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Author Notes: A couple of years ago, I did a write-up on buckwheat honey for the New York Times, and in preparation I met up with Zeke Freeman, one of the founders of Bee Raw honey. He sat me down for a formal honey tasting and took me through several of his favorite varieties. He saved the earthy brown buckwheat for last. While we talked about ways to maximize its rich, faintly funky flavor, he suggested using it for short ribs. With beer. Needless to say, I thought that was a splendid plan.
The recipe below is what I came up with after a little experimentation, and it ran in T Living in November, 2006. It's a rustic version of short ribs (no mirepoix or reductions here), and one that won't take up your whole day. —Merrill Stubbs
Serves: 6
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
5 pounds short ribs, trimmed
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 large onion, finely chopped
6 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons whole-grain mustard
1/3 cup buckwheat honey
12 ounces good brown ale (I used Dogfish Head this time)
1 bay leaf
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Put the oil in a large, heavy pan or Dutch oven set over medium-high heat. Season the ribs generously with salt and pepper and brown them on all sides, about 1 minute per side. (You will probably need to do this in batches.)
- Remove the short ribs from the pan and pour off all but about 3 tablespoons of fat. Decrease the heat to medium-low. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring, until lightly caramelized, about 5 minutes. Stir in the mustard, honey, ale, and bay leaf. Return the meat to the pan and coat with the sauce.
- Bring the sauce to a simmer and cover the pan tightly with a lid or foil. Put in the oven and cook until the meat is pull-apart tender, 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Remove the ribs, and skim as much fat as possible from the sauce. Reduce the sauce by simmering it for a few minutes if you'd like. Taste for seasoning and add more salt and pepper if you like. Serve the meat warm with some of the sauce spooned over the top.
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April 24, 2012
Years before CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson's cover was blown in a newspaper column, she faced a private struggle with postpartum depression. After giving birth to twins, she suffered from debilitating sleep deprivation and emotional strain. Host Michel Martin speaks with Plame Wilson about how she got help and her new mission.

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Tamil Nadu Results 2012 for 10th Class (X) will be published on Monday, June 4, 2012 at 1:30 pm. The Tamil Nadu Directorate of Government Examination office has confirmed the date and time for publishing Tamil Nadu results 2012 for those who appeared in the 10th Class exam.
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Tamil Nadu results 2012 have been declared after several Central and state boards have already declared their results. The TN Results 2012 provided by National Informatic Center.
Tamil Nadu (TN) Higher Secondary (HS) Examination 2012 was conducted in March/April 2012. Now many thousands of students in Tamil Nadu are waiting for their TN HS result 2012 for Class 10 (X).
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Ben Schachter at Macquarie has a fascinating research note out titled: Facebook's annoying features drive users to Instagram.
He held a panel of 6 people aged 17-28 to track their social media behavior.
What he found is a huge exodus of usage from Facebook to Instagram (which of course Facebook acquired).
Here are Schachter's key takeaways:
Obviously, this was only a small group and certainly not a statistically relevant survey, but still we thought there were some interesting takeaways, including - All of the participants are now actively using Instagram (none were a year ago) - Facebook still plays a large role, but mostly because it aggregates all their social connections in one place. - They universally did not like the new timeline on Facebook - Nearly all said that they expect to use Facebook less six months from now versus today. - The twenty-somethings indicated that 25% or fewer of their social friends were using Instagram, but the teens indicated that virtually all of their friends were already using it. - They stated that Instagram is more intimate and that they use it to sort of "start over" versus cleaning up the long list of "friends" on Facebook - Instragram seems to be used more by females. One participant added, "most boys are not uploading pictures of flowers" Notably, one participant said, "If I got rid of my Facebook, I would not be out of the loop with my friends as long as I'm on Instagram".
The rest of the report is devastating in terms of what the panelists said about Facebook ("creepy", "boring", "cluttered," "annoying")
The saving grace for the company is that it's still a necessary place to hang out, because it aggregates everything else, and people use their real names. But Instagram is eating its lunch, and though Facebook owns both, the question of whether it will be monetizable on remotely the same scale as the web is highly in doubt.


