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Space census
For each year, it includes the highest number of people in space simultaneously during the year, and also the lowest number in space during the year. Sometimes it goes as high as 10 or more. The all-time high is 13 people in space simultaneously.
From the "Low" column, you can see that in fact space has had a human population continuously since 2001. During the years since then, the human population of space has never dipped lower than 2. So the period since 2001 really is the age of human habitation of space.


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Well, to be honest for the last 48 hours I was fine with beginning nowhere. I was quite numb, actually. I didn't talk to anyone nor did I plan on blogging what I considered to be a huge failure on my end. For me, this was probably the biggest letdown of my career, simply because I believed it was virtually impossible for me not to do well. So, basically I'm saying that there just isn't much to say, and I have no excuses. I know better than anyone how mentally and physically ready I was. (or thought I was?) I read my last post and I feel certain I meant it. All that was left to do was go out and let it happen, yet somehow I got in the way of that.
Putting your heart and soul into something and coming up short is heartbreaking. I care so much about what I do, and while on one hand I love the fact that I'm doing something that requires me to give my all and pour so much emotion into getting it right, it leaves me vulnerable to a lot of disappointment and heartache. It's a gamble of sorts, and this time I wound up on the losing end with no one to blame but myself.
Of course this setback will leave it's mark on this season, and it's definitely going to overshadow a lot of other good things that have happened this year. But the season isn't over for me just yet, and the only thing left to do with this experience is learn from it. If it's in my power to fix it and do something so that it doesn't happen again, then that's what I want to figure out.

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At first glance a basic sprite hack of the game Armadillo. Sprites of Mario from Super Mario Bros 3 was inserted in place of Armadillo. Unfortunately that is where it ends with the original rom/cart.
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Only Photos of old, Abandoned, unused Buildings
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Image Posting in threads - Please please, please.. try to keep your images at 1000 Pixels or less on the longest or highest side, this will cut down on load times for those who are on Dial Up and so members who do not use a wide screen monitor can see the whole photo without having to scroll.
Haven't posted a barn in a long time.
Winsted Congregational Chruch. I love the old stone buildings in Winsted, CT
St James Church Winsted one of the many great architectural buildings in Winsted CT and why I love to go up there to shoot photos, never been disappointed in what I find
Was able to go inside the Methodist Church in Winsted CT the other and take these. From what I've heard they were done by Tiffany or a student of Tiffany
Niskayuna town hall, free concert at the gazebo...
A slow Saturday night in New Haven's Union Station
Took this in the spring and forgot about it for awhile. Really just a quick shot from the car but I thought it was interesting. Can't figure out how it's still standing.
Got a little water on your property and want to build a barn
no problem, just put it on stilts. :D
Winsted CT. The steps to the memorial.
The Memorial itself
One of my favorite Connecticut covered bridges Cornwall CT
Found this one going through my archives. An old covered bridge in Vermont.
The foliage seems to look a little fuzzy to me for some reason.:doh
Some detail on a Church in Winsted CT, love the old buildings there.
A store front on Main St, Winsted CT
There is so much unique architecture in Winsted I love taking photos there. It's just so sad to see so many old abandoned factory/mill buildings. Sure wish somebody would come and revitalize them.
Sorry about the wires. I have no control where the state hangs traffic lights
I'm not about to try and clone them out.
New Hartford center , CT
A request from Zacker here you go, just a touch of HDR, well faux HDR one shot raw and modified.
An old Rock Crusher in Torrington CT
The old Original, Rumsey Hall School in West Cornwall CT, it has since moved to another location, I think, little attempt at some HDR
Here are a few of those points I have found over the years.
Inside and outside Churches are full of OLD wood and stone Architecture.
Don't be ashamed to stop and go inside to marvel it....
Priest/Pastors are very happy to show it off!
A Stone Church in Riverton CT
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The goal of this project is to provide an Eclipse Plug-In that handles RAP theme files. At the moment RAP theme files have to be edited in a normal text editor. That is fault-prone and definitely not userfriendly. So beside syntax checking the Theme Editor will provide a graphical user interface to change several properties and values for RAP themes in an easier way.
This project is part of 2008 Google Summer of Code.
- Mentor: Ralf Sternberg
- Student: Mathias Schaeffner
- GUI for editing all parts of a RAP theme file
- loading supported widgets and their possible properties dynamically through the *.theme.xml files associated with each RAP widget
- synchronization between GUI-tabs and source tab
- dialogs that handle input of certain property types, e.g. ColorDialog, FontDialog, FileDialog
- Redo/Undo functionality
- source editor, so that theme files can be edited by hand as well
- code highlighting in source tab
- Error/Warning Marker in source tab
- easy way of registering themes to a RAP application; rather than linking RAP theme and application manually
- preview for each widget supported by RAP, in order to see directly an effect when changing a style value
Getting the Source
SVN: https://eclipse-incub.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/eclipse-incub/org.eclipse.rap.themeeditor
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UPDATE (9/4): On August 21, the FCC adopted an Order providing an exemption for small cable systems from the onerous digital must carry requirements after the digital transition set for February 17, 2009. This action comes after more than a year-long campaign by the ACA, which included numerous meetings and filings with the FCC and Congress.The order exempts eligible cable systems from the requirement to carry the broadcasters' signal in a digital HD or SD format for three years, so long as it is available to all the system's subscribers in a viewable analog format. The relief is available to cable systems with 2,500 subscribers or fewer, excluding systems affiliated with cable operators serving more than 10% of all MVPD customers. All cable systems of 552 MHz or less would also be covered, regardless of system ownership.
What is the Digital Television Transition? On February 17, 2009 all full-power broadcast television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and begin broadcasting in digital only. Along with the transition comes "digital must-carry" requirements, mandating that cable operators carry both the analog and digital transmissions of local stations.
Why Could Current DTV Must Carry Demands on Independent Cable Harm Consumers? Independent cable operators face unique challenges that require special consideration by the FCC in terms of how it deals with the digital television transition to ensure requirements do not impact the consumers or communities served - specifically, the digital must-carry requirements. It is not reasonable to expect a system serving a rural community of a few hundred homes to have the capacity to comply with this requirement, or the resources to purchase expensive equipment to provide a duplicate version of a must-carry signal."
Digital must-carry requirements from the FCC would place significant financial and capacity burdens on systems serving small and rural markets. When independent operators are forced to use limited infrastructure capacity towards dual carriage and to divert limited resources towards legal bills for waivers, their ability to provide consumers with broadband and other advanced services is greatly diminished.
