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Friday, June 10, 2011
Far Breton
Granted, this is not a bread. It's not even a cake, exactly. It's more like a clafoutis, except it's made with prunes soaked in Armagnac, rather than with cherries. It's the national dessert of Brittany, where I just spent a vacation, and it was so good I wanted to try making it myself. (I have also wanted to try making crepes, the other famous food of Brittany, but am more intimidated by that).
Brittany's butter is world-famous, according to the Butter Council of Brittany. It's lightly salted, whereas most French butter is unsalted. At my local grocery store, there was no Beurre de Bretagne, but there was Normandy butter. Unsalted. I settled for that. I hope that Brittany and Normandy aren't arch-rivals, like Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Let me say a word in favor of the much-maligned prune. Even as a child, I understood that there was something faintly ridiculous about a prune. Only grandparents ate prunes, which were always called "stewed prunes." I understood that they did it for some vaguely shameful health reason, and I knew that I would never get so old that I'd order stewed prunes at a restaurant. So maligned are they that prune manufacturers have taken to marketing them as "dried plums," because plums aren't tainted fruit, as prunes are. Cherries aren't tainted either, so clafoutis is considered acceptable. But (non-stewed) prunes are delightful. Really, they are! Eating them won't make you old. (I was old before I ate them). In this recipe, they're cooked in water until the liquid has nearly boiled away.
Then you pour on some Armagnac (or other brandy). I used Calvados, again opting for a product from Brittany's neighbor to the north. You light a match to the brandy, which flames up quite dramatically, but harmlessly. It's very difficult to get a picture of a flame; if you look very closely at the above picture, though, you can see a hint of a flame. (Contrary to common wisdom, it appears that flaming or boiling down alcohol will not remove all the alcohol from the food, so this is a dish that should probably not be served to someone who avoids alcohol).
The custard/cake, however, is so wholesome that anyone, even a baby, could eat it: it's just eggs, butter, flour, milk, sugar, and a little vanilla. I used a recipe from epicurious.com, but there are many similar recipes available on the internet and in books. I followed the recipe exactly except that I omitted the raisins, so the dessert could be an unsullied ode to prunes.
It came out of the oven looking poofier than a quiche and less poofy than a Dutch baby pancake. Perhaps some day I'll compare recipes and see if I can figure out what the poofiness factor consists of.
My dinner guests loved this--they asked for the recipe and declared that they too were now admirers of prunes. I served it with slightly sweetened whipped cream, which was lovely, but not essential: it would still be good on its own, unadorned but classic.
7 comments:
- Melinda said...
Very poofy beautiful! Looks delicious.
You could even vie for best pruney bread blog if you can come up with some more pruney recipes. Go for it, I say!
- doughadear said...
I like clafoutis but this does look so much poofier. I think I would like it very much.
- breadbasketcase said...
Well, the pruney bread blog is a thought. Maybe I'll leave that to you.
I think you uwould too!
- evil cake lady said...
please, somebody has to start a pruney bread blog!
i've always been anti-prune, because of the old people thing and because they look like giant raisins which can't be good. i will have to give prunes a chance!
- Lois B said...
Marie, this looks fantastic! I really want to taste it.
Re: the prune issue, you described it so well. A recent post of facebook about my first attempt at macarons generate a slew of comments, mainly from my brother and our niece, harassing me over my brandy/prune/ganache filling.
- evil cake lady said...
prunes! they are everywhere. i just read david lebovitz's post on prune stuffed prunes! a prune is stuffed with prune puree and armagac--did you try any of those while in france, marie?
Did you mix the prunes into the clafouti mix, or are they underneath the clafouti blanket?