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The price of goldhovered around $1,600 per ounce at the end of of 2011, rising over 15% in 2011, following uncertainty in the equity markets and the global economy as a whole.
The biggest individual holders of gold—central banks, international organizations and governments—are believed to account for approximately 16.5 percent of the world's gold, holding about 30,700 tons.
The numbers are taken from the monthly report produced by the World Gold Council,which is the gold industry's key market development body. The holdings presented here are as of WGC's December 2011 report, unless otherwise noted.
So, who holds the most gold? Click ahead to find out!
By Paul Toscano
Updated 4 Jan 2012


text: Very likely a hopeless question, with this little information, but just in case: Does anyone have any 'real world' experience with 'both' of these CPUs, in terms of relative performance for 'whatever work you do' ? I realize the xeon is a faster mhz part (3.16ghz xeon vs 2.3ghz opteron) so I'm more concerned with "relative performance per mhz" I'm involved with a cluster project, and we have 2 options from our vendor, - 25 compute nodes, dual-quadcore intel 5460, or - 32 compute nodes, dual-quadcore amd 2356 >From what I've been able to glean (Spec.org / SpecCPU 2006), - the intel chips have better integer performance - the amd chips have better FPU performance so the likely anticipated real-world performance result .. will depend on how a given application blends / balances things. Any comments / thoughts are certainly appreciated. --Tim Chipman


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Participants at a Shell-IUCN biofuels workshop undertook a review of work so far, shared a vision for future Shell-IUCN work on biofuels, and identified priority themes for the development of a joint work plan for 2012–2013.
IUCN and Shell have worked together on overcoming barriers to sustainability in the biofuels value chain since 2009. Successes include convening multi-stakeholder forums and partnerships to address specific issues such as improving sustainability standards and understanding indirect land use change, developing joint solutions and proposals in order to inform government policy makers, and contributing to the further development of private sector standards for biofuels.
Held at IUCN's headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, on 18–19 October 2011, the Shell-IUCN Biofuels Partnership Strategic Review and Planning Workshop aimed to review work so far and identify areas for potential further collaboration. Participants included cross-functional representatives from Shell and IUCN, as well as from agri-food business (Cargill), voluntary standard schemes (Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels, Bon Sucro), and NGOs (WWF International).
"When IUCN and Shell began working together on biofuels two years ago, governments, private sector and NGOs were operating at a strategic, theoretical level when shaping biofuels policy and associated sustainability standards," says Deviah Aiama, Bioenergy Programme Officer at IUCN. "Today, biofuels are being used in much greater quantity, sustainability standards are being implemented on the ground, and regulations are coming into effect. This new phase of implementation leads to new challenges and issues for the biofuels industry and potential for further joint efforts between Shell and IUCN."
Workshop participants reviewed each organization's biofuels strategy, evaluated work to date and lessons learned under the Shell-IUCN Biofuels Agreement, and took stock of the evolving biofuels landscape. A number of challenges to implementing sustainability in the biofuel value chain were discussed, including a current lack of harmony between government policies, balancing standard credibility with practicality, the cost of implementing better sustainability standards, the difficulty of demonstrating benefits from improved policy and standards, and the place of biofuels within wider agricultural issues and land-use planning. Challenges were also identified relating to how to fully leverage the strengths of each organization in order to ensure biofuels are sourced, produced, and used sustainably.
From these frank discussions, a joint vision for future work was developed: 'Potential of sustainable biofuels realized'. Two priority themes were identified where Shell and IUCN could meaningfully work together to achieve this vision, and have been finalized after follow-up meetings between IUCN and Shell to develop the work plan for 2012–2013:
- Theme 1: Uptake and implementation of robust sustainability standards and safeguards
- Theme 2: Energy and environmental policies that encourage better biofuels and resource use
A report summarizing the workshop is available here (pdf).
For further information on the workshop and this project please contact deviah.aiama "at"iucn.org.


