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For the crust: Toast the almonds in a dry skillet over medium heat, while stirring, until just slightly blonde, about 3 minutes. Remove to a plate to cool completely. You can stick in the freezer to hurry up this process.
Add the flour, confectioners' sugar and salt to the bowl of a food processor and pulse a few times to mix everything together. This will help break up potential lumps in the confectioners' sugar. Add the cooled almonds and pulse again for 30 seconds. Add the butter and pulse until the dough looks like small clumps. Add the beaten egg and pulse in long increments, again until the dough comes together. It should be bunched up in a few balls.
Lightly dust your workspace with flour. Spray a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom with nonstick spray. Remove the dough from the food processor. Knead lightly a few times to incorporate all the dry ingredients, and then form into a flat disc. Press the dough into the prepared tart pan. Chill for 30 minutes in the freezer.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Remove the tart from the freezer and place on a baking sheet. Prick the bottom of the tart all over with a fork to prevent the dough from puffing while it bakes. Line the tart with parchment paper and pie weights on top (dried beans will work in a pinch). Bake the crust for 25 minutes. Remove the tart from the oven, remove the parchment and pie weights and bake for 2 more minutes. If the tart has puffed at all during baking, you can press the dough back down with a spoon.
While crust bakes, make the curd: Whisk together the granulated sugar, lemon juice, salt and eggs in a heavy-bottomed medium saucepan off the heat. Once the mixture is well blended, place over medium heat and cook while stirring, until the curd is thick, about 8 minutes. The curd is cooked when it reaches 170 degrees F. Whisk in the butter piece by piece; it will loosen up slightly. Pour into a large measuring cup.
Remove the crust from the oven and carefully add the lemon curd. Do not overfill the tart dough; fill just below the top of the tart. Bake the tart until set, about 10 more minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool completely before serving. Remove the tart ring and slice into pieces. Garnish with confectioners' sugar if desired.


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Westcott's name was announced as the citizen of the year at the annual Holiday Season musical concert at Monticello High School on December 21.
It was Westcott and Steve Young who recognized the value of a restored Big Four tractor and began the multi-year process of restoring the tractor to working order.
Hours of volunteer service, innovative problem solving, and back-breaking labor were rewarded on Pioneer Day in July when the Big Four, moving under its own power, led the way in the annual Pioneer Day parade.
Wescott, a retired educator who has been a lover of antique tractors for his entire life, is helping lead the charge to develop a display for the Big Four.
The City of Monticello said, "Winn Westcott was chosen to be the 2009 citizen of the year for his generous contribution of money and time to the restoration of the Big Four Tractor. This project began four or five years ago when the value of the tractor was researched and found to be priceless in its restored state.
"Winn has been very instrumental in gathering support for the project. He tore the machine down and rebuild it piece by piece. When pieces could not be found he made them by hand. Phone calls were made, research completed and thousands of hours were donated to rebuild the tractor for the community to display and enjoy.
"Outsiders have watched the progress of the Big Four restoration with great anticipation, as it is one of only four of its kind left in running condition in the entire world!
"Thank you, Winn, for this wonderful gift and your example of citizenship in our beautiful community!"

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text: Thing with linode is that they focus on infrastructure as a service in the sense they have 6 dc's globally and can easily deply redeploy migrate clone backup load balance with ease and very reasonably priced. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Landman [mailto:landman at scalableinformatics.com] Sent: 21 March 2013 18:11 To: Jonathan Aquilina Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Clustering VPS servers On 03/21/2013 12:15 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I am venturing back to the cloud side again isn't cloud just a fancy > name for virtualized servers? Well, no. Think of cloud as "hardware and infrastructure as code". You instantiate what you "need" with some caveats. Completeness of API, breadth of product is nice, but at the end of the day, the only thing that really matters, is, does it do what you need at a price you are willing to pay. +1 to Chris for message going over these elements, though one has to be careful as Amazon isn't the only one out there. They are good for some things, but as many of our customers have discovered by trying them, not good for everything, nor even the majority of items. Clouds (public and private) have a definite (and growing) niche, and I see the entire "hardware and infrastructure as code" as a very good thing. It has a nasty tendency to create waves of fads though, and its important to be able to recognize such things. This said, not having a block, object, or other storage API when you don't need it really isn't a deal killer. Not having an end-to-end low latency fabric, and bare metal servers is (for our customers). But our customers are not necessarily the same as all customers, and the recursive joke I tell about this is "gross overarching generalizations tend to be incorrect". Basically being all things to all people means that none are done well. Focusing upon niches where people get what they need is IMO a good way to carve out a market. With all due respect to those whom advocate heavily for one thing or the other, our experience with this is that the joke is on the end user when things don't work well at all, and cannot be made to work well due to design/implementation issues. Especially if they've sold this to management/board of directors. This is true of internal as well as external resources. This is more of a generic business problem than a public cloud vs private resource issue. This said, a quick pointer over to an IDC paper is an interesting read: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23972413#.UUs7OqDYSlg is a good read. Also there are others as well. Public cloud is large and growing, and largely commiditized. Very non-HPC specific, though with careful marshalling/selection of resources (CycleComputing) it can be viable for some HPC. But its very hard to argue a single platform is all things to all people, when it clearly isn't. Moreover, Amazon itself just signed a nice sized deal with a government entity for a private cloud offering ... Basically, Chris is dead on right with his points on "there must be an API, and a broad array of services" for a good public cloud. A private cloud can get more specific on needs, and not worry about implementing things that are not needed right away. But cloud isn't always "virtualized". Amazon is largely para-virtualized which is great to maximize tenancy, but not so great for performance. Its APIed out the wahzoo. Other clouds are hyper-virtualized and run closer to the metal. Others still are bare-metal with provisioning magic atop them. What likely matters most with public clouds are the ability to move between them when one of your cloud providers decides to compete with you. This has been a thread of articles on The Register (which I wrote about here: http://scalability.org/?p=5898 ) This isn't an Amazon issue as much as it is a business dependency issue. Freedom to move is important. It would be nice to have a common API so as to make this work well. The very last thing any of us want is the Microsoft-ization of the cloud world. That would be, universally, and catastrophically, bad for all. <http://scalability.org/?p=5898> -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/siflash phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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Author Notes: I think one of my favorite things when it comes to zucchini is a lot of other peoples favorite too...Zucchini bread. It's sweet, moist, and one of the few things I will happily turn my oven on for even on the hottest of days. Besides the taste, zucchini bread does another wonderful thing, it freezes well. So you get to stash a loaf in the freezer for a later date and not feel the need to hoard the one loaf being devoured on the counter. However, sometimes...I find myself wanting it to be a little different. The cinnamon version is wonderful, and I'll always make it, but I was looking at that slice on my plate a couple of weeks ago and wondering what other flavors I could put in there. Don't say chocolate. Go ahead and make a chocolate zucchini cake if you want to, but don't make chocolate zucchini bread...that's just not right. It's like zucchini trying to be something it's not. My favorite zucchini bread recipe is one I found on Smitten Kitchen. It is the moist, flavorful zucchini bread you are craving when you go to make a couple of loaves. Inspired by that recipe, I was looking out my kitchen window into my herb garden and I saw my rosemary plant. Now there's a thought. So I thought a little more and came up with this:
Food52 Review: WHO: Dabblings is an avid DIY-er, mother, food blogger, and "self-reformed wild child."
WHAT: A rosemary and orange-scented loaf cake that feels both indulgent and virtuous.
HOW: Shred, stir, bake, slice, enjoy.
WHY WE LOVE IT: This is the kind of quick bread we love to keep around the house, to slice for breakfast, for snack, for dessert, for anything. And when we run out, it takes a mere hour to whip up another loaf! —The Editors
Makes: 2 loaves
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 hrs
large eggs
cup of plain yogurt
cup of olive oil
1 3/4
cups of sugar
cups of zucchini; shredded
teaspoons fresh rosemary; finely minced
Zest of one orange (I used a navel orange)
Juice from 1/2 of the orange
cups of flour
teaspoon of baking soda
teaspoon of baking powder
teaspoon of salt
cup of toasted pecans; chopped ( Or pine nuts if you can swing that)
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease two loaf pans and set them aside.