What is ACA Doing About the DTV Transition? ACA is working diligently to inform the FCC on the unique burdens faced by independent cable operators serving small numbers of customers. The Association has submitted frequent filings and requested the FCC exempt systems serving 5,000 or fewer subscribers, and systems with 552 MHz of capacity or less, from the obligation to carry the digital version of a must-carry signal in addition to the analog version. ACA cited the capacity burdens that carriage of both the digital and the analog broadcast signals would place on systems serving small and rural markets, and the added flexibility that an exemption would offer these cable systems to direct capacity to providing consumers with broadband and other advanced services.
Demonstrating that ACA is being heard at the FCC, Chairman Kevin Martin announced his desire to grant relief for small cable systems from the requirement to carry an HD signal.
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How do fruits and vegetables promote physical activity?
Q. How do fruits and vegetables promote physical activity?
A. Fruits and vegetables provide your body with the nutrients it needs during and after a work out. Many people understand the importance of protein, carbohydrates and fat, but pay little attention to the importance of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), many of which are found in fruits and vegetables. These micronutrients are important for oxygen to be transported by the blood, carbohydrates to be used during exercise, the formation of new muscle cells, the absorption of iron, and even the transmission of nerve impulses that will allow movement.


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Charlie Sheen recently withdrew his lawsuit filed against Capri Anderson, the porn film star and escort who accused the unstable actor of assault and battery late last year while staying in New York City's Plaza Hotel together.
Anderson claimed that Sheen threatened to kill her when she rejected him inside the hotel room, though she admitted that the interest was consensual at first, and revealed to the press that the 41-year-old actor reacted violently, throwing objects around in the hotel room. Trying to escape, she locked herself in the bathroom.
Sheen, however, denied the allegations and sued Anderson, also known as Christina Walsh, in November of 2010 for extortion, according to On The Red Carpet.
He stated that the claim was nothing more than a publicity stunt and further revealed that Anderson locked herself in the bathroom because she purportedly stole his $165,000 watch. Sheen also revealed in the claim that the porn star asked him for $1 million to keep quiet about the incident.
For reasons unknown, Sheen requested that the case be dismissed, which a judge granted without prejudice on Friday, according to The Associated Press.
Not the first incident of anger, several others have testified to the actor's short temper and aggressive behavior, including ex-wife Brooke Mueller. Prior to the hotel incident last year, Sheen was found guilty of assaulting Mueller, and served time at a rehabilitation center as a result.
Making headlines as well for his drug and alcohol addiction, the "Two and a Half Men" actor was cut from the show in March and replaced recently by Ashton Kutcher. His character will be killed off and his funeral will open the season premiere, according to Third Age.
Though his past years have been steeped in lawsuits, custody battles, and on-and-off again rehab visits, Sheen is reported to be getting better. He will star in a new sitcom, appropriately entitled "Anger Management," based off Jack Nicholson's 2003 comedy.
He tweeted most recently about his love for ex-wife Denise Richards' new book The Real Girl Next Door, a memoir about her ups and downs in life, including her high-profile divorce with Sheen, and the lessons she's learned.
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Wall Street hires Washington
NEW YORK — The financial industry has long been a draw for former political operatives seeking a bigger paycheck and New York lifestyle. But with the big banks now under constant assault from reformers, regulators and some members of Congress, the flow of top talent from Washington to Wall Street has become a small flood.
Two of the biggest blue-chip firms in the industry, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, will soon have top-level executives with the ear of the CEO who once occupied senior jobs in the White House and the U.S. Treasury. Other banks including Citigroup, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase also have staffed up with former political and regulatory officials.
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The current exodus to New York reflects something of a historic shift.
( Also on POLITICO: Fannie's payoff: $59B sent to feds)
In the past, traffic mostly moved the other way. Washington drew from Wall Street to help politicians understand the impact of policy on financial markets. Now the flow has largely reversed as Wall Street increasingly needs to understand — and shape — the way Washington works. Critics call the trend potentially inappropriate influence peddling. Wall Street says it's just hiring the best talent out there for the way the world works now. Whatever the case, it's undeniably happening.
"It has really turned around, and it's now much more about Wall Street collecting political knowledge and influence," said Charles Geisst, a Wall Street historian at Manhattan College. "And no matter what people on Wall Street will tell you, they remember their 1930s and 1940s history very well, and they know they lost those battles and they are determined not to lose this one."
Geisst was referring to the post-1929 stock market crash laws that separated investment and traditional consumer banking and created the modern financial regulatory regime. That banking wall came down in the 1990s and now Wall Street wants to make sure it doesn't go up again, either through strict implementation of the final Dodd-Frank financial reform rules or new measures to curtail risk-taking and make banks hold much more capital.
The latest example of the D.C.-to-N.Y. transfer came last month as Morgan Stanley announced it had hired Michele Davis as a managing director and global head of corporate affairs.
Davis, who served as a chief adviser to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (a former Goldman CEO) during the height of the financial crisis, will report directly to Tom Nides, a Washington veteran and former top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, and to Chief Executive James Gorman. In an internal memo announcing the hire, Nides and Gorman praised Davis — portrayed by Cynthia Nixon in the movie "Too Big to Fail" — for her successful career at the "nexus of political and financial media."
Davis will essentially be Morgan Stanley's version of Jake Siewert, managing director and head of corporate communications at Goldman Sachs.
Siewert, who served as counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and in multiple roles including press secretary under President Bill Clinton, has quietly helped revolutionize the way the famously secretive Goldman Sachs interacts with the public.
CEO Lloyd Blankfein is now a regular at events around Washington, including the recent Investment Company Institute gathering and a private meeting at the White House late last year. At the ICI event, Blankfein said he had "a lot of regret for not having a lot of dialogue with the public." The firm, which until fairly recently still operated like the private partnership it once was, now has a Twitter account.
Many other high-profile Wall Street firms are joining the hunt for political veterans from both Washington and New York.


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As we struggle for solutions to the terminal decline of Big Government public services, one thing we frequently hear is that they must not under any circumstances be consigned to the barbarity of the profit driven free market. If we must have change, then not for profit organisations offer the only civilised way forward.
So it's instructive to look at existing not for profit operations for guidance and inspiration.
Operations such as the Football Association, which today did a deal with sssmooothhh operator Michael Grade and some Irish private equity guys to sell a bundle of TV rights for nearly half a billion quid. Nice.