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CLEVELAND -- Carlos Santana ran in from first base, anticipating the bunt from Baltimore's Jonathan Schoop in the ninth inning on Friday night. David Lough was ready to sprint to second on contact, but Santana knew that the runner might hesitate if the bunt was not perfect.
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That play was one of the latest examples of how Santana -- in a season of position hopping -- has settled in as a reliable first baseman for the Indians. Cleveland's cleanup hitter entered the season as a third baseman and backup catcher, but those plans, as can be the case during a 162-game season, changed because of various circumstances.
The third-base experiment was not all for nothing, though.
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According to FanGraphs.com, Santana has a -3.8 career UZR/150 defensive rating at first, but he has turned in a 4.0 UZR/150 there this year. That mark ranks fourth in the American League among first basemen with at least 500 innings. It also represents the best single-season mark for a Tribe first baseman (minimum 500 innings) over the past 13 years.
As far as traditional statistics go, Santana has only made two errors in his 597 total chances at first base, equating to a .997 fielding percentage.
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Santana's last game at third base, where he had six errors in 26 games, came on May 22 against the Orioles. His days behind the plate this season ended in that same series in Baltimore on May 25, when a hard foul to the mask sent him to MLB's concussion list. When Santana returned on June 6, he did so as a first baseman.
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As well as Santana has played at first, Antonetti was not ready to say definitively that Santana's days as a catcher are over.
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Santana was not sure that he wanted to be done with catching, either.
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For now, Cleveland loves what it has in Santana at first base, even if looks can be deceiving.
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Talk:System time
Gog, why is it you're so determined to delete this?
I'm working on it and its a valid topic.
- because it reads like a blog and its kinda wierd. compare it to the rest of the stuff. how to install this that BAM PHILOSOPHICAL BREAKTHROUGH
Ya know, a lot of the stuff on this wiki is just plain out of date.
Don't you think it would be more productive to try to find stuff that just doesn't even apply to the current arch system and update or delete that.
Take a look at Arch64, there are 3 or 4 different ways of implimenting this and there is no contextual information on how or when these work together or when they are mutually exclusive. For instance, the "Current State of Arch64 Development" which is 2 years old.
A lot of times things are at first done by individuals, then eventually some variation on the theme is included in the standard distribution. A wiki article describes the original work, but it's never updated to indicate that this is all build-in now.
There's a lot of specific information, but much of it is not current, and almost none of it is tied together.
It seems a lot of work could go into making the wiki more organized and relating the various topics to each other.
This would make a resource for arch users new and old.
With all of this lacking in the current documentation, I don't understand the need to be some kind of self expression censor.
this article started when I was investigating posix time and the recently passed leap second.
The fluffy stuff at the beginning is an introduction to the details.
The next bit is a copy and paste from an email exchange with Jamie Zawinski and then some links saved at the bottom so they don't get lost before coming back around to it. The original intent of the article is to be about 3 times the current length.
After being a degreed EE in industry for 26 years it gets pretty fucking boring reading a bunch of acronyme enhanced techno bable in run-on third person sententences with the drilled down lack of context of an autistic plastic pocket protector.
Additionally the "normal" non-weird style lends itself to almost immediate obsolescence because of its lack of context.
I'm not sure what you do with your days, but over here there's a mortgage, a kid with the flu, three projects that need attention for clients, past due taxes, and plenty of other "normal" duties vying for my time. If I spend time writing about time keeping in unix computing, I want it to be fun as well as informative.
I didn't realize the arch community had such strict standards of boringness.
I've been running this distro for 6 years, pretty much every day. I'm not a maintainer, but I am a reasonably knowledgable user. I'd like to spread some of that knowledge to help arch users understand how their whole system fits together. A comprehensive understanding is not reached by each specific detail alone, it requires context and inter-relation.
The wiki should be THE ARCH BOOK. This requires that each article be maintained, not just a bunch of details that are correct in the moment but superfluous 6 months down the road. Otherwise it will always be in a shambles and mostly out of date with no cohesive vision that guides the reader or future contributions.
That's my bit.
Best of luck...
New initscripts and hwclock daemon
With the latest initscripts package, the hardware clock is kept updated differently than how it's explained here (for example it's not in rc.shutdown any longer), I am still trying to understand well, so I cannot update the article by myself. For now I'm marking it as out of date. -- Kynikos 16:09, 3 May 2011 (EDT)
- At the moment I link the bug report that seems to be responsible for this change: FS#13684. -- Kynikos 16:39, 3 May 2011 (EDT)
Note in the About section
Hi there. I just got throught installing arch on a dualboot system. I saw how I can configure all this time-stuff, but didn't get what it is I'm supposed to be doing. (No problem following instructions, but.. what's the current situation, and what's the target?) Found this page, and read it. I only understood clock and time. So I played around (with UTC, changing BIOS clock, windows clock, linux clock, rebooted and looked at how the other clocks reacted). Then it was ovious. Reading throught the about section again I was puzzled why I didn't understand the concept perfectly on the first read, because it's all there, in detail.
So I added this note. I couldn't improve the About section itself, because it's all there already. But it's a lot of text with a lot of clocks (;) . I didn't want to dumb it down, and adding to it doesn't help the beginner, it's just more clocks. So I thought I'll just add a simple version of what's going on, seperate from the detailed information
But I know it's dublicated information, so someone might just delete it for that reason, and this is why i write here. Please don't delete it. It's a little bit of a chicken and egg problem, at least for me. This article needs a very basic explanation of what going on.
- Please sign your edits in talk pages.
- Don't worry, it's going to stay, I've just reworded it a bit and removed the Note template since it can't be considered a note. -- Kynikos 07:08, 15 October 2011 (EDT)
How to set Windows to use UTC
Is there a reason we don't provide info on how to set Windows to use UTC here? Can I just copy-paste the note? -- Karol 09:02, 28 November 2011 (EST)
- You know that every time you write the word Win**** in the ArchWiki, god kills a kitten!
- Yeah copy-paste it ;)
- -- Kynikos 05:12, 29 November 2011 (EST)
- I don't like cats, I prefer llamas. Windows Windows Windows Windows ;P
- Note added. Closing. -- Karol 07:00, 29 November 2011 (EST)
hwclock daemon
Time#hwclock daemon says that "[...] the
/etc/rc.d/hwclock daemon uses
hwclock to set the system and hardware clocks on boot [...]" but is that true? By looking at hwclock's source code it does nothing at boot. In fact that should be done by /etc/rc.sysinit as explained at the end of Time#Time standard. Probably somebody with good knowledge of the matter should come and clean things up.
This discussion is also related to Talk:Network Time Protocol daemon#Syncing at boot.
-- Kynikos 11:03, 20 January 2012 (EST)
Hardware clock and system clock
Time#Hardware clock and system clock says that setting the hwclock based on swclock uses the command "hwclock --systohc", but I tested by myself this command and seems that without the UTC parameter ("hwclock --systohc --utc") its sets the hwclock in localtime.
This sounds a bit ambiguous because you can make an inference from what was said on above section ["To set the hardware clock directly (the argument must be in local time, even if you keep your hardware clock in UTC.)"] that the "hwclock --systohc" will do the same.
(Get this info in section "Setting the hardware clock" on this link: Linux Tips - Linux, Clock and Time)
--Gabriel B. Casella 18:13, 11 March 2012 (EDT)


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Here is the Amazon synopsis:
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Miners Rescued After Nine Days in Pit (Jan, 1924)
I thought this one was topical.
Miners Rescued After Nine Days in Pit
Trapped by Flood Waters from an Underground Stream, with Only Crust of Bread as Food
IMPRISONED for nine days far below the surface in the damp workings of a flooded mine in Scotland, their only food a single slice of bread, five miners recently were found alive, and not seriously harmed by their experience. The same waters that trapped them caught 75 others, some of whom, near the surface, escaped alive.
For more than a week in the inky darkness, the men wandered about the chambers untouched by the flood, seeking fresh air and a means of exit. Lights were impossible, for the explosive "black damp" was too heavy, yet the little group steadfastly resolved to perish or live together. On the first day they waded waist deep to a place of safety, where, when pangs of hunger attacked them, they divided the slice of bread. The second day passed, after hours of torment and anxious waiting for sounds that would indicate rescue crews were blasting their way toward the barrier behind which the victims finally had stationed themselves. Near the end of the first 48 hours, a dull boom broke the tomblike silence. It was quickly followed by another, and still another. To the imprisoned, the shots brought joy and hope, for they heralded the approach of help. Hands were clasped and thanks voiced for their expected deliverance. But their hopes soon dwindled as the long hours dragged on and it became apparent that their would-be rescuers faced more than a possibility of losing the race against time.
Yet not entirely giving way to despair, the five waited expectantly behind their shelter, crawling up and down the workings to keep from becoming cold and cramped, and occasionally making their way to the under-ground stream to drink. Farewell notes were prepared for loved ones.
But no other eyes ever saw their letters. For, just as the ninth day was drawing to a close, the raspings of picks on the walls of their living crypt were plainly heard. Their vigil was almost ended.
As the last blow was struck by the rescuers, the sandstone wall opened. A hand was thrust forward from within and a voice was asking for a cigarette. The first one to reach the imprisoned men was a young miner.
"I never saw a cheerier lot of lads than those men at that moment," he said. "The strange thing about it is that, even with good air, they were able to endure such a long time underground. I should fancy men would have been driven insane by such an experience."
Displaying but a few outward signs of the effect of their lengthy imprisonment, the five crawled to the tunnel that led to freedom and the world above, insisting on going to the shaft unaided. Above ground, physicians met them, but only one was found near a state of complete collapse.