- In a large bowl beat the eggs. Mix in the yogurt, oil, and sugar. Then mix in the shredded zucchini, rosemary, orange zest, and orange juice. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and toasted nuts.
- Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
- Once the batter is well combined divide it evenly between the two loaf pans.
- Bake the loaves for one hour, give or take a few minutes, until a tester inserted comes out clean. My loaves took exactly one hour and were perfect.
- Remove the loaves from the oven and allow them to cool for 10 minutes inside the loaf pan before transferring them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- This recipe is a Wildcard Contest Winner!
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June 1, 2006
Fullerton, Calif. -
Dear Titans Alumni, Parents and Fans:
Thank you for your support of our 2006 Big West Baseball Champions! We appreciate all of your support with our Titans, and we look forward to that continued spirit as we begin our journey on the "Road to Omaha." While we anticipate this tournament to be filled with fun and excitement, we wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone of the importance of our need to maintain compliance with NCAA rules.
Please know that by virtue of your relationship with the University, you and your family are considered representatives of Cal State Fullerton's athletics interests. As such, providing a benefit or privilege of any kind to a student-athlete and/or their family members and relatives is prohibited per NCAA rules and regulations. Furthermore, any actions deemed impermissible per NCAA rules will jeopardize the eligibility of the student-athlete for the NCAA tournament, and subject Cal State Fullerton to further sanctions.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of situations that you should avoid as it relates to our players and their families:
&\#149; Providing any form of transportation; &\#149; Purchase of drinks, snacks or meals; &\#149; Access to events otherwise not available to the general public, regardless whether admission is being charged; &\#149; Any items or services of value (free parking, telephone usage, or any form of entertainment); &\#149; Discounts on merchandise or services; &\#149; Arrangements for preferential or reduced cost lodging.
Our purpose in providing you with this information is to help raise awareness to situations that could result in unintended consequences. Should you have concerns or any questions regarding the NCAA rules and/or the permissibility of any actions, please do not hesitate to contact me and/or an athletics staff member. I can be reached at 714-278-3431 (work) or 714-308-2473 (cell). You can also email me at email@example.com .
The goal of the Cal State Fullerton Compliance Office is to help every one of our student-athletes protect and preserve their ability to play the sport they love so dearly, and to safeguard the integrity of our Titans.
Again, thank you for your continued support, and go Titans!
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It's fair to say that much of the surprise behind Windows 8.1 Update 1 was ruined by leaks, including the final version of the code, which has indeed been floating around out there for several weeks. But no matter: Update 1 matters, and is the clearest indication yet that Microsoft remains committed to listening to feedback and righting the wrongs of the original release of Windows 8.
How we got here
Well, it's been a wild ride. After alienating much of the 1+ billion strong Windows user base with Windows 8, Microsoft has worked steadily, even quickly, to fix things. That started, of course, with the expulsion of controversial Windows lead Steven Sinofsky, who (rightly) spearheaded the move to make Windows more mobile friendly but (wrongly) did it by awkwardly comingling a new mobile environment once called Metro with the familiar Windows desktop. In the wake of Sinofsky's exit, virtually every one of his top lieutenants has either left Microsoft or been pushed as far away from Windows as possible. Once again, Microsoft is hitting the reset button.
And just as the much-maligned Windows Vista provided the solid foundation on which the much more lauded and appreciated Windows 7 sat, so too does Windows 8 provide the foundation on which its successors are based. The first of these successors, Windows 8.1, arrived just a year after the release of Windows 8, and it achieved something respectable assuming you accept that the Metro/desktop comingling is here to stay. That is, it removed most (but not all) Metro elements from the desktop, so that users of traditional, non-touch PCs could mostly stay within the familiar confines of the Windows they wanted. And for those few with multi-touch Windows tablets and devices, Windows 8.1 mostly eliminated the need to fall back to the desktop to accomplish certain tasks.
Microsoft is fond of saying that Windows 8.1 represents what that team is capable of accomplishing in one year, the comparison being to the typical 3-year gestation period for preceding Windows versions. As such, it contains roughly one third as many changes, or updates, or improvements, or whatever. But in the context of "the new normal," in which Windows, like every other major Microsoft product is increasingly delivered as, and updated like, an online service, even one year between updates is too long. And so now we have Windows 8.1 Update 1.
Which is annoyingly really called Windows 8.1 Update. I'm going to keep calling it Update 1, just like I keep using the Metro name, not to be pesky but because that's its real name. My suspicion is that Microsoft is understandably trying to set expectations here. That is, if they went with Update 1 publicly, users would naturally begin wondering when Update 2 will happen. I do believe an Update 2 will happen, but I understand their reticence. There's no point in promising something that is not necessarily going to happen.
Compared to Windows 8.1, Update 1 represents what Microsoft can do in four months. So this is about one third the number of changes, or updates, or improvements, or whatever, as we received in Windows 8.1. I have often described Update 1 as "a major update," which it is in the sense that Microsoft is revving the core OS here, and that's something that, again, used to only happen once every three years. But in the scope of Windows 8.1, Update 1 is a minor update. And in the scope of something as big as Windows 8, it barely registers.
There have been many attempts to define Update 1, too, to place it in a comfortable place where we can say, hey, it's just like a service pack. Or a feature pack. Or something. Something that is not as weird and obtuse as the error-prone and non-standard way in which Microsoft for some reason distributed Windows 8.1 through the Windows Store. Well, everyone's a winner, folks: Update 1 is both a service pack and a feature pack in that it contains both fixes and new features. That it will be distributed normally through Microsoft Update should have system administrators, IT pros, and end users breathing a collective sigh of relief. There's nothing weird happening this time.
So Update 1 is sort of a major update and sort of a minor update. It's sort of a service pack and it's sort of a feature pack. It's something that many people will install silently through Windows Update and then never even notice that it happened. And that's because there's no "big bang" new feature we can point to in this release. There's just a ton of mostly subtle, user-driven feedback-based changes that collectively make Windows better. And that is especially true if you are using Windows on a traditional, non-touch PC. Because, after all, the single biggest area of complaint about the original Windows 8 was that awkward shoehorning of Metro. Update 1 doesn't "remove" Metro. But it makes it easier to live with.
As you'll see, Update 1 also includes some internal changes that make Windows a better fit for lower-end PC hardware, an important consideration in this era of inexpensive mini-tablets and Chromebooks. And it also includes a compatibility update for enterprises that should help ease the transition from Windows XP.
So let's dive in. Here's what's new in Windows 8.1 Update 1.
Start screen: Power button
On some but not all PCs, you will now see an obvious Power button in the upper-right of the Start screen, between the User tile and a new Search button. This Power button provides the same menu of power management choices as you'll see with the Power button in the Settings pane and the Quick Access (WINKEY + X) menu, but it's more obvious and is a response to user complaints.
There was some confusion during the beta about why certain PCs have this button and some do not. But here's the answer: Its appearance is keyed to an internal setting called the Power Platform Role that PC and device makers must set accurately in order to obtain the Windows logo. If this setting is configured as "Slate," the button will not appear, because it would be too easy to tap accidentally and tablet users are comfortable with the edge-based UIs. If it is set to "mobile device," as a laptop or Ultrabook would be, the button will appear.
In other words, it has nothing to do with the availability of features like multi-touch or Connected Standby.
Start screen: Search button
Another new button, Search, now appears on the Start screen as well. This makes this crucial functionality more obvious to everyone, though the old methods (keyboard shortcuts and the Search charm) still work too.