But despite the deluge of TV money they've enjoyed over the last decade, the FA are also the same people who this week dished up yet more hair-ripping premature-aging wrist-slitting torture with the England football team.
Not to mention their regular tabloid dollops of revolving door low grade overpaid managers, revolving door low grade overpaid chief execs, wildly overspending capital projects, endemic bung disease, and serial shagging secretary cover-ups. If we want that, we can surely get all we need from the office of the Deputy PM.
The fact is that the not for profit FA positively glories in the cult of the unaccountable gentleman amateur (eg see this article). When in 2005 they commissioned ex-Treasury Permanent Secretary and QPR fan Lord Terry Burns to report on how they could improve things, he found a shambolic governance structure dominated by huge committees and literally hundreds of buggins turn blazers. Naturally his recommendations for streamlining were kicked high into the stands.
Contrast that with profit making organisations. They focus on the main priorities, make decisions, and get things done.
But of course, they do have a secret weapon to concentrate minds and get heads knocked together.
It's called making money. And we should remember that the next time some best-of-intentions innocent suggests not for profit is clearly the way forward.
PS Obviously the sale of footie rights to ITV was nothing to do with the fact that Barwick used to be controller of sport there. Or that Grade had only just gone there from the BBC. Cold hard cash was presumably the key. But with that amount of incest, it does make you think.
PPS I know we always say this, but what a shame Tesco don't run the England football team.


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7th Consecutive Year of Inclusion on Highly Regarded KMWorld List
7th Consecutive Year of Inclusion on Highly Regarded KMWorld List
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SpringCM®, the leader in Content Cloud Services for the enterprise, announced today that it has been named one of KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The recognition marks SpringCM's seventh consecutive year on the list.
KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management is a list compiled by KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors, their customers and colleagues. KMWorld has been compiling the list since 2000.
"SpringCM customers are freeing themselves from the limitations of old school Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems and consumer-class cloud storage applications," said Christopher Junker, CEO of SpringCM. "Our customers select us to put content to work, and that fueled a record increase in the number of content-intensive processes we've successfully tackled. Our customer success, coupled with this terrific recognition by KMWorld, further validates our strategy and the great work of the SpringCM team."
SpringCM provides business-class Content Cloud Services that tackle the toughest content hazards by aligning content, people and processes. SpringCM offers Clearly More than competitors, with unmatched mobile, content synchronization, workflow, enterprise-class security and user experience capabilities. As a result, businesses are able to move beyond legacy, on-premise ECM systems and the limitations of consumer-class cloud storage systems.
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text: Dear List Persons: As AMD has released their MP chipset and vendors are already starting to pop up with dual boxes, I've made the dual athlon benchmark page accessible again. It is in exactly the same state it was when I quit, with some tests not really completed. Find it at: http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/dual_athlon/ Note that these benchmarks were all conducted with a beta MP chipset and 1.2 GHz Tbirds, so YMMV if they improved (or broke) anything over the last few months. I will probably redo the tests on a "new" dual athlon as soon as I get access AND have time, probably days to weeks (as I don't have a dual or -- any more -- a budget to buy one, and I'm pretty involved with my single CPU Tbird cluster). In the meantime, enjoy. If you get to this page "too quickly" you'll probably miss some stuff that I'm going to add from the old temporary site -- I made a "benchmarks" page of sources or URL's to many of the benchmarks run and represented. So check back in a day or two to see the full set of stuff I've got. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Paul Reubens (b. 1952) is an actor best known for playing "Pee-wee Herman" in a stand-up act, two movies and his TV show, Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
In 1986, he received an "Honorary Muppet Award" in Muppet Magazine issue 14. He appeared on the magazine's cover again in 1987, in issue 17. He had previously been paired with Robin the Frog for "The Second Great Muppet Look-Alike Contest" in issue 5.
In issue 20, Kermit spoofed Pee-wee, as Ker-Mee Herman, where he wore a "Pee-wee suit" and imitated the "Tequila" dance scene from Pee-wee's Big Adventure in a biker bar full of Muppet Pigs.
In 1987, Reubens filmed an insert for Sesame Street as Pee-wee (on the set of Pee-Wee's Playhouse), reciting his own version of the alphabet. He also appeared in the first celebrity version of Put Down the Duckie.
Reubens played Professor Spatz in the 1997 Creature Shop film Buddy, and he performed the voice of a raccoon in the 1998 film Dr. Dolittle.
Screen credits include appearances in Tim Burton's Batman Returns and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Roald Dahl's Matilda, The Blues Brothers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Among Reubens' television guest spots are appearances on Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, Murphy Brown, Mork & Mindy, Dolly, hosting Saturday Night Live and voice work on Rugrats and The Flintstone Comedy Show.


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The Old Town of Acre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Events and Festivals
Getting There
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Israel is a technologically advanced society, and internet cafés are widely available in most cities and towns. The regular price for paid internet cafés is about 15 shekels per hour but you can get it for about 10 shekels in some of the more local places. Free Wi-Fi access is common in cafés (check individual articles). All branches of 'Aroma Espresso Bar', 'Arcaffe', 'Café Café', 'McDonalds' and 'Yellow' convenience stores have free Wi-Fi access, though in some you will have to approach the staff for a password.
Recently, the "Jerusalem Wi-Fi" project started. This government started project aims to cover the entire Jerusalem area with Wi-Fi although at the moment the only areas covered are in the city center. A similar project has started in Tel Aviv and in Karmiel in the north. Some other cities are following suit.
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The international country code for Israel is 972. Emergency numbers include 100 (police), 101 (ambulance) and 102 (fire). 112 is supported in mobile networks.
Currently Israel offers support for all the available networks including GSM/UMTS (Pelephone, Cellcom and Orange), CDMA (Pelephone) and iDen (Hot Mobile). In any case, you must check with your carrier about the roaming option and the compatibility of your device in advance. A valid suggestion otherwise is to turn off data services.
You can rent a cellphone for use in Israel either before your trip or once you arrive from several firms. You can also rent smartphones with sim cards included sometimes for lower than the cost of renting just a sim card. Vendors such as Israel Phone Rentalsoffer the advantages of a sim card rental without having to worry about bringing your own phone to Israel. If you have a GSM cellphone without a SIM-lock, you can buy a SIM-card. Prepaid SIM cards are available at Pelephone (Talk & Go), Cellcom (Talk Man) and Orange (Bigtalk) phone stores throughout Israel. Almost all shopping malls will have a Pelephone, Cellcom or Orange kiosk or store.