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California Department of Transportation
Date: May 24, 2012
District: 10 - Stockton
Contact: Angela DaPrato
Phone: (209) 948-7977
STOCKTON - The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $1.7 billion in funding for transportation projects that will strengthen the state's economy by sustaining and creating jobs and provide congestion relief for motorists statewide.
"The benefits these projects bring to California are a huge boon to the economy, and the investment in our transportation system will continue to serve motorists for generations to come," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Approximately $872 million of the funding was provided by Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. In total, more than $13 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
Some of the notable projects that received funding include:
- San Joaquin County: $7,200,000 – deepen the ship channel between the San Francisco Bay to the Port of Stockton.
- San Joaquin County: $900,000 – provide major landscaping, median pavers, integrated artwork, crosswalk paving, curb, gutter, sidewalks and wheelchair ramps on Airport Way, from Tenth Street to Twelfth Street.
- San Joaquin County: $709,000 – on northbound State Route 99, from north of the Mokelumne River to the Woodbridge Road Overcrossing, widen shoulders and increase cross slope of northbound travel lanes.
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SANTA ANA — Crime statistics, the homeless being "dumped" in town, hoarders, prostitutes and prostitutes' use of motels — all were up for discussion at Monday night's town-hall meeting geared for northern Costa Mesa residents.
About 30 attended the informal gathering at the Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa's Logos Sanctuary off MacArthur Boulevard, near the Santa Ana-Costa Mesa border.
Attendees came from varied neighborhoods north and south of the San Diego (405) Freeway — the Westside, the State Streets, Lower Birds, Wimbledon Village, the Bethel Towers — to ask questions of Costa Mesa Police Department Cpl. Doug Johnson and city CEO Tom Hatch.
Councilwoman Wendy Leece organized the meeting, which was her fifth throughout the city.
"It's government coming out into the neighborhood to engage the community and answer questions, mainly about public safety," Leece said.
She said meetings like Monday's can give voices to neighborhoods that may not have their own homeowners associations. She urged working together to keep communities safe.
"We are kind of our brother's keeper," she said. "No man is an island. We need to work together to keep our streets safe."
Johnson, standing next to a map of Costa Mesa, pointed out neighborhoods and their crime statistics. He said that the city's northern edge above the 405 gets far fewer police calls than parts south of it. Among the notable statistics — which were gathered from January through this month — were nine garage burglaries, six residential burglaries and 14 vehicle burglaries.
Johnson said most of the vehicle-related crimes happened because someone left a valuable item in plain view and the car was broken into to get it. He urged locking doors and windows.
"The crooks aren't going to smash the window unless they can look in at 2 in the morning and see that purse, that computer," Johnson said. "Then they'll hit [the window] and they're gone."
He also said teams of criminals target homes between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. They may enter them if no one answers the door. Once inside, they may try to steal small, concealable items, he said.
When asked about cuts to the Police Department, Johnson said it is determined to keep the same amount of patrols out on the streets but that cuts in other divisions are inevitable. Furthermore, Costa Mesa isn't alone in that scenario, he said.
"Every city is going through manpower changes," Johnson said.
Concerning drug use in the city, he said cocaine use is down, heroin is making a comeback, and oxycontin and Vicodin are also common.
Prostitution in and around Costa Mesa's motels remains a monumental problem, Johnson said.
He estimated there are between 500 and 1,000 prostitution-related website ads for Costa Mesa on a Friday or Saturday night.
"We are trying to do something with them," Johnson said, "but there's a lot."
Hatch said the city is focusing on five key issues: homelessness, including the homeless being "dumped" in town; motels; drug and alcohol facilities such as rehabilitation homes; parolee and sex offenders; and problematic properties.
Hatch said he felt those areas were not targeted in the past with as much organization as they are now.
Among the solutions toward problematic motels is the city's recent hiring of a code enforcement officer who works 20 hours a week.
"There are a variety of things we can do to hold the motels more accountable, and we're doing it," Hatch said.
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I have a Zaurus SL-6000, running the factory Sharp ROM. I need to write my own usb device driver or modify the exisiting one. If it turns out that its not possible to do it with the Sharp ROM, I have installed OZ in the past and I don't mind doing it strictly for this purpose. Sorry if this question doesn't really belong in this forum. I wasn't sure where else to post it. We don't have a "gerneal kernel hacking forum," which would have been the most appropriate one for this post.
Basically, I need to write a small piece of code at the kernel device level, so that the Zaurus can send and receive messages from a computer via the USB interface. Do anyone have any pointers on where I can get started with that?
There is a small usb interface on the Sharp Zaurus docking station, which can be used to transfer files. I was hoping that this should allow me to communicate with the computer.
I went on the Zaurus itself and looked at any modules that deals
with the USB. There seems to be a couple.
# lsmod | grep usb
prism2_usb 68032 1
p80211 18880 1 [prism2_usb]
usbdcore 34544 0 [pxa_bi net_fd]
usbdmonitor 5248 0
usb_ohci_tc6393 24544 0
usbcore 52048 1 [prism2_usb usb_ohci_tc6393]
My initial reaction was to get the corresponding source code, and then modify it, compile it, and reload the module. Does this seem like to be the correct direction?


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Union joins fight against lights at top of range
UPDATE: The Transport Workers' Union has warned sparks will fly if a new set of traffic lights is installed near the top of the Toowoomba Range - and not just from the overworked brakes of b-double trucks.
A council-approved plan to develop a shopping and fast-food precinct on the corner of Herries and Cohoe Sts will come under fire from local residents, road users and transport companies tomorrow night.
At the centre of the dispute is a Main Roads directive that the project could only go ahead if new traffic lights were installed at the busy intersection.
"The decision to stop traffic at the top of the range is ludicrous," TWU state secretary Peter Biagini said.
"Our number one priority is safety, and you simply cannot stop heavy vehicles on the range."
Mr Biagini called on Transport and Main Roads Minister Scott Emerson to veto council's approval of the development.
"Residents are right to fear what will happen," he said.
"Parking trucks on the range is a massive safety risk.
"Traffic already struggles to get traction, let alone it having to stop and start."
Tourist Rd resident Jack Clarence has seen first-hand just how much antagonism towards the project exists in his neighbourhood.
He collected 663 signatures of opposition by doorknocking before its approval, but it was in vain.
"Council has completely ignored the quality of life of people living in this area," he said.
Mr Clarence will at the public meeting for objectors from 7pm tomorrow at the St Luke's Anglican Church Hall.
Organisers hope to form a committee to plan how to fight the development.