Start screen: Tiles customization
In Windows 8 and 8.1, if you tried to customize the Start screen tiles with a mouse, it would be behave as it did with touch: An app bar would appear, providing contextual options via command buttons. In Update 1, these customizations now trigger more familiar pop-up menus like the ones a user would see when they right-click in the desktop environment. The theory here is that this new approach is more consistent with the user experiences traditional PC users know and trust.
If you're using multi-touch, nothing has changed: Start screen tile customization works like it did before. You'll only see this pop-up menu when you interact with a mouse.
To say that I have mixed feelings about this change is perhaps an understatement. In making Start screen tile customization with the mouse consistent with the right-click behavior we see on the desktop, Microsoft has also managed to make this behavior completely inconsistent with every single other Metro experience in Windows 8.x. For example, when you right-click in any Metro app, one or more app bars appear; there's no context menu. Likewise, you can right-click on search results from the Start screen and what appears is a Metro-style menu, not a desktop-style context menu.
Put simply, all Metro experiences used to work consistently. And now Start screen tile customization—and only Start screen tile customization—is inconsistent. This was poorly conceived, in my opinion.
That said, I do like that you can now simply drag and drop tiles with the mouse without having to first enter a weird Customize mode as you must still do with touch. It's not all bad.
App install notification
Speaking of poorly conceived, the way that Windows handles new app installs continues to be problematic with Update 1. In the original shipping version of Windows 8, Microsoft treated the Start screen as it did the Start menu in older Windows versions: Every time you installed a desktop application, you'd get an often overwhelming number of tiles (icons) pinned to the end of the Start screen. (Metro apps are only allowed to have one default Start screen tile, so this wasn't an issue.)
As it does so often, Microsoft's reaction to the negative feedback it got for this was to go in the completely opposite direction for the next release. And so in Windows 8.1, when you installed an app (or desktop application), no tiles were pinned to the Start screen. The onus was on the user to find the hidden Apps screen and then pin the app's tile if desired.
Not good.
In Update 1, Microsoft retains the no app pinning policy, but it's added a well-intentioned new feature: You will see a new app notification at the bottom of the Start screen.
When you tap (or click) this notification, you are delivered to the Apps screen so you can then go find the app. Newly installed apps are even highlighted so you can more easily find them.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, problem solved. Sadly, that's not the case. First of all, it's often hard to find a new app on the Apps screen, and that's especially true if you have a lot of apps or if the color scheme you've chosen makes the highlight too subtle. For example, the stock Apps screen from the same PC shown above looks like so. You can't see any new apps here at all.
On my desktop PC, I found a more absurd example. A single new desktop application icon hidden in a sea of choices. Where's Waldo?
More problematically, in order to remove an app from that new apps installed notification, you actually have to launch it ... from Apps. If you launch it from the desktop, it will not be removed from the notification. Microsoft tells me there's a timeout, and that the notification disappears after a period of time. But it must take several days. And when an app you've been using keeps turning up as a new app, that makes the notification less than useful.
Speaking of which, you know what would also be very useful? An update app notification. With Metro apps silently updating all over the place, it would be nice to know when one changed. That might cause people to actually launch that app and see what's new. Microsoft tells me they're looking into this.
App suggestions in search results
If you're familiar with the Smart Search feature that debuted in Windows 8.1, you know that Microsoft is now commingling results from the web with searches of the files on your PC. With Update 1, Smart Search is getting a new feature that debuted previously in Windows Phone: It will suggest Metro apps to you based on the search query. This feature required a back-end switch to be enabled, so I've not had a chance to try it out yet. But it will suggest both relevant apps that are already installed on your PC as well as those that are not.
Mo' apps in Apps
Responding to complaints that the Apps screen isn't particularly dense—it's clearly designed for touch—Microsoft has added an option to display more app tiles onscreen at once in this view. Not a huge deal, of course, but a little nicety for desktop users or those with huge screens.
Start screen: PC Settings tile
This one isn't exactly huge, but Microsoft now pins the PC Settings tile to the Start screen by default. (You could have done this manually yourself previously.) This makes PC Settings both more discoverable and more easily accessible: The normal way to access it was via a text link in the Settings pane, which you reached through the Settings charm. Obvious is good.
Pin Metro apps to the taskbar
In Windows 8 and 8.1, you could pin desktop applications (and some other desktop items like Recycle Bin) to the Start screen. But you couldn't pin Metro apps to the taskbar. Since Microsoft knows that a huge percentage of people actually use the taskbar as their primary application launching interface, and have continued to do so since Windows 8 arrived, it makes sense that they would improve this functionality to include Metro apps. So this feature is configured by default when you install Update 1. (Yes, you can disable it.)
As both a demonstration and an indication of how important this app is, Microsoft even pins the Windows Store app to the taskbar by default.
These pinned Metro apps can provide some of the same features you see in desktop applications. You can mouse over them when they're running and see a pop-up preview of the app. (And if there are multiple windows, as is possible with some Metro apps, like Internet Explorer or Mail, you will see that same multi-window effect you get with similar desktop applications.) Media apps like Xbox Music can even display media transport controls in a "thumb bar" so you can control music playback from the desktop as you work. It's like they're real applications or something.
Of course, they're still Metro apps. So they run full screen, and only full screen. But there are two features, described in each of the next two sections, which can help mitigate that weirdness.
Title bar and window controls in Metro apps
If you're using Windows 8.1 with Update 1 on a PC that has a mouse, you will see a new title bar at the top of the app when the app launches, and then again if you mouse the mouse cursor to the top of the screen. It is otherwise hidden and does not appear when you're touching the screen or otherwise not using a mouse.
This is of course yet another nod to traditional PC users and unlike the misguided right-click stuff on the desktop, this is both well-intentioned and well-executed. The close window box at the far right of course closes the window. But you can also click the window control box on the left to access options related to Snap. (Sadly, they're misnamed with "Split" instead of "Snap"; not sure what that's about.)
What's missing, of course, is the ability to run Metro apps in floating windows on top of the desktop. If you think about Update 1 as a step towards a more well-finessed future Windows—a four month step forward, if you will—it's not hard to imagine that a future release will include that functionality too, and complete the picture. My sources have already told me to expect floating Metro windows in Windows 9 (codenamed Threshold), which is due in one year, in April 2015. (And you could of course use a third party utility like Stardock ModernMix to achieve this effect sooner. I suspect it will be updated for Update 1 soon.)
Display running Metro apps in the taskbar and access the taskbar from Metro apps
Separate from the ability to pin Metro apps to the taskbar, you can also choose to display Metro apps in the taskbar. If that distinction sounds subtle, think of it this way: When you pin an app, it appears in the taskbar whether it's running or not. But if you choose to display Metro apps in the taskbar, all of the Metro apps that are currently running will now appear there too.
So why would you do this? If you're going to use the desktop and its applications primarily, but would also like to run some Metro apps, you can switch between all of these things more easily through the taskbar, for starters. But there's also a hidden benefit to enabling this option: When you do so, you can then access the taskbar from within Metro apps, which is a little weird but certainly useful. However, as with the title bar discussed before, this only works with a mouse: All you need to do is move the mouse cursor to the bottom of the screen and then back up a bit, and the taskbar pops up.
Personally, I'm not super interested in this functionality and I'll be disabling it. (Look for "Show Windows Store apps on the taskbar" in the Taskbar tab of the Taskbar and Navigation Properties window.) But I could see some finding this quite useful.
Boot to desktop by default on non-touch PCs
If you are using a traditional, non-touch PC with Windows 8.1 Update 1 installed, the PC will now bypass the Start screen and boot to the desktop by default. This feature can be overridden by the PC maker, and you can of course change this behavior as well: Open Taskbar and Navigation Properties, go to the Navigation pane, and uncheck the option "When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start."
The ability to boot to the desktop debuted in Windows 8.1, of course. So if you previously configured this option in whatever way and then installed Update 1, it should respect your original choice.