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Glazed pagoda southwest Yenan Mt. Qingliang immortal pit hole. Originally on Yenan Gangu post Tangjiaping village half hillside. in 1985 moved in this. The tower is eight lozenge seven imitates the wood construction, the tower checks for the bronze valuable ball, the tower body passes high originally the 6.25 rice. The tower body first each decoration by a Buddha two Son of Heaven, by innumerable small Buddha; Second each is Buddha two Bodhisattva two flying apsaras, by innumerable small Buddha; The third each decoration leaps the dragon; The fourth each surface distinguishes is mascot figures and so on phoenix, unicorn, deer, white fox, by innumerable small Buddha; Fifth, sixth, seventh each have one sit in buddhist meditation main Buddha, side by four to five row of small Buddha. The entire tower body inlays by peacock blue colored glaze component builds becomes, under each tower eave executes bucket of three liter dougong. According to the tower body seventh prefatory remarks, the tower for bright Chongzhen two (in 1629) the Shanxi Shui river continent government office, artisan Hou Dayang constructed.
Shanxi, Shaanxi, or referred to Qin, also known as Shaanxi, China's northwest region, a province, the provincial capital Xi'an, located in the hinterland of China, the Yellow River and Yangtze River, located in east longitude 105 ° 29 '~ 111 ° 15', Latitude 31 ° 42 '~ 39 ° 35' between. East of Shanxi, Henan, west of Ningxia, Gansu, south of Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, north, connecting China living in east and central region and the northwest and southwest of the important position. Because of the Shan Zhou (now Shan County in Henan Province) west of the, so called Shaanxi. Long history and profound culture. Longer period in the history of Shaanxi Province has been referred to as "Qin. "


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Since it's Friday, I'd like to wax philosophical about headspace and intellectual approach than focus on the details of any one monthly retail sales report. Let us discuss information sources, methodologies, and precisely the choices we choose to make when we select what to believe.
This is a much more significant point than many investors and traders realize.
Over the years, I have identified in my own investing a number giant blunders that called out for correction. I have made many ordinary, as well as a few spectacular, gaffes. These were fortunately early in a career arc, the time when you are supposed to make lots of errors. It is less painful when you are responsible for a lot less money (though it took me quite a while to figure out that is somewhat by design).
What sorts of errors did a young trader like myself make earlier in his career? All of the usual – i.e., expensive – ones. A short list of my mistakes looks something like this:
Optimism Bias: All traders suffer from the inherent bias you humans have -- you think you can beat the market. Perhaps I can phrase it differently; young traders have not yet figured out that after the costs incurred, expenses, taxes paid, time and labor invested, most of the time, it is not worth the effort.
There are a handful of exceptional traders who make it so challenging to let go. Just as every high school B-Ball player isn't going to become Michael Jordan, neither will most traders go on to become John Tudor Jones or Jim Simons. But the mere possibility keeps lots of kids working on their crossover dribble -- and plenty of traders busy chasing alpha.
Confirmation Bias: The Internet has allowed us to carve out fiefdoms of reinforcing belief systems, rather than challenge ourselves and our beliefs on a daily basis. We see it in politics (Drudge vs HuffPo), we see it in investing. When we are leveraged long, we all tend to read bullish research and commentary. When we are in cash or short, we seek out bearish writings. This is a basic function of human nature, and in finance its a dangerous and costly habit. The Smart Money seeks out research and commentary that challenges its existing beliefs.
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Creative design talks directly to people's heart. Creative designers must be equipped with software tools that enable them to easily craft and adjust the product's emotional content through their designs,while collaborating with engineering to ensure proper coverage of product functional scope.
Successful products in the market are usually those with designs that elicit positive emotional response from their consumers. CATIA is at the service of creative designers and their creativity. Whether starting ideation in 3D from scratch or from 2D sketches, industrial designers can manipulate shapes with unrivaled freedom and take advantage of a true creativity accelerator to explore more ideas in the early conceptual phase. CATIA fully addresses the Automotive Class-A process with a solution for surface refinement that integrates industry leading ICEM surfacing technologies. By combining the V6 technology strengths, which include knowledge capture-and-reuse paradigm, it delivers a powerful and intuitive suite of tools for modeling, analyzing and visualizing aesthetic and ergonomic shapes for the highest Class-A surface quality.
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Comprehensive suite of tools for surface creationThis industrial design software enables the use of a pure surface-based approach that minimizes the need for curve manipulation. Designers can create flawless, styled shapes from scratch, in order to model three-dimensional free-form curves and surfaces. The system can blend and extrude curves, fill, and blend or match surfaces.
Complete set of manipulation and deformation toolsCATIA Freestyle Design offers dynamic, interactive shape deformation capacities, allowing users to easily adjust their designs. Smart and advanced tools enable the user to dynamically deform single or multi-surface shapes. Designers change the shapes by matching, smoothing and trimming curves and surfaces. The control point capability offers an interactive manipulation of curves and surfaces. Users intuitively modify control points on shapes and trimmed surface boundaries with direct mouse-based manipulation and with an immediate propagation of design change. Deformation laws on the control points refine the actions.
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Bertrand Jayr, the designer of these concrete accessories
The French artist and designer Bertrand Jayr adds poetry, humor and singularity to objects who are so often deprived of these qualities.
His first collection of concrete accessories for Lyon Béton is a new proof of his talent and his sensitivity.
More pictures of Bertrand Jayr concrete accessories in these shooting sessions
Autumn pictures
When it's cold and wet outside, we all love to get inside a cosy home. It may surprise you, but concrete furniture and accessories can give a warm and modern look to your interior design. Let's convince you with these pictures of our concrete products. Photos: Aurélie...
Chez Yann
Our friend and architect Yann let us invade his modern, yet vintage, interior design appartement for a short shooting session of some of our concrete furniture and accessories. Once again concrete furnitures and accessories make a great effect when mixed with vintage...
What makes our concrete unique
We won't give you our secrete recipe (we've been working on the perfect proportioning for more than 5 years), but like every concrete, our blend is made of water, sand and cement.
We also add a pinch of fiberglass to make our concrete lighter and more resistant. Some of our products are reinforced with rebars and/or a wire mesh.
You will always find visible pores and micro-cracks on our concrete furniture and accessories because we love concrete like this. But we have little tricks to give it a soft and warm touch...
- Any pores, micro-cracks, and variations in color are due to the material's inherent and charming nature
- Product comes with pre-applied finish that protects the integrity and natural look of the material
- Never use abrasive materials, solvents, acids, or high pressure cleaners when maintaining the product
- To clean, use a soft, clean cloth
- Recommended to regularly apply wax or water/oil repellents normally used for stone, marble, and concrete