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Several years ago, Roger Leonard and Ralph Bagwell, both Louisiana Extension research entomologists, participated in some on-farm "ground truthing" in cooperation with a commercial research group sponsored by NASA.
Why NASA? Well, it turns out that NASA is interested in working with remote sensing in agriculture so images generated by its satellite technologies have a practical application.
Many areas of research, however, must be validated before NASA images can apply and transfer to producers. Enter Leonard and Bagwell.
Bagwell and Leonard began in 1999 using students to ground-truth information to detect arthropod pest populations and to determine associations to plant growth patterns picked up by remote images. At the time, the satellite images weren't even available.
"We simulated the imagery with fixed wing aircraft flown 12,000 feet above the ground," said Leonard, who spoke at the Precision Agriculture Conference held in Monroe, La.
After gaining federal funding for their work, Leonard and colleagues have assembled a multidisciplinary team to evaluate, develop and extend the technology to producers in Louisiana. The project is set up for five years and funded for four years.
Remote sensing is the key tool initially being examined. Beyond that, GPS technology is used to make prescription applications to correct obvious problems in crop fields.
"The LSU AgCenter Research and Extension divisions, along with scientists from the Louisiana computer science department and NASA, are important to project. NASA has agreed to provide us the images we need over the next four years," said Leonard.
The components
Researchers want to be sure the technology works for many producers in the state. Extension specialists will transfer information about the technology.
Producer Jay Hardwick's land in the northeast part of Louisiana will be the primary test site. He will allocate labor, equipment and land to work the project.
The first objective is to obtain images of various sorts — thermal, multi-spectral or hyper-spectral imagery — and to associate some type of variation in plant growth patterns within fields. If a field is not growing well, then pests might be associated with areas in the field, said Leonard.
If researchers can't associate insect problems with the images, then they can't differentiate where a farmer needs to apply a corrective treatment. But if they can pick up images of estimated plant growth associated with insects, then site-specific management technology will be available to farmers.
"Indications are that we can save anywhere from 20 percent to 50 percent of the crop protection products being used for pest management. That's tremendous in the cotton business, where farmers are spending $50 to $200 per acre to manage pests," said Leonard.
No random distribution
Researchers already know insects aren't randomly distributed across fields. They're found in certain spots. "We need to find and identify those spots," said Leonard.
The project's second objective is to apply treatments properly.
"We're developing management zones. In some instances, rather than treat a whole zone, we'll apply variable rates within a zone. We can do this by ground and by air. Tremendous strides are being made in applying pesticides in this manner by air."
In addition to examining arthropod pest populations, agronomists will look at variations in moisture content. Another condition to measure is soil moisture levels. If we compare those to remote sensed images during the season and yield maps at the end of the year, we can better time irrigation treatments," said Leonard.
Agricultural economists will analyze the data for costs and benefits to producers. This will let researchers identify savings from using the technology.
The last component of the program will be transferring information gleaned over the next two to three years to producers.
"We want this to apply not only to the largest commercial producers, but to all."
Not promoting industry
Leonard said the point is not to produce a new industry within the state. Instead, there is an attempt to utilize what's already available.
"This will integrate the technologies currently available into a system producers can use to make better decisions. A producer can acquire images from a private service or, we hope, from the aerial applicator industry. These images may also be available from satellites, although we don't think so due to some other problems occurring."
Agriculture consultants will review the images and ground truth certain areas. The producer and consultant will then be able to come up with prescriptions for troubled fields. After developing the prescription, it'll be applied by the same aviator who might have provided the images. The process is then started again and can be repeated on a daily or weekly basis.
Farmer's perspective
"This has incredible benefit potential. Production agriculture is in trouble in the United States. We're not going to compete based on cheap land and labor anymore. We're going to have to look at new technologies and new management systems," said Hardwick. "This project, in particular, I think will identify a new model. The expertise involved in this is top-notch and is exciting."
The structure of the research project also spreads the risk, said Hardwick. "No single producer would be able to embark on this. This shares the risk of money, technology and expertise. It's a win-win for all. If we're to make this work, we've got band together."
Hardwick said there aren't a lot of answers at the outset of the project, but the benefit potential is "incredible. Pesticides are a huge part of our inputs. A positive results would be to significantly reduce that cost. We can't control the costs of equipment and material. And we can do little about futures prices. But we can do a lot about how we apply the materials that are becoming ever more costly."
What kind of costs per acre are Hardwick and other farmers looking at to incorporate this technology?
"I don't know. We're at the beginning stages. That's why the risk needs to be spread across many partners. Much of the hardware used in this project is already well-established. We're embarking on this come spring. You'll be hearing more as the project moves along," said Hardwick.
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Last week (15-18 Sept) was the IMS Quarterly meeting, hosted by JISC, in Birmingham (UK). It was a rather unusual meeting as all of the sessions were open to non-members. As usual, however, it concluded with a "summit" day where various interesting people shared their ideas. I'm sure everyone joined a different set of dots (For readers not familiar with the culture I belong to, "joining dots" is concisely explained on wikipedia). For me, the shape of the animal that is the role of IMS Learning Design (LD) became more clear. Actually I think it might be a family.
During the week there were several demonstrations of current generation LD tools and it is certainly true that these are an order of magnitude more usable than the first round of tools. These days you don't have to know or understand the IMS specification, either its conceptual model or the technical details, to use the tools. Gilbert Paquette showed us TELOS, which is impressive and takes a graphical approach to visualising the workflows. Dai Griffiths and Paul Sharples showed two products of the TENCompetence project: ReCourse, a mixed graphical and tabular LD authoring tool that hides complexity and Wookie, a widget-based approach to providing the "services" (forum, chat, voting etc). Fabrizio Giorgini showed work from the PROLIX project, oriented towards work-place staff development, where Giunti have extended their eXact Packager to include a graphical LD editor.
In spite of the substantial progress demonstrated by the above software, we will still hear even tech-savvy academics exclaim "impressive but I can't see how I'd ever use it" (not a real quote) or "I keep feeling that IMS LD was a solution looking for a problem and havent yet seen anything that solves any problems I have in learning & teaching." (David Davies). I don't think we can address this by talking about LD. Rather we need to talk about talking-about LD.
Dai Griffiths made some observations about LD that, if you will indulge me in continuing my dot-joining metaphor, I think pointed out which way up the paper is. He said: "The history and multiple uses of the specification mean that it is a complex artefact with many perspectives on it." He produced a diagram (following) to expand on this point.
For me, the diagram did more than expand on the point: it gave me an indication of a profitable way of reducing the complexity of our discussions by being clear that there is more than one way to perceive LD. Unless we can move discourse onto a more differentiated set of conversations, I believe we will not be able to really get anywhere with LD or, indeed, make much progress in dealing with the challenges the creators and proponents of LD believe it can address.
The situation of LD is not unique and there has been some interesting work exploring the concept of "enactment" in relation to Ecological Modelling Language conducted under the Comparative Interoperabilty Project. In this work Miller and Bowker say: "Jane Fountain invites us to distinguish between an ˜objective technology " that is to say a set of technical, material and computing components such as the Internet " and an ˜enacted technology " that is to say the technology on the ground as it is perceived, conceived and used in practice, in a particular context."
So, what are we to do? Where should we start?I speculate that we should begin by clarifying what LD is. Bill Olivier had opened the "summit" with some reflections on the work of IMS and JISC in support of interoperability and thoughts on where we as a community could profitably work in the future. He described the work of IMS on data models as being more akin to domain modelling and I think this may be a good insight. Domain models are necessarily rather more abstract and application agnostic than most people care to deal with. I think they are fundamentally models of "objective" rather than "enacted" technology. I believe we should accept and embrace this and conclude that LD is a language for technologists to coordinate the creation of artefacts that are the subjects of the different differentiated discourse I referred to earlier.
There are two parallels with the eFramework to be made here, but it would be a diversion to go into detail. It too has a "history and multiple uses" and consequentially there are many perspectives. The second parallel is that one of the purposes of the eFramework initiative is to enable dialogue within and across domains through the emergence of an explicit vocabulary appropriate to a service-oriented approach.
As a candidate for one differentiated conversation, I suggest picking up on another pearl from Dai Griffiths: you can consider LD to be about provisioning a learning environment. "Provisioning" is a bit of a jargon term for setting-up-what-you-need. If you start a new job, you expect a number of facilities to be provided: desk, computer, security card, payroll, user id, staff handbook …. The equivalent provisioning of a learning environment entails the marshalling of resources, conversation (forum/chat) and other "tools", assignment to groups etc. It is online classroom management of a sort. Let us now have a conversation about this "thing" that you can drop into a virtual learning environment that magically does all of the provisioning for e.g. a 2 way online debate. Its a "wizard": just add a few Word docs, choose how groups are assigned and its done. This isn't a new use case; I discussed something very similar with Bill Olivier 5 years ago. I do think, though, that this is closer to the language of enactment.
Is this an application profile? i.e. is it a definition of which data elements to use, vocabularies and extensions. Not exactly: an application profile may emerge as a necessity but it would be prudent to be clear what the application is first and that entails discourse in the language of enactment not the domain model. As a closing aside, I would like to stress that I see an "application profile" as being a quite opinionated work; it should be for a purpose.
I am conscious that this is a some-what under-developed argument, probably with numerous errors and certainly with leaps of faith but I think it is time to expose my thinking out loud for criticism and to leave this piece definitely un-concluded…
The presentations referred to above are available on the web, linked from the agenda.