There are many public phones scattered around. Public phones can be always found at hotels, post offices, central bus stations and train stations. These phones use a Telecard, which, today, is a pre-paid calling card that works only with pay phones and can be purchased at post offices and some stores, as well as ordinary calling cards. Some phones also accept credit cards, usually those in hotels and post offices.
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The BLACK KITES that you see are just the prototypes. I am not allowed to show you the real graphics yet. That is why all the pictures you see have no kite in it.hmmmm. all black kite... yellow trim. Could that be the Screamer LTD? Can't wait to find out.
For those that have not yet tried the 3G Screamer 10 LTD, it's an amazing machine. I got out on it for a few hours snow kiting in some pretty deep powder. Here are my thoughts. For deep, moist snow, you need a lot of horsepower, but if you're holding on to a big kite, it is pretty demanding on the body. You get tired quick. I rigged the Screamer 10 when the wind picked up and had a super fun time. Compared to the first version of this kite, there have been some very significant updates. It is very stable and not twitchy at all. The first version required a lot of attention, where the 3G is a set it and forget it kite mostly. Really light on the hands, no muscle fatigue on the arms from pulling the bar in. It sits nicely in the window where upwind drive is unreal and absolutely effortless. The things that you all liked about the first version are still there.... easy relaunch, big big jumps, nice float. I literally can't find anything I'd change about the kite. And being a 10... for a one kite quiver, this would be an ideal choice. If you can, test drive one. You won't regret it.
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ObjectiveThe TETON Westwood Mid-Cap Equity Fund seeks to provide long-term growth of capital and future income.
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The Fund invests primarily in mid-cap companies that the portfolio managers believe are undervalued by the market and have above average growth potential. The Fund defines mid-cap companies as those whose market capitalization falls within the range of $1 billion to $20 billion. The portfolio managers will not sell a stock merely because the market capitalization of a company in the portfolio moves outside of its capitalization range. Stock selection is key to the performance of the Fund.
The portfolio managers seek to identify companies with characteristics such as:
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Max Jacob
The Printed HeadVolume IV, Number 6
A translation of the first part of Le Cornet ŕ dés.
Max Jacob (1876-1944) was born in Quimper, Brittany, to a middle-class Jewish family. In Paris by the turn of the century, he worked at a variety of jobs, including department-store salesman, art crtic and piano teacher, before becoming part of the brilliant artistic and literary scene which revolved around Picasso and Apollinaire. In 1909 he saw a vision of Christ on a wall in the house where he was lodging, and was converted to Catholicism. After 1921, most of his life was spent away from Paris in the village of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, and it was here that he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944,in his pension room, after Mass. He died of pneumonia in the transit camp at Drancy the day before his group was to be sent on to Auschwitz.
Le Cornet ŕ dés, written between 1904 and 1917 and first self-published in 1917, has long been regarded as the masterpiece among Jacob's thirty or so books. Its prose poetry is by turns racy, punning, surrealistic, ironic and macabre. In its tension between fragmented form and a desire to contain the whole world, it catches a defining moment in twentieth-century art and literature which continues to reverberate in the criticism and aesthetics of our own time.
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I'm more trusting of fellas when they have my cock in their mouth
My real concern right now is that we no other options we are in danger of turning into a hate figure similar to what people did with Howard.
It's breaking my heart watching him play this season. He's a shadow of what he was. He fearful, he looks tired and he just doesn't seem to be able to do it anymore. It kills me saying it as I've consistently defended him and have been in complete denial but the lack of a player to bring in for him is not helping our current situation. He's one of the best left backs I have ever seen but we are risking his Everton legacy and our future by not having anyone coming through to replace him
Theres bigger concerns with this squad than Baines. Yeah hes not the player he used to be but youve got to wonder where £230m has gone.
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As individuals, we have to slow down to find our spiritual center. But that doesn't make a very good business plan.
Why it's time for a conversation about Slow Church.
In New York City, an activist group of homeless and formerly homeless people challenges the powers that be.
Putting Americans behind bars is becoming an increasingly lucrative business.
Ex-offenders confront the for-profit prison industry.
Spiritualized Poverty
Canadian churches repent for running Indian Residential Schools.
We know how policymakers can fight unemployment. They're just not doing it.
Advent marinates us as we prepare to taste Christ's arrival.
Take heart! A new generation is ready to lead.
Get used to the idea of a married Jesus.
It's frustrating to be constantly represented by violent thugs and to be asked to explain their actions.
With a warm hen under my arm, I remembered Jesus' plea over another empire-ridden city.
Culture Watch
Should America reconsider our open market in bigoted ideas?
Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on the New Paradigm of Peace and War. Palgrave Macmillan.
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron / Silver and Gold by Sufjan Stevens / Star of Wonder by Mary Lee Wile / The Food and Feasts of Jesus: Inside the World of First-Century Fare, with Menus and Recipes by Douglas E. Neel and Joel A. Pugh
It's a mark of the moral complexity of The Master that it can critique the damage done by demonic religion while honoring the best hopes of its angelic shades.
Excerpt from A Thicker Jesus: Incarnational Discipleship in a Secular Age, by Glen H. Stassen
Caroline Herring makes truth-telling a mission in her music.
Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C
Concerning "The Presumption of Equality," by Rose Marie Berger (September-October 2012): Only when we understand that our God is so much bigger than we can begin to imagine, and that God is able to use women as
Paul Wellstone had it right ("Behold, The Dreamer Cometh," by Korla Masters, Doug Mork, Duane Shank, and Peggy Flanagan, September-October 2012).
You wait a long time for Christmas morningdrifting asleep even as the ebony slate of skyshatters in clarion silenceGlory, Hallelujah!and shepherds in the hills cast down their rodslook up at angels and find themselvesno longer huddled in darkness
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President Clinton Honors NHGRI Research Grant Recipient
President Clinton Honors NHGRI Research Grant Recipient
April 2000
BETHESDA, Md. - Sixty young researchers were honored by President Clinton as recipients of the fourth annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. It recognizes those who show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge.
Dr. Annelise E. Barron, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in Chicago, was one of the recipients for the 1999-2000 year. Barron's research is supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Department of Energy's Genome Instrumentation Research Program.
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The Government's Insolvency Service has signed a five-year cloud-based desktop services contract with outsourcer Atos.