New or updated apps?
One of the things I'm asked fairly regularly is whether Update 1 includes any updated Metro mobile apps. The answer, for the most part, is no. (Actually, a OneDrive app replaces SkyDrive, but that's it.) And that is by design. These apps are designed to be updated regularly, on an ongoing basis, outside of the schedule for the core OS. And they are: I haven't really tracked this accurately but I'm aware of several updates to the Xbox Music app since the initial Windows 8.1, the most recent of which happened just days ago. That's how this system is supposed to work.
PC Settings tweaks
None of this is major, but there are a lot of little improvements to PC Settings. For example, there's a handy Control Panel link at the bottom of the initial PC Settings screen because, well, duh. There's an improved Disk Space interface (in PC and Devices) that lets you see how much space is used by various items and, optionally, remove unused apps that are taking up too much space. And you can now join a domain easily, assuming you can find it: It's in PC Settings, PC and Devices, PC Info. (obviousy!)
There are lot more of these kinds of things, but you get the idea: PC Settings has gotten a nice once-over in this update.
Scaling Windows for smaller, cheaper devices
8 or so years ago, Microsoft responded to the netbook threat by creating a low-cost offering called Windows XP Starter Edition. PC makers jumped all over this cheap Windows version, killing off the one chance that Linux ever really had on the PC desktop. Today, Microsoft faces a similar threat in the form of low-cost, low-end Android tablets and Chromebooks. As with Linux in the netbook days, device makers have embraced these platforms because they're free. So Microsoft is responding much as it did before, this time with much lower licensing on Windows 8.1 with Update 1. But there are some important differences between today's low-cost Windows offering and that of the past decade.
Thanks to the componentization efforts that have happened since the initial release of Windows XP, Microsoft was able to trim the fat further than ever before and create a version of Windows 8.1 with Update 1 that can run in just 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of onboard storage. This effort, called 116 (for 1 GB of RAM + 16 GB of storage), includes over 200 efficiency and performance improvements and enables Windows to run on lower-end devices than was previously possible. More to the point, it lets device makers sell low-end Windows devices that can compete effectively with sub-$250 Android and Chromebook devices.
According to Microsoft, it was able to get Windows working well in just 1 GB of RAM by refining its app store frameworks so that the process lifetime manager is more aggressive about suspending apps, as opposed to killing them, which in turn leads to quicker app restart times as well.
As for the storage improvements, they've been able to reduce the size of the on-disk install image by 60 percent, freeing up valuable storage space (and, hopefully, ending the inanity of reviewers comparing usable disk space on new devices). A new WIM (Windows Image) compression technology also lets those smaller install images be read while compressed, which saves PC makers about an hour of time during manufacturing.
The bad news? These improvements only apply to "future devices," and they are not available to any PC you already own. If you upgrade to Update 1, you won't experience a smaller disk footprint, for example.
Internet Explorer changes
In Update 1, the compatibility tools in Internet Explorer 11 have been updated to include new IE 7 and 8 compatibility modes, which map to the newest versions of the browser that work with Windows XP. The goal here is to help businesses upgrade from XP to Windows 8.1, and IT can specify that the browser works like an older version and is thus compatible with older line of business apps or intranet sites. There's been a lot of talk about this feature for some reason, but it's just a minor improvement over a feature that's been in IE for years.
Availability and pricing
Microsoft confirmed that it will make Update 1 available to all Windows 8.1 (including RT 8.1) users via Microsoft Update/Windows Update on April 8, 2014. It is of course a free update.
Final thoughts
Microsoft tells me that it's very happy to be able to respond to user feedback more quickly than it did before and that Update 1 hints at a "more aggressive schedule" it plans to keep going forward. And on that note, Update 1 does deliver, especially given its fourth month development time. In it, Microsoft address those complains it can, but it leaves others—the oft-complained about need for a Start menu option and of course floating Metro windows—for the future. So it is in effect a step forward.
As I've noted, Update 1 isn't perfect, and that step forward bit also means that it's not the full vision for the future, but is rather just partway there. But none of the problems are insurmountable, and many of the things I complain about here won't bother others.
Overall, I'm just happy to see the Windows team pick up the baton of "rapid release cycle" and really run with it. And it's very clear that by continuing to provide feedback, we can materially impact Windows and ensure that it's the product we expect. That alone signals a new era, and a new sense of hope.
Windows 8.1 Update 1 is highly recommended. You should upgrade as soon as possible.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Making Meaning in Literature:
A Video Library, Grades 6-8
Individual Clip Descriptions
1. Introducing the Envisionment-Building Classroom
2. Building a Literary Community
3. Asking Questions
4. Facilitating Discussion
5. Seminar Discussion
6. Dramatic Tableaux
7. Readers as Individuals
8. The Teachers Role in a Literary Community
9. Whole Group Discussions
you are a classroom or preservice teacher, teacher educator,
content leader, department chair, or administrator, the materials
below can assist you in implementing the practices presented
in the video clip.
Modeling for Students
Understanding character is one key to unlocking a more complete
vision of any text. Teachers can help students do this by
extensive modeling, clearly demonstrating how they interact
with a story to understand characters as they read aloud to
their students. You should not afraid to make conjectures
about motivation or relationships that might prove more complicated
or even contradicted at a later point in the reading experience.
Students need to see that all readers, even the most expert,
make and then refine or perhaps discard impressions as they
form envisionments of the text.
Resources focused on Building a Literary Community
Use these resources about improving
literary understanding and improving
thinking skills produced by the National
Research Center on English Learning and Achievement. Information
about scaffolding instruction, strategies for improving literary
understanding, and including struggling readers is provided
at CELA's Web site. All of these resources can help you as
you begin to assess your own classroom success in helping
students create envisionments.
Literary Understanding Through Classroom Conversation
Effective Literature
Instruction Develops Thinking Skills
Text Pairings
As you begin to plan literature experiences for your students,
consider offering text pairings, so that students have a rich
palette of text background and reading experiences to draw
upon in their literary conversations. Some texts that may
complement the ones used in this classroom lesson plan include:
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If hunter-gatherers were teenage girls, the "haul" would be their big-game kill.
A term for the spoils of a shopping spree, hauls can include everything from fashion to beauty products, personal electronics to decor — and often all of the above. Whatever the quarry, it seems the most important thing is that it's filmed and posted to the Internet for other young women to admire.
YouTube reports that searches for haul videos have reached an all-time high, up 40 per cent over last year's peak. In fact, of the nearly 600,000 of them on the site, more than 35,000 were uploaded in the last month — a phenomenon credited to back-to-school shopping.
"It's almost become the virtual fitting room," says Chris Hodgson, Google Canada's sector lead for multi-channel solutions. "But instead of going to the mall with five of your friends, you're sharing (your purchases) with hundreds of thousands of people."
Hodgson likens it to a teen-girl version of "unboxing videos," in which YouTubers (typically men) record themselves opening pricey new gadgets.
Unfortunately for anyone older than Miley Cyrus, haul videos can be harder to watch than Hostel — and just as torturous. Their creators tend to have either the feigned ennui of American Apparel models or the exhausting enthusiasm of infomercial hosts, with very little middle ground.
An elite few, however, have established themselves as true tastemakers through these shop-and-share exercises, and have massive followings to show for it. In fact, leading brands the likes of Sears, Crocs, Loreal and J.C. Penney will often furnish the girls with products or sponsor full-blown hauls.
And it's no wonder: a July report by Google found 38 per cent of 18 to 34-year-olds rely on online videos to decide where to spend their money, compared to just 13 per cent of consumers 35 to 54.
"It shows you what's out there," says Melissa Merk, the Vancouver teen behind YouTube channel Skindeepbeautytips. "If you're planning on shopping, it can give you an idea of where to go and what to check out."
Toronto's Sylvia Ta, whose fashion and beauty videos have racked up 9.9 million views, says her subscribers see haul videos as a source of inspiration.