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t is encouraging to see Occupy Baltimore take on the governor's plan to spend millions of dollars to build a new jail for youth charged as adults. Although I cannot say that I approve of any civil disobedience that took place during Monday's event, I like the fact that Occupy Baltimore took a stand for our youth.
At the age of 17, I was arrested and charged as an adult and spent 11 months at the Baltimore City Detention Center, an adult jail. I was exposed to violence. I once saw a man beaten and bloodied while correctional officers took me to the school at the jail. I was forced to shower with a woman twice my age, and to squat and cough (strip search) in front of everyone while menstruating. I was neglected and did not receive the psychological and health care services I needed throughout my stay. I was treated as if I had already been convicted of the crime. These experiences at the jail will haunt me for the rest of my life. No child should be treated this way.
My case was ultimately sent to the juvenile justice system, where I spent 11 more months in two different programs, then eventually was sent home. Instead of exposing youths to emotionally disturbing experiences at the Baltimore City Detention Center, they should be held in a juvenile facility with their peers until a judge or jury decides whether they committed the crime.
Now, at the age of 20, with all charges expunged, I am employed and proud to say that I am working with an alliance of more than 30 organizations and individuals to stop the construction of the proposed jail for youth charged as adults. For almost two years, the alliance has opposed Gov.Martin O'Malley's plan to spend $100 million to build a 180-bed jail. It urged the governor to invest in facilities that offer youth opportunities, such as rec centers and schools, not jails. The alliance developed a plan of action and shared it with several of Maryland's decision makers. (The alliance's alternative action plan can be found at http://stopbaltimoreyouthjail.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Alternative_Action_Plan1.pdf.)
At the request of the alliance, the governor asked the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) to re-evaluate the need for the youth jail. After reading the NCCD report, which was released in May, the governor now recommends building a 120-bed facility costing more than $70 million. I am disappointed with this decision. It is a waste of resources, because the NCCD report found that more than 50 percent of youths charged as adults have their cases dismissed or sent to juvenile court. This means that any new jail will sit half empty. The report also said that if the state made some policy changes, there would be no need for a new jail.
By changing policies, youths could be held in juvenile facilities pending trial and be given necessary resources during and after their incarceration. Also, the state should stop the practice of automatically charging youths as adults for many crimes. For the past six years, youth arrests have fallen, and they continue to fall. The number of youths charged as adults and held at the Baltimore City Detention Center each day has fallen from more than 100 to fewer than 80.
It will take about three years to build a new jail. The governor should wait and see what the impact of recommended policy changes would have on the need for beds. In the meantime, state officials should find a temporary facility to house youths charged as adults so that they will not remain at BCDC, where I was held.
In this economic climate, it is important to stop the construction of the youth jail. It costs less to build a school than to build a jail. We need to invest in positive opportunities for children instead of jails. My peers and those younger than me need rec centers, better schools and housing. We need to know that our community believes in us and wants us to be successful in becoming Baltimore's new generation of leaders.
Jabriera Handy is a youth organizer for the Just Kids Partnership to End the Automatic Prosecution of Youth as Adults (www.justkidsmaryland.org).


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Jay is flying - Jones
Cardiff manager Dave Jones believes Jay Bothroyd's England call-up is a reward for the hard work everyone at the club has put in on the striker.
Jones also believes it would be disappointing if players like Bothroyd were overlooked because they play outside the Barclays Premier League. Bothroyd has been named by Fabio Capello in the England squad to play France in a friendly on Wednesday.
"We're hoping he starts or he gets some part of the game because we do believe that he has earned it," Jones told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme.
"There are some good players down in the Championship and it would be a shame if they are overlooked because of the division they are playing in."
Although Bothroyd had been tipped to be in the squad there was no complacency from the Cardiff boss over his selection despite his player's confident attitude.
"Jay thinks he should be there anyway so that's not a problem," continued Jones. "It's a lift for Jay, it's a lift for the whole club - myself and the staff.
"I don't think he was expecting it. We hoped it would happen because he has been in good form.
"He's not an out-and-out big target man. He can drift, he's got good ability, good pace."
Jones admitted that Bothroyd was not the easiest player to work with but revealed he had found out for himself about the player's character.
"Hard work. That's how I'd describe him," he added. "He's what we call high maintenance. But he is a lovely lad, he wants to do well. Most footballers are high maintenance. Sometimes players get a reputation with other clubs. You only find out when you work with them and he is a genuine and honest player."