The £16 million contract was awarded under the Cabinet Office's Desktop 21 framework agreement, which was created in 2010 to provide preferential access and pricing for the public sector for end user services.
Atos is providing thin client desktop and application hosting services through its Secure Cloud Service. The Atos system is designed to provide a flexible service for 2,000 users and promises to save money over the duration of the contract, said the Insolvency Service.
IBM previously supported the Insolvency Service's thin client architecture under a £20 million contract.
Mark Savigar of the Insolvency Service said: "Atos proposed a solution that meets our business needs and we believe will support us in meeting our organisational objectives for the future."
The Atos offering will support the continuation of the use of low power devices, such as thin client desktops, in line with the Cabinet Office's green strategy, said Savigar.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced measures to launch what he calls a "golden era" of energy policy, which will revive the ailing nuclear power sector and ease restrictions on energy exports.
"We are here today to unleash a new American energy policy," Trump said at an event at the Department of Energy. "We will export American energy all around the world."
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review
Primary energy consumption in the United States reached a record high of 101.3 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2018, up 4% from 2017 and 0.3% above the previous record set in 2007. The increase in 2018 was the largest increase in energy consumption, in both absolute and percentage terms, since 2010.
Consumption of fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—grew by 4% in 2018 and accounted for 80% of U.S. total energy consumption. Natural gas consumption reached a record high, rising by 10% from 2017. This increase in natural gas, along with relatively smaller increases in the consumption of petroleum fuels, renewable energy, and nuclear electric power, more than offset a 4% decline in coal consumption.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review
Petroleum consumption in the United States increased to 20.5 million barrels per day (b/d), or 37 quadrillion Btu in 2018, up nearly 500,000 b/d from 2017 and the highest level since 2007. Growth was driven primarily by increased use in the industrial sector, which grew by about 200,000 b/d in 2018. The transportation sector grew by about 140,000 b/d in 2018 as a result of increased demand for fuels such as petroleum diesel and jet fuel.
Natural gas consumption in the United States reached a record high 83.1 billion cubic feet/day (Bcf/d), the equivalent of 31 quadrillion Btu, in 2018. Natural gas use rose across all sectors in 2018, primarily driven by weather-related factors that increased demand for space heating during the winter and for air conditioning during the summer. As more natural gas-fired power plants came online and existing natural gas-fired power plants were used more often, natural gas consumption in the electric power sector increased 15% from 2017 levels to 29.1 Bcf/d. Natural gas consumption also grew in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors in 2018, increasing 13%, 10%, and 4% compared with 2017 levels, respectively.
Coal consumption in the United States fell to 688 million short tons (13 quadrillion Btu) in 2018, the fifth consecutive year of decline. Almost all of the reduction came from the electric power sector, which fell 4% from 2017 levels. Coal-fired power plants continued to be displaced by newer, more efficient natural gas and renewable power generation sources. In 2018, 12.9 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity were retired, while 14.6 GW of net natural gas-fired capacity were added.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review
Renewable energy consumption in the United States reached a record high 11.5 quadrillion Btu in 2018, rising 3% from 2017, largely driven by the addition of new wind and solar power plants. Wind electricity consumption increased by 8% while solar consumption rose 22%. Biomass consumption, primarily in the form of transportation fuels such as fuel ethanol and biodiesel, accounted for 45% of all renewable consumption in 2018, up 1% from 2017 levels. Increases in wind, solar, and biomass consumption were partially offset by a 3% decrease in hydroelectricity consumption.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review
Nuclear consumption in the United States increased less than 1% compared with 2017 levels but still set a record for electricity generation in 2018. The number of total operable nuclear generating units decreased to 98 in September 2018 when the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey was retired. Annual average nuclear capacity factors, which reflect the use of power plants, were slightly higher at 92.6% in 2018 compared with 92.2% in 2017.
More information about total energy consumption, production, trade, and emissions is available in EIA's Monthly Energy Review.
How's this for a first? As the world's demand for LNG continues to grow, the world's largest LNG supplier (Shell) has inked an innovative new deal with one of the world's largest LNG buyers (Tokyo Gas), including a coal pricing formula link for the first time in a large-scale LNG contract. It's a notable change in an industry that has long depended on pricing gas off crude, but could this be a sign of new things to come?
Both parties have named the deal an 'innovative solution', with Tokyo Gas hailing it as a 'further diversification of price indexation' and Shell calling it a 'tailored solutions including flexible contract terms under a variety of pricing indices.' Beneath the rhetoric, the actual nuts and bolts is slightly more mundane. The pricing formula link to coal indexation will only be used for part of the supply, with the remainder priced off the conventional oil & gas-linked indexation ie. Brent and Henry Hub pricing. This makes sense, since Tokyo Gas will be sourcing LNG from Shell's global portfolio – which includes upcoming projects in Canada and the US Gulf Coast. Neither party provided the split of volumes under each pricing method, meaning that the coal-linked portion could be small, acting as a hedge.
However, it is likely that the push for this came from Tokyo Gas. As one of the world's largest LNG buyers, Tokyo Gas has been at the forefront of redefining the strict traditions of LNG contracts. Reading between the lines, this deal most likely does not include any destination restriction clauses, a change that Tokyo Gas has been particularly pushing for. With the trajectory for Brent crude prices uncertain – owing to a difficult-to-predict balance between OPEC+ and US shale – creating a third link in the pricing formula might be a good move. Particularly since in Japan, LNG faces off directly with coal in power generation. With the general retreat from nuclear power in the country, the coal-LNG battle will intensify.
What does this mean for the rest of the industry? Could coal-linked contracts become the norm? The industry has been discussing new innovations in LNG contracts at the recent LNG2019 conference in Shanghai, while the influx of new American LNG players hungry to seal deals has unleashed a new sense of flexibility. But will there be takers?
I am not a pricing expert but the answer is maybe. While Tokyo Gas predominantly uses natural gas as its power generation fuel (hence the name), it is competing with other players using cheaper coal-based generation. So in Japan, LNG and coal are direct competitors. This is also true in South Korea and much of Southeast Asia. In the two rising Asian LNG powerhouses, however, the situation is different. In China – on track to become the world's largest LNG buyer in the next two decades – LNG is rarely used in power generation, consumed instead by residential heating. In India – where LNG imports are also rising sharply – LNG is primarily aimed at petrochemicals and fertiliser. LNG based power generation in China and India could see a surge, of course, but that will take plenty of infrastructure, and time, to build. It is far more likely that their contracts will be based off existing LNG or natural gas benchmarks, several of which are being developed in Asia alone.