"A lot of people look up to (haulers) on YouTube, style-wise," says Ta, known on the site as Beautycakez. "They want to see what kind of outfits they should be wearing for school, and what's considered fashionable."
Ta uses online video not only to display her latest fashion prey, but also to share tips on how to wear the garments. The 19-year-old says she gets as much pleasure making the videos as she does watching those uploaded by her peers.
"It's kind of like if you were going shopping with your friends how, at the end of the day, you want to share all the excitement (over your purchases) with them," says Ta. "You get that same feeling and connection from these videos."
Anthropologist Megan Boler, who has studied vlogging, has mixed feelings about the trend.
On one hand, she's pleased young women are finding a sense of agency by creating these videos, which make them hosts of their own talk-shows. On the other, she's saddened that shopping is what's "empowering" them.
"In a culture where women and girls' access to power is very limited, YouTube is a place they can exert autonomy. But why is it that so many of them are finding this is the subject they have authority to speak about?" says Boler, a professor at the University of Toronto. "It's consumerism as a form of identity."


text: Google seems determined to press forward with Google Glass technology, filinga patent for a Google Glass wristwatch. As pointed out by CNET, the timepiece includes a camera and a touch screen that, once flipped up, acts as a secondary display. In the patent, Google refers to the device as a 'smart-watch. Whether or not a Google Glass wristwatch ever appears on the marketplace — just because a tech titan patents a particular invention doesn't mean it's bound for store shelves anytime soon — the appearance of augmented-reality accessories brings up a handful of interesting issues for everyone from app developers to those tasked with handling massive amounts of corporate data.For app developers, augmented-reality devices raise the prospect of broader ecosystems and spiraling complexity. It's one thing to build an app for smartphones and tablets — but what if that app also needs to handle streams of data ported from a pair of tricked-out sunglasses or a wristwatch, or send information in a concise and timely way to a tiny screen an inch in front of someone's left eye?


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The COP15 Climate Conference kicks off next week in Copenhagen, and Inhabitat will be on the scene to bring you all the latest news from this monumental event! In addition to the official U.N. proceedings, the entire city will experience an explosion of eco art, events, and expos all focused around climate change and sustainable design. There will be tons of things to see and do, so read on for the cultural showcases and exhibitions that we're most looking forward to!
Peddle-Powered Christmas Tree
This year Copenhagen is getting into the holiday spirit with the unveiling of a tremendous people-powered Christmas tree! It's easy to contribute to the holiday cheer – simply jump on a bike and start peddling; the kinetic energy you generate will be used to light up the tree.
Glowing Climate – the art lights up in Ørestad
From November 13th – December 18th the city of Copenhagen will light up the night with glowing artworks focused around specific climate related topics.
Green Architecture For the Future
We can't wait to see Green Architecture For the Future, a living exhibition of green architecture hosted by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Running from now until the 18th of December, this exhibit will showcase new inventions, materials, and processes that are pushing architecture towards a more sustainable future.
Green Tech for Buildings Expo
Running from December 1st – December 18th, the Green Tech for Buildings Expo will showcase eighteen leading companies that are creating environmentally friendly products, solutions and services for energy efficient buildings.
Climate – Denmark from Glaciers to Global Warming
The National Museum of Denmark is hosting a free exhibition through December that will explore the ways that Denmark's climate has changed from the freezing Ice Age through warm forested eras until today.
Red 7-Meter Line
Danish artist Jens Galschiot will be installing a red pulsing line of light throughout the heart of Copenhagen that visualizes the consequences if all of the ice in Greenland melts.
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The International Union of Architects will be hosting a series of lectures that demonstrates a variety of solutions to climate change ranging from clever renovations to innovative new projects.
Climate Rescue Station at Bella Center
Greenpeace has erected a four-story tall Climate Rescue Station modeled upon the globe that will be used as a platform to warn the world against the global consequences of using coal and fossil fuels for energy.


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Arbor Day was first observed in Nebraska with the planting of about a million trees on April 10, 1872. Since then, communities around the globe have been celebrating the benefits of trees in urban and rural environments by planting trees once a year on Arbor Day.
Several years ago, the property owners at the Townes at Buckwalter asked if I would attend their celebration of the 1st Arbor Day. I have happily supported them and have watched them plant more than a dozen trees in their community. It was terrific to see the town has embraced this day and take this celebration to another level.
With help of a $5,000 grant from Waste Management, the foresight of our town's beautification committee, led by Roberts Vaux, and support from our school district, we celebrated Arbor Day this weekend by funding a total of 16 hardwood trees for our seven Bluffton school campuses.
There's no better way to celebrate a nearly 150 year tradition of planting trees on Arbor Day then to give trees to our schools and have our youngest residents honor them. Even though the celebration and planting took place at Bluffton Elementary, all of our schools will benefit from additional trees on their campus:
• Six Live Oaks: Property shared by Bluffton Elementary School and H.E. McCracken Middle School
• Two Live Oaks: Bluffton Elementary Early Childhood Center
• One Red Maple: M.C. Riley Elementary School
• One Drake Elms: Bluffton High School
• One Leyland Cypress: Bluffton Middle School
• Two Willow Oaks: Pritchardville Elementary School
• Three Red Cedars: Red Cedar Elementary School
It is for reasons like this past weekend's planting that the town of Bluffton was designated a Tree City USA. This designation demonstrates Bluffton's commitment to promoting the many benefits of urban forestry to our residents.
Trees are such an important part of our quality of life as they moderate temperatures, clean the air, filter the water, produce oxygen and provide habitat for our wildlife. I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate Arbor Day than to invite our elementary students to celebrate with us. They will be the ones who carry on our dedication. If we, as a community, pass on what trees mean to our environment and quality of life, we are leaving a legacy that will last longer the hardwoods that were planted.
Together, we are making Bluffton better each day.
If you ever have questions about our wonderful town, don't hesitate to contact Town Hall at 706-4500 or email Lisa Sulka at email@example.com.


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The way Gretchen Reynolds kicked off her recent New York Times article made me jump for joy – then jump into my jog togs:
Running for as little as five minutes a day could significantly lower a person's risk of dying prematurely, according to a large-scale new study of exercise and mortality. The findings suggest that the benefits of even small amounts of vigorous exercise may be much greater than experts had assumed."
My happiness stemmed not from the realization that I could cut my normal run from 60 minutes to five. Since a midlife crisis got me running again at age 50 – a mirror was involved – I've come to treasure the benefits of the pursuit: I sleep better, eat less (and more healthfully), and feel happier, calmer and more focused. I'm more inclined to take care of myself. And as a budget-conscious fashion-and-beauty writer, I love the way a hard run can flush my cheeks like no store-bought blush.
No, what made my heart swell after reading that piece was the idea that throngs of people who never exercised before may now be motivated to – especially once they weigh the enticing prospect of extending their life spans by carving just five minutes from their busy days.
According to a coauthor of the new study:
Most people can fit in five minutes a day of running, no matter how busy they are, and the benefits in terms of mortality are remarkable."
Based on this new research, an easily manageable fitness regimen might look something like this:
- Walk briskly for five minutes, then run for another five; walk to cool down for a final five minutes. (For a short video on injury-free running after 50, click here.)
- Once your body has warmed up, do these three essential exercises to tone and strengthen every part of it: squats, pushups and the plank.
Best part? You can complete this workout in under 30 minutes – and without going anywhere near a trainer, a gym or an ATM! But whether you make it five minutes or 50, the key is to move your body Every. Single. Day.
