To: <email@example.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:26 PM
>>> Subject: RE: [asa] A theology question (imminent return of Christ)
>>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Dehler, Bernie wrote:
>>>> Thanks Edward. I guess you are just helping me be comfortable knowing
>>>>> there is no clear answer as to how Jesus could have been wrong in teaching
>>>>> His imminent return. I guess it is just a mystery, like the trinity. Your
>>>>> CS Lewis quote said it well- very applicable (in some ways).
>>>> If by imminent you mean during the lifetime of the disciples, I don't
>>>> know
>>>> where you find Jesus saying that his return was imminent. Was it what he
>>>> said in the Olivet discourse about all these things happening before their
>>>> generation passed away? The disciples' question to which he was responding
>>>> had three parts, and it is up to the reader to sort out which question each
>>>> part of the discourse is responding to. He also says that only the Father
>>>> knows the day and hour of his return.
>>>> The Olivet discourse mentions many things that must occur before Jesus
>>>> returns and seems to be warning against assuming that his return will happen
>>>> before they take place.
>>>> In John 21 Jesus indicates that Peter will be old when he dies. John
>>>> also insists that Jesus did not say that John would live until Jesus
>>>> returns.
>>>> Acts 1 indicates that prior to Pentecost the disciples had some
>>>> misconceptions. I Thessalonians 4 may indicate that Paul thought of himself
>>>> as being included in those who would remain until the Second Coming, but by
>>>> the time he wrote II Timothy 4 he was convinced otherwise. Also see his
>>>> comments on eschatology in II Thessalonians 2.
>>>> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
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There's Bruce, behind Khloe's head.I'll say it: I hope that Kris Jenner and Bruce Jenner get a divorce. I know! It's so mean, but I can't help it. I want Bruce to save himself. I want him to run off into the sunset with his little helicopters and his Olympic medals and forget that he ever was a part of the Kardashian family. He's like an abused puppy around them, and I just want more for him. I want him to be free. Take this photo for example. There's Khloe in the front row next to Kris watching Lamar's game, then there's Kim and Kanye, and then there's Bruce, in the blurry distance, behind Khloe's head, all alone. Poor doggy.
Believe it or not, Bruce was sitting next to Kris at the game until Kimye showed up. Then he was relegated to the background. Let Kim and Kanye get their picture taken courtside! Let them get all the perks! Let them sit next to Kris so she can share some of the spotlight! And let Bruce go, tail between his legs, into oblivion.
More from The Stir: Kris Jenner Denies Robert Kardashian Rumors & Leaves Bruce Jenner Wide Open
If you didn't think I was going to make generalizations about the inner workings of Kris and Bruce's relationship based on this one photo, then you are sorely mistaken.
It's just, it's like, I mean, that's how it always seems to go for Bruce. He always comes in second. Watching him on Keeping Up With the Kardashians is like watching a mouse scrounge around in the sawdust of a snake pit, except that the snakes are more verbally and emotionally abusive than physically ... and wear really fancy shoes.
I hope for Bruce's sake that's just the show's editing, but still, this photo is pretty much the epitome of how I view his and Kris' relationship -- Bruce in the back, Kim up front.
Do you ever feel sorry for Bruce?
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