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After several days of utter hell for the U.S. public, the makers of Velveeta are finally speaking up about the threat of a shortage.
The official Tumblr of "Liquid Gold Velveeta in all its delicious forms" late Thursday showed a bright yellow message of love and support to fans, who are bracing for a Super and other Bowls without their beloved gooey cheese:
"While the current Cheesepocalypse is a difficult time for our great nation, we are incredibly humbled and appreciative of the outpouring of love and support for the Liquid Gold of Velveeta. As you have likely seen or heard by now on social networks and major media outlets, there is currently limited availability of some Velveeta products in many stores nationwide," it reads.
"We want you to hear directly from us that it's true — we are experiencing a temporary scarcity of our nation's most precious commodity: Liquid Gold."
Velveeta goes on to say they're working "tirelessly to get more Velveeta on store shelves as soon as possible and that this was in no way a 'publicity stunt'." The news was first reported on Ad Age.
Of course there is still no word on what is causing this Cheesenado that MarketWatch has been tirelessly reporting. NBC News reported on two memos earlier in the autumn, in which Kraft /quotes/zigman/11825124/delayed /quotes/nls/krft KRFT warned customers that Velveeta shortages were coming, saying production lines had been moved from one plant to another over the summer and that has caused "production challenges."
An October memo said there would be no 8-ounce Velveeta loaf from Oct. 10 through Dec. 28, then limited supplies from Dec. 29 through Jan. 11. A following memo in December said there would be limited availability for 16-ounceVelveeta products until Feb. 23. That's well past the Super Bowl date of Feb. 2.
Kraft spokeswoman Jody Moore confirmed to NBC News that the memos were authentic.
Over at Buzzfeed, there was some talk of pain for Kraft earnings over Cheesepocalypse. Analyst Brian Yarbrough, who covers the company at Edward Jones, said that the shortage could affect Kraft sales by as much as one-half percent. But he didn't seem to be in that much of a panic.
Over on Twitter, it was a different story, with readers coming together to further vent and share ideas on how to cope:
Of course, some insisted even after that memo that Kraft is stringing us all along.
— Barbara Kollmeyer covers markets and matters of U.S. national importance for MarketWatch in Madrid. Follow her on @bkollmeyer
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Well it is early Christmas morning as I write this and I am sadly disappointed in my most recent hanging experience. I received a BBDD Winter Tarp, modified for my Clark NX-200, for an early Christmas present from the signifigant other after I went to the Sipsey Hang over Halloween. I sealed the ridgeline seam back in mid-November and have not had a chance to test it out until tonight. I figured it would be a wonderful time to test it out because of the weather that was expected here in East Alabama. That weather is a typical southern winter storm consisting of massive amounts of rain, strong gusting winds and upper 40*F temps. I got the hammock and tarp set up during the day and did a test nap to see how I liked the tarp and hammock together............All I can say Scott Littlefield does a wonderful job with this tarp design and I am very pleased with my purchase.
Please, don't take this report as a negative feedback on Scott or any of his products.........what happened here is all of my fault and shows that my learning curve is still on the upswing.
I used a seam sealing agent, water based seam sealer, that I got at the local sporting goods store. It had worked on the other tarps that I had sealed so I thought it would work here........boy was I wrong! After taking care of wrapping some presents and having family time I decided to retire for the night and headed for the hammock. As I left the house I walked into a virtual deluge of rain water thinking what a great sleep I would be getting. I looked forward to the raindrops on the tarp, gentle sway of the hammock in the breeze and a book to read......how better to spend Christmas Eve.
I got under the tarp and opened the weather shield on my hammock, then I noticed that there were some drops of water in the hammock. I thought this was from the rain jacket I was wearing and left it at that. Once I got in and situated I noticed that I had a wet spot on my backside, passed it off as the water from the jacket. After two pages of the book I noticed the wet spot was spreading and my back was getting wet too. Looked at the foot end and could see no water coming in, looked at the head end and noticed that the pull handle there was soaked and wicking water at a good rate. At this point I pulled the cord and got out of the hammock. This is when I noticed the ridge line seam was leaking in several places and dripping at good rate on the hammock. While all of this was happening the the weather outside was getting worse with wind and rain. I pulled the cord on the rest of the testing experience and will be making some DIY seam sealer later this afternoon and spend Christmas day working on this issue.
Just because it says safe for Silnylon does not mean that it will seal Silnylon.
Always do a test hang close to the house or somewhere that you can easily bail from if things go bad.
Ask the manufacturer, especially the ones on this sight, if they have a recommendation for a certain problem.


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Re: CTRL+H always passed through to Word/Outlook
When I press CTRL+H, the Word/Outlook Replace dialogue box appears. I have not asked ViEmu to pass the key sequence through. This happens in insert and normal mode. For insert mode, CTRL+H should delete the previous character.
I'm using ViEmu 2.5.4 on Office 2007/Win7.
Is this a bug?


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Modified Mustangs & FordsNews & Views
A Look Inside The Cars of Trans-Am Racing 1966-1972
Once in a while a book lands itself in our hands and gives us a pretty good reason to stop and participate in some good old-fashioned procrastination. This is one of those books. The Cars of Trans-Am Racing 1966-1972 by David Tom covers road-racing muscle from Ford and brand X (GM, Chrysler, and AMC).
The book runs chronologically through a seven-year period from the time the SCCA Trans-Am racing series was launched, and gives updates on some of the historic cars that shaped the history of Trans-Am, including Jim Harrell's Mustang Boss 302.
In the Foreword, Walter "Bud" Moore writes, "For me the Trans-Am was a chance to use my self-taught engineering skills to make what was a basically a street car into a very high-performance racing machine. In Trans-Am, innovating and developing what the factories gave us was very rewarding."
After a detailed history of the birth and growth of Trans-Am racing, the book comes full circle in a chapter entitled "Recapturing the Storm" in which Tom writes, "This chapter fast-forwards to the phenomenal rise in popularity of the once-lost muscle car era and the remarkable rebirth of several of the more historically significant Trans-Am cars."
The book retails for $39.95 and you can order by visiting www.CarTechBooks.com or by calling 1-800/551-4754.