To see the program in action, watch this:
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Foundations of Dharmakīrti's Philosophy - Praise
"On the basis of thorough philological work, John Dunne presents the essentials of Dharmakīrti's ontology, epistemology, and logic in philosophically informed language with an admirable capacity to interpret even those more difficult aspects of Dharmakīrti's thought with easily readable clarity. His interpretation is conscientious of the context, well-documented, and Dharmakīrti's problems are carefully analyzsed. The book promotes our understanding and, at the same time, can serve as a lucid introduction to one of the most important philosophers of India's past."—Ernst Steinkellner, University of Vienna
"A comprehensive introduction. Dunne renders comprehensible some of the most basic and also challenging features of this seventh-century Buddhist thinker's thought. He also provides a fascinating analysis of commentarial practices and the problems posed in attempting to forge an intellectual history for Indian Buddhism."—Buddhadharma
"A milestone in the modern history of Dharmakīrti studies. Dunne thoroughly examines the achievements of previous scholars in the field, presents his own answers to the various questions related to Dharmakīrti's philosophy, and suggests what problems are yet to be solved. Apoha theory, one of the least-investigated subjects of Buddhist logic and epistemology, is beautifully explained. A brilliant work!"—Shoryu Katsura, Professor of Indian Philosophy, Hiroshima University
"This volume is both an in-depth introduction to and a historically oriented interpretation of the thought of Dharmakīrti, the seventh-century South Asian philosopher. 'Foundations' in John Dunne's sense are fundamental elements of Dharmakīrti's conceptual system that make his arguments possible. His study is based on Dharmakīrti's earliest work, the Pramanavarttika, and his autocommentary on the chapter on 'inference for oneself,' with occasional forays into later treatises, especially the Hetubindu. As a point of departure, Dunne chooses the oldest stratum of commentarial interpretation by Devendrabuddhi and Sakyabuddhi, which is available only in classical Tibetan translations... This study is notable especially for the breadth of textual material that it covers... Dunne presents occasionally surprising new interpretations that will no doubt shape future scholarly debates."—Birgit Kellner in The Journal of Religion
"Dunne displays a mastery of primary and secondary sources, and, given the semantic fluidity of Sanskrit technical terms, an admirable stylistic consistency.... Foundations of Dharmakīrti's Philosophy stands as one of the most innovative and sophisticated attempts to engage with Dharmakīrti's project in a systematic way."—Christian Coseru, College of Charleston on H-Net.org


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The State Department's Earth Day event, an exhibition titled "American Face of Green -- Embassies Leading the Way," demonstrated how our embassies, consulates and other diplomatic missions are going green. The displays included information on embassy-led tree planting projects, programs dedicated to recycling, reducing energy usage, and more. The participants in the exhibition, a mix of the State Department's regional and functional bureaus as well as Earth Day Network representatives and a local artist who creates sculptures purely from recycled materials, showed off the many projects that have been undertaken to demonstrate that America takes greening seriously.
American government agencies may not be the first institutions when one thinks of greening operations and practices. But, I would say that anyone who attended the exhibition would have to whole-heartedly reconsider. Just look at this year's Greening Diplomacy Award winner, chosen by the Greening Council and popular vote, U.S. Embassy Kathmandu, which is an example of how American missions abroad are heading greening projects in collaboration with their local communities. The mission at Kathmandu invested in solar water heaters for residences and for the Chancery, because of the 240 plus days of sunshine in Nepal. Furthermore, not only does U.S. Embassy Kathmandu provide a strong recycling program, but it also went one step above to partner with several NGO's that were able to re-use the recycled goods collected from the mission to make recycled paper briquettes to help cook meals on a weekly basis for over 300 people at a rehabilitation center.
One should also consider our embassy and consulate buildings themselves, many of which are brick-and-mortar examples of sustainable design. The State Department's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO), has a very strong commitment to sustainable design, construction, and operations. Over the last year alone, five new U.S embassies and consulates earned LEED certification: Ouagadougou, Antananarivo, Lusaka, Tijuana, and Dubai. And with 40 more buildings registered with the U.S. Green Building Council and working toward LEED certification, OBO is building a firm foundation for eco-diplomacy.
The embassy communities here in Washington and overseas are key promoters of greening initiatives as well. The American League of Green Embassies is a group of U.S. diplomatic missions committed to sustainability, and the D.C. Greening Embassies Forum brings together the sustainability priorities of the city of Washington, D.C., with those of the foreign missions who rely upon the city's resources and exist within its community. The Greening Council helped facilitate the first-ever charter among foreign embassies, which states that its signatories will strive to make their buildings and operations more sustainable, will support the city's efforts, and will share best practices on greening and sustainability. This is remarkable, because the foreign embassies are considered the sovereign territory of the countries they represent and, as such, are not under obligation to make these types of commitments.
This unprecedented type of forum could be replicated in any capital city in the world, and would afford diplomats the opportunity to do what they do best: communicate the values of the country they represent. As Under Secretary of Management Patrick Kennedy stated in his remarks at the State Department's Earth Day exhibition, "Through grassroots efforts to raise environmental awareness, from the U.S. Embassy in Freetown planting more than 2,500 native hardwood and fruit trees to advance reforestation, to showcasing American clean energy technology and services through the League of Green Embassies' energy efficient makeovers of Chief of Missions residence in Europe, our actions are speaking volumes about who we are and for what we stand."
On this Earth Day, we recommit ourselves to advancing a more sustainable future and raising awareness that green is good. No, actually, as I hope the exhibit demonstrated, green is great!
Mohammed T. in Nigeria writes:
I will like to contribute my own qouta to the development of United State of America.
Donald M. in Virginia writes:
The United States will always be in demand for oil from the Middle Eastern countries and will maintain the same problems over and over again. I still remember when Mr. Jimmy Carter was President, price per barrel was trading around 3 dollars, once he placed the OIL Embargo and people found a shortage of gas in the country were forced to show up at the gas stations with odd license plates numbers on certain days of the week. After the Embargo, oil per barrel traded over 20 dollars a barrel. Mr. Jimmy Carter started this mess way back then with trying to meddle with the oil and it backfired on our Nation. The going green concept is a wonderful and expensive theory. The problem is it costs more to go green then it costs to drill for more oil out of the ground. We have American oil companies still exporting oil and gas when it should be sent to our refineries for Americans first. We need to build more oil & gas refineries, but it falls on deaf ears. I still think long as OPEC determines the price, we all end up paying high at the pumps. I think the UN should be the leadership behind determing the price of oil not left to the Middle East with all the turmoil. Think about this, "Gas prices rised when Osama bin laden a Saudi Born National was conducting terrorism." The Kingdom was in the red before the wars in the Middle East, now they are in the black with billions. The United States the opposite, we have trillions in debt and still conducting war. Make sense to anyone?
Londoner writes:
Really interesting and informative post. I love the Earth days. Every year I am taking part in the Tree planting project in my town, and i really enjoy it. It makes me happy that some embassies, consulates and other diplomatic missions are going green.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Construction and plant market in the Middle East, is a very attractive to me.


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Cole deserves more credit - Johnson
Glen Johnson believes fellow England full-back Ashley Cole does not always get the credit he deserves ahead of winning his 100th cap in Wednesday's friendly with Brazil at Wembley.
Cole made his international debut 11 years ago in the 3-1 win against Albania in Tirana, but has not always been held in the highest esteem by some England supporters.
But Johnson insists the Chelsea player is of the highest quality as a player and as a human being, and said: "The 100 caps is fantastic for Ashley and, for me, no-one deserves it more. As a player, he's been a proper pro for many years in the Premier League and done some great things in the game."
He continued: "It was great to see Stevie (Gerrard) do it not so long ago and Ash has been in the set-up for many years and thoroughly deserves it.
"He has been a key member of any team he has been involved with for season after season.
"Does he get the credit he deserves? Not at times, no. He's been in the set-up for such a long time, he's been a key player and consistent for many years.
"I certainly don't feel he deserves some of the stick he sometimes gets.
"He is very important for England. He started his 99 caps. If that doesn't tell a story, I don't know what does."