If it takes off the coal-link LNG formula is likely to remain a Asian-based development. But with the huge volumes demanded by countries in this region, that's still a very big niche. Enough perhaps for the innovation to slowly gain traction elsewhere, next stop - Europe?
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Volume – 500,000 metric tons per year
Source – Shell global portfolio
Pricing – Formula based on coal and oil & gas-linked indexes
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Photos: "Baconpalooza" at Olde Magoun's Saloon
Olde Magoun's Saloon in Somerville offers several imported and local craft beers and a welcoming atmosphere.
Magoun holds their "Baconpalooza" every Wednesday evening in the month of July.
"Devilish eggs" with pureed peppers and crumbled bacon.
Bacon poutine with waffle fries, bacon gravy, and a fried egg.
Twice-baked bacon potato with chive sour cream.
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MERIS/AATSR Workshop: focus on Envisat sensors measuring heat and light
ESA's Envisat satellite has been continuously observing the Earth with a suite of ten instruments for the last three and a half years. A major workshop is about to bring together users of Envisat's two most complementary sensors: MERIS, which acquires multispectral imagery of the planet's ocean, land and atmosphere, and AATSR, a radiometer measuring global surface and cloud temperatures down to a fraction of a degree.
The five-day MERIS/AATSR Workshop is scheduled to take place in ESRIN, the European Centre for Earth Observation in Frascati overlooking Rome, from Monday 26 September. More than 200 Principal Investigators from over 30 countries, including ESA's 17 member states and Canada, as well as India, New Zealand, Nigeria and Japan are expected to attend. There will be 90 presentations during the Workshop and around 65 posters on show. The Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) takes visible-light images of the precise 'colour' of the ocean and coastal zones, enabling determination of the biological and sediment loading of the water.
The instrument also acquires land-based images showing land use and vegetation cover. Because these images are acquired in up to 15 spectral bands, they provide additional environmental information such as chlorophyll levels, plant health and local geology. MERIS can also monitor the distribution of atmospheric aerosols and otherwise invisible water vapour concentrations.
The Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) also has a visible-light imaging capability for land surfaces and atmospheric clouds and aerosols, but its view also extends further than that of MERIS into near and thermal-infrared wavelengths.
Working day and night AATSR measures global sea surface temperature (SST) to an accuracy of 0.3º K, constantly extending a 14-year satellite dataset commenced by predecessor ATSR instruments flown aboard ERS-1 and 2. The top two metres of the ocean alone contain more energy than the entire atmosphere, and so this long, continuous time-series of SST data is important for predicting the magnitude of climate change. AATSR also delivers land-based images, and is especially sensitive to soil moisture, vegetation extent and anomalous heat sources such as volcanoes or the central cores of forest fires.
AATSR is also used to study clouds and aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere. It has a dual view design which means it can takes forward as well as nadir-looking images. Because its twin views of the same scene pass through different atmospheric path lengths, the instrument has an enhanced ability to estimate and correct for distortion effects from the atmosphere – information which could potentially be applied to improve MERIS data quality in turn.
"Following on from a successful MERIS event in November 2003, this Workshop is an opportunity for us to have a dialogue with the scientific community," explains Workshop organiser Peter Regner of ESA. "The event will begin with updates on the status of the spacecraft and instruments, data quality and dissemination. The emphasis then splits to us receiving ideas from the users – in particular what can be done with the MERIS and AATSR datasets. Research utilising data from one or both sensors will be presented over a series of thematic sessions.
"We are particularly interested in stimulating discussion on what can be done by merging data from the two instruments. For MERIS products over land we still need to improve our algorithms to deal with the effects of atmospheric aerosols, and here it is possible that merging MERIS with AATSR data could be a way forward."
Researchers already combine results from the two sensors in many cases. While MERIS detects smoke and burned areas from wildfires, AATSR can identify central hot spots. The spread of colourful phytoplankton blooms across the face of the sea can be better forecast utilising SST data. And merged optical and thermal infrared views of the sea and the clouds above it give an enhanced understanding of the dynamics of storms and hurricanes.
The workshop will include training sessions for using the software tools used to process images from both sensors - known as the Basic ERS & Envisat AATSR and MERIS (BEAM) toolbox. An additional half-day course will cover how to programme new processing algorithms using the BEAM Application Programming Interface as a basis.


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The two 'competing' climate objectives of mitigation and adaptation can be reached simultaneously, and focusing on water resources will help. Mark Smith explains.
There has been a divide between those striving to reduce carbon emissions and those working to adapt to the impacts of climate change—each camp sees the other as a rival for funds and attention. But it doesn't have to be this way. Why do we need to argue about whether to prioritize mitigation or adaptation when we can do both at the same time and at a lower cost than many believe? The answer lies in that most precious of commodities—water.
Given the level of uncertainty and confusion that exists in the climate arena, how can the environmental community best help governments plan their response to climate change? We can show them that the climaterelated events they all fear—from hurricanes to floods, drought to sea level rise—all have water in common. Water links the climate system with our human ecosystem and should be central to the debate over how to most effectively tackle the climate crisis.
Because the climate impacts on water are so widespread, much climate change adaptation translates into water adaptation. By 2025 almost half of the global population is projected to live in water-stressed areas. But taking the right steps now to implement effective water governance that maintains well-functioning watersheds can increase the resilience of both communities and economies. Healthy wetlands and watersheds can also store significant amounts of carbon and are therefore an important ally in climate change mitigation.
Securing water supplies needs a twopronged approach: increasing supply and decreasing demand. The most effective approaches work to maximize nature's infrastructure such as wetlands, floodplains and mangroves and use economic incentives to reduce domestic, industrial and agricultural consumption and waste.
Wealthier nations can try to buy their way out of water problems. But energy intensive desalination plants and costly pipelines to re-distribute fresh water from one side of a country to another are not the answer. The solutions must lie within the communities who live with water shortages on a daily basis.Their lives and livelihoods depend on how they manage their dwindling resources.Those most burdened by climate change must have clearly defined rights and strong incentives to decide how they can most responsibly use water. But they need help in the form of fair and effective government and policies that link global lessons with local needs. Coordinated decision making demands multi-level communication and a platform for negotiation.