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Functional, stylish and fun, Boon products have delighted and amazed us for years. 2013 is no different. This year Boon has a small, but very useful collection of brand new baby, toddler and kid gear that's sure to make your life as a parent much more convenient. As always, Boon has managed to perfectly merge modern style, pleasing color palettes and safety into their products, not to mention affordability. Want a sneak peek at what's fresh for 2013 from Boon? Keep reading...
Fresh Baby Changing Station
Fresh Baby Changing Station is one of the best new products launching at Boon this year. Perfect for parents who want a changing area, but don't want to pay for an expensive changing table, Fresh allows you to transform any basic sturdy dresser into a perfectly compact changing table. Fresh has a smart, slip-resistant base and two straps which secure the changing space right to your dresser. Designed for baby comfort, Fresh features an egg-like little foam pod that's soft for your baby and fits right into the sloped base. Parents can also attach toys to the extended arm to keep baby's hands up and out of they way when tending to the dirty work.
Clutch Dishwasher Basket
If you pump breast milk into bottles, bottle feed or use pacifiers, one major problem is keeping these items clean without losing them in the bottom of the dishwasher. Clutch solves this issue with style. This savvy dishwasher basket holds everything from small sippy cup and bottle parts to pacifiers and small toys for dishwashing. The unique clamshell design prevents this basket from tipping, making loading and unloading bottle parts a cinch — and nipples easily pop into place, and stay in place in the handy basket. Clutch holds up to 6 large or 14 small nipples, and additional parts for up to 8 bottles. Clutch is also BPA-free, phthalate-free and PVC-free. If you like this basket, you'll love Boon's beautiful Stem Drying Rack.
Modster Sippy Cup
Parents will love Modster for its mess-free, leak resistant valve, while tots will love that this sippy comes in fun monster shapes. You can detach the valve for free-flow drinking — and due to the secure cap, this sippy has go-anywhere functionality. Modster is available in a bunch of bright colors in either a soft spout small size or a firm spout tall size.
Pulp Silicone Feeder
The Pulp Silicone Feeder lets you give your little one plenty of fresh fruits and veggies without choking worries. Produce fits into the soft mesh food-grade silicone cover that features tiny holes so your tiny tot can enjoy fresh foods. Pulp comes in three lively color combos and offers a perfectly sized handle for wee hands to grasp. Pulp can also be frozen to help soothe teething baby woes.
Orb Bottle Warmer
Orb is the modern way to heat bottles and baby food without taking up too much precious counter space in small nurseries or kitchens. Orb's warming chamber fits most bottles and there's a basket for baby food jars too. Orb features a non-skid base to ensure fewer messes, and a handy auto-off feature that saves energy.
Stout Transitional Cup
Stout is a perfect transitional cup for kids moving on from their sippy. The wide base helps prevent spills and though the cup can be used without a lid, there is a lid for travel that features leak-free drinking ease.
All of the above products will be arriving at stores near you and online very soon. Visit Boon's homepage to sign up for their newsletter, so you can hear when these new products are officially released.


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There's no compelling video, no provincial cabinet ministers being dragged kicking and screaming from their seats on aircraft, no federal ministers recording themselves jumping from girder to girder atop unfinished skyscrapers.
But slowly and surely, this country's provincial and federal governments may be inching towards truly free interprovincial trade — years after other countries have landed free trade deals with the country as a whole.
There's lots to be done yet — at the moment, there are still over 100 pages of provincial exemptions in the 300-page interprovincial trade deal that was signed last week — but at least the nation's provincial trade fiefdoms are talking to each other about what should be a simple concept: letting bidders, retailers and other companies have equal access across the whole Canadian marketplace.
In theory, that kind of deal would cut red tape, reduce regulatory burdens and let companies that can deliver goods at a low price succeed, right across the country.
For years, different provincial governments have used their regulatory clout to build a system of preferential access for companies and businesses inside their own provinces; while that process has laid a veneer of competitiveness over uncompetitive local businesses, it has also added a burden of additional cost on taxpayers.
In some instances, the rules have made for different-sized packaging being a requirement in different provinces, something that adds expense for manufacturers.
Not only that, but in some cases, it's led to making local politics a kind of closed shop: local companies get work, argue that governments' local preference policies should continue, and the circle gets closed by those same local businesses donating to and supporting the political parties that apply the provincial rules in the first place.
The problem is that with free trade deals like the upcoming Canada-European Union trade deal, companies from the EU might end up having better access to bid on a project in, say, Ontario than a Nova Scotian company would enjoy.
It isn't all sunshine and flowers; the provinces as a whole are notoriously bad at surrendering the issues that are close to their electorates — so there are still areas where provinces can opt out.
Ontario's economic development minister, Brad Duguid, chaired the two years of negotiations that led to the current deal. He says the provinces weren't willing to totally free up their marketplaces.
"Without the off-ramp, we wouldn't be able to deliver," Duguid said. "There's no way that you would be able to have a regulatory process that doesn't respect the sovereign rights of each of the provinces."
But maybe, just maybe, we're a little closer to having the same rules in Newfoundland and Labrador that Albertans have in their province.
And maybe, just maybe, we'll get the free market access inside this country that we already offer to foreign trading partners.


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2008: Hit .507 in Ivy League play during the regular season to win the Blair Bat, presented annually to the player with the highest batting average in conference games ... also ranks first in the conference in on-base percentage and hits in league play ... saw action in all 44 games, starting 42.
2007: Saw action in 32 games, starting 31 ... hit .287 with 23 runs, 29 hits and six RBI ... led the team with four sacrifice bunts ... had five hits and scored four runs in season debut in 14-1 victory at The Citadel on March 10 ... scored two runs in wins at Penn and against Cornell ... had two hits at Yale on April 9, at Princeton on April 18 and at Stony Brook on April 28 ... finished the season with a .970 fielding percentage, making only two errors.
2006: Appeared in 33 games, starting 23 ... went 3-for-4 with one RBI and one run scored against Rhode Island ... went 1-for-2 with one RBI in 15-3 victory over Penn ... was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and one RBI against Yale ... went 2-for-3 with a double against Monmouth ... had three hits against Rutgers and against Princeton ... was 2-for-3 with a home run in win over Cornell ... finished the season batting .317 with a .979 fielding percentage.
2005: Appeared in 38 games, starting 35 ... went 2-for-3 with one RBI, a double and a walk against Fairleigh Dickinson ... was 1-for-3 with one RBI vs. Central Florida ... at the plate vs. Penn, went 2-for-5 with one RBI and scored two runs ... was 2-for-2 with a double vs. Cornell ... went 2-for-3 with two runs scored in team's victory over Princeton ... finished the season batting .243 with a .940 fielding percentage.
Pre-Columbia: Three-time all-league ... captain as a senior ... earned most dedicated player as a sophomore, team defensive player of the year as a junior and most valuable player as a senior ... two-sport athlete, playing basketball also for two years ... served as school vice president.
Personal: East Asian studies major ... son of Mark and Lynne ... birthdate is March 4, 1986.