Cole has been reluctant to talk to the media in recent years but Johnson insisted: "Ash is quite a quiet lad. He keeps himself to himself. He hasn't spoken about getting to 100 caps directly but I'm sure inside he is buzzing and can't wait to get to that landmark.
"Off the pitch, he is one of the nicest guys you are going to meet. He is down to earth, up for a laugh and one of the lads, a top bloke."


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All items > Knives > Automatic Knives > Piranha (Auto) > Piranha Toxin
- Overall Length:8.50"
- Blade Length:3.75"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:154CM
- Hardness:60-61 RC
- Blade Style:Drop Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Black
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:4.75"
- Handle Thickness:0.54"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Color:Red
- Weight:3.77 oz.
- User:Right Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Automatic
- Opener:Push Button
- Lock Type:Plunge Lock
- Brand:Piranha
- Model:Toxin
- Country of Origin:USA
- Best Use:Everyday Carry
- Product Type:Knife
The Toxin is the latest edition to Piranha's line of innovative automatic knives. It has a large ergonomic handle and a 3.75" leaf shaped blade made from 154-CM steel. The handle was designed for comfortable everyday use and features a grippy texture and a titanium pocket clip. It is made from an anodized aircraft alloy with a Type 3 Hard Coat for strength and durability. The Piranha Toxin makes a great EDC knife that is both comfortable to use and carry.
This Toxin is equipped with a red colored handle and a plain edge blade in a black tactical finish.


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As long as there are high-performance enthusiasts who feel strongly that an internal combustion engine is more than just the means of propelling a vehicle from A to B, the name Arias will be remembered long after he, and we, are gone.
Nick Arias Jr., of Harbor City, California, didn't set out to be one of the symbols of the speed equipment industry; it was the achievements of his high-performance engine products that dictated that. Getting there took years of hard work, setbacks, and strained long-term relationships before that success was realized.
Nick was born in his home in a rough neighborhood of Pico Heights in downtown Los Angeles near Olympic and Vermont in 1929. Nick could've looked for the fast buck but instead, he and his buddies were only interested in fast cars. His keen curiosity in the mechanics of things was his path to success.
Nick's father worked for Southern Pacific Railroad for 45 years. "My dad never missed a day's work," Nick begins. "He was a blacksmith by trade and worked in the Roundhouse on the steam engines. He was trained in Spain but the country was starving so he left when he was 17 and worked on a freighter till he came to California."
Nick went to Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles: "I majored in auto shop, auto mechanics, and Industrial Arts. I had Vocational Auto Shop where I had four periods a day and that's where I learned auto mechanics; in fact I attribute a lot of what I know back to school and the theory-end of the operation of the engine and how it runs. My instructor said you have to know how something works before you can fix it or change it. Everything I learned in high school, I practiced as an adult. I would call myself a B machinist not a Class A machinist."
While you might conclude Nick went to what was essentially a trade school, Polytechnic, like any high school, had a strong emphasis on the academic side where Nick applied himself, graduating with top scores. He definitely had a head on his shoulders, which prepared him for the business world.
In the meantime, at age 11, he worked pumping gas after school to save money to buy a car. His first job after high school was working at Handy Parts, an automotive parts store on Automotive Row in Los Angeles. "My first car was a Ford three-window coupe with a Model B four-cylinder engine. I bought it from a World War II vet in 1946 for $250. It had a Winfield head and cam. I had it about three years then.
"I started building a little Model A bucket. It was lighter; it was more a racing car. It had a chopped-down flywheel, which was called a button flywheel. It really wasn't practical for the street."
Street is Neat
Our former R&C Publisher Tom Medley coined the term "street is neat", meaning "get out and enjoy your ride". Hot rod racing was indigenous to Southern California because of the year-round warm climate and the dry lakes. The vastness of the streets in the L.A. area made street racing a way of life and relatively safe for citizens and racers alike when just a tiny fraction of people occupied those streets, compared to today.
Nick and his high school buddies Joe Pisano and Kenny Bigelow wasted no time starting the Photons Car Club. While "Photons" left many scratching their heads, Nick and his buddies knew it meant faster than the speed of light! Those guys were serious when it came to speed!
Drive-in restaurants, hot rods, and street racing went together like a burger, fries, and chocolate malt when Nick was going to school. "At night we'd challenge the different drive-ins where the fast cars were and go street race. Simon's Drive-In, in downtown L.A. on Washington and Flower, is where we used to hang out and also Stan's Drive-In, in L.A. We went to the different drive-ins out of the area like the Piccadilly. In fact, that's how the sport started the [speed equipment] industry, it was street racing originally. We raced at night on Sepulveda Boulevard, South Broadway, and Main Street in L.A."
(No matter where you lived, you eventually went to the Piccadilly Drive-In in Culver City. The Piccadilly was where everyone hung out to go street racing, from custom car heavyweight George Barris, Indy 500 competitor Jack McGrath, to the builder of the first dragster, Dick Kraft.)
First Place Carrell Speedway
Nick's little Model A bucket, as he called it, would turn heads for 100 laps in a big league race that made history: "In 1948 we ran the car at Carrell Speedway and had Dempsey Wilson (future Indy 500 competitor with four Top 10 finishes) drive it. Tony Gonzales, Walt Mahoney, and I were partners in the car. Back then, we couldn't do anything by ourselves because we didn't have enough money. We won the first 500-mile race they had at Carrell in 1948 on dirt. The place was packed. All the heavy hitters were there, like Troy Ruttman. We teamed up with Howard Johansen (of Howard's Cams). We ran his engine and rearend in our car. We qualified Wednesday for Saturday's race. Howard was at Carrell with his driver Pat Flaherty (future 1956 Indy 500 winner) who was hot lapping when he hit the fence and bent the car up. We were hanging out at Howard's shop, so we cut a deal with Howard to pull all of his components out of his car and put them in ours." (Walt Mahoney went on to become a racing photojournalist, plus he designed and built Ascot Park in Gardena.)
That was a really big day for Nick and the boys. The press clipping read: "Dempsey Wilson won the 500-mile race before 15,000 spectators. He received $2,000, the largest payoff purse in local hot rod racing history. Only 15 of the 33 starters finished."
Nick went into the Army and to Korea in 1951 with his school friend Bob Toros. Nick was a mechanic in the Motor Pool. "We were lucky because we would have probably gotten killed. But while we were in Korea, Kenny Bigelow was killed at El Mirage.
"Bob Toros and I sent money home from Korea to Mike Schmader, who was in the Photons, to buy what was left of Kenny's '37 Chevy coupe from Kenny's mom. When Bob and I got home from Korea we scrapped the car out but kept the GMC engine. (Kenny was known as "Mr. GMC.") We started building a race car out of another '37 Chevy. Our goal was to set a record in 1937 in Kenny's memory. We put a rollbar in it, a Halibrand quick-change–equipped Ford rearend, and a tube axle under it."
Wayne Manufacturing
In the process of chasing parts to update the engine, Nick went to Wayne Manufacturing, which had switched from manufacturing Chevy 12-port heads to manufacturing the 12-port heads for GMC after Wayne Horning left. That's where Nick met Harry Warner. Warner had purchased the company from Horning in 1950, which included the drawings, the patterns, as well as the jigs, plus the company name. Horning, however, continued to manufacture the 12-port heads for the Chevy engine under his company name of Wayne F. Horning. Confusing as it reads, it was befuddling to the racers as well. Horning finally sold the business in 1952.
After spending some time with Nick, Mr. Warner was sufficiently impressed with Nick's background that he offered him a job. Nick was already employed by Al Sharp machining heads for the Flathead Ford. Sharp, a pattern maker, formed Sharp Speed and Power.
Like so many hot rodders who went on to become successful businessmen, Nick sought out employment where he could grow and learn the manufacturing end of the business. Nick quit Sharp in 1953 to become the general manager of Wayne Manufacturing, later bringing on board Bob Toros. "Wayne is where I learned how to design and manufacture cylinder heads," Nick says.
Next door to Wayne Manufacturing was Frank Venolia, who had a small shop making pistons, which he sold to Warner. Between the two companies, Nick learned the ins and outs of making and designing heads in one building and the piston business in the other.
Nick joined the Screwdrivers Club of Culver City, which was a member of the Russetta Timing Association. He took the '37 Chevy to Bonneville in 1956, running two separate engines. The Chevy motor went 138 mph in the A/Gas coupe then they ran in B/Gas coupe with a 270 GMC replacing the Chevy for an even 150 mph. Both engines ran the Wayne 12-port head. (Unlike the stock Chevy/GMC head, the Horning head had the intake on the left side of the head and exhaust on the right, with six large intake ports and six exhaust ports.)
The Piston Business
"Bob Toros and I started the Venolia piston business in 1953, while we were racing the '37 Chevy from 1953-55. We called it 'Venolia' because everyone knew Frank Venolia. We weren't making enough money in the business; we were competing against Jahns Pistons and Forge True Pistons. We were doing all right but not enough for me to support a family. I got married in 1957 to Carmen. I sold out to Bob and went to work as a tune-up man at Yeakel Brothers Cadillac. Joe Pisano was in sales. I was making a good living doing that.
"At night, I started to build high-performance engines like the 302 GMC at home in my dad's garage. I was able to accumulate some extra money because I didn't own a house at that time; I didn't want to rent a garage because of the overhead."
Four years went by and Nick always knew the future of the high-performance piston business was virtually untapped: "I kept thinking about coming back into the business in 1962. I went to see Bob on a Saturday and wanted a commitment from him; we grew up together, he was a good starter on a project, a good machinist, but a poor finisher on projects. You couldn't grow with that attitude. I didn't want to put my hard-earned money back in the piston business and have it fail. I already had three kids by then. I went back to work Monday at the dealership and asked Joe Pisano if he wanted to go in with me. Joe said yes. Joe and I started hustlin' the racers. We were competing against Forge True and Mickey Thompson, but the thing took off.
"We bought the forging dies from Harvey Aluminum. They made the dies from our blueprints that Bob and I designed. Joe and I were running Funny Cars and Bonneville cars but we were working until midnight while going full time at the business. I quit working on Joe's race cars because I'd get home at 1 in the morning then get up and be at work at 8. My wife was upset with me for working on the race cars and Joe got upset with me for quitting working on the race cars, which created aggravation between Joe and me for a year or two until finally Bob and Joe ganged up on me and voted me out of the company. I still had a third ownership in the company but they wouldn't let me on the property. That was in 1969 when they bought me out.
"I was helping out Don Rackemann (a member of the Screwdrivers, who also managed Saugus Drag Strip with Lou Baney, another Yeakel employee) a few months after I left Venolia. Don was making headers at Exhaust Engineering, renting the building from Louie Senter, of Ansen Automotive fame. (In fact, Nick, Rackemann, and Lou Baney teamed up to run Rackemann's '29 Ford roadster at Bonneville where it ran 176.227 with Nick's 302-inch GMC motor—we're talkin' a six-banger here, folks.)
"Louie had a piston division at Ansen and he wasn't happy with the quality. Louie stopped by to see Rackemann and we started talking. He kept talking about his piston division and I said why don't you sell it to me? Louie went back to Indy for the month of May and when he got back I bought him out in August 1969 and started Arias Pistons.
"I ran some ads in Hot Rod and National Dragster. Then all my old customers I'd dealt with at Venolia started calling me. I was making Senter's pistons and also mine. I've been in this same building 43 years."
Remember, we said Nick had a head for business? Well, no one denied the advantages of hemispherical heads, yet not one company, including Chevrolet, had considered such heads for their V-8. It made good business sense to offer such heads; subsequently Nick developed the Arias Hemi cylinder heads for the big-block Chevy in 1972.
"When I was at Venolia all the fuel racers with Chevys competing against the Chryslers kept saying, 'If we had a hemi head on our Chevy we could beat the Chryslers.' I presented it to Bob and Joe in the late '60s and they shot it down. I was surprised that Bob did because he also knew how to make heads working at Wayne with me.
"After starting Arias Pistons I knew where I was going with the company and I started doing the heads myself. Rudy Moller and I designed the heads. Rudy had retired from Northrup Aviation and did the drawings on the heads.
"I sold all my engine business and equipment to Joe Fontana 20 years ago, which included the four-cylinder Midget motor known as the Pontiac Super Duty 4. Joe was here renting my building for 12 years, but I brought back my redesigned Hemi heads for the street rodder running the LS Chevy. I'm doing the block again for the four-cylinder Pontiac engines."
Nick's peers recognized his contributions to the sport of drag racing when he was inducted in the 9th Annual Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield in 2000. Nick was also inducted into the Don Garlits International Drag Racing Hall of Fame in 2005 in Gainesville Florida.
Nick inherited his work ethic from his father who never missed a day's work until his retirement from the railroad. Nick arrives at his office at 9 and leaves at 4, five days a week. "Retirement?" we asked Nick, to which he responded, "Why?"
The "Occupy" crowd is jealous of success and wealth. (But will take both if it's handed to them.) They need to read this story, to see how success and wealth is accomplished … that is if they can read. Nick worked damn hard for both, thank you. It takes more than an old-time hot rodder to make a legend; it takes guys like Nick, who is a legend.
Long after Mr. Arias (and we) are no longer, the Arias name will be remembered—remembered, not because of what we say, but what you say. There's an element in this country with little desire to work for a living who despise those who've become successful. Sure these are tough times, but growing up during The Great Depression and during the Second World War, as Nick did, was a very, very tough time as well.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Democrat said on Sunday he hoped an emerging deal on the U.S. budget would include an extension of unemployment benefits but added that his party would not necessarily walk away from an agreement that left it out.
"I don't think we've reached that point where we've said, 'This is it, take it or leave it,'" Senator Richard Durbin told the ABC program "This Week," when pressed on whether his party would insist on including jobless aid in a final deal.
Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, said that based on what he has heard from Senator Patty Murray, the lead Democratic negotiator on the budget, the fiscal talks are making progress and moving in the right direction.
The House of Representatives and Senate budget panel, created after the government shutdown in October, is discussing a two-year accord that would ease the impact of across-the-board spending cuts known as the "sequester" and lower the near-term risk of another damaging fiscal showdown.
Durbin's comments signaled some flexibility on the issue of jobless aid. House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said last week that Democrats "cannot support" a budget deal without an extension of unemployment insurance. Pelosi later clarified that she would like to see jobless benefits included in the budget deal but that she would be open to the idea of passing it under separate legislation.
Speaking on ABC on Sunday, Republican Senator Rob Portman, who is a member of the negotiating committee, expressed optimism about a fiscal deal, saying he hoped it could come together by the end of the week.
An extension of emergency unemployment benefits is a priority for President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. Democrats have warned that without an extension, federal benefits will expire for some 1.3 million Americans in the week of December 28.
Democrats see a budget deal as one of the best legislative vehicles for passing an extension of the jobless aid, though they have said there are other options they could consider.
Federal unemployment benefits kick in for out-of-work Americans who have exhausted their state unemployment aid, which in many states runs out after 26 weeks.
The emergency federal aid began during the Great Recession in 2008 and has been renewed every year since.
Though government figures on Friday showed the U.S. unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 7 percent in November, many Democrats say the U.S. job market is still far from robust and long-term unemployment remains a problem for many Americans.
Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner has said that if Obama has a plan for extending unemployment benefits, he would "entertain" it.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said an extension of jobless benefits beyond the traditional 26 weeks could work against the unemployed.
He cited studies that show that the longer workers have been unemployed, the harder it is for them to find jobs.
"When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you're causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy," Paul said. "And it really - while it seems good, it actually does a disservice to the people you're trying to help."
Editing by Doina Chiacu