One such platform already exists that can provide a model for water resource managers. The UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) helps local authorities in the developing world secure their own renewable natural resources (boosting local adaptation) while reducing emissions (for global mitigation). Could a similarly strategic and cost-effective investment not work for water?
The time has come to integrate the adaptation and mitigation agendas. A coordinated focus on water will reduce people's vulnerability and strengthen national resilience in the uncertain times we face. Integration is starting to happen. It began in Istanbul earlier this year at the Fifth World Water Forum and should be cemented in Copenhagen in December.
This article is taken from issue 2, 2009 of IUCN's magazine World Conservation, www.iucn.org/worldconservation.
Dr Mark Smith is Head of IUCN's Water Programme.


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- Ekkehard Gentz, Independent Softwarearchitect ekkes-corner, redView (Riena EMF Dynamic Views for Business Applications)
- Marcus Harringer, MicroDoc GmbH [1], Virtual Embedded Devices with OSGi and Flash
- Damir Ismailović, Technische Universität München, Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP): Desktop and web applications from a single code base
- Stefan Seelmann, Freelancer, UI testing with SWTBot
- Kai Tödter, Siemens Corporate Technology, e4 Contacts demo: Styling RCP apps with css
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- Marcus Harringer, MicroDoc GmbH
- Ekkehard Gentz, Independent Softwarearchitect ekkes-corner
- Damir Ismailović, Research assistant, Technische Universität München
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Again more winners, now are published the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for January 2010 edition. Those photos were uploaded in January and voted in February. We will contact the winners via e-mail during the next 30 days in order to organize the prizes.
First Prize of Scenery category
taken in Russia by Rodion Surkov
First Prize of Travel category
taken in Hungary by szszsz
First Prize of Heritage category
taken in Turkey by OLYMPIST ©
First Prize of Unusual Location category
taken in Turkey by Fatma Özdemir
Full list of winners


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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Spaghetti Al Vongole
I have shared my preference for light pasta sauces before, and had the chance this weekend to make my favorite pasta dish: spaghetti al vongole. I have ordered this dish time and time again at Italian restaurants, and have yet to get tired of the light white wine sauce and the fresh herbs and clams that coat the strands of spaghetti. When I got my hand on a batch of fresh clams, I knew pasta al vongole would be mine again. I've heard a lot of people talk about their fear of cooking clams (and other types of seafood for that matter) but I can assure you that clams are incredibly easy to make. My all-time favorite way to prepare them is to steam them open with white wine, shallots and herbs. This takes a couple minutes to put together, and gives immense flavor to whatever you are serving the clams with. In this case, I dunk the cooked spaghetti right into the clam pot, let it soak up all the juices, and voila!
Recipe (for 2)
Spaghetti for 2
4 shallots, finely diced
2 cloves of garlic, finely diced
1/2 teaspoon of dried oregano
15 clams
2 glasses of dry white wine
A handful of finely chopped fresh parsley
Salt and freshly ground pepper
Extra virgin olive oil
Cook the spaghetti according to package instructions. In the meantime, add a good drizzle of olive oil to a stockpot on medium heat. Add the shallots, garlic and dried oregano. Cook until the mixture is translucent (about 3 minutes). Add the clams and the white wine and cover. After about a minute vigorously shake the pot to help the steaming process and make sure that all the clams open nicely. After about 4minutes, all the clams should have opened. Discard any closed clams. Add the drained cooked pasta to the pot and gently fold in the spaghetti. Season with salt and pepper. Add the chopped parsley and serve. Enjoy!
28 comments:
- pigpigscorner said...
Looks really delicious! I love seafood pasta with white wine sauce...delicious.
- February 2, 2009 at 3:48 AM
- HoneyB said...
I think Grumpy would really like this meal...I am going to have to bookmark this one. I have only cooked clams once in my life - and for the same reason you state here, I've always been afraid to! I think I better give it another try!
- February 2, 2009 at 5:04 AM
- Darius T. Williams said...
This looks fantastic...and now I'm craving shrimp scampi.
That's totally on the menu for this week - thanks!
- February 2, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- Dawn said...
I think white wine goes so well with seafood. I truly love this dish, and would love a small bowl right now.
- February 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM
- maggie said...
Yum, this is one of my absolute favorite dishes.
- February 2, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- CookiePie said...
That's one of my all-time most favorite pasta dishes. Yours looks especially delicious!
- February 2, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- pepsakoy said...
Looks fantastic ! And your photos are excellent...
- February 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- Cherie said...
I can't believe I have never made this dish. I wanted to, several times, but something always gets in the way.
I am heading to the market for some fresh seafood and I'm making it this weekend!
- February 2, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- MaryBeth said...
It looks very good, however I am not a fan of clams..how do you think it would be with shrimp?
- February 2, 2009 at 11:18 PM
- Peter M said...
Simple, pretty and delish...a fave "go to" dish.
- February 3, 2009 at 7:56 AM
- Debbie said...
Sounds out of this world good!!! I love pasta and have to try this sometime.
- February 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Jen said...
I love this pasta dish! It's the start of the day and your picture has me craving dinner already :)
- February 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Netts Nook said...
I love clams this looks great thanks for sharing.
- February 3, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
MaryBeth: You could definitely make this with shrimp. You can cook the shrimp in the same way as the clams (by poaching them in the white wine) and adding in the pasta as soon as they are opaque and pink in color. Let me know if you get to try it out!
- February 3, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- matt wirght said...
my absolute favorite use for clams. Talk about perfect presentation as well. Beautiful work!
- February 3, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- Maria said...
Seafood and pasta...what an amazing meal!
- February 3, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- noobcook said...
This is my fave pasta too, and you made it so beautifully. Thanks for visiting me, I'm so happy to find your lovely food blog that has such awesome food photogtaphy :)
- February 3, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- lisa (dandysugar) said...
This looks so delicious. I love simple pasta dishes and this is definitely one of my favorites. I've had dinner already but I'm craving this dish now!
- February 4, 2009 at 12:21 AM
- we are never full said...
oh i absolutely love this dish too. it makes me feel thin for some odd reason. ha ha ha. try putting a bit of clam juice in when making the sauce like my grandmom did - it really spikes up the "claminess"
- February 4, 2009 at 7:43 AM
- Nazarina A said...
Yummeee! What a delightful idea for dinner!!!
- February 4, 2009 at 12:17 PM
I never herd about origano in this recipe, but if you like.....
Is better to soak in runing water the vongole for long time, nearly all one night,to remove all the sand
- February 5, 2009 at 1:39 PM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
Anonymous: Feel free to change around the herbs to better suit your taste!