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- NHL - National Historic Landmark
- HI - Hometown Indiana
- HPF - Historic Preservation Fund
- HTI - Historic Theater Initiative
- NRHP - National Register of Historic Places
- SR - Indiana State Register
- TC - Rehabilitation Tax Credits
- UGRR - Underground Railroad Initiative
- WRHC - Wabash River Heritage Corridor
Hamer-Smith Building/Lawrence County Museum of History (NRHP, HPF)
C.1910 commercial building. The grant paid for repair/restoration of the façade. Now will soon be the home of the Lawrence County Museum of History
Banneker School Gymnasium (NRHP, HPF)
1915 African-American school. The grant covered the rehabilitation of the main entrance (entrance, steps, knee walls, doors, fan transom, light fixtures), new roof and gutters. Now the home of the Banneker Community Center
Main Entrance - Before
Main Entrance After
Legg House (NRHP, HPF)
1848 brick house. The grant paid for roof, masonry, and window repair. Now owned and used by Indiana University as the campus housing office.
Crump Theater (NRHP, HTI, HPF)
1889 building that was altered in c.1940 to the Art Deco version seen today. Grant funding paid for the restoration of façade and marquee. The theater is open but still awaiting interior restoration.
Marquee - Before
Marquee - After
Llewylln Cemetery (Cemetery Registry)
Local resident contacted DHPA about the existence of a cemetery (no above ground markers remained) on a large parcel of land slated for development. Through research she was able to determine where the cemetery was and it is now fenced off and the land around it was not developed.
Fenced cemetery with subdivision in background
Brown School (SR, UGRR)
Originally known as the Corydon Colored School, the building was constructed in 1891 as an elementary and secondary school for African Americans. It may be the oldest African American school remaining in the state of Indiana. It currently functions as a community center.
Leora Brown School
Schimpff's Confectionary (NRHP, TC)
C.1870 commercial building. Home to candy shop and candy museum that has been in this building since 1891.
New Albany
Carnegie Center for Art & History (NRHP, UGRR)
The Carnegie Center is housed in the former Carnegie Free Public Library, constructed in 1902, and is a division of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library. Staff at the Center has begun development on a permanent interactive exhibit about the Underground Railroad in the area and regularly works with the DHPA. The National Park Service has designated the program as a site in its National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
Carnegie Center for Art and History
Division Street School (NRHP, HPF)
1885 African-American school. The grant paid for window repair/rehabilitation. The school is a community center/museum.
West Bayden
First Baptist Church (NRHP, HPF)
1920 former African-American church. The grant paid for an engineering study and reconstruction of severely deteriorated foundation. It is in the midst of a multi-phased rehabilitation but the final goal is to have a museum highlighting the African-American contribution to the area.
West Baden Baptist Church
Homestead Hotel (NRHP, TC)
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Nigel wrote:you forgot the cheese. If you're going to drive to Canada, at least get a poutine, not just fries and gravy.
oh, and TalNLnky, you can come to Canada and make me a flan anytime.
yeah... well, next time I do it I'm going for bigger and better.... and i'll prolly use a sift to filter out any blobs of scorched milk i might get.
Dude from panama on the yaris forums I go to said he once made some flan that was about 12" wide by 6" tall.... I've gotta one up him.... I'm thinking a CUBE of flan... 1 cuft! ehehehe


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Since many different Language-Interpreters and other software uses Garbage-Collectors, and since Garbage Collectors usually produce Overhead, running more of them can make a System slower. For example, when running a Java VM, perl and SBCL for example, at the same time, on a small VPS, etc., any of these systems has its own garbage collector, reserving a lot more space than actually is needed to optimize runtime-speed, but taking this place from other processes. There are possibilities to leave non-used parts of virtually allocated space non-allocated (like for example setting /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 1), but these are dangerous, if a process really needs that much memory, and they change the behaviour of paging of the kernel, and hence as far as I know they can make a garbage collector even slower (maybe I am wrong, I dont know exactly).
So what I am wondering since a long time now is, whether it is possible to create a system-wide garbage-collector. I dont want to do this, and I am sure, if it was possible, someone else would have done it, but I just wonder, why it is not possible.
The naive way would be to specify some "protocol" how to access a huge shm, how to save structs, how to specify where the references to other objects are, and where boundings are, with one process running in the background rearranging all the memory. This would be very insecure since all processes could access all the other memory, but the kernel could block access to other parts of the memory. On the other hand, leave all of that work to the kernel, just define a syscall that tells the kernel "i need ... space to save all my objects" and then the kernel rearranges the space and translates addresses.
Ok, there are a lot of different types of garbage collection algorithms, but a "general" solution for all programs always has drawbacks. At least Systems like Java and Common Lisp wouldnt have to start their own garbage collector.


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TE is the bunch I ride with on weekends and I'd safely say it's one of the best organised bunches in Melbourne. Prerequisites to riding with the gentlemen of TE include a penchant for mountains, a fondness for biodynamic pinot and the ability to reel off your PBs for all the major climbs in Victoria. Riding with guys like Mick, Steve, JB and Rudy (and many, many others) is a sure fire way to keep the lactic in your legs and your ego in check.
The Christmas Handicap (a climb up Kinglake) was my get-rich-quick scheme for December as I had put all my rent money on Dave O'Brien getting up for the win. Quicksilver O'Brien looked sharp and his recent meteoric rise in form had me confident that he would be first over the line. QOB's form, however, had not escaped the eagle eye of handicapper and chief commisaire SPK Knight. A couple of late scratchings due to sickness and ill-timed general anaesthetic (get well soon Rudy & JB) left the peleton considerably lighter, and the heavy hand of the handicapper was felt by Mick, Zander and SOB, who found that starting scratch at 34 minutes on a 20 minute climb was a gap even their lightning fast climbing couldn't bridge. Even the Cervelo Test Team sent their newest signing Sharon Laws over with the hope of bringing back the prestigious T.E.C.H trophy to their pool room in Switzerland.
Chief Commissaire Steve wondering whether he could legitimately start Sharon at 40 minutes back
In the end, it could have been either the new bike, the happy legs or the heavy bribe I offered the handicapper, but I made it over the line first and became the 3rd proud wearer of the TE polka-dot jersey (pic above), which has already been delivered to Fitzroy Revolution to be proudly displayed until the next handicap in 2010. Special mention to the 7 PBs smashed today for the Kinglake climb, including Steve, SOB, Mark and Mick who I think all recorded times in the 17 minute-bracket!?! My climb time was 18m35, a PB by almost 40 secs. Hurray for Donna's 2hr ergo sessions! They are working...
The best part of the morning, though, was the christmas cake and coffee session afterwards at Smiths Gully. What a great way to cap off another year with TE.
Cake time!
Next week - Adelaide!