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Harston advances to Senior Nationals
Lipscomb golf coach Buddy Harston qualified for the Senior PGA Professional National Championship with a win at the Tennessee PGA Senior Section Championship at Bear Trace at Harrison Bay in Chattanooga.
On the second day Harston shot a three-under 33 on the back nine to win the division. He beat defending champion Mark Houser and former Lipscomb golfer Will Brewer, now with the Vanderbilt Legends Club, by one stroke. All three qualify for the national championship to be held in La Quinta, Calif., in October.
There were 20 senior PGA professionals from across the state in the tournament field.
Harston names team captains
Harston announced this week that Brandon Mundie will serve as captain for the men's team and Katie Pursell will be captain for the women's team.
Lady Bisons honored for academics
The Lady Bisons golf team has received the NCAA Public Recognition Award for having an Academic Progress Rate in the top 10 percent all all squads in their respective sports.


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The PTS is a Soviet tracked amphibious transport. PTS stands for Plavayushchij Transportyer – Sryednyj or medium amphibious transport vehicle. Its industrial index was Ob'yekt 65. Introduced in 1965, it is large, with a substantial payload of 10 tons, two to four times the capacity of the BAV 485, and better cross-country performance, at the cost of greater somewhat higher purchase costs because it is tracked. The most common model is the improved PTS-M that is powered by a 350 hp diesel engine. It has a boxy, open watertight hull, with six road wheels per side, front drive sprocket, rear idler sprocket, and no return rollers. Like the BAV 485, and unlike the DUKW, it has a rear loading ramp. The crew is seated at the front, leaving the rear of the vehicle open for a vehicle, which can be driven (or backed) in, rather than lifted over the side. To aid in facilitating this, the engine is under the floor. Propulsion in water is by means of twin propellers, in tunnels to protect them from damage during land operations.
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text: Rossen Dimitrov wrote: > > So, if you really want to optimize the use of your cluster resources, in > addition to the network and compute nodes, you will need to also > consider the communication middleware and the design of your application > and how they all work together. Are there any projects that would expand the ability of MPI application programmers to provide performance hints to the MPI library? For example, hints indicating that certain messages are latency sensitive whereas others need optimal bandwidth and low CPU overhead? One can already obtain some MPI performance data through the PMPI mechanism, and Rossen is helping develop MPI PERUSE (http://www.mpi-peruse.org/) intended to provide even more detail. I'm asking about the other direction of information flow, i.e. performance hints from the application to the MPI layer... Ideally, such hints would be propagated fairly close to the actual hardware, e.g. application hints would guide the MPI library in selecting improved interrupt mitigation strategies used by the network interfaces (assuming that a suitable API exists for the underlaying hardware). Sincerely, Josip