And you're right, the clams should definitely be cleaned and all the sand should be removed before they are used.
- February 5, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- Ash said...
Looks too good!!!
Love the pic!
- February 7, 2009 at 8:18 PM
- Sophie said...
Looks really yummie:)!! I just love sea food!!
- February 26, 2009 at 6:22 AM
- Rasa Malaysia said...
OMG, I looooooove Spaghetti Vongole. Recently at a work lunch, we went to this little Italian restaurant and I order it, and it was the best one I've had in the US (the best one I had was in Florence, Italy). Since then, my gf and I had been going back to the same restaurant for at least twice a week, during lunch hours. It starts to get really expensive ($20+) and I swear to make it myself. Thanks so much for this. :)
- March 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
It's one of my favorite dishes too - let me know if you get to try it out at home, I'd love to know what you think!
- March 7, 2009 at 11:22 PM
I just (almost) followed a Giorgio Locatelli recipe which is slightly different from yours. No oregano or shallots. I used garlic, fresh chili, white wine (muscadet) and a bit of cream to round off at the end. My belly is still smiling, and my five year old daughter was yelling at me for not having made more!
- January 30, 2010 at 2:26 PM
- Patrice @ Circle-B-Kitchen said...
I have had an very large craving for spaghetti and clams....THIS spaghetti and clams. So glad I found it. Most recipes are way too butter laden. THanks!
- February 25, 2010 at 7:41 PM


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text: On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Chetoo Valux wrote: > I wonder then if there would be potential buyers for cluster time. I've been > browsing, not too deep, the net, and I've not found (yet) any information > of someone selling cluster time. This is a perrenial topic of discussion on the list, and the general answer is that SO FAR there are two generically distinct marketplaces for this sort of remote clustering. One is the sort that is already being filled by e.g. Google -- remote computations that may well be distributed over a carefully engineered cluster to perform a single task that is of value in some very specific mileau. In many cases the computations at hand aren't properly "HPC" in that they may not be "numerical", but they are certainly cluster apps and may well run on very massive clusters indeed. The other is numerical HPC applications. Here the marketplace is one where it is difficult to achieve a win. First of all, most people who are doing HPC have very specific, very diverse, applications and often these applications run on clusters that are at least to some extent custom-engineered for the application. A general purpose commercial cluster would face immediate problems providing a "grid-like" interface to the general population. Even something as simple as compiling for the target platform would become difficult, and is one of those areas where solutions on real grid computers tend to be at least somewhat ugly. Then there is access, accounting, security, storage, whether or not the applications is EP or has actual IPCs so that it needs allocations of blocks of nodes with some given communications stack and physical network. By the time one works out the economics, it tends to be a lose-lose proposition. It is just plain difficult to offer computational resources to your potential marketplace: a) in a way that they can afford -- more specifically can write into a grant proposal to afford. b) in a way that is cheaper than they could obtain it by e.g. spending the same budget on hardware they themselves own and operate. Clusters are really amazingly cheap, after all -- as little as a few $100 per node, almost certainly less than $1000 per CPU core even on bleeding edge hardware. Yes, there are administrative costs and so on, but for many projects those costs can be filled out of opportunity cost labor you're paying for anyway. c) and, if you manage a rate that satisfies b), that still makes YOU money. Dedicated cluster admins are expensive -- suppose you have just one of these (yourself) and are willing to do the entire entrepreneurial thing for a mere $60K/year salary and benefits (which I'd argue is starvation wages for this kind of work). A 100-node (CPU) pro-grade cluster will likely cost you at LEAST $50,000 up front, plus the rent of a physical space with adequate AC and power resources plus roughly $100/node/year -- call it between $10 and $20K/year just to keep the nodes powered up, plus another $5000 or so in spare parts and maintenance expenses. The amortization of the $50K up front investment is over at most three years (at which point your nodes will be too slow to be worth renting anyway, and you'll likely have to drop rental rates yearly to keep them in a worthwhile zone as it is, so call it $20K of depreciation and interest on the borrowed money per year plus $20K in operating expenses per year plus $60K for your salary -- you have to make about $100K/year, absolute minimum, just to break barely arguably not quite even. That's $1000/node, and you have to KEEP them rented out in such a way as to make this ALL the time for ALL three years to be able to rollover replace the cluster nodes over that interval and stay in business. In reality, in the closely comparable business of renting space and sysadmin time for network servers, rates are 2-5 times this, so even allowing for better scaling of service delivery for compute nodes compared to webservers, this estimate is still very likely quite optimistic. Well hell, for $1000 I can buy my OWN compute node -- one with multiple cores at that -- house it in my OWN space if I or my university have anything that will do for this purpose (as is usually the case), feed and cool it, and with FC+PXE+Kickstart and/or warewulf installing and maintaining it is for me at least a matter of a few hours initial investment for the entire cluster plus a couple of boots per node, as we have a FC repository and a PXE/DHCP server already configured. We can even handle moderate node heterogeneity with some of the tools developed at Duke that can rewrite kickstart scripts on the fly according to xmlish rules. And I can buy just as many newer, faster nodes next year, and the year after that, instead of renting your aging nodes. The point being that with VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS the economics just doesn't work out. Yes, some things can be scaled up or down to improve the basic picture I present, but only at a tremendous risk for a general purpose business. The only exceptions I know of personally are where somebody is already operating a cluster consultation service -- something like Scalable Informatics -- that helps customers design and build clusters for specific purposes. In some cases those customers have "no" existing expertise or infrastructure for the cluster they need and can obtain a task-specific win by effectively subcontracting the cluster's purchase AND housing AND operation to SI, where SI already has space and resources and administration and installation support set up and can install and operate their client's cluster with absolutely minimal investment in node-scaled time. Note that doing THIS provides you with all sorts of things that alter the basic equation portrayed above -- you already have an income from the consultative side and don't have to "live" on what you make running clusters, you don't actually buy the cluster and rent it out, the client buys the cluster and pays you to house and run it (so you don't have to deal with depreciation or rollover renewal, they do), you have preexisting but scalable infrastructure support for cluster installation and software maintenance, etc. Even here I imagine that the margins are dicey and somewhat high risk, but maybe Joe will comment. Maybe not -- I doubt that he'd welcome more competition, since there is probably "just enough" business for those fulfilling the need already. I don't view this as a high-growth industry...;-) rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu